JIPL Online

APRIL 9, 2021

ii] Existing copyright law is ineffective in its application to new forms of digital media. In particular, it explores why copyright of a meme’s underlying content does not matter in a normative sense. LAW AND ECONOMICS. iv] First, it must identify which of the competing uses is more socially valuable.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 3, 2023

” However, Wallshoppe does not allege Defendant knew of the specific acts of infringement at issue here—Sienna Lewis selling products featuring the Palm Design on Defendant’s website. Mitchell’s caption, make absolutely clear that the focus of its reporting is on the Post and the controversy. * Verizon Media, Inc.,

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 7, 2024

Aside from addressing copyright infringements in an automated fashion, the Content ID system brings in billions of dollars in revenue. Many rightsholders choose to monetize copyright-infringing videos instead of taking them down, which can be quite lucrative. WebKyte is certainly not a newcomer to the copyright scene.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 6, 2024

More recently, a strategy that has been seen only a handful of times before, has been playing out on social media. In Kakao’s latest report covering June to December 2023 ( pdf ) , the company said its anti-piracy team had removed over 7.4 million pieces of pirated content and over 201 million links to pirated content.

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Copyright Lately

APRIL 6, 2024

A federal court has shot down a copyright infringement lawsuit claiming that Top Gun: Maverick flew too close to a 1983 magazine article that inspired the original film. These flaws rendered Bean’s opinions “unhelpful and inadmissible,” resulting in the court excluding his expert report.

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IP and Legal Filings

JULY 31, 2021

and Greenpeace Australia Pacific regarding the dispute between alleged trademark and copyright infringement by Greenpeace. As per few reports, AGL is the leading source of greenhouse gases in Australia with over 8% of the total emission. In a recent ruling by Australian Court in the case between AGL Energy Ltd. Fair Dealing.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 24, 2023

. “This is a collaboration of like minded corporate Industry associations and individual right holders to help fight piracy,” the Copyright Board added. WeCast for Android is described as a companion app for the WeCast Media content server API and on Google Play is helpfully named WeCastKe, KE being the country code for Kenya.

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CopyrightsWorld

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Copyright infringement and how to stop it is a question in the minds of most of us these days. The law that is our reference for answering this question is the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). Along with Google, most social media have their own services for copyright infringement and takedown requests.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 17, 2021

The idea that regular internet users could find themselves regularly concerned at the thought of being targeted by a copyright complaint would’ve been dismissed as scare tactics just a few short years ago. In 2021, the reality is all too clear. content straight from their platform instead of through the Twitch streamer.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

AI-generated works have won awards: The Crow , an “AI-made” film won the Jury Award at the Cannes Short Film Festival and the story of an AI artwork winning the Colorado State Fair’s annual art competition was reported in The New York Times. Registration was refused in August 2019, in line with previous US case law and guidance.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 14, 2022

On the flip side, today’s interconnected world has the ability to transform leaks into powerful advertising and hype, keeping message boards and social media alive with discussion of exciting new products, at zero cost to official marketing teams. Copyright Complaint Targets Just One Video.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

The shorter 15-second clips are intended for social media, where they will be circulated in the coming weeks. ” This language is paired with obligatory malware warnings and highlighted legal risks, including “copyright trolls” who sue people for allegedly downloading pirated films.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2023

The defendants’ wholesale collection and use of copyrighted material, with no option for copyright owners to opt out, would exceed the legal interpretation of “fair use” (see VHT vs Zillow Group , 918 F.3d To create its product, Clearview scraped billions of publicly available photos from websites and social media platforms.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 20, 2023

by Despoina Dimitrakopoulou Recently, the news of reggaeton mega-star Bad Bunny's eloquently put disappointment spread on social media, bringing up interesting questions concerning music creation using AI. Essentially, FlowGPT would have fed the copied songs into the system, and that could mean copyright infringement.

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Copyright Lately

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

I’m talking about section 113(c) , which allows photographs of useful articles incorporating copyrighted works to be made and used without violating copyright law. Vila later filed a lawsuit for copyright infringement against Deadly Doll based on the unauthorized reproduction and distribution of his photo. .

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Copyright Lately

MARCH 13, 2024

copyright registration doesn’t claim rights in the game’s graphics or other visual elements. At a Loss for Wordles In recent days, numerous developers targeted by the Times’s DMCA notice have taken to social media to report that their own Reactle-built games have been shut down. Wordle’s U.S.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 16, 2022

After researching thousands of DMCA notices and reporting on hundreds of copyright lawsuits, more often than not it takes just a few seconds or minutes to broadly establish the purpose of any action. In most cases rightsholders want alleged infringement to stop and in some, they also seek compensation for their losses.

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Copyright Lately

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Last year, it was the Ninth Circuit’s reversal of a pleading-stage dismissal by Central District of California Judge Consuelo Marshall, which (correctly in my view) found that similarities in stock and unprotectable pirate genre elements such as battles at gunpoint and jewel-filled caves couldn’t support a viable copyright infringement claim.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 1, 2023

In other words, the gist of the case is whether the photographers surrender their right to exclude others by voluntarily posting their own photos to social media. The vast majority of people who post to social media want their posts to be embedded and made available to others. 94-1476, at 159-60.

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Copyright Lately

MAY 17, 2021

Parody is tricky, both as an art form and as a matter of copyright law. And putting aside its pure entertainment value, the sketch also raises some interesting questions about just how much of an original work may be taken before parodic fair use crosses the line into copyright infringement. Did SNL go too far?

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IP Tech Blog

MARCH 18, 2022

Intellectual property owners need to add the metaverse to places to watch for possible infringement, specifically, trademark or copyright infringement in the form of NFTs or non-fungible tokens. Other brand owners have been fighting back infringers, commentators and/or parodists as in the METABIRKINS saga.

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Copyright Lately

MAY 1, 2023

” On April 26, UMG held an earnings call in which it reported that revenues rose 11.5% It’s a new issue and there’s been some fresh reporting on it with some recent developments. First of all, in terms of copyright, to reiterate our very clearly articulated position. year over year to $2.71

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 18, 2022

Intellectual property owners need to add the metaverse to places to watch for possible infringement, specifically, trademark or copyright infringement in the form of NFTs or non-fungible tokens. Other brand owners have been fighting back infringers, commentators and/or parodists as in the METABIRKINS saga.

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LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Branding has become more important than ever, particularly in developing an online presence through search engines, various online platforms, and social media. Nearly every mainstream marketplace and social media platform has Acceptable Use Policies, which provide procedures for reporting intellectual property infringements.

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IP and Legal Filings

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Historical lookback The amendment to the existing copyright law act of 1957 was carried out owing to the sensitization of issue of copyright management and revenue sharing structure that is fair and reasonable to all owners and writers of filmed and recorded works. [i] 12 [xix] The Copyright Act, 1957, §55, No.

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SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

to place a fresh status report on the whereabouts of the defendants- Mr. Pritamdas Arora and his wife Ms. The plaintiff alleged infringement of its “Woodland” trademark by the defendant. Other News India warns social media platforms repeatedly remind users that local laws prohibit them from posting deepfakes.

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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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Plagiarism Today

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

They go as far as to call for people to change their mindset about social media before making the jump. But, while Mastodon does have a slew of important and well-understood differences between it and a centralized platform, like Twitter, there’s a very important one that’s easy to overlook: Copyright. Some Mastodon Basics.

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43(B)log

APRIL 7, 2023

Transparency: reports on content moderation, including judicial orders, notices, number and type of content moderation, use of automated means and related training, and number of complaints. YouTube is an OCSSP, but other than that much is unclear—are all different types of social media OCSSPs? We don’t have definite caselaw.

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The IPKat

MARCH 6, 2024

The Tribunal held that there was both trade mark and copyright infringement. Anna Maria Stein outlined the findings of the UKIPO's report on “The impact of complicit social media influencers on male’s consumption of counterfeit goods in the UK.” digital streaming).

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Copyright Lately

MAY 21, 2021

Earlier this week, she filed a lawsuit for copyright infringement against CBS Interactive over a photograph CBS used in a 2015 Entertainment Tonight Online article about her scandal. The man in the photo, whom Dolezal previously identified as “my dad” in social media posts, was later revealed to be Albert Wilkerson Jr. ,

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Copyright Lately

OCTOBER 3, 2022

In addition, in granting Alexander’s motion for partial summary judgment, the court found that Alexander held valid copyrights in the tattoo designs at issue and that defendants copied those works. Some of Randy Orton’s tattoos from Catherine Alexander’s copyright applications. What Happened. Skull arm design.

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Copyright Lately

APRIL 3, 2023

The theory behind CDL is that by maintaining a consistent “owned-to-loaned” ratio between physical books and digital copies, libraries can meet the needs of twenty-first-century patrons without violating existing copyright law. At least, that’s the theory. But are any of these distinctions legally relevant?

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Copyright Lately

OCTOBER 25, 2021

But Lewis thought the song was a rip-off of “I Want a New Drug” and asserted a copyright infringement claim against Columbia Pictures. The studio settled quietly out of court, so there’s no reported decision in this one. The 13 spookiest, Halloweeniest copyright cases that I could think of. ” 13.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 2, 2022

The Supreme Court looked into a wide variety of issues such as oxygen and Covid-19 drugs shortage, equitable pricing of vaccines, protection of health workers, possibility of invoking compulsory licenses and the clampdown on free speech on social media platforms. Parliamentary Standing Committee Report on the IP regime.

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Copyright Lately

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

Breaking down Miramax’s copyright infringement lawsuit against Quentin Tarantino, a dispute about NFTs that isn’t really about NFTs. The breathless media reports soon followed. ” One potential way (though not the only way) to do this is by looking to the Copyright Act for guidance.

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Copyright Lately

APRIL 19, 2022

Fast forward to 1990, and enter Judge Pierre Leval , an incredibly influential and knowledgeable jurist on the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, especially when it comes to copyright law. Back then, Judge Leval was a district court judge when he wrote an article for the Harvard Law Review called “Toward a Fair Use Standard.”

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