The IP Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Specifically, copyright protection attaches to the original, creative work when it is fixed in a tangible medium, such as when it is written, drawn, recorded digitally, or typed electronically. Further, only a modicum, or small amount, of creativity is required for copyright protection to attach.

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Copyright Infringement Copyright Social Media Fair Use 122

TorrentFreak

JULY 4, 2024

10: Documents sufficient to identify the expressive, original, and human-authored content of each of Your Asserted Works. 11: Documents sufficient to identify the non-expressive, non-original, or non-human-authored content of each of Your Asserted Works. For example, discovery requests no. 10-12 read as follows: NO.

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Copyright Public Domain Copyright Infringement Reporting 141

Kluwer Copyright Blog

JANUARY 4, 2024

Welcome to the fourth (and last) round up of EU copyright law for 2023! In this edition, we update you on what has happened in the last three months of 2024 in EU copyright law. All in all, 2024 promises to be an exciting year for EU copyright law. Stay tuned!

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

Parrish Publishes LifeWise’s Children’s Curriculum, LifeWise Sues In the belief that the curriculum contains information supportive of the opposition group’s cause, Parrish obtained a copy of the closely-guarded documents and, in the public interest, posted them publicly online.

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SpicyIP

JULY 5, 2021

application of Section 8(1)(d) by the CIC and argues that the thesis is a public document as per UGC guidelines which cannot be withheld from the public. But the CIC failed to notice/address the mandatory language used in the ordinance (emphasis added) : 14(b) “ …two hard-bound copies and two soft copies of the corrected Ph.D.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

People have become less dependent on print media and more likely to use a digital medium such as computerized documents of soft copies. Given the fact that the copyright law was originally framed to protect literary and artistic works, it needs to be seen how much the law has evolved to grant protection to digitalized works.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

The content was then transmitted over the Internet and copied to computer servers controlled by the defendants, some of it for subscribers’ time-shifted consumption. ” A sample of the works allegedly copied include Steve Jobs, Man of Steel, Game of Thrones, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, Shameless and The Walking Dead. .

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 12, 2024

In a framing case, the plaintiffs’ web servers aren’t the affected chattel because the plaintiffs’ web servers delivered the web pages directly to users’ devices, after which the framer (Google) superimposed its frame on the web pages once the copies were in users’ RAM. ” Even this correction is suboptimal.

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IP and Legal Filings

AUGUST 6, 2024

Creators of Art can have complete knowledge about Indian copyright law to ultimately break the code of registration. If creators really wish to ensure the protection of their intellectual rights, they can gain enormous amount of knowledge by regularly studying the Indian copyright law techniques.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 5, 2022

When standard approaches failed, a business professor recently turned to copyright law, hoping for a solution. The Course Hero website is an education-focused website for document sharing. He further alleged that Defendants knew or should have known that their acts constituted copyright infringement.

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IPilogue

JULY 21, 2021

Tiffany Wang is an IPilogue Writer, IP Innovation Clinic Fellow, and a 2L JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. . Kok, accessed more than 7,000 Motorola documents prior to joining Chinese rival company, Hytera Communications Corporation Limited (“Hytera Corp.”). In 2008, three former Motorola Solutions employees, Samuel Chia, Y.T.

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Confidentiality Intellectual Property Technology Copyright Law 105

TorrentFreak

MAY 16, 2024

Hoping to establish why a tech site had been treated no differently than the most egregious piracy portals, we pulled and translated every document AGCOM makes available to the public as part of the site-blocking process. ” The documentation for the first proceeding ( pdf ) reveals a similar complaint. Warner Bros.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 7, 2023

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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Settlement Confidentiality Reporting Copyright Infringement 137

TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Taiwan made amendments to copyright law that outlawed piracy-configured devices. With further amendments to copyright law in the pipeline in Taiwan, authorities launced an investigation into the supply of Unblock Tech’s devices in the country. With Hollywood regularly reporting UnblockTech to the U.S.

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Reporting Copyright Law Government Copyright 142

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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Copyright Lately

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

Fundamentally, an NFT is just a transactional record and a link to a digital asset (often an image of artwork or a document) stored somewhere on the web. ” Based on his reserved screenplay publication rights, there’s no question that Tarantino is permitted to sell copies of the “Pulp Fiction” screenplay.

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Copying Non-Fungible Tokens Contracts Copyright 125

TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

As shown in the image below, the image at the top right is the original tweet from the official @GenshinImpact account ( 1 ), and the two images at the bottom are the alleged copies ( 1 , 2 ) published by @merlin_impact. Post images and hope the lawyers don’t mind, or stop posting images altogether to remove all doubt?

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Copying Artwork Publishing Copyright Infringement 98

TorrentFreak

APRIL 7, 2022

Clearly annoyed by the protest, Bungie filed a lawsuit claiming that the defendants willfully sent DMCA takedown notices containing material misrepresentations, a breach of copyright law. The problem, according to Google, is that DMCA subpoenas enable a rightsholder to obtain information relating to an alleged copyright infringer. .

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Copyright Infringement Copyright Copyright Law Copying 143

Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 29, 2023

Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash Welcome to the second trimester of the 2023 round up of EU copyright law! In this series, every three months we update you on what has happened in EU copyright law. The document is available on the institution’s internal system. You can read the previous round-ups here.

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Copyright Law Law Copyright Publishing 58

TorrentFreak

MAY 25, 2022

In addition to the takedown request, the notice also contains an unsolicited lecture on Github’s supposed liabilities under copyright law. In this case, there is no proof that the additional statements in the notice are relevant to the conduct of Github, or its liability under copyright law.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 29, 2023

million copyright infringement damages award in hand, and suddenly cooperative defendants helping to unveil others involved in the circumvention of Bungie’s technological protection measures. In this case, none of that data relates to the Romanian Copyright Office. By June 2022, Bungie had a $13.5

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Copyright Privacy Settlement Copyright Infringement 145

Kluwer Copyright Blog

JULY 7, 2022

Welcome to the second trimester of the 2022 round up of EU copyright law! In this series, we update readers every three months on developments in EU copyright law. This is perhaps one of the most awaited judgemnts in the history of EU copyright law. Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash. Read more here.

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Kashishipr

OCTOBER 27, 2021

It encourages them to make suitable programs that can work on their platforms by publishing documents and providing tools to help them adapt to their APIs. Copyright and APIs. Google , the Federal Circuit Court held that the Java API in question was copyrightable. In the landmark case of Oracle v. Conclusion.

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Intellectual Property Law Intellectual Property Law Fair Use 98

Velocity of Content

JULY 31, 2024

These misunderstandings extend to content used in end user applications of AI, such as the summarization of collections of articles, interrogation of documents for insights, automation of literature screening, and creation of visualizations of content sets, among others. No copies are made during the process of training generative AI systems.

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Copyright Fair Use Licensing Copyright Infringement 98

The IP Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Thus, here, given that the plaintiff has Copyright Registrations, the burden shifts to Defendants to come forward with “evidence that the work[s] [were] copied from the public domain.” Defendants argued that because information concerning the Second Holy Temple is in the public domain, Plaintiff’s copyrighted works are not original.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

copyright law, Internet providers must terminate the accounts of repeat infringers “in appropriate circumstances.” This legal requirement remained largely unenforced for nearly two decades but a series of copyright infringement liability lawsuits, including a billion-dollar damages award against Cox, have shaken up the industry.

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Settlement Music Copyright Infringement Copyright 128

SpicyIP

JULY 22, 2023

In this post, developed along the lines of a literature review cum blogpost, Yashna Walia has looked through the various government policy documents on AI to see what they have to say about IP! The document highlights that “AI systems are susceptible to attack such as manipulation of data being used to train the AI…etc.” Arul Scaria).

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Each contains links where the content could be found along with an identifying screenshot, all of which are redacted in court documents. Cognosphere obviously considers the leaked content a problem, but importantly, a problem it can deal with under copyright law.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 21, 2023

copyright law, Internet providers must terminate the accounts of repeat infringers “in appropriate circumstances.” Many ISPs have been reluctant to take such drastic measures, which triggered a wave of copyright infringement lawsuits in recent years. — A copy of the motion to compel, filed at the U.S.

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Indiana Intellectual Property Law

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The issue revolved around copyright infringement claims brought by UIRC-GSA Holdings against William Blair, a financial services company. UIRC-GSA Holdings (hereafter referred to as UIRC) alleged that Blair copied certain documents used in bond offerings, which UIRC claimed copyright protection over.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 22, 2023

This is a highly controversial topic in the music industry, with many insiders suggesting that commercial use of these models could breach copyright law. “Please do not upload datasets to the server or any copyrighted material. Exactly what is allowed and what isn’t is a topic of legislative debate.

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Copyright Infringement Copyright Music Copying 138

Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2023

A newly introduced article on “Obligations for providers of general-purpose AI models” includes two distinct requirements related to copyright. More interestingly, the provision explicitly links the use of copyrighted works for training AI models to the text and data mining (TDM) exception in Article 4 of the CDSM Directive. .”

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Within days, stock image supplier Getty Images announced that it was one of the “folks” who disagreed – and disagreed so strongly that it had commenced legal proceedings in the High Court in London alleging copyright infringement. This exception provides copyright will not be infringed by the making of a: 1. temporary copy which is; 2.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

copyright law, Internet providers must terminate the accounts of repeat infringers “in appropriate circumstances”. This legal requirement remained largely unenforced for nearly two decades but a series of copyright infringement liability lawsuits, with hundreds of millions of dollars at stake, have shaken up the industry.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 21, 2022

Under US copyright law, Internet providers must terminate the accounts of repeat infringers “in appropriate circumstances.”. The record labels also ask the court to confirm that they own all the copyrights at stake and that the files that Bright House subscribers shared were indeed pirated copies. Billion Dollar Lawsuits.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

AUGUST 22, 2023

Under EU Law, the most significant developments were introduced by articles 3 and 4 CDSMD, and its national implementations. 4 CDSMD and analyzed the publicly available documents that may regulate the use of content for TDM. Germany), these prohibitions are usually expressed in the documentation regardless of the intended purposes.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 19, 2023

Caveat Emptor The common notion that acquiring ownership of an NFT representing a work in which copyright subsists equates to owning the copyright to the underlying work is clearly false. UK copyright law mandates that an assignment of copyright be ‘in writing signed by or on behalf of the assignor’.

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