Copyright Lately

DECEMBER 29, 2024

Many rulings missed the mark, but these five went the extra mile to secure their spots as the year’s worst copyright disasters. Hello and welcome to Copyright Latelys fifth annual countdown of the years biggest copyright misfires from coast to coast. Only one way to find out. On with the countdown! Netflix, Inc.

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JD Supra Law

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

On January 29, 2025, the U.S. Copyright Office (the Copyright Office) published Part 2 of a three-part report on artificial intelligence (AI) and copyright issues in connection with AIs usage.

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Copyright Lately

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

Just days before the festival, Tintinimaginatios in-house counsel sent an email to Duke Laws Center for the Study of the Public Domain , disputing the Center’s conclusion that the earliest Tintin comics are now free of copyright protection in the United States. copyright law, the Tintin rightsholders’ argument is just plain wrong.

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JD Supra Law

JANUARY 14, 2025

It could well turn out that these ITCs offer a preview of topics that the FASB might be taking up in 2025. Whats more, two of these projects have the potential to be somewhat contentious: accounting for intangibles, such as brand recognition, copyrights, patents, trademarks, trade names, By: Cooley LLP

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JD Supra Law

MARCH 28, 2025

In February 2025, the U.S. Copyright Office released a report titled Identifying the Economic Implications of Artificial Intelligence for Copyright Policy. By: Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

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JD Supra Law

MARCH 26, 2025

Can a non-human machine be an author under the Copyright Act of 1976? In a March 18, 2025 precedential opinion, a D.C. Circuit panel affirmed prior determinations from the D.C.

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JD Supra Law

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

In response to the increased use of sophisticated artificial intelligence (AI) technologies capable of producing expressive material, the U.S.

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The TTABlog

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

oral hearings for the month of March 2025. March 5, 2025 - 11 AM [Virtual]: Asustek Computer Incorporation v. March 26, 2025 - 1 PM [Virtual]: The Saul Zaentz Company and Middle-Earth Enterprises, LLC v. Text Copyright John L. Welch 2025. Both will be held virtually. ASOS plc , Opposition No.

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

We are very excited to announce the SpicyIP Tech Innovation Policy Fellowship 2025! Any other information the applicant thinks could be relevant Deadline for the Application Interested applicants are to share their applications by 11:59 pm, Feb 23rd 2025. for the SpicyIP Tech Innovation Policy Fellowship 2025 at the earliest!

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JD Supra Law

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

On January 29, 2025, the U.S. Copyright Office issued part two of it's report on Artificial Intelligence ("AI") which addresses the topic of copyrightability as it relates to AI.

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JD Supra Law

MARCH 25, 2025

On March 18, 2025, the D.C. Copyright Offices decisions, holding that a copyrighted work cannot be authored exclusively by an AI system. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the D.C. District Courts and U.S.

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JD Supra Law

MARCH 27, 2025

Since a February 11, 2025 decision by Judge Stephanos Bibas finding in favor of Plaintiff Thomson Reuters on copyright infringement during the model training process in Thomson Reuters Enterprise Centre GmbH et al. ROSS Intelligence Inc.

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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. The Walt Disney Co., screenwriter and animator Buck Woodall claimed that Disney's 2016 blockbuster animated film "Moana" infringed on his 2011 screenplay "Bucky the Wave Warrior" (Bucky).

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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. In Thomson-Reuters Enterprise Centre GmbH v. Ross Intelligence Inc.,

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Plagiarism Today

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

The Copyright Claims Board is starting 2025 off with a flurry activity including two final determinations and one re-barred claimant. The post 3 Updates from the Copyright Claims Board appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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JD Supra Law

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

The legal battles surrounding generative AI and copyright continue to escalate with prominent players in the Indian music industry now seeking to join an existing lawsuit against OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Deadline The voting is open until 31 January 2025. Winners will be announced in February 2025. The IPKat is thrilled to announce the launch of the 2024 Book of the Year Awards, continuing its cherished end-of-year tradition! Only books published in 2024 are eligible for the award.

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IP Watchdog

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Copyright law provided an arena for some of the most interesting legal battles in 2024. We review some highlights from 2024 below, as well as some cases to watch in 2025.

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JD Supra Law

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Copyright Offices three-part report on copyright issues raised by artificial intelligence (AI) would be further delayed. This week, Director Shira Perlmutter indicated that the publication of part two of the U.S.

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

(This post has been co-authored with SpicyIP Intern Aditi Agrawal and Bharathwaj Ramakrishnan) Here is our recap of last weeks top IP developments including summary of the posts on taking stock of ANI vs OpenAI copyright litigation (Part I and II), and Machine Unlearning and the ANI vs OpenAI case. Anything we are missing out on?

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Barry Sookman

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

11, 2025) examined three essential questions, 1) were the Westlaw headnotes and key number system taxonomy protected by copyright, 2) did Rosss copying of the headnotes to create legal memos used to train Rosss AI system infringe copyright, subject to the defense of fair use, and 3) was Ross copying fair use.…

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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

JANUARY 20, 2025

In a recent order, a Mumbai Magistrate Court acquitted an accused in a copyright infringement case after 37 years! The significant delay in this case – almost 4 decades – raises several questions on the justifiability of criminal prosecution for copyright infringers combined with the burden of an overburdened judiciary.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 31, 2025

Shamnad Basheer, it offers expert analysis of patents, copyrights, trademarks, geographical indications, and related policy issues. Theme: Literature, Journalism And IP Suggested Topics Balancing the interests of creators and the public in determining the extent of Copyright protection. Founded in 2005 by renowned legal scholar Prof.

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IP and Legal Filings

MARCH 5, 2025

Considering that deepfakes are original, and are a result of human authors own intellectual creation, they are copyright-protected. In the United States, following the Feist publication, a work that has a modicrum of creativity is sufficient to benefit from copyright protection. WHERE SHOULD THE LINE BE DRAWN TO CURB MISUSE?

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Copyright Alliance

APRIL 1, 2025

In March, the Copyright Office launched its study of the Copyright Claims Board (CCB) while in the courts, key copyright and AI cases continued to move forward. Here is a […] The post March 2025 Roundup of Copyright News appeared first on Copyright Alliance.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 30, 2024

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 19, 2025

Europol is no stranger to piracy and online copyright infringement. Highlighted in the 2025 SOCTA report This statement stands out for various reasons, including Europol’s own preface, which suggests that consumers might be more drawn to piracy today due to cost concerns and the increased fragmentation of legal streaming services.

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The TTABlog

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

The Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (Tee-Tee--Bee) has scheduled eleven (11) oral hearings for the month of February 2025. February 5, 2025 - 11 AM [Virtual]: Kiss Nail Products, Inc. February 11, 2025 - 11 AM [Virtual]: Texas Department of Transportation v. February 12, 2025 - 2 PM [Virtual]: Mobilemoney, Inc.

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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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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 4, 2025

It claims that 7News Australia downloaded videos from YouTube, stripped out the copyright management information (CMI), and incorporated the videos into its own videos that it uploaded to YouTube. Without such an arrangement, Viral DRM doesn’t have legal standing to enforce the copyrights per 17 USC 501(b). 2025 WL 660250 (N.D.

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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. Townsquare Media, Inc. Richardson v.

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The IPKat

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Copyright Society's 2025 Midwinter Meeting (30 January - 1 February 2025) The Copyright Society will host its traditional Midwinter Meeting between 30 January and 1 February 2025. 2025 National Patent Application Drafting Competition The U.S. For further information, click here.

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IIPRD

MARCH 5, 2025

However, this gives a grand legal question: who has the right to copyright AI-created works? This has to do with the application of copyright to works made through AI. Traditional Copyright Framework and Its Limitations Copyright law is fundamentally based on three principles: Authorship : The creator of a work owns the copyright.

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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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Copyright Alliance

MARCH 11, 2025

Womens History Month 2025 is a time to honor, value, and highlight the exceptional achievements of women across diverse fields. The field of copyright law is no exception, where many […] The post Womens History Month 2025: Women Attorneys Who Champion Copyright appeared first on Copyright Alliance.

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

The Finance Minister (FM) Nirmala Sitharaman on February 1 presented the Union Budget 2025-26 in the parliament. Here goes my attempt at a round-up on these fronts for the Budget 2025-26! If readers have some insights and thoughts on what else to look for in the Budget 2025-26, do let us know! The Jan Vishwas Bill 1.0

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