Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Major record companies, including Universal Music Group, Sony Music, and Warner Music, have taken legal steps to protect their intellectual property. They argue that AI models trained on their catalog without permission amount to copyright infringement, much like streaming services before licensing agreements were established.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 25, 2024

Publishers Hachette, HarperCollins, John Wiley, and Penguin Random House filed a lawsuit, equating IA’s controlled digital lending (CDL) operation to copyright infringement. Earlier this year a New York federal court concluded that the library is indeed liable for copyright infringement.

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IPilogue

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Typically, tattoo aftercare instructions include strictly hygienic recommendations, but tattoo artist Kat Von D might have a unique suggestion: prepare to be an exhibit in a copyright infringement lawsuit. for copyright infringement under the Copyright Act of 1976. Sedlik (“Sedlik”) filed a complaint in the U.

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JIPEL Copyright Blog

MARCH 21, 2022

It is therefore possible that TOs would be liable for some form of secondary liability of copyright infringement. It is an open legal question whether this would constitute an infringing derivative work. The second issue comes from Slippi itself. It also modifies the game itself through its netplay and rollback functionality.

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Patently-O

AUGUST 31, 2021

Although the Supreme Court eventually sided with Google on fair use grounds, it did not disturb the Federal Circuit’s copyrightability decision that strongly supported copyright protection even for functional software. Grogan, Copyright Protection for Command Driven Interfaces , 12 COMPUTER L. 1821 (2013).

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IPilogue

APRIL 12, 2022

While useful, they raise concerns of potential copyright infringement. However, YouTube, the most popular video website worldwide, adopts a “ fair use ” copyright policy that allows the reuse of copyright-protected material under certain circumstances without permission from the copyright owner.

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JIPL Online

APRIL 9, 2021

In particular, it explores why copyright of a meme’s underlying content does not matter in a normative sense. In this blog I argue that copyright protection of the content underlying memes does not matter because of the relative weakness of enforcement mechanisms for copyright infringement of this scale.

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Indiana Intellectual Property Law

AUGUST 16, 2024

Wayne, Indiana , alleging willful copyright infringement. The organization has developed its own curriculum for use in the program and for licensing by third parties. Counsel for LifeWise repeatedly requested that Parrish remove the curriculum, but he refused, citing fair use. LifeWise, Inc., Continue reading

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IP and Legal Filings

JUNE 29, 2024

The personality rights in India are generally enforced in the context of Intellectual Property Laws. Ramkumar Jewellers , wherein it was held that an individual should be able to control the circumstances around the use of their identification. [8] So, various courts have over the time drawn a clear line in this regard.

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Indiana Intellectual Property Law

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The jury found that Von D’s tattoo, drawing, and social media posts based on Sedlik’s portrait constituted fair use of the copyrighted work, effectively dismissing the photographer’s claims of infringement. For Von D, the decision marked the end of a two-year legal ordeal.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 19, 2023

Clarifying Copyright Fair Use in Commercialized and Licensed Visual Arts: Insights from Warhol v. Goldsmith by Jaime Chandra Clarifying Fair Use in Commercialized & Licensed Visual Arts: Insights from the Warhol v. We’re talking about Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts, Inc. Let’s dive in!

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

Highlights of the Week Cheroots to Cheers or Bringing IP Conversations to Wider Audiences: A SpicyIP Initiative for Vernacular Dissemination ‘De-code Indian Intellectual Property Law’ – For who? in an attempt to cancel 007 trademark registrations and use them for a $5 billion resort project

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Velocity of Content

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

In March in a New York City courtroom, Judge John Koeltl awarded summary judgment to a group of book publishers in their copyright infringement litigation against the Internet Archive over certain forms of digital book lending.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

.” Google LLC’s copying of approximately 11,000 lines of code from the Java SE application programming interface to create the Android mobile operating system was a fair use of that material as a matter of law and did not support copyright infringement by the code’s owner, Oracle America, Inc.,

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

Highlights of the Week Cheroots to Cheers or Bringing IP Conversations to Wider Audiences: A SpicyIP Initiative for Vernacular Dissemination ‘De-code Indian Intellectual Property Law’ – For who? in an attempt to cancel 007 trademark registrations and use them for a $5 billion resort project

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Intepat

JANUARY 8, 2024

Navigating the Intellectual Property Rights Dilemma The clash between The New York Times, OpenAI, and Microsoft unfolds in the realm of intellectual property law. However, the court would need to assess the four fair use factors to determine the legitimacy of this claim.

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Kashishipr

JUNE 9, 2021

If the music that is streamed is not licensed out, then does it amount to Copyright Infringement ? Although customers may have easy and legal access to music than before, how true is it in India? The same was the focal point of contention between both parties during the succeeding hearings.

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

She is intrigued by the field of Intellectual Property Law and wishes to explore the same. It is interesting to note the possible shape that the litigation would have taken if the defendants had disputed the ownership of copyright by the plaintiffs from the time of initiation of the suit. Discussing the Elsevier Ltd.

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IIPRD

MARCH 5, 2025

Blog sought to study global moves or court cases that have taken place regarding uses of copyright in made-always-with-an-AI creation and provide discussion over possible solutions to the future of intellectual property laws.

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LexBlog IP

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

It debunks common misconceptions, such as assuming publicly available data is protected from copyright protections. The text also emphasizes the need to navigate the gray areas of copyright law, including understanding Fair Use and the distinction between Open Source and Copyrighted Material.

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Traverse Legal Blog

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

It debunks common misconceptions, such as assuming publicly available data is protected from copyright protections. The text also emphasizes the need to navigate the gray areas of copyright law, including understanding Fair Use and the distinction between Open Source and Copyrighted Material.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JANUARY 20, 2022

Another – more recent – example involves the video of a 2020 copyright panel at New York University where music was played to explain the application of the US fair use rules. Yet, it seems to be a fact that hundreds of millions of uploads on YouTube were copyright infringing. 17 (4) DSMD). Factfulness, p.

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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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Intepat

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Introduction Intellectual property laws are generally divided into industrial property and copyright. While copyright is distinct from other forms of intellectual property by focusing on personal rights, its primary role is to manage and protect knowledge.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2023

And many of the sites where the data is collected also have prohibitions on automated data collection and web scraping in their terms of use. Platforms that copy online data and use it to create AI have a strong fair use argument under copyright laws. Briarpatch, 373 F.3d 3d at 306. “[E]lements

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IIPRD

APRIL 21, 2021

These goods and services present online that form the bread and butter for business are a protected product/content that is categorized as intellectual property and is protected under the Intellectual Property laws through copyright, trademark , design , etc. Modak & Anr on 12 December 2007. [4]

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LexBlog IP

OCTOBER 11, 2021

The live streamer is claiming that the content at issue should not have been taken down because it is fair use, considering that xQc was adding his own commentary and reactionary content to the clip. NBC’s answer may lie right in front of it with this copyright infringer on Twitch. In order to maximize the $7.75

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 1, 2023

The legislative history also expressed an intent to retain existing case law on vicarious liability of a principal for the acts of its agents, including independent contractors. Therefore, Perfect 10 has made a prima facie case that Google’s communication of its stored thumbnail images directly infringes Perfect 10’s display right.

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Indiana Intellectual Property Law

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

New Jersey – Plaintiff Christopher Sadowski is suing Defendant Restoration 1 By J&D, LLC , of New Palestine, Indiana , over violation of the Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. § 501 , for allegedly reproducing, distributing, and publicly displaying Sadowski’s intellectual property for its own commercial purposes.

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LexBlog IP

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Larson also sought a declaration that she owns the copyright to The Kindest and that the letter in the short story does not infringe Dorland’s copyright. Dorland counterclaimed for copyright infringement, claiming that Larson’s use of Dorland’s letter was a violation of intellectual property law.

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SpicyIP

OCTOBER 27, 2023

These patterns can intersect with the trademark and other intellectual property (IP) in various ways, although it’s important to note that the use of dark patterns is unethical and often violates principles of fair use and consumer protection.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 1, 2024

On June 24, 2024, the RIAA announced two separate copyright infringement lawsuits targeting what many believe are the most impressive services in the generative AI music market. Unchartered Labs, the owner of Udio, was sued in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JANUARY 21, 2025

Last year was another busy one in the copyright world, with an increasing focus on the relationship between AI and copyright, ongoing European copyright reform, a number of landmark CJEU decisions and notable developments in a number of jurisdictions. Is Generative AI Fair Use of Copyright Works?

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Trade mark protection is an essential aspect of intellectual property law, ensuring that businesses can protect their brand identity against unauthorized use. The two primary legal remedies available for brand protection are trade mark infringement and passing off. What is Trade mark Infringement?

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