The IPKat

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

We are extending the deadline to vote for the IPKat Book of the Year Awards 2024 until 10 February 2025. Copyright Alessandro Cerri explored a recent decision of the Intellectual Property Enterprise Court of the High Court of England & Wales on copyright infringement in a TV format. Extension of Deadline!

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SpicyIP

APRIL 20, 2025

Part I] Cryogas Judgment: Supreme Court Stops Copyright from Gaslighting Design The Supreme Courts recent judgment in Cryogas Equipment Pvt. 2025) has addressed an important question: when does a creative work become an industrial design outside the realm of copyright? Inox India Ltd. For more details, see the post.

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SpicyIP

OCTOBER 27, 2024

Call for Papers: NLU Jodhpur’s Journal of Intellectual Property Studies Volume IX, Issue I [Submit by January 10, 2025] National Law University, Jodhpur’s Journal of Intellectual Property Studies is inviting original, unpublished manuscripts for its upcoming issue (Volume IX, Issue I). The last date for submissions is January 10, 2025.

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Copyright Alliance

MARCH 4, 2025

In February, several very significant developments unfolded in the courts with news publishers filing an AI copyright infringement suit and a court rejecting an AI companys argument that their copying […] The post February 2025 Roundup of Copyright News appeared first on Copyright Alliance.

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SpicyIP

MARCH 16, 2025

Plagiarism and PMLA: Taking a look at the EDs involvement in the Shankar- Tamilnandan Enthiran Copyright Saga MHC stays ED’s move to attach Shankar’s assets under PMLA in connection with the 15-year-old Robot copyright dispute with writer Arur Tamilnandan. Is this a gap in the law? Ramada International, Inc.

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SpicyIP

MARCH 9, 2025

[Sponsored] CRISP (BITS Law School) Invites Applications for Innovation Law and Policy Fellowship (1 April 2025) Centre for Research in Innovation Law for Shared Prosperity, BITS Law School is inviting applications for their Innovation Law and Policy Fellowship. The last day to send your applications is April 1, 2025.

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SpicyIP

MARCH 2, 2025

Other Posts Amazon Owns Your E-Books and Wants More As of 26th February, 2025, Kindle users will no longer be able to use the feature Download or Transfer via USB, for Kindle Purchased books, as Amazon is discontinuing the feature. on 25 February, 2025 (Delhi High Court) Image from here. Case Summaries Lifestyle Equities Cv & Anr.

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Velocity of Content

APRIL 16, 2025

Carefully drafted corporate agreements may still fall short of covering the vast stores of copyrighted material that populate the information workplace. Even the most routine content exchanges may place your organization at risk of copyright infringement. And such infringement can be extremely costly. In the U.S.,

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 8, 2025

Lemo TV & Kemo IPTV The American pay-TV provider accuses the operators of popular streaming services ‘Lemo TV’ and ‘Kemo IPTV’ of direct copyright infringement. During the first quarter of 2025, the services accounted for nearly 30% of all unauthorized streams detected on set-top box and IPTV services.

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SpicyIP

MARCH 1, 2025

1925 As of 26th February, 2025 , Kindle users will no longer be able to use the feature Download or Transfer via USB, for Kindle Purchased books, as Amazon is discontinuing the feature. Thus the higher evidentiary standard of intention to infringe upon copyright must also be proved (p 588). After the 1994 amendment, S.

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IPilogue

OCTOBER 4, 2024

His chapter probes the future of copyright law, attempting to turn the focus of copyright to collaborative authorship. The post Dr. Tesh Dagne Shines a Light on the Unseen Hands and Invisible (Copy)Rights Behind AI Systems appeared first on IPOsgoode.

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SpicyIP

APRIL 18, 2025

[Part I] Cryogas Judgment: Supreme Court Stops Copyright from Gaslighting Design By Aditya Bhargava The Supreme Courts recent judgment in Cryogas Equipment Pvt. 2025) has addressed an important question: when does a creative work stop being art and become an industrial design outside the realm of copyright? Inox India Ltd.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

This is despite the Claimant having in the past denied that her claim was in copyright.

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IIPRD

MARCH 5, 2025

Challenges in Copyrighting AI-Generated Works Authorship Dilemmas One of the most fundamental challenges is the question of authorship. Who owns the right to copy-authors, the programmer, the user, or the transmitter commissioning the work? Meta Secretly Trained Its AI on a Notorious Piracy Database , 2025. Copyright Office.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

2025 WL 438387, 24cv1646(DLC) (S.D.N.Y. 7, 2025) Previous discussion. Papaya counterclaimed for the same causes of action and added trademark and copyright infringement as well as defamation and civil conspiracy claims. Skillz Platform Inc. Papaya Gaming, Ltd.,

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Presently, a new reference from the German Federal Court of Justice (BGH) asks the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) for vital interpretive guidance concerning the parody exception within copyright law. In summary, parody, pastiche, and caricature all rely on imitation and copying as a means of generating new expressions.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

20 years later, Pelham composed (together with a second defendant), produced and released the hip-hop rap song “Nur mir”, which is underlain by a continuous loop of a two-second rhythmic sequence of metallic drum sounds that had been electronically copied from the “Metall auf Metall” phonogram. The effects of this repeal of then-Sect.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

The license permitted the defendant to “copy, email and otherwise distribute the” forms but not post them to the web. The plaintiff sued the defendant (and others) for copyright infringement. 2025 WL 485493 (D. 12, 2025) Want more about the Internet law of horses? Fireline Farms, Inc.

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IP and Legal Filings

MARCH 17, 2025

Welcome to the rollercoaster world of YouTube and copyright, where creativity collides with boundaries, and fair use lines get blurred faster than a TikTok trend. COPY RIGHT BASICS So the good news: copyright laws were established to help protect creators. 21, 2025). [2] 2] YouTube Help, What Is a Copyright Claim?

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Traverse Legal Blog

APRIL 11, 2025

Copyright owners across industries are fighting back, and the courts are starting to weigh in. The most notable signal came in early 2025, when a federal judge in Thomson Reuters v. It marked a clear warning: copyright law still applies in the age of AI. Nature of the copyrighted work Is the original factual or creative?

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

In a recent decision of the UK High Court ( Illiquidx Ltd v Altana Wealth Ltd & Ors [2025] EWHC 299 (Ch) ) , a claim for breach of confidence has succeeded, while claims for copyright infringement and liability of two directors have failed.

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SpicyIP

APRIL 5, 2025

Breaking Down the Controversy and IP Laws Role In It While most spent their time waiting on ChatGPT to finish generating their familys Studio Ghibli-field photographs (read Miyazaki, the creator of Studio Ghiblis thoughts on AI here ), Kunal Kamra blessed YouTube with his comedy special Naya Bharat on 26 th March 2025. In RG Anand v.

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Images from here and here After ANI, Bollywood Music Labels Have a Faceoff with OpenAI By Anjali Tripathi As we already know, organisations around the world are now taking the initiative to sue Gen AI models, alleging copyright infringement for using their material to train their models. and now, there is a new development.

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Other Posts CGPDTM to Fund Law Students Participating in any International IP Moot Court Competitions: Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal made this announcement in the inaugural ceremony of Vidhi Pragati: National IP Moot Court Competition, 2025, organized by DPIIT in collaboration with CIIPC and IPR Chair, NLU Delhi.

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Velocity of Content

JANUARY 13, 2025

We begin with a TL/DR on the NY Times article: AI was trained by copying massive amounts of content from online sources without the consent of the content owners. In 2025, forecasters predict humans will create 175 zetabytes of new data. AI training involves the making of copies. First, lets get this out of the way.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 16, 2025

It claims copyright in 1,800+ product shot photos and says TEMU merchants are infringing those product shots in their listings. Longtime readers know how I feel about copyright enforcement of product shots ). Zaful used the SAD Scheme to sue 13 merchants for copyright infringements of its photos.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

The latter was enough to cause the claimant to sue for trade mark and copyright infringement. The claimant contended that the changes made were such that what the defendant sold was no longer the original AGA product but a new product which bore the AGA name, in infringement of its rights.

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Copyright Lately

JANUARY 12, 2025

As a federal jury readies to decide questions of originality, substantial similarity, and independent creation, here’s what you need to know: From Early Dismissal to Jury Trial When Gregorini filed her copyright infringement lawsuit in 2020, the case appeared destined for an early dismissal. on Monday, January 13, 2025.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

While the judge rejected a single copyright for the series, Houlden suggested that modern TV shows with cohesive narratives might qualify. Oliver Fairhurst covers the Jukic v BBC (2025) case, where a LiP claimed her TV show treatment was copied for Glow Up. CIPIL Spring Conference (29 March 2025) 2.

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