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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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. By: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

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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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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. By: Venable LLP

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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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SpicyIP

MARCH 1, 2025

In light of Amazon’s decision to disable the ‘Download or Transfer via USB’ feature from their Kindle devices, Arnav Kaman discusses DRMs/TPMs, the rights of the user, what users can do with their ebooks within the fair use doctrine, and the future of ebooks in this guest post.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 13, 2025

Do robust defences such as freedom of speech, right to livelihood, public interest, and fair use offer absolute protection against infringements? on 8 January, 2025 (Delhi HC) The rectification petition was filed seeking removal of trade mark registered in the name of respondent no. 5,00,000 against the defendant.

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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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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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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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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

Ross Intelligence The recent US District Court opinion in Thomson Reuters (TR) v Ross Intelligence, which allowed TR’s motion of copyright infringement against Ross for its usage of TR’s headnotes, has caught the attention of genAI and copyright enthusiasts around the world. Read the post for more.

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

Ross Intelligence The recent US District Court opinion in Thomson Reuters (TR) v Ross Intelligence, which allowed TR’s motion of copyright infringement against Ross for its usage of TR’s headnotes, has caught the attention of genAI and copyright enthusiasts around the world. Read the post for more.

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BYU Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Harris claims that, in taking these actions, the University has not protected students' copyrights and fair use rights. In 2022, Plaintiff filed a Complaint against the University which alleged, among other claims, copyright infringement. The University has yet to answer the 2025 Complaint.

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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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IP and Legal Filings

MARCH 17, 2025

A copyright claim appears. 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. That’s often fair game.

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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. Ross Intelligence rejected a fair use defense in an AI training context. Nature of the copyrighted work Is the original factual or creative?

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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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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. Levy argued that Kilgore didn’t consider fair use before sending the takedown notices.

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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. 3d 1257 (11th Cir. 3d 1257 (11th Cir.

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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. Is Generative AI Fair Use of Copyright Works? Such uses, they argue, constitute copyright infringement.

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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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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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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. Indeed, he cited that it appears that the Notice makes reference to free use of copyright works, which might refer to the old German catch-all exception to copyright infringement.

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Velocity of Content

JANUARY 13, 2025

In 2025, forecasters predict humans will create 175 zetabytes of new data. What has changed is that creators are now directly expressing the need for consent prior to use. Uniquely, under EU copyright law, silence implies consent to that specific exception. First, lets get this out of the way. Thats 175 followed by 21 zeros.

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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 argument goes too far; it would require Vimeo employees to assume that uses of copyrighted material are never fair use.” ” (emphasis added).

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