IP Watchdog

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Sheeran affirming the Southern District of New York’s dismissal of copyright infringement claims filed against British singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran over his 2014 single “Thinking Out Loud.” Late last week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit issued a ruling in Structured Asset Sales, LLC v.

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Velocity of Content

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Just three short years ago, copyright litigation discussions centered around whether it is fair use to copy declaring code or make unlicensed use of Lynn Goldsmiths photographs of Prince. How AI technologies intersect with copyright was but a twinkle in most judicial systems eyes. The vast majority of U.S.

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Copyright Lately

OCTOBER 27, 2024

Model Gigi Hadid defaults in a copyright lawsuit over an Instagram post, leading to a judgment of only $3,000 in damages. Gigi Hadid’s post of sister Bella resulted in the fourth copyright infringement lawsuit filed against her. Gigi Hadid is no stranger to copyright lawsuits. Was it a savvy strategy or just a lucky break?

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 4, 2022

This prompted Alexander to file a lawsuit against Take-Two, claiming copyright infringement of her work. He called an earlier decision in the case one of the 5 worst copyright decisions in 2020 and, with the jury verdict, called it a loss for bodily autonomy and free speech. Instead, she only won actual damages totaling $3,750.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 29, 2025

As perhaps all readers are aware by now, the GenAI Copyright litigations have made their presence known in India. As discussed earlier , ANI had filed a copyright lawsuit against Open AI in the Delhi High Court. With that said, as Lee et al point out, Copyright issues can arise at every stage of the supply chain.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 29, 2025

We Might Know Soon The 3rd issue framed by the Court will deal with the question of fair use, wherein the question is whether using the plaintiff’s data or copyrighted content constitutes fair use under Section 52 of the Copyright Act. How Does a Model Learn from its Training Data?

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The IPKat

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Kat friend Hans Eriksson discusses an interesting decision (only available in Swedish) concerning copyright protection and originality, namely whether the sequence of twenty words in an instruction manual may be regarded as being enough for copyright to arise. Remaining hooks are evenly distributed over the roof.”

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Copyright Lately

OCTOBER 20, 2024

million in copyright damages against Skiplagged—but the website’s business model remains largely unaffected. Yes, there was a copyright infringement claim in the mix, based on Skiplagged’s use of American’s “flight symbol” logo. This left the copyright claim over the unauthorized use of American’s flight symbol logo.

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Michael Geist

AUGUST 5, 2021

Last week’s Supreme Court of Canada copyright decision in Access Copyright v. York University has unsurprisingly been applauded by the education community, which having faced years of litigation launched by the copyright collective, now finds its position vindicated. The same was true after the Access Copyright v.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Katfriends Adrian Aronsson-Storrier and Oliver Fairhurst from Lewis Silkin report on recent litigation in the UK against the developers of AI generation software. This litigation has arisen amongst a flurry of recent interest in AI generated works. What is AI image generation software?

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 11, 2021

Earlier this week, independent fashion designer Bailey Prado took to Instagram to call attention to a different fashion label that, according to her, copied her “whole life.” For example, items that may sell on Prado’s website for up to $300 typical appear as copies on Shein’s app for less than $20. .”

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Plagiarism Today

MAY 18, 2022

When it comes to free stock photography websites, there are two reasons that are most commonly cited as issues: Copyright – Free stock photography sites, in general, allow virtually anyone to upload images. As such, the risk of copying images is only rising, and it may be a good time to seek out alternatives. The Reasons Given.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 24, 2023

Adult entertainment outfit Malibu Media has often been characterized as a copyright-trolling operation. Tables Turned Not too long ago Malibu was one of the most active anti-piracy litigants in the U.S., The Los Angeles company, known for its popular “X-Art” brand, has gone after thousands of alleged file-sharers in U.S.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 4, 2022

This case involves copyright protection for fireworks systems–a relevant topic for July 4th! Pyrotechnics registered a copyright in its protocol and sued FireTek for copyright infringement. ” Pyrotechnics’ copyright registration then starts to fall apart. .”

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2021

It has cratered into a fireball of litigation that doomed the restaurant chain (e.g., It’s so complicated that the judge made an appendix recapping the status of dozens of claims: This post focuses on a sliver of the sprawling litigation empire. this article ) and is now generating truckloads of cash for many lawyers.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JULY 20, 2022

Since the underlying asset in NFTs is primarily art, disputes in relation to NFTs bring up interesting questions pertaining to copyright law, the answers to which have the potential to shape the evolution and growth of NFTs as a medium to create, distribute and collect art. The Right to Create and Sell NFTs. The reproduction right.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

The Internet Archive is widely known for its Wayback Machine, which preserves copies of the web for future generations. Several record labels including Sony and UMG, sued the Internet Archive for copyright infringement in Manhattan federal court last year. The Great 78 Project is illegal,” they state.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

In recent years, adult entertainment outfit Malibu Media has often been described as a copyright-trolling operation. Not too long ago Malibu was one of the most active anti-piracy litigants in the U.S., These include misuse of copyright, fair use, unclean hands, and excessive damages. Fifteen in total.

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The IPKat

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

, this Kat was delighted to review Performing Copyright: Law, Theatre and Authorship by Dr Luke McDonagh (Assistant Professor of Law at LSE Law School). This is the first academic monograph that solely considers the relationship between UK copyright law and historical and contemporary theatre. And who poses moral rights in the work?

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

1: Megan Roup Seeks Dismissal in Fitness Routine Copyright, Contract Lawsuit. First off today, The Fashion Law reports that trainer Megan Roup has filed for the dismissal of a lawsuit filed by fellow trainer Tracy Anderson over allegedly copyright-infringing exercise routines. Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday. However, L.L.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

JANUARY 11, 2023

The SCPA legally protects layouts of integrated circuits upon registration, making them illegal to copy without permission. Registration of a mask work with the Copyright Office provides certain legal benefits, including the ability to bring a lawsuit for infringement of the mask work. Compendium: Chapter 1200, sections 1201-1202.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 6, 2022

This includes some that are labeled as pirate sites or otherwise find themselves accused of copyright infringement. These sites allegedly sell infringing copies of his copyrighted works as posters and other merchandise. The cloud hosting provider notes that it is the latest target in this “litigation strategy.”

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Michael Geist

JULY 20, 2022

For much of the past two decades, copyright groups have steadfastly sought to deny what the Supreme Court of Canada has repeatedly endorsed, namely that the purpose of Canadian copyright law is to serve the public interest by balancing users’ and authors’ rights. ” The decision – SOCAN v. In the 2012 ESA v.

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Plagiarism Today

APRIL 25, 2022

1: Dan + Shay, Justin Bieber Sued for ‘10,000 Hours’ Copyright Infringement. First off today, Mathew Lemkuehler at The Tennessean reports that a new lawsuit claims the song 10,000 Hours , performed by Dan + Shay and Justin Bieber, is a copyright infringement of an earlier work. Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday.

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Velocity of Content

JANUARY 7, 2025

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. 1 Where does the law come down on the creation of LLMs, both in the input and output of existing copyrighted materials?

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Velocity of Content

DECEMBER 4, 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. This has been a long-standing question in copyright law. 16 This has been a long-standing question in copyright.

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Copyright Lately

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Ross Intelligence will get plenty of second looks from courts deciding fair use in generative AI copyright cases. As a threshold issue, Judge Bibas found that Westlaws headnotes were original enough for copyright protection. And independent creation simply means you created it yourself, without copying. Highly fact-specific.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 17, 2024

This applies to photographers, artists, music companies, journalists, and authors, some of whom formed groups to file copyright infringement lawsuits to protect their rights. Authors sued NVIDIA Earlier this year, several authors sued NVIDIA over alleged copyright infringement. The authors clearly have a different take.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 24, 2024

As developers of generative AI models and services continue to progress at a startling pace, it was only a question of when the RIAA would select the perfect litigation candidate, for the purpose of drawing a line in the sand. The companies “did not deny or proffer any facts to undermine those allegations. .

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Michael Geist

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Last month, the Canadian Federation of Library Associations released a much-needed statement that sought to counter the ongoing misinformation campaign from copyright lobby groups regarding the state of Canadian copyright and the extensive licensing by libraries and educational institutions. York University ruling.

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IP Watchdog

AUGUST 22, 2021

After a decade of litigation across two continents and an unpaid multi-million-dollar judgment, the parties are once again in court. This time, however, WPL’s arguments pose grave dangers to all owners of other copyrighted works. WPL did not try to compete with SAS by building a different or better product.

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Patently-O

AUGUST 25, 2021

The next big software copyright case is before the Federal Circuit in the form of SAS Institute, Inc. The litigation has substantial parallels to Google v. In Google , the Supreme Court found fair-use but did not decide the issue of copyrightability. SAS sued in E.D.Tex for both copyright infringement and patent infringement.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

In order to train their technologies, should AI companies be allowed to use works under copyright protection without consent? Such uses, they argue, constitute copyright infringement. In this regard, an important precedent lies in the history of US litigation involving Google Books. Fair Use Precedent?

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IP Watchdog

JULY 28, 2022

In a recently filed suit involving the popular videogame Fortnite, the Central District of California faces an important question regarding copyright law: does a copyright in a registered choreographic work extend protection to a smaller portion of the work when that portion is copied by a third party and implemented as a dance move in a video game?

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Copyright Lately

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Remembering another frustrating year with a countdown of 2021’s most unsatisfying copyright rulings. Here are my personal picks for the copyright opinions from 2021 that, much like the year itself, leave a little something to be desired. Walt Disney Company.

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IP Watchdog

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

One recurring thorn in the side of copyright owners is Cloudflare, the San Francisco-based web performance, optimization, and security company. When an end user requests content from one of Cloudflare’s customers, it is delivered to that user from the cached copy on the nearest Cloudflare server—not the customer’s own web host server.

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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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