Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 2, 2022

However, those familiar with copyright law, immediately began to point out flaws in the plan. The issue got so bad that Cent, one of the largest marketplaces for NFTs, shut down nearly all NFT sales over “rampant” issues with copyright infringement and plagiarism. It’s a simple idea, but one that hasn’t taken off yet.

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Copyright Non-Fungible Tokens Technology Plagiarism 245

Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 19, 2023

Caveat Emptor The common notion that acquiring ownership of an NFT representing a work in which copyright subsists equates to owning the copyright to the underlying work is clearly false. Assignment The copyright owner may transfer the entirety of the copyright in the work to the purchaser by assignment.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 25, 2024

Publishers vs. Internet Archive The self-scanning service offered by the Internet Archive (IA) differs from the licensing agreements entered into by other libraries. The briefs include positions from industry groups such as the MPA, RIAA, IFPI, Copyright Alliance, the Authors Guild, various writers unions, and many others.

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IP and Legal Filings

JULY 21, 2022

This is the time when India is going through an upheaval of changes in our education system with the help of different policies of government as well as with the use of different technologies in modernizing the way of learning. Copyright ensures certain minimum rights and it has never been an absolute right.

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Michael Geist

JANUARY 23, 2024

(3) Should Canada introduce legislative reforms to address copyright-related questions arising from the outputs of generative AI systems? My submission argues as follows: 1. Introducing a text and data mining exception into Canadian copyright law is long overdue and should proceed as a copyright reform priority.

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Intepat

MAY 28, 2024

Intellectual property transforms knowledge into an economic result by interacting with legal and economic forces in the market. Intellectual Property is revealed by the gap between a company’s book value and market value. These intellectual outputs are seen across industries, including creative and cultural sectors.

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The IPKat

JUNE 18, 2023

On June 19, 2022, Belgium adopted a copyright law that transposed Directive (EU) 2019/790 into the Belgian Code of Economic Law. This copyright reform entered into force on August 1, 2022. Reforms of the streaming market have been taking place in the UK, which discusses an equitable remuneration right for streaming.

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Patently-O

MAY 9, 2024

Nealy was incarcerated from 1989 to 2008 and again from 2012 to 2015 , and consequently was unaware that Butler had licensed their music without proper authorization. It was not until after his release in 2015 that Nealy discovered these unauthorized licenses, a revelation that came too late according to a straight three-year bar.

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IP Tech Blog

JANUARY 4, 2023

The challenge becomes even bigger if NFTs are to be commercialized, exploited, and protected in different jurisdictions and at the same time — particularly when those markets include China, where protection for a foreign NFT creator or exploiter may face unique challenges. Therefore, DCs cannot be freely transacted in the Chinese market.

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IP Ownership Non-Fungible Tokens Copyright Law 109

Patently-O

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The case now before the Supreme Court arose when Sherman Nealy’s collaborator licensed their co-created songs without Nealy’s permission (while Nealy was incarcerated). Nealy sued many years later in 2018 upon learning of the unauthorized licenses in 2016. of Governors, FRS. See 38 U.S.

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Velocity of Content

MARCH 16, 2023

Regardless, as of this writing there are now five cases that may provide some clarity on this less frequently discussed but foundational issue of the unauthorized use of copyrighted materials as training data for AI (I use “AI” here as a shorthand which also includes text and data mining and machine learning). Case 1- Doe 1 v. Ltd, et al.-

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Litigation Fair Use Copying Derivative Work 98

The IPKat

OCTOBER 10, 2021

Copyright The Journal of Intellectual Property Law and Practice published an Author's Take piece considering what the way forward for the press publishers' right might be under EU copyright law. The Kluwer Copyright Blog thought it over. Trade marks What is the impact of Brexit on exhaustion of rights?

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IP and Legal Filings

OCTOBER 28, 2022

As of this writing, there is no explicit regulation governing the NFT market or the way NFTs should be produced, acquired, gathered, coined, etc. The Indonesian government has examined the existence of blockchain technology cautiously, leaning more toward acceptance of the new technology than outright prohibition.

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 8, 2023

The year 2020 brought a big change for the music and movie industries as the forced lockdown to control the pandemic issue made them launch their movies and music albums on the online platform, which also brought up the problem of copyright infringement as now it was easy to record and sell the movies online. Conclusion. The Tips v.

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Copyright Copyright Infringement Music Copying 78

The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Kat friend Iana Kazeeva provides an enlightening discussion on steps taken by the Russian government and courts with respect to IP following the invasion of Ukraine. The common denominator is the use of changes to the IP law as a political instrument towards states taking “unfriendly” actions against Russia. International license.

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Velocity of Content

MAY 1, 2024

29 town hall, The Heart of the Matter: Copyright, AI Training and LLMs, presented a comprehensive case that AI systems do infringe copyrights and called for a licensing system to compensate content owners. Legal & Copyright Issues With that technical background, the discussion moved to legal and copyright issues.

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Kashishipr

OCTOBER 27, 2021

There has been a long-standing debate about the different modes of safeguarding an API through the laws on patents, copyright, and trade secrets. Patents do not govern computer programs, per se. Copyright and APIs. As has been witnessed above, the most preferred route of safeguarding APIs is through Copyright Laws.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

years after the implementation deadline, Poland still had to implement the provisions of the 2019 Copyright in the Digital Single Market Directive into national law. It is worth stressing that the language quoted above is contained in the public consultation version of the implementation law and thus not final.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 22, 2023

In contrast to those relatively TDM-friendly copyright rules or approaches, the limited statutory categories of limitations and exemptions in Article 24 of Chinese Copyright Law do not cover TDM exceptions. In addition, statutory licensing TDM may fall short as copyright holders may preclude usage in TDM by express reservation.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

There is uncertainty over how much selection and refinement is needed to produce the best work (see examples of selection, refinement and reworking here and here ) and getting the right prompt is challenging enough to have created a market for effective prompts. We were not aware that the image may have been created by AI” 2.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2023

At the district court level, the law of copyright preemption is a morass of ad hoc explanations of whether certain contracts are “equivalent” to the exclusive rights within the general scope of copyright law. Platforms that copy online data and use it to create AI have a strong fair use argument under copyright laws.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

JANUARY 16, 2024

IPRs are crucial for startups as they safeguard their unique ideas and creations, enabling them to establish a competitive edge in the market. Startups can secure copyrights to prevent unauthorized copying or distribution of their creative works. Additionally, trademarks serve as powerful marketing tools.

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Intellectual Property Cease and Desist Invention Branding 52

The IP Law Blog

JULY 6, 2023

Section 107 of the Copyright Act provides that “the fair use of a copyrighted work, including such use… for purposes such as criticism [and] comment…. is not an infringement of copyright.” But what about the fourth factor, market harm? However, what if the plaintiff actively licensed its content for a fee?

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SpicyIP

JULY 5, 2021

In this guest post , Rounak Doshi discusses the position of law on arbitrability of trademark disputes in light of the Delhi High Court’s recent decision in Golden Tobie Private Ltd. He notes that the Court considered this dispute concerning the breach of a trademark licensing agreement as arbitrable and referred it to arbitration.

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Intellectual Property Trademark Licensing Copyright 105

Kluwer Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash Welcome to the third trimester of the 2023 round up of EU copyright law! In this edition, we update you on what has happened between July and September 2023 in EU copyright law. The government established a working group which started meeting this summer. Read more here.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 4, 2023

The challenge becomes even bigger if NFTs are to be commercialized, exploited, and protected in different jurisdictions and at the same time — particularly when those markets include China, where protection for a foreign NFT creator or exploiter may face unique challenges. Tiffany created 250 NFTs and put them on the market.

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IP Ownership Non-Fungible Tokens Copyright Law 52

Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Voices emerged questioning whether current EU copyright laws should be amended in light of the many AI-generated works that have come about. One important question has been whether copyright law should be extended in order to protect such works. Importantly, copyright law is equally about culture.

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IIPRD

APRIL 13, 2023

Image Sources : Shutterstock] He acknowledged the actions taken by the government to advance business accessibility. A total of 39,000 compliances have been streamlined, 1500 outdated laws have been repealed, and offences have also been decriminalised. Intention and level make a difference. here, here and here).

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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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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 1, 2023

On the other hand, professional photographers have to make a living by licensing their photos to publishers (and other intermediaries) who are willing to pay them to reproduce and display those photos. Instagram, of course, was licensed to publicly display the post under its own terms and conditions, so there is no direct infringement.

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IP and Legal Filings

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Governments are becoming more aware of the need for businesses to actively preserve, manage, and commercialise intangible assets, especially intellectual property (IA/IP), in order to maximise benefits for businesses and the economy as a whole. The IP valuation is to be done by an IP appraiser who must be licensed by the Ministry of Finance.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 8, 2022

This two-part blog post offers a reflection on the topic of content moderation and bias mitigation measures in copyright law. Second, although mere facts and data as such are not protected by copyright, their extraction from protected subject matter (works, non-original databases, etc.) Scenario (2): Open Licenses.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2023

.’ Setting the Scene Much ink has been spilled on the legal discourse surrounding generative AI (GenAI) and copyright. In this post, the focus is on the unlicensed use of copyright-protected works in the context of training GenAI models, where such use could jeopardise the market for those particular expressions (see Sobel ).

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Copyright IP Music Licensing 51

Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 26, 2021

Welcome to the fourth and final trimester of 2021 round up of EU copyright law! In this series, we update readers every three months on developments in EU copyright law. The rapporteur is very well-known to all copyright enthusiasts – Mr Axel Voss. Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash. We reported on this here.

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Intepat

JUNE 9, 2023

National Intellectual Rights Property Policy, 2016 is the first policy which was drafted to lay down the intentions of the Central Government for this regime. Businesses have begun to recognize these rights because of their use as an economic tool and a marketable financial asset. The major focus is to promote “Make in India” products.

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The IPKat

JUNE 26, 2022

Government who will present and discuss subjects having significant importance for SMEs and being of major priority for policymakers on both sides of the Atlantic. I feel honoured to have been selected for this role, which is a brand new one, working at the heart of Government in Wales. and the EU.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

AUGUST 24, 2022

As previously reported , between October 2021 and January 2022 the UK Intellectual Property Office held a public consultation on the intersection between artificial intelligence (AI) and intellectual property laws (more specifically, copyright and patents). Users reported mixed experiences with licensing. All-purpose TDM.

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