SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

In response to a series of unstarred questions regarding copyright infringement by generative AI, directed towards the Minister of Commerce and Industry, Union Minister of State for Commerce and Industry, Shri. Whether the government plans to amend the Copyright Act of 1957 to update copyright laws to cover AI-generated content.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 9, 2021

1: Major Record Labels Sue Charter Communications Again for Alleged Copyright Infringement. 2: World Kung Fu Governing Body Uses Copyright Law to Hunt Down YouTube Critics. The 3 Count Logo was created by Justin Goff and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License.

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IP and Legal Filings

AUGUST 14, 2023

Introduction Private International Law governs the disputes between two individual parties rather than States. Unlike Public International Law that has a defined jurisdiction and law, Private International Law lacks in that area. Choice of Law is determining which country’s laws will govern the dispute.

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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. The copyright holder can enforce its rights through an infringement claim if uses are made without obtaining the appropriate permissions.

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Velocity of Content

JANUARY 25, 2024

“Is offshoring the training of AI a credible and efficient response to minimize copyright compliance risks or is offshoring merely a theoretical argument designed to both influence lawmakers and for government relations purposes?” Artificial Intelligence (AI) is global, and copyright laws are national.

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Plagiarism Today

APRIL 13, 2022

2: Morocco Pledges to Strengthen Copyright Law Under New Bill. Finally today, Andy Maxwell at Torrentfreak writes that Omi in a Hellcat is facing yet another lawsuit, this time over allegations of trademark infringement over apparel he sold under his “Reloaded” brand. That operation was shut down by the U.S.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 25, 2024

Internet Archive The self-scanning service offered by the Internet Archive (IA) differs from the licensing agreements entered into by other libraries. Publishers Hachette, HarperCollins, John Wiley, and Penguin Random House filed a lawsuit, equating IA’s controlled digital lending (CDL) operation to copyright infringement.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

So-called copyright trolls come in all shapes and sizes and while most have a cynical approach to copyright law, some are prepared to go to extremes. The most notable case in the United States involved Prenda Law. Five Indicted For Running Copyright Troll Scheme. The goal was to obtain out-of-court settlements.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 19, 2022

UK Government Declares Password Sharing Illegal. In a low-key announcement today, the UK Government’s Intellectual Property Office announced a new campaign in partnership with Meta, aiming to help people avoid piracy and counterfeit goods online. aren’t particularly fond of it anymore. So what else is on the table?

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 8, 2023

When someone violates a creator’s exclusive rights to a piece of work, they are engaging in copyright infringement. Music as well as the movie industry are two common industries that face copyright issues on a day to day basis. Introduction. All forms of dissemination (selling ,performing, broadcasting, etc.),

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LexBlog IP

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

It highlights the importance of understanding copyright laws when using data for AI training or generating content. It debunks common misconceptions, such as assuming publicly available data is protected from copyright protections. Open Source material may seem safe and easy, but it has its licenses and restrictions.

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Traverse Legal Blog

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

It highlights the importance of understanding copyright laws when using data for AI training or generating content. It debunks common misconceptions, such as assuming publicly available data is protected from copyright protections. Open Source material may seem safe and easy, but it has its licenses and restrictions.

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IP and Legal Filings

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Good artists borrow, Great artists steal ’ , however no matter how beautifully portrayed, might aptly land you a hefty copyright infringement suit in contemporary times. Producers may claim exclusive ownership of an album or song in court owing to copyright protections. INTRODUCTION. The court ruled in Gramophone Co.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 19, 2023

Caveat Emptor The common notion that acquiring ownership of an NFT representing a work in which copyright subsists equates to owning the copyright to the underlying work is clearly false. Assignment The copyright owner may transfer the entirety of the copyright in the work to the purchaser by assignment.

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IP and Legal Filings

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

If any person imitates the ideas of any other creator, he would said to be infringing the original artist’s design and the copyright thereof. A copyright protection is the ability of a designer to protect his original designs through the copyright laws. What Is Copyright?

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Patently-O

MAY 9, 2024

2024) , resolving a circuit split over the availability of back-damages in copyright infringement cases. Nealy was incarcerated from 1989 to 2008 and again from 2012 to 2015 , and consequently was unaware that Butler had licensed their music without proper authorization. Nealy , No. 22-1078, 601 U.S. Despite 17 U.S.C. §

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IP and Legal Filings

JULY 21, 2022

This is the time when India is going through an upheaval of changes in our education system with the help of different policies of government as well as with the use of different technologies in modernizing the way of learning. Copyright ensures certain minimum rights and it has never been an absolute right. Evolution afterward.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 2, 2022

However, those familiar with copyright law, immediately began to point out flaws in the plan. Though some artists did manage to capitalize, NFTs quickly became a haven for selling pirated and infringing works. For example, blockchain could be used to record that someone obtained a license to use a song in a video.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Every time he signed back up he breached Bungie’s Limited Software License Agreement (LSLA), Bungie said. “Regardless of what Bungie ‘tolerates’ when it comes to the actions of others, formal legal proceedings, such as this case, are governed by the law, not Bungie’s desires.” As a minor, L.L.

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IPilogue

JANUARY 14, 2022

This article summarizes the top developments reported on our blog and in patents, trademarks, and copyright law in 2021. Keep Calm and Fandom On: Copyright in Cosplay, Fanfiction and Fanart by Sabrina Macklai & Emily Chow. Ad-hear to the Law: My Top Ten IP-Related Podcast Episodes by Claire Wortsman. Copyright Law.

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The IPKat

AUGUST 27, 2023

It brought us insights on platform liability under copyright law, safe harbours, and injunctions. The OLG Nürnberg found Rakuten to be liable for these infringements. As the plaintiff had provided the court with invoices for granting licenses in similar cases, amounting to EUR 4,662.00, EUR 4,361.00

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Patently-O

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

While a laches issue was at the heart of this ruling, the Second Circuit adopted this rule for all copyright infringement cases. The unsatisfying conclusion here is when combined with the discovery accrual rule a copyright holder could have a timely infringement claim but not be eligible for relief. of Governors, FRS.

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Intepat

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

To delve deeper into the question of ownership, we need to grasp the traditional concept of copyright. Copyright laws are designed to safeguard the rights of creators. Historically, these rights have been attributed to human creators, forming the cornerstone of copyright law.

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IIPRD

APRIL 13, 2023

Image Sources : Shutterstock] He acknowledged the actions taken by the government to advance business accessibility. A total of 39,000 compliances have been streamlined, 1500 outdated laws have been repealed, and offences have also been decriminalised. The Supreme Court has recently taken a very controversial position on this issue.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JULY 14, 2023

Context Copyright can be challenging for cultural institutions (or “GLAM“ for Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums) when pursuing digitization and dissemination activities, as copyright governs whether a given work can be used and if so, how (as shown in recent studies for museums , archives or libraries ). Proposal 3.

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Michael Geist

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Canadian copyright lobby groups have relentlessly lobbied the government to overturn decades of Supreme Court of Canada jurisprudence, seeking unprecedented restrictions on fair dealing that include eliminating it for educational institutions if a licence is available. The addition of “education” was hardly an overhaul.

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Velocity of Content

MAY 1, 2024

If so, what specific acts constitute infringement, and what should be done to remedy the problem? 29 town hall, The Heart of the Matter: Copyright, AI Training and LLMs, presented a comprehensive case that AI systems do infringe copyrights and called for a licensing system to compensate content owners.

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 20, 2023

With further ado, here’s what I found in Novembers: Database Protection in India: Since Prof Basheer’s 2005 post about the inaccurate implication of the theft of data as copyright infringement, to 2023, not much seems to have changed. However, the Government later withdrew these guidelines.

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Velocity of Content

MARCH 16, 2023

Regardless, as of this writing there are now five cases that may provide some clarity on this less frequently discussed but foundational issue of the unauthorized use of copyrighted materials as training data for AI (I use “AI” here as a shorthand which also includes text and data mining and machine learning). Case 1- Doe 1 v.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

AUGUST 3, 2023

Copyright is a kind of intellectual property right which grants exclusive rights to the creator of the original work. In India, the protection of copyright is governed by the Copyright Act, 1957. The copyright comes into existence automatically as soon as the original work is created.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2022

In August 2022, the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Research and Innovation published a study on EU copyright and related rights and access to and reuse of scientific publications, including open access. Current EU copyright framework. Legislative Initiatives.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

These include (and may be limited to) Hong Kong ( section 11(3), Copyright Ordinance ), India (section 2(d)(vi), Copyright Act, 1957 ), Ireland ( Art. We will keep the law under review and could amend, replace or remove protection in future if the evidence supports it.”

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IP Tech Blog

JANUARY 4, 2023

Given that the Chinese government prohibits the transaction of virtual currencies, the Chinese market and users had to change this translation to avoid referring to crypto currencies as that could make NFTs illegal. The other opinion maintains that the copyright is only established once the NFT is minted. Copyright Ownership.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2023

At the district court level, the law of copyright preemption is a morass of ad hoc explanations of whether certain contracts are “equivalent” to the exclusive rights within the general scope of copyright law. Platforms that copy online data and use it to create AI have a strong fair use argument under copyright laws.

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Copyright Lately

DECEMBER 5, 2021

Note that this isn’t the case with traditional over-the-air radio broadcasts; due to idiosyncrasies in the way copyright law has developed over the years, artists and record labels aren’t paid for the performance of sound recordings via terrestrial broadcasts.). copyright law. Performance “Absent a Specific License”.

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Barry Sookman

APRIL 5, 2020

(Part II) [link] 2020-04-01 Supreme Court Rules States Have Sovereign Immunity From Copyright Infringement Suits: Is Your State Government the… [link] 2020-04-02 CIPL Responds to Privacy Commissioner of Canada’s Proposals for Ensuring Appropriate Regulation of AI [link] 2020-04-02 Government COVID-19 response includes compulsory licenses for patented (..)

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 8, 2022

This two-part blog post offers a reflection on the topic of content moderation and bias mitigation measures in copyright law. Second, although mere facts and data as such are not protected by copyright, their extraction from protected subject matter (works, non-original databases, etc.) Scenario (2): Open Licenses.

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