Copyright Alliance

JANUARY 23, 2024

To date, the vast majority of training content, whether books or blogs or songs or images, has been scraped from the web […] The post Facilitating Efficient and Effective Copyright Licensing for AI appeared first on Copyright Alliance. AI models have an almost insatiable appetite for content.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2022

2K Games rejected similar infringement claims on the basis of de minimis use, implied license, and fair use. Equally importantly, the court failed to provide the jury with instructions on two other defenses—waiver and implied license. The implied license argument is particularly important here. An appeal in Alexander v.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 18, 2025

With respect to the Jordan video, I assume the video was infringing when uploaded to Twitter, which is why a license argument wouldn’t work. Those licenses were explicitly and unambiguously laid out in YouTube’s Terms of Service, and the sublicense clearly extends to embedding the video.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 17, 2023

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. documents, or other files”, a definition that necessarily comprises source code, and hence the Licensed Materials. (As Complaint at 2.

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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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IP and Legal Filings

MAY 15, 2024

Intellectual Property License is an agreement between the owner of the Intellectual Property and the party to whom the rights are being given in exchange for a fee or royalty. The present article looks into a comprehensive landscape of Limited License. The IP Owner and the third party are the licensor and the licensee respectively.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2022

This article provides a brief overview of the use of Creative Commons licensing in relation to NFTs based on the Creative Commons’ FAQ page linked above. Creative Commons Licensing. In their blog post , CC have effectively warned readers that many people misunderstand what a CC licence actually means.

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Plagiarism Today

JULY 27, 2021

The composer of Towering Catastrophe , Nakamura Kojo, took to his personal blog and addressed the issue. However, this turned out to be more of a licensing than a traditional plagiarism issue. The most likely cause for this similarity was simply Garcia using either the same or a very similar melody to the one he licensed to Luca.

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IP and Legal Filings

JULY 24, 2023

Introduction Shutterstock is a global provider of licensed images, videos, audio and editing tools, that has revolutionized the way visual content can be accessed and used. Content creators contribute their work to the platform, making it available for licensing, while end users can easily browse, license and utilize them.

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Plagiarism Today

MAY 18, 2022

These articles come from a variety of sources including publishing blogs , sites that help those that run churches and even sites that help photographers enforce their images. In addition, there are concerns that many stock photography sites provide limited licenses to users and many unwittingly overstep them.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Similarly, this blog post is protected as a literary work under copyright law, but also contains personal data about us as its authors, including for example our names and where we work. For example, a vocal recording in a musical performance is likely to be protected under copyright law and constitute personal data.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

APRIL 22, 2024

The jury needed only 90 minutes to determine that the defendants had proven their implied license defense, ending the case. Due to the fact-specific nature of doctrines like implied licenses and fair use, it’s possible the Hayden and Orton jury verdicts are consistent with each other. Case citation : Hayden v. 2K Games, Inc. ,

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Michael Geist

DECEMBER 3, 2024

It has already entered into licensing agreements with several content creators, including other news media organizations.” Instead, they point to how much they have produced or licensed with the assumption that it is all scraped by OpenAI. The claims that are alleged will face some significant headwinds.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MARCH 4, 2025

Photo by Luke Southern from Unsplash Background This blog post follows a previous post that discussed what constitutes open source AI, in particular in light of the EU AI Act. In the past two years, tech giants such as Meta and OpenAI released their AI models under self-certified open licenses. Restrictive licensing terms.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 22, 2023

We also have at least three cases of unauthorized use of art, one for musical composition, one for broadcasting at an establishment without a license. Guest Blog Post–Part 1 of 3) appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. This is what was expected with the CCB. You can download by type of document).

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Likelihood of Confusion

FEBRUARY 8, 2025

Originally posted 2015-02-24 13:39:38.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 13, 2024

a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license”), and there is no allegation that it was corrupted, changed, or deleted. The post Elon Musk’s Gifts to Web Scrapers (Guest Blog Post) appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. The data that CCDH accessed does not belong to X Corp., see Kaplan Decl.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 17, 2024

While this conflict might seem minor (X’s users, after all, are not in the business of granting scraping licenses), the next one was not: Fair use. Bright Data is the Decision We’ve Been Waiting For (Guest Blog Post) appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. The post X Corp.

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SpicyIP

AUGUST 1, 2024

On July 12, 2024, the Delhi High Court (DHC) issued two orders in a matter involving a dispute between Phonographic Performance Limited (PPL) and Al-Hamd Tradenation concerning interim injunctions and compulsory licensing (CL). PPL had informed Al-Hamd through the restaurant that a license was required for the use of these recordings.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2023

McGucken is a professional photographer who has appeared on the blog before. He claims that third party “contributors” uploaded his copyrighted photos to ShutterStock as part of ShutterStock’s licensing program. In total, those licenses generated $2,131 in revenues, split between the contributor and ShutterStock.

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IPilogue

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

In a landmark development , Novartis has signed a Voluntary Licensing Agreement with the Medicine Patent Pool (MPP) for its nilotinib drug, used in treating Chronic Myeloid Leukemia (CML) in adults and children as young as a year old.

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 27, 2025

This blog seeks to examine the relationship between AI and IPR and identify critical areas of discussion, conflict, and appropriate strategy within the expanding rubric. Enhanced Enforcement Mechanisms: Just like any other digital content, licensing requirements can be monitored using progressive technologies, including blockchain.

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Velocity of Content

DECEMBER 14, 2023

After all, many kinds of published literature, including news, blogs, books, journals, and standards — including the organizations’ own materials — are protected by copyright laws that place limits on how content can be used by others without the rightsholder’s permission. How Do Different Departments Use the Annual Copyright License?

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Rather, the quoted language came from an SDNY decision ( Tommy Hilfiger Licensing, Inc. The post Hot Take on the Wavy Baby Decision (Guest Blog Post) appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. .’” (The Second Circuit provides the following citation for the quote: “ Id. at 156 (citation omitted)”).

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JD Supra Law

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

This post is part of MoFos 2025 Intersection of AI and Life Sciences blog series. In this blog series, we explore how artificial intelligence is revolutionizing research, innovation, and patient care in the life sciences.

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SpicyIP

MARCH 26, 2025

Section 3(k) has been subject to great debate and discussion in the blog. Some of the cases that find mention in the draft have been subject to detailed discussion in the blog, which include Ferid Allani vs Union of India , Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc vs The Assistant Controller Of Patents And Designs , OpenTv Inc.

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Nelligan Law

JANUARY 24, 2024

Now, let’s delve into the legal galaxy of licensing. “Spaceballs” undertakes a delicate dance in the licensing arena, where the gravitational pull of intellectual property laws is a formidable force. The post The Legal Ballet of Parody and Licensing in Spaceballs appeared first on Nelligan Law.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 28, 2023

Guest Blog Post) appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. What is certain is that companies whose business rely on scraping will continue to seek out courts that will embrace the 9th Circuit language that suggests that public data is fair game for all. The post After hiQ Labs, Is Scraping Public Data Legal?

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SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

This blog post will explore these decisions and question their implications considering transparency and public interest in copyright governance. IPRS is a copyright society which is responsible for licensing and managing rights on behalf of music composers, publishers, and authors. Do Copyright Societies Fall Under the RTI Act?

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

McDermott kept the copyright to those photo and granted NY Post a license. McDermott had not actually licensed the photo to anyone else to set a baseline license fee. KMC appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. The New York Post story.

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Intepat

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Key Copyright Procedures for Business Owners Licensing and Permissions To legally use a copyrighted book or portions of it, permission from the copyright owner is required. This is usually done through a licensing agreement , which specifies the permitted use. Contact them directly or through licensing agencies.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 29, 2023

The Final Determination notes that Oppenheimer feels entitled to a licensing fee, even though he has not sold this photograph, and suggests that he is entitled to $2,775 a year for the use of the photograph. We also get the declaration of his daughter, Mariana Prutton, who is a licensed marriage and therapy counselor in California.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 5, 2024

Voyager (Guest Blog Post) appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. Going forward, the what, when, where, how, and why of data access and data use will determine who prevails. The post Facebook Makes Some Progress Against a Scraper–Meta v.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 2, 2024

For one, it’s a significant case that deals with many of the issues that have arisen in some of the other cases I’ve blogged about on this site, but it’s in Delaware, not in the Northern District of California. Sometimes, when we blog these technology cases, we act as if the law in California is the law everywhere. The post Ryanair v.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 4, 2025

At issue in this case is whether Viral DRM obtains ownership or exclusive licensing rights to the third-party videos it syndicates. The court says that Viral DRM’s exclusive “management” rights is not the same as ownership or an exclusive license to the copyright. Case Citation : Viral DRM LLC v. Seven West Media Ltd.,

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

The Points Guy (Guest Blog Post) appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. It will be interesting to see if we get clarity from this case that we didn’t from Van Buren. The post Airline Sues to Stop Popular Web-Scraping Service–American Airlines v.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

The post Facebook Drops Anti-Scraping Lawsuit Against Bright Data (Guest Blog Post) appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog.

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