TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Unauthorized views of UFC events have taken off in recent years. The problem isn’t limited to people who record or stream UFC events on their phones. copyright law, online services are required to “expeditiously” respond to takedown notices if they want to keep their safe harbor protections.

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The IP Law Blog

JULY 22, 2021

There seems to be a belief that police service, when paired with a musical interlude, will prevent a recording of the interaction from being posted on social media due to algorithms that detect and remove videos incorporating copyrighted music (among other types of content).

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TorrentFreak

MAY 2, 2022

Around the middle of April, posts on social media sites popular in Russia (VK, Telegram) suggested that cinemas in several regions would begin screening big Hollywood movies, including ones that should not be available. On April 21, a special event at the WIP contemporary art center in Moscow featured The Batman.

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 13, 2023

Copyright infringement and De Minimis are often replaced to complement each other. However, de minimis is sometimes used as a defence in a copyright lawsuit. More often than not, the lawsuits filed for copyright infringement are cases of de minimis and thereto, get dismissed on the anvil of frivolity. INTRODUCTION.

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 26, 2023

Copyright Office originally granted copyright registration to a comic book titled “Zarya of the Dawn.” copyright office for registration. Copyright Office’s original review and subsequent findings Ms. was copyrightable. PatentNext Takeaway: The U.S. In her application, Ms.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

As a digital entrepreneur, she represents one of the most influential people in the business of social media. The general rule at the EU level is that street art can be protected by copyright like any other work. Consequently, according to Law 22.04.1941 No. What happened on and off the stage of Sanremo?

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The IPKat

JANUARY 2, 2022

COPYRIGHT Giovanni Maria Riccio and Fabiola Iraci Gambazza (E-Lex law firm) reported on the recent publication of the European Audiovisual Observatory entitled " Mapping report on national remedies against online piracy of sports content ", commissioned by the European Commission. disputes between domain names and trademarks).

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Copyright Lately

JULY 17, 2022

Composer Jay Livingston’s granddaughter is suing her mother for exercising copyright termination rights in “Que Sera, Sera” and other popular songs. Tammy’s complaint seeks a declaration that Travilyn’s copyright termination notices aren’t valid and that she’s still entitled to royalties.

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JIPL Online

APRIL 9, 2021

Memes utilize pop culture content, such as movies, television shows, and other various forms of media, often in a parodic way. Such uses are often methods of social commentary regarding the user’s own life, or more broadly, current events; they also often utilize copyrightable material. [i]

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 20, 2023

by Despoina Dimitrakopoulou Recently, the news of reggaeton mega-star Bad Bunny's eloquently put disappointment spread on social media, bringing up interesting questions concerning music creation using AI. Essentially, FlowGPT would have fed the copied songs into the system, and that could mean copyright infringement.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

In particular photographers that specialized in shooting poker events. I understand a lot of you may be upset that I saw a photo on social media and loved it enough to imitate it in a very different style. Still, these are some of the more important copyright cases in recent U.S. One Additional Issue: The DMCA.

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CopyrightsWorld

APRIL 4, 2022

To learn more about this, the Cybernews team has reached out to Georgios Efstratiadis, the CEO of CopyrightsWorld – copyright protection, monitoring, and monetization service. Since then, we have been getting a lot of questions about copyright and online protection. This technology is like made for copyright registration.

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Copycats: unregistered designs, unfair competition and copyright Better register first than be sorry later. Last but not least, fashion items might be protected by copyright. The appeal of using copyright as the means to acquire IP protection lies in the fact that it lasts up to 70 years after the creator’s death.

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LexBlog IP

JULY 22, 2021

There seems to be a belief that police service, when paired with a musical interlude, will prevent a recording of the interaction from being posted on social media due to algorithms that detect and remove videos incorporating copyrighted music (among other types of content).

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Copyright Lately

AUGUST 2, 2022

The full story behind Netflix’s copyright infringement lawsuit against Barlow & Bear, and why it’s actually a win for the fan fiction community. When it comes to copyright cases, Netflix has seen stranger things. First, as far as copyright cases go, this one’s easy. Barlow & Bear refused.”

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IPilogue

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Emily Xiang is a n is an IPilogue Writer , President of the Intellectual Property Society of Osgoode (IPSO), and a 2 L JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. . Copyright Office. Dorland’s copyright infringement claims were allowed, while her claim for intentional infliction of emotional distress was denied.? 3d 12, 18 ).

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Plagiarism Today

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

The fallout seems to have even impacted Twitter’s copyright filtering tools. Those tools ceased to work sometime within the last week , leading users to upload full movies and even live events to the platform undetected. They go as far as to call for people to change their mindset about social media before making the jump.

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 20, 2023

With further ado, here’s what I found in Novembers: Database Protection in India: Since Prof Basheer’s 2005 post about the inaccurate implication of the theft of data as copyright infringement, to 2023, not much seems to have changed. The issue has often arisen in the context of protecting confidential information through copyright law.

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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]

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LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Branding has become more important than ever, particularly in developing an online presence through search engines, various online platforms, and social media. Nearly every mainstream marketplace and social media platform has Acceptable Use Policies, which provide procedures for reporting intellectual property infringements.

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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. Full credits go to the copyright owner. No copyright infringement intended.”

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JANUARY 31, 2022

This post is based on the chapter “The Football Game as a Copyright Work” in Natalie Helberger, Joost Poort, Martin Senftleben, Mireille van Eechoud, Stef van Gompel (eds.). Bernt Hugenholtz, Kluwer Law International, 2021. Football games, as such, would remain free from copyright. Image by Keith Johnston via Pixabay.

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Copyright Lately

JUNE 12, 2024

Repeat after me: You can’t copyright the idea of an animated talking manatee. Rochon has decided that Kassel’s claims don’t hold water, finding that the allegedly copied elements were too generic and generalized to be protectable and that the parties’ works weren’t substantially similar in any event.

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The IPKat

MARCH 6, 2024

Kevin Bercimuelle-Chamot analysed a recent decision of the Tribunal Judiciaire of Paris in a dispute concerning both copyright and trade mark infringement. The Tribunal held that there was both trade mark and copyright infringement. Chijioke Okorie updated readers on the progress of the South African Copyright Amendment Bill.,

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 22, 2023

” This is an attempt to define “journalists,” but what publications don’t “observe current events” or “analyze documents or other information”? (For How is the “Journalism Usage Fee”/Ancillary Copyright Royalty Computed? ” The court also questioned the tailoring fit.

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Copyright Lately

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Despite a number of solid affirmative defenses—including implied license, de minimis use and waiver—the jury was only asked to determine whether defendants had proven that their conduct qualified as a fair use under the Copyright Act. Some of Randy Orton’s tattoos from Catherine Alexander’s copyright applications.

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JIPEL Copyright Blog

MARCH 21, 2022

scene in the past, things seemed to come to a head in November 2020 when Nintendo sent a cease-and-desist letter to the Tournament Organizers (TOs) of the Big House, an upcoming streamed Melee tournament, and subsequently forced them to cancel the event. While Nintendo has waffled on its support for the Smash Bros. Super Smash Bros.

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Copyright Lately

MAY 6, 2022

Just don’t forget about real world copyright law. ? Buying Copyrights. The first thing that’s important to understand is that buying a copy of a creative work, even if it happens to the only copy in existence, doesn’t give you any copyright interest in the work. Buying Objects ?

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Copyright Lately

JUNE 25, 2023

A major motion picture studio has filed a lawsuit challenging the termination of a copyright assignment made by a writer’s loan-out company. Hundreds of other writers fortunate enough to have penned material still valuable after 35 years may find themselves in a similar quandary when they try to exercise copyright termination rights.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 17, 2023

The H2020 project reCreating Europe performed an unprecedented mapping of EU and Member States’ sources on copyright flexibilities. Part II deals with the comparative analysis of the law of all 27 Member States, with related comparative findings. Part I of this blog post explained the mapping of EU sources and their conclusions.

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IP and Legal Filings

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Despite the judiciary’s efforts to address the concerns under current intellectual property laws like copyright and trademark, the absence of relevant and specific provisions for the protection of personality rights has started to pose a serious threat. For every one of the twenty-one defendants, the plaintiff provided examples.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 2, 2022

The decisions in the first category , i.e., Top 10 IP Judgments/Orders (Topicality/Impact) reflect those that we thought were important from a topical point of view and were covered by the media in some way owing to the importance of parties litigating or the issue being considered or for impact on industry and innovation/creativity ecosystem etc.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

The Entertainment Law Institute and the Sports and Entertainment Law Society (SELI) at the University of New Hampshire recently hosted a panel discussion titled “Online Piracy of UFC Fights and Live Sports: The Role of Copyright Law.”. DMCA is Ill-Suited to Dealing With Live Sports Events.

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IPilogue

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

In order to keep abreast of the latest in IP and technology in Canada and around the world, and to learn more about IP Osgoode’s events and activities, please subscribe to the IPIGRAM and follow us on LinkedIn , Twitter , and Facebook. You can learn more about it by watching the recording of our launch event here. IP Intensive.

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The IPKat

AUGUST 11, 2022

Last week, Kenya's government agency in charge of copyright matters, Kenya Copyright Board (KECOBO) published an advisory via its Twitter handle. This advisory is coming in the wake of the proliferation of memes on Kenya's ongoing election campaigns and elections, trending on various social media platforms.

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 30, 2023

The decisions in the first category, i.e., Top 10 IP Cases/Judgements (Topicality/Impact) reflect those that we thought were important from a topical point of view and were covered by the media in some way owing to the importance of parties litigating or the issue being considered or for impact on industry and innovation/creativity ecosystem etc.

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Copyright Lately

MARCH 6, 2023

The copyright owner in Runt is seeking to enjoin director William Coakley from releasing a behind-the-scenes project about alleged on-set bullying and sexual harassment that it claims he fabricated. The case involves an interesting interplay between copyright law, entertainment contracts and the First Amendment.

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