SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Kirloskar Press, the Bombay High Court (BHC) began proceedings on what may become the first instance of a literary work being compulsory licensed in India. As such, the petitioner approached the court under Section 32 of the Copyright Act for a compulsory license. Recently, in the matter of Anil G Karkhanis v.

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SpicyIP

OCTOBER 27, 2024

Call for Papers: NLU Jodhpur’s Journal of Intellectual Property Studies Volume IX, Issue I [Submit by January 10, 2025] National Law University, Jodhpur’s Journal of Intellectual Property Studies is inviting original, unpublished manuscripts for its upcoming issue (Volume IX, Issue I). Nadeem Nazir and Anr.

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Velocity of Content

JANUARY 9, 2024

Ignoring Copyright is Risky Business Research in the life sciences depends in part on the ability to acquire and share scientific information, particularly journal articles, in a timely manner. It’s important to know, however, there are many types of open-access licenses. Why does it matter, and what can you do?

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Velocity of Content

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

The ease with which teams can access and share published information, such as news, journal articles, research reports, and more, can influence the pace at which organizations and their teams drive innovation and deliver products and services to the market. The full ebook can be found here. and individual contributors (8.1) rely on fewer.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 31, 2025

The Centre for Intellectual Property Research and Advocacy [CIPRA] of Symbiosis Law School, Hyderabad is organizing its first blog writing competition in collaboration with us on the theme of Literature, Journalism and IP. Analysing the complexities of licensing deals for film and television adaptations.

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Copyright Lately

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

Internet Archive (read the opinion here) , the court dealt a decisive blow to the Internet Archive, ruling that its practice of scanning and lending digital copies of books doesn’t qualify as fair use under the Copyright Act. When the electronic book is “checked out,” the physical copy is removed from circulation.

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Patently-O

JANUARY 4, 2024

2024) A recent copyright infringement lawsuit filed by small Boston intellectual property boutique Hsuanyeh Law Group PC (HLG) against international giant Winston & Strawn LLP focuses a dividing line that can highlight when copying the work of another firm is permissible. Winston & Strawn , 23-cv-11193 (S.D.N.Y. Cannon , 789 N.W.2d

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IPilogue

JANUARY 11, 2023

On my very first day, my supervisor (thankfully) lent me a copy of The Tech Contracts Handbook: Cloud Computing Agreements, Software Licenses, and Other IT Contracts for Lawyers and Businesspeople by David Tollen to start familiarizing myself with these themes.

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Michael Geist

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

This week’s Law Bytes podcast features Western librarian Stephen Spong on fair dealing and prior posts in the series endeavoured to set the record straight and discussed site licensing , transactional licensing , and the disappearance of course packs. I’ve often written about the importance of open access publishing.

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Velocity of Content

MAY 11, 2023

Copyright protects original works of authorship of any kind, including journal articles, books, email, social media posts, content you post online, images (including illustrations and photographs), technical drawings, figures, and infographics. If a journal article is published as Open Access, can I reuse it?

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IP and Legal Filings

AUGUST 6, 2024

This gives an artist exclusive rights for use, distribution or licensing the creation thus prohibiting others from abusing it without permission. Economic Benefits: Registered copyright can enhance commercial value of the work thus making it easier to license, assign and sell. Why Should One Register Copyright?

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Velocity of Content

AUGUST 10, 2022

By way of background, the EU, as part of its Digital Single Market Copyright Directive , looked at the then-extant UK copyright exception for the making of copies of copyrightable works to perform text and data mining (TDM) in a non-commercial context. I am loath to declare all news content buyers “winners” here, however.

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Velocity of Content

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Just three short years ago, copyright litigation discussions centered around whether it is fair use to copy declaring code or make unlicensed use of Lynn Goldsmiths photographs of Prince. How AI technologies intersect with copyright was but a twinkle in most judicial systems eyes.

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Velocity of Content

JANUARY 15, 2025

When using copyrighted materials, a common misconception persists that internal use within an organization does not require licensing. Lets explore why licensing matters and how your organization can stay compliant while fostering innovation and collaboration. Copyright applies to all copies.

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Velocity of Content

DECEMBER 4, 2024

The full article can be read in the Journal of the Copyright Society. Professor Paul Goldstein, for example, has argued that, in light of the enumeration, the statutory text is intended primarily to protect certain licensing markets. LSB10922, Generative Artificial Intelligence and Copy. & Tech. ↩︎ See generally Robert K.

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SpicyIP

OCTOBER 9, 2024

While the former enable readers to purchase e-books on the payment of a certain cost, digital libraries provide access to an online database of books, journals, images and recordings free of cost. the Court assessed that the Archive’s distribution of digital copies of the concerned books was not transformative.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Current practice in scientific publishing requires copyright assignments or the issue of exclusive licenses by researcher-authors to publishers. National copyright contract rules imposing limitations on the licensing of copyright in future works may obstruct OA mandates. Current EU copyright framework.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

In 2013, Philpot uploaded the photo to Wikimedia Commons, which is governed by the standard Creative Commons license requiring attribution. Philpot claims his standard photo licensing fee is $3,500, but reuses of the photo from Wikipedia Commons didn’t require any payment (just attribution). Nature of the Work. Amount Taken.

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Michael Geist

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

The course packs were copied and typically sold as an alternative to course textbooks. Copyright lobby groups and their supporters have long claimed that the practice relies on fair dealing and that universities are profiting from copying without compensation. of the pages assigned to students.

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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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SpicyIP

MARCH 9, 2025

Other Posts Call for Submissions: Indian Journal of Law and Technology [Volume 21] and IJLT Blog (Submissions on Rolling Basis) NLSIUs Indian Journal of Law and Technology (IJLT) is inviting submissions for Volume 21 of the Journal and the IJLT Blog, on a rolling basis.

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Velocity of Content

MAY 24, 2023

In some cases, your organization may have a license or a subscription agreement that applies to the internal reuse of content. If the content in the presentation was previously published in a journal or other third-party publication, it may well require permissions for reuse, even if it is the result of your own or your client’s research.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

AUGUST 22, 2023

We are interested in exploring whether in the EU Arts 3 and 4 of the Copyright in the Digital Single Market Directive (CDSMD) played a role in shaping the contractual practices in selected industry sectors in relation to the licensing of works as training data. Springer, SAGE, Wiley and Elsevier). 3(2) CDSM, the text of item 7.8

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MARCH 13, 2024

licenses for specific uses). Rightholders can, for example, choose whether to license an e-book or an e-journal to a library, or whether to provide licenses to educational establishment to play music and audio-visual works for educational purposes. 7(1) and art. 17(7) CDSM Directive.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

AUGUST 19, 2024

This solution will allow authors to publish in the journal of their choice without having to pay an APC, even though this journal’s copyright policy conflicts with their research funder’s OA requirements. The second requirement is to apply a Creative Commons Attribution license (CC BY), to the author accepted manuscript (AAM).

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 2, 2023

CJEU judgments and AG Opinions Ocilion, CJEU, C-426/21 In July, the CJEU delivered its judgment in the Ocilion case, which related to the right of communication to the public and the private copying exception. Seven.One, AG Opinion, C-260/22 This is yet another preliminary reference on the private copying exception and broadcastling.

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Velocity of Content

OCTOBER 13, 2022

You might have hundreds of subscription agreements covering thousands of journals or content sources, and you have to sort through all of that first. We try to make sure that when we enter into agreements with publishers, we have licensing that fits our need as a pharmaceutical company.

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SpicyIP

MARCH 15, 2022

In the absence of any requirement for licensing agreement, the platforms capitalize on these ‘ snippets ’ without paying press publishers any share of remuneration, making it difficult for the publishers to recoup their investments. The EU took the Intellectual Property route by introducing a related right under its copy right law.

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SpicyIP

OCTOBER 7, 2023

We recently came across one such short paper on “ SEP Litigations & Issues in Determining the FRAND License ” published in the September 2023 issue of the Journal of Intellectual Property Rights (see here ) and extended a guest post invitation to its authors to discuss their key arguments. Apple Retail UK Ltd.

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Velocity of Content

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

The recent article The Heart of the Matter: Copyright, AI Training, and LLMs , forthcoming in the Journal of the Copyright Society, explains how copyright and AI intersect. Licensing is Crucial While copyright is clearly at issue, how it applies is considerably murkier. This creates potential copyright liability.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 27, 2023

The belated Portuguese transposition of the CDSM Directive was finally published in the Portuguese Official Journal (Diário da República) on the 19th of June 2023. 2-g: the Portuguese transposition did not opt for any licensing carve-out nor any fair compensation schemes. Museu do Azulejo by G.P. 19 CDSM Directive. º-B and 74.º-D

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Patently-O

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

Recent Headlines in the IP World: Ludwig Burger: BioNTech Says It Won’t Challenge Vaccine Copying in Africa (Source: CTV News). Commentary and Journal Articles: Prof. Mario Biagioli: Of Viruses and Licenses: Learning from COVID-19 Patent Debates (Source: SSRN). McKenna and Prof. Silbey: Investigating Design (Source: SSRN).

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IIPRD

OCTOBER 7, 2024

It safeguards in the following ways: Safeguarding the Competitive Advantage: By doing the patent of their own inventions, the startups can prevent the competitors from copying their innovations and works, thus securing unique market positions. It protects a fair platform for the protection of the idea which is very crucial.

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Art Law Journal

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Nobody can copy, distribute, or display the work without the author’s permission. appeared first on Art Business Journal. As a general rule, when an artistic or literary work is created, the author is the one that holds the copyright. The post Who Owns Works Created by a Freelancer?

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Copyright Lately

MAY 1, 2023

Companies have to obtain permission and execute a license to use copyrighted content for AI training or other purposes, and we’re committed to maintaining these legal principles.” It isn’t human-readable and does not contain copies of any audio recordings. But once created, the voice model is just a set of parameters.

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Velocity of Content

JULY 2, 2024

Many articles purchased through RightFind and covered by the Annual Copyright License can be added to a hospital’s library collection, making them more readily available if needed again in the future. The post Do Hospitals Need a New Approach for Accessing Scientific Literature?

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Velocity of Content

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

In the beginning, the policy might just say that employees are NOT to download information from journal-sharing sites or their academic institutions, and that such behavior will not be tolerated. And then describe how all staff are expected to handle information in a copyright-compliant manner. 4. Clarify copyright’s reach across formats.

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