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. Interestingly, several recent cases such as Ferid Allani, Microsoft Tech Licensing, and others find mention in the “notable jurisprudence” section.

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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. I covered all of this last December in my 2025 public domain roundup. But, unfortunately for anyone hoping to see a court weigh in on whether respecting women is a character trait protected by copyright law, the case was settled.

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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by January 10, 2025] National Law University, Jodhpur’s Journal of Intellectual Property Studies is inviting original, unpublished manuscripts for its upcoming issue (Volume IX, Issue I).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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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

In 2016, the defendant licensed the plaintiff’s Equine Boarding Forms Package, consisting of form releases for adults and minors. The license permitted the defendant to “copy, email and otherwise distribute the” forms but not post them to the web. 2025 WL 485493 (D. The defendant runs a Florida horse ranch.

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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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Velocity of Content

JANUARY 22, 2025

CCC is kicking off 2025 with exciting news. And by avoiding complicated seat-based licensing, colleagues from across your organization can get immediate access as your company grows. Were introducing the RightFind Suite Growth Bundle : a packaged set of capabilities that meets the needs of small to midsize businesses.

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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. What Kindle sells, instead of books, is licenses. Kindle Content is licensed, not sold, to you by the Content Provider.

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Velocity of Content

JANUARY 28, 2025

CCC has licensed this analysis from Outsell, Inc. This shift is fundamentally redefining what it means to practice law in 2025. AI tools often require large datasets for analysis, synthesis, or training, increasing the likelihood of copyright infringement. For questions, please contact Outsell.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 6, 2025

Screenwriters Rights Association of India Gets Registered as a Copyright Society Screenwriters Rights Association of India (SRAI), a society to protect and promote rights of Indian screenwriters, has been registered as a Copyright Society. Copyright Office to Begin Issuing Part 2 and 3 of its AI Guidance in January 2025

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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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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 20, 2024

The privacy policy of WhatsApp does not seem affected, even if new AI tools are in development also for this service. Even other internet service providers are currently facing similar issues and had to provide certain clarifications.

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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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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 ). It appears that a one-size-fits-all approach to training data licensing may not be optimal for the ASEAN.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 3, 2024

In November 2018, DISH Network filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Jadoo TV and its CEO Sajid Sohail. From the beginning, DISH took the position that Sohail could be held personally liable because he authorized, directed, or participated in Jadoo TV’s copyright-infringing activities. Section 501. 17 U.S.C. §

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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

Content owners are now taking various steps to prevent/object to those activities in the absence of a license. In 2025, forecasters predict humans will create 175 zetabytes of new data. Uniquely, under EU copyright law, silence implies consent to that specific exception. Smaller AI firms do enter into licenses.

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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

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Wishing everyone a prosperous and a healthy new year ahead and hoping that 2025 brings in spicier IP developments to the Indian IP regime, making it a more fair, balanced and effective one! As always, a huge thanks to all our contributors including our readers who engage online as well as offline with our posts and constantly encourage us.

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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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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Whether an effective, i.e. machine-readable, opt-out is in place is of paramount importance when collecting data for AI training; disobedience results in a copyright infringement, and, due to the obligation of Art. 44b(1) UrhG, as the download facilitated the comparison of the image content and the description.

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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. Alibaba N.D.

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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. This is especially the case where service providers are legally obliged to pay licensing fees for communications to the public, even in the case of non-commercial UGCs.

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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. Yes, this is a 15-year-old lawsuit.[FN] We disagree.

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