Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 16, 2021

In 2019, Artem Stoliarov, a Russian DJ whose stage name is Arty, filed a lawsuit before the US District Court for the Central District of California, alleging that Marshmello’s song ‘ Happier ’ copied the synthesizer melody from his 2014 remix of OneRepublic’s ‘I Lived’ (OneRepublic is an American pop rock band). by Tito Rendas. €

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TorrentFreak

JULY 14, 2024

In the belief that the curriculum contains information supportive of the group’s cause and in the wider public interest, it’s alleged that Parrish set out to obtain a copy. He also improperly obtained and posted a digital copy of the entire LifeWise Curriculum.” is the author, not LifeWise, Inc., And so it begins.

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IP Law 360

JULY 18, 2023

The Ninth Circuit ruled Monday that copyright registration of a derivative work covers elements shared by earlier unregistered versions, recognizing a management consultant's right to sue a software company for allegedly copying both iterations of a teaching tool she claims to have created.

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LexBlog IP

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

The plaintiff owns copyright registrations for its Second Holy Temple Product and its photograph of its Second Holy Temple Product (the “Copyright Registrations”). Under the Copyright Act of 1976, a copyright registration creates a rebuttable presumption that the copyright is valid.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 17, 2024

The plaintiff gets an expensive lesson in the law of derivative works. * * * UIRC offers bonds using a private placement memorandum (PPM) and an indenture of trust. UIRC obtained copyright registrations for two versions of its documents. Instead, it copied much of the language from the Idaho materials. See, e.g., White v.

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Kashishipr

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Each work has various rights, such as theatrical rights, distribution rights, rental rights, broadcasting rights, rights related to adoption and translation, rights to prepare derivative works, and so on, each of which can be exploited separately. These rights can be disjointedly assigned for a limited term or perpetually.

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Kashishipr

JUNE 16, 2021

Theft of Copyright: Generally, Copyright Infringement happens when an original film or artwork or musical work, or software code is reproduced (in whole or part) bearing similarity to the original work or has multiple and identifiable elements copied in a derivative work.

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Kashishipr

JULY 13, 2022

The copyright-related questions arise with the extent to which the content in the AR field shall be registrable. The quantum of the original expression essential to qualify a creative work for Copyright Protection is undoubtedly low. We shall be discussing the same in the following segments. Public Display and Performance.

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More Than Your Mark

AUGUST 27, 2021

Only the copyright owner has the right to make copies, distribute copies, perform, display, or make derivative works of the copyrighted work. A copyright lasts for the life of the author plus 70 years (for works made for hire, 95 years from when they are first published). But in the U.S.,

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 9, 2023

The biggest copyright law question in the EU and US is probably whether using in-copyright works to train generative AI models is copyright infringement or falls under the transient and temporary copying and TDM exceptions (in the EU) or fair use (in the US).

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SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Hulm Entertainment alleged Fantasy Sports had substantially copied its ‘original trading and stock features’ along with the graphical user interface (GUI) of their fantasy sports mobile application “Exchange22”. The SB then assessed whether Hulm Entertainment’s GUI can be protected as a work in itself.

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43(B)log

AUGUST 4, 2023

At the same time, the risk of copying essentially went away. So now, we have lots of protection for implementation where we don’t need it and no protection for interfaces where new entrants can easily be copied. Big difference is the direction of copying. Thinks there’s too much copying—why would anyone buy when they could copy?

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Types of IPR for Software Protection in India Copyright – According to Copyrights Act, 1957; Copyright grants the exclusive rights, to perform certain actions regarding a work or its substantial part. This applies to literary, dramatic, musical, artistic works, computer programs, cinematograph films, and sound recordings.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

JANUARY 16, 2024

Copyrights: Copyrights protect original works of authorship such as software codes, artistic creations, literature, music, films, etc. Startups can secure copyrights to prevent unauthorized copying or distribution of their creative works. This means that no one else can copy or distribute their creations without permission.

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LexBlog IP

JULY 21, 2021

It can also mean as the proxy or substitute holder of rights here on earth because no spiritual being will receive a copyright certificate, trademark registrations, or letters patent. courts have denied registration to religious marks as being offensive to other believers or to non-believers. ” But neither the PTO nor U.S.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

Hughes: increasing registrations for women at the © office compared to other metrics where women are disadvantaged—ownership of stock, real property, presence on corporate boards, patent ownership which then translates to being in a startup. Looking at post-1978, 9 th , 2d, and 6 th Cir (Motown) and SCt; copying and use without license.

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IP Tech Blog

JANUARY 4, 2023

Given that NFTs are the result of digital work that is transported in images, videos, photography and other forms of digital media, copyright seems to be the closest IP right to protect both the source code of the digital work, as well as its derivative works. Is this the same in the US and China? The United States.

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Intepat

OCTOBER 7, 2022

However, suppose the designer chooses only to follow Section 15 of the copyright registration procedures and implements this registration for his use. Further, Section 11 states that the term of the Copyright in design is ten years from registration, which may be extended further for five years. Protection of an Artistic Work–.

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Art Law Journal

JUNE 30, 2022

Although copyright registration is not required, there are several benefits to doing so. To see more on the benefits of copyright registration, see Stop, Thief! Your Copy-Rights. Trademark Registration. So even a phrase as original as “M&Ms melt in your mouth, not in your hands‚” does not have copyright protection.

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Intepat

OCTOBER 7, 2022

However, if the designer chooses to follow Section 15 of the Copyright registration procedures and implements this registration for industrial actions, the designer will be able to benefit from design protection up to the object’s 50th reproduction. Protection of an Artistic Work–. Registration–. Registration–.

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Garrigues Blog

MAY 11, 2021

351 by the Andean Community Commission, protects different forms of expression of architectural works: illustrations, maps, drawings, plans, sketches, scale models, drafts and plastic works related to architecture, and also derivative works. Right of paternity: the right to claim authorship of the work.

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LexBlog IP

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

In the first instance, Judge Orrick dismissed the copyright claims by Ortiz and McKernan with prejudice for lack of a valid copyright registration (a prerequisite to suit), and further narrowed Andersen’s copyright claims to only those images that had been registered with the Copyright Office at the time the suit was filed.

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Art Law Journal

JUNE 30, 2022

Although copyright registration is not required, there are several benefits to doing so. To see more on the benefits of copyright registration, see Stop, Thief! Your Copy-Rights. Trademark Registration. So even a phrase as original as “M&Ms melt in your mouth, not in your hands‚” does not have copyright protection.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Plaintiffs want and expect Google to copy and display their websites in Chrome browser and Search App, and acknowledge that Google has license to do so.” Thus, other cases have applied conversion law to alleged theft of domain name registrations (e.g., ” Wait, what? We need to know more about this license.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 4, 2023

Given that NFTs are the result of digital work that is transported in images, videos, photography and other forms of digital media, copyright seems to be the closest IP right to protect both the source code of the digital work, as well as its derivative works. Is this the same in the US and China? The United States.

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43(B)log

AUGUST 11, 2021

Courts don’t do really prong one beyond assessing access (not independently assessing copying). Derivative works? The indicators used by the claimants don’t measure innovation; TM registration counts aren’t innovation. Questions: how does this doctrine interact with concurrent registrations?

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Copyright Lately

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

First, he rejected the Trump campaign’s argument that a copyright in the “Electric Avenue” sound recording wasn’t validly registered at the time of the video’s release, finding that a 2002 registration of a greatest hits compilation covered the recording.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

105 , as a “work of the United States Government”? Fourth, if not, can Trump circumvent the registration requirement by seeking a declaratory judgment, or will he have to comply with the registration requirement? If the work was published with proper copyright notice, it received a federal statutory copyright.

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