Copyright Lately

AUGUST 2, 2022

The full story behind Netflix’s copyright infringement lawsuit against Barlow & Bear, and why it’s actually a win for the fan fiction community. When it comes to copyright cases, Netflix has seen stranger things. on July 26, 2022. Netflix filed its lawsuit against Barlow & Bear on Friday July 29, 2022.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

JUNE 5, 2023

When Goldsmith issued a cease and desist letter claiming copyright infringement, AWF brought a declaratory judgment action asserting that its use of Goldsmith’s photograph in Orange Prince was protected under the Copyright Act’s fair use doctrine. Goldsmith was not paid or credited for this use.

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 23, 2023

Due to the recurrent copyright difficulties, which have a significant impact on an individual’s business interest, it is imperative to preserve the ownership rights of digital works. One such area where copyright violations are common is the internet. x] Person & Kelley S.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 13, 2022

By inducing the direct infringements of Lavicheat users who “copy, reproduce, adapt, and/or create derivative works” from Bungie’s copyrighted works, Lavicheats is liable for contributory copyright infringement. Discovery Process Begins.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JULY 24, 2024

If output works infringe copyright, who is responsible (e.g. prompt filtering) to try to reduce the risk of copyright infringement in outputs? In almost every model or service studied, the risk of copyright infringement in the output work was left, with some decisiveness, with the user.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 25, 2023

In August 2021, Bungie filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against a number of defendants involved in the development and supply of Destiny 2 cheating tool, Wallhax. Schaufuss says he left Wallhax in 2022 but Nelson is still paying towards his legal fees. Last summer, Elite Boss Tech, Inc., 11020781 Canada Inc.,

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TorrentFreak

JULY 14, 2024

However, a quest by local parents, to raise public awareness of the nature of that instruction, has led to one of their group in Indiana being sued by LifeWise for copyright infringement. Copyright Complaint, Religious Controversy Filed in the Northern District of Indiana (Fort Wayne Division) on July 2, 2024, plaintiff LifeWise Inc.

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BYU Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Obtego agreed that they would not permit third parties to use the software and that any derivative works based on the software would belong to Alabama.After leaving Alabama, Heydari started to work with Obtego. We will continue with updates on this case when they become available.

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The IPKat

JUNE 27, 2022

On 24 June 2022, BAYC sued Ryder Ripps, a conceptual artist and NFT creator for trade mark infringement, unfair competition, false advertising, cybersquatting and other cause of actions before the Central District of California. Yuga Labs, therefore, still owns the copyright in each NFT.

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BYU Copyright Blog

MAY 24, 2022

On May 18, 2022, Dr. Elliot McGucken ("McGucken") filed an Amended Complaint against Pepperdine University and associated parties ("Pepperdine"), asserting that Pepperdine infringed McGucken's copyright in a photograph (the "Photo") he had taken.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 20, 2024

The facts of the case are all too familiar by now: in 2004, German band Kraftwerk took hip hop producer Moses Pelham to court for copyright infringement after he sampled two seconds of their song “Metall auf Metall” and looped it in Sabrina Setlur’s track “Nur Mir”. Although AG Crúz Villalon argued in his Opinion (para.

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Copyright Lately

JANUARY 31, 2023

Astley is claiming that Gravy violated his right of publicity by using a singer (defendant Nick Seeley, pka Popnick ) to imitate Astley’s “signature voice” from “Never Gonna Give You Up” on Gravy’s 2022 hit “ Betty (Get Money).” ” “The exclusive rights of the owner of copyright in a sound recording. ” 17 U.S.C. §

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

“The European Court of Justice (CJEU) ruling in joined cases C-682/18 (YouTube) and C-683/18 (Cyando), concerning platform liability for copyright-infringing user uploads under Art. ” 3) Derivative works: the Adventures of Koons and Tintin in French copyright law by Brad Spitz. here and here).

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LexBlog IP

MAY 5, 2022

” Despite those instructions, around January 2022, he learned that portions of the two exams had been posted on the Course Hero website, along with requests for help with the questions. To obtain a subpoena, Berkovitz would have to register his copyrights and file a lawsuit for copyright infringement, which he did.

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IP Tech Blog

MARCH 18, 2022

Intellectual property owners need to add the metaverse to places to watch for possible infringement, specifically, trademark or copyright infringement in the form of NFTs or non-fungible tokens. The Amended Complaint, filed on March 2, 2022, provides additional background and context for Hermès’ claims.

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Copyright Lately

OCTOBER 3, 2022

In addition, in granting Alexander’s motion for partial summary judgment, the court found that Alexander held valid copyrights in the tattoo designs at issue and that defendants copied those works. Some of Randy Orton’s tattoos from Catherine Alexander’s copyright applications. .'” What Happened.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 9, 2023

TLDR Generative AI is one of the hot topics in copyright law today. In the EU, a crucial legal issue is whether using in-copyright works to train generative AI models is copyright infringement or falls under existing text and data mining (TDM) exceptions in the Copyright in Digital Single Market (CDSM) Directive.

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JIPEL Copyright Blog

MARCH 21, 2022

It is therefore possible that TOs would be liable for some form of secondary liability of copyright infringement. It is an open legal question whether this would constitute an infringing derivative work. tournament circuit beginning in 2022. The second issue comes from Slippi itself.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JULY 16, 2023

Top 3 Kluwer Copyright Blog posts 1) Generative AI, Copyright and the AI Act by João Pedro Quintais “ Generative AI is one of the hot topics in copyright law today. ” 3) How to Distinguish Transformative Fair Uses From Infringing Derivative Works? by Pamela Samuelson “In March 2022 the U.S.

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IPilogue

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

On Wednesday, October 12th, 2022, the judges of the US Supreme Court heard oral arguments from both sides, and considered whether Warhol’s infamous 16 Prince silkscreens , which he had based on a 1981 photograph of Prince by photographer Lynn Goldsmith, may be considered a use that is “fair”. .

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LexBlog IP

JUNE 5, 2023

When Goldsmith issued a cease and desist letter claiming copyright infringement, AWF brought a declaratory judgment action asserting that its use of Goldsmith’s photograph in Orange Prince was protected under the Copyright Act’s fair use doctrine. .” Goldsmith was not paid or credited for this use.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 26, 2023

When Goldsmith issued a cease and desist letter claiming copyright infringement, AWF brought a declaratory judgment action asserting that its use of Goldsmith’s photograph in Orange Prince was protected under the Copyright Act’s fair use doctrine. .” Goldsmith was not paid or credited for this use.

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 18, 2022

Intellectual property owners need to add the metaverse to places to watch for possible infringement, specifically, trademark or copyright infringement in the form of NFTs or non-fungible tokens. The Amended Complaint, filed on March 2, 2022, provides additional background and context for Hermès’ claims.

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JIPEL Copyright Blog

MARCH 9, 2022

Perhaps one of the most salient legal issues is whether there is copyright infringement or a violation of the Visual Artists Rights Act of 1990 (“VARA”) in the virtual modification (e.g., addition of written or pictorial elements) of a work not in the public domain and/or where the creator is still alive.

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 13, 2022

Although none has reached a resolution, these private civil actions highlight various legal theories of liability that could arise when participating in the NFT market, including claims for copyright infringement, trademark infringement, breach of contract and violations of securities laws. Damon Dash. Roc-A-Fella Records Inc.

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SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Hulm asserted ownership of copyright on the app on the basis of a copyright registration of a literary concept note detailing the working of its app, arguing that the app is an adaptation of the literary concept note. This criterion was primarily established in the EBC v. Modak case.,

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LexBlog IP

JUNE 7, 2023

” In November 2022, two anonymous software programmers who own source code repositories publicly available through GitHub brought a class action lawsuit in the Northern District of California against GitHub and OpenAI ( DOE 1 et al v.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 1, 2023

Copyright Act grants authors five exclusive rights: “to reproduce the copyrighted work in copies or phonorecords”, “to prepare derivative works based on the copyrighted work,” “to distribute copies or phonorecords of the copyrighted work to the public,” “to perform the copy­righted work publicly,” and “to display the copyrighted work publicly.”

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TorrentFreak

MAY 11, 2023

For the sole defendant in yet another Bungie lawsuit, filed at exactly the same court in 2022, these headlines should make for uncomfortable reading. Twitch Streamer Feels The Heat In its July 2022 complaint , Bungie targeted a Twitch user who reportedly live streamed himself cheating in Destiny 2 while evading multiple bans.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 17, 2022

The company’s lawsuits variously claim copyright infringement (when cheat makers use pieces of original code or creative derivative works ), circumvention of technical measures (under the DMCA), breach of contract, and/or violation of consumer protection laws. Then things began to escalate.

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IP Tech Blog

JANUARY 4, 2023

Given that NFTs are the result of digital work that is transported in images, videos, photography and other forms of digital media, copyright seems to be the closest IP right to protect both the source code of the digital work, as well as its derivative works. Trademark Ownership and Infringement.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 9, 2022

have grappled with how broadly or narrowly to interpret the concept of transformativeness when assessing fair use defenses to charges of copyright infringement. The Court in Campbell emphasized that transformative fair uses leave “breathing space” for next generation creations that build on the expression of pre-existing works.

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

In 2017, the Warhol Foundation sued Goldsmith and her agency for a declaratory judgment that the Prince Series works are non-infringing or, in the alternative, that they constitute a fair use of the Prince Photograph. Goldsmith counterclaimed for copyright infringement.

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LexBlog IP

JUNE 5, 2023

Goldsmith notified AWF of her belief that the work infringed her copyright. Goldsmith counterclaimed for copyright infringement. A transformative work is fair use, and therefore not a copyright infringement, based on a reading of the Supreme Court’s holding in Campbell v. ” Id.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 4, 2023

Given that NFTs are the result of digital work that is transported in images, videos, photography and other forms of digital media, copyright seems to be the closest IP right to protect both the source code of the digital work, as well as its derivative works. Trademark Ownership and Infringement.

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SpicyIP

OCTOBER 2, 2023

The Court determined that the matter fell under the Delhi High Court IP Division’s jurisdiction as per the Intellectual Property Rights Division Rules, 2022, and suggested exploring an amicable resolution in the next hearing scheduled for October 11, 2023. Haldiram India Pvt.

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Copyright Lately

MARCH 6, 2023

The New York Lawsuit The first volley in the parties’ legal battle came in May 2022, when Coakley filed a pro se lawsuit in New York state court against the Bergers and Virtuoso. Wagging Tails contends that these materials are “unauthorized and infringing derivative works” based on its motion picture.

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