IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 23, 2023

[Image Sources : Gettyimages] One of the important issues in online is copyrights. 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. iii] NFTs are limited to having a single owner.

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Velocity of Content

AUGUST 8, 2022

“The Mechanical Licensing Collective, or the MLC, was a result of the 2018 Music Modernization Act that updates copyright law to deal with streaming music,” Rosenblatt explains. Copyright & Technology 2022 Preview. The post Copyright & Technology 2022 Preview appeared first on Copyright Clearance Center.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

JANUARY 11, 2023

During litigation, the unredacted version may be used as evidence to support the ownership of the redacted portions in the registered mask work. The individual/entity must physically appear at the Copyright Office in Washington D.C. Statistics from Copyright Office’s Annual Reports. Copyright Office. Id, section 2407.1(D)(2).

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2023

The growth of artificial intelligence (“AI”) and generative AI is moving copyright law into unprecedented territory. While US copyright law continues to develop around AI, one boundary has been set: the bedrock requirement of copyright is human authorship.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2022

In August 2022, the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Research and Innovation published a study on EU copyright and related rights and access to and reuse of scientific publications, including open access. Current EU copyright framework. Image by Mediamodifier from Pixabay.

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IP and Legal Filings

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Introduction India has a rich culinary legacy, in recent times, the growth of Indian cuisine has seen a tremendous commercial surge both domestically and internationally which has led to an increased need for the protection of recipes to ensure their authenticity and provide ownership rights to the actual creator of the recipe.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Emojis are an excellent device for trolling campaigns because they inevitably look alike and copyright law provides many powerful tools to copyright owners. Personnel note: the law firm Patterson & Sheridan led this lawsuit, with EIGHT lawyers from the firm listed on the caption. Apple, Inc. LEXIS 28086 (N.D.

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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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The IPKat

MARCH 5, 2024

Jane Wessel's book , Owning Performance | Performing Ownership: Literary Property and the Eighteenth-Century British Stage , is a distinguished contribution to this scholarly pantheon. If the latter, publication, whatever protection that the copyright law offered, might be unwise commercially. Read, learn, and enjoy.

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 24, 2023

8] Who Owns The Copyright In Ai? When it comes to AI, there are various entities for which a claim for copyright could be made: Programmer: One of the main contention of granting ownership to AI is that it is the programmer who designs, creates, or trains the computer software, without which the AI system would not have been created.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The IPKat has received and is pleased to host the following guest contribution by Katfriend Seun Lari-Williams , PhD researcher in the fields of copyright and dispute system design at the University of Antwerp, regarding Nigeria's Copyright Act 2022 (which came into effect in 2023) and its constitutional reference to copyright as movable property.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

JANUARY 11, 2023

During litigation, the unredacted version may be used as evidence to support the ownership of the redacted portions in the registered mask work. The individual/entity must physically appear at the Copyright Office in Washington D.C. Copyright Office. Copyright Office by year for the last 10 years. Id, section 2407.1(D)(2).

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Yet despite reported progress, including an overhaul of Vietnam’s copyright laws and promises to crack down on piracy, including the formation of a specialist anti-piracy unit , nothing has had any visible effect. over the same period in 2022. As of October 2023, the number of pay TV subscribers in Vietnam reached 18.7

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

As recently as December 2022, both HD-Spain and Pixelados domains remained in use. “Currently, copyright laws in Spain allow websites to be sued for distributing files by any method that infringes copyright, whether or not there is a profit motive. A few days ago, all domains suddenly fell out of service.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Indeed, human creators seek compensation for the novel use of their intellectual efforts while AI firms aim to maximize the free harvesting of data (including copyright-protected materials) for training their algorithms. It is very likely that many more cases will be brought to courts in the near future. Secondly, para.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 15, 2024

2022), the Ninth Circuit agreed with my view (and cited my amicus brief), expressly rejecting a three-year limit on recovery of damages in cases in which the discovery rule applies. at 1-2] At its heart, therefore, this case is a dispute about copyright ownership. Two years later, in Starz Entertainment v. 4th 1236 (9th Cir.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JANUARY 5, 2023

As of 2022, it is not even a new idea to use digital methods to copy heritage, considering that the mass digitisation of cultural heritage, especially books, started more than two decades ago. Alternatively, ownership of the scans is not addressed at all when discussing physical repatriation. Photo by awsloley via Pixabay.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MARCH 13, 2024

A hierarchy between rights and exceptions would be contrary to national and regional constitutional orders, in particular to the imperatives of fundamental rights ( Geiger & Jütte, 2022 ). From this constitutional dimension of copyright emerged the notion of ‘user rights’ ( Geiger, 2020 ). 7(1) and art. 17(7) CDSM Directive.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Laws aiming to remedy these issues have thus been adopted in Spain in 2011 and 2022 , Italy and Germany in 2013, Austria in 2015, France in 2016, the Netherlands and Belgium in 2018. Pre-existing Bulgarian provision The SPR is not an entirely novel concept to Bulgarian copyright law. On the other hand, art. What’s next?

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Copyright Lately

JULY 23, 2024

In 2019, Vetter served a termination notice on Windsong and its successors in interest under Section 304(c) of the 1976 Copyright Act, terminating the 1963 assignment and recapturing the rights he and Smith had previously assigned, effective in 2022. copyright law does not impact foreign rights.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 3, 2023

Filed in February 2022, a DISH Network copyright infringement lawsuit demanded $32.5m Similar lawsuits have become fairly common in recent years and when copyright holders prevail, damages awards can reach hundreds of millions of dollars. .” Copyright Law. Copyright Office.”

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 29, 2023

Delving into the parallel creation model, proposed for machinima, it is proposed that it should be based on collaborative creation and no exclusionary ownership. This also rules out the threat of the creation of a new game and is more convenient since developers do not have to take the pain of extracting copyright fees from a lot of users.

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The IPKat

JANUARY 2, 2022

COPYRIGHT Giovanni Maria Riccio and Fabiola Iraci Gambazza (E-Lex law firm) reported on the recent publication of the European Audiovisual Observatory entitled " Mapping report on national remedies against online piracy of sports content ", commissioned by the European Commission. disputes between domain names and trademarks).

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Copyright Lately

AUGUST 2, 2022

The duo’s passion project was nominated for a 2022 Grammy Award in the Best Musical Theater Album category. on July 26, 2022. Netflix filed its lawsuit against Barlow & Bear on Friday July 29, 2022. But that was only the beginning. “ [W]hy sign a label deal and not own all of our masters and publishing?

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

AUGUST 24, 2022

As previously reported , between October 2021 and January 2022 the UK Intellectual Property Office held a public consultation on the intersection between artificial intelligence (AI) and intellectual property laws (more specifically, copyright and patents). The consultation closed in the beginning of January 2022.

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The IP Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Despite receiving this accolade and Allen’s arguments that he contributed significant creative elements to the AI-generated Work, his attempts to copyright the work have been unsuccessful. Allen originally filed for copyright registration on September 21, 2022, but did not disclose that he had used an AI system to create the work.

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The IP Law Blog

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

So, clearly, the Cleveland Indians knew of the roller derby team’s ownership of the IP and exactly how it was used. Instead, on July 23, 2021, after the teams had the discussions referenced above, the Cleveland baseball team announced its intent to rebrand for the 2022 season as the Cleveland Guardians.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 29, 2023

Michael Flores, representing himself, filed a claim for misrepresentation under Section 512(f) on June 28, 2022, twelve days after the CCB began. Flores sent a DMCA 512(g) counter-notice on June 27, 2022, and filed with the CCB the next day. The respondent did not opt out and the opt out period ended on October 24, 2022.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

More frequently, the commentary addresses copyright or intellectual property protected commodities created for the child – rather than by the child – for the purpose of entertainment, learning or as practical everyday objects ( J Bellido & K Bowrey, 2022 ). The work by the child: acknowledgements and safeguards. What is it?

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CopyrightsWorld

APRIL 29, 2022

On November 3rd, 2018, Thaler filed a copyright application for A Recent Entrance to Paradise, designating himself as the claimant and the work’s author as “Creativity Machine,” saying that the copyright should be transferred from the AI to him due to his “ownership of the machine.”

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IP and Legal Filings

MARCH 12, 2024

To protect the right of creators, Copyright law was introduced, fostering creative innovation. Copyright Law and Insufficient Injunctions The British Statute of Anne, 1710, was the first copyright statute. 2022, August 18). Journal of World Intellectual Property, 23(1-2), 65-74. link] Raghunath, A.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 4, 2023

Ownership and Enforcement. Even if copyright is accepted in both the US and China as the most suitable IP for NFTs protection, challenges remain. Copyright statutes and case law were not ready for the digital revolution and the very concept of copyright needs to be newly molded and adapted to the peculiar nature of NFTs.

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IP and Legal Filings

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Violations of copyrights are addressed under Chapter XI of the Copyrights Act of 1957. Infringement of copyrights is addressed under Sections 51 through 53A of the Copyrights Act, 1957. Producers may claim exclusive ownership of an album or song in court owing to copyright protections. 2022, April 22).

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

For example, if we ask the Stable Diffusion generator for a “cat wearing a suit” it generates images of dapper cats at the press of a button: As an aside, as it has been discussed previously on the IPKat , there is some uncertainty whether these image outputs are protected under copyright law and, if protected, who owns the relevant copyright.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Photo by Udo Pohlmann via Pixabay Over the last decades, European lawyers got used to the – at times remarkable and even forceful – interventions of the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) in copyright law. Whether to honour the digital exhaustion doctrine or not, has always seemed a matter of national or EU law.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The US Supreme Court recently endorsed the general view that fair use is a mixed question of law and fact: “reviewing courts should appropriately defer to the jury’s findings of underlying facts; but…the ultimate question whether those facts showed a ‘fair use’ is a legal question for judges to decide de novo.” [7] Copyright for AI Products?

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43(B)log

JULY 20, 2022

Stubenrauch, 2022 WL 2793579, No. 15, 2022) The parties in this case are former business associates, which is one reason there are so many different claims. Likewise, at this stage only, the court rejected the argument that plaintiffs failed to plead ownership of the copied elements. 3:21-cv-00545 (M.D.

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