IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 2, 2025

The study concludes with recommendations on how to ensure a check on copyright infringement, with a focus on a few popular social media networking apps, like Facebook and YouTube. INTRODUCTION Social media networking sites have grown significantly in the last few years, enabling users to exchange information with just a single click.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Today’s social media users see copyright conflicts on a regular basis, but probably due to the way copyright is enforced, tend to view images and text as faiir game when compared to movies and music. In Japan, where the concept of fair use isn’t recognized, there’s arguably less cause for confusion.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 19, 2022

After reviewing McFree’s videos, last month a New York judge denied the Watch Tower application declaring that McFree’s use of Watch Tower clips was permitted under fair use. However, Watch Tower is still pursuing a parallel copyright infringement lawsuit against McFree in another court. Until now, that is.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

The company demanded damages under copyright law claiming that the team “willfully and maliciously” copied, adapted and distributed its source code and other content without permission. Affirmative Defense – Fair Use. The doctrine of fair use bars the relief sought by Plaintiff,” the response adds.

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SpicyIP

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Internet Archive, our fellowship applicant Tanishka Goswami explains the implication of the decision on fair use. She graduated from National Law University, Delhi in 2023 & enjoys reading and writing on copyright laws. What the Second Circuit’s “Fair Use” Analysis tells us ?

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Many of the details were previously sealed, but unsealed copies added to the docket yesterday reveal new information. Meta did not request dismissal of the copyright infringement complaint, but is confident that it can “debunk this meritless allegation” on summary judgment. copyright law.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Promoting research and access to its products has always been a core purpose of copyright law, often expressed in limitations and exceptions for research uses. Empirical scholarship has highlighted the positive impact on scholarship of copyright exceptions for TDM and of more “open” exceptions for research uses.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Early September the defendants fired back with a motion to dismiss the “fatally defective” complaint, arguing that they only used a very small portion of the four-hour broadcast for the purposes of commentary and criticism, a key component of a fair use defense. Other Fair Use Factors Cannot Be Relied Upon.

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IP and Legal Filings

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

The availability of a large variety of information has also increased the risk of Copyright Infringement due to its easy accessibility and dissemination. This has led to varying degrees of copyright infringements in this digital era. However, with more advantages, some disadvantages also come into play.

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IPilogue

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

This past Monday, Osgoode’s very own Professor David Vaver delivered the 2021 Brace lecture on “User Rights: Fair Use and Beyond” as the series’ very first international speaker from outside the United States. That anyone’s use of a copyright-protected work infringes the copyright owner’s property.

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SpicyIP

MAY 2, 2022

We’re pleased to bring you a guest post from Akshat Agrawal on a recent order that raised questions on the extent / limitations of the exemptions and limitations to Indian copyright law. You can see his previous posts for us here. New(s) Questions and Fair Use: Using Copyright to Curtail Expression?

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IP and Legal Filings

JULY 29, 2024

This puts educators in a rather fragile position where they risk violating the rights of copyright owners in their endeavours of enriching their teaching with a variety of materials. This legal insecurity puts the platforms in a defensive position to block potentially more content that may actually be allowed for fair use or fair dealing.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 8, 2024

Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay The sweeping evolution of generative AI models is rapidly reshaping the legal landscape of copyright. Together, these two provisions technically facilitate the exercise of opt-outs and shift more allocative power to copyright holders ( see here ).

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IP and Legal Filings

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

The fact that the media experience (whether in a book, film, video, game, or interactive television) depends on both the creator, whose rights are protected by copyright law, and the viewer, who brings their own personal vision to the character, has become increasingly important in the context of interactive technology and user-generated content.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 6, 2021

People who post copyrighted videos to sites like YouTube need to ensure they have the necessary rights to do so. This can include uploads with appropriate licensing or content posted within the guidelines of ‘fair use’, including criticism or parody, for example. ” Why the Videos Are Of Interest to IWUF.

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Copyright Lately

DECEMBER 29, 2024

Ignoring the technical and practical realities of modern online content sharing risks turning every casual social media user into a potential copyright defendant. Chicken Joes earns its spot on my list of the years worst copyright decisions. Fair Use Declawed. law in generalapplies only to domestic rights.

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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. . One planned feature is to enable users to file a claim with the Copyright Claims Board (CCB).

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 31, 2025

The problem, however, is that copyright holders never gave permission to use it. The lawsuits will ultimately determine whether the tech companies are liable for copyright infringement, linked to this and other unauthorized use, or whether ‘fair use’ is a valid defense. In the U.S.,

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IP and Legal Filings

APRIL 19, 2022

A takedown notice is a type of complaint letter addressed to a website administrator, stating that the website’s material has infringed on the owner’s copyright and requesting that the content be removed from the website. Information Technology Act,2000. Safe Harbour Principle ( Section 79 of IT Act,2000).

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 7, 2025

Image from here There is a certain hypocrisy in arguing that training models on the publics data is fair use but then seeking to prevent others from doing the same thing. Various Suits have been filed against these companies, arguing that the training process violates copyright protection. ( USA , Germany , Canada ).

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

The Court has granted summary judgment in respect of 2,830 headnotes belonging to Thomson Reuters and admittedly used by Ross Intelligence to train its Natural Language Processing and Artificial Enabled Legal Research tool, finding Direct Copyright Infringement and rejecting fair use. But, first, Some History!

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

The defendant published a bio on Sewell and included one of McDermott’s photos–apparently sourced from an unrelated Instagram account (possibly another infringer, or perhaps that account has a fair use defense?). McDermott, represented by the Sanders Law Group, sued KMC for copyright infringement.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 29, 2025

Is Training of GenAI Models Fair Use? We Might Know Soon The 3rd issue framed by the Court will deal with the question of fair use, wherein the question is whether using the plaintiff’s data or copyrighted content constitutes fair use under Section 52 of the Copyright Act.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

But if you really want Kiwi Farms gone, have you considered using copyright law for its censorial power? The court says the defendants waived any fair use defense by briefing it inadequately. This ruling shows how copyright law could be a Kiwi Farms killer–no legal reform required. Greer] money.”

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 27, 2022

Those wanting to learn how many DMCA notices have been sent to Google over the past few years need look no further than the copyright section of its vast and constantly updated Transparency Report. Copyright Operations Specialist. To this end, Google/YouTube is now seeking to boost its already massive team.

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Michael Geist

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Unlike the NY Times, which focused on both the inputs (the materials used to train ChatGPT) and the outputs (allegations ChatGPT occasionally provides copyright infringing results), the Canadian claim only target the inputs with no allegation that ChatGPT results are infringing. In fact, OpenAI says it does not by-pass paywalls.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 21, 2021

This review of Exceptions in EU Copyright Law: In Search of a Balance Between Flexibility and Legal Certainty by Tito Rendas, is brought to you by the Rt Hon Sir Richard Arnold, Judge of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales. Instead, he proposes a new standard which is rooted in the CJEU’s existing jurisprudence.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 23, 2024

This information becomes more and more valuable as time passes by. Lawsuit and Appeal Internet Archive believes that its approach falls under fair use but publishers Hachette, HarperCollins, John Wiley, and Penguin Random House disagree. IA has plenty of other archive projects too.

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Intepat

DECEMBER 25, 2024

These industries heavily rely on database to store, manage, and analyse vast amounts of information. While the raw data within a database may not be eligible for copyright protection, the originality involved in selecting, organizing, or arranging the data can bring a database under the scope of copyright law.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 29, 2023

. “None of these causes of action states a viable claim for relief because none of the legal theories challenged here actually condemns the conduct alleged with respect to ChatGPT, the language models that power it, or the process used to create them,” OpenAI informed the court. ” OpenAI notes that when the U.S. .

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Larson & Larson

JUNE 21, 2021

Without a shred of doubt, copyright law envisages the protection of the copyright holder’s rights. The most common limitation where the exclusive rights of a copyright holder can be limited fall under the doctrine of fair use- a defense against copyright infringement. What is Fair Use?

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Chicago-Kent Intellectual Property Journal Blog

MAY 12, 2023

Written by Lucas Coughlin Depicted as a graph, the historical rate of human information transfer begins to climb following the printing press, grows steeper in the 1800s, takes a sharp rise around the 1950s, and ends with a huge leap at the dawn of the internet. [1]

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 9, 2023

TLDR Generative AI is one of the hot topics in copyright law today. In the EU, a crucial legal issue is whether using in-copyright works to train generative AI models is copyright infringement or falls under existing text and data mining (TDM) exceptions in the Copyright in Digital Single Market (CDSM) Directive.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 1, 2023

In our brave new world where millions of ordinary people are copyright holders of snaps they publish to social media or videos they upload to YouTube, awareness of copyright law is at an all-time high. The Klein’s emerged victorious from a lawsuit in 2017 after mounting a successful fair use defense.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 17, 2024

is one of the most interesting cases in history to rely on a fair use defense, arguing that the alleged infringement qualifies as a parody. Acuff-Rose sued members of hip hop group 2 Live Crew, claiming that their track “Pretty Woman” infringed the label’s copyright in the Roy Orbison song, “Oh, Pretty Woman.”

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 22, 2023

According to the Authors Alliance, IA’s digital ebook library is a prime example of a service that should be permitted to operate as fair use, as it benefits both writers and readers. “Libraries have always been free under copyright law to lend materials they own as they see fit.

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Intepat

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

However, even though fanfiction is fun and fosters a sense of community, it can raise legal issues under copyright law. In India, this leads to questions about copyright infringement, fair use, and how fanfiction fits into intellectual property (IP) law. What is Fair Use (or Fair Dealing) in India?

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