SpicyIP

APRIL 18, 2025

Inox India Limited and Others , Aditya Bhargava writes on the question of “functional utility” and how it informs the two pronged test by the Court. Some courts (and scholars) have suggested that making the object could infringe if its an indirect copy of the drawing, but this remains a nuanced debate. Stein (U.S.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Why Some Pirates Copy Other Pirates. Copy Movies and TV Shows, Copy Other Pirate Sites. Because if pirates are good at anything, it’s copying. That includes all of the artwork and movie information but crucially the videos too. Ctrl C / Ctrl V / Ctrl C / Ctrl V.

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SpicyIP

APRIL 18, 2025

The case arose from Inoxs claim that Cryogas copied proprietary engineering drawings for cryogenic storage tanks (mounted on trailers for transporting liquid gases). In the second part, I address the question of functionality utility and examine how it informs the two-prong test. Inox India Ltd. from its definition of design).

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IIPRD

JANUARY 22, 2025

Thus, fundamental questions arise, such as whether such copying amounts to infringement under copyright law or whether it falls under the purview of fair use. Most often, AI systems utilize huge databases to train their algorithms and yield some forms of creative or functional outputs. Such databases may include work that is copyrighted.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Attorneys acting for Cognosphere inform the court that the company is the exclusive licensee of Genshin Impact in the United States and other territories, which includes any artwork, gameplay footage, and related audiovisual content. Copies of the notices sent in support of the DMCA subpoena application are similarly redacted.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2022

By purchasing an NFT one only purchases an actual digital token that normally contains a link to or a copy of a digital artwork. That artwork itself is a copyrighted work and the NFT owner will only have rights to that copyrighted work if these have been specifically assigned or licensed to them as required by law. Conclusion.

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The IPKat

JUNE 27, 2022

A digital file (an artwork, a song, etc.), One the most important technical features of the blockchain is that every information which is recorded there becomes immutable so that the “link to the digital file” becomes immutable once recorded in the blockchain. Ripps’s collection has sold out in 15 days, producing a revenue of 1,023.03

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Traverse Legal Blog

APRIL 17, 2021

There’s not a lot of information out there about NFTs, so if you want to sell an NFT, if you’re an artist or creator, you need to know the legal implications of what you’re doing. There’s very little information about these things. If you look it up, this page will show you minimal information about the listing.

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Traverse Legal Blog

APRIL 1, 2021

NFT lawyer Enrico Schaefer covers the following topics in this informative article about non-fungible tokens. Different types of information can be stored on a blockchain including ledger information and smart contracts. People will bid on an NFT, a non-fungible token, associated with a piece of digital artwork.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 1, 2022

‘History Rewritten’ Tarantino is “shockingly” trying to mischaracterize the license agreements by leaving out critical parts, Miramax informs the court. Aside from the screenplay rights disagreement, the NFT sale also used other images and artwork that were directly related to Pulp Fiction.

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IP and Legal Filings

AUGUST 6, 2024

Abstract This blog provides complete information to go about the registration for copyright in a systematic manner with due incorporation of all steps required to help creators of the works of art. It server the purpose of establishing the entire information as to the importance of copyright protection. What is Copyright?

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The IPKat

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

The author decided to search the Canadian Trademark Database for information on what had been registered under the mark "Ogopogo". There were 18 registered copyrighted works related to the Ogopogo, including books, posters, artwork, videos (in some cases, supposedly of the creature itself) and dramatic works.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 23, 2024

Cognosphere obtains the latter to compel online platforms, typically social media companies, to hand over whatever information they hold on alleged infringers. What happens when that information is handed over to Cognosphere is mostly unknown. to hand over the information detailed below by November 22, 2023. informs the court.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

The same gameplay mechanics also appear in Get Muscles Simulator but the complaint alleges that copying goes well beyond that. Under Penalty of Perjury, Don’t Provide False Information Counter-notices must contain an address where the sender can be reached and here, the counter-notice sender provided an address in Montana.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 8, 2024

To put it more metaphorically, it is the legal green light for web crawlers nowadays to scour all corners of the internet, scraping information from websites and databases, indexing their content, and storing it for later retrieval, typically by search engines.

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Copyright Lately

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

Fundamentally, an NFT is just a transactional record and a link to a digital asset (often an image of artwork or a document) stored somewhere on the web. It simply contains information on where you can find the image and serves as proof of authenticity. The NFT isn’t the image. It typically doesn’t even store the image.

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IIPRD

MARCH 5, 2025

Both artistic and technical information have been transforming lately about how to create in all industries. This position was reiterated through several decisions, the most significant ruling for an export artwork was by the U.S. Who owns the right to copy-authors, the programmer, the user, or the transmitter commissioning the work?

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The IPKat

AUGUST 23, 2023

Confidential Information Image by Riana Harvey Annsley Merelle Ward discussed the recent decision Mimo Connect v Burley & Ors [2023] EWCA Civ 909 and in particular the fact that facts are everything in confidential information cases. Here is a brief recap of the topics covered last week on The IPKat.

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Traverse Legal Blog

JANUARY 29, 2022

If you’re selling a digital rendition of a piece of artwork, you will mint an NFT, which will then attach to that particular piece of digital art. The NFT will link to what the owner is licensing: the actual digital work, the piece of artwork, the image, the video, the audio file, etc. License and Details, Please.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

While at this stage the particulars of Getty’s claim are unavailable, their press release states that Stability AI “unlawfully copied and processed millions of images protected by copyright and the associated metadata owned or represented by Getty Images”. temporary copy which is; 2. transient or incidental; 3.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 28, 2021

io but is also active on hundreds of forums, websites and social media accounts selling cheats that enable Ubisoft and Bungie customers to automatically aim their weapons, reveal the locations of opponents, and see information that would otherwise be obscured. Ring-1 is said to largely operate from Ring-1.io Defendants’ Business Model.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 25, 2022

This archive not only allows rightsholders to monitor trends relevant to them, but also shines light on how copyright can be abused to impede the free flow of information. Over the last decade, online platforms including Twitter, Wikipedia, Medium and Github joined this transparency movement by submitting their notices to the Lumen Database.

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IP and Legal Filings

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Forms of digital media or virtual artworks are traded among NFT traders in the current NFT market practice, frequently for astronomically high prices. An NFT is viewed from the viewpoint that buying one grants the buyer a proprietary right to each and every copy or iteration of the underlying work.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 10, 2023

The corresponding DMCA takedown notice sent to GitHub requests “expeditious action to remove or disable access to the Genshin Impact Artwork as referenced above. By examining an archived copy of the website we managed to find one example; it features a login screen with a HoYoverse logo, within the frame of a mobile phone.

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Kashishipr

JUNE 16, 2021

Theft of Copyright: Generally, Copyright Infringement happens when an original film or artwork or musical work, or software code is reproduced (in whole or part) bearing similarity to the original work or has multiple and identifiable elements copied in a derivative work. Reasons of Theft of Intellectual Property.

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Copyright Lately

JANUARY 23, 2023

Stable Diffusion Doesn’t Store Copies of Training Images The complaint also mischaracterizes Stable Diffusion by asserting that images used to train the model are “stored at and incorporated” into the tool as “compressed copies.” None of it includes copies of images.

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 23, 2023

In today’s digital world, a lot of data and information have been shared online and are susceptible to corruption and copying. iv] Through a structured verification procedure that adds a new block, verifies the information, and then adds the data to the blockchain, this system ensures authenticity.

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IP and Legal Filings

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Many aspiring artists have now started converting their physical and digital artworks into NFTs and putting it up for sale, with many making considerable profits. NFTs have sparked several discussions raising questions on how this would affect IP Rights and what ownership of artwork, especially digital copies of artwork entails.

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Copyright Lately

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

From an archived copy of HitPiece’s FAQ. People probably aren’t aware, but Spotify just as an example, has been involved in dozens and dozens of rights disagreements with rightsholders, be it on not only songwriting but also the master rights and even also artwork rights.

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IIPRD

OCTOBER 7, 2024

It safeguards in the following ways: Safeguarding the Competitive Advantage: By doing the patent of their own inventions, the startups can prevent the competitors from copying their innovations and works, thus securing unique market positions. Press Information Bureau, Ministry of Finance, Government Of India( NB/KPS/M/PD).

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 30, 2022

Finally, it points out Viacom is the owner of three valid trademark registrations for the KRUSTY KRAB mark and 400 copyright registrations covering “creative aspects of the SpongeBob SquarePants franchise,” including episodes from the animated television series, movies, drawings, and stylebooks featuring artwork from the franchise.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 21, 2025

As todays manifestations of GenAI had not even been known back in 2019, it was simply impossible to take an informed decision on whether the Article 4 approach would lead to appropriate solutions in practice. Hence, it will be necessary to provide additional information: which authors and rightsholders does the collecting society represent?

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IP and Legal Filings

OCTOBER 18, 2022

The National Information and Communication Technology Policy, 2015, has therefore been a key policy action. The Privacy Act, which implemented the constitutional right to privacy, had a big influence on how personal information was used legally. Introduction. The Nepal Privacy Act was passed in September 2018. Conclusion.

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Art Law Journal

JUNE 16, 2022

It’s heartbreaking to find your artwork on a t-shirt at Forever 21 or as an image on someone’s blog without your permission. What are statutory damages and how can you get them if your artwork is used without your permission? What qualifies as an infringement of artwork? Let’s find out.

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IP and Legal Filings

OCTOBER 28, 2022

11 of 2008, dated April 21, 2008, regarding Electronic Information and Transactions, as amended by Law No 19 of 2016, dated November 25, 2016.• Copyright: NFTs are closely related to artworks that are the subject to copyright and related rights protection. Government Regulation No. MOCI Regulation No. 10 of 2021, dated May 21, 2021.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 9, 2023

The biggest copyright law question in the EU and US is probably whether using in-copyright works to train generative AI models is copyright infringement or falls under the transient and temporary copying and TDM exceptions (in the EU) or fair use (in the US). There is disagreement among commentators whether this is a desirable development.

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IIPRD

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

The number of artworks bought and sold throughout the world increased to almost 40 million in 2018 from around 39 million the year before, providing further evidence of this trend. Artwork based on such a notion presents challenges when attempting to establish ownership. And that’s the rub; this is the crux of the problem.

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