Managing IP

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Academics and publishers demand lawmakers take a balanced approach when amending the fair use provision of India’s Copyright Act

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 21, 2023

In 2020, publishers Hachette, HarperCollins, John Wiley and Penguin Random House sued the Internet Archive (IA) for copyright infringement, equating its ‘Open Library’ to a pirate site. Mass Copyright Infringement or Fair Use? The publishers are not against libraries per se, nor do they object to ebook lending.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 9, 2021

The 634K-subscriber YouTube channel ‘Totally Not Mark’ is in peril this morning after what can be described as a copyright takedown blitz by Japan-based animation company Toei. ” Earlier this week Mark received an email saying that 15 of his videos had been copyright claimed by Toei.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

Parrish Publishes LifeWise’s Children’s Curriculum, LifeWise Sues In the belief that the curriculum contains information supportive of the opposition group’s cause, Parrish obtained a copy of the closely-guarded documents and, in the public interest, posted them publicly online.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 19, 2022

Since 2017, the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society, the supervising body and publisher for the Jehovah’s Witness religious group, has filed more than 70 DMCA subpoena applications in the United States. However, Watch Tower is still pursuing a parallel copyright infringement lawsuit against McFree in another court. Until now, that is.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 31, 2021

One of the practices that has generated a sizeable number of disputes and rulings is the use of photos to illustrate articles. These three cases address fair use in this context. Pub Ocean then published an article titled “A Massive Lake has Just Materialized in the Middle of One of the Hottest Places on Earth”.

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Plagiarism Today

JULY 8, 2021

However, others, including Julia Reda, a former Pirate Party MEP, published a blog post claiming that it isn’t. She says that text and data mining is not a copyright infringement and that, since an AI cannot produce a copyright-protected work, its output cannot be an infringement. Is it so short that its use is a fair use?

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Patently-O

APRIL 3, 2022

Although Warhol is dead, his art, legacy, copyrights, and potential copy-wrongs live on. As part of that process, VF obtained a license from Goldsmith, but only for the limited use “as an artist’s reference in connection with an article to be published in Vanity Fair Magazine.” by Dennis Crouch. 17 U.S.C. §

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IP Watchdog

AUGUST 17, 2021

Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit yesterday reversed a Missouri district court’s grant of summary judgment for a group of real estate companies relating to copyright infringement claims brought by an architect over floorplans. Copyright Act.

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Dear Rich IP Blog

JANUARY 9, 2023

It was released to the press and has been published in many news outlets attributed to the department. May I use it? Is it public domain or fair use? Although state and local police are not prohibited from claiming copyright in their photos the answer depends on the state where the police department is located.

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Plagiarism Today

MAY 31, 2022

1: Pinterest Prevails in Photography Copyright Dispute. However, the court has ruled that Pinterest is protected by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), which protects services that host content uploaded by users. 2: Amendment Passes to Grant Teachers Fair Use of Copyrighted Work Remotely.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 14, 2022

In the summer of 2020, publishers Hachette, HarperCollins, John Wiley and Penguin Random House filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Internet Archive (IA). “The only issue is whether Internet Archive’s massive infringement scheme is fair use under 17 U.S.C. § In a June 10 letter to Judge John G.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 19, 2021

Last June, publishers Hachette, HarperCollins, John Wiley and Penguin Random House sued the Internet Archive for copyright infringement , describing its ‘Open Library’ as operating like a pirate site. Publishers Respond to Internet Archive’s Request.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 25, 2023

In 2020, publishers Hachette, HarperCollins, John Wiley and Penguin Random House sued the Internet Archive (IA) for copyright infringement, equating its ‘Open Library’ to a pirate site. While ‘digital’ book lending is not uncommon, libraries typically loan out DRM-protected files after acquiring a license from publishers.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 18, 2024

In 2020, publishers Hachette, HarperCollins, John Wiley and Penguin Random House sued the Internet Archive (IA) for copyright infringement, equating its ‘Open Library’ to a pirate site. Publishers vs. Internet Archive The self-scanning approach differs from the licensing deals other libraries enter into.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

Depending on opinion, the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society, the supervising body and publisher for the Jehovah’s Witness religious group, either doesn’t like criticism, dislikes copyright infringement, or hates both. ” Fair Use Considerations. Overall then, the first factor weighs in favor of fair use.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 14, 2021

The service was not appreciated by book publishers. Publishers Sue IA For Copyright Infringement. HarperCollins Publishers LLC, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., and Penguin Random House LLC – all members of the Association of American Publishers – accused the Internet Archive of running a pirate site.

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Plagiarism Today

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

1: Judge: Jehovah’s Witness Parodies Are Fair Use. First off today, Andy Maxwell at Torrentfreak writes that Watch Tower, is pushing ahead with a copyright infringement lawsuit against YouTuber “Kevin McFree” (not his real name) in hopes of revealing the YouTuber’s real name. Watch Tower: So What?

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 3, 2022

Bell published a short book in 1982. Bell has separately registered a copyright in the passage. Bell has filed at least 25 copyright lawsuits. The school moved to dismiss on fair use grounds, and the district court granted the motion and awarded attorneys’ fees to the school. (I Nature of the Use.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 23, 2024

The organization doesn’t license authorized digital copies from publishers; instead, its books are scanned and digitized in-house. Lawsuit and Appeal Internet Archive believes that its approach falls under fair use but publishers Hachette, HarperCollins, John Wiley, and Penguin Random House disagree.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 25, 2021

1: Nirvana Beats T-Shirt Copyright Lawsuit Involving Dante’s ‘Inferno’ First off today, Bill Donahue at Billboard reports that members of the band Nirvana have emerged victorious in a battle over their iconic Dante’s Inferno shirt, even if it is likely not the final word on the case.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 9, 2022

Orbison song could be fair use because it transformed the original song by adding something new, with a different purpose, or a new meaning or message. have grappled with how broadly or narrowly to interpret the concept of transformativeness when assessing fair use defenses to charges of copyright infringement.

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Copyright Lately

MAY 22, 2023

Five things to know about the Supreme Court’s new purpose-driven fair use opinion in Andy Warhol Foundation v. Goldsmith (“ Warhol “) is that relatively rare fair use case in which both the original and follow-on works were more or less directly competing in the same market. Andy Warhol Foundation v.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Publishers vs. Internet Archive The self-scanning service is different from the licensing deals other libraries enter into. Not all publishers are happy with IA’s approach which triggered a massive legal battle two years ago. The publishers didn’t listen to these concerns.

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The Illusion of More

MARCH 18, 2024

Publishers File Brief in Response to Internet Archive Appeal On Friday, the publishers in Hachette, et al. IA maintains that its practice of “Controlled Digital Lending” is not copyright infringement under the doctrine of fair use despite the […] The post Copyright News to Watch appeared first on The Illusion of More.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 13, 2023

In 2020, publishers Hachette, HarperCollins, John Wiley and Penguin Random House sued the Internet Archive (IA) for copyright infringement, equating its ‘Open Library’ to a pirate site. Mass Copyright Infringement or Fair Use? The Internet Archive has no such license. As such, they want it permanently taken down.

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Plagiarism Today

MAY 16, 2022

1: Supreme Court Leaves in Place Circuit Split Regarding Approach for Assessing Substantial Similarity in Copyrighted Works. The case looked at whether You Raise Me Up was similar to a 1977 Icelandic song Söknuður , which is owned by Johannsongs-Publishing, Ltd. 3: ComicMix To Publish Lost Dr Seuss Stories, Out Of Copyright.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

1: H3 Podcast Asks Court to Throw Out “Fatally Defective” Triller Copyright Lawsuit. First off today, Andy Maxwell at Torrentfreak writes that the team behind the H3 Podcast has asked for the lawsuit against them to be dismissed, saying that the lawsuit is incorrect as a matter of law as they did not commit any copyright infringement.

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Copyright Lately

AUGUST 19, 2024

The AI copyright and fair use trial in Thomson Reuters v. On Friday, August 23, jurors are scheduled to hear opening statements in the first trial to test whether using copyrighted data to train an AI program qualifies as fair use. Ross Intelligence may not be glamorous, but it will be groundbreaking.

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JD Supra Law

MAY 8, 2023

On March 24, 2023, the Southern District of New York held that the Internet Archive (“IA”)’s digitization and lending online of the Hatchette Book Group (“Publishers”)’s copyrighted physical books infringed Publishers’ copyrights and was not a fair use. By: Irwin IP LLP

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Yesterday, the Internet Archive lost its appeal in its case against book publishers. Here's what you need to know. The post 5 Takeaways from the Internet Archive Ruling appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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IP Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit today affirmed a district court judgment that granted a group of book publishers’ motion for summary judgment that the Internet Archive (IA) infringed their copyright in 127 books via IA’s “Free Digital Library.”

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Larry Philpot is a repeat copyright plaintiff. In 2016, the defendant IJR published an article/listicle titled “15 Signs Your Daddy Was a Conservative.” This is what I call a “commercial editorial use”–ad-supported editorial content. One sign is listening to Ted Nugent. (I This was a concert photo.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 17, 2024

When AI hit the mainstream, it became apparent that rightsholders are not always pleased that their works were used to train AI. This applies to photographers, artists, music companies, journalists, and authors, some of whom formed groups to file copyright infringement lawsuits to protect their rights. Trial in Two years…?

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 27, 2022

Those wanting to learn how many DMCA notices have been sent to Google over the past few years need look no further than the copyright section of its vast and constantly updated Transparency Report. At no point has Google ever published the detailed takedown requests it receives for YouTube. Copyright Operations Specialist.

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Copyright Lately

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

A court win against the Internet Archive has publishers celebrating, but what does it mean for the future of public libraries and digital access? It’s a clear win for publishers, but for public libraries—and the millions who rely on them for access to digital books—the ruling may signal more troubling times ahead.

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IP Law 360

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

The Internet Archive is doubling down on its defense that its program for a lending library of digitized books is protected by copyright law's fair use doctrine, telling a New York federal judge that the major publishers seeking to shut it down are painting an inaccurate picture of what it does.

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