TorrentFreak

JULY 10, 2024

A DMCA takedown notice sent to GitHub dated July 5, 2024, is a perfect example. The yuzu emulator is primarily designed to play Nintendo Switch games. Nintendo’s DMCA takedown notice is available here Image credit: Stockcake From: TF , for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 6, 2024

Rightsholders and their anti-piracy partners have faced an uphill struggle trying to convince the UK public that streaming copyrighted content from illicit sources is illegal. No carefully crafted sentences designed to mislead. From: TF , for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more. Early 2017: Not Illegal.

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The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Ubertazzi was one of the leading intellectual property academics in Italy (as well as a great lawyer), founder and editor of the most important Italian copyright journal (AIDA) and editor and author of the most widely used Commentary on Italian intellectual property laws. In fact, one of Prof.

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 5, 2022

Winnie-the-Pooh is likely the most culturally relevant character to enter the public domain since 2019, when works started entering the public domain again in the United States due to the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act. What this means is that the Milne’s original Winnie-the-Pooh book is now free of copyright.

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The IPKat

JANUARY 30, 2024

On 1st January every year we celebrate the array of works entering the public domain, as their copyright term expires. This year, entering the public domain [generally speaking] are copyright protected works created by people who died in 1953, for countries with a copyright term of life plus 70 years (e.g.,

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

years after the implementation deadline, Poland still had to implement the provisions of the 2019 Copyright in the Digital Single Market Directive into national law. This must have been the key insight at the Polish Culture and National Heritage Ministry when the new administration took over and discovered that more than 2.5

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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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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.

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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.

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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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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 Good, the Bad and the.

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Olartemoure Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Spotify, has announced a major change to its royalty model that will take effect in 2024, generating discussion and debate throughout the music community. The most prominent change is the introduction of a 1,000 plays threshold for tracks to be eligible for royalty payments.

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

January 1, 2024, brought numerous hangovers along with an unprecedented amount of media attention to intellectual property law. Freed from the shackles of copyright, Walt Disney’s iconic rodent was now in the public domain and, therefore, available for everyone to copy. Copyright terms have been on a steady upward march.

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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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Patently-O

MAY 6, 2024

Kevin Emerson Collins, Patent Law’s Authorship Screen , 84 U. Although IOEngine does not reference anything like an “authorship screen” or suggest directly that printed matter falls within the realm of copyright protection, the court does provide some articulation of the policy goals that appear in-line.

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IIPRD

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Musical Arts, designs, pictures, software, material, and many other sorts of Intellectual Property can be transferred using an e-commerce platform in the digital age. The e-platforms themselves might need to copyright their interface and service if the same is endangered [7]. 26, 2023, 11:00 AM), [link]. 5] Kirsty Phillips et al.,

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 15, 2024

UpstateNYer, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons The forthcoming article “Creation and Generation Copyright Standards” to be published in NYU JIPEL 2024 (see pre-publication version here ) analyses and critiques the different standards for copyright eligibility between expressive works and generative products in the U.S.

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LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 14, 2023

2] In particular, it has been reported that France, Germany and Italy – who have previously been critical of strict rules on foundation models – may seek alterations to related rules in the final text (which could further delay, or possibly prevent, passage of the law). [3]

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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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Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Although until now the CNRA did not explicitly define the nature of exceptions, the Bulgarian doctrine traditionally perceived norms protecting the public interest as imperative by design. 19 of the Directive was deferred until the 3rd of December 2024. 17 of the Directive. 18 to 23 of the Directive.

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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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IIPRD

JUNE 8, 2024

Abstract In the dynamic realm of the fashion industry, the saying ‘following in someone’s footsteps’ takes on a new dimension, where the replication of designs is not a mere stride but a strategic dance. At this stage, it is pertinent to mention the difference between a knockoff [1] and a counterfeit [2].

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Copyright Lately

MAY 13, 2022

Josh Hawley’s proposed copyright legislation is riddled with problems, but you wouldn’t know that from most media reports about the bill. Disney Doesn’t Have Any “Special Copyright Protections” “No more handouts for woke corporations,” Hawley’s May 10 tweet announcing his bill declared.

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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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