Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2022

The creation of AR experiences may involve acts of reproduction and communication to the public that have potential copyright implications. AR can concern two categories of cultural goods – those that are in the public domain and those embedding a copyrighted work of art. . (i) i) Public domain works.

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Velocity of Content

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Government Works for which copyright has expired; works in the public domain Understanding the extent to which materials are copyright protected can help you minimize the risk of infringement by well-intentioned employees. The information appears here in an edited form. Here is a breakdown of where U.S. Copyright Act of 1976.

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Velocity of Content

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Several US trade book publishers have announced their publication plans for the official report of the United States House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack. Available in November, the editions include from Random House , with an introduction by Rep. These published editions are a big deal,” Albanese explains.

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IP and Legal Filings

MAY 13, 2024

Protection under copyright usually lasts for the entire life of the owner along with a supplementary time frame, after which the work becomes within the public domain and is allowed to be openly utilised by anybody.

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Patently-O

APRIL 17, 2024

In Dastar , the defendant had copied footage from an old television series that had entered the public domain, made minor edits, and sold the resulting videos as its own product without attribution to the original creators. 1125(a)(1)(B) (Section 43 of the Lanham Act).

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Velocity of Content

JUNE 8, 2022

I read it a least a dozen times – play and novel — when I was a young fellow, and again recently ( Annotated Edition ). And the 1911 content reused in these works may actually be in the public domain already. Aside to the reader: I love Barrie’s original Peter Pan.

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Olartemoure Blog

MAY 26, 2023

The Italian magazine GQ Italia finds itself embroiled in a legal dispute stemming from the publication of an edited image of the renowned David sculpture. This incident has ignited a broader debate concerning the utilization of public domain artworks for commercial purposes.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 18, 2024

No amendment offered in public session. Delete Article 11(3) (three-step test) or apply only to additional exceptions: (3) Contracting Parties shall confine any additional limitations of or exceptions to …” Add: “, taking account of the legitimate interests of third parties ” No amendment offered in public session.

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Copyright Lately

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

IA’s Open Library project includes millions of public domain books that users can download and read without restriction. And since publishers often charge libraries more for e-books than they do for print editions—or even consumer e-books—the costs add up quickly. It also includes 3.6

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Kashishipr

MAY 25, 2021

Such a license would enable using the resources held by owners of the CC Licenses to the extent of editing, remixing, copying, and distributing the work without circumventing the copyright law. It is also fair to use works that have fallen into the public domain as the rights over such content are exhausted due to the nature of these rights.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 2, 2023

Do these creations belong to the artists or the public domain? A new breed of artists is using generative artificial intelligence tools like DALL·E, Midjourney, Firefly, and ChatGPT to create artistic works. Do creators who use generative AI maintain copyright in their creations? By guest blogger Prof.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 23, 2023

As a plant intellectual property nerd , this Kat was delighted to get her hands on the new book Intellectual Property and the Design of Nature (Oxford University Press, 2023), edited by Jose Bellido and Brad Sherman. The other two chapters turn to the conceptualisation of nature in patent law.

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 11, 2023

In this edition of #InterestingPatents, we look at The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture’s new patent for a new red raspberry cultivar called Finnberry. However, the good news is eventually this plant will become part of the public domain and accessible to everyone. important;}.vc_custom_1624980560576{margin-top:

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43(B)log

AUGUST 4, 2023

In manuscript to print, you can find readers anticipating what print will facilitate—the concept of an authoritative edition, the professional editor; readers wanted these things before the tech offered them. public interest opposed in those cases and in Kirtsaeng. Individual interest v. Josh Sarnoff: end of liberalism v.

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Copyright Lately

APRIL 3, 2023

IA’s Open Library project includes millions of public domain books that users can download and read without restriction. But because the books at issue in the lawsuit were all available in authorized electronic editions, the judge found that IA’s digital copies “merely replace those authorized by the Publishers.”

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The TTABlog

AUGUST 17, 2023

Therefore, once copyright protection ends, and the work falls in the public domain, others must have the right to call the work by its name.” The Board stated the issue as whether the Spanish-language version of Wood's book is a "second or subsequent edition of the English version "in which the content "has change[d] significantly."

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IP Intelligence

APRIL 24, 2023

Consistent with the Copyright Office’s guidance in the Compendium, Third Edition, there is often “creative input or intervention from a human author” at multiple steps in the process. Those stakeholders “superintended the arrangements” to create the output, and were the “effective cause” of the output.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2021

An IP system should ensure that concerns for cultural diversity, access to works and the public domain are equally maintained and firmly promoted. Intellectual Property Law in China, 2nd edition. To this end, IP is seen as one of the levers to increase returns on investments for inventors and creators. by Christopher Heath. €

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MARCH 14, 2022

There are also numerous benefits to AI-generated works remaining in the public domain, including including enabling low-cost access to those works by others and their use for the generation of new (scientific) knowledge’. Attaching to that output long term proprietary claims risks paralysing the public domain.

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Kashishipr

JUNE 8, 2022

Video creators can relate to the feeling of shooting impeccable videos, editing them to perfection, and then understanding that they still need terrific tracks to go with the said videos. A common misconception is that instrumental music lies in the public domain and doesn’t need to be licensed.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 13, 2024

Editions Ltd. And that, in turn, further restricts what should be in the public domain and gives companies power to create property rights where none are otherwise granted in the law. 3d 754, 760 (9th Cir. 2015) (emphasis added). Here, the court agreed, and dismissed Twitter’s breach-of-contract claims on that basis.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

Said: Framing it as “the woman question” is rhetorically tricky and still positions women as the problem—why not “the copyright question: woman edition”? Sometimes add content warnings instead of edits. public domain. Denying injunctive relief may support the public interest, TD Bank v. Who is doing it?

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 19, 2022

Karp agrees that (c) is not like land, which preexisted the public domain and was acquired and distributed by gov’t. (c) George clearly got pushback b/t editions b/c first edition said that both patents and copyrights were worrisome; revised edition just said that patents were worrisome. What are the rejections?

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IP Intelligence

AUGUST 15, 2023

Here, the human authorship and AI contributions most likely occur simultaneously and not in two separate stages, as they did when Kashtanova used Photoshop to edit Midjourney outputs. Accused infringers would be smart to take a similar approach when challenging the scope of copyright protection for works having AI-generated content.

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 24, 2023

Consistent with the Copyright Office’s guidance in the Compendium, Third Edition, there is often “creative input or intervention from a human author” at multiple steps in the process. The Copyright Office’s current position is a classic “hard cases make bad law” situation. ” U.S.

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IP and Legal Filings

MARCH 14, 2023

Rauna Kuokkanen and Sam Grey [v] For example, have a look at Paul Kuruk’s edited book Traditional Knowledge, Genetic Resources, Customary Law, and Intellectual Property. 27–38, Weathering Uncertainty: Traditional Knowledge for Climate Change Assessment and Adaptation, edited by Douglas Nakashima and others. [vi] ix] Ibid. [x]

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43(B)log

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Plaintiffs also alleged infringement of Monbo’s right of publicity, unjust enrichment, and violations of the Lanham Act and related Maryland trademark law. Defendants allegedly used editing tools to compress scenes that constituted “about 70% or more of” the 2001 Documentary into minutes of footage that then appeared in the 2013 Documentary.

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Copyright Lately

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Oh Mickey, you’re so fine—but you’re not alone: An avalanche of copyrighted works will enter the public domain in the United States on January 1, 2024. public domain on January 1, 2024—and that’s a shame. public domain for failure to comply with the various formalities (e.g., copyright terms.

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IPilogue

JULY 15, 2022

The IPilogue previously published about Winnie the Pooh entering the public domain when Ryan Reynolds created a fun viral commercial featuring the iconic original 1926 Winnie the Pooh. Ryan Reynolds’s fun-loving commercial was generally well-received by the public, but some claimed that this would “ ruin their childhood ”. .

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 14, 2023

In particular, under EU law the Italian public cultural property seems to be inconsistent with art. 14 of the CDSM 2019/790 directive on works of visual art in the public domain. More from our authors: Guide to EU and UK Pharmaceutical Regulatory Law, Eighth Edition by Sally Shorthose € 265

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JANUARY 9, 2025

Our societys welfare will probably be better served by leaving AIGW in the public domain. And so I think we are probably better off leaving those works in the public domain. The utilitarian arguments supporting copyright in AIGW are empirically speculative and theoretically dubious.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 5, 2023

Opposing the claimants’ arguments, Ravensburger challenged the cross-border application of Italian law, alleging that the claims conflict with article 14 of Copyright Directive in the Digital Single Market (CDSM) Directive since they attempt to unlawfully impose property assertions on public domain works. 633/1941, l.

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Whether the fear of disseminating morphed/edited/out-of-context videos is strong enough to justify overriding the public interest in transparency, accountability and access to the law? It is thus unclear whether rules can grant copyright to the courts when the legislature has not provided for the same.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Also included in the archive are IViRs comprehensive study on the harmonization of European copyright law , as well as the first two editions of Paul Torremans monumental collection on the intersection between intellectual property and human rights. More volumes will be added to the online archive in due course.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

She adds “by ‘open sharing’ we mean the act of sharing digital materials either under an open license, or by applying a public domain tool”. Intellectual Property Law in China, 2nd edition. This post was first published on [link] and is reproduced here with the kind permission of the authors. by Christopher Heath. €

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IP and Legal Filings

MAY 3, 2023

For instance, in accordance with this doctrine, the author would be entitled to copyright protection if someone collected different poems that were previously in the public domain and produced in a single document. With the information in the public domain, the Rural Telephone Service issued a phone book.

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IIPRD

MARCH 5, 2025

For instance, in the case of, for example, when AI generation opens up a dialogue among developers and fosters them into speaking with one another over a certain portion of photo editing in new media spaces, it can also go into the generation of new occupations.

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