IP Law 360

OCTOBER 21, 2024

The publishers behind the Wall Street Journal and the New York Post have said in a new lawsuit that an artificial intelligence company is ripping off the news organizations' work, saying the AI company's "answer engine" has copied huge amounts of copyrighted material.

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IPilogue

MAY 20, 2022

Founded in 1984, the Intellectual Property Journal (IPJ) covers matters relating to all aspects of Intellectual Property such as patents, trademarks, copyright, designs, trade secrets, and related areas such as privacy. The focus of the journal is on Canadian material with a mix of comparative and international law content.

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Plagiarism Today

MARCH 8, 2022

2: ResearchGate Dealt a Blow in Copyright Lawsuit. Next up today, Diana Kwon at Nature reports that a Munich court has ruled that ResearchGate should be barred from hosting papers uploaded to it and that the site is responsible for copyright-infringing content uploaded on its platform.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 1, 2024

In this case, eight major news publications are suing OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement. In addition, ChatGPT can recall large parts of their copyright-protected articles, which effectively bypasses their paywalls. The plaintiffs show that ChatGPT can reproduce content from copyrighted news articles when prompted.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 1, 2024

In this case, eight major news publications are suing OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement. In addition, ChatGPT can recall large parts of their copyright-protected articles, which effectively bypasses their paywalls. The plaintiffs show that ChatGPT can reproduce content from copyrighted news articles when prompted.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Chloe asserted copyright claims against the management group for posting her recipes to its website. Normally I’m Team Vegan all the way, but I exit Team Chloe when I see a low-merit copyright claim like this. Whereas the latter may be entitled to copyright protection, the former plainly is not. ” Really?

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Plagiarism Today

MARCH 28, 2022

1: Supreme Court to Hear Copyright Dispute Over Andy Warhol’s Images of Musician Prince. Million Copyright Lawsuit Over Red Rat’s Song. 3: Renowned Saint Luke’s Cardiologist Sues Epic Systems Over Copyright. Have any suggestions for the 3 Count? Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday.

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IP and Legal Filings

AUGUST 6, 2024

INTRODUCTION In the world of intellectual property, copyright is an important means of protecting original works of authors. For writers, artists, musicians and other creators in India, knowing how to register their copyrights can be a valuable asset. What is Copyright? Why Should One Register Copyright?

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 3, 2022

Copyright does not apply to factual information, and the amount of copying that Katz alleges isn’t likely to create a legal case for copyright infringement. Not that alleged copying took place, but how far some are going to justify it. To be clear, this isn’t a copyright case and there isn’t a lawsuit coming.

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Patently-O

AUGUST 31, 2021

The focus of the case is copyrightability of the SAS statistical software and its outputs. SAS argues that it made a “plethora of creative choices” in developing its material, and that creativity is more than sufficient to satisfy the originality requirements of copyright law. The Federal Circuit’s Google v.

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Copyright Intellectual Property Law Intellectual Property Copyright Infringement 109

IP and Legal Filings

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

The availability of a large variety of information has also increased the risk of Copyright Infringement due to its easy accessibility and dissemination. This has led to varying degrees of copyright infringements in this digital era.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 16, 2022

It’s perfectly understandable that copyright holders don’t want pirated copies of their work circulating online. Most of the reported links are indeed problematic but copyright holders continue to make glaring errors as well. From: TF , for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more. Sony Pictures.

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SpicyIP

OCTOBER 9, 2024

She graduated from National Law University, Delhi in 2023 & enjoys reading and writing on copyright laws. Image from here Hachette Book Group v Internet Archive: Archiving Access to Information or Strengthening Copyright Laws? The NEL was held to be a derivative work, and the Archive’s lending practices violative of copyright law.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Academic integrity and plagiarism issues in this context ultimately also lead us to copyright law. Or do students expose themselves to liability for copyright infringement when using GenAI output? I. GenAI at odds with copyright law? Figure 1 – Microsoft Copilot reproducing an excerpt of a copyright-protected work.

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JD Supra Law

JANUARY 9, 2024

Copyright infringement is a significant problem for operators of news websites. As any journalism organization knows, producing original news content is a costly endeavor.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2022

In August 2022, the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Research and Innovation published a study on EU copyright and related rights and access to and reuse of scientific publications, including open access. Current EU copyright framework. In this post, its author provides a brief outline.

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Patently-O

JANUARY 4, 2024

2024) A recent copyright infringement lawsuit filed by small Boston intellectual property boutique Hsuanyeh Law Group PC (HLG) against international giant Winston & Strawn LLP focuses a dividing line that can highlight when copying the work of another firm is permissible. HLG ultimately filed suit for copyright infringement.

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Velocity of Content

MAY 11, 2023

CCC recently assembled a panel of expert leaders in publishing and medical communications for a broad discussion on copyright as it pertains to the work of medical communications professionals. If a journal article is published as Open Access, can I reuse it? What can a company do to be more copyright compliant?

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IP Law 360

JUNE 10, 2022

A prominent investment manager is accused of illegally copying and distributing thousands of news articles from the Wall Street Journal and Barron's publications owned by Dow Jones & Co., according to a copyright lawsuit filed Friday in Texas federal court.

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Velocity of Content

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Fast-paced organizations that rely on and invest heavily in R&D should not only regard published content as the heart of innovation, but also possess a deep appreciation of the system of copyright protecting this intellectual property. How Do Different Departments Use the Annual Copyright License?

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Michael Geist

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Canadian copyright lobby groups have spent years falsely claiming that educational institutions refuse to pay for licences to compensate for the use of educational materials. The truth is that Canadian universities spend millions of dollars on licensing copyright materials.

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Velocity of Content

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

When you’re working in a fast-paced, but small life sciences company, there’s a chance your organization hasn’t thought about a copyright policy (yet). To harness some of these issues, we recommend implementing a copyright policy by following these six steps. Be clear on why your organization is implementing a copyright policy.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

.” ‘Hired Guns Don’t Stop Evolving Technology’ The OpenAI defendants continue their motion to dismiss by noting that AI is yet another technical evolution that will change the world, including journalism. However, OpenAI notes that the suggestion that its activities threaten journalism is overblown, or even fiction.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MARCH 13, 2024

The purpose of copyright, at its very basic level, finds its normative implementation in the interplay between access to protected works and the protection of the moral and material interest of creators (see Geiger, 2017 ). From this constitutional dimension of copyright emerged the notion of ‘user rights’ ( Geiger, 2020 ).

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash Welcome to the third trimester of the 2023 round up of EU copyright law! In this edition, we update you on what has happened between July and September 2023 in EU copyright law. In this case, the video game publishers are the copyright holders for the video games in the entire EU and EEA.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 30, 2023

The new technology also brings up novel copyright questions. How these and other copyright questions will be dealt with is not entirely clear. According to the authors, ChatGPT was partly trained on their copyrighted works, without permission. Governments around the world are taking different approaches, with U.S.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 4, 2024

In 2022, a platform called Pirate Library Mirror appeared on the scene, courting controversy right from the start after obtaining a full copy of Z-Library before the site’s legal troubles began. “We deliberately violate the copyright law in most countries. All things considered, that seems unlikely.

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Velocity of Content

OCTOBER 4, 2022

While the US policy differs from Plan S in that it purports to be “agnostic” toward business models, the end result, the flipping of hybrid/subscription journals to fully-OA, may be the same. In a similar vein, the vague economic analysis in the OSTP memo contains the following statement: “Libraries pay for journal subscriptions.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 14, 2021

For more than a decade, copyright holders have been able to file an application for High Court injunctions that compel Internet service providers to block infringing sites in the UK. Additional copyright holders have also blocked sites that offer live sports and publishing content such as scientific papers and books.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 17, 2022

When copyright holders discuss online piracy, they often highlight the associated losses. A new paper published in the Balkan Journal of Social Sciences tries to provide some insight into the matter. From: TF , for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more. However, not all pirated downloads equal a loss.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

For more than a decade copyright holders of all kinds have approached the UK High Court with applications for website blocking injunctions. From: TF , for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more. Applicants have included entities such as the BPI (representing the major music labels) and the MPA (movies and TV shows).

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Velocity of Content

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

The following is an excerpt from the article “The Heart of the Matter: Copyright, AI Training, and LLMs,” authored by Daniel Gervais (Milton R. The full article can be read in the Journal of the Copyright Society. 7 When copyrighted works are used, AI systems typically make copies of the works to train and power AI outputs.

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IP Law 360

AUGUST 24, 2022

s copyright infringement suit accusing him of unlawfully copying and distributing thousands of news articles from The Wall Street Journal, arguing that his actions are protected under fair use. A prominent investment manager has asked a Texas federal judge to dismiss Dow Jones & Co.'s

Fair Use 75

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Art Law Journal

JANUARY 21, 2021

It is a common misperception that you cannot copyright a building design. At that time, anyone could reproduce buildings that looked identical to those created by others, as long as they didn’t actually use copied drawings to build them. The post Copyright for Architectural Designs appeared first on Art Business Journal.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Copyright contract law (Sections 31 et seqq. German copyright law stipulates that the author is entitled to appropriate remuneration for every use of their work (Section 32 UrhG). These provisions served as, among other things, models for Articles 18 and 20 in the new DSM Copyright Directive (2019/790).

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IP and Legal Filings

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Good artists borrow, Great artists steal ’ , however no matter how beautifully portrayed, might aptly land you a hefty copyright infringement suit in contemporary times. ” The composer of a musical composition is the exclusive owner of the work’s copyright. INTRODUCTION. Image Source: Shutterstock].

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IP Law 360

MARCH 20, 2023

copyright laws in a suit accusing it of copying more than a hundred Wall Street Journal, MarketWatch and Mansion Global articles without paying for them. A New York federal judge has ruled that a Chinese real estate listing website's use of Amazon's web servers is enough to force it to face claims that it broke U.S.

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