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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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? Sadly, this case sidesteps that important copyrightability question.

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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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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 2, 2024

In its second paragraph the statement makes strong allusions to copyright law – the term ‘copyright’ is used only once throughout the entire text. En route to a planned roll-out in 2025 the company will collaborate with relevant stakeholders. OpenAI adds that new features will be added in the future.

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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. That’s often fair game. 21, 2025). [2]

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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.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MARCH 5, 2025

Throughout the questions, the judges were keen to hear from the parties on the idea of balancing the interests to determine whether a certain use of protected works could be covered under pastiche. The AG is set to deliver his opinion on this case on 6 May 2025. This might not be the case in the EU. Toriqul Islam 135

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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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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. In RG Anand v.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Instead, in the Getty case (which seems more advanced than the Mumsnet one and looks likely to go to trial in summer 2025), Stability AIs defence appears to be based on the UKs existing fair dealing exception (in particular, pastiche) and claims that no infringement took place as the AI development occurred outside of the UK.

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Regardless, with respect to the other works, the use by OpenAI would seem like a direct infringement of the copyright of labels under Section 14. OpenAI has defended their usage of these sound recordings by invoking the principle of fair use. Further, OpenAIs contention about jurisdiction continues to exist.

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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? Here is a quick look back at our 10 most-read posts last year: 1.

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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.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 14, 2025

The court says that the copyright owners didn’t meet this burden: “The fact that licensing music, as a general matter, can be challenging or confusing does not make it obvious that music accompanying a particular user-uploaded video was not licensed. 2025 WL 77234 (2d Cir. We disagree. ” (emphasis added). Vimeo, Inc.

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