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Bombay HC Clarifies the Contours of Copyright Infringement and Confidentiality Law

SpicyIP

Image of folder tag with text “confidential” Image from here. Saregama India Ltd & Anr deliberated upon the intersection of copyright infringement and confidentiality law and held that ideas cannot be copyrighted but can be protected through the application of confidentiality law.

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IPTV Piracy Lawsuit Against Datacamp Close to Settlement For Second Time

TorrentFreak

At least in theory, copyright law in both the United States and Europe should provide adequate protections for intermediaries but if a chink appears in the armor, nothing can stop rightsholders filing a lawsuit. When they do, things can get very expensive, very quickly. the people behind the named IPTV providers.

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Den of Thieves

IPilogue

assembled a digital two-way radio business largely deploying Motorola’s research and development, such as source code and confidential technical documents. copyright laws by copying their source code, it also complained that Hytera infringed the federal Defend Trade Secrets Act. Hytera Corp.

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Anthropomorphizing AI: Why Human-Like Is Not Human

Velocity of Content

The stakes are particularly high in copyright law, where anthropomorphic thinking has led to problematic comparisons between human learning and AI training. When humans read books, we do not make copies of themwe understand and internalize concepts. ” These human terms feel natural, but they are misleading.

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OpenAI Wants New York Times to Show How Original Its Copyrighted Articles Are

TorrentFreak

OpenAI suggests that the ‘source’ information will help to determine what parts of the articles are ‘original’ and worthy of copyright protection, which may help it to counter the copyright infringement claims. The expressive nature of a work is determined by reference to the work itself.

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“Right to Access a Public Record” vs “Right to not Communicate the Work”: Where is Public Interest?”

SpicyIP

The appellant sought a copy of a PhD Thesis titled “Studies on some nitrogen fixing genes of Azotobacter vinelandi” from Jamia Millia Islamia, a central university and public authority for the purposes of RTI Act. What makes it more ‘non-confidential’ is the university is bound by clause 14(b) of the ordinance, as well as by Section 13.1

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Donald C. Brace Memorial Lecture by Professor David Vaver – “User Rights: Fair Use and Beyond”

IPilogue

Professor Vaver spoke on the origins of fair dealing in Canada and its differences and similarities in comparison to the American legal concept of “fair use”, its evolution throughout the history of Canadian common law jurisprudence, and its potentially far-reaching future beyond Canada and copyright law. .

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