Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 2, 2024

Photo by Jonathan Kemper on Unsplash On 7 May 2024, Open AI published its approach to data and AI (ADAI). In its second paragraph the statement makes strong allusions to copyright law – the term ‘copyright’ is used only once throughout the entire text.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

We will keep the law under review and could amend, replace or remove protection in future if the evidence supports it.” Registration was refused in August 2019, in line with previous US case law and guidance. We were not aware that the image may have been created by AI” 2.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

. “In 2021, Reddit received 177,450 copyright notices reporting 920,672 pieces of content. We removed 665,898 pieces of content in response to these takedown notices,” the company reveals in the latest edition of its transparency report. These figures represent a substantial increase over those published for 2020.

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SpicyIP

JULY 29, 2021

The Copyright section of the Report opens by stating that the ‘widely-scoped’ exceptions to infringement under Section 52 pose a ‘detrimental impact on the publishing industry and authors’. To put things in perspective, even the most IP-friendly jurisdiction of US in Cambridge v. Watering down Section 52(1). Bench decision).

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IPilogue

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Photocopying classroom materials in a K-12 public school system may have seemed harmless and benign before the 2012 Supreme Court of Canada case, Alberta v Canadian Copyright Licensing Agency (Access Copyright). The decision reframes traditional teaching pedagogies by considering the artist and owner rights under copyright law.

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

Our family home always had the latest edition. You see, when I was growing up, computers took up entire rooms and content was published on paper – books, newspapers, magazines, and yes, sometimes even broadcast on television or radio. Much of that content is protected by copyright laws.

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Velocity of Content

JUNE 8, 2022

All copyrights, except one, expire.*. Preface: I wanted to learn more about the concept (and applications) of “derivative works” and adaptations under copyright law, and I was searching for a useful example that might also be interesting for readers of Velocity of Content to read about. And yes, I verbed a noun.

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LexBlog IP

OCTOBER 3, 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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The IPKat

OCTOBER 3, 2022

October 26, 2022 | Bird & Bird | "Webinar: The DSM Directive one year on (part II) Article 15: A power shift back to the publishers?" | online Article 15 of Directive 2019/790 builds on and follows a number of national initiatives aimed at remedying declining revenues in the press sector.

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The IPKat

JULY 22, 2021

Katfriend Dr Sabine Jacques , Associate Professor in IP, IT & Media law at the University of East Anglia and author of The Parody Exception in Copyright Law (OUP 2019), provides the follow review of The Copyright/Trademark Interface: How the Expansion of Trademark Protection is Stifling Cultural Creativity – by Martin Senftleben.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 23, 2024

The organization doesn’t license authorized digital copies from publishers; instead, its books are scanned and digitized in-house. Lawsuit and Appeal Internet Archive believes that its approach falls under fair use but publishers Hachette, HarperCollins, John Wiley, and Penguin Random House disagree.

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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. While the lawsuit takes issue with IA’s entire digital library project, it seems pretty clear that NEL was the poke that prompted publishers to take legal action.

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JIPL Online

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Mods are beneficial for the video game industry, [3] but mods can threaten a company’s copyright exclusivity because of their status as derivative works. [4] 4] Mods that collect revenue by paywalls are likely to scare copyright holders into litigation. [5] 6] Mod creators are not always deterred by these setbacks. [7]

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JIPL Online

MARCH 19, 2021

On November 11, 2020, the Amazon-owned live streaming platform Twitch quietly published a post titled “Music-Related Copyright Claims and Twitch” to the site’s official blog. [i] The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (the “DMCA”) is a 1998 amendment to U.S. Background. 6, 2021). [iv]

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 10, 2022

Users simply upload their work to RighsClick with all the relevant information about them, including the title of the work, the date it was created, whether it is published or unpublished and who the author is. . RightsClick also makes it easy to bulk edit a large number of works.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 15, 2024

UpstateNYer, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons The forthcoming article “Creation and Generation Copyright Standards” to be published in NYU JIPEL 2024 (see pre-publication version here ) analyses and critiques the different standards for copyright eligibility between expressive works and generative products in the U.S.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 1, 2023

In doing so, it amended Law 2121/1993 , the Greek Copyright Law, as well as Law 4481/2017 , the law that regulates the collective management of copyright and related rights. A major part of the amendments concerns Chapter 4 of Law 2121/1993, which regulates exceptions and limitations to copyright.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MARCH 6, 2023

A series of recent amendments to copyright law, including in the EU Copyright and the Digital Single Market Directive (Art. 3 and 4) and in Singapore’s new Copyright Act (Art. 243, 244), seek to protect the ability of text and data mining researchers to use copyrighted content in their work. 3d 87 (2d Cir.

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43(B)log

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Plaintiffs also alleged infringement of Monbo’s right of publicity, unjust enrichment, and violations of the Lanham Act and related Maryland trademark law. Monbo appeared as an actor in the 2001 and 2003 Documentaries, was interviewed in “[a]t least two” of the segments defendants used, and was not compensated for the use of his likeness.

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The IP Law Blog

JUNE 15, 2023

Real estate brokers generally retain VHT to photograph properties they are attempting to sell and then edit the photos, save them in their electronic database, and deliver them to the client pursuant to a license agreement. VHT licenses the individual photos themselves, not the database, and the database itself is not published.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JANUARY 20, 2022

At the end of 2021, YouTube’s first Copyright Transparency Report 2021 (“Report”) was published. In 2012, US NASA’s robotic rover touched down on Mars. 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.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 26, 2024

And what is the fate of copyright law in this new world order? Copyright & AI (Search) Agents Copyright law has long been the cornerstone of protecting the intellectual property (IP) rights of content creators and incentivising creativity. As dozens of copyright lawsuits filed in U.S.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Two weeks ago, former President Donald Trump filed a lawsuit against journalist Bob Woodward and his publisher, Simon & Schuster (and its parent company Paramount Global, formerly known as Viacom-CBS), in U.S. The audiobook is also published on CD, and transcripts were published in paperback and ebook formats.)

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43(B)log

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Fair use can rarely be decided on a motion to dismiss, the court said, and this wasn’t one of those cases. Here, there was no editing of the “lyrics, vocals, or instrumentals at all.” Cariou , by contrast, involved fair uses where works were “obscured and altered to the point that [they were] barely recognizable.”

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 10, 2024

Other commentators, such as Vishal Rakheccha, have also sought to reimagine how copyright in Crown copyright jurisdictions might strike the best balance of access, accuracy, and enforcement around government works copyrights in British common law jurisdictions like India. ” Id.

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