Velocity of Content

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

This article originally appeared in the Scholarly Kitchen Back in March of 2023, when there were only a handful of cases alleging copyright infringement for training purposes by AI companies, I predicted that we would soon have some guidance from the court in Thomson Reuters Enterprise Center GMBH and West Publishing Corp. a copy shop).

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 16, 2024

With CDL, libraries maintain a balanced ratio of owned copies to loaned copies (owned to loaned ratio), preventing unauthorized sharing and copying of the digital content. This rule covers lending digital copies of copyrighted works, while works in the public domain can be freely digitized.

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IIPRD

MARCH 5, 2025

The article was rejected for copyright protection in 2023, and the argument was that the absence of human authorship disqualified the work from the right. Who owns the right to copy-authors, the programmer, the user, or the transmitter commissioning the work? Copyright Office, Compendium of Copyright Office Practices , 2023.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JANUARY 9, 2025

Our societys welfare will probably be better served by leaving AIGW in the public domain. Creating the first copy of an original work is often a costly endeavour. Consider, for example, the following AI-generated image of Pope Francis that went viral in 2023. This causes a problem for the producer. Its a fun picture!

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IP and Legal Filings

MAY 3, 2023

Originality is the quality that distinguishes produced or invented works from copies, clones, forgeries, or derivative works by being new or novel. Eventually, a publication featuring sixteen of the forty-two matriculation papers was released by the University Tutorial Publishing Limited. specialised in regional phone directories.

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LexBlog IP

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

21, 2023) (Hector Gonzalez), the District Court for the Eastern District of New York granted the plaintiff’s motion for summary judgment regarding the validity of its copyright. Defendants argued that because information concerning the Second Holy Temple is in the public domain, Plaintiff’s copyrighted works are not original.

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Velocity of Content

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Significant amounts of content are also available through the public domain. law, copying copyrighted content to train AI can state a cause of action for infringement [Citing, Thomson Reuters Enters. 2021) (downloading and copying of Westlaw database for the purpose of training AI).] ROSS Intelligence Inc., 529 F.Supp.3d

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Copyright Lately

APRIL 3, 2023

book publishers, rejecting the Internet Archive’s argument that its practice of scanning and lending digital copies of books qualifies as fair use under the Copyright Act. When the electronic version is “checked out,” the physical copy is taken out of circulation. ” What is Controlled Digital Lending?

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SpicyIP

MARCH 27, 2023

Case: Biomoneta Research Vs Controller General of Patents Designs on 13 March 2023 (Delhi High Court) The matter pertained to an appeal against the order of the controller rejecting a patent application for ‘Air Decontamination Assembly’. on 6 March, 2023 (Delhi High Court) In this case, the plaintiff, Bennett Coleman & Co.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Platforms that copy online data and use it to create AI have a strong fair use argument under copyright laws. Copyright law forbids duplication, public performance, and so on, unless the person wishing to copy or perform the work gets permission; silence means a ban on copying. A copyright is a right against the world.

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SpicyIP

MAY 15, 2023

Deadline for the Applications: 11:59pm IST, 23rd June, 2023. Other Posts World of Possibilities: Single Judge Bench of Delhi High Court Allows Use of Celebrity Information Available in Public Domain Delhi High Court specifies some contours of publicity rights in India! on 1 May, 2023 (Delhi High Court Order No.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 9, 2023

In this tidbit , Praharsh informed our readers about the re-notification of the Trademark and Patent Agent Examination 2023. Case: Abdul Rasul Nurallah Virjee and Jalalluddin Nurallah Virjee vs Regal Footwear on 2 January, 2023 (Bombay High Court). vs Controller Of Patents on 4 January, 2023 (Delhi High Court).

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 2, 2023

Do these creations belong to the artists or the public domain? s advertisement for hats, copying Sarony’s Oscar Wilde No. 2023, Generative AI Works Found Ineligible for Copyright Under the U.S. Do creators who use generative AI maintain copyright in their creations? By guest blogger Prof. Ehrich Bros.’s

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 18, 2023

Genius planted tiny mistakes in some of the lyrics it posted, and once those appeared in Google’s information boxes, it argued that Google copied lyrics from Genius. Genius’s “browsewrap,” however, prohibits copying for commercial use, and Genius sued Google for breach of contract.

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SpicyIP

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Working of a patent was again stressed in an order as recent as 4 August 2023, in Enconcore N.V Interestingly, this has been described as a method to reduce the burden on patent applicants since this information is already available in the public domain. Anyhow, let’s look further into the reasoning as well.

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SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Image by jcomp on Freepik On November 3, 2023, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting issued a notification (see here ), establishing an ‘ institutional mechanism of Nodal Officers’ , under Sec. Cinematograph (Amendment) Act, 2023 Lokesh in his post, discusses ‘intermediary liability’ in the new amendment. Second , the govt.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 13, 2024

In November 2023, X corp. As I wrote back in December, scraping claims are almost always about unwanted copying and distribution of data. And that, in turn, further restricts what should be in the public domain and gives companies power to create property rights where none are otherwise granted in the law. 4 (9th Cir.

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IP Intelligence

AUGUST 15, 2023

When the infringing work is an exact copy of protected work, copyright holders just need to establish that the work itself includes enough human authorship to have thin protection. However, consider an instance where an alleged infringer copied only a portion of a computer program. See, e.g. , SAS Institute v. World Programming Ltd. ,

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 29, 2024

An indication becomes generic when it returns to the public domain and is no longer protected in its country of origin or has ceased to be used there. Ganesh Makam, Geographical Indications and Cultural Protection in India: Harnessing Intellectual Property for Regional Development, 4490648, SSRN, 2023. Lakshmi Prasad A.N,

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SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Hulm Entertainment alleged Fantasy Sports had substantially copied its ‘original trading and stock features’ along with the graphical user interface (GUI) of their fantasy sports mobile application “Exchange22”. The matter will next be taken up on December 19, 2023, where we’ll see how the DB proceeds.

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The IPKat

MAY 12, 2024

3 RoP states that “ The Application shall be made at the same time as lodging a document containing the information or evidence and shall provide a copy of the unredacted relevant document and, if applicable, a copy of the redacted document.” UPC-CFI-239/2023, The Hague LD, Order of 4 March 2024 on confidentiality).

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 20, 2023

21-869 (May 18, 2023). For example, when a sound recording of a musical work gets played on Spotify, both the owner of the copyright in the musical work and the owner of copyright in the sound recording (the derivative work) are entitled to royalties for the public performance. Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 22, 2024

The domain of copyright deals with the literary, musical, dramatic, and artistic works, and cinematograph films. Before the digital era, copyright protected tangible art or works, allowing authors to easily regulate usage, copies, and earnings. Zafar Mahfooz Nomani, 2023).

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Copyright Lately

OCTOBER 13, 2024

Two documentaries, one Boy Scouts scandal—a trial lawyer claims Netflix copied his film, but the legal trail ahead looks rocky. Nagel Films , claims that Netflix’s 2023 documentary, Scouts Honor: The Secret Files of the Boy Scouts of America , is a near replica of his own film. Read Nagel’s complaint here.)

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LexBlog IP

AUGUST 23, 2023

.” From ongoing debates about the human element (or requirement) of authorship to debates over what constitutes a transformative work to the gauntlet laid down in footnote 2 of Justice Kagan’s dissent in the Supreme Court’s May 18, 2023 decision in Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts, Inc., In fact, lots is happening.

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IIPRD

MAY 4, 2023

To qualify as a patentable invention, the invention: must not be in the public domain or have been published or used previously; must not be obvious and must involve a technical advancement; and must be capable of being implemented commercially. 3] (1979) 2 SCC 511. [4] 7] 569 U.S.

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Copyright Lately

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Oh Mickey, you’re so fine—but you’re not alone: An avalanche of copyrighted works will enter the public domain in the United States on January 1, 2024. public domain on January 1, 2024—and that’s a shame. public domain for failure to comply with the various formalities (e.g., copyright terms.

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Patently-O

APRIL 6, 2023

WPL is a UK based software company who obtained several copies of SAS statistical software and made their own clone version by rewriting the code and by relying upon an early version of SAS that is not protected by copyright. The copyright case is not about copying code. World Programming Ltd., — F.4th 4th — (Fed.

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The IPKat

APRIL 11, 2023

We are sorry to let you know that Book Depository will be closing on 26 April 2023 You can still place orders until midday (12pm BST) on 26 April 2023 and we will continue to deliver your purchases and provide support for any order issues until 23 June 2023. Picture on bottom left is in the public domain.

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SpicyIP

OCTOBER 23, 2024

In the gazette notification dated 2oth September 2024 the Intellectual Property Rights Division Rules of the High Court, Calcutta, 2023 were notified. I feel, as before (Please see here for the Comments on Draft IPR Division Rules of High Court at Calcutta, 2023 ), there is still a lack of clarity over IEs under Rule 22.

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Copyright Lately

DECEMBER 4, 2024

public domain officially welcomes the comic debuts of Popeye and Buck Rogers, alongside classic works by Faulkner, Hemingway, and landmark sound films from the year talkies took over. The public domain offers endless opportunities to breathe new life into timeless works—chainsaws optional. On January 1, 2025, the U.S.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

If the work was published without proper copyright notice, the work entered the public domain. Effective January 1, 1978, the date of federal copyright protection was moved back from the date of first publication to the date the work was “fixed in a tangible medium of expression,” or permanently recorded in some form. .

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