The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 28, 2024

German Court finds LAION’s copying of images non-infringing by Mirko Brüß In what appears to be a first in Europe, the District Court of Hamburg has delivered a long-awaited ruling in a case brought by German photographer Robert Kneschke against LAION gemeinnütziger e.V., Without further ado, then, here’s what Mirko has to say!

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IP and Legal Filings

JULY 24, 2023

Introduction Shutterstock is a global provider of licensed images, videos, audio and editing tools, that has revolutionized the way visual content can be accessed and used. Content creators contribute their work to the platform, making it available for licensing, while end users can easily browse, license and utilize them.

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Garrigues Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Licensing allows companies to enter new markets, reduce production and distribution costs, and strengthen consumer loyalty. However, the success of any licensing strategy hinges on a well-negotiated agreement that includes legal safeguards, clear responsibilities and protections against misuse of the trademark.

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Barry Sookman

AUGUST 7, 2024

In reasons that are very difficult to follow and untangle, Justice Roy of the Federal Court held that Parks Canada did not infringe copyright or breach the Copyright Act’s legal protection of technological protection measures by circulating copies of articles and passwords to locked articles published by BR.

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Velocity of Content

MAY 22, 2024

This article originally appeared in The Scholarly Kitchen Copyright Licensing and Human Advancement Copyright licensing, that is, the granting of permission to reuse copyright works, has likely existed as long as copyright. Collective copyright licensing is nearly as old, generally viewed as dating from 1777.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 5, 2024

In addition, it was apparent that the copy had been sourced from pirate streaming site, Obaflix. Town square screening All signs indicate that the public event wasn’t authorized or licensed. Amidst all this joy, however, people started to notice a watermark on the film that was clearly associated with piracy.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2022

This article provides a brief overview of the use of Creative Commons licensing in relation to NFTs based on the Creative Commons’ FAQ page linked above. Creative Commons Licensing. By purchasing an NFT one only purchases an actual digital token that normally contains a link to or a copy of a digital artwork.

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Velocity of Content

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The Annual Copyright License (ACL) from CCC helps minimize an organization’s infringement risk by providing a consistent set of global reuse rights across millions of publications from thousands of rightsholders that complements existing publisher agreements, subscriptions, and other content purchases.

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IP Watchdog

APRIL 10, 2024

For their part, some GenAI companies like OpenAI argue that there is no infringement, either because there is no “copying” of protected materials or that the copyright principle of fair use uniformly applies to generative AI activities. These arguments are deeply flawed and gloss over crucial technical and legal issues.

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The IPKat

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

You may not love Asian carp, but you will hopefully love copi (and will give the fish a try at your favorite restaurant, thereby preventing ecological disaster). This recasting was done by a Chicago marketing company, Span Studio , which came up with a new name for the fish—"copi". There may be a lot to this change of name.

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SpicyIP

MARCH 27, 2023

But IP nerds will specifically remember that eleven years ago, in March 2012, India’s first compulsory license was granted by the Indian Patent Office against Bayer’s Nexavar. One year later, in March 2013 the compulsory license order was upheld by the IPAB in a landmark ruling by the then Chairperson, Justice Prabha Sridevan.

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Michael Geist

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The truth is that Canadian universities spend millions of dollars on licensing copyright materials. In fact, over the past decade, the emergence of site licenses that provide access to millions of works – books, journal articles, newspapers, and more – has led to huge increases in expenditures for access.

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Velocity of Content

APRIL 11, 2024

For their part, some GenAI companies like OpenAI argue that there is no infringement, either because there is no “copying” of protected materials or that the copyright principle of fair use uniformly applies to generative AI activities. These arguments are deeply flawed and gloss over crucial technical and legal issues.

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Traverse Legal Blog

JANUARY 29, 2022

One of the big problems with the NFT marketplace, where NFTs are both sold and purchased, is that the platform doesn’t provide any licensing language for the digital asset that the owner attaches to the NFT. “These platforms are not providing any license language for the actual asset attached to the NFT.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 4, 2022

The team at Blender Studio drive Blender development by providing help and training courses to Blender users in an open environment, sharing everything in public and making all content available under free licenses. In this case, at least, a Creative Commons license appears to have carried no weight. No Rights to Post Video on YouTube.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

The case involves ShutterStock, a photo licensing service. (We ShutterStock has a “contributor” program that allows anyone to upload photos into their licensing database in exchange for a fee if licensed. Only 2 visitors saw the subject image in ShutterStock’s database and neither licensed it.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 11, 2023

The most modern instalment of this long history comes in the form of another kind ‘copy’, less richly decorated, yet more relevant and politically sensitive for a country that has established a long-term foreign investment “partnership” with the tech and communication industry: the transposition of Directive 2019/790 into Irish law.

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IP Law 360

MARCH 13, 2024

million in a copyright suit after finding that cellphone case maker Otter Products LLC wrongly copied various images. A Colorado federal jury has said a California photographer is entitled to about $3.1

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IP Law 360

DECEMBER 4, 2023

A cannabis licensing firm copied a photographer's picture of the Empire State Building to push sales without permission, committing copyright infringement, according to a lawsuit from the photographer in New York federal court.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

JUNE 5, 2023

2] The Court’s decision affirmed the ruling of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, which held that the Warhol work was derivative of the original, and noted that “the new expression may be relevant to whether a copying use has a sufficiently distinct purpose or character” but that factor was not dispositive by itself. [3]

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Velocity of Content

JANUARY 31, 2023

I have had people tell me with doctrinal certainty that Creative Commons licenses allow text and data mining, and insofar as license terms are observed, I agree. Full disclosure: CCC offers RightFind XML, a service that supports licensed commercial access to full-text articles for TDM with value-added capabilities.) GitHub Inc.,

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

JULY 28, 2022

What is a Compulsory License? Compulsory licenses are permissions from the government that allows someone else to use the copyright of the owner without his consent. In this article, we will look at compulsory licensing in Copyright and under what conditions a compulsory license is granted in India.

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43(B)log

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

He did allege sadness, distress, and “profound grief” from Natorp’s copying of images of a particular landscape job, but the Lanham Act doesn’t cover psychological, emotional harm.

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Traverse Legal Blog

APRIL 17, 2021

Copyright Licensing of Digital Assets Attached to NFT Sales. Bonus: Free Open Source Copyright License for NFT sales below]. What are the terms by which you are selling the NFT and licensing your work, the art you put into the platform that’s going to be attached to the NFT? NFT Copyright Licensing.

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Erik K Pelton

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Trademark protection provides a tremendous return on investment (ROI) over the life of a business and can minimize or even eliminate further costs in the future, both financial and emotional.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Recording a license agreement concerning an EU trade mark is not mandatory but has several benefits (see the EUIPO’s trade mark Guidelines ): The license has effects vis-à-vis third parties ( Art. Background Brandavid Oy (‘Brandavid’) owned three EU trade marks, which it licensed exclusively to Oy Shaman Spirits Ltd.

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

A Case of ‘Smart Copying’: ‘Peace Maker’ Restrained from Imitating ‘Officer’s Choice’ Do you enjoy your whiskey? They further argued that they lack a distribution license for it in Delhi, and neither party has a registered office or conducts their business in Delhi. Would you mix up these two labels: Officers choice and Peace Maker?

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IP Watchdog

OCTOBER 10, 2024

In a landmark judgment with far reaching ramifications, a German court recently held that the copying of images by Large-scale Artificial Intelligence Open Network (LAION) - a nonprofit organization that provides datasets, tools and models to liberate machine learning research – did not infringe copyright law. The Kneschke v.

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LexBlog IP

AUGUST 11, 2021

The Java platform is available for free in certain circumstances under an open source license to be used to write and run programs that use the Java programming language, and it can run those programs across different types of hardware without having to rewrite the program for each different type.

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43(B)log

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Boston Suburban allegedly continued to use the “Logan Car Service” mark in online keyword advertising and in metatags, and continued to copy customer reviews from Boston Carriage’s website and publish them on online review platforms. And RICO claims failed because they were RICO claims.

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Intepat

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Make copies. Key Copyright Procedures for Business Owners Licensing and Permissions To legally use a copyrighted book or portions of it, permission from the copyright owner is required. This is usually done through a licensing agreement , which specifies the permitted use. Contact them directly or through licensing agencies.

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Plagiarism Today

JUNE 2, 2022

According to the right of first sale, rightsholders have the right to sell a physical copy the first time. However, any owner of a legally obtained copy is free to sell, rent or distribute that copy as they see fit as long as no new copies are made. The post 3 Count: Physical Media? appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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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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TraskBritt Intellectual Property

APRIL 10, 2021

When developing Android, Google had copied the text and format of function calls from Oracle’s Java SE Application Programming Interface (API). LEXIS 1864 (2021), the Supreme Court held that Google’s copying was permissible fair use. In Google LLC v. 18-956, 2021 U.S. Software and IP.

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Velocity of Content

JULY 31, 2024

No copies are made during the process of training generative AI systems. Humans learn through a combination of direct experience, observation, imitation, and abstract thinking, while large language models (LLMs) “learn” from the processing of vast amounts of training data, which is copied and stored. True or False? True or False?

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Plagiarism Today

DECEMBER 6, 2022

First off today, Chris Cooke at Complete Music Update reports that the music production company Freeplay music has filed a lawsuit against CNN, alleging that the news organization used their music in news segments without a license. 3: NitroTV Hit with $51m Piracy Damages.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Patrons can also borrow books that are scanned and digitized in-house, with technical restrictions that prevent copying. Staying true to the centuries-old library concept, only one patron at a time can rent a digital copy of a physical book for a limited period. The Internet Archive has no license.

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