Copyright Lately

DECEMBER 29, 2024

Chicken Joes delivers a piping hot reality check on the risks of playing copyright roulette. The trouble began when Albany radio station WGNA asked its social media followers to vote for the regions best fried chicken and tagged a few contenders, including Chicken Joes, which retweeted the stations original post.

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The IP Law Blog

AUGUST 17, 2023

By: Weintraub Tobin Summer Associate Josh Concepcion The Ninth Circuit recently revisited the issue of “embedding” content by a website and its implication for copyright infringement claims. This ultimately means that when a copy of an image is not stored on a computer’s servers but merely “embedded” onto a website, search engine, etc.,

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Copyright Lately

JANUARY 26, 2025

The long-running case, which wrapped Friday in Riverside, California, centered on allegations that Apple TV+s Servant was a “wholesale copy” of Francesca Gregorinis 2013 indie film, The Truth About Emanuel (read my trial preview here). While access alone isnt sufficient, without it, similarities cant be the result of copying.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 14, 2022

On the flip side, today’s interconnected world has the ability to transform leaks into powerful advertising and hype, keeping message boards and social media alive with discussion of exciting new products, at zero cost to official marketing teams. Riot Games Uses Copyright Law to Unmask Uploader.

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Velocity of Content

OCTOBER 20, 2021

But, as an article in MIT Technology Review points out , ML is the brains behind “recommendation systems like those on Netflix, YouTube, and Spotify; search engines like Google and Baidu; social-media feeds like Facebook and Twitter; voice assistants like Siri and Alexa.” In other words, ML provides the magic ( !?!) to 2:30 p.m.

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Copyright Lately

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

Central to her ruling was the conclusion that the plaintiffs hadn’t claimed that ChatGPT disseminated a copy of their works in response to any user query. The Bottom Line The Raw Story Media ruling, with its reliance on TransUnion , raises significant questions about the future of copyright law in the context of AI.

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JIPEL Copyright Blog

APRIL 26, 2021

However, an equally long list of controversies accompanies this list of accomplishments, the majority of which involve alleged copying. This pattern begins as far back as May of 2018, when Bernstein was accused of copying pieces from several smaller jewelry lines for a collaboration she did with Nordstrom.

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IP and Legal Filings

APRIL 19, 2022

Temporary or incidental storage of work or performance to provide electronic links, access, or integration, where the owner has not expressly prohibited such links, access, or integration, falls under the ambit of fair use of copyright, according to Section 52(1)(c) of the Indian Copyright Act, 1957.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 2, 2022

Even so, the court’s almost-banal treatment of this super-interesting topic suggests that there may not be much tattoo exceptionalism in copyright law. She tattooed the Sedlik photo onto Farmer and promoted the tattoo on social media. Background. She now does her tattoo artistry pro bono. Nature of the Work.

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Copyright Lately

JANUARY 23, 2024

A first-of-its-kind copyright infringement trial is scheduled to begin today in Los Angeles. Like the tattoo at issue in the case, the lawsuit is poised to leave a lasting impression, not only on copyright law, but the entire multi-billion-dollar tattoo industry. What Will The Jury Need to Decide?

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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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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2021

The application of this principle to this case is easy: the elements that Defendants allegedly copied from Coscarelli’s cookbooks are primarily lists of ingredients and directions for combining them. Whereas the latter may be entitled to copyright protection, the former plainly is not. ” Really? Esquared Hosp. ,

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IIPRD

AUGUST 4, 2022

A Social Media Influencer is someone who creates unique material that keeps people interested on multiple social media platforms, causing them to return for more high-quality information. One of the most significant methods to safeguard material on social media is through copyright.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 15, 2023

law, online service providers need to respond to takedown notices and implement a meaningful policy to terminate the accounts of repeat infringers. Many of the large social media platforms stick to these rules, but according to a lawsuit filed this week by several prominent music companies, Twitter is not among them.

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 3, 2022

3: Copyright and the Takings Clause. One of the more confusing areas of copyright law in the United States is how it impacts states. Under the current law, all copyright matters are federal. The post 5 Copyright Stories to Watch in 2022 appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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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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IPilogue

AUGUST 26, 2022

They claimed that Meta, on its social media platforms, has stolen hundreds of their content. In the official pleading , they argued that Meta violated the US Copyright Act 17 USC § 501 for direct, induced, and contributory copyright infringement. Who is Epidemic Sound?

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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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IP and Legal Filings

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Historical lookback The amendment to the existing copyright law act of 1957 was carried out owing to the sensitization of issue of copyright management and revenue sharing structure that is fair and reasonable to all owners and writers of filmed and recorded works. [i] Magic Mantra Vision. [ii] Magic Mantra Vision, CS (OS) NO.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

This activity generates many millions of views which are monetized by the social media platform, while rightsholders receive no compensation for the use of their works. A few weeks ago, the social media platform filed a motion to dismiss , refuting all piracy allegations.

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Copyright Lately

OCTOBER 20, 2024

Regardless of how one feels about Skiplagged’s business practices, copyright law isn’t the appropriate mechanism for challenging their legitimacy. Let me know in the comments below or @copyrightlately on social media. As always, I’d love to hear what you think.

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Copyright Lately

OCTOBER 6, 2024

A new lawsuit over Broadway’s Stereophonic tests copyright’s limits, as Fleetwood Mac’s former sound engineer claims the hit play copies his real-life story about working on the Rumours album. And contrary to popular belief, no one needs to acquire “life rights” to tell those stories.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 13, 2024

— Bright Data has long sold the data of all the major social media companies. — For the claims related to illegal selling of scraped data, the court dismissed those because they were preempted by copyright. As I wrote back in December, scraping claims are almost always about unwanted copying and distribution of data.

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IP Tech Blog

MAY 15, 2023

A track called “ Heart on My Sleeve ” went viral recently on social media with lead vocals sounding eerily similar to a certain crooner known for his lovelorn lyrics. This is like a watermark that a producer can place in their song to detect copying. Rather, the vocals were generated using artificial intelligence tools.

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The IPKat

APRIL 3, 2023

The IPKat has received and is pleased to host a guest contribution by Desmond Oriakhogba on the new Copyright Act 2022 signed into law by Nigeria's President. The Act introduces a new vista in Nigerian copyright law as it repeals the Copyright Act 2004.

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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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SpicyIP

JANUARY 31, 2025

Analysing the intersection of journalistic privilege and copyright law. The role of IP law in combating the spread of misinformation and disinformation. Analysing the impact of Indian copyright law on fair use in academic and critical writing. The challenges of protecting literary works in the digital age.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

The IIPA notes that China has made some progress recently, such as copyright law amendments introducing broadcasting and public performance rights for producers of sound recordings. In addition, the maximum punitive damages for copyright infringers in China was increased ten-fold. . ” Baidu.

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Copyright Lately

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

In a first-of-its-kind ruling, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has revived choreographer Kyle Hanagami’s copyright lawsuit against Fortnite’s Epic Games. Choreography is like the Rodney Dangerfield of copyright law. As always, let me know what you think in the comments below or @copyrightlately on social media.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 10, 2024

In a complaint filed at a Nashville federal court last spring , Universal Music, Sony Music, EMI and others, accused X Corp of “breeding” mass copyright infringement. The social media company allegedly failed to respond adequately to takedown notices and lacks a proper termination policy.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Watch UFC Free” These people also brazenly advertise on social media platforms to attract viewers to their pirate websites, with slogans on social media sites such as “Watch UFC Free,” McKnight notes. However, the law doesn’t define what the term expeditious entails.

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Copyright Lately

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

While the Copyright Act gives the copyright owner the exclusive right to reproduce and distribute a digital file containing a copyrighted work, there’s no such thing as the “exclusive right to mint an NFT” as far as copyright law is concerned. This is, after all, supposed to be a copyright case.

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The IP Law Blog

AUGUST 3, 2023

Embedding is the process of copying a unique HTML code assigned to the location of a digital copy of a photo or video published to the Internet, and the insertion of that code into a target webpage or social media post which enables that photo or video to be displayed within the target post. Amazon.com, Inc. ,

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The IP Law Blog

AUGUST 4, 2022

Embedding” means the process of copying unique HTML code assigned to the location of a digital copy of the photo or video published to the Internet, and the insertion of that code into a target webpage or social media post so that photo or video is linked for display within the target post. Amazon.com, Inc.

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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. Instagram, LLC , 2023 WL 4554649 (9th Cir.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 27, 2023

Copying-in-Fact. If a plaintiff can’t show mechanical copying through direct evidence, it can establish copying inferentially by showing that the defendant had access to the copyrighted work and that it’s improbable the works’ similarities were due to the defendant’s independent creation.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 6, 2024

law, online service providers must respond to takedown notices and implement a meaningful policy to terminate the accounts of repeat infringers. Many of the large social media platforms stick to these rules but, according to a lawsuit filed by several prominent music companies last year, X is not among them.

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