Dear Rich IP Blog

JUNE 19, 2021

Speaking of the public domain, the Public Domain Review has an informative essay (“ The Mark of the Beast ”) about the first anti-vaxxers Dear Rich: I wish to reproduce photographs from a website. I want to use them in a book I've written. The site itself is being deliberately obtuse about answering questions.

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Dear Rich IP Blog

AUGUST 18, 2020

I have used public domain quotes within the novel (from Aristotle, Lincoln, etc.), but because the world of the novel is not Earth, I claim the quotes are from some nonexistent book that fits in the novel's world. Dear Rich: I have just finished writing a fantasy novel. Is this hinky? Your suggested use is not hinky.

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Dear Rich IP Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2020

These photos are in the public domain and free for anyone to copy. You can't register your report with the Copyright Office unless you declare whether your book contains pre-existing works. You can't claim copyright in photos published before 1925 or in unpublished photos taken by photographers who died before 1950.

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The IPKat

APRIL 8, 2022

Nosferatu was a 1922 adaption (just how much was the subject of the copyright challenge to the movie) of the wildly popular 1897 book by Bram Stoker — Dracula. But the Stoker book did not emerge from a creative tabula rasa. The first modern vampire book — The Vampyre , was written by John Polidori in 1819. blood) of the living.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 17, 2022

On January 1, 2022, copyrighted works from 1926 will enter the US public domain. That means that anyone can copy, share, and build upon that work , but it doesn’t mean the public can do the same for things that are already derived from the original. Well, the first Winnie-the-Pooh book from A.

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Copyright Lately

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

In last week’s ruling in Hachette Book Group, Inc. Internet Archive (read the opinion here) , the court dealt a decisive blow to the Internet Archive, ruling that its practice of scanning and lending digital copies of books doesn’t qualify as fair use under the Copyright Act.

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Copyright Lately

APRIL 30, 2021

version of the book credited Scott-Giles for the maps and diagrams he specially drew for the edition, but didn’t contain a copyright notice. The 1949 English-language publication of Dante’s “Inferno” was first published in the U.K. While the version of Sayers’ book published in the U.K. version did.

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The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

This is a book review of “ Harmonizing Intellectual Property Law for a Trans-Atlantic Knowledge Economy ”, edited by Péter Mezei, Hannibal Travis, and Anett Pogácsás. This model addresses the legal public domain status of both physical and intangible AI creations and inventions. A meow-velous cover!

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

They accuse OpenAI of using books as training data, without permission, relying on datasets that were sourced from pirate sites. These accusations and claims largely rely on the suspicion that OpenAI used hundreds of thousands of copyrighted books as training material.

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Copyright Lately

OCTOBER 25, 2021

You can always get drunk and order random stuff on Amazon curl up with a scary book or Halloween-themed movie, game or music video that’s found its way into copyright history. As the story goes, they provided him with a copy of a few scenes from “Ghostbusters” in which the theme would appear. Skully Curly.

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IP Close Up

DECEMBER 20, 2022

He is also on a mission to keep the content he and others create out of the public domain. Mark Helprin is a successful novelist. Continue reading.

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IPilogue

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

The real-life tax company “Liberty Tax” claims that the show copied its logo and style, including the Statue of Liberty, which is a frequent identifier of the company. The fictitious business is run by Betsy and Craig Kettleman, who embezzle money by taking advantage of their clients who do not understand the tax system.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 4, 2024

The list of complainants includes record labels, book authors, visual artists, and newspapers, including the New York Times. — A copy of OpenAI’s request to compel The New York Times to share the requested information is available here (pdf). This also includes other disputed requests.

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Dear Rich IP Blog

JUNE 20, 2023

Despite the publication date, I can't tell if this book is in the US public domain. I have a recent UK copy of the book, and it has no copyright notice. But the book is also not in Google Books or Gutenberg, which leads me to believe it's still under US copyright.

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The IPKat

AUGUST 23, 2022

Perhaps the most difficult aspect of the move was dealing with his book collection. And, as long as it does, the library owner will face the challenge of dealing with the stark reality that while copyright may protect book contents at the incorporeal level, books only have personal meaning in their three-dimensional, physical context.

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Copyright Lately

APRIL 3, 2023

book publishers, rejecting the Internet Archive’s argument that its practice of scanning and lending digital copies of books qualifies as fair use under the Copyright Act. When the electronic version is “checked out,” the physical copy is taken out of circulation. At least, that’s the theory.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Last month, the Danish Rights Alliance was the first group to claim a major victory on the takedown front, by removing a copy of the controversial Books3 AI training dataset from the web. The plaintext collection of 196,640 books, which is nearly 37GB in size, was used to train several AI models, including Meta’s.

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IP and Legal Filings

MAY 3, 2024

Copyright Law Copy Right is a legal concept that gives creators exclusive rights over their original works and allows them to control the use and distribution of those works. Once the period expires, the program enters the public domain and is free for all users. This situation brings new challenges to legal protection.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 22, 2021

It foresaw both registration of the work at the Copyright Office, deposit of copies, attachment of a copyright claim (© [year of first publication] by [name of owner of rights]), and, in certain cases, manufacture of the copies within the country.

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SpicyIP

APRIL 24, 2022

Today, IP means and may include anything ranging from a comic book to a mobile chip, to a movie name, to software, to a famous chicken , or even one’s fame. For e.g., copyright does not actually protect a particular physical copy of the book or its pdf file, rather, it protects what lies inside it. . raised eyebrows ).

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Velocity of Content

DECEMBER 6, 2023

In sectors such as science, news, and book publishing, poor quality AI materials can generate bad science, promote misinformation, and lead to harmful results. Significant amounts of content are also available through the public domain. 2021) (downloading and copying of Westlaw database for the purpose of training AI).]

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IP and Legal Filings

MAY 13, 2024

[Image Sources: Shutterstock] Basic understanding of Copyright Copyright is a legal theory that provides artists complete ownership over their creative works, preventing unauthorised use and copying. This means that using the protected work requires prior consent from its creator.

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SpicyIP

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

He is also the co-author of two books- “Create, Copy, Disrupt: India’s Intellectual Property Dilemmas” (OUP, 2017) and “The Truth Pill: The Myth of Drug Regulation in India” (Simon and Schuster India, 2022). Prashant is an advocate and one of our most prolific bloggers (His posts can be accessed here ).

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 2, 2023

Do these creations belong to the artists or the public domain? Copyright Office took a stance against generative-AI works, cancelling a copyright claim by author Kris Kashtanova for comic book images made with the aid of Midjourney. s advertisement for hats, copying Sarony’s Oscar Wilde No. By guest blogger Prof.

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Copyright Lately

DECEMBER 15, 2024

influencers Sydney Nicole Gifford and Alyssa Sheil are squaring off in court over who copied whose minimalist aesthetic on social media. These are textbook examples of scnes faire stock elements common to a genrethat lack the originality required for robust copyright protection in the absence of virtually identical copying.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

AUGUST 3, 2023

books, articles, poems), artistic works (e.g., After the expiration of the copyright term, the work enters the public domain, and anyone can use it without seeking permission. The specimen copies of the work should be sent in physical form.

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IP Whiteboard

JULY 19, 2020

Public Resource Org ( PRO ), a non-profit organisation that facilitates public access to government records and legal materials, distributed for free and without authorisation, copies of the OCGA and its annotations. PRO counterclaimed seeking declaratory judgment that the entire OCGA was in the public domain.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 17, 2023

For the last few months, I have been wondering if our belief in “fair dealing” (or broadly, “limitations and exceptions”) has silently slipped into our “faith” in it – a faith that demands complete surrender to it while blinding us to the harm it covertly causes to the public domain. However, was that ever the case? Or, as Prof.

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SpicyIP

MARCH 27, 2023

The Court allowed the application and permitted the plaintiff to place the additional documents on record as despite the documents being available in the public domain at the time of filing of the suit, the need for filing the aforesaid documents arose only on account of the stand taken by the defendants in the written statement.

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IP and Legal Filings

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The audit of banking companies books of accounts calls for additional. which the books have been audited and any other observations to be brought to the. which the books have been audited and any other observations to be brought to the. Bank of India with a copy to the banking company. banking companies as well.

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 16, 2023

and Sumathi Chandrashekaran, in their book ‘Create, Copy, Disrupt: India’s Intellectual Property Dilemmas’ (p.120-121) [access various texts of the Berne Convention here ]. Although the original bill largely fell in line with the 1914 Act and the Berne Convention, Prashant Reddy T.

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Copyright Lately

AUGUST 2, 2022

Fan sites prompted by a book or film, for example, may benefit the copyright owner. Copyright owners should be able to defend their works against substantial unauthorized copying used for profit. For now, suffice it to say that Barlow & Bear haven’t exactly dedicated their musical to the public domain. Petrella v.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 20, 2023

A “derivative work” is defined as a “a work based upon one or more preexisting works,” such as the movie version of a book, “or any other form in which a work may be recast, transformed, or adapted.” For obvious reasons, the copyright in a photograph does not include the right to publicly perform the copyrighted work. (For

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 22, 2024

The domain of copyright deals with the literary, musical, dramatic, and artistic works, and cinematograph films. Before the digital era, copyright protected tangible art or works, allowing authors to easily regulate usage, copies, and earnings.

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SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Therefore, takedown orders cannot be directed against infringing copy of content hosted on OTT platforms. A complaint has to be filed by the copyright owner or member of the public. This could lead to a regime where each intermediary has to pre-screen the content being uploaded as to whether it is an infringing copy or not.

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Dragons' Den

APRIL 6, 2023

The duo were clearly aware how important it is to look at what registered IP you can get early into your product development phase before it’s in the public domain. It can really help with getting funding as well as deterring and/or stopping competitors from copying your product. A patent will last 20 years.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

Carys Craig, Copyright & Gender: Philosophy, Proof & Praxis Book chapter: research agenda for feminist copyright. Lunney: benefits of © system may also include consumption of © works: attending theater, buying albums, books. Looking at post-1978, 9 th , 2d, and 6 th Cir (Motown) and SCt; copying and use without license.

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