Velocity of Content

MARCH 16, 2023

One core concept in AI-relevant cases that both find for, and against, fair use ( Google Books and Fox v. Transformative use” is not mentioned in Section 107 of the Copyright Act but has been read into the first of four fair use factors. I speculated that this was an attempt to avoid a messy fair use dispute.

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 20, 2023

With further ado, here’s what I found in Novembers: Database Protection in India: Since Prof Basheer’s 2005 post about the inaccurate implication of the theft of data as copyright infringement, to 2023, not much seems to have changed. Speaking of late movie stars, one may wonder about the posthumous enforcement of celebrity rights.

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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.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Three interesting cases on derivative works, two involving Jeff Koons and one Tintin, have recently put French copyright law in the international spotlight (e.g. a remake or an adaptation of a book into a film). here and here ). A composite work is therefore a derivative work, i.e. simple incorporations (e.g.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Such uses, they argue, constitute copyright infringement. Google Books and Transformative Use The past two decades have seen a wealth of technological developments, but generative AI is qualitatively different from everything that has come before. As such, it was permissible under United States copyright law.

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The IPKat

JANUARY 21, 2022

This is a review of Performer's Rights by the Rt Hon Sir Richard Arnold, Judge of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales. The book covers the rights of performers, particularly the rights conferred under Part II of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (as amended). The book is presented in 11 chapters.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Marcel Pemsel examined the decision of the Higher Regional Court of Cologne on whether the provider of domain name system (DNS) resolver and content delivery network (CDN) services can be liable for copyright infringement if it provides its services to the operators of websites with illegal content (in this case, music).

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 22, 2024

The first codified statute dealing with copyright protection of printed books dates back to 1710, known as British Statute of Anne. As the world’s first copyright statute, it offered 14 years of legal protection for works published and 21 years of protection for works already in print.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

AUGUST 12, 2021

The so-called “conditional irresponsibility” of online content-sharing service providers (OCSSPs) with regards to copyright infringements is a never-ending, vexing, and daunting topic not only for scholars (see here , here , here and here ), but also for the European Court of Justice itself (CJEU). 147 ECL) and moral rights (art.

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