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SAD Scheme Leads to Another Massively Disproportionate Asset Freeze–Powell v. Schedule A

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

As part of a SAD Scheme case, she claims an Amazon seller infringed on her work. Here is the comparison: This looks like a derivative work to me. The plaintiff claims $30k in actual damages based on a hypothetical licensing fee. Schedule A appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog.

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Religious Group Targets Parent With Copyright Lawsuit Over Kids’ Curriculum

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Copyright Complaint, Religious Controversy Filed in the Northern District of Indiana (Fort Wayne Division) on July 2, 2024, plaintiff LifeWise Inc. The organization’s religious instruction program, marketed as LifeWise Academy, has a curriculum which outlines the religious instruction children receive. And so it begins.

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Public Domain Day 2023 is Coming: Here’s What to Know

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In 2023, this will include all works first published in 1927. Note that works remain protected until the end of the calendar year. That’s why Disney’s Steamboat Willie won’t enter the public domain until January 1, 2024, even though the film is set to celebrate its 95th birthday in 2023. Extending Rights in Public Domain Works.

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Web Page Framing Isn’t Trespass to Chattels–Best Carpet Values v. Google

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

The plaintiffs lost al of the framing cases then, but here we are in 2024, still litigating framing cases. Google’s reproductions of Plaintiffs’ websites, which necessarily vary in appearance on users’ screens, can be recognized as an act of “prepar[ing]” “derivative works.” Why are we revisiting this crusty old topic?

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Sweet Sound of Victory: Looking at the Calcutta HC’s Decisive Decision on Rights of Authors

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Image from here Sweet Sound of Victory: Looking at the Calcutta HC’s Decisive Decision on Rights of Authors By Surabhi Katare In a major development, Calcutta High Court’s passed a landmark judgement on May 17, 2024, in safeguarding the copyrights of authors of music and literary work used in sound recordings.

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