Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

” Google LLC’s copying of approximately 11,000 lines of code from the Java SE application programming interface to create the Android mobile operating system was a fair use of that material as a matter of law and did not support copyright infringement by the code’s owner, Oracle America, Inc., Case number: No.

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IPilogue

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Other times, we looked at diagrams from an older edition of a textbook that were “much better for the purposes of our class.” Despite its benefits, copying materials can present consequences for the content’s owners, artists, and publishers. As Abella J. Where do theses cases leave Canadian educators now?

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

A journalist used Midjourney to illustrate an article in The Atlantic and was attacked on social media for not hiring an illustrator. Text and data mining There is wide disparity in the scope of exceptions in national copyright laws permitting copying for the use of training AI.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 17, 2024

There was no question about the copying–the revised William Blair documents sloppily retained references to UIRC). Despite UIRC’s copyright registrations, the court says the UIRC’s edits aren’t copyrightable: UIRC did not independently create most of the language in the documents at issue. See, e.g., White v.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

We removed 665,898 pieces of content in response to these takedown notices,” the company reveals in the latest edition of its transparency report. These figures represent a substantial increase over those published for 2020. under the doctrine of fair use. This represents an increase of 104% from 2020.

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SpicyIP

JULY 29, 2021

The Copyright section of the Report opens by stating that the ‘widely-scoped’ exceptions to infringement under Section 52 pose a ‘detrimental impact on the publishing industry and authors’. Limitations on storage of copied works in digital formats. Watering down Section 52(1). Bench decision).

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

Our family home always had the latest edition. You see, when I was growing up, computers took up entire rooms and content was published on paper – books, newspapers, magazines, and yes, sometimes even broadcast on television or radio. Copying was tedious. Copying took effort. That was then, this is now.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 25, 2023

Emulator programs are typically used in conjunction with ROM files, which contain data extracted from physical copies of video games. Because of this, console manufacturer and major publisher Nintendo has been successful in taking legal action under US law to compel the shutdown of ROM hosting websites (see here and here ).

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 23, 2024

The organization literally archives key parts of the Internet, copying older versions of websites to preserve them for future generations. The organization doesn’t license authorized digital copies from publishers; instead, its books are scanned and digitized in-house. IA has plenty of other archive projects too.

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Copyright Lately

APRIL 3, 2023

The future of “controlled digital lending” is in doubt after a court rules that the Internet Archive’s online library is not protected by fair use. When the electronic version is “checked out,” the physical copy is taken out of circulation. ” What is Controlled Digital Lending?

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43(B)log

AUGUST 11, 2021

Atlantic Monthly first published Twain’s work, credited to him alone, in 1874. No evidence of express consent; is telling it in front of him implied consent for him to publish it in his name w/no payment? Twain gave her a signed & inscribed copy after publication, which descendants donated to UMd decades back.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Would also be interested in what the cultural norms are: are there anti-copying/divergence expectations? Plays often circulate in different editions—reading editions, acting editions, etc. Very few publishers print in all these formats. By defining layouts, publisher can affect reception of a play.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

.” So what is the current legal situation regarding the use of publicly available copyrighted works for the purpose of training ML systems? This post was first published on the Open Future blog. [1] This post was first published on the Open Future blog. [1] New forms of collective action? The future of copyright?

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

Hughes: if publisher can’t get sequel rights, then it will insist on getting the film rights and impoverish authors. Said: Framing it as “the woman question” is rhetorically tricky and still positions women as the problem—why not “the copyright question: woman edition”? Sometimes add content warnings instead of edits.

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43(B)log

DECEMBER 20, 2022

The 2001 Documentary “sold 50,000 copies in two weeks and revolutionized the Baltimore dirt-bike culture,” inspiring a sequel and plans to make a third film. Plaintiffs allegedly used the 12 O’Clock Boyz trademarks since 2001 and registered the marks in 2016. Plus, the 2001 Documentary was already published.

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43(B)log

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Gannett did not use the screenshot of the Sowers photo on Ad Meter, but instead on webpages promoting Ad Meter. Each publisher defendant separately determined which content it accessed on Presto to use for its websites and in its publications; their webpages that included the screenshot of the Sowers photo would have displayed ads.

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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. In 2012, US NASA’s robotic rover touched down on Mars. This news channel had used the (open source) NASA video for its own news video and ended up raising unjustified claims against other copies on YouTube, including NASA’s original video.

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

VIP Products, on the other hand, argued that their toy was protected under the doctrine of “fair use” as it was being used in a non-trademark sense, and that it was not likely to cause confusion among consumers. News America Publishing, Inc.], Acuff-Rose Music] , 510 U.S. 267,] 280 (SDNY 1992)]).

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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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43(B)log

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Fair use can rarely be decided on a motion to dismiss, the court said, and this wasn’t one of those cases. Here, “the video’s overarching political purpose does not automatically render its use of any non-political work transformative.” Here, there was no editing of the “lyrics, vocals, or instrumentals at all.”

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