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2025 WL 89191 (S.D.N.Y. 14, 2025) This cases involves two videos, one involving Michael Jordan that someone posted to Twitter (seemingly without permission?), Mediaite LLC, 2025 WL 89226 (S.D.N.Y. The court also says it can’t consider the evidence that Mediaite used embedding on a motion to dismiss.
FairUse Declawed. This overly restrictive interpretation of the Supreme Courts 2023 Warhol decision sent shockwaves through the filmmaking community, which often relies on fairuse to incorporate brief historical footage into their works for entirely new and different purposes. For that reason, Prepared Food Photos v.
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The Court has granted summary judgment in respect of 2,830 headnotes belonging to Thomson Reuters and admittedly used by Ross Intelligence to train its Natural Language Processing and Artificial Enabled Legal Research tool, finding Direct Copyright Infringement and rejecting fairuse. But, first, Some History!
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Townsquare Media : Sublicensing, FairUse, and De Minimis Use In Richardson v. The court addressed other uses as well, including a video of Michael Jordan intervening in a fight. Mediaite, LLC illustrate the fragmented and unpredictable state of embedding law in 2025. Richardson v. Townsquare Media, Inc.
Akshat Agrawal and Sneha Jain argue that the Court has made a flawed originality analysis, misapplied infringement standard, and inadequately considered merger and fairuse defences. on 14 February, 2025, (Delhi HC) Manash Lifestyle Pvt. on 17 February, 2025 (Delhi HC) Image from here. Read the post for more.
Akshat Agrawal and Sneha Jain argue that the Court has made a flawed originality analysis, misapplied infringement standard, and inadequately considered merger and fairuse defences. on 14 February, 2025, (Delhi HC) Manash Lifestyle Pvt. on 17 February, 2025 (Delhi HC) Image from here. Read the post for more.
Also curious: the court doesn’t discuss a fairuse defense at all. 2025 WL 485493 (D. 12, 2025) Want more about the Internet law of horses? Fireline Farms appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. Statutory Damages The plaintiff asked for $75k in statutory damages. Fireline Farms, Inc.
Career and Technical Education,Commercial Educational Materials,Medicine Joshua Potter February 24, 12:06 PM February 24, 12:06 PM In January of 2025, The Center for Phlebotomy Education Inc. A claim of fairuse for educational purposes might be weak in the shadow of Goldsmith v. Stealing in Vein?
Next Level Apps Technology FZCO , 2025 WL 551866 (N.D. Maritas * 512(f) Plaintiff Must Pay $91k to the DefenseDigital Marketing v. Heldman * Another 512(f) Claim FailsNingbo Mizhihe v Doe * Video Excerpts Qualify as FairUse (and Another 512(f) Claim Fails)Hughes v. Case Citation : Invisible Narratives LLC v.
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WIPIP 2025 will be hosted by the UNLV Law School in Las Vegas. * * * As usual, Prof. We had so much fun together, but it also will be associated with Dan’s death and our community’s loss. My memoriam for Dan.
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In those circusmtances, copyright law is an especially attractive tool to the pugilists, with its strict liability standards, amorphous fairuse boundaries, high defense costs, and effectiveness of takedown notices. Levy argued that Kilgore didn’t consider fairuse before sending the takedown notices.
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 fairuse. AI tools use vast datasets, including seemingly copyrighted material, to train.
Against this backdrop, larger issues emerge as regards the power wielded by AI companies in the medium to long term especially in a consolidated market, over social, economic and political aspects of our lives. The EU equivalents are contained in Articles 3 and 4 of Directive 2019/790 on Copyright in the Digital Single Market.
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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. In addition, under US law, explicitly reserving rights in this manner will never harm a plaintiff in a copyright infringement suit. Of course not.
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What US courts might achieve with determining whether a work is transformative under fairuse also stems from the discretion they get from common law rules of interpretation. The AG is set to deliver his opinion on this case on 6 May 2025. This might not be the case in the EU.
Either the opponent folds because it runs out of money, or investors are dissuaded from investing because they know their investment dollars will go to the defense lawyers instead of engineering or marketing.] Plaintiffs argument goes too far; it would require Vimeo employees to assume that uses of copyrighted material are never fairuse.”
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