Dear Rich IP Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

From 1983 to 1989 a print magazine, Postcard Collector, published many articles which we would like to republish. Each issue of the print magazine had a copyright notice ("© Krause Publications, Inc.") How can I find out if the publisher actually sent copies of the magazine to the LoC to complete the process? (2)

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Copyright Lately

APRIL 30, 2021

Scott-Giles’ “Upper Hell” illustration was first published in a 1949 U.K. ” The complaint, filed in federal court in Los Angeles, claims that Nirvana infringed an illustration first published in a 1949 English language translation of Dante’s “Inferno.” copyright law. without a copyright notice.

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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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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 17, 2023

Users retain ownership of content they upload to GitHub, but grant GitHub: the “right to store, archive, parse, and display [the content], and make incidental copies, as necessary to provide the Service, including improving the Service over time.” 22-cv-7074-JST, ECF No. Not all was lost, however. Corelogic, Inc. , 3d 666, 671 (9th Cir.

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SpicyIP

JULY 1, 2021

In this post, I look at the question of the government’s copyright ownership in State Board textbooks, and its implications on access to knowledge and education. Government’s Role as Publisher and Copyright Owner. The government’s role as a publisher can allow it to set affordable prices and distribute widely.

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Velocity of Content

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The 1976 Act brought in many aspects of copyright with which we are now familiar, including codifying fair use in Section 107 (it previously had been applied on a common law basis). Of course, The Nation published the juiciest details from the memoir: Ford’s reasons for pardoning his predecessor, Richard Nixon.

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The IPKat

APRIL 8, 2022

Assuming that even if Grau was not familiar with Stoker's book when he heard the stories from the farmers in Serbia, still his decision to focus on Dracula brought him directly into contact with the copyright universe. However, there was no longer copyright protection of the book in the U.S. The movie had entered cinema oblivion.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 5, 2024

On January 1, 2024, TorrentFreak published a review of the wrongful DMCA notices filed against us in 2023, either directly via email or at Google demanding deindexing of our articles. Our small request for 2024 was not unreasonable: stop sending us bogus copyright notices. ” Interesting.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Over the course of a decade, Google copied large volumes of books and made them available online, both through excerpts, known as “snippets”, and as entire publications. As in the present context, the initial concern of copyright holders was that their consent had not been acquired by Google prior to scanning their works.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

Lawsuit Accuses Comcast of Copyright Infringement. In general terms, the new lawsuit filed against Comcast is almost a direct copy of those filed against Verizon and AT&T. The movie companies say they notified Comcast of these infringements in more than 250,000 DMCA notices. Failure to Terminate Repeat Infringers.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 14, 2024

.” Knowledge of infringement, the labels say, was established at Verizon over a period of several years during which it received “hundreds of thousands” of copyright notices, referencing instances of infringement allegedly carried out by its subscribers.

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Copyright Lately

JANUARY 13, 2023

Shortly after his “I Have a Dream” speech was delivered in August 1963, King moved for a preliminary injunction preventing record companies from selling copies of the speech. King’s memory in a way he would recognize and appreciate: read a case or two on copyright law and try extra hard not to infringe anything. What’s the difference?

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Velocity of Content

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Does the increasing use or distribution of AI-generated material raise any unique issues for your sector or industry as compared to other copyright stakeholders? AI generated materials may both advance text publishing and hinder it. Rather, such uses fall under the general copyright regime. ROSS Intelligence Inc., 529 F.Supp.3d

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Dear Rich IP Blog

JUNE 20, 2023

It appears to have been only published in the UK, and I've seen evidence the copyright was renewed in the 30's. I have a recent UK copy of the book, and it has no copyright notice. But the book is also not in Google Books or Gutenberg, which leads me to believe it's still under US copyright.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 27, 2022

Over the years we’ve published thousands of articles on copyright law, from how it works in theory to its application in full-blown lawsuits. But other copyright disputes, where infringement isn’t so obvious, can trigger new complexity and polarized legal opinions.

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Velocity of Content

JANUARY 31, 2023

This article was originally published in The Scholarly Kitchen. The making of copies to perform text and data mining, machine learning, and AI training (collectively “TDM”) without additional licensing is authorized for commercial and non-commercial purposes under CC BY , and for non-commercial purposes under CC BY-NC.

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Dear Rich IP Blog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

The PowerPoint slides may be available, viewable, and even downloadable, but that does not give you the right to copy and republish them. There's a difference between authorized end-user activity and unauthorized copying. There is no statement forbidding copying.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 23, 2022

Using the DMCA’s takedown process as a weapon, persons unknown sent copyright notices to YouTube, claiming that the targeted videos should be taken down for infringing Bungie’s rights. Earlier this year, Bungie and its enthusiastic Destiny fan community were plunged into chaos.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 29, 2023

Flores sent a DMCA 512(g) counter-notice on June 27, 2022, and filed with the CCB the next day. Prutton admitted to copying and said that his adult daughter had helped him with his website. (A His daughter submitted a declaration that she found no copyright notice on the image. A typical thing that happens in our world).

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Copyright Lately

JUNE 2, 2022

On Sedlik’s affirmative motion for summary judgment, there was no dispute that the photographer owned a valid copyright in his photo of Miles Davis or that the defendants used the image as a reference in creating the tattoo. Nike that the various elements that make up a photo (pose, lighting, camera angle, etc.)

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JANUARY 20, 2022

At the end of 2021, YouTube’s first Copyright Transparency Report 2021 (“Report”) was published. It was taken down after one hour, as it was subject to a copyright notice by a news channel relying on the US DMCA. 17 DSM Directive 2019/790 (“DSMD”). But first let’s take a look at Mars (the planet). YouTube is not neutral.

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Copyright Lately

JANUARY 16, 2022

The Ninth Circuit, which follows the majority view on joint authorship, has published model jury instructions containing a useful checklist of factors that a jury may consider in deciding joint authorship issues. The 2003 copyright notice at the bottom of the title page is in the name of Kirkman and Walker. Invincible #1.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

We do receive copyright claims based on titles or trademarks, which are invalid, and while we occasionally receive a valid claim not based on an initially authorized posting, our records indicate that we have never received a second copyright notice based on rights in the same complaining work.

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Art Law Journal

JUNE 30, 2022

However, a film of the dance moves, or drawings and descriptions of them would be copyrightable. More importantly, because the work must be tangible, that also means that an idea can’t be copyrighted , only the execution of that idea. How To Win Big In a Copyright Infringement Case. Your Copy-Rights.

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Art Law Journal

JUNE 30, 2022

However, a film of the dance moves, or drawings and descriptions of them would be copyrightable. More importantly, because the work must be tangible, that also means that an idea can’t be copyrighted , only the execution of that idea. How To Win Big In a Copyright Infringement Case. Your Copy-Rights.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

These accounts were previously targeted in copyright notices sent by the RIAA or a third party. While some trackers have banned ‘copyright infringing’ hashes , we have never seen evidence of torrent clients acting similarly. After the letter was published, the issue wasn’t raised in public again.

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Patently-O

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

. § 1202(b)(1) – an element of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) that prohibits intentional removal or alteration of copyright management information (CMI). Notably, the plaintiffs did not bring direct copyright infringement claims, instead focusing solely on alleged CMI removal.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 28, 2022

Takedown notices are a vital tool for copyright holders who want to make sure that infringing copies of their work are not widely distributed. In fact, quite a few high-profile DMCA takedown notices have been sent to the platform, including several that targeted tweets from former U.S. Takedown Notices Increase.

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Copyright Lately

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Initially distributed in the United States without the copyright notice required under the 1909 Copyright Act, the films were effectively thrust into the U.S. public domain due to noncompliance with formalities like notice, registration, or renewal. In 2025, this will include all works first published in 1929.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Two weeks ago, former President Donald Trump filed a lawsuit against journalist Bob Woodward and his publisher, Simon & Schuster (and its parent company Paramount Global, formerly known as Viacom-CBS), in U.S. The audiobook is also published on CD, and transcripts were published in paperback and ebook formats.)

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