TorrentFreak

MARCH 19, 2022

Someone on the internet has breached Watch Tower’s copyrights and, as a result, their true names and addresses should be handed over so that the group can seek remedy for infringement. However, Watch Tower is still pursuing a parallel copyright infringement lawsuit against McFree in another court. Watch Tower doesn’t care.

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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. On May 3, 2022, Bishop David P.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 30, 2022

The district court granted Mic’s motion to dismiss on fair use grounds. In a memo opinion, the Second Circuit affirms the fair use motion to dismiss. Nature of the Use. any copyright lawyer with any expertise should not file a case where the answer is so obvious). Case Citation : Yang v.

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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. Doubts About the Copyright Claims The copyright claims themselves will face a stiff challenge.

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SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

on text data mining and its interpretation as an exception to allegations of copyright infringement, SpicyIP Fellowship applicant Tanishka Goswami highlights the key findings of the Court and explores the probable lessons for Indian policymakers in harmonizing copyright with AI and innovation. Her previous post can be accessed here.

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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 article included multiple photos of Sewell, including the photo in question , and the Post apparently liked the image so much that they used a portion of the photo as the background for the newspaper cover that day (see screenshot at right).

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Plagiarism Today

JULY 8, 2021

However, others, including Julia Reda, a former Pirate Party MEP, published a blog post claiming that it isn’t. She says that text and data mining is not a copyright infringement and that, since an AI cannot produce a copyright-protected work, its output cannot be an infringement. Is it so short that its use is a fair use?

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Art Law Journal

JULY 31, 2020

Knowing more about copyright and fair use will help you determine what is yours to use and what is off limits. Nicole Martinez.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Ross case, because he reverses himself on numerous points (all in favor of the copyright owner). I have multiple problems with the ruling: 1) I disagree that individual headnotes each can be copyrightable. The headnotes are oftenjust a sentence or two, which ordinarily is too short to merit copyright protection.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 3, 2022

Bell has separately registered a copyright in the passage. Bell has filed at least 25 copyright lawsuits. The school moved to dismiss on fair use grounds, and the district court granted the motion and awarded attorneys’ fees to the school. (I Nature of the Use. Bell published a short book in 1982.

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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. 2K Games rejected similar infringement claims on the basis of de minimis use, implied license, and fair use. by guest blogger Aaron Perzanowski , University of Michigan Law School.

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Copyright Alliance

AUGUST 29, 2023

In the previous iteration of this blog (Part 1), we presented several movie copyright cases addressing the issues of copyright infringement and copyrightability.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Thiccc Boy then sued for copyright infringement. The court finds fair use. Purpose and Character of Use. “the allegedly infringing videos undisputedly commented on the quality of the discussion in the copyrighted works.” Swindelles admittedly duplicated the copyrighted videos’ full frames.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

They write: Nearly half of the respondents (43.1%) were unwilling to take on any financial risk, even in a hypothetical scenario contingent on a confident fair use while most of the rest (43.8%) were only comfortable with a risk level below $10,000. Among these scholars confident of fair-use, only 3.3% About 71% of U.S.

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Copyright Alliance

APRIL 13, 2023

Fair use and AI has been a popular topic recently given the flurry of developments to generative AI systems. As discussed in the first installation of this blog, it is […] The post How Existing Fair Use Cases Might Apply to AI appeared first on Copyright Alliance.

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43(B)log

DECEMBER 27, 2022

I received a DMCA notice for my wooden puzzle blog! It was a review of Unidragon's Alluring Fox (332 pieces). Google instead directs me to Lumen to look up the notice, but Lumen doesn't seem to have posted it yet, so that's a tad frustrating.

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The IP Law Blog

JULY 9, 2021

They provide a recap of last week’s episode , which covers the Second Circuit decision in favor of Goldsmith, the photographer whose image Warhol used to create the Prince Portraits, and the holding that Warhol’s renditions were not transformative enough to be fair use. Watch the episode on YouTube at this link.

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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

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Larry Philpot is a repeat copyright plaintiff. We’ve blogged some of his cases before ( 1 , 2 ), including the lower court ruling in this case. This is what I call a “commercial editorial use”–ad-supported editorial content. 6, 2024) The post Fourth Circuit Issues a Bummer Fair Use Ruling–Philpot v.

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Kashishipr

MAY 25, 2021

A blog is like any other creative work of literature manifested in a different form. Due to creative and original use of expressions, blogs are deemed to be counted as private property for which Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) can be sought. Copyright and Blogs. Alternatives to Seeking Copyright Protection.

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IPilogue

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

For fifty years, the Copyright Society of the USA (CSUSA) has invited numerous esteemed figures to present the annual Donald C. This past Monday, Osgoode’s very own Professor David Vaver delivered the 2021 Brace lecture on “User Rights: Fair Use and Beyond” as the series’ very first international speaker from outside the United States.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 31, 2025

The Centre for Intellectual Property Research and Advocacy [CIPRA] of Symbiosis Law School, Hyderabad is organizing its first blog writing competition in collaboration with us on the theme of Literature, Journalism and IP. The top two entries will be awarded with some cash prizes and also with a chance to be published on the blog!

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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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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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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 19, 2024

and Morford sued him for copyright infringement. The works at issue (Morford’s on the left, Cattelan’s on the right): I could teach an entire semester’s Copyright class around this one case. It seems more likely that Cattelan heard the idea and decided to riff on it–something copyright law permits.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Instead, she gets a 12(b)(6) dismissal based on fair use. Purpose and Character of Use. Implications This case generally sidesteps the interesting issues involving tattoos and copyrights, but the ruling does have tattoo-specific elements. A fair use win on a motion to dismiss is a good candidate for a 505 fee shift.

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Intepat

DECEMBER 25, 2024

While the raw data within a database may not be eligible for copyright protection, the originality involved in selecting, organizing, or arranging the data can bring a database under the scope of copyright law. This article explores the scope of database protection, focusing on the concept of originality and its role in copyright law.

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The IP Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Copyright protection automatically attaches to a work when it is created. Specifically, copyright protection attaches to the original, creative work when it is fixed in a tangible medium, such as when it is written, drawn, recorded digitally, or typed electronically. Posting copyrighted images or photos on your website or social media.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

Prior blog post. Videogames featured Orton and his tattoos, and Alexander sued for copyright infringement. The denial of fair use stands, but the damages get zeroed out. Fair Use Nature of Use “Defendants’ use of the tattoos was clearly commercial.” ” Really? Warner Bros.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 2, 2022

Can tattoos infringe copyrights, and if yes, what remedies are appropriate? Even so, the court’s almost-banal treatment of this super-interesting topic suggests that there may not be much tattoo exceptionalism in copyright law. Nature of Use. This factor weighs against fair use. Background. Market Effect.

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Copyright Alliance

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

In part one of this blog, we looked at a number of photography and documentary film copyright cases that have been decided since the Andy Warhol Foundation v. Goldsmith opinion was […] The post Fair Use in a Post-Warhol World: Part II appeared first on Copyright Alliance.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

This post looks back at the key developments in AI and copyright in 2022, covering generative AI, text and data mining exceptions, the pastiche exception, deep fakes, voice cloning and infringement and enforcement of copyright using AI. Very few jurisdictions expressly provide for copyright in computer-generated works.

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Intepat

JANUARY 10, 2025

Introduction Copyright law plays a crucial role in regulating the distribution and protection of creative works, but its impact is not uniform across the world. In the Global South, the challenges posed by copyright law are particularly significant, often hindering access to knowledge and limiting opportunities for development.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 9, 2023

TLDR Generative AI is one of the hot topics in copyright law today. In the EU, a crucial legal issue is whether using in-copyright works to train generative AI models is copyright infringement or falls under existing text and data mining (TDM) exceptions in the Copyright in Digital Single Market (CDSM) Directive.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JANUARY 9, 2023

As we enter a new year, we would like to take this opportunity to pass on our best wishes for 2023 to all of our readers, as well as reflect on developments in copyright over the past year. Goldsmith: The Supreme Court Revisits Transformative Fair Uses by Pamela Samuelson. Andy Warhol Foundation v. Acuff-Rose Music, Inc.,

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Copyright Alliance

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

In May of last year, the Supreme Court handed down its much-anticipated fair use decision in Andy Warhol Foundation v. Goldsmith (referred to as Warhol throughout this blog). At the […] The post Fair Use in a Post-Warhol World: Part I appeared first on Copyright Alliance.

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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 ). Oracle appealed successfully.

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