TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 3, 2023

A few years ago, book piracy was considered a fringe activity that rarely made the news, but times have changed. Department of Justice targeted popular shadow library Z-Library, accusing it of mass copyright infringement. Superior Goal The average user is probably not especially interested in downloading metadata; they want books.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

But if you really want Kiwi Farms gone, have you considered using copyright law for its censorial power? He self-published a book about the experience (“ Why I Sued Taylor Swift and How I Became Falsely Known as Frivolous, Litigious and Crazy “). ” Greer emailed Moon asking to remove the book.

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The IPKat

JANUARY 22, 2023

Thank you to readers who voted for the IPKat book of the year awards 2022! Here are the nominees and winners: Best Patent Law Book The nominations were: Intellectual Property Protection for Plant Related Innovation: Fit for Future? We look forward to reading and reviewing more IP books in 2023!

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

This is a book review of the Research Handbook on Intellectual Property and Moral Rights , curated by Ysolde Gendreau (Université de Montréal, Canada), provided by Francesca Mazzi , Lecturer in AI, Innovation and Law at Brunel University London. Such gestures couldn't be overlooked in a book on moral rights.

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The IPKat

MARCH 18, 2024

This is a review of the second edition of Copyright and the Court of Justice of the European Union , by PermaKat Professor Eleonora Rosati, who is Full Professor of IP Law at Stockholm University and Of Counsel at Bird & Bird. Rosati explains in the introduction “a lot has happened in the EU copyright field since 2019.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 3, 2024

Shivam is a 2020 law graduate from Benaras Hindu University and is a former law researcher at the Delhi High Court. AI Image generated by Shivam, using Gencraft Copyright Bill, 1955: the Best Copyright Law that India Never Had By Shivam Kaushik Seen from Nehru’s eyes , Indian independence was a ‘tryst’ with destiny.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 23, 2023

As a plant intellectual property nerd , this Kat was delighted to get her hands on the new book Intellectual Property and the Design of Nature (Oxford University Press, 2023), edited by Jose Bellido and Brad Sherman. Concluding Thoughts This review could not do justice to all thirteen of the contributions in the book.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 21, 2021

This review of Exceptions in EU Copyright Law: In Search of a Balance Between Flexibility and Legal Certainty by Tito Rendas, is brought to you by the Rt Hon Sir Richard Arnold, Judge of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales. In April 2020 and February 2021 two substantial new contributions to this debate were published.

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The IPKat

MAY 17, 2023

This is a review of Research Handbook on Intellectual Property and Cultural Heritage , edited by Irini Stamatoudi , Professor of Intellectual Property Law and Cultural Heritage Law at the University of Nicosia. The book is presented in three main parts.

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SpicyIP

OCTOBER 28, 2022

As reported on Entrackr , Pocket FM has filed a copyright infringement case against Kuku FM before the Delhi High Court. Pocket FM alleges that Kuku FM has violated its copyright by providing audio summaries of books to which Pocket FM has exclusive rights to create audiobooks. The matter is still being heard.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Promoting research and access to its products has always been a core purpose of copyright law, often expressed in limitations and exceptions for research uses. Recent legal scholarship has examined the need for copyright exceptions for text and data mining (TDM) methodologies, and the doctrines recently enacted to achieve this purpose.

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The IPKat

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

This is a book review of The Future of Intellectual Property , edited by Daniel J. Underwood Chair in Law at Vanderbilt University Law School, US. In the introduction, Gervais explains that the approach to discussing IP law reform taken in this edited collection is considering both primary and secondary level reform.

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Velocity of Content

APRIL 21, 2023

World Book and Copyright Day is celebrated each year on April 23. This year, UNESCO is leading observations of World Copyright Day with the theme, ‘Indigenous Languages.’ Such works also need to be protected against misappropriation, and copyright is a key legal means of meeting that need. If Not, What is the Answer?

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The IPKat

JANUARY 25, 2022

Beyond the obvious attempt to draw a connection between the artwork and the book based a shared sense of the "classical", the artwork also seeks to evoke a more specific connection with the contents of the book. You can't judge a book from its cover". True, except when a book and its cover are involved. But of course.

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The IP Law Blog

MAY 5, 2022

When standard approaches failed, a business professor recently turned to copyright law, hoping for a solution. Some have made the exams open book, hoping to reduce the “need” for cheating. Berkovitz, an attorney, used a more creative approach by turning to copyright law.

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The IPKat

AUGUST 24, 2021

This book review of Art and Copyright by Simon Stokes (Partner at Blake Morgan) is kindly provided to you by Alexander Herman, Assistant Director, at the Institute of Art and Law and co-directs the Art, Business and Law LLM developed with the Centre for Commercial Law Studies at Queen Mary University of London.

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The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

That book documented the efforts and plodding steps taken by China, a country that used to lacking experience in modern IP laws, during the 25 years since it entered the international community (China joined the WIPO in 1980; see also WIPO article China’s IP journey ).

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The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

This book review of Intellectual Property Law in Nigeria: Emerging Trends, Theories And Practice by Desmond Oriakhogba (University of the Western Cape, South Africa) and Ifeoluwa Olubiyi (Afe Babaloloa University, Ado-Ekiti, Nigeria) is kindly provided by Kasim Waziri , Professor of Law at the University of Abuja, Nigeria.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 12, 2022

Dr VRR Ayyar’s book, “Present at Creation: The Making of Internet Treaties (1996)”, published in 2021. The officials dealing with copyright were generalist administrators, and expertise on international copyright laws in academia was sparse […].

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IP Law 360

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Proponents of digital book lending are expressing support for Internet Archive's Second Circuit appeal to overturn a federal judge's ruling that found the nonprofit violated copyright law, saying in four amicus briefs this week that the lower court wrongly concluded IA's lending program was not fair use.

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The IPKat

MAY 29, 2023

Now in its second edition, the book offers a perspective on how one can address the overlap between intellectual property (IP) rights, either to reconcile them in whole or in part, or to pre-empt one over the other. The book closes with Chapter 21 by Susy Frankel, focusing on the interactions between IP and traditional knowledge (TK).

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The IPKat

APRIL 14, 2024

This is a review of the book , The Elgar Companion to Intellectual Property and the Sustainable Development Goals , edited by Bita Amani , Caroline B. Copyright law exceptions have previously enabled some, but not equal, access to copyright works in accessible formats for persons with print disabilities.

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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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SpicyIP

JUNE 26, 2022

I am delighted to take this opportunity to share with the SpicyIP community the release of my book, The Finished Article: Essays on Indian Designs Law (Thomson Reuters, 2022, ISBN-13: 978-9393702173). The Finished Article intends to offer readers a guided tour through the 100+ year modern history of designs case law in India.

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The IPKat

MARCH 5, 2024

This is a book review provided by former PermaKat, Neil Wilkof. To paraphrase Jane Austen, it is a truth universally acknowledged that a book about authors, drama, or publishing before the modern era will likely have been written by a scholar of literature and culture rather than by a legal researcher. Read, learn, and enjoy.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 14, 2021

As a result, bookmakers are often portrayed as preying on victims, trying every trick in the book to part people from their money. Importantly, however, none of this is illegal in the UK so, in what appears to be an overreaction with significant potential for overreach, lawmakers want changes to copyright law to retip the balance of power.

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The IPKat

MARCH 7, 2022

Consider a book title, especially in connection with the television or movie adaptation of a literary work. Let us begin with copyright. Those looking for copyright protection for the book title will be disappointed. Unlike a copyright that has a limited term, a trademark can endure for as long as the trademark is used.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 18, 2023

Safe in the knowledge that 24/7/365 wall-to-wall multi-media coverage would never be enough, Penguin Random House (PRH) reportedly paid a $20 million advance for Prince Harry to end all speculation, once and for all, in a brand new book. Eksmo told TASS that permission from copyright holders is not required for retelling.

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The Illusion of More

JULY 31, 2022

If I believed in Hell and a “special place” reserved for certain villains, I would say that one of those suites in the stygian underworld is the destiny of all book burners. The post Book Bans Should Remind Library Groups that Authors’ Rights Matter appeared first on The Illusion of More.

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The IPKat

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

And, if so, to what extent and what does this mean for the concept of authorship in copyright? Gaon (Harry Radzyner Law School, Reichman University, Israel) considers these and other questions. The book is presented in three parts. In particular, by considering how and when IP protection for computer programs evolved.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 31, 2023

Of particular interest to readers of this blog would be the chapters on copyright law and its implications for archival practice. In the course of writing this guidebook, I had the opportunity to look more deeply into how copyright law conceives of archives and archiving as a practice.

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Velocity of Content

MARCH 25, 2022

The international children’s book community of authors, illustrators, translators and publishers returned to northern Italy this week for the first in-person Bologna Children’s Book Fair since the COVID-19 pandemic began. Book World On The Road Again. The trade show had previously cancelled programs for 2020 and 2021.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 2, 2024

The object of copyright protection is not the thought (idea) underlying the work as such, but only the personal physical shaping of the idea. Based on the fundamental principle of this idea-expression dichotomy, mere ideas, including film ideas, are not protected by the Austrian Copyright Law.

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The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

This is a book review of ‘ Copyright, Creativity, Big Media and Cultural Value: Incorporating the Author ’, by Professor Kathy Bowrey , UNSW, Sydney. The methodology of this book is interdisciplinary and socio-legal, so there is a lot to unpack. As a result, it is not a light read.

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 19, 2022

1: Government Pauses Plans to Rewrite UK Copyright Laws After Authors Protest. The rule, entitled copyright exhaustion, places limits on the import of international editions of books. According to authors, this enables authors and publishers to sell books at different prices for different countries.

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IPilogue

MARCH 2, 2023

This development has led legal commentators to observe that, unfortunately, the copyright law surrounding celebrity tattoos remains unclear. Copyright protection over tattoos has been a hot topic for some time. This is a far cry from the revenues earned on the WWE 2K games, which have sold hundreds of thousands of copies each.

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The Illusion of More

AUGUST 13, 2021

The post Rare Books Publisher Valancourt Versus The Deposit Requirement appeared first on The Illusion of More. On July 23, the District Court for the District of Columbia denied publisher Valancourt’s claims that the requirement to provide deposit copies of U.S. Although many legal experts are likely to […].

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