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Digitalization And Copyright Law

IP and Legal Filings

Digital Era And Copyright Infringement- Issues Easy Accessibility Online Now days the use of internet and online based systems has increased manifolds and it is no more a complex task to gather or collect any data from the internet. Case Laws The first case in this regard is UTV Software Communication Limited v.

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Kat Von D, Think Before You Ink

IPilogue

Sedlik claims that Kat Von D infringed the copyright protection of his iconic photograph of world-famous jazz musician Miles Davis (“Davis”) when she tattooed the image onto a client’s body without authorization and posted photos of the tattoo on social media. Fischer found triable issues on substantial similarity and fair use.

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Announcing the 2021 Edition of My Internet Law Casebook

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

The book is available as a PDF at Gumroad for $10, as a Kindle ebook for $9.99, and in hard copy at Amazon for $20. The hard copy comes with a free PDF on request; and shipping should be free on Amazon Prime.] If you’re an academic and would like a free evaluation copy, please email me. Note About Fair Use.

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Generative AI: the US class action against Google Bard (and other AI tools) for web scraping

Kluwer Copyright Blog

The defendants’ wholesale collection and use of copyrighted material, with no option for copyright owners to opt out, would exceed the legal interpretation of “fair use” (see VHT vs Zillow Group , 918 F.3d 2000) (“ copying an entire work militates against a finding of fair use. ”). 4th 1149 (9th Cir.

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Yearbook Defendants Lose Two More Section 230 Rulings

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

In particular, they are having some success bending Section 230, and this genre offers some interesting considerations for folks paying attention to the privacy/230 borders. Whitepages decision , a more significant decision than I initially thought, the plaintiffs are making progress in the early rounds of their cases. Callahan v.

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Copyright Hygiene for Digital Content Creators Part VI: YouTube

Velocity of Content

In this post, I’m looking at the vast domain of the YouTube video & social media platform —which, lest we forget, is a major division of Google/Alphabet — and how its copyright aspect manifests in options for individual contributors (“YouTubers,” in the jargon). YouTube is no different in that respect.

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Copyright Office Technical Measures Consultations

43(B)log

Designed to be freely available licensed or public domain; we occasionally use fair use images where no free image is available, such as when a famous work has been destroyed. Not only are some services different from social media, one social media platform may differ very much from each other.