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? Attribution is a thoughtful gesture, but providing the authors name or source will not excuse someone from a charge of infringement (or qualify the use as a fair use).

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Copyright Lately

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

Internet Archive (read the opinion here) , the court dealt a decisive blow to the Internet Archive, ruling that its practice of scanning and lending digital copies of books doesn’t qualify as fair use under the Copyright Act. At least, that was the idea. On September 4, the Second Circuit affirmed. For research.

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Patently-O

AUGUST 31, 2021

SAS argues that it made a “plethora of creative choices” in developing its material, and that creativity is more than sufficient to satisfy the originality requirements of copyright law. Thus far, the courts have disagreed with SAS and rejected its copyright assertions. The Federal Circuit’s Google v.

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Intepat

JANUARY 8, 2024

Allegations and Claims by The New York Times The New York Times claims that these companies are trying to take undue advantage of the hard work and money put into creating such a high and superior quality of journalism. The New York Times is claiming damages and an order to stop OpenAI and Microsoft from using any of its articles.

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Velocity of Content

OCTOBER 9, 2023

From Large Language Models (LLMs) to other research-based applications, AI technologies rely on millions of books, scholarly journals, and other curated publications. Responsibly using these works is a foundational part of the discussion. The post CCC Town Hall Preview With Bruce Rich appeared first on Copyright Clearance Center.

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LexBlog IP

JULY 22, 2021

This would include a belief that the display or performance of the copyrighted material in the video was covered under fair use. So would the inclusion of the Taylor Swift or Sublime song recorded in the police/civilian interaction videos mentioned above constitute fair use?

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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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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 22, 2024

The crux of this debate is the argument that if the theft of restricted digital content is for the purpose of knowledge and research, it should be considered as an act done under ‘fair use’ and ‘fair dealing’ of the content. Digital Rights Management & Fair Use If everything is so well designed, then where is the issue?

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Velocity of Content

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Just three short years ago, copyright litigation discussions centered around whether it is fair use to copy declaring code or make unlicensed use of Lynn Goldsmiths photographs of Prince. How AI technologies intersect with copyright was but a twinkle in most judicial systems eyes.

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Velocity of Content

AUGUST 10, 2022

In a much-anticipated report , the UK Intellectual Property Office recommends a major rewriting of UK copyright law, delivering the future of copyright to those using AI and damaging the present and future financial interests of publishers, authors, journalists, and musicians among others.

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Copyright Lately

MAY 1, 2023

First of all, in terms of copyright, to reiterate our very clearly articulated position. sophisticated generative AI that’s enabled by large language models, which trains on our intellectual property, violates copyright law in several ways. copyright law really doesn’t seem to give UMG a ton of options.

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IIPRD

APRIL 8, 2024

This is a major point of contention in the realm IP laws today whether or not AI can be given the said rights and protections under law. This question even after a broad reading of the Indian Copyright law remains unanswered, demanding an amendment in the present law or more clarity on the same by the way of judicial decisions.

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Velocity of Content

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Underwood Chair in Law, Vanderbilt University), Noam Shemtov (Professor in Intellectual Property and Technology Law/Deputy Head of CCLS, Queen Mary University of London), Haralambos Marmanis (Executive Vice President and CTO, CCC), and Catherine Zaller Rowland (Vice President and General Counsel, CCC). See 17 U.S.C. § 17 U.S.C. §

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SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Swaraj Paul Barooah Swaraj Paul Barooah is an IP law and policy Consultant and Managing Editor of SpicyIP, globally recognised as a top resource for Indian IP law and policy. Aside from various journals, his writings can be found at SpicyIP.com where he has been writing since 2008.

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Likelihood of Confusion

MAY 18, 2023

Mack Reed puts his finger on it — almost — in the Online Journalism Review: The Web has made unauthorized propagation of information — whether copyrighted or not — instantaneous. The post Publishers vs. YouTube appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™.

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 13, 2023

In this sense, a coherent theory of the use of de minimis will go a long way in efficient disposal of such cases. DE MINIMIS IN COPYRIGHT LAW. De minimis in copyright can be used for different reasons such as for fair use analysis, substantial similarity analysis [7] , among its other such uses.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

In order to train their technologies, should AI companies be allowed to use works under copyright protection without consent? The lawsuits brought by the owners of such works, including artworks in the case of image-generators and journalism in the NYT case, claim that this should not be allowed. Fair Use Precedent?

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The IPKat

JULY 15, 2023

International Copyright Issues and Artificial Intelligence is a webinar organized by the U.S. Copyright Office on July 26, 2023 , as part of an initiative to examine copyright law and policy issues raised by AI technology. 21–869, full opinion available here ] for the Oxford University Press Law blog.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 1, 2023

The Ninth Circuit ultimately ruled, however, that making and displaying thumbnail images to facilitate an image search engine was a fair use. Ultimately, the problem is that copyright law compensates photographers and other copyright owners through a model of artificial scarcity. 3d at 1160. 3d at 1168.)

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Velocity of Content

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Underwood Chair in Law, Vanderbilt University), Noam Shemtov (Professor in Intellectual Property and Technology Law/Deputy Head of CCLS, Queen Mary University of London), Haralambos Marmanis (Executive Vice President and CTO, CCC), and Catherine Zaller Rowland (Vice President and General Counsel, CCC).

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IIPRD

JANUARY 28, 2023

In the case of electronic information, it is difficult to judge “fair use,” gain access to, and maintain control over the infringement of copyright law. It is extremely difficult for a person who owns copyrights to identify the individual who has used their work. Privacy Laws and Bills. Agrawal, D.

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The IPKat

AUGUST 6, 2023

And, speaking of the book, we are happy to re-publish the review that Bill Patry (Mayer Brown) provided of it, as just published by the Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice. The second article is by Ms Maria Martin-Pratt, ‘Twenty Years After – the State of EU Copyright Law’.

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Likelihood of Confusion

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Free (and apolitical) IP advice for bloggers over at Right Wing News. Originally posted 2010-07-29 22:57:01. Republished by Blog Post Promoter The post And worth every penny! appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Fifth, assuming Trump owns a valid copyright, did he grant an implied license to Woodward to publish transcripts of the interviews and/or the record­ings themselves? Sixth, assuming Woodward published copyrighted material without Trump’s authorization, was he permitted to do so, either as a fair use, or by the First Amendment?

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 20, 2022

As described here in a previous post: The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit rejected an artistic intent or purpose test for fair use on March 26, 2021, in The Andy Warhol Foundation v. ” Then, as I noted , the US Supreme Court decided a few days later, “in Google v. at 7-9) were transformative.,”

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