Indiana Intellectual Property Law

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Indiana) in part, for copyright infringement of works of original authorship. Instruments of Service ) created by DCG, while also maintaining that DCG was the author and owner of said Instruments of Service, and would, therefore, retain all common law , statutory and other reserved rights, including copyrights.

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JD Supra Law

JANUARY 10, 2024

On December 27, 2023, The New York Times (the “Times”) filed a complaint against OpenAI and Microsoft in the Southern District of New York based on their claimed use of the Times’s works in creating generative artificial intelligence (“AI”) products. The New York Times Co. Microsoft Corp. 1:23-cv-11195). By: Kilpatrick

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JD Supra Law

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Novak denied the bulk of a motion to dismiss a suit alleging that a general contractor had infringed an architectural firm’s copyright on design plans for a brewery and tasting room to be built in Williamsburg. 3:22CV470 (DJN), 2023 U.S. Michael Pellis Architecture PLC v. Bell Construction LLC, Civil Action No.

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JD Supra Law

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Addressing the elements of contributory copyright infringement, the US Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit found that a plaintiff had plausibly alleged contributory copyright infringement when he alleged that the defendants had “caused, materially contributed to, or authorized the direct infringement” of his copyrights.

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The IP Law Blog

MARCH 23, 2023

The Ninth Circuit recently addressed the issue of whether parties can contractually agree to shorten the statute of limitations period for bringing a copyright infringement claim. Normally, the statute of limitations for a copyright violation is three years. In an unpublished opinion in the case, Evox Productions, LLC v.

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Copyright Lately

JULY 8, 2023

2023 is shaping up to be a year of crappy IP lawsuits. But number 1 when it comes to number 2 is a new copyright infringement lawsuit filed this week over a jigsaw puzzle called “101 Pooping Puppies.” As a refresher, copyright protects the expression of an idea, but not the idea itself.

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JD Supra Law

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

30, 2023) (“Stability AI”), Plaintiffs, a trio of visual artists, asserted claims for direct and vicarious copyright infringement under the Copyright Act. A California federal judge recently issued one of the first substantive generative AI decisions to date. In Anderson, et al., Stability AI Ltd. 23-cv-00201-WHO (N.D.

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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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JD Supra Law

JANUARY 18, 2024

As 2023 came to an end, it offered a prime opportunity to examine significant legal developments in intellectual property case law and implications for the real estate industry in the year to come.

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LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 17, 2023

The High Court recently delivered its decision in Real Estate Tool Box v Campaigntrack 1 relating to copyright authorisation. Although the appellants in this case successfully avoided a finding of copyright infringement, the High Court has emphasised that each case turns on its facts. 5 Id, [65], [77]. 6 Id, [77]. 7 Id, [88].

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 13, 2023

Copyright infringement and De Minimis are often replaced to complement each other. However, de minimis is sometimes used as a defence in a copyright lawsuit. More often than not, the lawsuits filed for copyright infringement are cases of de minimis and thereto, get dismissed on the anvil of frivolity. INTRODUCTION.

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IP and Legal Filings

AUGUST 14, 2023

Copyright is a more complicated problem. Per Article 5(2) of the Berne Convention [9] , copyright is established without the need for any further procedures. Since copyright is “universal”, some argue that the lex originis should be utilised to determine who owns works that have been plagiarised.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 17, 2024

A few hours ago, the company released its latest transparency report detailing the actions it took in the second half of 2023. 779,628 ‘Infringing’ Items Flagged At TorrentFreak, we are mostly interested in copyright-related actions. These user bans are in part the result of legal obligations.

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JD Supra Law

APRIL 11, 2023

(formerly known as Siemens Product Lifecycle Management Software Inc) v Inzign Pte Ltd [2023] SGHC 50 (Siemens v Inzign), Singapore’s General Division of the High Court (GDHC) ruled that an organisation may be vicariously liable for its employees’ acts of copyright infringement. By: Dentons

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Lawsuits filed in the United States targeting pirate sites usually focus on breaches of copyright law, typically direct and secondary infringement, or violations of the DMCA, depending on individual circumstances. filed its complaint. In theory, at least.

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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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JD Supra Law

MARCH 23, 2023

The Ninth Circuit recently addressed the issue of whether parties can contractually agree to shorten the statute of limitations period for bringing a copyright infringement claim. In an unpublished opinion in the case, Evox Productions, LLC v. Chrome Data Solutions, LP (filed Feb.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JANUARY 4, 2024

Welcome to the fourth (and last) round up of EU copyright law for 2023! In this edition, we update you on what has happened in the last three months of 2024 in EU copyright law. With Bulgaria implementing the directive towards the end of 2023, Poland is the last Member State missing.

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JD Supra Law

MAY 31, 2024

Copyright infringement filings continue to grow with 2023 seeing a 25% increase in cases according to year end federal court statistics.

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JD Supra Law

JUNE 13, 2023

On May 18, 2023, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its first decision this century on copyright fair use in the artistic context. 1258 (2023). Andy Warhol Found. for the Visual Arts, Inc. Goldsmith, 143 S. By: Lathrop GPM

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 8, 2023

On December 14, 2022, a group of music rightsholders including BMG, UMG, and Capitol filed a complaint at a Texas district court, accusing Altice, the parent company of ISP Optimum, of facilitating massive copyright infringement. By now the base allegations are very familiar.

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LexBlog IP

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

and Universal Music Group (“Plaintiffs”) sued AI start-up Anthropic PBC (“Anthropic”) on October 18, 2023, in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee “to address the systematic and widespread infringement of their copyrighted song lyrics” by Anthropic. ” Id.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 24, 2022

But, before I go, I wanted to leave you with five tales of how copyright has shaped Halloween that I’ve written over the years. 1: How a Copyright Mistake Created the Modern Zombie. When the film was released, the print was missing a copyright notice. 2: Dracula vs. Nosferatu: A True Copyright Horror Story.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 14, 2024

The Australian government has released the 2023 edition of its Consumer Survey on Online Copyright Infringement. Note: The term ‘Infringers’ refers to respondents who reported consuming any content in a way that was likely to be unlawful. Music was also consumed by more Australians in 2023.

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The IPKat

MAY 12, 2023

The IPKat has received and is pleased to host the following guest contribution by former InternKat James Kwong (Norton Rose Fulbright) on the recent Hong Kong copyright reform, which entered into force a few days ago. Can you find the Kat?

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 23, 2023

The Ninth Circuit recently addressed the issue of whether parties can contractually agree to shorten the statute of limitations period for bringing a copyright infringement claim. ” Normally, the statute of limitations for a copyright violation is three years. In an unpublished opinion in the case, Evox Productions, LLC v.

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JD Supra Law

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

On December 27, 2023, The New York Times Company ("The Times") sued several OpenAI entities and their stakeholder Microsoft ("OpenAI") in the Southern District of New York for copyright infringement, vicarious copyright infringement, contributory copyright infringement, violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), unfair competition, and (..)

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 30, 2024

However, copyright protection may unexpectedly clash with this sustainable practice, as certain upcycled items could include copyrighted prints, ornaments, or design patterns from the original materials, such as new clothing items made out of old bed sheets, curtains, or tablecloths , or jewellery made from broken porcelain.

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BYU Copyright Blog

JUNE 3, 2024

Copyright Copycat? Boyages) filed a Complaint against the University of Vermont and the State Agricultural College (Defendants or the University) alleging copyright infringement under 17 U.S.C. Boyages applied for copyright registration and had her work registered as SophCat. After 11 months, Ms. Even if Ms.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 13, 2024

In July 2023, the Court of Appeal in Wright & Ors v BTC Core & Ors [2023] EWCA Civ 868. overturned the High Court decision in which Mr Justice Mellor found that the Bitcoin File Format (the “BFF” ) was not a protectable work in a copyright sense as it did not satisfy the fixation requirement under s.3(2)

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

To protect copyright holders, YouTube regularly removes, disables, or demonetizes videos that contain allegedly infringing content. For years, little was known about the scope of these copyright claims, but that changed two years ago when the streaming platform published its first-ever transparency report. submitted manually.

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Olartemoure Blog

JANUARY 18, 2023

There was no image copyright credit or compensation to Lynn Goldsmith. The photographer threatened to sue the Foundation alleging copyright infringement. In April 2017 the Andy Warhol Foundation sued Goldsmith for a declaration of non-infringement.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 1, 2024

We also received a few direct to us via email, more than usual in 2023. New Year 2023: Peaceful for 19 Days By January 19, 2023, things were looking quite promising. On April 3, 2023, we received an email from Turkey-based anti-piracy outfit DigiGuardians Inc. It didn’t in any way.

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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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SpicyIP

JULY 31, 2023

Image from here Yesterday, July 31, the Lok Sabha passed the Cinematograph (Amendment) Bill, 2023 , which was earlier passed by the Rajya Sabha on July 27, 2023. Furthermore, the 2023 bill enables aggrieved individuals to pursue action under Section 51 of the Copyright Act 1957 for copyright infringement.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 17, 2024

In addition to raising questions about ownership of outputs , infringement in training , and the future of copyright as a policy tool to encourage creativity , economists are in the early stages of analysing the effects of these technologies on human creativity.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Grande Communications Networks, LLC, 2023 WL 1422808 (W.D. Jan 31, 2023). Another troubling ruling for an Internet access provider trying to shake a contributory copyright claim based on user-caused copyright infringement. Our strong presumption flows from copyright law’s asymmetric recoveries. Johnson, No.

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