TorrentFreak

MARCH 11, 2025

In the race to build the most capable LLM models, several tech companies sourced copyrighted content for use as training data, without obtaining permission from content owners. At the same time, however, the company denied the copyright infringement allegations, noting that it would rely on a fair use defense, at least in part.

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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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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

Enforcing Criminal Remedies Against IP Infringement in India: A Long Road to Justice? In a recent order, a Mumbai Magistrate Court acquitted an accused in a copyright infringement case after 37 years! 48,35,610/- and instructed the defendant to destroy all infringing products. Nirmala Agarwal Prop of Karmyogi vs B.C

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 31, 2025

Earlier this week, various rightsholder groups submitted their recommendations for the 2025 Special 301 Report. copyright protection standards. Various groups stressed the importance of copyright protection when it comes to new AI technologies. Not just for copyright holders, but also for American tech giants.

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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.

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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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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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The IPKat

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Events Liability for AI-generated outputs under copyright law. Tomorrow's hybrid session (29 October 2024) will address AI issues from an international and comparative copyright perspective. Papers in French or English covering any topic related to IP law may be submitted no later than 21 February 2025. More information here.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 5, 2025

Poster of the film “ Naanum Rowdy Dhaan “ Image from here Nayanthara and Dhanush Copyright Controversy – De Minimis Rule to the Rescue? The first question is which work’s copyright has been infringed and who is the owner of that work. Later, we will look at the controversy from the lens of Prof.

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Copyright Alliance

MARCH 4, 2025

In February, several very significant developments unfolded in the courts with news publishers filing an AI copyright infringement suit and a court rejecting an AI companys argument that their copying […] The post February 2025 Roundup of Copyright News appeared first on Copyright Alliance.

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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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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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SpicyIP

MARCH 16, 2025

A quick glance at last week finding the real Burger King saga continues now at the Supreme Court, EDs involvement in the Shankar-Tamilnandan copyright case, right to health and compulsory licensing for rare disease medicine Risdiplam. The inclusion of copyright infringement in an anti-money laundering statute sounds a little strange, right?

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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. The highly anticipated Part 3, which is forthcoming, will address copyright infringement and fair use issues involving generative AI.).

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Image from Copilot As covered in a guest post by KatFriends Monica Thornell and Jonathan Coote last year [here] , the estates of two bandmates of Jimi Hendrix (bassist Noel Redding and drummer Mitch Mitchell) are suing Sony Music Entertainment UK Ltd (Sony) for infringement of their copyright and performers rights.

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SpicyIP

MARCH 9, 2025

ANI vs OpenAI: Why Delhi High Court Has Jurisdiction While OpenAI has argued that the DHC does not have jurisdiction to entertain the suit filed by ANI, a close look at the Copyright Act and CPC says otherwise. The last day to send your applications is April 1, 2025. For more details see their call for applications in this post.

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SpicyIP

MARCH 30, 2025

Further, he questions whether even a Text Data Mining Exception is required in the Indian Copyright Act. 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. Read the post for more details.

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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. ANI-OpenAI litigation.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

We are extending the deadline to vote for the IPKat Book of the Year Awards 2024 until 10 February 2025. Copyright Alessandro Cerri explored a recent decision of the Intellectual Property Enterprise Court of the High Court of England & Wales on copyright infringement in a TV format. Extension of Deadline!

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

[Thanks to Aditi, Khushi and Sudhanshu for the case summaries] Here is our recap of last weeks top IP developments including summary of the posts on the ANI vs OpenAI copyright case, CGPDTMs office being moved to Delhi, and exemption under Section 107A of the Patents Act. Highlights of the Week ANI vs OpenAI: Indias Copyright Act is outdated.

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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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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

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. ANI-OpenAI litigation.

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

carries significant implications for Generative AI and pending Copyright cases worldwide. By identifying the most consequential words and principles, such a headnote reflects a significant creative exercise meriting copyright protection, transcending mere textual reproduction to recognize the intellectual labor of legal synthesis.

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JD Supra Law

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

January saw activity in the copyright infringement lawsuit filed by a group of authors led by comedian Sarah Silverman against OpenAI. A magistrate judge ordered the AI pioneer to produce its datasets, which are used for training, to determine whether they contained copyrighted material. By: Benesch

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 20, 2024

However, data appear to be just one side of the medal and to conceal much deeper copyright concerns. The copyright concerns Meanwhile, beyond the privacy issues, authors and performers worldwide – the driving force behind such services – are protesting to the new AI policy of Meta. To escape this interregnum, a new balance is needed.

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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. Ross Intelligence Inc.,

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 6, 2025

Here is our recap of last weeks top IP developments including summaries of the posts on Indias Top IP Developments in 2024, a potential trade secret litigation at the Delhi HC and Screenwriters Rights Association of Indias registration as Copyright Society. Copyright Office to Begin Issuing Part 2 and 3 of its AI Guidance in January 2025

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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. They know they need quick access to scientific articles in a way that supports copyright compliant collaboration and want to get something in place as fast as possible. In response to the unique needs small to midsize companies have, we built the RightFind Suite Growth Bundle.

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 14, 2024

The last date for submission of entries is March 31, 2025. The Journal is presently soliciting submissions for its 15 th Volume, to be released tentatively in August 2025. The last date for submission of papers is 31 st March 2025. Guidelines for the submissions are provided below.

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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. Thus the higher evidentiary standard of intention to infringe upon copyright must also be proved (p 588). After the 1994 amendment, S.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2025

Unless the Court of Appeals decision is appealed to the Supreme Court, the copyright and performers rights claims made by the estates of former JHE band members against Sony Music Entertainment will proceed to a full trial. 23 of the Limitation Act 1980.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

I wondered if the claimant was using the words trade mark to mean copyright in the name; news publishers regularly mix up the two.) This is despite the Claimant having in the past denied that her claim was in copyright. The court proceeded on the basis that the treatment was alleged to be a literary or dramatic work.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 13, 2025

In this post, Yogesh Byadwal argues that these terms of use also offer an insight into the practice of expanding copyright using Contract Law. on 8 January, 2025 (Delhi HC) The rectification petition was filed seeking removal of trade mark registered in the name of respondent no. DHC Directs CIC to Disclose a Ph.D

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Velocity of Content

JANUARY 28, 2025

Methodology In a study on behalf of Copyright Clearance Center (CCC), Outsell surveyed 584 professionals evenly split across 14 industries. Figure 1: Copyright Awareness vs. Potential Unlicensed Sharing by Organization Level Source: Outsell Inc. Outsells fact-based analysis and all aspects of our opinion were independently derived.

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