Dear Rich IP Blog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Is it still considered copyright infringement to use them? How do you tell if materials are public domain or fit under fair use? How do you tell if materials are public domain or fit under fair use? Any work of authorship not protected under copyright law is said to fall within the public domain.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 23, 2022

Second, since he was a federal employee at the time the image was taken, the work itself is in the public domain. 2: Bungie’s Copyright Infringement Claims Against AimJunkies ‘Insiders’ Can Continue.

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Plagiarism Today

MAY 11, 2022

This would put all of Disney’s work from roughly 1995 (or 1967) forward into the public domain. However, the bill itself has very limited chance to succeed, as the bill has been widely panned as unconstitutional and a violation of various copyright treaties the United States is a signatory to.

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Plagiarism Today

MAY 16, 2022

2: Judge Says ‘Vape’ Musical Parody May Go On as ‘Grease’ Copyright Claim Flops. Next up today, Jonathan Stempel at Reuters reports that a judge has ruled that Vape: The Musical will be allowed to proceed despite a copyright infringement lawsuit filed by the rightsholders of the musical Grease.

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Copyright Lately

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

Public domain works are freeunless misinformation and aggressive claims deter the public from freely using them. public domain 95 years after their initial publication by Belgian artist Herg. January 27, 2025 email from Tintinimaginatio to Duke Law’s Center for the Study of the Public Domain.

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The IP Law Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2021

The Ninth Circuit was recently asked to determine whether to continue to apply the Circuit’s two-part extrinsic/intrinsic test for “substantial similarity” with regard to a copyright infringement claim or to depart from this approach and apply the Second Circuit’s “ordinary observer” test instead. In Johannsongs-Publishing, Ltd.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

MARCH 17, 2022

Man’s ideas are both public and private in their essence. The owners’ and people’s ideas and works are generated with uniqueness and creativity, and they are released into the public domain. The post “Copyright Infringement” appeared first on Biswajit Sarkar Blog. And Others.,

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Corsearch

MARCH 13, 2023

Copyright © Walt Disney Animation Studios A background on copyright protections in the US All works that were published in the US prior to 1923 are now in the public domain, as is any work created by individuals in an official capacity for the federal government. Oswald the Lucky Rabbit.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

A class-action lawsuit filed by authors including Richard Kadrey, Sarah Silverman, and Christopher Golden is one such copyright infringement case. “By downloading through the bit torrent protocol, Meta knew it was facilitating further copyright infringement by acting as a distribution point for other users of pirated books.”

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Dear Rich IP Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2020

You can't claim copyright in photos published before 1925 or in unpublished photos taken by photographers who died before 1950. These photos are in the public domain and free for anyone to copy. You can't claim copyright solely based on your ownership of a photo. Let's start with the things you can't do.

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IPilogue

MAY 6, 2022

Dua Lipa’s 2020 pop hit “Levitating” is facing copyright infringement lawsuits as of March 2022. Copyright infringement proceedings are the best course of action for instances of song stealing, but are often expensive and difficult to win, as a complainant must demonstrate more than ‘alike sounds’ or ‘similar vibes’.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 17, 2024

This applies to photographers, artists, music companies, journalists, and authors, some of whom formed groups to file copyright infringement lawsuits to protect their rights. Authors sued NVIDIA Earlier this year, several authors sued NVIDIA over alleged copyright infringement. The authors clearly have a different take.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

JULY 19, 2022

What is copyright infringement? Unauthorized use of a work protected by copyright is referred to as copyright infringement. In this blog we will take a look at best practices to avoid copyright infringement. In this blog we will take a look at best practices to avoid copyright infringement.

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Copyright Lately

APRIL 30, 2021

Nineties grunge-rock band Nirvana, already embroiled in a long-running legal battle against fashion company Marc Jacobs over its “happy face” t-shirt designs , now finds itself on the less happy end of a new copyright infringement lawsuit worthy of Dante’s trip through the underworld. It argues that when the U.S. version did.

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Greenspoon Marder LLP

MARCH 27, 2018

It should be noted that street artists are not guaranteed to have successful copyright infringement challenges and are not assured to receive settlements. The post Graffiti and Street Artists Sue for Copyright Infringement appeared first on Greenspoon Marder LLP.

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Larson & Larson

JUNE 21, 2021

Copyright law provides a safeguard against copyright infringement. That being said, here is a brief elucidation of all you need to know about copyright and copyright infringement. That being said, here is a brief elucidation of all you need to know about copyright and copyright infringement.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

According to the tech company, there are no viable claims for vicarious copyright infringement, DMCA violation, unfair competition, and unjust enrichment. The only claim that wasn’t contested by OpenAI is direct copyright infringement, which the company plans to address at a later stage. copyright law.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 4, 2024

That basically allows one party to request evidence from the other, to properly support or refute the copyright infringement claims that form the basis of the lawsuit. OpenAI Seeks NYT ‘Source’ Material In its quest for evidence, OpenAI is particularly interested in the copyrights of the New York Times’ works.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

In March this year and well in advance of the recent discovery request, Shueisha sent Cloudflare a copyright infringement complaint containing a laundry list of infringing content , all of which was reportedly stored on the domains listed above. Earlier DMCA Subpoena Forced Cloudflare to Hand Over Information.

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JD Supra Law

JUNE 18, 2024

Many companies are not strangers to receiving demand letters on behalf of copyright owners. Routine demand letters often allege that the company’s use of what it believed was a stock photo, public domain image, or music on websites or social media is in fact infringing use of copyrighted materials.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 26, 2022

Code § 1202 prohibits the intentional removal of CMI without obtaining permission from the copyright owner, when it is known that will “induce, enable, facilitate, or conceal an infringement.” ” CMI Claims Against YouTube. While YouTube denies them all, at some point the CMI matter will need to be addressed.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

The site is certainly not a newcomer when it comes to copyright infringement complaints but the scope of the most recent takedown wave is something different. “[T]he demands by Elsevier and ACS resulted in the removal of around 200,000 public files.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 10, 2023

Copyright infringement lawsuits against pirate IPTV providers and those accused of assisting them, usually have a few common elements. DataCamp Paused…Then Came Out Swinging Late July, DataCamp filed its answer and delivered a bombshell allegation: DISH has no standing to sue for copyright infringement.

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LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 2, 2021

The Ninth Circuit was recently asked to determine whether to continue to apply the Circuit’s two-part extrinsic/intrinsic test for “substantial similarity” with regard to a copyright infringement claim or to depart from this approach and apply the Second Circuit’s “ordinary observer” test instead.

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SpicyIP

AUGUST 29, 2024

Analysis-Paralysis Unlike the previous practice of the executive not including mention of the statutory authority from which it derives the power to issue notices (see here ), this time the State of Goa relied on Article 162 of the Indian Constitution in order to prevent abuse of police power since copyright infringement is now a cognizable offence.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 25, 2023

After he was released from jail, he got copyright registrations for the photos and sued (pro se) the media entities for copyright infringement, 1202 violations, and more. Nonetheless, Shah has not alleged authorship under current Seventh Circuit law and the Court dismisses his copyright infringement claim. (To

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Trademark and Copyright Law Blog

MARCH 11, 2021

In 1982, Universal filed suit in the Southern District of New York for trademark and copyright infringement , and also threatened, and extracted license fees from, Nintendo’s various US Donkey Kong licensees.

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IP and Legal Filings

MAY 3, 2024

However, registering a work with a copyright office can provide additional benefits, such as the ability to pursue legal action against infringers. Copyright protection generally lasts for the lifetime of the creator and for several years after his death.

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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. Harvey wasn’t saved by the fact that later issues of “Casper” remained subject to copyright. Ghostbusters, Part II. The Ghostly Trio. ” 13.

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Intepat

DECEMBER 18, 2024

This principle is key for podcasters, as it means that if Podcaster A accuses Podcaster B of copying their interview format, the claim would likely fail because formats and factual content are not copyrightable. The key aspects of a podcast that are covered by copyright include: 1.Music: Also, in the Indian Musicians Association v.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 4, 2022

“Primarily, I feel this is a lack of executive understanding of this problem, mixed with a combination of lack of training and proper playbooks for the editorial specialists looking at copyright strikes to understand that open source licenses are valid licenses to copyright content. User: chANIMEnnel. Give feedback.

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 23, 2023

Due to the recurrent copyright difficulties, which have a significant impact on an individual’s business interest, it is imperative to preserve the ownership rights of digital works. One such area where copyright violations are common is the internet.

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IP and Legal Filings

APRIL 20, 2023

AI can explore data or information that is accessible in public domain or copyright of other person and can investigate or work upon that information but only to that extent which the software program permits. [3] Therefore, AI may not equipped for generating an original work. Hence, ownership is not granted to the AI.

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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

MARCH 31, 2023

Introduction In order to determine copyright infringement , the ‘substantial similarity test’ has routinely been employed by the US Courts. Unprotectable elements such as ideas, concepts and elements in the public domain are filtered out of this test. One such case is the case of Alfred v. Walt Disney Co.

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The IPKat

JANUARY 30, 2022

COPYRIGHT Katfriend Moritz Sutterer posted on a new competition tool that the German Competition Authority recently tried out against Google in relation to press publishers' neighbouring right. Reminder: last call to vote for your best IP book of 2021 by participating in the poll here !

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Copyright Lately

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

A copy of something in the public domain can’t support a copyright unless it contains a distinguishable variation that reflects independent creativity. ” If Rosss tool used the headnotes only to learn language patterns for producing quotes from public domain judicial opinions, that would weigh in favor of fair use.

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