IP and Legal Filings

APRIL 20, 2023

Secondly, work generated by AI without human interference, when input is not given by the human to the work generated by AI, then the ownership as well as authorship will be given to the developer of the program creating AI that is to the person who holds copyright over the AI software. Hence, ownership is not granted to the AI.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

In a nutshell, generative AI raises two main copyright issues that branch off into further sub-problems which in turn intercept (if not collide with) some fundamental rights, especially freedom of artistic expression, freedom of art and science and the right to science and culture (Arts. 11 and 13 EUCFR , 19 UDHR , 27.1 UDHR, and 15.1

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 12, 2022

Saregama India Ltd & Anr deliberated upon the intersection of copyright infringement and confidentiality law and held that ideas cannot be copyrighted but can be protected through the application of confidentiality law. Copyright and confidentiality. Background. Zee Entertainment Enterprises.

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IIPRD

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

RIGHTS PROTECTED : Under this law Copyright law protects the copyright of authors, musicians, etc. Copyright is essentially a right to copy. Copyright is a term describing rights given to creators for their literary and artistic works. Internet technology is developing faster than the laws that govern it.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JULY 14, 2023

In a policy paper , copyright and art-law experts led by the author clarified the general copyright law principles applicable to stakeholders dealing with digital cultural heritage worldwide and formulated recommendations, addressed to policy-makers, to facilitate their digital activities.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

MAY 30, 2022

These codes make up small bits of information. The second type is where the entirety of the work is uploaded on the blockchain, this is less commonly used as uploading information on the blockchain is an expensive affair. How does Copyright come into the picture? Thus, it seems difficult for NFT to fulfil these requirements.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

MAY 30, 2022

These codes make up small bits of information. The second type is where the entirety of the work is uploaded on the blockchain, this is less commonly used as uploading information on the blockchain is an expensive affair. How does Copyright come into the picture? Thus, it seems difficult for NFT to fulfil these requirements.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

AUGUST 3, 2023

The copyright comes into existence automatically as soon as the original work is created. But, by registering copyright, additional benefits and stronger legal protection can be achieved in case of any copyright infringement. There is a mandatory waiting period to allow for any objections to be raised by the public.

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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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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

In the Mirajkar case, it was held that “ save in exceptional cases, the proceedings of a Court of justice should be open to the public ”. The Copyright Dilemma Perhaps to counter the obvious and non-obvious ills of live-streaming judicial hearings, Rule 9.2 as per Rule 9(2)(iv).

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IP and Legal Filings

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

The primary goal of copyright law is to safeguard the interests of creators of original, publishable works. The purpose of copyright protection is to make sure that the artist reaps the rewards of creating their original work and that no one else benefits unfairly from it. Author of Copyright. Ownership of Copyright.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 19, 2023

Authors Kennington Groff and Jaime Chandra Kozlowski delve deep into the potential implications of a landmark Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) case that sent ripples through the art world, impacting copyright law including fair use and commercial licensing.

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Velocity of Content

JULY 8, 2021

As I dug down further on the topic, I ended up tumbling down a bit of a rabbit hole concerning certain nooks & crannies of copyright that I hadn’t known much about; at that point, I thought it might be useful (to some) and interesting (to others) to share them here. Public Domain work. Image Attribution: John Tenniel (1865).

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Copyright Lately

AUGUST 2, 2022

The full story behind Netflix’s copyright infringement lawsuit against Barlow & Bear, and why it’s actually a win for the fan fiction community. When it comes to copyright cases, Netflix has seen stranger things. Barlow & Bear claim copyright ownership in “The Unofficial Bridgerton Musical.”

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IP and Legal Filings

MAY 3, 2024

Fair use provides some exceptions to copyright protection, allowing limited use of copyrighted material without the permission of the copyright owner. Understanding legal and fair use is especially important in academic settings because dissemination of information often requires the use of evidence.

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 22, 2024

Introduction The Intellectual property laws are designed in such a way that not only reward the creator of his intellectual creation thereby incentivising other creators for further innovation, while balancing the rights of the creator with the right of the society to access information or knowledge.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 25, 2024

Act I When the Committee charged with conducting Canada’s 2019 Copyright Act Review turned its mind to AI, its primary concern was with “help[ing] Canada’s promising future in artificial intelligence become reality” ( Report 2019 ). Act II The Committee’s recommendation to add an exception for “informational analysis” was not acted upon.

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 23, 2023

Copyrights safeguard the artists’ rights in the inventive and imaginative content that abounds in digital media. In today’s digital world, a lot of data and information have been shared online and are susceptible to corruption and copying. Image Sources : Gettyimages] One of the important issues in online is copyrights.

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IP and Legal Filings

MAY 3, 2023

Here, merely automated and mechanical work that lacks originality is also protected by the said copyright doctrine. For instance, in accordance with this doctrine, the author would be entitled to copyright protection if someone collected different poems that were previously in the public domain and produced in a single document.

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SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

In doing so, unfortunately, the DB has seemingly missed out on considering some of the crucial aspects of the SB order, especially with regard to its findings on the originality of Hulm Entertainment’s concept note and the copyrightability of GUIs. This criterion was primarily established in the EBC v. Modak case.,

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

AUGUST 12, 2021

The so-called “conditional irresponsibility” of online content-sharing service providers (OCSSPs) with regards to copyright infringements is a never-ending, vexing, and daunting topic not only for scholars (see here , here , here and here ), but also for the European Court of Justice itself (CJEU). 147 ECL) and moral rights (art.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 8, 2024

Wrapping up the first week of 2024, here is a brief recap of our hard-hitting post on TKDL, the detailed comments on the draft Calcutta High Court IPR Division Rules, and an informative take on scandalous and obscene trademark prosecution in India. Copyright Bill, 1955: the Best Copyright Law that India Never Had Image by Shivam.

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IP Intelligence

AUGUST 15, 2023

copyright law protects human-authored expression, not works generated purely by generative AI. When a human author uses generative AI tools to create their work, the scope of copyright protection extends to the human-authored aspects of the work, not the AI-generated material within that work.

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LexBlog IP

AUGUST 23, 2023

Whether one focuses on the word’s connotation of silliness or excitement, or maybe even anger , or analogizes to the raucous and rhymingly-named team from Savannah that makes up its own baseball rules , US copyright law is currently going a little “bananas.” ” Id. Morford , at 11. ” Id. Google] , 804 F.3d

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 20, 2023

To fully understand these conflicting views of the majority opinion, it is necessary to understand both the specific facts of the case and the history of the Supreme Court’s case law concerning the fair-use doctrine. or LGL), seeking a declaratory judgment of non-infringement and/or fair use for the entire Prince Series.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 2, 2022

Further, the Court specifically addressed the use of social media platforms by citizens to voice their grievances and stated that such use during a crisis can in no way be termed misinformation and it noted that it would treat any clampdown on free exchange of information as contempt of court. Sun Pharmaceuticals Industries Ltd.

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The IPKat

AUGUST 11, 2022

Last week, Kenya's government agency in charge of copyright matters, Kenya Copyright Board (KECOBO) published an advisory via its Twitter handle. This post reviews KECOBO’s advisory in the light of Kenya’s copyright law and policy. This is so for several reasons but this post highlights two.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MARCH 28, 2023

Niklas Jansson, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons On 30 December 2022, the Italian Supreme Court ( Corte di Cassazione ) issued an order that intervened again on the interpretation of the quotation exception under Article 70 of the Italian Copyright Act ( l. Today, Italian law, following the implementation of Art.

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