TorrentFreak

MAY 24, 2022

Terms such as DMCA, copyright strike and fair use are now regular features in YouTube content creator communities but that hasn’t necessarily led to fewer infringements or happier rightsholders. These heavily edited copies of mainstream movies aim to summarize key plot lines via voice-over narration in about 10 minutes.

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IP Tech Blog

MARCH 28, 2023

A federal district court in New York held that the Internet Archive’s Open Library project was engaging in copyright infringement by publishing digital copies of millions of books online. The court engaged in an extensive analysis of whether the purpose and character of Internet Archive’s use was transformative. of America v.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 12, 2021

Sinclair owns a bunch of television stations. means to show a copy of it, either directly or by means of a film, slide, television image, or any other device or process or, in the case of a motion picture or other audiovisual work, to show individual images nonsequentially.”. Fair use : The court also grapples with fair use.

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Copyright Lately

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

In May, State Farm filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit (read here) , arguing that Atari was “seeking a windfall for the inadvertent and fleeting use of a decades-old arcade game.” The Fair Use Defense The court also denied State Farm’s motion to dismiss Atari’s copyright claim based on the fair use defense.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 25, 2024

Internet Archive’s theory of fair use represents a threat just as grave.” ” According to the amici, there is nothing fair about IA’s digital library; instead, they see it as “unambiguous copyright infringement.” Thus, its actions are decidedly not protected by fair use,” their brief reads.

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 28, 2023

A federal district court in New York held that the Internet Archive’s Open Library project was engaging in copyright infringement by publishing digital copies of millions of books online. The court engaged in an extensive analysis of whether the purpose and character of Internet Archive’s use was transformative.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2021

The Doctrine of Fair Use is a concept that originates from the case of Folsom vs. Marsh. Justice Story observed in his judgement, when the courts of law decide on cases like this, they must look to the nature and objects of the selection mode, the quantity and value of material used. Percentage of Original Material Used.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2022

2K Games rejected similar infringement claims on the basis of de minimis use, implied license, and fair use. To briefly summarize, the court left the fair use question entirely to the jury, despite its own pre-trial order and the Supreme Court’s recent decision in Google v.

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Copyright Lately

MAY 17, 2021

And putting aside its pure entertainment value, the sketch also raises some interesting questions about just how much of an original work may be taken before parodic fair use crosses the line into copyright infringement. The Supreme Court’s seminal fair use decision, Campbell v.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 30, 2022

Finally, it points out Viacom is the owner of three valid trademark registrations for the KRUSTY KRAB mark and 400 copyright registrations covering “creative aspects of the SpongeBob SquarePants franchise,” including episodes from the animated television series, movies, drawings, and stylebooks featuring artwork from the franchise.

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IPilogue

DECEMBER 20, 2021

While most creators support fandoms, with some even regularly appearing at fan conventions , the line between appreciating a creator’s work and copying can be blurred. Cosplay (or “costume play”) is the act of dressing up as a character, often from anime, video games, comics, television, or film.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 19, 2024

Instead of focusing on alleged hacking practices, the company led with Jack Valenti’s ‘Boston Strangler’ analogy, part of an all-out effort by television and movie producers to stop a groundbreaking new technology. Microsoft filed a separate motion to dismiss. Hollywood was ultimately unable to stop the VCR.

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Velocity of Content

OCTOBER 19, 2021

wrote into the statute) the well-known four fair use factors which provide guidance for assessing whether, in cases of alleged infringement, an unauthorized use ought to be considered a fair use. One section of the new law, Section 107, codified (i.e.,

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IPilogue

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Netflix also holds the position that Barlow and Bear “ copied liberally and nearly identically ” the elements of expression, dialogue, characters, and key plot points from Bridgerton. Ironically enough, if this case was filed in Bridgerton home territory, the UK, Barlow and Bear may attempt to use the defence of parody and pastiche.

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Copyright Lately

OCTOBER 6, 2024

A new lawsuit over Broadway’s Stereophonic tests copyright’s limits, as Fleetwood Mac’s former sound engineer claims the hit play copies his real-life story about working on the Rumours album. In that case, the court ruled in Adjmi’s favor because 3C was a parody of the sitcom and protected by fair use.

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The IP Law Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Those arguments were that (1) Take-Two’s use of the tattoos was authorized by an implied license, (2) the fair use doctrine insulates their utilization of the tattoos and (3) the tattoos constitute a de minimis part of the video game. The District Court also found that the use was not fair use.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 26, 2023

So-called ‘cam’ copies appear online within hours of movies first appearing in theaters, yet as piracy releases go, cams are unique in their ability to disappoint just about everyone. For the last 40 years the Motion Picture Association has regularly highlighted the damage caused by in-theater recordings of the latest movies.

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Copyright Lately

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Despite a number of solid affirmative defenses—including implied license, de minimis use and waiver—the jury was only asked to determine whether defendants had proven that their conduct qualified as a fair use under the Copyright Act. This left only the fair use defense remaining for the jury.

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IPilogue

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Television producers need to be careful to ensure that they are not mimicking real-life businesses too closely to offer their fictitious shows some realism. The real-life tax company “Liberty Tax” claims that the show copied its logo and style, including the Statue of Liberty, which is a frequent identifier of the company.

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SpicyIP

JULY 29, 2021

Limitations on storage of copied works in digital formats. To put things in perspective, even the most IP-friendly jurisdiction of US in Cambridge v. Becker has held 10% copying to be fair use in most cases, on top of the flexible ‘ Amount & substantiality ’ factor test in its fair use doctrine.

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Dear Rich IP Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Is it fair use to use the entire unclipped episode, if, throughout my recording, I am making commentary on the episode I am watching? Your project may qualify as fair use. A judge, when determining fair use, must consider four factors the purpose and character of your use. The factors?

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SpicyIP

JUNE 26, 2024

On a broad reading, there seems to be an obvious conflict of two areas of law, where the RPwD Act mandates fundamental access to all content but the Copyright Act grants the author the right to control how their works are copied. It is necessary to note that the original work that is converted into an accessible copy must be acquired legally.

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Kashishipr

JUNE 9, 2021

With the onset of the trend wherein users are gradually switching to online streaming to meet their music needs and discarding traditional methods such as radio, television, and music CDs, compulsory licensing for the internet was recognized as a key policy issue by the music industry last year.

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

The application relies on the IPTV technology (Internet Protocol over Television) which provides delivery of audio/visual/graphic/textual data over IP-based networks. In effect, since DRM impacts the very design of the content, access for legitimate/fair use such as criticism, parody, educational purposes, etc.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2021

This is the initial copying design (without of the background graphics in the precedent work): The copyright registrant alleged this copying design constituted copyright infringement. Signal 23 Television v. Anthony, 2020 WL 11206863 (N.D. Prior Posts on Section 512(f). Longarzo. * Another 512(f) Case Fails–Handshoe v.

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 8, 2023

modification, and other forms of copying of the work fall under this category. A product or piece of information may be easily copied thanks to modern technology, and some businesses get a significant portion of their income from copying what other businesses have produced. Rameshwari photocopy services & ors. The Tips v.

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Velocity of Content

DECEMBER 4, 2024

14 It can be argued that the massive copying of protected works to train and fine-tune LLMs constitutes a significant market for licensing, a matter to which the article returns below. Lone Ranger Television, Inc. LSB10922, Generative Artificial Intelligence and Copy. An amendment to the copyright statute is only one of them.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 31, 2025

Analysing the complexities of licensing deals for film and television adaptations. Analysing the impact of Indian copyright law on fair use in academic and critical writing. Evaluating the doctrine of fair use for Indian social media platforms in light of global cases. The text alignment should be justified.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Recent appellate decisions in the United States have recognized expanded grounds for personal jurisdiction in cases of internet-based copyright infringements; divided on the extent to which the three-year statute of limitations limits damage recoveries; and increased the occasions for motions to dismiss on the ground of fair use.

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Copyright Lately

JANUARY 13, 2023

Shortly after his “I Have a Dream” speech was delivered in August 1963, King moved for a preliminary injunction preventing record companies from selling copies of the speech. This has left other radio and TV outlets to play only short excerpts, which are protected under copyright’s fair use doctrine.

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Copyright Lately

AUGUST 2, 2022

While Barlow & Bear may now try to argue that their work constitutes fair use, it’s a weak defense in this case. The Musical Parody ,” “The Unofficial Bridgerton Musical” isn’t the type of parody musical that courts have often found to be fair use under the Copyright Act.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2023

And many of the sites where the data is collected also have prohibitions on automated data collection and web scraping in their terms of use. Platforms that copy online data and use it to create AI have a strong fair use argument under copyright laws. But fair use isn’t a defense to a breach of contract claim.

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Velocity of Content

MAY 1, 2024

Thus, it can be said that they have made complete and exact copies of everything they have ingested. In all cases, Gervais continued, copy right has balanced the rights of authors to determine the uses of—and be compensated for—their works with the ability of consumers to use works on fair and rea sonable terms.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 1, 2023

By Guest Blogger Tyler Ochoa Recently, the Ninth Circuit reaffirmed what has become known as the “server test”: in order to be held directly liable for violating the public display right, the alleged infringer must have a fixed “copy” of the work stored on a server in its possession or control. Instagram, LLC , 2023 WL 4554649 (9th Cir.

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LexBlog IP

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Those arguments were that (1) Take-Two’s use of the tattoos was authorized by an implied license, (2) the fair use doctrine insulates their utilization of the tattoos and (3) the tattoos constitute a de minimis part of the video game. The District Court also found that the use was not fair use.

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Velocity of Content

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

At present, YouTube certainly has many other aspects, included music, television-like programming, and live streaming, but I am not going to get into those.). Note that the algorithm does not work perfectly — most prominently, it doesn’t understand the US legal doctrine of fair use very well. (To

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43(B)log

JUNE 26, 2023

A&E Television Networks, LLC v. 16, 2023) The court refused to dismiss copyright and trademark claims based on copying of a TV show format, including the hosts. I think the court expects nominative fair use to take care of this, and that’s plenty defensible.) Big Fish Entertainment, LLC, 2023 WL 4053871, No.

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