Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Film company sues Tesla over Blade Runner clips, NBA teams deny social media infringement, and News Corp sues Perplexity The post 3 Count: Blade Runner 2024 appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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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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Copyright Lately

JANUARY 20, 2025

On the same day last week, federal judges in the Southern District of New York issued a pair of decisions that highlight the persistent legal uncertainty publishers and websites in the Second Circuit face when embedding content from social media platforms. Townsquare Media, Inc. Townsquare Media, Inc. In Richardson v.

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IP Watchdog

JANUARY 29, 2024

On Thursday, final judgments were issued in a pair of copyright infringement cases that arose from a now infamous 2014/2015 project New Portraits, where appropriations artist Richard Prince displayed Instagram photos and user comments as a purported commentary on social media and art.

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Copyright Lately

OCTOBER 20, 2024

million in copyright damages against Skiplagged—but the website’s business model remains largely unaffected. Yes, there was a copyright infringement claim in the mix, based on Skiplagged’s use of American’s “flight symbol” logo. Jury awards American Airlines $9.4 Talk about a case of the tail wagging the dog.

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Copyright Lately

AUGUST 14, 2023

Photographer Jeff Sedlik and tattoo artist Kat Von D each claim that the Supreme Court’s Warhol decision entitles them to summary judgment in their long-running copyright dispute. Goldsmith on a first-of-its-kind copyright infringement lawsuit involving celebrity tattoo artist Katherine Von Drachenberg (aka Kat Von D).

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JD Supra Law

JANUARY 30, 2023

HOW ANDY WARHOL IS STILL SHAPING AMERICAN COPYRIGHT LAW In October 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments regarding whether pop artist Andy Warhol’s artwork made fair use of a photo of a music legend, Prince, in Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. Lynn Goldsmith. By: McNees Wallace & Nurick LLC

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Plagiarism Today

APRIL 19, 2022

First off today, Joe Tidy at the BBC reports that the City of London Police have arrested three people and shuttered the website of a group that was running an unauthorized clone of Club Penguin, the Disney social media site/game that shuttered in 2017. 2: Newsweek Settles Copyright Fight Over Instagram Embedding.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 3, 2022

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. Bell published a short book in 1982.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 2, 2022

Can tattoos infringe copyrights, and if yes, what remedies are appropriate? 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.

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The IP Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Copyright protection automatically attaches to a work when it is created. Specifically, copyright protection attaches to the original, creative work when it is fixed in a tangible medium, such as when it is written, drawn, recorded digitally, or typed electronically. Posting copyrighted images or photos on your website or social media.

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Copyright Lately

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

Atari’s copyright infringement lawsuit against State Farm advances, underscoring the importance of careful clearance in advertising. On Friday, a Texas federal judge dismissed much of the case but kept Atari’s core copyright infringement claim in play.

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Copyright Lately

JANUARY 23, 2024

A federal jury is set to decide whether celebrity tattoo artist Kat Von D infringed photographer Jeff Sedlik’s copyright in a Miles Davis portrait by tattooing the image onto her client’s body. A first-of-its-kind copyright infringement trial is scheduled to begin today in Los Angeles. The Good, the Bad and the.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

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. In that apology, Butz admitted he was “clearly ignorant about copyright laws and got defensive when it was brought to my attention.” 3: The Andy Warhol Ruling.

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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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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

AUGUST 9, 2022

???????What additional value does a copyright registration confer on a run-of-the-mill neighborhood social media post? Not a lot, it appears. Earlier this year, the First Circuit affirmed the dismissal of a lawsuit brought by one neighbor against another. By: Dorsey & Whitney LLP

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Art Law Journal

JULY 31, 2020

Knowing more about copyright and fair use will help you determine what is yours to use and what is off limits. Nicole Martinez.

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IP and Legal Filings

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

The availability of a large variety of information has also increased the risk of Copyright Infringement due to its easy accessibility and dissemination. This has led to varying degrees of copyright infringements in this digital era.

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43(B)log

MARCH 1, 2022

He sued; the court of appeals affirms a finding of fair use on a motion to dismiss and an award of attorneys’ fees. Anyway, Bell goes around suing unauthorized users of the passage, mostly public schools or nonprofits that publish the passage on social media. I hope it modifies the training program to talk about fair use!]

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The Illusion of More

DECEMBER 8, 2023

In my last post, I focused on the hypothetical fair use defense of generative AI under the principles articulated in the Google Books decision of 2014.

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Copyright Lately

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Remembering another frustrating year with a countdown of 2021’s most unsatisfying copyright rulings. Here are my personal picks for the copyright opinions from 2021 that, much like the year itself, leave a little something to be desired. Walt Disney Company. Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc.

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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. ” and “Is it copyright if nobody knows I copied a song and changed it so it sounds nothing like the original?”

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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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Copyright Lately

JUNE 2, 2022

In a 30-page order, the district court largely denies both parties’ motions for summary judgment, finding triable issues on substantial similarity and fair use. and High Voltage Tattoo) asked the court to determine that the use of Sedlik’s photo as a reference image qualified as a fair use of the copyrighted work.

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Plagiarism Today

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Last week, it was YouTuber Mark Fitzpatrick, better known as Totally Not Mark, who faced some 150 copyright claims on his channel from Toei Animation. A major “get” for YouTube, Ahgren was lured away from Twitch by YouTube only to have one of his first streams shuttered over an alleged copyright issue.

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IP Intelligence

JULY 15, 2021

For attorneys frequently engaged in copyright infringement litigation, drilling down into the specifics of the four fair use defense factors set forth in 17 U.S.C. § 107(1) asks whether the contested use “is of a commercial nature.” 107 is common practice. Indeed, part of 17 U.S.C. § Acuff-Rose Music, Inc.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 7, 2023

A few years ago copyright holders paid little attention to these discussions. In 2017, the site removed ‘just’ 4,352 pieces of content in response to copyright holders’ complaints. ” Copyright Takedown Notices Peak There were no dramatic increases related to Reddit’s copyright policies.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 26, 2023

Similar to any other online platform that deals with user-generated content, Instagram processes copyright complaints on a daily basis. Takedown Trouble Triggers Lawsuit This takedown policy is widely accepted as the standard for social media services but every now and then, disputes can arise.

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Plagiarism Today

APRIL 4, 2022

Plagiarism is Not Copyright. As we have discussed many times before , plagiarism and copyright, though overlapping in some ways, are not the same. The most significant difference between is that copyright is a function of the law.

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Copyright Lately

JULY 15, 2024

The Beastie Boys filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Chili’s over a ‘Sabotage’ parody, but is it a case of mistaken identity? By now, you’ve probably heard about the copyright infringement and false endorsement lawsuit filed by legendary hip-hop group Beastie Boys against Chili’s Grill & Bar.

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Copyright Lately

MARCH 31, 2024

Video game publisher Atari Interactive has launched a copyright infringement lawsuit against State Farm, claiming that the insurer improperly appropriated artwork from Atari’s 1983 arcade game “Crystal Castles” for an advertising campaign as part of a “cynical plot” to resonate with fickle millennial and Gen Z consumers.

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LexBlog IP

JULY 15, 2021

For attorneys frequently engaged in copyright infringement litigation, drilling down into the specifics of the four fair use defense factors set forth in 17 U.S.C. § § 107(1) asks whether the contested use “is of a commercial nature.” § 107 is common practice. Indeed, part of 17 U.S.C. §

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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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Copyright Lately

OCTOBER 2, 2023

While a flurry of AI copyright lawsuits from prominent authors and artists grab headlines, another case has quietly taken something more important: a head start. This means that a jury could weigh in on some of the thorniest copyright questions involving artificial intelligence as early as May 2024. Thomson Reuters v.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 2, 2022

Copyright infringement disputes come in many shapes and sizes. What is rare, however, is for a copyright infringement dispute to have an air of sadness, especially when that affects both sides, albeit in different ways. Mark believes his work is allowed under fair use but that didn’t seem important to Toei.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

In a weird turn, the plaintiffs only pursued a contributory copyright infringement theory against Instagram, where the incorporating websites are the direct infringers and Instagram facilitates their infringement. Judge Rakoff: Embedding Social Media Content is a “Display” Under the Copyright Act. The complaint.

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