Velocity of Content

MARCH 16, 2023

As a person involved in copyright on a daily basis, I’ve observed a number of events and requests for comment over the last few years on the issue of whether artificial intelligence (AI) systems can be “authors” in the copyright sense (or inventors of patents). This article was originally published in The Scholarly Kitchen.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

For the past several years, Chinese-manufactured Ubox IPTV boxes have flooded the market in Taiwan. Taiwan made amendments to copyright law that outlawed piracy-configured devices. As previously mentioned, these events do not feature in recent rightsholder reports to the U.S. Domains: Seized, or Something Else?

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TorrentFreak

MAY 1, 2024

Copyright law crafted decades ago to prevent infringement in an analog world has in many cases held up remarkably well in the digital age. Copying or reproduction remains relevant, as does the concept of distribution. In the United States, the existence of a loophole in copyright law had been an open secret for some time.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 20, 2023

In any event, it is worth noting that the decision to delete did not stem from the artificial origin of the music, but rather from the fact that the songs were being used to collect royalties on behalf of fraudulent accounts. Essentially, FlowGPT would have fed the copied songs into the system, and that could mean copyright infringement.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 27, 2024

The event was mostly a meetup of like-minded geeks, but one person stood out a mile; Tim Kuik, director of anti-piracy group BREIN. Speaking with TorrentFreak, Kuik recalls that the home video market was just opening up. The downside was that pirates would create bootleg copies. Kuik recognizes this, at least in part.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 2, 2022

On April 21, a special event at the WIP contemporary art center in Moscow featured The Batman. Tickets cost around 500 rubles (US$7.00) with the organizers framing the screening as an art performance with artistic commentary on Hollywood’s departure from the Russian market. The source for the movie was unofficial, of course.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 24, 2021

channels, which are only possible to offer after content is copied and stored, contrary to copyright law. YouTuber ‘Touchtone’ (Raul Orelanna) was later added as a defendant in an amended complaint alongside accusations he was paid $500,000 to market the service.

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The IPKat

APRIL 25, 2024

Here’s what they write: Generative AI, originality, and the potential role of contract in protecting unoriginal works by Adrian Aronsson-Storrier and Oliver Fairhurst Artificial Kat Over the past two years the IPKat has hosted debate on the question of whether the outputs of generative AI tools are protected under copyright law.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Since Sony’s Betamax-format recorders were able to record TV shows, studios including Universal and Disney sought to hold Sony liable for users’ alleged copyright infringements. Two of the claims can be seen in the image below and on first view, appear straightforward enough. ‘The Say Hey Kid,’ as himself.

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Intepat

JUNE 15, 2023

Introduction With the rise of the mobile application industry, India emerges as a highly profitable market, witnessing over twenty-eight billion downloads in 2022, accounting for 5% of the total global downloads. Exclusive Rights – Copyright gives developers exclusive rights to reproduce, distribute, display, and modify their software.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Welcome to the third 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. Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash. You can read the previous round-ups here.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Photographs are included in Article 2(1) of the Berne Convention as copyrightable artistic works. All Berne Union Member States must thus provide copyright protection to photographic works. For instance, copyright protection has been denied to photographs taken by paparazzi and photographs of sport events.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Parts 1 and 2 of this post (originally published in “Auteurs & Media”) summarising case law of the German Bundesgerichtshof from 2015 to 2019 are available here and here , and part 4 will be published on the blog shortly. In addition to rights of the author, German copyright law also recognises related rights.

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IP and Legal Filings

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

In the conventional sense, copyright law requires that the concerned work must, in its entirety, be an outcome of the intellectual labor of a human being. Courts across the globe, recognizing this aspect, have granted copyright protection to works generated using computer programs. AI-generated art and copyright protection.

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JIPL Online

APRIL 9, 2021

Such uses are often methods of social commentary regarding the user’s own life, or more broadly, current events; they also often utilize copyrightable material. [i] ii] Existing copyright law is ineffective in its application to new forms of digital media. ” How Stagnant Copyright Law is Stifling Creativity , 27 J.

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IP and Legal Filings

OCTOBER 7, 2022

A copyright is a legal privilege granted to the owner of intellectual property. It is the right to copy, as the name implies. Therefore, copyright means that the creator of a product has the legal right to it. Section 2(m) of the Copyright Act of 1957 defines “making an infringing copy” as the act of doing so.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 26, 2021

Welcome to the fourth and final trimester of 2021 round up of EU copyright law! In this series, we update readers every three months on developments in EU copyright law. The rapporteur is very well-known to all copyright enthusiasts – Mr Axel Voss. Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash.

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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. You can read the previous round-ups here.

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Canadian Intellectual Property Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Hendley, 2021 FC 498 [ Winkler ], the Federal Court (the “Court”) addressed an unusual issue of copyright protection in a nonfictional work containing descriptions of events with questionable historical accuracy. In its decision, the Court reiterated that copyright protection does not extend to facts. 1985, c.

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

6] The Supreme Court’s ruling on that petition—and a possible eventual decision on the merits—could have enormous implications for the art world and other industries impacted by copyright law. That factor asks “whether, if the challenged use becomes widespread, it will adversely affect the potential market for the copyrighted work.”

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Copyright Lately

AUGUST 2, 2022

performances of “The Unofficial Bridgerton Musical”) or other derivative works that might compete with Netflix’s own planned live events,” including the multi-city “ Bridgerton Experience.” Copyright owners should be able to defend their works against substantial unauthorized copying used for profit.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

AUGUST 16, 2021

Welcome to the second trimester of 2021 round up of EU copyright law! In this series, we update readers every three months on developments in EU copyright law. June was a particularly eventful month for the communication to the public right and platform liability. Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash. 682/18 and C ?683/18.

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The IPKat

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

After introducing readers to the three main stages of content analysis, Bar-Ziv applies this methodology to a case study: content analysis of online copyright law cases. Survival analysis is a branch of statistics, which models the duration of time until a given event occurs.

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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. He also considers Article 5(5) and the way in which the CJEU has interpreted these provisions.

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Patently-O

DECEMBER 11, 2023

We, who have been writing and teaching about copyright law and how it has responded to challenges posed by new technologies for decades, were among those who submitted comments, see [link]. In addition, conduct that may be consistent with the copyright laws nevertheless may violate Section 5.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 10, 2023

An interesting feature of copyright law is its tendency to lag behind the times while new technology races ahead and exploits its numerous ‘loopholes’ One of the most famous loopholes was ‘exposed’ when streaming overtook BitTorrent to become the delivery method of choice for millions of video-oriented pirates.

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LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 3, 2021

In another case, a well-known sports exhibitor encountered similar cybersquatting plus counterfeit website, which purported to offer streaming services of its events. Using Copyright Law to Fight Fakes. Copyright law also provides an avenue of protection for brand owners.

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IP and Legal Filings

JULY 13, 2022

Jagmohan , when the question was whether a news article can have copyright protection, the High Court of Bombay clearly stated that natural happenings and events cannot be the copyright of the person who first reported the incident. In the case of Indian Express Newspaper (Bombay) Pvt Ltd v.

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The IPKat

JANUARY 24, 2023

The IPKat has received and is pleased to host the following legislative update on the new Ukrainian Copyright Law from Kateryna Militsyna and Liubov Maidanyk (both Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv). It also once again confirms the strong protection of moral rights in Ukrainian copyright law.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 20, 2023

To fully understand these conflicting views of the majority opinion, it is necessary to understand both the specific facts of the case and the history of the Supreme Court’s case law concerning the fair-use doctrine. For obvious reasons, the copyright in a photograph does not include the right to publicly perform the copyrighted work.

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SpicyIP

MAY 2, 2022

We’re pleased to bring you a guest post from Akshat Agrawal on a recent order that raised questions on the extent / limitations of the exemptions and limitations to Indian copyright law. New(s) Questions and Fair Use: Using Copyright to Curtail Expression? You can see his previous posts for us here. In Ashdown v.

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The IPKat

AUGUST 6, 2023

To mark this milestone, we organized an event in London in June 2023 [Katreports here , here , here and here ] and Kats Hayleigh and Eleonora put together a collection of chapters authored by current and past IPKat Team Members, as well as some eminent Katfriends. No copyright law in the world is founded on natural 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. By June 2022, Bungie had a $13.5

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IP and Legal Filings

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

The fact that the media experience (whether in a book, film, video, game, or interactive television) depends on both the creator, whose rights are protected by copyright law, and the viewer, who brings their own personal vision to the character, has become increasingly important in the context of interactive technology and user-generated content.

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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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Kluwer Copyright Blog

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

The majority of these focus on the protection of major sports events, like the Italian Lega Calcio , the English Premier League and the UEFA Champions League (for a detailed analysis see here , here and here ). We simply endeavour to highlight its significance in reshaping copyright enforcement in the prospect of an Egyptian digital market.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 29, 2023

And the Copyright Claims Officer did not make a substantive determination; the case was merely settled. Prutton admitted to copying and said that his adult daughter had helped him with his website. (A This Final Determination really opens up the market for photographers to file CCB claims for uses. Violent Hues Prods.,

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