Michael Geist

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Canada’s largest media companies, including the Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, Postmedia, CBC, and Canadian Press, came together last week to file a copyright infringement lawsuit against OpenAI, the owners of ChatGPT. Doubts About the Copyright Claims The copyright claims themselves will face a stiff challenge.

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The IPKat

MARCH 11, 2025

In a recent decision , the German Supreme Court denied copyright protection for two Birkenstock sandal designs. Since copyright is not freely transferrable under German law, he granted exclusive rights of use to the company Birkenstock. The judges also recalled that designs do not necessarily qualify for copyright protection.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

A class-action lawsuit filed by authors including Richard Kadrey, Sarah Silverman, and Christopher Golden is one such copyright infringement case. “By downloading through the bit torrent protocol, Meta knew it was facilitating further copyright infringement by acting as a distribution point for other users of pirated books.”

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The IPKat

JANUARY 27, 2025

This is one of the questions posed by a Belgian court to the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) in a new reference for a preliminary ruling ( Van Ratingen , case C-749/24). Ratingen appealed to the referring court. Being at the right time in the right place is crucial. But what is the right time for assessing a design infringement?

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Plagiarism Today

JUNE 28, 2022

Earlier this month, the Copyright Claims Board (CCB) began accepting cases. The long sought after copyright small claims court , the CCB can hear cases where the damages are less than $15,000 per work or $30,000 in total. The cases represent a wide variety of copyright-related issues. The company can not.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Image by yousafbhutta from Pixabay On 26 September 2024, the Belgian Constitutional Court referred a highly topical issue of fair remuneration of authors and performers on online streaming platforms to the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU).

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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. This left the copyright claim over the unauthorized use of American’s flight symbol logo.

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Plagiarism Today

JUNE 2, 2022

Earlier this week, Mike Hiestand at the Student Press Law Center (SPLC) shared the story of an unnamed school newspaper that is facing a legal threat from a “copyright troll” over the use of an image on their site. . The original article described the site they found the images on as, “a popular, legitimate CC site.” It is worth remembering.

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SpicyIP

MARCH 30, 2025

Part I- Applying Natural Intelligence (NI) to Artificial Intelligence (AI): Understanding why training ChatGPT transcends the contours of copyright Shivam Kaushik The hearing in the ANI v. Post the breakdown of pre-training, I argue this understanding lends itself to seeing the pre-training process as one that does not violate copyright.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 11, 2025

In the race to build the most capable LLM models, several tech companies sourced copyrighted content for use as training data, without obtaining permission from content owners. At the same time, however, the company denied the copyright infringement allegations, noting that it would rely on a fair use defense, at least in part.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MARCH 30, 2025

Image by wowbee from Pixabay In a decision of 20 February 2025 the German Federal Supreme Court (BGH) denied copyright protection as a work of applied art for two sandal designs. This interpretation would also not preclude a cumulative protection of a creation by design and copyright law.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 30, 2025

It’s been a busy two weeks for copyright and AI cases. March 18, 2025) This case involved the completely AI-generated work, “A Recent Entrance to Paradise”: The copyright applicant, Thaler, disclaimed any human involvement in the work’s creation. The district court ruled it wasn’t copyrightable.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 29, 2025

As perhaps all readers are aware by now, the GenAI Copyright litigations have made their presence known in India. As discussed earlier , ANI had filed a copyright lawsuit against Open AI in the Delhi High Court. With that said, as Lee et al point out, Copyright issues can arise at every stage of the supply chain.

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The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

The ruling stays the proceedings and refers 13 questions to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU). Their claims and the corresponding questions referred to the CJEU are detailed below. 216/1 (case no. 216/2 (cases nos. 7922 and 7925), XI.228/4 228/4 (cases nos. 7922 and 7927), chapter 4/2 (cases nos. 7924 and 7927), XI.228/10

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JANUARY 9, 2025

In a recent chapter, Ryan Abbott and Elizabeth Rothman present the utilitarian argument for granting copyright in AI-generated works (hereafter AIGW). The utilitarian arguments supporting copyright in AIGW are empirically speculative and theoretically dubious. But copyright has beneficial effects too.

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IP Watchdog

OCTOBER 30, 2024

The judgment in Case C-227/23 of 24 October 2024 (Kwantum versus Vitra) is a landmark copyright decision. The matter was referred to the CJEU by the Supreme Court of The Netherlands following a dispute between the companies Vitra and Kwantum.

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SpicyIP

MARCH 30, 2025

Continuing from his earlier post, where he explained the technical workings of Large Language Models vis-a-vis where different copyright questions arise, in this post Shivam Kaushik argues that LLMS are in effect interacting with non-expressive parts of the works in question. But is all use of the text protected by copyright?

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MARCH 30, 2025

Image by wowbee from Pixabay In a decision of 20 February 2025 the German Federal Supreme Court (BGH) denied copyright protection as a work of applied art for two sandal designs. This interpretation would also not preclude a cumulative protection of a creation by design and copyright law.

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 3, 2022

2: SoundExchange Royalties Dispute with Music Choice to be Referred to Copyright Royalty Board. However, the court disagreed, saying that the Copyright Royalty Board has primary jurisdiction over these issues, and it has oversight in this matter. They are free of copyright. Milne’s book Winnie the Pooh.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 9, 2023

To protect copyright holders, YouTube regularly removes, disables, or demonetizes videos that allegedly contain infringing content. While anyone can send a DMCA notice to the platform, most copyright actions come from the Content ID system that can only be used by a select group of copyright holders. ” 99.5%

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 17, 2024

Acuff-Rose sued members of hip hop group 2 Live Crew, claiming that their track “Pretty Woman” infringed the label’s copyright in the Roy Orbison song, “Oh, Pretty Woman.” When he copied and then rebroadcast the news report, that was copyright infringement. Acuff-Rose Music, Inc.

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SpicyIP

MARCH 11, 2025

On February 20, the ED released a press statement on its move to attach the directors asset in light of the 15 year old copyright dispute between the director and writer Aarur Tamilnadan. In this post, we will examine the foreseeable consequences of applying a money laundering law to a copyright dispute.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 6, 2024

To protect copyright holders, YouTube uses an advanced content recognition system called Content ID that flags potentially infringing videos. Fewer Content ID Partners The Content ID system works reasonably well, but access is limited to a select group of major copyright holders.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Image by Dimitris Vetsikas from Pixabay Ministers from six European countries (Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, The Netherlands and Sweden) have written a joint letter to the European Commission regarding the need for a legislative proposal on rules and boundaries of international application of EU law on copyright and neighbouring rights.

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IP and Legal Filings

AUGUST 6, 2024

INTRODUCTION In the world of intellectual property, copyright is an important means of protecting original works of authors. For writers, artists, musicians and other creators in India, knowing how to register their copyrights can be a valuable asset. What is Copyright? Why Should One Register Copyright?

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IIPRD

MARCH 13, 2025

With so many IPs available trademarks, patents, copyrights, and more – how can you choose the right one for your work, product, or business? Intellectual Property refers to any intangible asset or property originated from the human intellect. These are governed by the Copyright Act, 1957.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 29, 2025

In this post, I will discuss the last two issues and the two contentions I referred to in the first part. Based on the existing line of cases recognizing transformative use, there is an argument to be made that training a GenAI model is transformative use as the use of the work is done for a different purpose from the copyrighted work.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

The conclusion of that lawsuit declared that an emulator like Yuzu, that circumvents Nintendo’s technical measures, decrypts Switch games using unauthorized copies of Switch cryptographic keys, allowing games to be played on anything other than a Switch, violates copyright law. Nintendo seeks $2,500 for each instance of trafficking.

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Traverse Legal Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Somewhat related to a claim of copyright infringement (and often preempted by such a claim – more on that later), is the claim for Right of Publicity. International Variations: Similar rights exist in other countries, often referred to as “personality rights” or “rights of persona.” 3d 1134, 1145 (9th Cir.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

This week, EUIPO released another in-depth piracy report titled “Online Copyright Infringement in the European Union.” These percentages are hard to interpret without a historical reference. From: TF , for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more. of the EU population used pirate IPTV services in 2021.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 26, 2024

Three years ago, Bungie filed a complaint at a federal court in Seattle, accusing Destiny 2 cheat seller AimJunkies.com of copyright and trademark infringement, among other things. AimJunkies, among other things, stressed that the defendants never touched any of Destiny 2’s copyrighted game code. This is the first trial in U.S.

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Plagiarism Today

APRIL 27, 2022

On April 13, Ben Dickson at The Next Web received an email from a lawyer with the name Nicole Palmer with the subject “DMCA Copyright Infringement Notice”. First, the subject of DMCA Copyright Infringement Notice is strange. The fake lawyer identifies herself as a trademark attorney, but is handling a copyright issue.

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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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TorrentFreak

MARCH 19, 2025

Europol is no stranger to piracy and online copyright infringement. Piracy Decline (2022 report) This report is still not the original source, as another citation identifies an EUIPO copyright infringement report from 2021 as the basis for the conclusion that piracy is declining. Piracy is Actually Rising?

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 24, 2025

The Scene refers to the top of the so-called ‘piracy pyramid’ where content is meant to be shared privately. The police further mentioned that the defendant had 134 terabytes of copyrighted material in his possession, strongly suggesting he was not a minor player. Whether any of these related to The Scene is unknown.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 15, 2023

‘Breeding Mass Copyright Infringement’ Universal Music, Sony Music, EMI and others filed a complaint at a federal court in Nashville, Tennessee, accusing Twitter’s parent company X Corp of “breeding” mass copyright infringement. copyright law.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 27, 2024

NVIDIA Faces Copyright Infringement Claims Earlier this year, several authors sued NVIDIA over alleged copyright infringement. The class action lawsuit claims that the company’s AI models were trained on copyrighted works taken from the ‘pirate’ site Bibliotik. Copyright Act,” the company writes.

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