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The Five Essential Copyright-Related Terms You Need to Know

Kashishipr

Do you think about the fight between musicians concerning stolen or copied song lyrics? Or perhaps downloading a pirated movie is Copyright Infringement ? The copyright owner or holder has the right to control who uses his creative work and the contexts in which the said work could be used.

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Fleshing out the copyright in a tattoo

IP Whiteboard

From some general Google searching, it seems common for people to download pictures of works they like and bring them to their tattooist to copy. Clients often request direct reproductions of imagery they have downloaded. This leads to a number of questions: Is it copyright infringement to copy a work and use it as a tattoo?

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Some Thoughts on Five Pending AI Litigations – Avoiding Squirrels and Other AI Distractions

Velocity of Content

After all, while we are pondering the weighty issue of future ownership, we are not focusing on the fundamental issue of wholesale copying of works to train AI in a wide variety of situations. This, of course, could be an accident based on true intellectual curiosity, but I do not believe it. is being used as code. Case 2- Anderson, et al.

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Metadata Ruling Gives YouTube a Timely Boost in Content ID Lawsuit

TorrentFreak

As part of that process, the original images were downloaded from the hotels’ servers and converted to a faster-loading format used by the travel agents. Copies of his images also appeared on other websites, again without the metadata. The conversion from one format to another meant that metadata was sometimes lost.

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When is a derivative work original and thus protectable by copyright? Classicist’s critical edition makes its way to Luxembourg in fresh Romanian CJEU referral

The IPKat

In 2017, the Regional Court of Bucharest held that the defendants had infringed the professor’s moral right of attribution. However, as I also discuss here , the CJEU has likely de facto recomprised such right within the broader right of reproduction. The decision was upheld on appeal. When the CJEU decides Institutul G.

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A New Brick in the Wall: Barcelona Commercial Court grants preliminary injunction against NFTs infringing copyright

LexBlog IP

More in detail, VEGAP acted on behalf of the rightsholders of the works by Mirò, Tàpies and Barcelò, alleging that this unauthorized use of “Oiseau volant vers le soleil” and “Tète et Oiseau”, “Ulls i Creu” and “Esgrafiats” and “Dilatation” infringed both moral rights (right (..)

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The Modern Copyright Dilemma: Digital Content Ownership and Access

IP and Legal Filings

Before the digital era, copyright protected tangible art or works, allowing authors to easily regulate usage, copies, and earnings. Secure Distribution is a means of distributing digital content using encrypted codes which prohibit copying and limits the number of devices a product can be accessed from.