Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 1, 2023

The members of the European Copyright Society (ECS ) have recently sent a letter to Mr. Thierry Breton ( Commissioner for Internal Market , European Commission ) outlining their view of what should be the priorities for a f uture agenda in the field of copyright law.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 18, 2023

Moritz College of Law The copyright – contract tension Stewart Brand famously said that information wants to be free. We know, however, that many laws limit free access and use of information goods, most prominently copyright law (and IP law generally). ML Genius v.

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SpicyIP

MARCH 30, 2025

Transformer architecture introduced a concept called attention which allowed the algorithm to capture contextual information to understand which words influence others. This article focuses on the first set: information that is publicly available on the internet. We then use the information to teach our models.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 12, 2022

In the natural course of things, given the elaborate and drawn-out nature of interactions in the entertainment industry, the promise of confidentiality is implied in the interactions and thus, such sharing of information is indeed covered under confidentiality law. The requirement in confidentiality law is the novelty of information.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Following the successful launch of the Information Law Series Archive in September 2024, ten more volumes have been made freely available on the IViR website. The Information Law Series , established in 1991, is the worlds first and foremost academic book series in the field of information law and policy.

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The IP Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Thus, here, given that the plaintiff has Copyright Registrations, the burden shifts to Defendants to come forward with “evidence that the work[s] [were] copied from the public domain.” Thus, the Court found Defendants did not provide any evidence that the work had been copied from the public domain.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 4, 2024

OpenAI Seeks NYT ‘Source’ Material In its quest for evidence, OpenAI is particularly interested in the copyrights of the New York Times’ works. This includes copyrighted news articles, which are often based on a variety of information gathered by its journalists. For example, discovery requests no.

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Copyright Lately

APRIL 30, 2021

The new lawsuit raises a host of complicated legal issues that, while exciting for copyright nerds like me, are often a nightmare to litigate. Key among them is the extent to which pre-1978 works first published abroad without proper copyright notice are still protected under U.S. copyright law. version did.

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Velocity of Content

JANUARY 22, 2025

The stakes are particularly high in copyright law, where anthropomorphic thinking has led to problematic comparisons between human learning and AI training. This territorial nature of copyright law creates a complex web of potential liability. ” These human terms feel natural, but they are misleading.

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Velocity of Content

OCTOBER 19, 2021

The Copyright Act of 1976 became Public Law number 94-553 on October 19, 1976 and went into effect (as scheduled) as Title 17 of the United States Code on January 1, 1978. The new Copyright Act was the fourth general revision of copyright law since the original Act of 1790.

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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

MARCH 5, 2025

Both artistic and technical information have been transforming lately about how to create in all industries. Blog sought to study global moves or court cases that have taken place regarding uses of copyright in made-always-with-an-AI creation and provide discussion over possible solutions to the future of intellectual property laws.

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Velocity of Content

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Where copyright protection begins and ends Employees consume and share copyrighted materials all day long. However, routine content exchanges such as sharing published reports, articles and other information found on the Web, have copyright implications, which can expose companies to a greater risk of infringement.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 4, 2022

On Sunday he informed TorrentFreak that he’s also an independent film composer and producer, working with music production libraries, and distributing to the main music platforms. After filing his counternotice with YouTube, Bruno was informed that since he’d provided insufficient information, YouTube could not process it.

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IP and Legal Filings

MAY 3, 2024

Fair use provides some exceptions to copyright protection, allowing limited use of copyrighted material without the permission of the copyright owner. Understanding legal and fair use is especially important in academic settings because dissemination of information often requires the use of evidence.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

This informed the group’s decision to divide their work and outputs into five key areas: the definition of AI; text and data mining; training of AI and machine learning algorithms; AI generations and creations; and authors collaborating with AI. . & Working Group 4 — Beyond Copyright: the Ethics of Open Sharing.

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The IPKat

APRIL 8, 2023

The IPKat has received and is happy to host this guest contribution by Deborah De Angelis (Studio Legale DDA) on the highly publicized halted licensing negotiations between Italian collecting society SIAE and Meta regarding the availability of the music repertoire administered by the former on the latter’s services. 17 (4), b). 17 (4), c).

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IP and Legal Filings

MARCH 5, 2025

In contrast to conventional disinformation, deepfake information is imbued with heightened realism, persuasiveness, plausibility and dissemination intent. [1] ” [14] However, when there is a conflict between copyright law and personality rights, it is the subjects right to privacy that demands priority.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2023

A newly introduced article on “Obligations for providers of general-purpose AI models” includes two distinct requirements related to copyright. More interestingly, the provision explicitly links the use of copyrighted works for training AI models to the text and data mining (TDM) exception in Article 4 of the CDSM Directive.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 16, 2024

These landmark settlements should serve as a warning to illegal streaming operators about the severe penalties they will face for breaking copyright law, including legal actions, substantial financial settlements and fines, and jail time,” Knapp says. domains and prefer options such as.to, where the opposite is true.

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IP and Legal Filings

APRIL 20, 2023

Secondly, work generated by AI without human interference, when input is not given by the human to the work generated by AI, then the ownership as well as authorship will be given to the developer of the program creating AI that is to the person who holds copyright over the AI software. Hence, ownership is not granted to the AI.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 13, 2024

— For the claims related to illegal selling of scraped data, the court dismissed those because they were preempted by copyright. I did a deep dive on this topic in December , but the general gist of it is that copyright law preempts state law claims if the state-law claims come within the general scope of copyright.

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Intepat

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

To delve deeper into the question of ownership, we need to grasp the traditional concept of copyright. Copyright laws are designed to safeguard the rights of creators. Historically, these rights have been attributed to human creators, forming the cornerstone of copyright law.

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IP and Legal Filings

MAY 3, 2023

Here, merely automated and mechanical work that lacks originality is also protected by the said copyright doctrine. For instance, in accordance with this doctrine, the author would be entitled to copyright protection if someone collected different poems that were previously in the public domain and produced in a single document.

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The IPKat

APRIL 30, 2024

Should the EU unify copyright laws? The session started with the highly disputed topic of copyright unification with Prof. see Katpost here ) When finally addressing the question, "Should the EU unify copyright laws?" And in a world brimming with trademarks, what is the ultimate purpose of the public domain?

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 23, 2023

Copyrights safeguard the artists’ rights in the inventive and imaginative content that abounds in digital media. In today’s digital world, a lot of data and information have been shared online and are susceptible to corruption and copying. Image Sources : Gettyimages] One of the important issues in online is copyrights.

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

In the Mirajkar case, it was held that “ save in exceptional cases, the proceedings of a Court of justice should be open to the public ”. The Copyright Dilemma Perhaps to counter the obvious and non-obvious ills of live-streaming judicial hearings, Rule 9.2 as per Rule 9(2)(iv).

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The IP Law Blog

APRIL 6, 2023

After the copyright in Zarya of the Dawn was registered, the Copyright office became aware, due to statements made by Kashtanova in social media, that portions of the graphic novel were created using Midjourney’s AI tool.

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Patently-O

AUGUST 22, 2022

And, once a patent expires (or is refused or forfeited by public use), the balance allows “free access to copy whatever the federal patent and copyright laws leave in the public domain.” ” Compco Corp. Day–Brite Lighting, Inc. , 234 (1964). Bicron Corp. , 470 (1974). ” Id. 3d 25 (2d Cir.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Indeed, human creators seek compensation for the novel use of their intellectual efforts while AI firms aim to maximize the free harvesting of data (including copyright-protected materials) for training their algorithms. Moreover, the Italian Supreme Court, in decision no. Secondly, para.

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The IP Law Blog

JANUARY 12, 2023

When looking into company assets protectable under federal copyright laws, one should check the company’s website, marketing materials, manuals, YouTube videos, podcasts, posted content on Instagram, TikTok, and the like, photos, software, blog posts, articles, white papers, etc.

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SpicyIP

MARCH 15, 2022

Mili is a graduate of Institute of Law, Nirma University, currently completing her LLM at LSE. Her areas of interest are Information Technology law, Intellectual Property law, Media & Communication Law, and human rights law. . Image from here. Introduction.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 23, 2023

The other two chapters turn to the conceptualisation of nature in patent law. The editors' chapter entitled 'Artificial Flowers' contrasts the different ways patent law and copyright law dealt with the unruly and changeable nature of living subject matter by analysing how courts have dealt with copyright claims to artificial flowers.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 25, 2024

Act I When the Committee charged with conducting Canada’s 2019 Copyright Act Review turned its mind to AI, its primary concern was with “help[ing] Canada’s promising future in artificial intelligence become reality” ( Report 2019 ). Act II The Committee’s recommendation to add an exception for “informational analysis” was not acted upon.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 22, 2022

The creation and development of copyright law are closely connected to technological and associated business transformations (see, e.g. here ). Yet, the very same automation poses challenges for the application of copyright law, increasing legal uncertainty, as demonstrated in this report vis-à-vis AI music outputs.

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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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Kluwer Copyright Blog

AUGUST 12, 2021

To that end, this blog addresses how the Egyptian copyright law (ECL) regulates intermediaries’ liability when it comes to copyright-related infringements. What lessons, if any, should the Egyptian copyright legislator retain from the CJEU’s last words on the liability regime of the ECD? For further lessons, stay tuned ….

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