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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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. 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.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 3, 2024

The use of pirated content, to promote and support crimes typically considered to be more serious, provides rightsholders with a golden opportunity to place copyright infringement in the same conversation as illegal gambling and money laundering.

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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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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MARCH 10, 2025

Image via Pixabay We have so far seen a considerable (and increasing) discussion on AI and copyright infringement, especially in terms of how current exceptions such as TDM and fair use apply and whether new exceptions or remuneration models are needed. large publishers, record companies), but reaches individual creators.

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The IPKat

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

Copyright A Kat walking and enjoying its freedom. This week, a controversy involving a famous Hollywood actor damaging one of Banksy’s artworks has taken the news and Aaron Moss, on Copyright Lately, discusses the possibility of Banksy suing the actor based on infringement of his (?) moral rights.

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IPilogue

JULY 18, 2022

Last year, Andy Warhol lost an infamous copyright infringement lawsuit against photographer Lynn Goldsmith regarding an image of the pop singer Prince. Copyright Act —whether Warhol’s print is transformative of the original photograph so that it qualifies as fair use. Copyright, in the simplest terms, is “ the right to copy.”

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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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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 1, 2024

Google is one of those platforms and without the diligence of the Google Search team, at least 150 articles published on TorrentFreak.com would’ve been disappeared over the years due to bogus DMCA notices. On January 20, Google received a takedown demand to deindex from search results an article published just four days earlier.

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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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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

In order to train their technologies, should AI companies be allowed to use works under copyright protection without consent? 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. Fair Use Precedent? 106A of the U.S.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 30, 2021

Chapman (‘plaintiffs’) collectively filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Netflix, Amazon, and Apple (‘defendants’), claiming that the defendants had directly and indirectly infringed their copyright over the song “ Fish Sticks n’ Tater Tots ” by using it in their documentary titled ‘Burlesque’ ( Brown v.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

The last time developer Christopher Boomer appeared on our radar was back in July 2022 when he attempted to unmask thousands of alleged copyright infringers using the DMCA subpoena process. The same gameplay mechanics also appear in Get Muscles Simulator but the complaint alleges that copying goes well beyond that.

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Copyright Lately

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

Breaking down Miramax’s copyright infringement lawsuit against Quentin Tarantino, a dispute about NFTs that isn’t really about NFTs. 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. The NFT isn’t the image.

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SpicyIP

MARCH 16, 2025

Plagiarism and PMLA: Taking a look at the EDs involvement in the Shankar- Tamilnandan Enthiran Copyright Saga MHC stays ED’s move to attach Shankar’s assets under PMLA in connection with the 15-year-old Robot copyright dispute with writer Arur Tamilnandan. Living Media India Limited & Anr. vs Telegram Fz Llc & Ors.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JANUARY 10, 2022

This has come about following their use in connection with the transaction of different types of digital content (including artworks), often for exorbitant amounts. The European Commission has published its long overdue guidance on the application of art. 3 (1) InfoSoc Directive, has been eagerly awaited for a long time.

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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. Left: Chris Black’s Jarrangini (buffalo), 2018 © Chris Black/Copyright Agency, 2020.

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Copyright Lately

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

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. What makes the HitPiece story unique, and particularly shocking, is that its founders did know, and at least claimed to care about artists’ rights.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Apart from revolutionizing the creative markets, the ability to obtain new artworks with an increasing marginalization of human contribution has inevitably tested the fitness of copyright legislations all over the world to deal with the so-called “artificial intelligence” (‘AI’). ChatGPT , Smodin ), to perform music (i.e.,

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SpicyIP

MARCH 10, 2023

The territory would ideally have to be the world, for an artwork or an article published online, and also, it would be difficult to practically take down the same after 5 years. There is a higher probability of such Output being considered as infringing by the courts, when a user uses ChatGPT’s Output for commercial purposes.

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43(B)log

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Restellini alleged copyright infringement and related claims in connection with WPI’s digitization of certain material about the artist Amodeo Modigliani. WPI counterclaimed against Restellini and third-party Institut Restellini SAS – Documentation Centre alleging copyright infringement and false advertising.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MARCH 19, 2024

The Cairo Economic Court, which possesses exclusive jurisdiction in all copyright-related matters was perfectly positioned, in this high-profile case, to unravel the intricacies of copyright infringement in the realm of art works under Egyptian law.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MARCH 19, 2024

The Cairo Economic Court, which possesses exclusive jurisdiction in all copyright-related matters was perfectly positioned, in this high-profile case, to unravel the intricacies of copyright infringement in the realm of art works under Egyptian law.

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The IPKat

JULY 9, 2023

Chapter 3 is entitled "Copyright within the street art and graffiti circles". This chapter examines whether street artists and writers are interested in copyright. Would they be prepared to take legal action for copyright infringement if someone exploited or copied one of their works? Both fill the gaps left by the other.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 19, 2023

Goldsmith was whether or not Warhol’s use of Goldsmith’s photograph as a reference and departure point for the creation of an image of Prince constituted fair use or copyright infringement under U.S. copyright law.

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 13, 2022

Although none has reached a resolution, these private civil actions highlight various legal theories of liability that could arise when participating in the NFT market, including claims for copyright infringement, trademark infringement, breach of contract and violations of securities laws. Damon Dash. Roc-A-Fella Records Inc.

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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. ” [1] The best part about a copyright is that its registration is typically inexpensive and straightforward.

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Copyright Lately

OCTOBER 24, 2022

The letter claimed that the director, an ad agency, and a popular theme park had all committed copyright infringement because a panda appeared in the background of their TV commercial. ” incident that results in a published court decision, there are dozens of others that are resolved quickly and quietly out of court.

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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. Scenario 1: Protecting the Work by Copyright. 1] The best part about a copyright is that its registration is typically inexpensive and straightforward.

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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. million USD sale of his “Warrior” painting, which became the most expensive Western artwork sold in Asia. Copyright is a bundle of exclusive rights that protects original expression if that expression is in a material or tangible form.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The Regulations inter alia prohibit public performance, communication, reproduction or broadcasting of a work that is copyright-protected unless one is licensed to do so by the Copyright Office, or is authorised by the owner of the work or it is free to use in accordance with the Copyright Act.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

JUNE 23, 2022

In China’s first copyright infringement case including NFT digital work, a court recently decided. On Bigverse, the plaintiff learned that a user had created and sold a nearly similar NFT digital work to the copyrighted item in dispute, complete with the artist’s Weibo watermark. Background. The ruling of the court.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

JUNE 23, 2022

In China’s first copyright infringement case including NFT digital work, a court recently decided. Background (NFT Copyright). On Bigverse, the plaintiff learned that a user had created and sold a nearly similar NFT digital work to the copyrighted item in dispute, complete with the artist’s Weibo watermark.

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Copyright Lately

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Unfortunately, however, Section 113(c) is like the Generation X of copyright law—it’s remarkably useful, underrated, and largely overlooked—even by copyright lawyers and judges. One of Deadly Doll’s popular designs is a cartoon image of a bikini-clad pin-up girl holding a skull: Deadly Doll’s original artwork.

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Art Law Journal

JUNE 30, 2022

For example, anybody can publish a book about three teenagers who solve magical mysteries at a wizarding school. Although copyright registration is not required, there are several benefits to doing so. To see more on the benefits of copyright registration, see Stop, Thief! How To Win Big In a Copyright Infringement Case.

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Art Law Journal

JUNE 30, 2022

For example, anybody can publish a book about three teenagers who solve magical mysteries at a wizarding school. Although copyright registration is not required, there are several benefits to doing so. To see more on the benefits of copyright registration, see Stop, Thief! How To Win Big In a Copyright Infringement Case.

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