Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 2, 2022

Even so, the court’s almost-banal treatment of this super-interesting topic suggests that there may not be much tattoo exceptionalism in copyright law. ” As for whether the tattoo is substantially similar to the copyrighted elements of the photo, the court sends the issue to the jury. Nature of Use.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 24, 2022

When YouTube first got off the ground in 2005, most of its users would’ve been oblivious to how closely copyright law would govern their online activities moving forward. The overall message is one of deterrence coupled with the reaffirmation of copyright law, Goto said.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 19, 2023

On May 18, 2023, the Supreme Court found that artistic changes to a pre-existing work, alone, not necessarily sufficient to make a derivative work fair use. copyright law. copyright law, the Supreme Court focused on the actual use made, i.e. what the user does with the original work.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 17, 2024

It lost for two reasons: one grounded in contract law and the other external. First, the court held that the damages X incurred (primarily the loss of advertisers after CCDH published negative reports using scraped data) were unforeseeable when the ToS were agreed upon in 2019. They scraped X’s platform to sell the data.

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Acko General Insurance , the Delhi High Court is faced with the opportunity to elaborate whether and how street art in general is subject to the Copyright Act, the scope of ‘artistic work’ under Sec. 2(c), the fair use exemption thereof under Sec. 52(1)(t) and thus would fall under the ‘fair use’ exception of the Copyright Act.

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IP and Legal Filings

MARCH 5, 2025

2] They contended that the defendants are perpetuating gross misinformation by running fraudulent medicinal drug advertisement campaigns through wrongful use of Artificial Intelligence and are creating deepfakes by distorting images, voice, and other personality traits of Rajat Sharma, also infringing upon the registered trademarks of his company.

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Patently-O

DECEMBER 11, 2023

We, who have been writing and teaching about copyright law and how it has responded to challenges posed by new technologies for decades, were among those who submitted comments, see [link]. In addition, conduct that may be consistent with the copyright laws nevertheless may violate Section 5. That is far too hasty.

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IPilogue

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

The legal question at the center of the dispute is whether Warhol’s series is fair use of Goldsmith’s original photograph. A permissible derivative creation, or fair use, requires transformative changes made to the original. The trial judge John G. This is not the first time Andy Warhol was sued for IP infringement.

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The IP Law Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2023

3: What Now for Fair Use After Warhol v. Goldsmith that Andy Warhol’s portrait of music legend Prince did not qualify as fair use under copyright law. As we look back, we want to share The Briefing’s most popular episodes in 2023. Goldsmith The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Andy Warhol Foundation v.

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Kashishipr

MAY 25, 2021

Such a license would enable using the resources held by owners of the CC Licenses to the extent of editing, remixing, copying, and distributing the work without circumventing the copyright law. Blogging and Fair Use.

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IPilogue

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Japan’s proposed new law would require professional cosplayers to pay a fee to the creators of the characters they cosplay in specific circumstances ( for example , when appearing as a character for an event or on television). Luckily for most cosplayers, their costumes likely do not infringe copyright laws.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 7, 2024

Under the automated system, copyrighted content is fingerprinted and added in advance, so pirated copies can be flagged when they’re uploaded. Errors and Nuance Upload filters are not perfect and generally lack ability to factor-in the nuances of copyright law, such as fair use.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 26, 2024

are the background lyrics of the latest Google advertisement about the future of online search. And what is the fate of copyright law in this new world order? As dozens of copyright lawsuits filed in U.S. A ‘Google Zero’ World? “I I got the new stuff!” Would there be any incentives to create original content?

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LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 29, 2023

3: What Now for Fair Use After Warhol v. Goldsmith that Andy Warhol’s portrait of music legend Prince did not qualify as fair use under copyright law. As we look back, we want to share The Briefing’s most popular episodes in 2023. Goldsmith The U.S.

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Copyright Lately

MAY 1, 2023

First of all, in terms of copyright, to reiterate our very clearly articulated position. sophisticated generative AI that’s enabled by large language models, which trains on our intellectual property, violates copyright law in several ways. copyright law really doesn’t seem to give UMG a ton of options.

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Trademark and Copyright Law Blog

JULY 9, 2020

It is difficult to imagine why any competitor would want to use “Booking.com” in other contexts, when doing so would only send consumers to Booking.com’s website and would thus thwart the competitor’s attempt to capitalize on Booking.com’s goodwill. first appeared on Trademark and Copyright Law.

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Drop a comment below to let us know. Highlights of the Week ANI vs OpenAI: Indias Copyright Act is outdated. India’s copyright law does not envision an exception permitting LLM trainings from copyrighted materials. Anything we are missing out on? Can it Deal with New Legal Conundrums?

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2023

At the district court level, the law of copyright preemption is a morass of ad hoc explanations of whether certain contracts are “equivalent” to the exclusive rights within the general scope of copyright law. Platforms that copy online data and use it to create AI have a strong fair use argument under copyright laws.

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Intepat

JULY 11, 2024

Introduction The issue came to light when one of the founders of a company named Dorje Teas put up a post on LinkedIn claiming that they have been served a copyright infringement notice by Shark Tank India for the unauthorized use of clips of their pitch on the show to advertise on Youtube and Meta ads.

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SpicyIP

AUGUST 6, 2024

In the US, a voice isn’t explicitly protected under copyright law, but there are potential protections under the right of publicity, which is enforced through state laws related to the appropriation of likeness, name, and voice. Legal precedents like Midler v.

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 22, 2024

The crux of this debate is the argument that if the theft of restricted digital content is for the purpose of knowledge and research, it should be considered as an act done under ‘fair use’ and ‘fair dealing’ of the content. Digital Rights Management & Fair Use If everything is so well designed, then where is the issue?

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The IP Law Blog

MAY 18, 2023

UMG considers this a violation of copyright law. The issue of whether training an AI tool on existing copyright-protected works constitutes infringement or is fair use is currently being litigated in a number of cases. California also has a common law right of publicity that’s a bit broader than the statute.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 18, 2023

UMG considers this a violation of copyright law. The issue of whether training an AI tool on existing copyright-protected works constitutes infringement or is fair use is currently being litigated in a number of cases. California also has a common law right of publicity that’s a bit broader than the statute.

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JIPL Online

APRIL 9, 2021

ii] Existing copyright law is ineffective in its application to new forms of digital media. On one hand, those who view intellectual property rights as a limited monopoly would suggest that even derivative use of the content in a meme is infringement on the rights holder’s interest. 29, 2013), [link]. [ii] 277 (2020). [iv]

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MARCH 28, 2023

Niklas Jansson, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons On 30 December 2022, the Italian Supreme Court ( Corte di Cassazione ) issued an order that intervened again on the interpretation of the quotation exception under Article 70 of the Italian Copyright Act ( l. The decision concerns an advertising campaign of a mineral water company.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 18, 2023

UMG considers this a violation of copyright law. The issue of whether training an AI tool on existing copyright-protected works constitutes infringement or is fair use is currently being litigated in a number of cases. California also has a common law right of publicity that’s a bit broader than the statute.

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IP Tech Blog

MARCH 18, 2022

NFTs can be based on three-dimensional items or artwork, or can be purely digital creations—for example, a collectable digital sneaker or a token used in a videogame. Most NFTs are protected under US Copyright Law as creative works and/or may be derivative works based on pre-existing copyright-protected works.

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Spadika Jayaraj discussed a case where the Delhi High Court dismissed a suit by a media house accusing copyright infringement on its database of users. The issue has often arisen in the context of protecting confidential information through copyright law. E.g., see Prateek Surisetti’s post here and Niyati Prabhu’s post here.

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 18, 2022

NFTs can be based on three-dimensional items or artwork, or can be purely digital creations—for example, a collectable digital sneaker or a token used in a videogame. Most NFTs are protected under US Copyright Law as creative works and/or may be derivative works based on pre-existing copyright-protected works.

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43(B)log

APRIL 7, 2023

Moderator: Martin Senftleben, University of Amsterdam Copyright Law and/or/vs. a ‘Brussels Effect’ for the Digital Services Act Jennifer Urban, Berkeley Law School The Brussels Effect claim is descriptive, not predictive—can it apply to the DSA?

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

1] That decision shook the art world, as it seems to dramatically narrow the scope of the fair use doctrine, and raises doubts about the lawfulness of many existing works. [2] Goldsmith counterclaimed for copyright infringement. It found that all four fair use factors weighed against fair use. [12]

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2021

It’s not possible to “trespass” an intangible asset; any legal protection for the asset comes from contract law (but the plaintiffs gave a license) or IP law, such as copyright law, which the plaintiffs aren’t invoking. Google responds that whatever it means, it’s preempted by copyright law.

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Copyright Lately

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

I’m talking about section 113(c) , which allows photographs of useful articles incorporating copyrighted works to be made and used without violating copyright law. The local news could then take photos of the shirt to use in a story about what a lousy dad I am. 17 U.S.C. § You get the idea.

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SpicyIP

AUGUST 30, 2021

Domex Advertisement: Product Disparagement or Nominative Fair Use? In this guest post , Pragya Jain offers an independent analysis of the law in relation to comparative advertising and nominative fair use and applies it to analyse a recent YouTube commercial by Domex, a Hindustan Unilever Ltd.

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SpicyIP

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Interface interference is a tactic that hinders consumers from performing actions like cancelling subscriptions or deleting accounts, such as redirecting them to another page while trying to cancel a pop-up advertisement. This violates copyright laws and may lead to legal actions for copyright infringement.

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43(B)log

DECEMBER 20, 2022

But also, the documentaries weren’t substantially similar, and, “even if the 2013 Documentary is substantially similar to the 2001 Documentary under the fragmented literal similarity test due its use of clips from the 2001 Documentary, Plaintiffs’ claim with respect to this documentary is barred by the fair use doctrine.”

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LexBlog IP

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

That 2 nd Circuit decision is now before the Supreme Court to decide on how one should best address questions of fair use and transformative works, which the Court had addressed last year in Google v. at 1203 (quoting 4 Nimmer on Copyright § 13.05[A][1][b]). at 1203 (quoting 4 Nimmer on Copyright § 13.05[A][1][b]).

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