Michael Geist

APRIL 12, 2022

Copyright term extension was rightly resisted by successive Canadian governments for decades because it offers few benefits and raises significant costs. As a result, there will be a two decade moratorium on new works entering the public domain, creating an enormous impact on access to Canadian culture and history for a generation.

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Michael Geist

APRIL 27, 2022

The Canadian government plans to extend the term of copyright from the international standard of life of the author plus 50 years to life plus 70 years without mitigation measures that would have reduced the harms and burden of the extension. Freeland has a long history with copyright term and surely understands the costs to Canadians.

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IPilogue

JULY 27, 2022

On June 23 rd , 2022, the Parliament of Canada passed legislation to extend the term of copyright protection in literary, dramatic, musical and artistic works from life of author plus 50 years to 70 years. Experts have also pointed to studies conducted in other countries that show the negative effects of copyright term extension.

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IPilogue

JANUARY 23, 2023

Huge changes have come to the Canadian Copyright Act. In late November of 2022, an Order in Council was signed to fix December 30, 2022 as the date on which Division 16 of Part 5 of the Copyright Act came into force. Works with copyright set to expire on or before December 30, 2022 will not be privy to the extended protection term.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

The dispute centers around the use of copyrighted music to train AI models and the broader implications for the future of the music business. These AI tools are trained on vast datasets of existing music, raising concerns among record labels about unauthorized use of copyrighted material. Under the U.S. Is AI training fair use?

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The IPKat

JULY 17, 2024

The IPKat has received and is pleased to host the following guest contribution by Katfriend Seun Lari-Williams , PhD researcher in the fields of copyright and dispute system design at the University of Antwerp, regarding copyright ownership of Nigeria’s re-adopted national anthem. Is the national anthem in the public domain?

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Intepat

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Yet, the rapid rise of podcasting has left many creators overlooking critical legal considerations specific copyright licensing. This article explores the essentials of copyright licensing in podcasting, debunks common myths, examines relevant case laws, and provides actionable steps to ensure compliance while maintaining creative freedom.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 14, 2023

They merge and overlap pecuniary and non-pecuniary interests, such as public law (Legislative Decree 42/2004) and private law (Civil Code). The Tribunale di Firenze focuses attention on the provisions governing the concession of use of the cultural property (art. 106), the instrumental use and reproduction (art.

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Copyright Lately

MAY 13, 2022

Josh Hawley’s proposed copyright legislation is riddled with problems, but you wouldn’t know that from most media reports about the bill. Disney Doesn’t Have Any “Special Copyright Protections” “No more handouts for woke corporations,” Hawley’s May 10 tweet announcing his bill declared.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 21, 2022

lawmakers have considered options to update the DMCA so it can more effectively deal with today’s online copyright issues. Copyright Office’s Review and Conclusions. The Copyright Office also asked stakeholders whether it’s desirable to make certain standard technical measures mandatory for online platforms.

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IPilogue

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Seventy-two years later, Scott-Giles’ granddaughter, Jocelyn Bundy, noticed that “ an image virtually identical ” to Scott-Giles’ illustration was being used in the popular grunge-rock band Nirvana’s merchandise and brought a copyright infringement lawsuit in the United States for damages covering decades of sales. copyright law.

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Velocity of Content

MARCH 20, 2024

There are several factors that should be taken into consideration even when using public data: Nature of the Data Publicly available data can include a wide range of information, such as government datasets, publicly shared research data, research published under open access (OA) licenses, and datasets that fall within the public domain.

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Michael Geist

APRIL 13, 2022

The decision to agree to a copyright term extension in the USMCA is harmful policy, made worse by the decision to bury plans for implementation in Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland’s Budget 2022. To withhold their works from the public domain for decades represents an enormous collective loss to our culture and heritage.

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IIPRD

MARCH 5, 2025

However, this gives a grand legal question: who has the right to copyright AI-created works? This has to do with the application of copyright to works made through AI. Traditional Copyright Framework and Its Limitations Copyright law is fundamentally based on three principles: Authorship : The creator of a work owns the copyright.

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IPilogue

MARCH 21, 2022

In September 2021, the IPilogue reported that India’s copyright office recognized the RAGHAV Painting App (“RAGHAV”), an artificial intelligence (“AI”) tool, as an author of the copyright-protected artistic work, Suryast. Sabrina Macklai is an IPilogue Senior Editor and a 2L JD Candidate at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law.

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

One of the ways whereby the court aims to curtail misuse of the recordings of court proceedings is by claiming copyright on these recordings. In this post, SpicyIP intern Niyati Prabhu discusses the issues surrounding access to law and the dilemma surrounding copyright. This is also not specified in the Copyright Act.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Part 1 of this post outlines the technology, its applications in the cultural heritage sector and the potential copyright implications. Part 2 discusses the relevant copyright exceptions and limitations that interfere with the development of AR experiences. Copyright implications of AR in the cultural heritage sector.

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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. In the U.S.,

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Corsearch

MARCH 13, 2023

The copyright for one of the first depictions of Mickey Mouse will expire in 2024. Copyright © Walt Disney Animation Studios Interestingly, Mickey started as a character known as “Oswald the Lucky Rabbit”. Copyright protection is usually granted for 95 years to works published between 1923 and 1977. Steamboat Willie.

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Michael Geist

APRIL 20, 2022

The inclusion of copyright term extension in Budget 2022 – a commitment to implement was buried in an annex to the budget – will cause enormous harm to access to Canadian culture and history for a generation. Extending the duration of copyright essentially enriches large firms of intermediaries.

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Michael Geist

DECEMBER 14, 2021

While trade disputes are not particularly noteworthy, the Canadian government response certainly is. Those concessions could include suspending USMCA dairy tariff-rate quotas and delaying the implementation of USMCA copyright changes. The post Canada Threatens to Delay Copyright Term Extension in Response to U.S.

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Copyright Lately

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Ross Intelligence will get plenty of second looks from courts deciding fair use in generative AI copyright cases. As a threshold issue, Judge Bibas found that Westlaws headnotes were original enough for copyright protection. ” should I be able to copyright that? Judge Bibass second take in Thomson Reuters v.

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Copyright Lately

JANUARY 13, 2023

had a dream—and a copyright. The answer, my friends, is copyright. Yes, in addition to being a noted clergyman and civil rights leader, Dr. King was a copyright litigant. The New York Times reported on Dr. The New York Times reported on Dr. Martin Luther King’s copyright lawsuit over “I Have a Dream” in 1963.

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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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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. The letter is available here and its contents are reproduced below.

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IP and Legal Filings

MARCH 5, 2025

This brings us to the discussion of their personality rights, which confer upon an individual the exclusive right to govern how their persona is depicted in the public domain, particularly for commercial purposes. WHERE SHOULD THE LINE BE DRAWN TO CURB MISUSE?

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SpicyIP

JULY 3, 2022

Akanksha Badika on the unresolved issues surrounding the term of the copyright in sound recording/cinematograph film and underlying work(s) under the Copyright Act, 1956. Their practice predominantly revolves around copyright law, litigation and advising on all matters related to films that are emanating from script to screen.

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IP and Legal Filings

MAY 13, 2024

Is copyright, patent, or trademark infringement applicable to AI creations or not, and who owns the material that AI platforms generate for you or your clients is still an unanswered question. AI additionally possesses no copyright on the material that it generates. Finally, it is generated by a computer from previously stored data.

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Intepat

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

This burgeoning genre is not only pushing the boundaries of artistic expression but also challenging the established norms of copyright ownership. This blog post embarks on a comprehensive journey to unravel the complex issue of copyright ownership in AI-generated art. Copyright laws are designed to safeguard the rights of creators.

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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. Image Sources : Gettyimages] One of the important issues in online is copyrights. One such area where copyright violations are common is the internet. These advantages can be made profitable for the owner.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 25, 2024

Image by Andreas Grönberg from Pixabay In Canada, the Federal Government has just announced a $2.4 This sum is in addition to the $2 billion of public funds already invested since 2017, when Canada became the first country in the world to launch a national AI strategy.

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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 post reviews KECOBO’s advisory in the light of Kenya’s copyright law and policy. This is so for several reasons but this post highlights two.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

History has shown that copyright holders tend to be wary of new technologies that disrupt the status quo. From the printing press, through cassette tapes, to online video streaming services, all were seen as major threats to the revenues of copyright holders at some point. ” another question reads.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 19, 2022

Last week the European Commission published a call for proposals , which also describes in detail what features the government-controlled DNS resolver should offer. The current DNS solutions work fine and adding government-run filtering and blocking tools is dangerous. ” This type of collateral damage is not just hypothetical.

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 29, 2023

It is to be made sufficiently clear that the aforementioned creations ought to be original and independent, rather than a slightly altered version of the creation already in the public domain, to instill looking into the prospects of copyrightability.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 29, 2022

The author(s) do not pay anything, but are required to sign over the copyright in their article so that the journal can charge for access to it. The largest is that it locks important research behind a paywall, meaning that other researchers, members of the public and even government agencies may not be able to access the work they need.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2023

by guest blogger Kieran McCarthy Many characterize the law of copyright preemption of contracts as a circuit split. But that undersells the level of inconsistency in courts’ interpretations of the law of copyright preemption. With that, any state or common law claim that is equivalent to copyright must therefore be preempted.

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