Technology & Marketing Law Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

But if you really want Kiwi Farms gone, have you considered using copyright law for its censorial power? “Kiwi Farms users provided a Google Drive link to a full copy of Mr. Greer’s book.” Somebody,” he explained, “created a copy of [his] book and put it in a Google Drive that is accessible on Kiwi Farms.”

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Copyright Law Copyright Law Copyright Infringement 96

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!

Copyright Law 69

Copyright Law Law Copyright Reporting 69

IP and Legal Filings

APRIL 19, 2022

A takedown notice is a type of complaint letter addressed to a website administrator, stating that the website’s material has infringed on the owner’s copyright and requesting that the content be removed from the website. Information Technology Act,2000. Safe Harbour Principle ( Section 79 of IT Act,2000).

Copyright Law 74

Copyright Law Copyright Law Copyright Infringement 74

TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 14, 2021

So, if a horse has a seemingly insurmountable lead on-screen and someone places a bet, that information is already out of date for everyone watching. As things stand, copyright law protects creative works and similar creations, including films, sound recordings and broadcasts, such as horse racing events.

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Copyright Law Copyright Law Television 110

TorrentFreak

JANUARY 4, 2022

This is the type of behavior that has attracted copyright infringement lawsuits in the past but in this case, the makers of Genshin XYZ are using copyright law to prevent piracy of their product. However, Github wasn’t convinced that the crack ‘pirate’ committed any offenses in that respect.

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Copying Copyright Infringement Intellectual Property Copyright 141

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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Copyright Law Copyright Law Social Media 52

TorrentFreak

MAY 14, 2022

Given that the production of today’s videogames requires the involvement of a large number of people, preventing all information leaks is an impossible task. After being uploaded in the preceding days, on April 26 the company filed a complaint at YouTube alleging copyright infringement. Aside from generating more than 4.6

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Copying Social Media Copyright Copyright Law 100

LexBlog IP

MAY 5, 2022

When standard approaches failed, a business professor recently turned to copyright law, hoping for a solution. Course Hero declined to provide the information absent a subpoena. To obtain a subpoena, Berkovitz would have to register his copyrights and file a lawsuit for copyright infringement, which he did.

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Copyright Law Copyright Law Copyright Infringement 52

Velocity of Content

OCTOBER 20, 2021

ET), the US Copyright Office, and the US Patent and Trademark Office are co-hosting a three-part discussion on “ Copyright Law and Machine Learning for AI: Where Are We Now and Where Are We Going?” Agenda and registration information are available here.”. On Tuesday, October 26 (from 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.

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Copyright Law Copyright Social Media Law 105

Kluwer Copyright Blog

JULY 15, 2021

The Polish Ministry of Culture has announced draft changes to the Polish copyright law on the collection and division of the private copying levy (also known as the blank media tax or levy). Part II looks at the compliance of the draft changes with EU law. million Euro.

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Copying Law Related Rights Copyright Law 55

Patently-O

AUGUST 30, 2022

Contract not Copyright: Genius does not hold the copyright to the lyrics and so has no copyright infringement claim. But, Genius does require its users to agree to an extensive contractual agreement that includes a promise that the user will not commercially reproduce, copy, or distribute any portion of the Genius service.

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Copyright Law Copyright Law Contracts 78

Kluwer Copyright Blog

JULY 16, 2021

The Polish Ministry of Culture has announced draft changes to the Polish copyright law on the collection and division of the private copying levy. The draft law on the rights of professional artists will significantly change how the private copying levy system has been functioning in Poland so far.

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Copying Law Copyright Law Copyright 52

TorrentFreak

JULY 4, 2024

OpenAI Seeks NYT ‘Source’ Material In its quest for evidence, OpenAI is particularly interested in the copyrights of the New York Times’ works. This includes copyrighted news articles, which are often based on a variety of information gathered by its journalists. For example, discovery requests no.

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Copyright Public Domain Copyright Infringement Reporting 137

SpicyIP

JUNE 26, 2024

A general lack of clarity on the issue of information asymmetry and inaccessibility for PwDs was recently brought to light in the matter of Prof. Fair Dealing under Copyright Law The Copyright Act was amended in 2012 to include an exception to the copyright of authors with respect to accessibility through section 52 (1)(zb).

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Copyright Copying Publishing Cinema 81

TorrentFreak

JULY 10, 2024

Nintendo Targets Suyu, Nuzu, Uzuy, Torzu, and Sudachi As Nintendo continues to target Yuzu-like emulators that remain available online, takedown notices now feature detailed information about Yuzu to ensure compliance. For good measure, copies of the Yuzu judgment and the injunction that restrains its developers are supplied for reference.

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Copying Copyright Copyright Law Technology 111

The IPKat

JANUARY 31, 2022

Under article 8(1) of the Enforcement Directive (Directive 2004/48/EC) a claimant in infringement proceedings can request a court to order certain parties to disclose information. This so-called ‘right to information’ includes information on the origin of the infringement (e.g. One image is depicted below.

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Intellectual Property Cease and Desist IP Copyright 97

Velocity of Content

JANUARY 9, 2024

Ignoring Copyright is Risky Business Research in the life sciences depends in part on the ability to acquire and share scientific information, particularly journal articles, in a timely manner. In the United States, Sci-Hub has been sued twice for copyright infringement and lost both cases.

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Copyright Journalism Licensing Copyright Infringement 98

LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 17, 2021

The other forms of IP rights such as Patent, and Trademark did not apply to this discussion on data insofar as the term refers to information only, as opposed to a method or process applied to that data (Patent).

Copyright Law 52

Copyright Law Law Copyright Intellectual Property 52

Dear Rich IP Blog

AUGUST 13, 2022

The Copyright Office Public Records Portal does not provide copies of the images, books, movies, or other copyrighted materials that are registered under copyright law. All of this information (and more) is provided in Copyright Circular 6.

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Registration Copyright Copying Litigation 98

The IP Law Blog

MARCH 14, 2024

The plaintiffs alleged that OpenAI copied their published books, which are protected by copyright law, and used them in a training dataset for its LLM. The Court then turned its attention to the various claims beginning with the vicarious copyright infringement claim.

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Derivative Work Copying Copyright Infringement Copyright 112

The IPKat

APRIL 3, 2023

Here’s what Desmond writes: Nigeria's new Copyright Act 2022: how libraries can benefit by Desmond Oriakhogba Background In October 2021, I wrote about the Nigerian copyright law reform process. The reform process is now complete with the recent assent to the Bill, as the Copyright Act 2022, by the Nigerian President.

Copyright 124

Copyright Intellectual Property Fair Use Copyright Law 124

Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Furthermore, they allege that Reelz has copied many elements from Live PD including the show’s format, the show’s hosts and the same catchphrase to name a few. 2: HC Directs Telegram to Disclose Details of Channels Violating Copyright Law. The lawsuit was filed by songwriters L.

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Reporting Television Copying Plagiarism 189

Indiana Intellectual Property Law

JANUARY 19, 2024

The complaint explains that the heart of the matter lies in Radic’s creation, a photograph titled “ Plaster falling off the ceiling ,” crafted in 2020 and officially registered under copyright law in 2021. Continue reading

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Copyright Intellectual Property Copyright Law Copying 52

IPilogue

JUNE 13, 2022

Artists in the digital space have always been vulnerable to the unauthorized distribution, copying, and sale of their work. Listing someone else’s artwork on an NFT marketplace is as simple as saving a copy of the work from an artist’s website or social media platform and uploading it onto a marketplace where it is minted into an NFT.

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Non-Fungible Tokens Art Due Diligence Social Media 125

TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

‘Library Genesis,’ or ‘Libgen’ for short, is a group of pirate websites through which a vast array of written material is illegally copied and distributed online without any authorization, and with no remuneration to copyright holders.” “[T]he Sites undermine the very purpose of U.S.

Copyright Infringement 125

Copyright Infringement Publishing Copyright Copying 125

43(B)log

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Summary of argument: The constitutional goal of copyright protection is to “promote the progress of science and useful arts,” Art. 8, and the first copyright law was “an act for the encouragement of learning,” Cambridge University Press v. It is that functionality, and not the copying, to which Apple truly objects.

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Derivative Work Fair Use Copying Copyright 90

Patently-O

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

by Dennis Crouch Generative Artificial intelligence (GenAI) systems like MidJourney and ChatGPT that can generate creative works have brought a wave of new questions and complexities to copyright law. ” Presumably different training models could have different copyright implications. .”

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Copyright Copying Derivative Work Licensing 120

TorrentFreak

MAY 17, 2022

While most site operators use fake information to sign up, some of the information is actionable. This is also what James Gibson , Professor of Law at Richmond University, hinted at. Unlike downloading pirated movies, consuming pirated streams isn’t a clear violation of copyright law. No Lasting Copy.

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Copyright Infringement Copying Copyright Law Copyright 132

TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

The company demanded damages under copyright law claiming that the team “willfully and maliciously” copied, adapted and distributed its source code and other content without permission. Take-Two also demanded damages for alleged misrepresentations in the defendants’ DMCA counternotices.

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Fair Use Copying Copyright Copyright Law 145

Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 24, 2022

The guide is an amazingly thorough overview of copyright, written in a way to be understood by lay people and it includes nearly all of the important information one needs to know in just 10 pages and 4,000 words. Copyright Office, which is part of the federal government, the work itself is in the public domain.

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Copyright Public Domain Registration Plagiarism 239

TorrentFreak

MAY 31, 2022

In common with other countries attempting to reduce their movie and TV show piracy problem, India has provisions in copyright law that allow rightsholders to limit access to pirate sites. Complaint Confirmed, Two People Named.

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Copying Reporting Copyright Copyright Law 139

TorrentFreak

JANUARY 17, 2024

It involved the use of copyrighted content to create an alleged ‘parody’ (one that many people would find offensive), the distribution of that content to the public via Twitter, and a defendant claiming immunity under copyright law. When he copied and then rebroadcast the news report, that was copyright infringement.

Copyright 117

Copyright Derivative Work Fair Use Reporting 117

TorrentFreak

AUGUST 12, 2023

From the diametrically opposed view of the plaintiffs, the defendants willfully made copies thousands of recordings to which they own the copyrights. The digitized copies were then uploaded to the Internet Archive from where they were illegally distributed to users of the website millions of times.

Copyright 98

Copyright Cease and Desist Music Copying 98

The IP Law Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The court found, as a matter of law, that Ross copied portions of the Westlaw headnotes. Ross challenged Thomson Reuters’ copyright in the headnotes and raised a fair use defense. With regard to the headnotes, the court observed that if a headnote merely copies a judicial opinion, it is uncopyrightable.

Copyright Infringement 123

Copyright Infringement Copyright Fair Use Copying 123

Velocity of Content

DECEMBER 14, 2023

After all, many kinds of published literature, including news, blogs, books, journals, and standards — including the organizations’ own materials — are protected by copyright laws that place limits on how content can be used by others without the rightsholder’s permission.

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Licensing Copyright Publishing Journalism 98

The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

The IPKat has received and is pleased to host the following guest contribution by Katfriend Jakub Wyczik (University of Silesia in Katowice) on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the application of copyright subsistence criteria. So, there is no literal and non-literal copying of a work. Forget the legal fiction and focus on the reality.

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Copyright Derivative Work Music Copying 138

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 93