IPilogue

AUGUST 19, 2022

Sullivan’s family has said that it took Sullivan decades of “personal experience, skill and hard graft to create and develop an imaginary world rich in memorable characters” warranting copyright. This decision provides added judicial guidance in the UK for defences to copyright infringement for purposes of parody and pastiche.

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LexBlog IP

OCTOBER 30, 2021

It is also an increasingly popular medium for infringers to illegally source and share copyrighted materials. Fortunately, copyright law prohibits the unauthorized reproduction of a work. Copyright disputes do not need to escalate into costly and time-consuming litigation. How is Copyright Infringed?

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Erik K Pelton

JULY 14, 2022

And that is a specific, important phrase in copyright law. What it means is that, unless you have a written agreement with the business or the person who’s making the content that transfers the copyright rights to you or to your business, you may not be the ultimate owner of the content. What do you mean?

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 29, 2024

copyright law. Specifically, IA argues that many of the works should be removed from the lawsuit, as the labels failed to take timely action following a cease and desist letter the RIAA sent in 2020. This letter pointed out concrete copyright concerns, but the labels allegedly took too long before filing their lawsuit.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 29, 2024

copyright law. Specifically, IA argues that many of the works should be removed from the lawsuit, as the labels failed to take timely action following a cease and desist letter the RIAA sent in 2020. This letter pointed out concrete copyright concerns, but the labels allegedly took too long before filing their lawsuit.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

AimJunkies denied the claims and argued that cheating isn’t against the law. In addition, it refuted the copyright infringement allegations; these lacked substance because some of the referenced copyrights were registered well after the cheats were first made available, AimJunkies said.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 12, 2023

As the Internet Archive continues to deal with an adverse ruling in a copyright infringement lawsuit filed by the world’s largest publishing companies, late Friday some of the world’s largest record labels launched similar legal action in the United States. named as defendants.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 27, 2022

Over the years we’ve published thousands of articles on copyright law, from how it works in theory to its application in full-blown lawsuits. But other copyright disputes, where infringement isn’t so obvious, can trigger new complexity and polarized legal opinions. Spoilers: Are They Copyright Infringement?

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Parts 1 to 3 of this post (originally published in “Auteurs & Media”) summarising case law of the German Bundesgerichtshof from 2015 to 2019 are available here , here and here. Copyright contract law (Sections 31 et seqq. Claims under copyright law. Right of remuneration (Sections 32 et seqq.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

In Iraq, tackling copyright infringement appears to have very little priority. Corporate ‘Pirates’ Profit from Lacking Copyright Protection. This widespread piracy is hard to tackle since Iraq doesn’t have any effective copyright laws to protect foreign content. This isn’t a new phenomenon.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 21, 2022

An interesting feature of the file-sharing and streaming landscapes of the past couple of decades is their interaction with existing copyright law. In its defense, Leaper argued that it supplied no infringing content itself and that the playlists did not make anything available that wasn’t already available on the internet.

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The IPKat

OCTOBER 21, 2023

Copyright infringement cases often provide an opportunity to explore exceptions and limitations to copyright. This time this Kat encountered a recent French case involving incidental inclusion, an optional exception/limitation to copyright under EU copyright law [ IPKat on incidental inclusion here ].

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JIPEL Copyright Blog

APRIL 26, 2021

In this case, via alleged copyright infringement. Perhaps the most infamous of the above scandals was the allegation of copyright infringement by The Great Eros (“TGE”). They first called out Bernstein on their Instagram stories and privately sent her and We Wore What a cease and desist letter in August 2020.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Several record labels including Sony and UMG, sued the Internet Archive for copyright infringement in Manhattan federal court last year. According to the Archive, many of the claims are simply too late, as they supposedly point to infringements that occurred over three years ago.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 2, 2024

People make mistakes, but should you have to pony up your life savings to avoid a copyright infringement lawsuit? They will send subpoenas to the ISP’s and seek to hold them liable for infringement, many times to the tune of $500 or more per movie downloaded.

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JIPEL Copyright Blog

MARCH 21, 2022

scene in the past, things seemed to come to a head in November 2020 when Nintendo sent a cease-and-desist letter to the Tournament Organizers (TOs) of the Big House, an upcoming streamed Melee tournament, and subsequently forced them to cancel the event. Melee , know this better than anyone. The second issue comes from Slippi itself.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2023

At the district court level, the law of copyright preemption is a morass of ad hoc explanations of whether certain contracts are “equivalent” to the exclusive rights within the general scope of copyright law. Platforms that copy online data and use it to create AI have a strong fair use argument under copyright laws.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JANUARY 31, 2023

Therefore, case law plays a huge role in ensuring the establishment of a fair and balanced liability regime, in particular as concerns the issue of (indirect) liability for internet service providers and other intermediaries whose services are used to commit copyright infringements. This is not an indirect liability concept.

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IIPRD

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

While trademarks protect movie titles, important characters, and other film components, copyright protects content from infringement and recognizes the rights of authors. But as the sector grows, so does the problem of intellectual property rights infringement, cybercrimes, copyright infringement , and trademark infringement.

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Copyright Lately

AUGUST 2, 2022

The full story behind Netflix’s copyright infringement lawsuit against Barlow & Bear, and why it’s actually a win for the fan fiction community. When it comes to copyright cases, Netflix has seen stranger things. Netflix could have sent Barlow & Bear a cease and desist letter hand-delivered by Regé-Jean Page.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Under § 10 TMG (the German e-commerce law), host providers’ liability was then limited to cases where infringing content was not removed after a notice and take down procedure. Shaped as a duty of care, the liability of platforms was thus limited to the obligation to refrain from future infringements (cease and desist).

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43(B)log

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Andrews and PGA Tour courses sent cease-and-desist letters to defendants, after which defendants ‘removed, disabled access to, or renamed the St. However, the court dismissed the breach of contract claim, finding the EULA’s anti-reverse engineering provisions preempted by copyright law.

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The IPKat

JULY 9, 2023

As its title suggests, this book focuses on the relationship between US copyright law and street art and graffiti. This book should not be perceived as a classic manual on the application of copyright to these art forms. Chapter 3 is entitled "Copyright within the street art and graffiti circles".

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Barry Sookman

MAY 3, 2020

Redbox [link] 2020-04-26 Freezing order made in the UK to enforce trade secret misappropriation judgment in the United StatesMotorola Solut… [link] 2020-04-27 Statutory damages for copyright infringement of a web site about page awarded2020 FC 379 (CanLII) | Biofert Manufa… [link] 2020-04-27 Link to York University v.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 27, 2023

The plaintiff had received a cease-and-desist letter from two German comedians who claimed that the copyright to this phrase belonged to them as they had come up with it during their shows. The plaintiff denied any wrongdoing and filed a lawsuit so that LG Köln would confirm that there was no copyright infringement on its side.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JANUARY 13, 2025

Image by Ronile from Pixabay There is news from Germany on the EU liability concept for indirect infringers. The German Federal Supreme Court (Bundesgerichtshof BGH) has ruled on the liability of online marketplaces for copyright infringement by their users when uploading copyright infringing photographs.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 11, 2025

In those circusmtances, copyright law is an especially attractive tool to the pugilists, with its strict liability standards, amorphous fair use boundaries, high defense costs, and effectiveness of takedown notices. In the last month, two more copyright lawsuits over city council videos have triggered my alerts.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 14, 2025

Capitol Records (the successor to EMI) sent its first cease-and-desist letter to Vimeo in 2008 and sued Vimeo for copyright infringement in 2009. ” “Plaintiffs contend that they showed that the Vimeo staff had legal acumen as to copyright laws. Yes, this is a 15-year-old lawsuit.[FN] We disagree.

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