Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

White created “beats” and got copyright registrations for them. White now claims that DistroKid infringed his copyrights to the beats, both directly and indirectly (the court dismissed the indirect claims last year). First, oral copyright licenses are a recipe for trouble. Ugh, so much going wrong here.

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Indiana Intellectual Property Law

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

operating as Fortner Pest Control , for alleged copyright infringement. Over the years, he has filed multiple copyright infringement claims against various parties for unauthorized use of his work (See previous blog posts about these suits here , here , here , and here.). Copyright Office in December 2022.

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Hugh Stephens Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2024

It’s hard for me to believe that it was over 5 years ago that I wrote a couple of blogs on obituary piracy; (The Deadliest Aspects of Copyright and Obituary Piracy Punished: Has Infringement No Bounds?)

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Likelihood of Confusion

SEPTEMBER 21, 2024

Republished by Blog Post PromoterYou’ve heard the tale in one form or another: A bar plays a recorded song over its sound system (without permission), then gets sued for violating the public performance right of the musical composition’s copyright holder. Copyright infringement. It happens. It happens.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 18, 2023

In 2020, publishers Hachette, HarperCollins, John Wiley and Penguin Random House sued the Internet Archive (IA) for copyright infringement, equating its ‘Open Library’ to a pirate site. Mass Copyright Infringement or Fair Use? Not all rightsholders are happy with IA’s scanning and lending activities.

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IPilogue

MAY 4, 2022

You may remember the big music copyright infringement case of 2012 , where Robin Thicke was sued by Marvin Gaye over claims that Thicke’s hit song “Blurred Lines” infringed on Gaye’s “Got to Give It Up”. However, nowadays, it seems that many major artists are frequently being sued for copyright infringement.

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IPilogue

DECEMBER 10, 2021

As part of the course requirements, students were asked to write a blog on a topic of their choice. copyright law, a particularly confusing subject for foreign works published before 1978. copyright law. publications of the translated work, which lacked both registration and copyright notice in Scott-Giles’ name.

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IPilogue

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

However, with the convenience of streaming music through these digital platforms, the music industry has also had to deal with a wide range of copyright issues, including online copyright infringement. New Copyright Law: A Solution for Spotify. Spotify’s Recent Significant Battles. The law was set to take effect in 2021.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Heres what they write: The UKs AI and copyright consultation will data protection law render any commercial TDM exception ineffective? For example, a vocal recording in a musical performance is likely to be protected under copyright law and constitute personal data. What does this mean for the AI and copyright consultation?

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

McDermott kept the copyright to those photo and granted NY Post a license. 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?). The New York Post story.

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Plagiarism Today

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Today, the United States Supreme Court handed down what will likely be one of the most important copyright verdicts in some time as it ruled 6-3 in favor of Unicolors in their long-running dispute against H&M. The dispute centers around a series of alleged infringements by H&M. If you are a U.S.-based

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

The issue is, what is (the copyright implication of retweeting a photo of) chicken? Here is the original retweet as it appears now, reflecting some of Twitter’s product “enhancements” since 2020: Thus, this case raises the issue of whether a retweet can constitute copyright infringement.

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IPilogue

MAY 19, 2022

Justin Bieber and Dan + Shay are next in a line of artists to face allegations of copyright infringement — after Ed Sheeran and Dua Lipa. Music distribution company The Orchard , a subsidiary of Sony , released First Time in 2014, and the original written song had been submitted to the US Copyright Office by Melomega in 1980.

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Plagiarism Today

JULY 8, 2021

If @GitHub (Microsoft) truly believes copilot isn't infringing on anyone's work, I want to offer them a chance to prove it: I'll donate $50k to a charity of their choice (or @EFF if we can't agree) if they release a Copilot version trained solely on Windows kernel source. Is the code very similar to earlier existing code?

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IPilogue

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Copyright infringement is the violation and piracy of an author’s exclusive right through the unauthorized use of a Copyright-protected work. Section 15 (1) (a)-(g) of the Copyright Act, C28, Laws of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (“LFN”), 2004 , provides several acts that amount to copyright infringement in Nigeria.

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Plagiarism Today

JULY 21, 2022

1: Lofi Girl Disappeared from YouTube and Reignited Debate Over Bogus Copyright Claims. First off today, Kai Mcnamee and Michael Levitt at NPR reports that the popular YouTube channel Lofi Girl was briefly taken offline due to what is being described as false copyright claims. Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday.

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The IPKat

AUGUST 11, 2021

IPKat readers interested in copyright are well aware of how, over the past several years, the right of communication to the public has gained a top spot in litigation and case law. 3(1) of the Copyright Directive ).

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

However, in 2022, the Sheeran found himself engaged in another copyright infringement litigation over the said song. This time around, the singer was accused of infringing a 2015 song named “Oh Why” sung by Sami Chokri. The post Ed Sheeran’s Copyright Infringement Battles appeared first on Biswajit Sarkar Blog.

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IPilogue

AUGUST 26, 2022

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. The Infringement.

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IPilogue

DECEMBER 7, 2021

As part of the course requirements, students were asked to write a blog on a topic of their choice. There is no copyright in facts and historical events; however, writers can claim copyright in their letters if they are sufficiently original. It is common practice for jockeys to equip horses with blinders.

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IPilogue

MAY 26, 2022

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. To incorporate a sound recording into a new musical work, artists must obtain “clearance” or permission from the copyright holder. Both suits were settled.

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Copyright Alliance

AUGUST 31, 2023

This is the third and final edition of our blog on insightful movie copyright cases for film and TV industry professionals. Part 1 of the blog addressed copyright infringement and […] The post Movie Copyright Cases Filmmakers Should Know: Part 3, Copyright Authorship appeared first on Copyright Alliance.

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IPilogue

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Copyright Infringement? . By using and copying Pearson’s original creative content to make answer sets based on that content, Chegg infringes Pearson’s exclusive rights as a copyholder, including the rights of reproduction, preparation of derivative works, and distribution.” . Code, subsection 101 , states: . “ Under the U.S.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 30, 2025

It’s been a busy two weeks for copyright and AI cases. March 18, 2025) This case involved the completely AI-generated work, “A Recent Entrance to Paradise”: The copyright applicant, Thaler, disclaimed any human involvement in the work’s creation. The district court ruled it wasn’t copyrightable.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Last week, an Illinois jury awarded tattoo artist Catherine Alexander $3,750 in damages at the conclusion of a copyright infringement trial. Aaron Moss has a thoughtful breakdown of the court’s seeming mishandling of the Alexander case at Copyright Lately. by guest blogger Aaron Perzanowski , University of Michigan Law School.

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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. If infringement is faced, a copyright proprietor can avail many remedies. Some of them include the infringers facing criminal charges.

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IPilogue

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Is there such a thing as “inducing” copyright infringement? Indeed, the court thought that inducing infringement, which to date had been considered wrong only in respect of patents, applied to all forms of intellectual property (“IP”). So is the Court’s view, that inducing copyright or IP infringement is indeed a Thing, sound?

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Intepat

DECEMBER 5, 2024

As digital spaces grow in popularity, so do the stakes around intellectual property, particularly copyright. Copyright governs the rights of creators over their digital works, ensuring they are protected from unauthorized use. For instance, who holds the copyright to a virtual item collaboratively created by multiple avatars?

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Greenspoon Marder LLP

JULY 18, 2022

Sedlik’s copyrighted image of jazz artist Miles Davis as a basis for a tattoo, she probably never thought about the legal consequences beyond making sure she complied with health and safety codes. The post Kat Von D Tattoo Copyright Infringement Suit – A Permanent Mistake? By: Sharon Urias, Esq.

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IPilogue

AUGUST 16, 2022

On April 5 th 2022, the Federal Court released its decision for August Image LLC v AirG Inc , a copyright infringement action concerning images of singer-actress, Jennifer Lopez. However, the Court ultimately dismissed August’s case because they failed to prove all the necessary elements of copyright infringement.

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Plagiarism Today

APRIL 7, 2022

It deals with whether Amazon and/or CCA infringed FDN’s copyrights by scraping descriptions from their website for use as part of Amazon’s product listings. It’s a confusing question with no easy answer, but it’s an issue that puts the copyright registration of every website at risk. The Registration Wrinkle.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Over the past several years we’ve covered dozens of copyright troll cases against tens of thousands of alleged copyright infringers. Outfits that target blogs and other websites for using photos without permission, for example. The definition of the term ‘copyright troll’ is fluid.

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IPilogue

OCTOBER 26, 2021

The decade-long dispute between Google and Oracle over computer code’s copyrightability finally came to an end on April 5, 2021. copyright law. It is arguably, as Stanford law professor Mark Lemley coined it, “ the copyright case of the century. ” . Photo by Intepat ( INTEPAT ).

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

(This post has been co-authored with SpicyIP Intern Aditi Agrawal and Bharathwaj Ramakrishnan) Here is our recap of last weeks top IP developments including summary of the posts on taking stock of ANI vs OpenAI copyright litigation (Part I and II), and Machine Unlearning and the ANI vs OpenAI case. Anything we are missing out on?

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SpicyIP

APRIL 18, 2025

Inox India Limited and Others , Aditya Bhargava discusses the jurisprudence on the difference between copyright and industrial designs and the two-pronged test to distinguish between the two intellectual properties adopted by the Court in this case. Inox India Ltd.

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Intepat

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Yet, the rapid rise of podcasting has left many creators overlooking critical legal considerations specific copyright licensing. This article explores the essentials of copyright licensing in podcasting, debunks common myths, examines relevant case laws, and provides actionable steps to ensure compliance while maintaining creative freedom.

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JD Supra Law

AUGUST 27, 2024

This blog involves a unique approach being used by a Hawaii law firm to seek to uncover the name, address, email address, MAC address and other information about alleged copyright infringers. The firm is using a DMCA 512(h) subpoena to seek to uncover this information.

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