Hugh Stephens Blog

JULY 17, 2024

Image: Shutterstock (AI Assisted) Last month I wrote about the 200 year history of copyright in Canada, (Two Hundred Years of Copyright History in Canada: What a Journey!), drawing on a recent book by copyright scholar Dr. Myra Tawfik, “For the Encouragement of Learning: The Origins of Canadian Copyright Law”.

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SpicyIP

OCTOBER 9, 2024

She graduated from National Law University, Delhi in 2023 & enjoys reading and writing on copyright laws. Image from here Hachette Book Group v Internet Archive: Archiving Access to Information or Strengthening Copyright Laws? Tanishka is an advocate at the High Court of MP.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Copyright law was never meant to work this way. It is a law that was designed to let humans govern how other humans use content. Bots are much more than a copyright problem. However, they are an especially difficult one for copyright. Is using a clip of X seconds allowed under the law? Fixing the Issue.

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Hugh Stephens Blog

AUGUST 9, 2021

Singapore’s long awaited and long debated revisions to its copyright law were tabled in Parliament at the beginning of July with a view to enactment by the end of summer. This follows a two-month public consultation by the Law Ministry and Intellectual Property Office.

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Hugh Stephens Blog

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Well over half the world (more than 90 countries from Algeria to Venezuela, with all of the members of EU, Britain, Australia, Mexico and many African countries included) have an Artists’ Resale Right (ARR) in their copyright law, but not North America north of the Rio Grande—except for California.

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JD Supra Law

AUGUST 21, 2024

court to continue deliberating the major lawsuit filed by several visual artists against Generative Artificial Intelligence platforms could call into question how these platforms can operate without infringing on the copyright of works that were used to “train” them. The decision by a U.S. By: Barnea Jaffa Lande & Co.

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Hugh Stephens Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Image: Shutterstock (AI modified) Singapore already has one of the most permissive text and data mining (TDM) exceptions in copyright law found anywhere, allowing AI developers to ingest copyrighted content for AI training purposes subject only to a very few limitations, all of which are pretty minimal.

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 19, 2022

1: Government Pauses Plans to Rewrite UK Copyright Laws After Authors Protest. The IPO has said that it will continue evaluating potential changes to copyright law but did not set a timetable. 2: Maryland Defends Its Library E-book Law, Seeks Dismissal of AAP Lawsuit. Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday.

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Plagiarism Today

JULY 27, 2021

2: Ireland Pledges to Implement New EU Copyright Laws in Weeks After Failing to Meet Deadline. Next up today, Sarah Collins at the Irish Independent reports that the Irish government has agreed to pass the new EU copyright laws into their national code within the next few weeks.

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Plagiarism Today

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

It is a space where there is little regard for copyright law (or other kinds of intellectual property), large amounts of money are being thrown around on dubious investments and there is a lack of understanding as to what this will be and how it will change the larger world. Bottom Line. To be clear, there are still many unknowns.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 2, 2021

District Court Judge Jed Rakoff has issued a controversial ruling denying the “server test” of copyright law and ruling that embedding images can be an infringement of copyright law. First off today, Blake Brittain at Reuters reports that U.S. The case was filed by Paul Nicklen against Sinclair Media.

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Plagiarism Today

MARCH 30, 2023

BMI wins a major victory at rate court, Nigeria gets a new copyright act and Kick streamers flout copyright law. The post 3 Count: 138% Raise appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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Plagiarism Today

JUNE 21, 2022

First off today, Hillel Italie at the Associated Press reports that a judge in Maryland has shot down a law that would have required publishers to make e-books available on “reasonable terms” to libraries in the state. ” 3: U.S.

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Plagiarism Today

MARCH 14, 2022

copyright law. However, Genius, not the copyright holder on the lyrics, opted to sue claiming breach of contract and unfair competition laws. When the case got moved to a federal court, the judge dismissed the case, saying that copyright law preempted those claims. Neither side commented on the decision.

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JD Supra Law

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The growth of artificial intelligence (“AI”) and generative AI is moving copyright law into unprecedented territory. While US copyright law continues to develop around AI, one boundary has been set: the bedrock requirement of copyright is human authorship.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

APRIL 12, 2023

Copyright Office (USCO) launched a new AI Initiative to examine the copyright law and policy issues raised by artificial intelligence (AI), including the scope of copyright in works generated using AI tools and using copyrighted materials in AI training. On March 16, 2023, the U.

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Plagiarism Today

MAY 11, 2022

Josh Hawley’s Move to Strip Disney’s Copyrights Called ‘Blatantly Unconstitutional’. He claims that it aims to revoke Disney’s “special” copyright protections though the law would rewrite copyright law for all creators. According to Sen.

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Plagiarism Today

MARCH 30, 2022

However, I know very little about Iranian copyright law. and European copyright law. Though much of copyright law is fairly standardized internationally, it may or may not apply to Iran. Generally speaking, ideas and facts cannot be covered by copyright protection. A Difficult Question.

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JD Supra Law

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

In an early test of the interplay between artificial intelligence (AI) and copyright law, the US District Court for the Northern District of California recently allowed a copyright infringement claim to proceed against an AI developer that used an artist’s works without authorization to train a machine learning model.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

JANUARY 11, 2023

In analogizing semiconductor chips to traditional areas of copyright law, the legislative history notes that, just as a plagiarist who copies only one chapter of a book may be held liable for infringement, a person may be liable for copying a part of a mask work if it is a qualitatively important portion that results in substantial similarity.

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IP Law 360

AUGUST 19, 2024

A New York federal judge said Monday that the fair use exception to copyright law is fatal to former U.S. George Santos' suit against ABC and Jimmy Kimmel over video clips that the late-night TV show host tricked the ex-congressman into making.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

In short, it’s claiming that Chegg, in many cases, either directly copies the content or creates a thinly veiled derivative work based upon it, both of which are violations of copyright law. Pearson alleges that this takes place both in text and video format in the service. Chegg’s Potential Defenses.

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Traverse Legal Blog

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

What Is Accidental Copyright Infringement. 2024 Update) Accidental copyright infringement occurs when someone unknowingly violates copyright law. This can happen due to: Lack of Understanding: Not fully comprehending copyright laws and regulations.

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Plagiarism Today

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Finally today, Porter Anderson from Publishing Perspectives reports that the International Publishers Association is joining a chorus of Kenyan-based publishers in decrying proposed changes to the nation’s copyright law.

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Plagiarism Today

MARCH 8, 2022

Though the Blurred Lines case wasn’t a major shift in copyright law, it was a major shift in the way people thought about copyright law. After all, most cases don’t make it to a trial or a judgment, and even a modestly favorable settlement could be very lucrative. Plaintiffs were emboldened, defendants were intimidated.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 9, 2021

2: World Kung Fu Governing Body Uses Copyright Law to Hunt Down YouTube Critics. .” The lawsuit is one of several filed against ISPs, most notably Cox Communications and RCN Corporation that claim ISPs are not meeting their obligations for suspending the accounts of repeat infringers.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 30, 2024

However, the CJEU is yet to clarify the copyright law-relevant meaning of “pastiche”, pending the current reference in the Pelham II case, which aims to shed light on whether pastiche could serve as a “catch-all” provision for artistic use of copyright-protected works (see e.g. here ). A solution?

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JD Supra Law

OCTOBER 21, 2024

As the first court in Germany, the Hamburg Regional Court (‘Landgericht Hamburg‘) ruled on Artificial Intelligence whether datasets used for AI training activities may infringe German copyright law (Judgment as of 27 September 2024 – file no. 310 O 227/23). By: DLA Piper

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 5, 2022

copyright law, works of corporate or pseudonymous authorship lapse into the public domain after either 95 years from first publication or 120 years after creation, whichever ends first. What Actually Happened.

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Patently-O

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Judges emphasized that copyright law aims to encourage human creativity. As long as AI-generated images reflect the original intellectual input of a person, they should be identified as a work and protected under copyright law.

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Plagiarism Today

MAY 31, 2022

2: Amendment Passes to Grant Teachers Fair Use of Copyrighted Work Remotely. Next up today, Focus Taiwan reports that the Taiwan legislature has passed a new copyright law that would grant educators a fair use protection when using copyright-protected works via online classes.

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IP Watchdog

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Copyright law provided an arena for some of the most interesting legal battles in 2024. We review some highlights from 2024 below, as well as some cases to watch in 2025.

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Plagiarism Today

APRIL 27, 2022

1: Top EU Court Rejects Polish Complaint Over Copyright Law. First off today, John Silk at Deutsche Welle reports that the highest court in the European Union, the European Court of Justice (ECJ), has rejected a Polish challenge to the latest EU copyright directive. Have any suggestions for the 3 Count?

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Plagiarism Today

MAY 17, 2022

First off today, Thomas Claburn at The Register reports that the Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) has won a key victory over Vizio as a judge has ruled that the open source GPL and LGPL licenses are not just copyright licenses, but contain an extra element covered by contract law rather than copyright law.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Atkins, who notes the irony, claims that the use of short snippets of the songs is permitted under copyright law. According to the band, Atkins does not have any clearances for their music. There is no word about a potential lawsuit. The post 3 Count: I Got You Babe appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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The Illusion of More

JULY 11, 2024

In February 2023, I argued that using copyrighted works for the purpose of training generative artificial intelligence (GAI) products is not fair use.

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Plagiarism Today

APRIL 5, 2022

Examples can include people who purchased themes that used stock images , individuals who don’t understand copyright law, and those that did not understand the license. The reason for this approach, according to Dreamstime, is because most of the infringements they see are accidental.

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