Traverse Legal Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Somewhat related to a claim of copyright infringement (and often preempted by such a claim – more on that later), is the claim for Right of Publicity. California has particularly robust case law on Right of Publicity due to the abundance of celebrities residing within that state, so that jurisdiction is the focus of this blog post.

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IPilogue

AUGUST 26, 2022

Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. If you have ever incorporated music into your Instagram or Facebook videos, you may have committed copyright infringement. In the official pleading , they argued that Meta violated the US Copyright Act 17 USC § 501 for direct, induced, and contributory copyright infringement.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 26, 2021

Welcome to the fourth and final trimester of 2021 round up of EU copyright law! In this series, we update readers every three months on developments in EU copyright law. Stay tuned as a comment on the judgment is coming soon in the blog. Stay tuned as a comment on the study is coming soon in the blog.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

But if you really want Kiwi Farms gone, have you considered using copyright law for its censorial power? Greer sued Moon and Kiwi Farms for contributory copyright infringement and other claims. Direct Infringement. CloudFlare’s block ). The Court Opinion Greer was a target of one of Kiwi Farms’ attacks.

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The IP Law Blog

MAY 5, 2022

When standard approaches failed, a business professor recently turned to copyright law, hoping for a solution. To obtain a subpoena, Berkovitz would have to register his copyrights and file a lawsuit for copyright infringement, which he did. Course Hero declined to provide the information absent a subpoena.

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IPilogue

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Rosemary Nkechi Ogueri is a litigation lawyer and a legal associate at Ogunwale & Associates Law Firm in Nigeria. Copyright infringement is the violation and piracy of an author’s exclusive right through the unauthorized use of a Copyright-protected work. Action for Copyright infringement. CONCLUSION.

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The IP Law Blog

MARCH 2, 2023

Getty Images alleges that Stability’s actions constitute copyright infringement, false copyright management information, removal or alteration of copyright management information, trademark infringement, unfair competition, trademark dilution, and deceptive trade practices under Delaware law.

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Michael Geist

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Canada’s largest media companies, including the Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, Postmedia, CBC, and Canadian Press, came together last week to file a copyright infringement lawsuit against OpenAI, the owners of ChatGPT. First, the Canadian claims are much narrower than those found in other lawsuits such as the NY Times case.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 17, 2024

But it won on a different and, in many respects, much broader legal theory: conflict preemption with copyright law. A Brief Recap on Contract Preemption To appreciate the significance of this opinion, let’s revisit the law of copyright preemption. The Copyright Act includes an express preemption clause, 17 U.S.C. §

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Equally, a significant portion of online material is also likely to contain personal data, and there is likely to be a significant overlap in relation to specific pieces of content which are protected by both copyright law and by data protection law.

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IP and Legal Filings

MAY 30, 2022

A careful step towards ensuring the acquisition of prosperity gained through your work is to copyright it. If infringement is faced, a copyright proprietor can avail many remedies. Some of them include the infringers facing criminal charges. In this blog, all such liabilities are going to be explained.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

The defendant published a bio on Sewell and included one of McDermott’s photos–apparently sourced from an unrelated Instagram account (possibly another infringer, or perhaps that account has a fair use defense?). McDermott, represented by the Sanders Law Group, sued KMC for copyright infringement.

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IPilogue

MAY 26, 2022

Raenelle Manning is an IPilogue Writer and a 2L JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. Moten, a Texas pastor, filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against rapper Kanye West for incorporating a sample recording of his religious sermon into one of his songs. On May 3, 2022, Bishop David P.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Like most copyright systems, French copyright law does not leave much room for the freedom of authors of transformative graphic works (also called “derivative works”). Three interesting cases on derivative works, two involving Jeff Koons and one Tintin, have recently put French copyright law in the international spotlight (e.g.

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Copyright Lately

MARCH 6, 2022

Just days after Dua Lipa was sued by a Florida reggae band, “Levitating” is the target of a second copyright infringement lawsuit, this time over the songs “Wiggle and Giggle All Night” and “Don Diablo.” ” Any moderately successful songwriter can be sued for copyright infringement.

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The IP Law Blog

AUGUST 25, 2022

District Court can exercise personal jurisdiction over a foreign defendant with regard to a copyright infringement suit. Lang Van is a California corporation that produces and distributes Vietnamese music and entertainment, owning the copyrights to thousands of songs and programs. District Court in California.

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The IP Law Blog

JANUARY 21, 2022

He initially sought to certify a single class defined as “[a]ll owners of copyrights and musical compositions registered under United States copyright law, that were reproduced and/or distributed by Defendants without a license since 2003.” Kihn apparently changed the definition of the class he was seeking to represent.

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Can ‘Machine Unlearning’ ensure compliance with copyright laws? The top two entries will be awarded with some cash prizes and also with a chance to be published on the blog! Open AI: Time to Talk About Machine Unlearning Is ANI’s interim injunction, if granted, technically feasible?

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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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The IP Law Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Ross Intelligence Inc will provide guidance for similar AI training/copyright infringement cases and, as a bonus, it provides a bit of clarity (or muddies the waters… depending on your point of view) in the application of a post-Warhol fair use defense. These are the basic facts underlying this lawsuit.

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The IP Law Blog

OCTOBER 22, 2021

In this episode of the Briefing by the IP Law Blog , Scott Hervey and Josh Escovedo discuss a Copyright dispute between professional Basketball player, Terry Rozier III and holiday product manufacturer, Easter Unlimited, over his use of the iconic ghost mask from the horror film, “Scream.”.

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JIPL Online

APRIL 9, 2021

ii] Existing copyright law is ineffective in its application to new forms of digital media. Thus, copyright enforcement mechanisms are out of their league, so to speak, with respect to their application in this new digital world. LAW AND ECONOMICS. Costs Versus Benefits of Copyright Protection.

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IPilogue

OCTOBER 26, 2021

copyright law. It is arguably, as Stanford law professor Mark Lemley coined it, “ the copyright case of the century. ” . It also marks an important accommodation made in copyright law to face the new challenges posed by the booming IT industry. . Supreme Court on October 7, 2020.

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IPilogue

AUGUST 19, 2022

This decision provides added judicial guidance in the UK for defences to copyright infringement for purposes of parody and pastiche. Further, the decision clarifies separation of copyright protection for literary and dramatic works.

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The IP Law Blog

MARCH 23, 2023

The Ninth Circuit recently addressed the issue of whether parties can contractually agree to shorten the statute of limitations period for bringing a copyright infringement claim. Normally, the statute of limitations for a copyright violation is three years. In an unpublished opinion in the case, Evox Productions, LLC v.

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

She graduated from National Law University, Delhi in 2023 & enjoys reading and writing on copyright laws. Hence, through their operational frameworks, the platforms complained of were alleged to infringe the copyright, and broadcasting rights held by Star India. [This post is authored by Tanishka Goswami.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JULY 11, 2022

That copyright was found to have been infringed by the creators of an ‘interactive dining experience’ which used Del Boy and the other main characters from ‘Only Fools and Horses’, one of the most successful British TV comedies of the 1980s and 1990s.

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The IP Law Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2021

The Ninth Circuit was recently asked to determine whether to continue to apply the Circuit’s two-part extrinsic/intrinsic test for “substantial similarity” with regard to a copyright infringement claim or to depart from this approach and apply the Second Circuit’s “ordinary observer” test instead. In Johannsongs-Publishing, Ltd.

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The IP Law Blog

MARCH 3, 2022

Unicolors is the owner of copyrights in various fabric designs, including a 2011 copyright registration that consisted of 31 separate designs. The jury found in Unicolors favor and H&M moved the court for judgment as a matter of law, which the trial court denied. First, the Court looked to the text of 17 U.S.C.

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Akshat Agrawal is a Senior Associate at Saikrishna and Associates and has previously written on the blog here. Sneha is a Partner at Saikrishna and Associates and leads their Artificial Intelligence and Law Practice. ” However, this point was completely missed when evaluating prima facie infringement. Long post ahead. ]

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 17, 2023

¯_(ツ)_/¯ We can infer from this opinion that treatment of Copyright Management Information (“CMI”) will be tricky for generative AI developers. Also, ignoring copyright licenses is at least arguably copyright infringement, and your fair use claim probably won’t get you out of the lawsuit at the motion to dismiss stage.

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The IP Law Blog

APRIL 7, 2022

The Supreme Court granted a petition for writ of certiorari filed by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts that arises from a copyright infringement action filed by photographer Lynn Goldsmith, who took the photos of Prince that were subsequently the subject of Warhol’s allegedly infringing works.

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The IP Law Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2021

The IP Law Blog has been tracking the progress of the copyright infringement lawsuit filed against Taylor Swift by Sean Hall and Nathan Butler, the writers of “Playas Gon’ Play” by the girl group 3LW (released in 2001). (See See “Taylor Swift Keeps Fighting the ‘Players’ and the ‘Haters’” and “Hall v.

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Plagiarism Today

JULY 27, 2021

The reason is that the track has faced not one, but two separate allegations of plagiarism, with many fans and critics alike wondering if the band may have run afoul of copyright law. The composer of Towering Catastrophe , Nakamura Kojo, took to his personal blog and addressed the issue.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2022

However, if such streaming of copyrighted music is done without obtaining license from the copyright holder, then it amounts to copyright infringement. Hence, licensed broadcasting of copyrighted music does not give rise to copyright infringement. In the case of Super Cassettes Industries Pvt.

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IPilogue

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Tianchu Gao is an IPilogue Writer and a 1L JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. . . On March 26, 2021, the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals in New York found that the famed artist Andy Warhol violated photographer Lynn Goldsmith’s copyright by using her photo of the singer Prince to create his “Prince Series.”

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2022

This act is often done without the prior consent or permission of the copyright holder or the photographer of the picture. Thus, the question arises if such use attracts copyright infringement. If the photo taken without any prior consent is edited and used for a commercial benefit, then it might attract copyright infringement.

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