Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Given the fact that the copyright law was originally framed to protect literary and artistic works, it needs to be seen how much the law has evolved to grant protection to digitalized works. Kind of Copyright Infringement. Copyright infringement can take place in various forms in this digital era. Indian Scenario.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

A recent study published in the Journal of University Teaching & Learning Practice sheds light on the latter. The paper The paper, published by Dr. Michael Day of the University of Greenwich, labels the use of Z-Library as ‘Academic Cybercrime’. From: TF , for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

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JIPEL Copyright Blog

APRIL 26, 2021

“Girl you are not going to enjoy your time here,” read a particularly prophetic comment on Danielle Bernstein’s very first Tik Tok video, published in late February. Just a few days later, she would disable commenting on her profile altogether due to an influx of negative comments on her posts.

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IP and Legal Filings

APRIL 19, 2022

Although Section 81 of the IT Act specifies that the prohibitions of Section 79 do not preclude anyone from exercising any rights allowed under the Copyright Act 1957, intermediaries are exempted from accountability for copyright infringement. As a result, the IT Act’s obligations have precedence over all other laws.

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IP and Legal Filings

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Historical lookback The amendment to the existing copyright law act of 1957 was carried out owing to the sensitization of issue of copyright management and revenue sharing structure that is fair and reasonable to all owners and writers of filmed and recorded works. [i] Magic Mantra Vision. [ii] Magic Mantra Vision, CS (OS) NO.

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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. Publishing giant Kadokawa, among others, hold the rights to the anime movie ‘Overlord III.’

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IPilogue

AUGUST 26, 2022

The suit was filed in California Northern District Court by Swedish music label and publishing company, Epidemic Sound. They claimed that Meta, on its social media platforms, has stolen hundreds of their content. In the past, content creators have had issues incorporating music into their posts due to copyright holder policies.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 15, 2023

law, online service providers need to respond to takedown notices and implement a meaningful policy to terminate the accounts of repeat infringers. Many of the large social media platforms stick to these rules, but according to a lawsuit filed this week by several prominent music companies, Twitter is not among them.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 2, 2022

Even so, the court’s almost-banal treatment of this super-interesting topic suggests that there may not be much tattoo exceptionalism in copyright law. She tattooed the Sedlik photo onto Farmer and promoted the tattoo on social media. It’s a creative photo, but it was published. Background. Amount Used.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

This activity generates many millions of views which are monetized by the social media platform, while rightsholders receive no compensation for the use of their works. A few weeks ago, the social media platform filed a motion to dismiss , refuting all piracy allegations.

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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.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Liu ) that an AI-generated image is copyrightable and that a person who prompted the AI-generated image is entitled to the right of authorship under Chinese Copyright Law (see our bilingual version , and the later-released official translation ). The court therefore ruled that Defendant infringed upon Plaintiff’s copyright.

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The IP Law Blog

AUGUST 4, 2022

Embedding” means the process of copying unique HTML code assigned to the location of a digital copy of the photo or video published to the Internet, and the insertion of that code into a target webpage or social media post so that photo or video is linked for display within the target post. It’s been a long-standing practice.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 3, 2023

31, 2022): When an individual’s decision to disseminate an Instagram post is the “very thing the article [is] reporting on,” the use of the Instagram post and its copyrighted material in the reporting has been deemed sufficiently transformative to support a fair use defense. Tattoos are “published” when completed.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 13, 2024

— Bright Data has long sold the data of all the major social media companies. — For the claims related to illegal selling of scraped data, the court dismissed those because they were preempted by copyright. That’s what copyright law is for. In November 2023, X corp. on all counts. Bright Data Ltd. ,

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

New figures published by CharlieIntel predict that free-to-play, action role-playing game Genshin Impact, will have 63 million players in November alone. Cognosphere obviously considers the leaked content a problem, but importantly, a problem it can deal with under copyright law.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 17, 2023

Multi-point, ongoing collisions between rightsholders, pirate sites, pirates and copyright law, are what fuel our daily reporting. The polarized nature of the debate, which regularly pits decent law-abiding content creators against shadowy thieves hiding in the recesses of the web, is good for headlines but a hopeless anti-piracy tool.

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Velocity of Content

MAY 11, 2023

CCC recently assembled a panel of expert leaders in publishing and medical communications for a broad discussion on copyright as it pertains to the work of medical communications professionals. If a journal article is published as Open Access, can I reuse it?

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 23, 2024

The European Federation of Academies of Sciences and Humanities (ALLEA) has for many years supported the move away from proprietary models of scholarly publishing towards Open Access (OA). [1] SPRs are proving to be strong enablers of OA to publicly funded research output, without the excessive costs associated with Gold OA models.

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Copyright Lately

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

In a first-of-its-kind ruling, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has revived choreographer Kyle Hanagami’s copyright lawsuit against Fortnite’s Epic Games. Choreography is like the Rodney Dangerfield of copyright law. As always, let me know what you think in the comments below or @copyrightlately on social media.

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Velocity of Content

MARCH 22, 2023

For a long time – most of the 20 th century at least – calculating copyright terms has been a complicated matter. Congress extended the terms a few times , modified requirements for registration and “harmonized” US copyright law according to treaty agreements. Building on others’ initial work, Prof.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2021

For example, Plaintiffs allege that Defendants copied, nearly verbatim, the ingredients and steps in the recipe for peanut butter dog treats that Coscarelli published in her Chloe’s Kitchen cookbook. Because copyright law lets me, I’m reproducing the dog treats recipe below. Case citation : Coscarelli v.

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Copyright Lately

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

Ramirez was pivotal in Judge McMahon’s dismissal of the publishers’ claims. It has the potential to significantly restrict the kinds of IP cases that federal courts can hear”—possibly leaving publishers without standing “to sue over model training at all, even for copyright infringement.” TransUnion v. OpenAI, Inc.—hopefully

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TorrentFreak

JULY 18, 2023

In common with content created in other fields, photographs generally enjoy protection under copyright law, allowing photographers to determine who can duplicate and/or distribute their work. Photographers Alexis Hunley and Matthew Brauer posted several of their copyrighted works on Instagram. Amazon, Inc. ( pdf ) case in 2007.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Like many other countries around the world, India’s copyright law allows rightsholders to limit access to pirate sites. Since some pirate apps use GitHub it’s possible that raw.githubusercontent.com was listed in a copyright-related injunction, resulting in massive overblocking.

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 7, 2022

TikTok, a video-sharing platform, has quickly become one of the most popular social media platforms to date. However, as the platform becomes more popular, it opens its doors to a multitude of legal challenges with copyright infringement near the top of the list. Choreography is another copyright issue faced by TikTok.

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The IPKat

APRIL 3, 2023

The IPKat has received and is pleased to host a guest contribution by Desmond Oriakhogba on the new Copyright Act 2022 signed into law by Nigeria's President. The reform process is now complete with the recent assent to the Bill, as the Copyright Act 2022, by the Nigerian President.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

In 2020, Amazon teamed up with publisher Penguin Random House and authors including John Grisham, Scott Turow and Lee Child to sue several pirate ‘Kiss Library’ eBook sites operating out of Ukraine. As a result, authors and the publishing industry as a whole hemorrhage large amounts of revenue each year,” they write.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 6, 2024

law, online service providers must respond to takedown notices and implement a meaningful policy to terminate the accounts of repeat infringers. Many of the large social media platforms stick to these rules but, according to a lawsuit filed by several prominent music companies last year, X is not among them.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 6, 2024

More recently, a strategy that has been seen only a handful of times before, has been playing out on social media. The sensitivity of the work seems to be on display in an image published by the local media outlet mentioned earlier. Source: P.CoK Anti-Piracy Whitepaper Vol.4

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Velocity of Content

JULY 22, 2021

In my first post , after touching on the need/wisdom of copyright registration for bloggers (and other creators whose distribution is primarily through social media sites), I went on to discuss the DMCA and how it is a useful first-line-of-defense bit of IP protection for content first appearing on such sites.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 22, 2023

Instead, it pursues a policy worse than socialism. A print publisher qualifies as a DJP if it: “provide[s] information to an audience in the state.” Publishers can charge for advertising in many ways, including ad impressions (CPM), clicks, actions, fixed fee, etc. CJPA does the opposite.

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The IP Law Blog

JUNE 3, 2021

We recently wrote about a case in the Southern District of New York against Mashable relating to the embedding of content from social media platforms like Instagram. Legal watchers speculated that the ruling would encourage copyright infringement claims based on the embedding of content.

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IP Tech Blog

MAY 15, 2023

A track called “ Heart on My Sleeve ” went viral recently on social media with lead vocals sounding eerily similar to a certain crooner known for his lovelorn lyrics. What has Ghostwriter977/AI actually infringed and, moreover, is AI art copyrightable? Rather, the vocals were generated using artificial intelligence tools.

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The IPKat

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

This Kat recently finished a report on press reporting and public perception of IP rights for the UK IPO [due to be published imminently!] which highlights the ‘David vs Goliath’ narrative that has been successfully utilised by defendants in recent years, where the claimant has dropped or settled the matter after social media backlash.

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Copyright Lately

JUNE 2, 2022

Sedlik alleges that Von D infringed the copyright in his photo by tattooing a reproduction of the Miles Davis image onto the skin of Blake Farmer and then displaying images of the tattoo on her social media accounts. The Nature of the Copyrighted Work and the Amount and Substantiality of the Portion Used. Odds and Ends.

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The IPKat

MARCH 6, 2024

The Tribunal held that there was both trade mark and copyright infringement. Anna Maria Stein outlined the findings of the UKIPO's report on “The impact of complicit social media influencers on male’s consumption of counterfeit goods in the UK.” digital streaming).

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