TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 17, 2024

According to Sony, Datel’s software intervened in the ‘program flow’ of its games and, by changing the flow, Sony’s copyrighted game code was modified. Matter Begins to Turn in Datel’s Favor On April 25, 2024, Advocate General Szpunar delivered his opinion on the case. For legal reasons, strictly your own, of course.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

We will have to continue to wait on the other issues until later in 2024. We look forward to seeing the USPTO guidance to examiners early next year.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 13, 2024

EURO 2024 Pirates With the EURO 2024 tournament starting in Germany tomorrow, the organization and its anti-piracy partners are on high alert. In recent weeks, several sites have put up placeholders for the upcoming EURO 2024 matches. This includes links to EURO 2024 games that are not even ‘live’ yet.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 1, 2023

lawsuit demanded $150,000 in statutory damages for each fraudulent takedown notice, claiming that every time its content was taken down, the company’s right to authorize the public display and performance of its copyrighted works was violated. 1125(a), copyright infringement under 17 U.S.C. § ” The Long Haul Ahead.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

Source: Epoch AI (6 June, 2024) But what will happen when we hit the data wall? Real data is hard to come by and expensive to label; using synthetic data instead is not only cheaper but also promises to sidestep the thorny issues of privacy and copyright infringement (see Lee 2024 ).

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

AUGUST 13, 2024

The Digital Services Act (DSA) transparency database , while proving to be rather useless for misinformation or hate speech researchers, is very enlightening on copyright moderation. The first part of the study presents findings on copyright takedowns on YouTube in Germany and France between 2019 and 2022.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Academic integrity and plagiarism issues in this context ultimately also lead us to copyright law. Or do students expose themselves to liability for copyright infringement when using GenAI output? I. GenAI at odds with copyright law? As a result, these works may be reproduced by AI applications ( Figure 1 ).

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 6, 2024

A magistrate judge recommended dismissing Tomelleri’s copyright claims. He ultimately summarizes: “District court decisions within the Sixth Circuit have held that plaintiffs must show the defendant ‘intentionally and knowingly’ copied the copyrighted work.” The supervising judge agrees.

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JD Supra Law

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

A first-of-its-kind copyright infringement trial began on January 23, 2024 between tattoo artist Katherine Von Drachenberg (“Kat Von D”) and photographer Jeff Sedlik (“Sedlik”). Sedlik accused Kat Von D of copyright infringement of his Miles Davis portrait; By: Caldwell

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The plaintiff sued Cloudflare for copyright infringement. It found that Cloudflare was liable for copyright infringement due to providing the CDN services but not for the DNS resolver services. Copyright infringement on ddl-music.to infringed the plaintiff’s right under the German equivalent of Art.

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JD Supra Law

MARCH 1, 2024

Thank you for reading the February 2024 issue of Sterne Kessler's MarkIt to Market® newsletter. Nealy copyright infringement suit. This month, we discuss the advertising rights of luxury resellers and important updates to the Warner Chappell Music v.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 20, 2024

Photo by Ricardo Gomez Angel on Unsplash Since 22 May 2024, Meta has notified to European users of Instagram and Facebook – through in-app notifications and emails – an update of its privacy policy, linked to the upcoming implementation of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies in the area.

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JD Supra Law

JULY 2, 2024

On Monday, June 24, 2024, the three U.S. major record labels, Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group and Sony Music Entertainment, filed copyright infringement claims against two artificial-intelligence (AI) music start-ups, Suno and Udio.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

McDermott kept the copyright to those photo and granted NY Post a license. 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?). 2024 WL 4799751 (E.D.N.Y.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JULY 24, 2024

The relationship between copyright and generative AI (genAI) has turned out to be one of the most controversial issues the law has to resolve in this area. Is it a proper copyright ownership or an assigned license? If output works infringe copyright, who is responsible (e.g. user, service)?

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

Videogames featured Orton and his tattoos, and Alexander sued for copyright infringement. The court held that depicting tattos in videogames could be infringing, and future plaintiffs will have timely registered copyrights sufficient to claim statutory damages or more savvy damages experts. Prior blog post. Warner Bros.

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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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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 11, 2024

Music publishers sued Twitter for users’ alleged copyright infringement. The court says that three aspects of the contributory copyright infringement claim survive Twitter’s motion to dismiss. Direct Copyright Infringement. or the ultimate consumer of the infringing material. Time flies.]

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 22, 2024

The rise in popularity of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) has attracted a great deal of attention from copyright practitioners and aficionados. Basically, because an NFT is an encoded digital metadata file of a copy of a work that can be copyright protected. And why is that? an exploitation that caused them no harm).

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Copyright Lately

DECEMBER 24, 2023

Thousands will compete, many are objectively baseless, but only five can be crowned the worst of the worst copyright lawsuits of 2023. We’re nearing the end of December, which means it’s time for Copyright Lately ’s annual worst-of list. When Netflix refused to pay up, Cramer sued for copyright infringement. Polychron v.

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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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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

APRIL 22, 2024

This is one of several copyright cases brought by tattoo artists against videogame makers for depicting athletes bearing their tattoos. That case involved a photographer who sued the tattoo artist for depicting the copyrighted photo in a tattoo. WWE 2K Can Tattoos Infringe Copyrights, and If So, What Happens Then?–Sedlik

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

On February 21, 2024, the Supreme Court heard oral argument in Warner Chappell Music, Inc. Nealy , a case focusing on the availability of damages for copyright infringement. ” This rule provides that a copyright claim is timely if it is filed within three years after the claim was or reasonably should have been discovered.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 30, 2024

In a significant order, delivered on 24 January 2024 by the Bombay High Court in Novex Communications Pvt Ltd. For some context: After the Copyright (Amendment) Act, 2012, it was understood that the right to collect royalties can only be assigned to a Copyright Society, under Section 34 (1)(a) (for instance see here ).

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SpicyIP

OCTOBER 27, 2024

The last date to apply is November 04, 2024. Case Summaries L Oreal vs Graphics Traders on 19 October, 2024 (Delhi District Court) Image from here The plaintiff filed a suit alleging import of counterfeit cosmetics by the defendant, bearing its trademarks- “MAYBELLINE” and “BABY LIPS”. Manya Gupta examines this order further.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 12, 2024

I found an account on Udio that is mostly generating songs about how his friend Seth s**t his pants at work pic.twitter.com/v3jJByMbtq — abcdent (@abcdentminded) April 11, 2024 Udio and other platforms dedicated to generative AI are the kind of magic that can’t be undermined by looking up a sleeve or spotting a twin in the audience.

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SpicyIP

AUGUST 13, 2024

In light of the ongoing copyright dispute between legendary composer Ilaiyaraaja and makers of the hit Malayalam movie “Manjummel Boys” we are pleased to bring to you this tidbit by SpicyIP intern Tejas Misra. 17 of the Copyright Act to decide who owns the right over a musical composition played in a movie.

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Copyright Lately

JANUARY 23, 2024

A federal jury is set to decide whether celebrity tattoo artist Kat Von D infringed photographer Jeff Sedlik’s copyright in a Miles Davis portrait by tattooing the image onto her client’s body. A first-of-its-kind copyright infringement trial is scheduled to begin today in Los Angeles. The Sedlik v.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2024

The court of appeal issued a preliminary injunction prohibiting the defendants from using the illustration on the book cover because it constituted an unlawful infringement of the plaintiff’s copyright. The drawing of Robber Rathausplatz thus is an infringement of the copyright of the drawing of Robber Hotzenplotz.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Today’s social media users see copyright conflicts on a regular basis, but probably due to the way copyright is enforced, tend to view images and text as faiir game when compared to movies and music. ” From: TF , for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more. .

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Patently-O

MAY 9, 2024

By Dennis Crouch and Timothy Knight On May 9, 2024, the Supreme Court issued its opinion in Warner Chappell Music v. 2024) , resolving a circuit split over the availability of back-damages in copyright infringement cases. Nealy , No. 22-1078, 601 U.S. Despite 17 U.S.C. § Petrella v. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc. , 663 (2014).

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Even when that is achieved, filing copyright lawsuits and then winning those cases could take years rather than months to complete. Shueisha’s application notes that around April 2024, its attorney investigated pirate sites that were offering links that allowed site visitors to illegally download its manga content.

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SpicyIP

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

On 21st August 2024, the Delhi High Court in Louis Vuitton Malletier v. issued a significant order directing for a permanent injunction and INR 5,00,000 as damages to Louis Vuitton for the unauthorized use of the brand’s copyrighted photos and promotional materials on the website [link]. His previous posts can be accessed here. ]

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Patently-O

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

By Dennis Crouch and Timothy Knight* The Supreme Court is set to hear oral arguments on February 21 in an important copyright case – Warner Chappell Music v. ” Copyright’s statute of limitations bars claims not “commenced within three years after the claim accrued.” ” 17 U.S.C. § See 38 U.S.

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JD Supra Law

DECEMBER 20, 2023

On December 19, 2023, AI research company Anthropic announced that it had updated and made publicly available its Commercial Terms of Service (effective Jan 1, 2024) to, among other things, indemnify its enterprise Claude API customers from copyright infringement claims made against them for “their authorized use of our services or their outputs.”

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 3, 2024

On 19 March 2024, the Court of Appeal handed down its decision on the appeal in the Lidl v Tesco case ( [2024] EWCA Civ 262 ), holding as follows. By the time of trial, Lidl’s copyright claim was that the CCP Signs infringed the copyright subsisting in the Mark with Text shown below.

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JD Supra Law

JULY 16, 2024

On May 9, 2024, the Supreme Court in Warner Chappell, Music Inc. Nealy settled a longstanding circuit split and ruled 6-3 that the Copyright Act entitles a copyright owner to recover damages for any timely claim, no matter when the infringement occurred. By: Haug Partners LLP

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