SpicyIP

JANUARY 31, 2025

About SpicyIP Spicy IP is a premier platform dedicated to intellectual property (IP) law, focusing on developments in India and beyond. Shamnad Basheer, it offers expert analysis of patents, copyrights, trademarks, geographical indications, and related policy issues. Founded in 2005 by renowned legal scholar Prof.

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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. Other countries, including Japan, have already written AI exceptions into law.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 12, 2025

Flightradar Carl Lundstrm (1960 -2025) Born in 1960 as one of the heirs to the Wasabrd empire, Lundstrm was financially independent at an early age. When changes to Swedish copyright law were announced in 2005, Lundstrm started to have doubts about the project. Perhaps even more than that.

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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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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MARCH 30, 2025

Image by wowbee from Pixabay In a decision of 20 February 2025 the German Federal Supreme Court (BGH) denied copyright protection as a work of applied art for two sandal designs. The ruling clarifies the scope of protection under German and EU law for works of applied art.

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The IPKat

MARCH 11, 2025

Events Question the Trade Mark Judges 2025 UCL Institute of Brand and Innovation Law (IBIL) and MARQUES, the European Association of Trade Mark Owners, will hold a hybrid event on 25 March 2025, allowing participants to meet and question some of the judges deciding the latest trade mark disputes in the EU and the UK.

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JD Supra Law

JANUARY 31, 2025

Copyright fights over material used to train AI models will continue through 2025, and we wont see a final resolution to those legal questions during the year. By: MoFo Tech

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The IPKat

MARCH 12, 2025

Copyright Anastasiia Kyrylenko reported on a recent decision of the CJEU concerning the interpretation of Directive (EU) 2019/790 (C-575/23). St Atilla commented on a recent decision of the Tribunal Judiciaire de Paris regarding copyright and trade mark infringement in the context of a dispute between S.A.S. Photo by Asude Sena Moya

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MARCH 30, 2025

Image by wowbee from Pixabay In a decision of 20 February 2025 the German Federal Supreme Court (BGH) denied copyright protection as a work of applied art for two sandal designs. The ruling clarifies the scope of protection under German and EU law for works of applied art.

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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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The IPKat

DECEMBER 7, 2024

The 18th Annual International Intellectual Property Lecture (18 March 2025) On March 18, 2025, Robert P. CITMA Spring Conference (20-21 March 2025) On March 20-21, 2025, the Chartered Institute of Trade Mark Attorneys (CITMA) is organising its 2025 Spring Conference in London. For more information, see here.

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The IPKat

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Events Liability for AI-generated outputs under copyright law. The Law, Rationalism, and Complexity and the InfoSoc Working Groups of the European University Institute will host a lecture with our very own PermKat Eleonora Rosati (Stockholm University). More information here. 10th session of the WIPO Conversation.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash Now that the summer is formally over it is time for the third trimester of the 2024 roundup of EU copyright law. You can read a comment on the AG Opinion by Bernt Hugenholtz here , as well as the European Copyright Society’s opinion on the case here.

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JD Supra Law

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

29, 2025), the US District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana ruled that the US songwriter-plaintiff Vetter recaptured worldwide rights not just US rights by exercising his termination rights under Section 304 of the Copyright Act of 1976 (US Copyright Law). Robert Resnik, No. 23-1369-SDD-EWD (M.D.

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

carries significant implications for Generative AI and pending Copyright cases worldwide. The post will also look at how contention of parties would fare under Indian law. Ross Intelligence Inc. But, first, Some History! The dispute involved the use of 2,830 allegedly original Thomson Reuters headnotes.

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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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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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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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Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 17, 2024

In the complicated landscape of genAI and copyright law, several different themes have emerged as particularly thorny and triggering the interests of different stakeholders. On 19 November 2024, the Institute of Brand and Innovation Law (IBIL) at UCL Laws hosted a closed doors roundtable on academic publishing.

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JD Supra Law

MARCH 18, 2025

On March 18, 2025 the U.S. law requires human authorship. Specifically, the question presented to the Court was can a non-human machine be an author under the Copyright Act of 1976? Supreme Court issued its decision in Stephen Thaler v. Shira Perlmutter et al., confirming that U.S. By: Lowndes

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JD Supra Law

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

On January 29, 2025, the U.S. Copyright Office released a report concerning artificial intelligence (AI) and copyright law, focused on the scope of copyright protection for content generated in whole or in part by AI. By: Ballard Spahr LLP

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 29, 2023

Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash Welcome to the second trimester of the 2023 round up of EU copyright law! In this series, every three months we update you on what has happened in EU copyright law. You can read the previous round-ups here. You can read a comment on the cases here.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MARCH 4, 2025

As discussed in our previous post , requiring access to all training data would be too restrictive as this data is oftentimes limited by non-permissive terms (such as the deployment of technical tools to prevent scraping) or by other legal issues such as copyright and trade secrets. Toriqul Islam 135

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JD Supra Law

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

On January 29, 2025, the U.S. Copyright Office released its highly anticipated report (the Report) regarding the copyrightability of works created using generative artificial intelligence (AI).

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The IPKat

OCTOBER 19, 2024

This opportunity allows law students to engage with novel issues arising from the intersection of copyright law, cultural heritage, NFTs, and Generative AI in a simulated court setting. For further information, click here. For more details, see here.

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The IPKat

JANUARY 1, 2025

Dr Chijioke Okorie , who joined the IPKat at the start of 2019 as our first Africa Correspondent , has been promoted to Associate Professor at the University of Pretoria, effective 1 January 2025. He kept readers informed about the latest developments in trade marks, designs, AI, and copyright law.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MARCH 13, 2025

Image from Pixabay Introduction Ever since digital online transactions became ubiquitous from the late 1990s onward, the copyright world has been grappling with metadata problems. In 2020, a contribution to this blog reaffirmed that metadata matter for the future of copyright. are the metadata.

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SpicyIP

MARCH 1, 2025

Everywhere else we may be bound by laws and conventions there we have none. 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. Only the ones that lead to further infringement of copyright.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

The Greek legislator, while implementing the CRM Directive , included in the Copyright Law an interesting (and unexpected) provision (Article 22 (2) Law 2121/1993) according to which certain public libraries (mostly academic and school libraries) were exempted of the exclusive public lending right.

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Traverse Legal Blog

JANUARY 17, 2025

5 Proven Steps to Protect Your Intellectual Property in 2025 In a world where ideas are currency, protecting intellectual property (IP) has ne ver been more critical. While intellectual property law can be complex, following a structured approach can help secure your ideas and prevent misuse.

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 15, 2024

Call for Submissions: NALSARs Indian Journal of Intellectual Property Law (IJIPL) Vol. 15 [Submissions by March 31, 2025] NALSARs Indian Journal of Intellectual Property Law (IJIPL) is inviting submissions for its 15th Volume. The last date for submission of entries is March 31, 2025. Srinivas-Nadayogiya Sunaadayaana.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Warhol: Comparative perspectives on the use of cultural heritage images (12-13 June 2025) On 12 and 13 June 2025, the University of Florence and EUI are teaming up to host a conference devoted to the discussion of how different legal systems regulate access to their cultural heritage and impact follow-on creative expressions.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Presently, a new reference from the German Federal Court of Justice (BGH) asks the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) for vital interpretive guidance concerning the parody exception within copyright law. This approach, initially applied to cultural politics by Dentith, can be similarly adopted within copyright law.

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The IPKat

AUGUST 13, 2024

AlgoSoc International Conference 2025: 10 April 2025. 2025 Annual Meeting, 17 May 2025, San Diego, California, USA. The theme of the conference is 'The Crossvergence of Asian Copyright Standards?' The seminar will take place on 19 September 2024. The Future of Public Values in the Algorithmic Society. Details here.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

When the German Federal Court of Justice (BGH) issued its fourth ruling in the “Metall auf Metall” copyright sampling case in April 2020, it seemed that the dispute would finally reach the top of the hill (see here ). Is Pelham’s sampling permitted by law under the “free use” (freie Benutzung) of then-Sect. 5 InfoSoc Directive.

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The IPKat

OCTOBER 1, 2024

INTA Annual Meeting 2025 The 147th Annual Meeting of the International Trademark Association (INTA) will be held in San Diego, California, on 17-21 May 2025. The recordings of past lectures and further details about the upcoming lectures can be found on the Centre for Plant Success website. Registration will open in January.

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