Velocity of Content

JANUARY 9, 2024

One area that often gets overlooked in the outsourcing and collaboration process is how to manage copyright compliance and the associated risks of non-compliance. While smaller companies without a librarian or information specialist onboard may be unaware of their obligations under copyright law, their lack of knowledge won’t help them. 

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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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Indiana Intellectual Property Law

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

On January 12, 2024, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals , in the matter of UIRC-GSA Holdings v. The issue revolved around copyright infringement claims brought by UIRC-GSA Holdings against William Blair, a financial services company. Continue reading

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The IPKat

JUNE 21, 2024

Events E-course – Intellectual Property for Sustainable Innovations (16-27 September 2024) with 10% IPKat readers’ discount NOVA School of Law is organizing an online course aimed at providing a comprehensive knowledge of IP and reflecting on how it can help sustainable innovators. For further information, click here.

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SpicyIP

JUNE 26, 2024

Emphasizing the lack of a robust mechanism to ensure access to literary work by persons with disability, the authors highlight how the existing copyright framework comes in conflict with the rights enshrined under the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016. Views expressed here are those of the authors’ alone. Image by freepik Prof.

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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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The IP Law Blog

MARCH 14, 2024

In 2023, several authors, including the comedian Sarah Silverman, filed putative class action lawsuits alleging various copyright infringement claims. The OpenAI defendants moved to dismiss all causes of action alleged by the author plaintiffs with the exception of the first cause of action for direct copyright infringement. (It

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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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TorrentFreak

JULY 17, 2024

Decades of experience supports the theory that intellectual property infringement is often viewed by China as a problem to be solved by those complaining of violations on home territory. A February 2024 report in local media is just one of many detailing the prosecution of pirate site operators in China.

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Patently-O

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

by Dennis Crouch and Timothy Knight On February 21, 2024, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the case of Warner Chappell Music v. Nealy , which deals with a circuit split over the availability of back-damages in copyright infringement cases. Plaintiff’s attorney Earnhardt contested this reading.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 16, 2024

The Retraction Order The relevant AGCOM ‘order of annulment’ is dated May 10, 2024, and, like most documents published by the regulator, it begins with a list of relevant laws dating back to 1941 before getting to the crux a page and a half later. Entertainment, Vision Distribution S.p.A, and Rai Cinema S.p.A,

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 2, 2024

Photo by Jonathan Kemper on Unsplash On 7 May 2024, Open AI published its approach to data and AI (ADAI). In its second paragraph the statement makes strong allusions to copyright law – the term ‘copyright’ is used only once throughout the entire text.

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Velocity of Content

MAY 1, 2024

This article appears in the Information Today May 2024 print issue. Do the creators and users of large language models (LLMs) and as sociated generative AI applications infringe the copyrights of content creators? If so, what specific acts constitute infringement, and what should be done to remedy the problem?

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 14, 2024

In 2023, several authors, including the comedian Sarah Silverman, filed putative class action lawsuits alleging various copyright infringement claims. The OpenAI defendants moved to dismiss all causes of action alleged by the author plaintiffs with the exception of the first cause of action for direct copyright infringement. (It

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TorrentFreak

MAY 6, 2024

4 Other anti-piracy work reported for the period includes legal action against pirate site operators and translation groups, civil/criminal action through local subsidiaries and overseas affiliates, establishing response strategies in accordance with local copyright laws, and overseas administrative actions. Fascinating.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MARCH 19, 2024

Indeed, in a world where “ nothing is lost, nothing is created, everything is transformed “, it is a rather daunting exercise for any court to draw the line between inspiration and imitation in copyrighted works, let alone in copyrighted art works. Commentary & Conclusion Kurasov v.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MARCH 19, 2024

Indeed, in a world where “ nothing is lost, nothing is created, everything is transformed “, it is a rather daunting exercise for any court to draw the line between inspiration and imitation in copyrighted works, let alone in copyrighted art works. Commentary & Conclusion Wali v.

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Copyright Lately

MARCH 13, 2024

Fresh on the heels of filing an infringement lawsuit against OpenAI , The New York Times Co. is flexing its copyright muscles once again, this time targeting the developers of hundreds of games inspired by Wordle, the popular word game the Times purchased in 2022. ” The New York Times Co.

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IP and Legal Filings

JUNE 29, 2024

Entertainment, a company incorporated by the famous music composer, singer and lyrist Daler Mehndi, sought a permanent injunction prohibiting infringement of his publicity rights and deceptive endorsements that could result in passing off. Copyright laws also provide plausible remedies for enforcing one’s right to personality.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Image generated from DALL-E 3 with the prompt ‘ ASEAN Ministers discussing the ASEAN AI Framework Guidelines during the ASEAN Summit 2024 in Bali, Indonesia.’ ’ Setting the Scene Much ink has been spilled on the legal discourse surrounding generative AI (GenAI) and copyright.

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IIPRD

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Both the e-platforms and sellers have to take initiatives wherein the sellers need to register their products for trademark, copyrights and patents while the platforms have to exercise strict no-tolerance policy in case of infringements. 4Published by : Indian Law Institute Stable URL : [link] , 28 497 (1986). 379 (2022). [6]

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 15, 2024

May 9, 2024). In so holding, however, the Court declined to resolve the logically antecedent question of whether the discovery rule applies to the three-year copyright statute of limitations, finding “that issue is not properly presented here, because Warner Chappell never challenged the Eleventh Circuit’s use of the discovery rule below.”

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JANUARY 7, 2024

As we enter a new year, we would like to take this opportunity to pass on our best wishes for 2024 to all of our readers, as well as reflect on developments in copyright over the past year. Generative AI, Copyright and the AI Act by João Pedro Quintais Generative AI is one of the hot topics in copyright law today.

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SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Considering section 124, the court clarified that in such a case where rectification and an infringement suit are filed against the impugned mark, the rectification petition has to be decided first, before proceeding with the trial of the suit and listed the rectification for hearing on January 9, 2024. Eicore Technologies Pvt.

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SpicyIP

JULY 8, 2024

In a recent judgement, dated 13 June 2024, the single-judge bench of the Delhi High Court, presided over by Justice Neena Bansal Krishna, dismissed a plea filed by Pocket FM Private Limited (the Plaintiff) seeking a temporary injunction against Novi Digital Entertainment Private Limited (the Defendant) in the case of Pocket FM Private Limited v.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 27, 2024

Almost half a decade ago, eight Las Vegas men were indicted by a grand jury for conspiring to violate criminal copyright law. Fellow Jetflicks programmer Luis Angel Villarino pled guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit copyright infringement and was sentenced to one year and a day in prison. TB of storage.”

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 12, 2024

The plaintiffs lost al of the framing cases then, but here we are in 2024, still litigating framing cases. Instead of asserting copyright and trademark claims, they tried trespass to chattels. ” Implied-in-Law Contract/Unjust Enrichment The court says that these state law claims are preempted by copyright law. .”

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 8, 2024

student at National Law University, Delhi. Wrapping up the first week of 2024, here is a brief recap of our hard-hitting post on TKDL, the detailed comments on the draft Calcutta High Court IPR Division Rules, and an informative take on scandalous and obscene trademark prosecution in India. Vedika is a third-year B.A.LL.B.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 20, 2024

The facts of the case are all too familiar by now: in 2004, German band Kraftwerk took hip hop producer Moses Pelham to court for copyright infringement after he sampled two seconds of their song “Metall auf Metall” and looped it in Sabrina Setlur’s track “Nur Mir”. Although AG Crúz Villalon argued in his Opinion (para.

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 30, 2023

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. Thus clarifying that copyright in the screenplay exists independently of the copyright in the film. HarperCollins Publishers India Pvt. the licensee.

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SpicyIP

JUNE 17, 2024

Case Summaries Glenmark Pharmaceuticals Ltd vs Gleck Pharma Opc Pvt Ltd on 13 June, 2024 (Bombay High Court) The plaintiff approached the Bombay High Court seeking permanent injunction against the defendant’s use of “Xigamet”, which it alleged to be deceptively similar to its “Zitamet” mark. July 1, 2024. Read on to know more.

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Copyright Lately

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Trump is actively litigating a copyright infringement lawsuit over the Eddy Grant song “Electric Avenue” while trying to keep relevant deposition testimony in the case permanently under seal. ” So much for Trump having a basic understanding of copyright law. 14· · · · · Q.· ·Mr. 17· · · · · A.· ·I

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