IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 16, 2024

Introduction Controlled Digital Lending (“ CDL ”) in context of book lending became a buzzword during the pandemic period when the physical access of libraries was not possible. This rule covers lending digital copies of copyrighted works, while works in the public domain can be freely digitized.

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The IPKat

APRIL 11, 2023

We are sorry to let you know that Book Depository will be closing on 26 April 2023 You can still place orders until midday (12pm BST) on 26 April 2023 and we will continue to deliver your purchases and provide support for any order issues until 23 June 2023. From all of us at Book Depository we want to say “thank you". So yesterday.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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IP and Legal Filings

MAY 3, 2023

Originality is the quality that distinguishes produced or invented works from copies, clones, forgeries, or derivative works by being new or novel. Eventually, a publication featuring sixteen of the forty-two matriculation papers was released by the University Tutorial Publishing Limited. specialised in regional phone directories.

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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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Velocity of Content

JANUARY 22, 2025

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella recently compared AI training to human learning, suggesting that AI should be able to do the same if humans can learn from books without copyright implications. When humans read books, we do not make copies of themwe understand and internalize concepts.

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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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Michael Geist

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

The course packs were copied and typically sold as an alternative to course textbooks. Copyright lobby groups and their supporters have long claimed that the practice relies on fair dealing and that universities are profiting from copying without compensation. of the pages assigned to students.

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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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IIPRD

MARCH 5, 2025

Previously, the book used to be seen in the name of the program emcee, but now, it is the opposite of that trend in America, where stricter regulations would appear to come into play. Who owns the right to copy-authors, the programmer, the user, or the transmitter commissioning the work?

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2023

His defense is that the work he used was free for all; after his victory, that work remains in the public domain for others to build upon. The increase in sales was found to be stronger for less popular books and even spilled over to a digitized author’s nondigitized works Keyword Ads * Cohen v.

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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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SpicyIP

MAY 22, 2022

Do you remember drawing in the corner of flip-books and watching it magically become an animated series when you flip the pages? Akira: ( emphatically ) In fact, if we think about it as a ‘means of production’, how do we account for the vast amount of knowledge that currently exists in the public domain and in the commons.

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Velocity of Content

JANUARY 15, 2025

Here are some common examples, and why they could be potentially infringing: Sharing copies of a scientific article with colleagues on your team. Copyright applies to all copies. a journal article or book) but also the individual components, including figures, charts, tables, and images.

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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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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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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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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

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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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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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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SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The Court, however, disagreed with the Defendant’s argument holding that there was no information available in the public domain for the Plaintiff to reach at the above conclusion regarding relations between the Defendants. Comedian Vir Das, Netflix booked for copyright infringement. Hindustan Unilever Limited v.

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IIPRD

JANUARY 23, 2023

Amazon was originally construed as an internet retailer or manufacturer of goods ranging from books, houseware, utility products, clothing to many varied ranges of products. Patent are valid for the duration of 20 years before coming into public domain) Patent infringement can occur in two ways.

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