LexBlog IP

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Yesterday, Plaintiffs hit back, noting that OpenAI hasn’t moved to dismiss the “core claim” in the lawsuits—direct infringement. ” OpenAI’s arguments instead focused on vicarious liability and failure to state a claim under Section 1202(b) of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (the “DMCA”).

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SpicyIP

JUNE 26, 2024

On a broad reading, there seems to be an obvious conflict of two areas of law, where the RPwD Act mandates fundamental access to all content but the Copyright Act grants the author the right to control how their works are copied.

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IP and Legal Filings

MAY 15, 2024

Main Blog Unlicensed use of any content registered under the Copyright Act, 1957 , violates the exclusive rights of the owner and amounts to copyright infringement. It includes reproduction, the preparation of derivative works, distributing copies by sale or rental, and public performance or display.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 19, 2023

Goldsmith alleged copyright infringement after seeing Orange Prince in Condé Nast’s article. AWF sued Goldsmith for declaratory judgment, including on fair use grounds, and Goldsmith countersued for copyright infringement. is (in copyright lingo) not ‘transformative.’”

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LexBlog IP

MAY 19, 2023

On May 18, 2023, the Supreme Court found that artistic changes to a pre-existing work, alone, not necessarily sufficient to make a derivative work fair use. copyright law. Applying a new lens on how to view the purpose of a derivative work under U.S. copyright law.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 19, 2023

Specifically, a group called Spice DAO purchased an NFT displaying a copy of filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky’s ‘Dune’ for $3 million, assuming it would grant them the ability to produce derivative works, such as an animated Dune series.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 19, 2023

Goldsmith Could Reshape the Copyright Landscape Inspiration, Derivative Works, Appropriation, and Infringement: Understanding the Differences Empowering Artists: Benefits and Considerations Navigating the Aftermath: Key Takeaways from Warhol v. Goldsmith Navigating the Future Legal Landscape Warhol v. .”

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 17, 2024

This case revisits the venerable topic of if, and when, cloning-and-revising a legal document can be copyright infringement. The plaintiff gets an expensive lesson in the law of derivative works. * * * UIRC offers bonds using a private placement memorandum (PPM) and an indenture of trust. See, e.g., White v.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 16, 2021

In 2019, Artem Stoliarov, a Russian DJ whose stage name is Arty, filed a lawsuit before the US District Court for the Central District of California, alleging that Marshmello’s song ‘ Happier ’ copied the synthesizer melody from his 2014 remix of OneRepublic’s ‘I Lived’ (OneRepublic is an American pop rock band).

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LexBlog IP

MAY 19, 2023

In 1984, Vanity Fair sought to license the photograph for an “artist reference” in a story about the musician. This ownership interest in the creative work is balanced with the general public’s need to access the creative arts and exercise First Amendment rights. factor weighs in favor of fair use.

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IP and Legal Filings

JUNE 29, 2024

With reference to the monetization through the YouTube video, the court stated that such humorous renditions, are not merely entertainment but also a source of livelihood for various content creators especially the youth. This is where it usually becomes difficult to draw a fine line between fair use and copyright infringement.

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Kashishipr

JULY 13, 2022

On the other hand, VR refers to a way of generating realistic sounds, images, and other sensations leading people to the middle of an imaginary world. That said, solely artificial worlds won’t be denied copyright protection only because they are realistic. It is the primary technology of the metaverse.

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LexBlog IP

JULY 7, 2023

A pair of copyright decisions issued in May, one involving the appropriation artist Richard Prince [1] and the other involving works portraying the musician known as Prince, explore and expand on the “fair use” defense to copyright infringement. Goldsmith counterclaimed for copyright infringement.

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IP Tech Blog

JANUARY 4, 2023

Given that NFTs are the result of digital work that is transported in images, videos, photography and other forms of digital media, copyright seems to be the closest IP right to protect both the source code of the digital work, as well as its derivative works. Trademark Ownership and Infringement.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 1, 2023

By Guest Blogger Tyler Ochoa Recently, the Ninth Circuit reaffirmed what has become known as the “server test”: in order to be held directly liable for violating the public display right, the alleged infringer must have a fixed “copy” of the work stored on a server in its possession or control. July 17, 2023).

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Copyright Lately

MAY 1, 2023

Uberduck’s interface allows users to upload reference tracks or even convert text directly to speech. The comments from Michael Nash quoted above really only speak to the input phase, during which audio recordings are copied to a dataset that’s then used to train a voice model.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JANUARY 16, 2024

Rather than being programmed in the traditional way, a large language model is “trained” by copying massive amounts of text and extracting information from it. Books3 is a dataset of books derived from a copy of the contents of the “ Bibliotik private tracker ”. Vicarious Copyright Infringement (17 U.S.C. §

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LexBlog IP

MAY 31, 2023

Goldsmith later granted a limited, “one time” license to Vanity Fair in 1984 for the magazine to use the photograph as an artist reference. In addition to the work commissioned by Vanity Fair, Warhol made 15 other works based on Goldsmith’s photograph (known as the “Prince Series”).

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Copyright Lately

JANUARY 31, 2023

” Primary Wave licensed the right to use the “Never Gonna Give You Up” composition to Yung Gravy’s team, which allowed them to copy the lyrics and melody, but not to record the actual sounds from the sound recording. The Copyright Office is referring to 17 U.S.C. § This is because, under U.S.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 4, 2023

Given that NFTs are the result of digital work that is transported in images, videos, photography and other forms of digital media, copyright seems to be the closest IP right to protect both the source code of the digital work, as well as its derivative works. Trademark Ownership and Infringement.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 20, 2023

As usual, readers who are already familiar with the case and/or with copyright law may skip the “Background” sections below (but don’t skip the commentary “The Road Not Taken”). Legal Background: Copyright and Derivative Works Copyright law protects original works of authorship, including “pictorial, graphic, and sculptural works,” 17 U.S.C.

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

The class of plaintiff authors seeking to hold OpenAI liable for copyright infringement has faced yet another setback. Vicarious copyright infringement (Count II) – DISMISSED OpenAI argued that this claim fails because plaintiffs did not make a threshold showing of direct infringement.

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LexBlog IP

JUNE 5, 2023

Goldsmith notified AWF of her belief that the work infringed her copyright. Goldsmith counterclaimed for copyright infringement. A transformative work is fair use, and therefore not a copyright infringement, based on a reading of the Supreme Court’s holding in Campbell v. ” Id.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

JUNE 5, 2023

2] The Court’s decision affirmed the ruling of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, which held that the Warhol work was derivative of the original, and noted that “the new expression may be relevant to whether a copying use has a sufficiently distinct purpose or character” but that factor was not dispositive by itself. [3]

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Patently-O

DECEMBER 11, 2023

45, to bring enforcement actions aimed at activities, including those involving the training and use of AI, that might involve copyright infringement—although we would note that the copyright consequences of AI are, as yet, undefined. That is far too hasty. Under governing law, that is a judicial function.

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IP and Legal Filings

MAY 3, 2024

Copyright Law Copy Right is a legal concept that gives creators exclusive rights over their original works and allows them to control the use and distribution of those works. These rights generally include the rights to reproduce, distribute, perform, publish and create derivative works.

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LexBlog IP

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Larson also sought a declaration that she owns the copyright to The Kindest and that the letter in the short story does not infringe Dorland’s copyright. Dorland counterclaimed for copyright infringement, claiming that Larson’s use of Dorland’s letter was a violation of intellectual property law.

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Copyright Lately

DECEMBER 24, 2023

When Netflix refused to pay up, Cramer sued for copyright infringement. The plaintiff in question was rapper Denise Jones, aka Necey X, who claimed that Cardi B, Megan Thee Stallion and Atlantic Records “copied and pasted the lyrics” from her original song Grab Em by the P * to use in the hit songs WAP and Thot S**t.

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LexBlog IP

OCTOBER 26, 2023

” OpenAI has responded to the Plaintiffs’ claims that OpenAI’s popular platform ChatGPT has infringed their copyright with disaster-laden references to Michael Jordan and “the future of artificial intelligence.” OpenAI reads like that old REM song, “The End of the World as We Know It.”

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Velocity of Content

APRIL 11, 2024

Among the most recent examples is the New York Times Company’s’ lawsuit against OpenAI, which alleges a variety of copyright-related claims. GenAI systems use copies of content like books and articles, many of which are protected by copyright, for training their LLMs.

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LexBlog IP

JUNE 5, 2023

2] The Court’s decision affirmed the ruling of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, which held that the Warhol work was derivative of the original, and noted that “the new expression may be relevant to whether a copying use has a sufficiently distinct purpose or character” but that factor was not dispositive by itself. [3]

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LexBlog IP

MAY 26, 2023

2] The Court’s decision affirmed the ruling of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, which held that the Warhol work was derivative of the original, and noted that “the new expression may be relevant to whether a copying use has a sufficiently distinct purpose or character” but that factor was not dispositive by itself. [3]

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Presently, a new reference from the German Federal Court of Justice (BGH) asks the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) for vital interpretive guidance concerning the parody exception within copyright law. In summary, parody, pastiche, and caricature all rely on imitation and copying as a means of generating new expressions.

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 23, 2023

Copyrights safeguard the artists’ rights in the inventive and imaginative content that abounds in digital media. In today’s digital world, a lot of data and information have been shared online and are susceptible to corruption and copying. Image Sources : Gettyimages] One of the important issues in online is copyrights.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 9, 2023

TLDR Generative AI is one of the hot topics in copyright law today. In the EU, a crucial legal issue is whether using in-copyright works to train generative AI models is copyright infringement or falls under existing text and data mining (TDM) exceptions in the Copyright in Digital Single Market (CDSM) Directive.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JULY 16, 2023

Top 3 Kluwer Copyright Blog posts 1) Generative AI, Copyright and the AI Act by João Pedro Quintais “ Generative AI is one of the hot topics in copyright law today. The case focuses on whether Ed Sheeran consciously copied Sami Switch’s chorus. by Pamela Samuelson “In March 2022 the U.S.

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IP and Legal Filings

MAY 3, 2023

Introduction Originality in copyright works is the sine qua non of all the copyright regimes of the world. The definition of “ original ” as most people understand it refers to something that has never been done before by any person. It was written with a distinct style and message.

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