IIPRD

MARCH 5, 2025

Blog sought to study global moves or court cases that have taken place regarding uses of copyright in made-always-with-an-AI creation and provide discussion over possible solutions to the future of intellectual property laws. Copyright Act regulates the works which are created by humans only.

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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. vs Yashraj Films Pvt.

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SpicyIP

MARCH 1, 2025

Everywhere else we may be bound by laws and conventions there we have none. 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. Virginia Woolf, How Should One Read a Book?,

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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. This approach, initially applied to cultural politics by Dentith, can be similarly adopted within copyright law.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

With regard to the “free use” of then-§ 24(1) UrhG, the CJEU stated that the national copyright laws may not provide for exceptions or limitations other than those listed in Art. 22 December 2002 to 7 June 2021: Copyright infringement However, from 22 December 2002, the sampling can no longer be considered free use.

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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.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 2, 2024

OpenAI’s vision for a fair AI ecosystem The ADAI mentions copyright only in passing, but it is fairly obvious that the desire to ‘deal’ with pending copyright infringement claims (largely in the US) lies at the core of this ambitious statement. OpenAI adds that new features will be added in the future.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2023

In this post, the focus is on the unlicensed use of copyright-protected works in the context of training GenAI models, where such use could jeopardise the market for those particular expressions (see Sobel ). The ever-evolving nature of GenAI makes it difficult for policymakers to keep up with the potential risks and benefits.

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The IPKat

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Events Liability for AI-generated outputs under copyright law. The Law, Rationalism, and Complexity and the InfoSoc Working Groups of the European University Institute will host a lecture with our very own PermKat Eleonora Rosati (Stockholm University). More information is available here. 34th IPA Congress.

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Copyright Lately

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

January 27, 2025 email from Tintinimaginatio to Duke Law’s Center for the Study of the Public Domain. copyright law, the Tintin rightsholders’ argument is just plain wrong. copyright protection for Tintin. law, while later-added elements remain protected. copyright law.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

The plaintiff sued the defendant (and others) for copyright infringement. Copyrightability The case sets up one of the longstanding open questions in copyright law: when are form contracts copyrightable, and when is sharing them infringing? 2025 WL 485493 (D. Fireline Farms, Inc.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Generated with OpenAI’s DALL-E 3 model based on a prompt corresponding to the wording of Recital 106 AI Act Introduction The interaction between the AI Act ( Regulation 2024/1689 ) and the exceptions for text and data mining (TDM) in the CDSM Directive is one of the most important topics in EU copyright law today.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MARCH 5, 2025

Photo by Etienne Girardet on Unsplash On 14 January 2025, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) heard oral arguments in the much-anticipated case C-590/23 Pelham II , where the German Federal Court submitted a request for preliminary ruling on the interpretation of pastiche. Toriqul Islam 135

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MARCH 5, 2025

This part explains why pastiche will have a decisive power over how copyright is conceived, even outside the exceptions framework. Something very interesting to hear was AG Emilious question to Germany on the Explanatory Notice of the German Law introducing pastiche into national law.

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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. But the court disagreed. Image-Based AI Models Getty Images v.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 4, 2025

These were published on 19 December 2024 and 11 March 2025 respectively. The second draft emphasised the need for both internal copyright policies and public summaries of these policies. Stakeholders could provide written feedback by 30 March 2025. The final version of the Code is expected by 2 May 2025.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Further drafts are to be prepared, with the final version of the Code forecast to be released by 2 May 2025, in accordance with Article 56 (Codes of Practice) of the EU AI Act. The AI Offices idea is to provide a future-proof Code that will also be appropriate for the next generation of AI models released after the May 2025 deadline.

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Intepat

APRIL 21, 2025

Moreover, since AI systems analyse vast datasets of copyrighted musical works, the legality of the same is a contentious issue, as in the present case. In more complex cases, AI has been used to replicate the voices of deceased singers to create new songs, raising questions of copyright infringement and unethical exploitation.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JANUARY 21, 2025

As we enter a new year, we would like to take this opportunity to pass on our best wishes for 2025 to all of our readers, as well as reflect on developments in copyright over the past year. Such uses, they argue, constitute copyright infringement. Plaintiff then sued Defendant in the BIC. Machine readable or not?

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SpicyIP

APRIL 5, 2025

It hasnt just resulted in legal action against him and disproportionate violence in the Habitat Centre in Mumbai by the political parties he offended , but also copyright strikes. This post explores the can of worms that Kamras special came with, where copyright law, free speech, and political satire collide.

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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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The IPKat

DECEMBER 20, 2024

The last source, scraping internet data, has been the most controversial so far and given rise to concerns from both intellectual property and data protection perspectives, and nascent litigation in various jurisdictions when the scraping has been done without permission of the copyright/database right holders.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 11, 2025

In those circusmtances, copyright law is an especially attractive tool to the pugilists, with its strict liability standards, amorphous fair use boundaries, high defense costs, and effectiveness of takedown notices. In the last month, two more copyright lawsuits over city council videos have triggered my alerts.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Three-step test compliance : Under the overarching three-step interpretation standard (laid down in international and EU copyright law, see Art. 5(5) InfoSoc Directive, Art. Natural language opt-out may be machine-readable : The Court indicated that the opt-out in the terms of use met the requirement of being “machine-readable”.

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Velocity of Content

JANUARY 13, 2025

In 2025, forecasters predict humans will create 175 zetabytes of new data. Uniquely, under EU copyright law, silence implies consent to that specific exception. In addition, under US law, explicitly reserving rights in this manner will never harm a plaintiff in a copyright infringement suit.

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BYU Copyright Blog

APRIL 14, 2025

In the Name of Copyright College,Music,Social Media Audrey Vengesai April 14, 11:20 AM April 14, 11:22 AM On March 11, 2025, Sony Music Entertainment ("Sony Music") and several affiliated record labels filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against the University of Southern California ("USC").

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Weve tried to represent a diversity of subject matter also in this list, so its a mixed bag of cases dealing with patents, trademarks, copyright law etc. The judgment said that Copyright law is not intended to curtail access to information. Or will it amount to copyright infringement of the States publishers?

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 14, 2025

Capitol Records (the successor to EMI) sent its first cease-and-desist letter to Vimeo in 2008 and sued Vimeo for copyright infringement in 2009. ” “Plaintiffs contend that they showed that the Vimeo staff had legal acumen as to copyright laws. 2025 WL 77234 (2d Cir. Yes, this is a 15-year-old lawsuit.[FN]

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