Dear Rich IP Blog

MARCH 15, 2023

magazine between 1918 and 1962. The magazine itself was copyrighted, but the ads do not contain any copyright markings, so my understanding is that the ads would have entered into the public domain. It's true that the 1976 Copyright Act expressly requires that advertisements in magazines have separate copyright notices.

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Garrigues Blog

MARCH 27, 2025

However, beyond the gameboard and dice, an interesting legal question arises: Can these games be protected by copyright? Even though the mechanics of a game cannot be protected, both the game as a whole and its creative elements are copyrightable. The question therefore is: Can board games be protected by copyright?

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Plagiarism Today

MAY 4, 2022

First off today, Michael Kan at PC Magazine reports that India is enacting a new policy that, if enforced, would require virtual private network (VPN) providers to collect, store and turn over user data. Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday. 1: India Orders VPN Providers to Log and Hand Over Customer Data.

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IP Watchdog

JUNE 9, 2022

On June 6, Paramount Pictures got its tower buzzed for copyright infringement in the U.S. According to the allegations in the complaint, in 1983, author Ahud Yonay wrote a magazine story about the real-life exploits of two naval fighter pilots entitled, “Top Guns.” Fast forward a few decades.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

This post looks back at the key developments in AI and copyright in 2022, covering generative AI, text and data mining exceptions, the pastiche exception, deep fakes, voice cloning and infringement and enforcement of copyright using AI. AI-generated art was used for magazine covers, including Cosmopolitan and The Economist.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 5, 2022

This includes some that are labeled as pirate sites or otherwise find themselves accused of copyright infringement. District Court for the Central District of California, Rosen accuses the websites idposter.com, nposter.com and celebposter.com of hosting his copyrighted works. This hasn’t gone unnoticed.

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SpicyIP

MARCH 28, 2022

News and Views: Copyright Hues and Authors’ Dues. For instance, the EU has adopted a neighbouring right for press publishers under copyright regulations. Publishers, as a category of right holders under copyright law, have always been very prompt in claiming their share of revenues from new revenue streams. Aparajita Lath.

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IP Watchdog

APRIL 9, 2024

District Court for the Central District of California ruled on Friday that Shosh Yonay and Yuval Yonay, the widow and son of Ehud Yonay, who authored a 1983 magazine article that inspired the renowned film, Top Gun, were not entitled to damages for copyright infringement related to the 2022 sequel to the film.

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SpicyIP

OCTOBER 28, 2022

As reported on Entrackr , Pocket FM has filed a copyright infringement case against Kuku FM before the Delhi High Court. Pocket FM alleges that Kuku FM has violated its copyright by providing audio summaries of books to which Pocket FM has exclusive rights to create audiobooks. Image from here. The matter is still being heard.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

At TorrentFreak, we write about copyright issues on a daily basis. The outfit accused us of using a photo in one of our articles without permission from the copyright holder. At TorrentFreak, we take copyright issues very seriously, but his email triggered a few alarm bells. Attribution Required. Robert Bradley.

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Velocity of Content

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Another recent article, “The Heart of the Matter: Copyright, AI Training, and LLMs, ” by Daniel Gervais, Haralambos Marmanis, Noam Shemtov and Catherine Zaller Rowland provides valuable insights into this complex landscape. When an AI model ingests copyrighted works during training, is it infringing on those copyrights?

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Copyright Lately

OCTOBER 6, 2024

A new lawsuit over Broadway’s Stereophonic tests copyright’s limits, as Fleetwood Mac’s former sound engineer claims the hit play copies his real-life story about working on the Rumours album. Case in point is the recent lawsuit over the magazine article that inspired the film Top Gun.

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JD Supra Law

MAY 22, 2023

Supreme Court issued a long-awaited ruling clarifying one element of the Copyright Act’s fair use doctrine. The Court held that because both Warhol’s art and the Petitioner’s photograph were used with magazine articles about Prince, the purpose and character of both works were the same.

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The TTABlog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

However, the Board concluded that consumers "are unlikely to perceive Applicant’s conventions, restricted to the horror and popular culture fields, or its horror and pop culture-related magazines, as emanating from the same source as sporting or music events sponsored by Opposer. Text Copyright John L. Welch 2023.

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IP Law 360

OCTOBER 8, 2021

The New York Times Magazine's "Bad Art Friend" saga captured the imagination of the internet this week, detailing a juicy dispute in which a writer-turned-kidney donor accused a fellow author of cribbing details from her charitable journey for a fictionalized short story.

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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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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

In order to train their technologies, should AI companies be allowed to use works under copyright protection without consent? Such uses, they argue, constitute copyright infringement. As in the present context, the initial concern of copyright holders was that their consent had not been acquired by Google prior to scanning their works.

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Copyright Lately

APRIL 6, 2024

A federal court has shot down a copyright infringement lawsuit claiming that Top Gun: Maverick flew too close to a 1983 magazine article that inspired the original film. The case may also serve as a cautionary tale when historical source material is used as the inspiration for an entertainment project.

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IPilogue

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

On March 26, 2021, the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals in New York found that the famed artist Andy Warhol violated photographer Lynn Goldsmith’s copyright by using her photo of the singer Prince to create his “Prince Series.” The series was originally commissioned by Vanity Fair after it bought the license of the photo portrait from Goldsmith.

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IP Watchdog

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Patent and Trademark Office and the U.S.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Sharing copyrighted content online is certainly nothing new but over the years the sharing mechanisms have expanded to incorporate new methods of distribution. According to DB Corp, part of the problem can be found on WhatsApp where dedicated groups are sharing their newspapers and magazines without permission.

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IP Watchdog

APRIL 9, 2024

District Court for the Central District of California ruled on Friday that Shosh Yonay and Yuval Yonay, the widow and son, respectively, of Ehud Yonay, who authored a 1983 magazine article that inspired the renowned film, Top Gun, were not entitled to damages for copyright infringement related to the 2022 sequel to the film.

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IPilogue

JULY 14, 2022

Ehud Yonay authored the 1983 California magazine article that inspired Top Gun. Shosh and Yuval claim that Paramount has infringed on the copyright to Ehud’s article which they own as of January 24 th , 2020. 203 of the Copyright Act , authors have the right to terminate grants of copyright after thirty-five years.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

The publishing world was different then, and both The Shadow and Batman existed at the time when pulp magazines were at their peak of popularity. That doctrine was done away with in the Copyright Act of 1976 but, even with action being much easier to take, we still don’t see many lawsuits over these kinds of issues today.

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WIPO Magazine

DECEMBER 9, 2021

But what are the implications for copyright, if any? This year, NFTs (non-fungible token), the latest hype in the world of distributed ledgers and cryptocurrencies, have taken the art and tech worlds by storm.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 10, 2022

As a result, copyright holders have yet another battle on their hands. The seizure order relates to 545 Telegram ‘resources’ suspected of distributing copyrighted content and individuals said to be involved in their operation. From: TF , for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

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JD Supra Law

MARCH 18, 2022

As the market value of non-fungible tokens (“NFTs”) continues to soar, legal practitioners will soon face the contractual, copyright and trademark issues that accompany this new technology. Originally published in USLaw Magazine - March 2022. By: Jones, Skelton & Hochuli, P.L.C.

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Velocity of Content

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Several copyright and licensing stories of interest have captured our attention during recent months. Access Copyright. South Africa’s president sent the controversial copyright legislation back to Parliament for re-consideration more than a year ago.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 26, 2024

What happens to information created by online newspapers, magazines, and bloggers if Google does not provide links to their content? And what is the fate of copyright law in this new world order? In the era of AI-generated summaries, the effectiveness of copyright in the digital space faces an existential challenge.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

The Hollywood group sees copyright infringement as one of Telegram’s growth drivers and it urged the US Trade Representative to put the service on the annual list of notorious piracy markets. A few days ago copyright holders scored a win at the Intellectual Property Court in Lisbon, Portugal. Telegram Blocking Injunction.

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The TTABlog

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Advance Magazine Publishers Inc. The Board failed to see how applicant's services are related to Opposer’s magazines, information, and videos on a website limited to fitness, fashion, exercise, health, nutrition, or beauty. Text Copyright John L. Nitashia Johnson , Opposition No. Welch 2023.

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IP and Legal Filings

MARCH 9, 2022

The encouragement towards innovation is legalized under Intellectual copyrights patents and trademarks Rights are provided by the states around the globe. Copyright- copyright protection is given to the works of authorship. Is Copyright registration mandated in India?

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Velocity of Content

JANUARY 9, 2024

One area that often gets overlooked in the outsourcing and collaboration process is how to manage copyright compliance and the associated risks of non-compliance. While smaller companies without a librarian or information specialist onboard may be unaware of their obligations under copyright law, their lack of knowledge won’t help them. 

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Likelihood of Confusion

MARCH 2, 2024

My über-sharp friend Oliver Herzfeld, moving up in the world, has written an article in Forbes magazine on a recent Copyright Office policy statement that, as he puts it, “revises, and to a certain extent reverses, its prior position regarding the protection of compilations.” ” Oliver sums up the changes.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Like most copyright systems, French copyright law does not leave much room for the freedom of authors of transformative graphic works (also called “derivative works”). Three interesting cases on derivative works, two involving Jeff Koons and one Tintin, have recently put French copyright law in the international spotlight (e.g.

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Dear Rich IP Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

Postcard: Malo-les-Bains - Avenue Kleber, sent 30 April 1915 Dear Rich: We are a specialized online magazine for postcard collectors. From 1983 to 1989 a print magazine, Postcard Collector, published many articles which we would like to republish. Each issue of the print magazine had a copyright notice ("© Krause Publications, Inc.")

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Intellectual Property Office Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

Copyright is scary. As an interior stylist who produces photoshoots for some of the country’s biggest magazines and commercial brands, getting the shots right is a must. Apart from the copyright law that means every piece of 'designer' furniture, craftsmanship and art must be checked for copyright. Really scary.

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