Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 16, 2023

The post xQc and the 2023 Reaction Video Controversy appeared first on Plagiarism Today. Streamer and YouTuber xQc is under fire for his reaction videos. Here's why it's not the first such battle and why this may be different.

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SpicyIP

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Internet Archive, our fellowship applicant Tanishka Goswami explains the implication of the decision on fair use. She graduated from National Law University, Delhi in 2023 & enjoys reading and writing on copyright laws. What the Second Circuit’s “Fair Use” Analysis tells us ?

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Copyright Lately

DECEMBER 29, 2024

Ignoring the technical and practical realities of modern online content sharing risks turning every casual social media user into a potential copyright defendant. Chicken Joes earns its spot on my list of the years worst copyright decisions. Fair Use Declawed. law in generalapplies only to domestic rights.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 20, 2023

Supreme Court affirmed the Second Circuit’s ruling that the reproduction of Andy Warhol’s Orange Prince on the cover of a magazine tribute was not a fair use of Lynn Goldsmith’s photo of the singer-songwriter Prince, on which the Warhol portrait was based. 21-869 (May 18, 2023). Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

The defendant published a bio on Sewell and included one of McDermott’s photos–apparently sourced from an unrelated Instagram account (possibly another infringer, or perhaps that account has a fair use defense?). McDermott, represented by the Sanders Law Group, sued KMC for copyright infringement.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

But if you really want Kiwi Farms gone, have you considered using copyright law for its censorial power? The court says the defendants waived any fair use defense by briefing it inadequately. This ruling shows how copyright law could be a Kiwi Farms killer–no legal reform required. Greer] money.”

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

The Court has granted summary judgment in respect of 2,830 headnotes belonging to Thomson Reuters and admittedly used by Ross Intelligence to train its Natural Language Processing and Artificial Enabled Legal Research tool, finding Direct Copyright Infringement and rejecting fair use. But, first, Some History!

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JD Supra Law

MAY 19, 2023

On May 18, 2023, the US Supreme Court, in a much-anticipated decision, held that portraits of the musician Prince by Andy Warhol do not constitute fair use under copyright law. The 7 – 2 decision in Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts, Inc.

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JD Supra Law

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Internet Archive, holding that the Internet Archive's "controlled digital lending" program violated copyright law. The Second Circuit Court of Appeals delivered a resounding victory to the publishing industry on Wednesday, September 4, 2024, in Hachette Books v.

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Copyright Lately

OCTOBER 20, 2024

The judge did side with the airline on its copyright infringement claim, ruling that Skiplagged had used American’s flight symbol logo without permission as recently as August 2023. American asserted that Skiplagged infringed its trademarked and copyrighted flight symbol when presenting search results.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

This is a review of Music Borrowing and Copyright Law, a Genre-by-Genre Analysis , edited by Enrico Bonadio (City, University of London) and Chen Wei Zhu (University of Birmingham). This edited collection will be enjoyed by scholars and practitioners interested in music and copyright, as well as musical cultural heritage.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MARCH 10, 2025

Image via Pixabay We have so far seen a considerable (and increasing) discussion on AI and copyright infringement, especially in terms of how current exceptions such as TDM and fair use apply and whether new exceptions or remuneration models are needed. The UK is currently considering a similar solution. Australia).

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The IP Law Blog

JANUARY 19, 2023

In this case, the Supreme Court will decide whether the Andy Warhol Foundation made fair use of a photo of the late artist Prince. In short, the matter at issue will address when a work is sufficiently transformative to qualify for fair use protection under the Copyright Act. Next, we have Abitron Austria GmbH v.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 17, 2024

is one of the most interesting cases in history to rely on a fair use defense, arguing that the alleged infringement qualifies as a parody. Acuff-Rose sued members of hip hop group 2 Live Crew, claiming that their track “Pretty Woman” infringed the label’s copyright in the Roy Orbison song, “Oh, Pretty Woman.”

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JANUARY 15, 2024

Photo by Joey Csunyo on Unsplash In recent years, copyright departments in governments around the world have been preoccupied with AI’s effects on copyright industries and, more recently, copyright law challenges created for AI industries. Which copyright issues has the Australian government been grappling with?

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IIPRD

MARCH 5, 2025

Blog sought to study global moves or court cases that have taken place regarding uses of copyright in made-always-with-an-AI creation and provide discussion over possible solutions to the future of intellectual property laws. Copyright Office. Copyright Act regulates the works which are created by humans only.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 19, 2023

On May 18, 2023, the Supreme Court found that artistic changes to a pre-existing work, alone, not necessarily sufficient to make a derivative work fair use. copyright law. copyright law, the Supreme Court focused on the actual use made, i.e. what the user does with the original work.

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IP and Legal Filings

MARCH 5, 2025

This means, even though news items cannot be allowed copyright protection as per Article 1(8) of the Berne Convention, fake news which has an element of originality (as they depict an event that did not take place), can merit copyright protection.” 10] Ibid. [11] 11] Ibid. [12] 15] Ibid. [16] 16] Ibid.

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The IP Law Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2023

As we look back, we want to share The Briefing’s most popular episodes in 2023. 3: What Now for Fair Use After Warhol v. Goldsmith that Andy Warhol’s portrait of music legend Prince did not qualify as fair use under copyright law. Goldsmith The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Andy Warhol Foundation v.

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

She graduated from National Law University, Delhi in 2023 & enjoys reading and writing on copyright laws. Hence, through their operational frameworks, the platforms complained of were alleged to infringe the copyright, and broadcasting rights held by Star India. [This post is authored by Tanishka Goswami.

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 30, 2023

As 2023 comes to an end, in line with our annual tradition, we take stock of the top IP developments that occurred this year. We’ve tried to represent a diversity of subject matter also in this list, so it’s a mixed bag of cases dealing with patents, trademarks, copyright law etc. A special thanks to Mr. G. Nataraj, Ms.

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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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Patently-O

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Copyright Office published a Notice of inquiry (“NOI”) and request for comments, Artificial Intelligence and Copyright, Docket No. 2023-6 on August 30, 2023, calling for comments from interested parties addressing dozens of questions. The Office received roughly 10,000 comments on October 30, 2023.

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BYU Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Internet Archive's Fair Use Defense Falls Short Fair Use,Literary Works,Infringement Found October 07, 11:03 AM October 07, 11:03 AM On May 15, 2024, we published a post about an important legal dispute between the Internet Archive (IA) and the publisher Hachette, along with other major publishers (the Publishers").

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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

OCTOBER 3, 2023

The defendants’ wholesale collection and use of copyrighted material, with no option for copyright owners to opt out, would exceed the legal interpretation of “fair use” (see VHT vs Zillow Group , 918 F.3d 2000) (“ copying an entire work militates against a finding of fair use. ”). 4th 1149 (9th Cir.

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 16, 2024

The concept of CDL revolves around the idea of two major doctrines under Copyright law i.e. Doctrine of fair use and doctrine of exhaustion. However, the ambiguity as to the lawfulness of such mass digitalisation and controlled lending has attracted major debates in different jurisdictions. 1156 (2023). [2]

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IP Intelligence

JUNE 7, 2023

Sy Damle, (2016-2018 General Counsel) testified that “the training of AI models will generally fall within the established bounds of fair use.” Sy Damle, (2016-2018 General Counsel) testified that “the training of AI models will generally fall within the established bounds of fair use.” (S. 1258, (2023).

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LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 29, 2023

As we look back, we want to share The Briefing’s most popular episodes in 2023. 3: What Now for Fair Use After Warhol v. Goldsmith that Andy Warhol’s portrait of music legend Prince did not qualify as fair use under copyright law. Goldsmith The U.S.

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CoCal IP Law Institute

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Please join us on Monday, November 13, 2023 at Noon, where we will discuss the issue of master ownership and the legal copyright conflicts between record labels and artists. Taylor Swift may be the first to make this copyright issue truly public, leaving fans wondering who really owns Swift's music and why.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

APRIL 1, 2023

Maritas, 2023 WL 2726030 (E.D. March 30, 2023) * * * BONUS 1: Edelmania Productions, LLC v. Jordan Service, 2023 WL 424238 (C.D. Patrick, 2023 WL 2478550 (E.D. March, 13, 2023): on February 4, 2020, Bar-Z submitted a DMCA notification to Google Play and Apple that App Star’s applications needed to be taken down.

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Velocity of Content

MARCH 16, 2023

Each of these cases is unique, fact dependent, and likely, if fully litigated on the merits, to shed light on different aspects of copyright law. I speculated that this was an attempt to avoid a messy fair use dispute. TVEyes respectively) is the reliance by Defendants on claims of “transformative use.”

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SpicyIP

MARCH 1, 2025

In light of Amazon’s decision to disable the ‘Download or Transfer via USB’ feature from their Kindle devices, Arnav Kaman discusses DRMs/TPMs, the rights of the user, what users can do with their ebooks within the fair use doctrine, and the future of ebooks in this guest post.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JANUARY 16, 2024

The plaintiffs’ factual allegations in Kadrey v Meta and Chabon v Meta The first class action, Kadrey v Meta ( here ), was filed on 7 July 2023, in U.S. The second class action, Chabon v Meta, was filed on 12 September 2023 before the same court ( here ). District Court for the Northern District of California – San Francisco Division.

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Velocity of Content

DECEMBER 4, 2024

The Copyright Act provides an exclusive right “to prepare derivative works based upon the copyrighted work” and defines “derivative work” in part as any work “ based upon one or more preexisting works.” This has been a long-standing question in copyright law. An amendment to the copyright statute is only one of them.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 29, 2023

Eight months after filing, the first two Copyright Claims Board (CCB) Final Determinations have been handed down. Mitrakos, 22-CCB-0035 , February 15, 2023, and Oppenheimer v. Prutton, 22-CCB-0045 , February 28, 2023. The respondent did not respond then, and the CCB sent a notice on January 11, 2023. Oppenheimer v.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

We will keep the law under review and could amend, replace or remove protection in future if the evidence supports it.” Registration was refused in August 2019, in line with previous US case law and guidance. We were not aware that the image may have been created by AI” 2.

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