Kluwer Copyright Blog

MARCH 10, 2025

If the AI learning process does not result in (non-incidental) copies of works used during AI training, then we do not need to discuss copyright exceptions, and we cannot talk about remuneration of right holders at all. some training datasets contain only hyperlinks to content stored online rather than copies of content).

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 9, 2023

The leak was met with excitement by gaming history fans, who discovered unused artwork and an early or alternative storyline. While we haven’t seen a public response to the DMCA notice, a new repository that was published by the same user, shortly after the takedown, is quite telling.

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The IPKat

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

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. Unfortunately, while CIPO’s database records registration, it has no copy of what was registered.

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43(B)log

OCTOBER 11, 2022

It had a similar color scheme, page layout and website architecture, font type, and artwork and photographs to Boston Carriage’s. “Boston Carriage’s principals voluntarily shared their business knowledge with Boston Suburban, including Boston Carriage’s business and marketing strategies and its online presence.”

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IPilogue

JULY 18, 2022

As an avant-guard artist of his time, Warhol used the mechanical process of copying to challenge the conventional notion of art. In this sense, the act of copying is the very medium of Warhol’s art. Copyright, in the simplest terms, is “ the right to copy.”

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IPilogue

MARCH 2, 2023

Orton’s likeness was licensed through defendant WWE to defendant Take-Two Interactive Software, a video game publisher. This is a far cry from the revenues earned on the WWE 2K games, which have sold hundreds of thousands of copies each. megastar Randy Orton. Copyright protection over tattoos has been a hot topic for some time.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 21, 2024

In November 2023, the publisher of hit videogame Genshin Impact obtained a DMCA subpoena at a California district court to unmask an anonymous alleged infringer. However, the unauthorized sharing of copyrighted works does qualify as speech, if only to a degree, so analysis is warranted.

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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. ” Based on his reserved screenplay publication rights, there’s no question that Tarantino is permitted to sell copies of the “Pulp Fiction” screenplay. .”

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

The lawsuits brought by the owners of such works, including artworks in the case of image-generators and journalism in the NYT case, claim that this should not be allowed. Over the course of a decade, Google copied large volumes of books and made them available online, both through excerpts, known as “snippets”, and as entire publications.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

New figures published by CharlieIntel predict that free-to-play, action role-playing game Genshin Impact, will have 63 million players in November alone. Copies of the notices sent in support of the DMCA subpoena application are similarly redacted.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

Billions of plays of the developer’s games are an endorsement of his work; for some, it’s also a signal to publish similar if not identical games, to generate revenue for themselves. The same gameplay mechanics also appear in Get Muscles Simulator but the complaint alleges that copying goes well beyond that.

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Intepat

DECEMBER 5, 2024

In one notable case, an NFT buyer of a famous digital artwork assumed they had purchased full copyright rights, only to find they could not legally reproduce or profit from the art without the creator’s consent. While NFTs verify the ownership of a digital item, they do not inherently transfer copyright to the buyer.

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Copyright Lately

MARCH 31, 2024

Video game publisher Atari Interactive has launched a copyright infringement lawsuit against State Farm, claiming that the insurer improperly appropriated artwork from Atari’s 1983 arcade game “Crystal Castles” for an advertising campaign as part of a “cynical plot” to resonate with fickle millennial and Gen Z consumers.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

AI-generated works have won awards: The Crow , an “AI-made” film won the Jury Award at the Cannes Short Film Festival and the story of an AI artwork winning the Colorado State Fair’s annual art competition was reported in The New York Times. AI-generated art was used for magazine covers, including Cosmopolitan and The Economist.

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IP and Legal Filings

AUGUST 6, 2024

It is a legal right that belongs to the originators of genuine artworks like literature, drama and music works, cinematographic films as well as sound records. Publication : The details of the application are published in the official journal. Copies of the Work: A copy or samples of what should be registered.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 23, 2024

For Genshin Impact publisher Cognosphere, pre-release leaks are unacceptable. Cognosphere asserts that leaked, copyright-infringing artwork and game visuals were posted to these accounts and to the best of its knowledge, no DMCA counter-notifications were filed by the operator(s) in response to its initial DMCA takedown notices.

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The IPKat

AUGUST 24, 2021

On 30 September, his new book Restitution: The Return of Cultural Artefacts will be published by Lund Humphries. The book was released this year by Hart Publishing, an imprint of Bloomsbury, and one does not need to progress deep into the book to appreciate the wisdom behind the revision. This book will help them through.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 25, 2022

This week marked the 10th anniversary of Google’s important decision to begin publishing DMCA takedown notices sent to the company. Over the last decade, online platforms including Twitter, Wikipedia, Medium and Github joined this transparency movement by submitting their notices to the Lumen Database. So that’s that then?

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Copyright Lately

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

From an archived copy of HitPiece’s FAQ. As noted above, one of HitPiece’s co-founders is Rory Felton , who for years ran a record company and music publishing company, among numerous other music industry ventures. The other co-founder is Michael Berrin , better known as MC Serch from late-80’s hip hop group 3rd Base.

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IP Whiteboard

AUGUST 30, 2020

In what we understand to be an industry-first, the Copyright Agency (an Australian not-for-profit collecting society that also licences copyright protected literary and artistic works) has licenced an Indigenous artwork for a tattoo. This leads to a number of questions: Is it copyright infringement to copy a work and use it as a tattoo?

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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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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

OCTOBER 2, 2022

The plaintiff, NOC, is a teenager who has copyrighted designs in hand-drawn dots that Target allegedly copied in the clothing line. Work #2: This work was published in 2016 in a video that “had over 100,000 views within the first 7-10 days and currently has about 125,000 views.” Instead, the court summarizes: N.O.C.

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IP and Legal Filings

OCTOBER 18, 2022

It also penalizes offences such as cyber terrorism, publishing/display of obscene materials, acts against morality etc., However, as artwork typically cannot be duplicated exactly and cannot be swapped with another without losing or gaining value, it is non-fungible. and empowers investigating agencies to access and intercept data.

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SpicyIP

MARCH 16, 2025

1 failed to contest the case despite multiple opportunities and was found to have deliberately copied the plaintiffs branding, leading to consumer deception. The two products were also similar in terms of artwork, colour scheme and packaging. The Court noted that defendant no.1 Living Media India Limited & Anr.

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IP and Legal Filings

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Most significantly, “the development of blockchain technology” has been accepted as a legal business activity by the Indonesian standard industrial business categorization code, which was published in 2020. Copyright: NFTs are closely related to artworks that are the subject to copyright and related rights protection.

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The IPKat

JULY 9, 2023

Would they be prepared to take legal action for copyright infringement if someone exploited or copied one of their works? It emerges that brands should pay for the use of street artworks. For some artists, a simple copy of the work featuring their work is enough to compensate for the absence of their name.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MARCH 19, 2024

The French subsidiary stressed that a clause was indeed inserted into their agreement stating that the studio is responsible for providing original artistic designs, and that in the case of quoting or copying, it must obtain official legal approval from the original artists (See here ).

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Garrigues Blog

JUNE 1, 2021

The Supreme Court published its judgment number 82/2021 on February 16, 2021, shortly after this post, holding that bullfights could not be protected due to their uncertainty and the difficulty in fixation. My product was copied and I haven’t registered it. There will be a sequel! is there anything I can do?

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MARCH 19, 2024

The French subsidiary stressed that a clause was indeed inserted into their agreement stating that the studio is responsible for providing original artistic designs, and that in the case of quoting or copying, it must obtain official legal approval from the original artists (See here ).

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LexBlog IP

JULY 5, 2022

Just as every piece of artwork is unique, there is no “one size fits all” when it comes to protecting your fashion goods with intellectual property tools. The term of a copyright for a particular work may depends on certain factors such as whether it has been published, and, if so, the date of first publication. [2]

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LexBlog IP

MAY 19, 2023

As Goldsmith’s counsel, Lisa Blatt, argued before the Court that “adding new meaning to a work is simply not a good enough reason to copy for free, ” and that such a result “would decimate the art of photography by destroying the incentive to create the art in the first place.”

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Above the Fold

JULY 5, 2022

Just as every piece of artwork is unique, there is no “one size fits all” when it comes to protecting your fashion goods with intellectual property tools. The term of a copyright for a particular work may depends on certain factors such as whether it has been published, and, if so, the date of first publication. [2]

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IIPRD

AUGUST 4, 2022

When your work begins “trending,” it’s tough to maintain track of how, when, and where it’s being replicated or re-published. There are several reasons why intellectual property (IP) may be particularly helpful in this digital age, including: Avoid having your original material copied. Make intangible assets.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

AUGUST 7, 2023

In 1984, Condé Nast, the publisher, obtained a license from Goldsmith to allow Andy Warhol to use her Prince portrait as the foundation for a single serigraphy to be featured in Vanity Fair magazine. An example would be an artist copying a previous painting and merely altering the colors to pass it off as a new creation.

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43(B)log

AUGUST 22, 2022

Sony, the publisher, allegedly offered the public “complete confidence in the results of our extensive research as well as the accounts of those who were in the studio with Michael that the vocals on the new album are his own.” Penultimately, what about the album title, Michael , and artwork, featuring images of Jackson? 2d 170 (Cal.

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SpicyIP

MARCH 11, 2024

Last week we published 3 posts including a post discussing the concept of hot tubbing, a post on the DHC interim injunction order restraining Geonix on the grounds of reverse passing off, and a tidbit on CCI’s appeal before the Supreme Court in. X wins copyright infringement case against 17 music publishers.

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IP Whiteboard

JUNE 7, 2021

NFTs have a variety of uses which extend far beyond digital artwork. You then upload a copy of the digital work that you want to represent in NFT-form to the NFT marketplace, pay a transaction fee and click ‘create’. million USD sale of his “Warrior” painting, which became the most expensive Western artwork sold in Asia.

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