TorrentFreak

MARCH 19, 2024

As reported yesterday , the decision was cited in the ongoing legal battle between book publishers and the Internet Archive. Instead of alleging concrete copyright infringement by end users, the technology itself is framed as copyright-infringing. “Defendants’ generative AI models are nothing like VCRs. .”

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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. Buzzfeed’s use of screenshots, which include all the elements of the Post, such as the Instagram branding and Ms. Verizon Media, Inc.,

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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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Kluwer Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2023

The Common Crawl dataset is owned by a non-profit, which makes the data available to the public for free — but it is intended to be used for research and education and, according to the plaintiffs, it was never intended to be turned into an AI product for commercial use (see here and here ). 4th 1149 (9th Cir. 3d 723, 743 (9th Cir.

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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. Fair Dealing. As per few reports, AGL is the leading source of greenhouse gases in Australia with over 8% of the total emission. Defense of Fair dealing. Image Source: gettyimages].

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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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Copyright Lately

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

This means that if Alyssa has sold her hula hooping cat t-shirts to the public, I could take my own photographs of one of the shirts in order to list them on eBay without infringing Alyssa’s copyright in the underlying design. 17 U.S.C. § Deadly Doll, Inc. Carlos Vila’s photo of Irina Shayk wearing Deadly Doll sweatpants.

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Copyright Lately

MAY 17, 2021

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. The Supreme Court’s seminal fair use decision, Campbell v.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 30, 2022

Remember the Fifth Circuit case from 2018 holding that a real restaurant’s name could infringe trademark rights in the name of a fictional restaurant from the TV show SpongeBob SquarePants, the Krusty Krab? The court then moves on to consider Viacom’s copyright infringement claim.

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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. Getty Images , Newgrounds , and PurplePort ).

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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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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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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The precedent work is “a set of replacement stickers for the dashboard climate controls for certain GM vehicles”: The Copyright Office registered this design. All of these facts placed Defendant on actual notice that it was highly likely that, in fact, Plaintiff’s Sticker Sheet was not infringing the Subject Design.

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IP and Legal Filings

APRIL 19, 2022

It was recently uncovered that numerous internet platforms are posting infringing content on their websites without the approval of the copyright owners. Copyright infringement cases on the internet have increased because the internet has become more widely available. Legal Framework governing take down notice.

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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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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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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. 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. 3d at 1160.

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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. Hit me up in the comments below or on social media @copyrightlately. year over year to $2.71 So let me break it down here.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 7, 2023

Copyright complaints kept coming in and increased in volume compared to the same period last year, the site’s latest mid-year transparency report shows. ” Copyright Takedown Notices Peak There were no dramatic increases related to Reddit’s copyright policies.

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Copyright Lately

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Despite a number of solid affirmative defenses—including implied license, de minimis use and waiver—the jury was only asked to determine whether defendants had proven that their conduct qualified as a fair use under the Copyright Act. What Happened. Oracle , should have been decided by the trial judge. Skull arm design.

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Copyright Lately

APRIL 3, 2023

The future of “controlled digital lending” is in doubt after a court rules that the Internet Archive’s online library is not protected by fair use. Instead, IA argued that its conduct was protected by fair use. A New York federal judge has ruled in favor of four leading U.S.

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Copyright Lately

APRIL 19, 2022

Over the past quarter-century, transformative use has become shorthand for fair use itself. When I first heard that the Supreme Court had agreed to take up the fair use fight over Andy Warhol’s “Prince Series,” my first reaction was “Oh wow.”. Fair use is supposed to be about balance and flexibility.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 7, 2021

This prompted Dorland to first report the alleged plagiarism to a wide variety of groups and worked on getting the story pulled while working through lawyers to demand financial compensation. That, in turn, prompted a counterclaim by Dorland for copyright infringement.

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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. After a local Spokane news reporter asked Dolezal point blank “Are you African American?,”

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SpicyIP

JULY 11, 2021

Varsha reported the significant development that the Delhi High Court issued a press release stating its plan to create an Intellectual Property Division (IPD) in the Delhi High Court. Vempati Ravi Shankar – Facebook Copyright Dispute: Issues on Moral Rights and Posthumous Enforcement of Celebrity Rights. Topical Highlight.

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 13, 2022

As previously reported on this blog , non-fungible tokens (or “NFTs”) recently emerged as one of the hottest new items on the art market—artists, auction houses, museums, sports organizations and others have jumped at the chance to create and sell their own versions of these unique tokens. Copyright Claims: Roc-A-Fella Records Inc.

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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

DECEMBER 30, 2023

The third category lists notable developments on the legislative and policy side and includes important amendments, proposals for amendments, release of policy notes and reports etc. So, if you have strong opinions on orders/judgements that you think should’ve been included in the top 10 lists, please do share them in the comments below!

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Copyright Lately

DECEMBER 12, 2022

“Clean,” “Pretty” and Fair. In 1994, allegations of copyright infringement, not obscenity, landed 2 Live Crew at the steps of the U.S. ” The Court held that 2 Live Crew’s version qualified as a non-infringing fair use because it was a parody that sufficiently transformed the Orbison original.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 16, 2022

The scale of infringements sounds pretty outrageous for an independent creator and we were blown away when Clement showed us his daily copyright infringement battle in action. There’s a never-ending stream of infringements across social media platforms that seems impossible to stop, much like the weather.

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43(B)log

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

This language, as others have noted, is very similar to its previous statement in Eldred that fair use and the idea/expression distinction internal to copyright law provide all the First Amendment protection necessary in the context of copyright infringement. Tarnishment is a “happy talk” provision.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Trump’s ability to attract and generate controversy will go down in history, as will his numerous appearances in copyright infringement lawsuits. Musician Eddy Grant filed a complaint against Trump in 2020 and three years later there’s little positivity to report for anyone involved.

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