IP and Legal Filings

MAY 18, 2023

Introduction The Plaintiff asserted that its hipster whiskey bottle design, which was inspired by the shape of a smartphone and intended to fit into a hip pocket, was novel due to its rectangular shape, smooth rounded shoulders, V-shaped neck, rimmed rounded cap, and dimpled bottom.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

The defendant published a bio on Sewell and included one of McDermott’s photos–apparently sourced from an unrelated Instagram account (possibly another infringer, or perhaps that account has a fair use defense?). McDermott, represented by the Sanders Law Group, sued KMC for copyright infringement.

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Indiana Intellectual Property Law

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Indiana) in part, for copyright infringement of works of original authorship. According to the complaint, in early 2022, Andretti Global hired the Plaintiff and the Defendants to design and construct a racing facility in Fishers, IN. (Indiana); and Glenmark Construction Co.

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

She graduated from National Law University, Delhi in 2023 & enjoys reading and writing on copyright laws. Hence, through their operational frameworks, the platforms complained of were alleged to infringe the copyright, and broadcasting rights held by Star India. [This post is authored by Tanishka Goswami.

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

The Court has granted summary judgment in respect of 2,830 headnotes belonging to Thomson Reuters and admittedly used by Ross Intelligence to train its Natural Language Processing and Artificial Enabled Legal Research tool, finding Direct Copyright Infringement and rejecting fair use. But, first, Some History! General Signal Corp.,

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

In what appears to be action designed to send a deterrent message, RIAJ members requested information held by a local ISP on subscribers identified by the labels as prolific uploaders of pirated music. ” From: TF , for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

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Likelihood of Confusion

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Not that the plaintiffs in the Designer Skin case didn’t get an injunction: They did (here it is); a narrow one utilizing proposed language by defendants explicitly permitting S&L to. District of Arizona: “No automatic injunction upon a finding of copyright infringement” appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™.

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The IP Law Blog

MARCH 3, 2022

Unicolors is the owner of copyrights in various fabric designs, including a 2011 copyright registration that consisted of 31 separate designs. The jury found in Unicolors favor and H&M moved the court for judgment as a matter of law, which the trial court denied. Unicolors appealed this decision to the U.S.

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SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Taming the ‘LAION’: Lessons for Harmonising AI and Copyright Law Unpacking the Hamburg Regional Court’s landmark ruling in Robert Kneschke v. Tanishka Goswami explores how text data mining can qualify as an exception to copyright infringement. Read her analysis on the evolving intersection of copyright law and AI!

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Michael Geist

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Canada’s largest media companies, including the Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, Postmedia, CBC, and Canadian Press, came together last week to file a copyright infringement lawsuit against OpenAI, the owners of ChatGPT. First, the Canadian claims are much narrower than those found in other lawsuits such as the NY Times case.

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Plagiarism Today

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

However, there is a major risk there that is easy to overlook and the risk comes from copyright law. Your Obligations Under the Law. Note: This article is focusing on United States law, if you are based in a different country or your server is located in a different country, please check your local rules.

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Copyright Lately

OCTOBER 24, 2022

.” I was barely out of law school when a senior partner muttered those words as he handed me a scathing demand letter sent to one of the firm’s commercial director clients. This was the late ’90s, and the entertainment industry was still reeling from a well-publicized copyright infringement lawsuit involving the movie 12 Monkeys.

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Intepat

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Copyright and Ownership in the Metaverse In the metaverse, copyright applies to digital creations such as virtual art, music, designs, and even entire virtual worlds. For instance, who holds the copyright to a virtual item collaboratively created by multiple avatars?

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Velocity of Content

OCTOBER 27, 2024

As lawsuits mount against AI companies over copyright infringement – most recently with Dow Jones and NY Post suing Perplexity AI for “massive illegal copying,” Microsoft’s CEO Satya Nadella calls for more flexible copyright laws. ” This analogy fundamentally mischaracterizes how LLMs work.

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Patently-O

JANUARY 28, 2025

by Dennis Crouch and Tim Knight The Supreme Court is being asked to decide a case that could have a major impact on copyright law. The key question is whether the Copyright Act's three-year statute of limitations runs from when copyright infringement occurs or from when the copyright holder discovers it.

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Intellectual Property Brief

MARCH 24, 2022

A long-standing copyright infringement dispute between a fabric designer, Unicolors, and a fashion industry giant, H&M, allowed the U.S. Supreme Court to recently weigh in and determine the scope of a phrase found within § 411(b)(1) of the PRO-IP Act and change the trajectory of copyright law for the future.

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Intepat

DECEMBER 18, 2024

This article explores the essentials of copyright licensing in podcasting, debunks common myths, examines relevant case laws, and provides actionable steps to ensure compliance while maintaining creative freedom. The key aspects of a podcast that are covered by copyright include: 1.Music: Super Cassettes Industries Ltd.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 27, 2023

They all follow the same format, asking Google to remove links to copyright-infringing t-shirts from search results. One of the DMCA Notices Aside from memes, ‘Musk’ also targets a design that hits closer to home. One notice highlights an exclusive design for the official Tesla AI Day t-shirt.

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Copyright Lately

OCTOBER 20, 2024

Yes, there was a copyright infringement claim in the mix, based on Skiplagged’s use of American’s “flight symbol” logo. The court denied summary judgment on American’s trademark infringement and unfair competition claims, citing unresolved factual issues. It sought $94.4

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 18, 2022

The Copyright Claims Board (CCB), better known as the “copyright small claims court”, became a part of U.S. copyright law in December 2020 with the signing of the Copyright Alternative in Small-Claims Enforcement Act (CASE Act). . Within a month, the first 70 cases had been filed. Initial Determinations.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 8, 2022

The broadcaster claimed that IPTV providers Banjo TV, Bollywood IPTV, Comstar TV, Express IPTV, Gennie TV, Gold TV, IPGuys, Istar, Red IPTV, Sky IPTV, and Zumm TV, used DataCamp services that were designed with IPTV/OTT delivery in mind. Do they show that DataCamp had actual knowledge of specific infringement?

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Patently-O

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Li sued for copyright infringement. Judges emphasized that copyright law aims to encourage human creativity. As long as AI-generated images reflect the original intellectual input of a person, they should be identified as a work and protected under copyright law.

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Art Law Journal

MARCH 25, 2021

You’re considering a lot of different things when thinking about inking a new tattoo, but copyright infringement probably isn’t one of them.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

These videos are often around 10 minutes in length but rather than giving a flavor of a movie to whet the appetite, they are designed to give away entire plotlines and necessarily include spoilers. The other suspects who were arrested last summer all pleaded guilty to criminal breaches of Japan’s copyright law.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

JULY 19, 2022

What is copyright infringement? Unauthorized use of a work protected by copyright is referred to as copyright infringement. In this blog we will take a look at best practices to avoid copyright infringement. In this blog we will take a look at best practices to avoid copyright infringement.

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Intepat

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Pidilite contended that the defendant’s mark and packaging were designed to mislead consumers into believing there was an association with Pidilite’s products, thereby benefiting from Pidilite’s established goodwill. Design Trademarks in Fashion and Sports: Adidas India v. Novi Digital Entertainment Pvt.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 27, 2022

According to Ortmann and van der Kolk’s charging document, Megaupload was conceived, designed, and operated as a piracy-facilitating site right from the beginning. Together with Kim Dotcom, the trio reportedly noticed how much money Rapidshare was making from large-scale copyright infringement and set out to mimic it.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 2, 2022

Edery, the co-founder of Screen iL, an international TV streaming platform aimed at Israelis living abroad, said the companies must be aware that pirate sites are involved in criminal copyright infringement and money laundering. Edery-Affiliated Companies Sued Pirate Sites in 2021. and Sdarot.tv Additional Features of the Injunctions.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 4, 2022

The wide feature range of Genshin XYZ appears designed to undermine that monetization since the tool allows players to cheat their way to progress instead. As a result, Github honored the takedown request on broader copyright infringement grounds and disabled the repository, which probably satisfied the cheat makers.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 24, 2021

In April 2020, a coalition of entertainment companies headed up by Universal, Paramount, Columbia, Disney and Amazon filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against the operators of ‘pirate’ IPTV service Nitro TV. channels, which are only possible to offer after content is copied and stored, contrary to copyright law.

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Velocity of Content

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The culmination of a decades-long effort, and well before the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and Copyright Term Extension Act were passed in 1998, the 1976 Copyright Act ushered in a new era of copyright law in the United States. Nation Enterprises.

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IP and Legal Filings

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Under the Copyright laws , the dichotomy between idea and expressions exists, such that safeguard has been given to expressions under Copyright, but the same is not available for ideas. The Court in several cases have held that it is not the creator’s idea but the expression of that idea which is copyrightable.

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Nelligan Law

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Today, tattoos serve as deeply intimate expressions of identity and selfhood, with each design narrating a unique tale and mirroring the innermost musings, sentiments, and escapades of the wearer. In the realm of tattoo artistry, the tango between creativity and copyright law is a delicate affair, riddled with complexities and nuances.

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IPilogue

APRIL 14, 2022

They held that an inadvertent mistake of law in a copyright registration application does not automatically nullify the application. . a fabric and design company in Los Angeles, owns copyrights in various fabric designs. copyright registration processes. Unicolors, Inc.,

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SpicyIP

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Other Posts Hachette Book Group v Internet Archive: Archiving Access to Information or Strengthening Copyright Laws? The court found the defendants to be habitual infringers and granted the permanent injunction. 63 of the Copyright Act, 1957. Discussing the US decision in Hachette Book Group v. Ashfaq Saifi v.

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Traverse Legal Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Manuscripts, designs and art can all be classified as intellectual property. Non- fungible tokens have been designed to give a person ownership of something, kind of like modern day digital collectibles. Registering for copyright protection is voluntary buty necessary if you wish to file copyright infringement litigation.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 31, 2022

According to Asahi, since 2020 the publishers have been asking Cloudflare to stop “delivering” pirated content from unlicensed sites but under US copyright law, that was unsuccessful. Will Targeting Cloudflare in Japan Bear Fruit? In this matter, Cloudflare also feels confident in its position.

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