Corsearch

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

X (formerly Twitter) is one of the most popular social media platforms for businesses and individuals, with around 335 million monthly active users worldwide. Unfortunately, this global reach and accessibility to a large audience also attracts bad actors looking to exploit the popularity and features of social media platforms.

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Copyright Lately

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

In a first-of-its-kind copyright trial, a jury will decide whether tattoo artist Catherine Alexander can effectively control the use of Randy Orton’s likeness in video games. After over four years of litigation and five COVID-related continuances, it’s finally time for the main event. At least I hope so.

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LexBlog IP

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). Why is this happening?

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Copyright Lately

AUGUST 2, 2022

performances of “The Unofficial Bridgerton Musical”) or other derivative works that might compete with Netflix’s own planned live events,” including the multi-city “ Bridgerton Experience.” While Barlow & Bear may now try to argue that their work constitutes fair use, it’s a weak defense in this case.

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43(B)log

JUNE 26, 2023

Media critics allegedly readily observed that the new show was “a clone of A&E’s Live PD,” and that “On Patrol: Live is Live PD.” Fan reactions on social media included “Ok. Query: what percentage of social media comments about On Patrol: Live does this represent? I’m confused. Is Live PD back on the air?

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 20, 2023

by Despoina Dimitrakopoulou Recently, the news of reggaeton mega-star Bad Bunny's eloquently put disappointment spread on social media, bringing up interesting questions concerning music creation using AI. Over to Despoina: Bad Bunny shoo shooes anyone liking AI-generated song replicating his style and voice – is he right?

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LexBlog IP

OCTOBER 25, 2023

” So, while writers have a compulsion to use what they know from life to create their works of imagined lives, they will draw not only on events central and personal to themselves but on many things intersecting or tangential to the writer’s own life. They have to look and see, that’s all. Then they have to write.”

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Varsha Jhavar also penned a pertinent post discussing the case filed by the wife of the late Vempati Ravi Shankar, for the unauthorized uploading of his sound recordings on social media. ” Needless to say, if there are any posts or events that have escaped my attention, please feel free to share them in the comments.

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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. The Klein’s emerged victorious from a lawsuit in 2017 after mounting a successful fair use defense. billion views.

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JIPL Online

APRIL 9, 2021

Memes utilize pop culture content, such as movies, television shows, and other various forms of media, often in a parodic way. Such uses are often methods of social commentary regarding the user’s own life, or more broadly, current events; they also often utilize copyrightable material. [i]

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 13, 2023

De minimis in copyright can be used for different reasons such as for fair use analysis, substantial similarity analysis [7] , among its other such uses. In the event that a claim of infringement is brought against such use, the courts ought to take the cost of adjudication into account. Conclusion.

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Copyright Lately

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Despite a number of solid affirmative defenses—including implied license, de minimis use and waiver—the jury was only asked to determine whether defendants had proven that their conduct qualified as a fair use under the Copyright Act. This left only the fair use defense remaining for the jury.

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IP and Legal Filings

APRIL 19, 2022

Temporary or incidental storage of work or performance to provide electronic links, access, or integration, where the owner has not expressly prohibited such links, access, or integration, falls under the ambit of fair use of copyright, according to Section 52(1)(c) of the Indian Copyright Act, 1957.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Leah Chan Grinvald: Does social media make it easier to establish secondary meaning with virality? Doesn’t descriptive fair use preserve the primary meaning already? The reach/extent of it is greater b/c Amazon filters what we see in the first place.

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JIPEL Copyright Blog

MARCH 21, 2022

scene in the past, things seemed to come to a head in November 2020 when Nintendo sent a cease-and-desist letter to the Tournament Organizers (TOs) of the Big House, an upcoming streamed Melee tournament, and subsequently forced them to cancel the event. While Nintendo has waffled on its support for the Smash Bros. Super Smash Bros.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

Epstein described the current piracy situation as intellectually “super interesting” but in practical terms, “incredibly frustrating” He noted that the UFC has been negatively affected by piracy since its inception and until recently, the vast majority of its revenues came from PPV events, which are heavily pirated.

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 30, 2023

However, the public notice is a mere reproduction of the provision without having context of the current narrow judicial interpretation as done in Ten Events and Entertainment v. Novex Communications Pvt. and Novex Communications v. Acko General Insurance. Delhi High Court passed an interesting order in Anubhav Jain v.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 16, 2022

There’s a never-ending stream of infringements across social media platforms that seems impossible to stop, much like the weather. 44,000 Copies of One Event. In March he purchased the rights to two videos of the event, adding them to his copyright management system. Clement decided to help his friend out.

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43(B)log

OCTOBER 4, 2021

The court found that this was nominative fair use, which provides a defense in the Ninth Circuit when a trademarked product or service isn’t readily identifable without use of the mark, the use is no greater than necessary, and the defendant does nothing else to suggest confusion.

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Copyright Lately

MARCH 6, 2023

In September 2021, Coakley issued his “Director’s Statement” on social media to coincide with Runt ‘s official release. Coakley also sent the Bergers mock-ups of movie posters referencing alleged misconduct that Coakley threatened to release on social media to “gauge public reaction.” LFP , Inc. ,

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Because Grant had created the track for entertainment purposes and Trump had used it for political commentary, that was a “fundamentally different and new purpose” and covered by the doctrine of fair use. Use Was Not Fair In October 2021, U.S. That fair use was the vehicle adds insult to injury.

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Copyright Lately

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Aside from the good ol’ “things happen” truism and an attack on the validity of Grant’s sound recording registration, Trump’s principal defense in the lawsuit is fair use. Drop me a note in the comments below or on social media @copyrightlately. He can’t have it both ways.

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 20, 2022

As one participant noted , “It is the UK’s single biggest environmental mass participation event and sees volunteers from across the country make more than one million miles of British outdoor spaces cleaner and greener.” ” Then, as I noted , the US Supreme Court decided a few days later, “in Google v.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 27, 2022

First, governments can never successfully operate a social media service. Of course, mobs, riots, rebellions, pogroms, lynchings, and other coordinated killings have taken place throughout human history, well before social media existed. social media has played an outsized role in finding and prosecuting the insurrection.

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