JD Supra Law

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

On February 11, 2025, the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware became the first to rule on whether the use of copyrighted materials to train an AI system qualifies as copyright infringement. the court granted summary judgment on the plaintiffs infringement claim, and denied the defendants fair-use defense.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 16, 2025

In a very short statement posted to the Cisco community forum, employee tom1 announced that effective April 11, 2025, OpenDNS will no longer be accessible to users in Belgium due to a court order. 100,000 per day is an awful lot of money for failing to deal with alleged copyright infringement over which the company has zero visibility.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 11, 2025

At the same time, however, the company denied the copyright infringement allegations, noting that it would rely on a fair use defense, at least in part. CMI is information that is included in a copyrighted work, which among other things can identify the copyright owner.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 31, 2025

Earlier this week, various rightsholder groups submitted their recommendations for the 2025 Special 301 Report. copyright protection standards. Various groups stressed the importance of copyright protection when it comes to new AI technologies. Not just for copyright holders, but also for American tech giants.

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JD Supra Law

MARCH 19, 2025

On March 10, 2025, a federal jury delivered a verdict in favor of Disney in a closely watched copyright infringement lawsuit. screenwriter and animator Buck Woodall claimed that Disney's 2016 blockbuster animated film "Moana" infringed on his 2011 screenplay "Bucky the Wave Warrior" (Bucky). The Walt Disney Co.,

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The IPKat

MARCH 4, 2025

Katfriend Paul England (Taylor Wessing) discussed the current state of Supplementary Protection Certificates (SPCs) in the UK, questioning whether the system needs reform, by reviewing the recent English Court of Appeal decision in Merck Serono SA v Comptroller-General of Patents, Designs, and Trade Mark s [2025] EWCA Civ 45 (28 January 2025).

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 30, 2025

It’s been a busy two weeks for copyright and AI cases. March 18, 2025) This case involved the completely AI-generated work, “A Recent Entrance to Paradise”: The copyright applicant, Thaler, disclaimed any human involvement in the work’s creation. The district court ruled it wasn’t copyrightable.

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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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Velocity of Content

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

The following is an excerpt from the ebook, 2025 Copyrighted Content Usage Trends, which draws on data from the 2025 Information Seeking and Usage Study to offer insights into how employees think about, use, and share copyrighted content today, including with AI tools. Since 2007, CCC has partnered with Outsell, Inc.

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SpicyIP

MARCH 30, 2025

CRI Guidelines 2025 is out for Public Consultations! The Draft Guidelines for Examination of Computer-Related Inventions (CRI), 2025, has been published for public consultation. Interested stakeholders can provide their comments on the guidelines by April 15, 2025. Read the post for more details. Part I] Safe Harbor in Jeopardy?

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JD Supra Law

JANUARY 31, 2025

Copyright Office released Part 2 of its report on Copyright and Artificial Intelligence on January 29, 2025. Part 2 focuses on the copyrightability of outputs created using generative AI. The highly anticipated Part 3, which is forthcoming, will address copyright infringement and fair use issues involving generative AI.).

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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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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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JD Supra Law

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

January saw activity in the copyright infringement lawsuit filed by a group of authors led by comedian Sarah Silverman against OpenAI. A magistrate judge ordered the AI pioneer to produce its datasets, which are used for training, to determine whether they contained copyrighted material. By: Benesch

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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

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Call for Applications: SpicyIP Tech Innovation Policy Fellowship 2025 (Apply by February 23) Attention IP and tech enthusiasts! We are very excited to announce the SpicyIP Tech Innovation Policy Fellowship 2025! vs Mr. Sandeep Khandelwal And Anr on 3 February, 2025 (Delhi High Court) Image from here. The deadline is February 23.

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Patently-O

APRIL 2, 2025

by Dennis Crouch McGucken v. Valnet, Inc.,

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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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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 Lately

JANUARY 20, 2025

Judge Alvin Hellerstein dismissed copyright infringement claims over a YouTube-hosted video embedded in the defendant’s article, finding that YouTube’s Terms of Service explicitly and unambiguously grant a sublicense that clearly extends to embedding. In Richardson v. Townsquare Media, Inc. Richardson v.

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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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SpicyIP

JANUARY 26, 2025

Case Summaries Guddu Gupta Trading as Ms Leela vs Suraj Gupta Trading As Ms Devi Leela … on 18 January, 2025 (Delhi District Court) The plaintiff, trading as Leela Cosmetics, alleged that his brother operating under Devi Leela Cosmetics, infringed upon his trademarks ROOP LADY and ROOP LEELA, as well as the design of his sindoor stick bottles.

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The IPKat

APRIL 19, 2025

Warhol : Comparative perspectives on the use of cultural heritage images: An (un)real copyright infringement case?" Registration is also open for the CIPA annual congress, which will take place in Bristol on Thursday 9 October 2025. on 12-13 June in Florence. Details and registration here. Details and registration here.

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

The Court has granted summary judgment in respect of 2,830 headnotes belonging to Thomson Reuters and admittedly used by Ross Intelligence to train its Natural Language Processing and Artificial Enabled Legal Research tool, finding Direct Copyright Infringement and rejecting fair use. But, first, Some History!

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 14, 2024

The last date for submission of entries is March 31, 2025. The Journal is presently soliciting submissions for its 15 th Volume, to be released tentatively in August 2025. The last date for submission of papers is 31 st March 2025. Guidelines for the submissions are provided below.

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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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TorrentFreak

APRIL 7, 2025

The notice references a regulatory order to block public DNS resolvers, stemming from a court order concerning claims of copyright infringement against pirate streaming sites.

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JD Supra Law

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

On February 11, 2025, Judge Stephanos Bibas issued an opinion in Thomson Reuters Enterprise Centre GMBH v. 1:20-cv-613, a dispute regarding copyright infringement allegations stemming from the use of copyrighted data from the Westlaw legal database used in the training of an AI search tool. Ross Intelligence Inc.,

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 5, 2025

Reportedly(see here and here ), a suit has been filed by actor Dhanushs production house Wunderbar Films (the plaintiff) against the Lady Superstar Nayanthara, Actor-Director Vignesh Shivan, and streaming platform Netflix (respondents/ defendants) for copyright infringement.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 6, 2025

Copyright Office to Begin Issuing Part 2 and 3 of its AI Guidance in January 2025 The Court accepting the apology and undertaking of the defendant, passed a decree of permanent injunction and also awarded costs amounting to 4,00,000/- in favour of the plaintiff.

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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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SpicyIP

JANUARY 13, 2025

Case Summaries Ktc India Pvt Ltd vs M/S Himalayan Nomad Ktc And Ors on 8 January, 2025 (Delhi District Court) The present suit was filed by the plaintiff seeking relief of permanent injunction restraining infringement of trademark. Read Aishani Chatterjees post discussing key observations made by the Court.

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IIPRD

MARCH 5, 2025

Potential for Copyright Infringement The significant challenge created when AI systems are trained on copyrighted content is found when they accidentally copy parts of old works into new ones and, in turn, generate infringement. Meta Secretly Trained Its AI on a Notorious Piracy Database , 2025. Copyright Office.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 31, 2023

This week’s big IP news is the New York Times suing OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement, trademark dilution and other violations of existing laws. As with most current cases related to AI’s copyright infringement, this one will most likely result in the issuance of a landmark ruling. Microsoft Corp.,

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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).

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Patently-O

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

by Dennis Crouch In a surprising decision today, Judge Stephanos Bibas ruled that ROSS Intelligence's use of Westlaw content to train its legal AI system constituted copyright infringement. 11, 2025). Most of these have favored the makers and users of AI over the owners of the IP (typically copyright holders).

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