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Announcing the Winners of the 2024 Shamnad Basheer Essay Competition on Intellectual Property Law!

SpicyIP

We are very happy to announce the results of the 2024 Shamnad Basheer Essay Competition on Intellectual Property Law! It then explains why the existing fair use defense in the context of text and data mining is deeply problematic and should be replaced. Shamnad Basheer 1976-2019; taken at NUJS, Kolkata circa 2009.

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AI and Fair Use: Navigating Legal Challenges in India and the United States

IIPRD

One such legal issues is what is referred to as “fair use,” which becomes particularly problematic in the context of the copyright law. Thus, fundamental questions arise, such as whether such copying amounts to infringement under copyright law or whether it falls under the purview of fair use.

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Will eBook Ruling Impact Fair Use Analysis for Generative AI?

Intellectual Property Law Blog

Scanning books to create a searchable database of books constitutes fair use. Will scanning images (or other copyright-protected content) to create a generative AI model for use in creating images be deemed fair use? Scanning books to create eBooks does not. In Authors Guild v. Google, Inc., (the Google, Inc., (the

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Protecting Application Programming Interfaces (API) Through Intellectual Property Laws

Kashishipr

Intellectual Property Protection over an API. There has been a long-standing debate about the different modes of safeguarding an API through the laws on patents, copyright, and trade secrets. It was regarded as being fair and permissible by the court of law. An example of this is the Sega v.

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Breyer's Rulings Shaped By Wariness Of Intellectual Property

IP Law 360

Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer's approach to intellectual property law was consistently skeptical, expressing concern that patents and copyrights can limit access to information in decisions that took a broad view of fair use and fueled patent eligibility challenges. Departing U.S.

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Dispute on Copyright and Creativity

Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

These AI tools are trained on vast datasets of existing music, raising concerns among record labels about unauthorized use of copyrighted material. Major record companies, including Universal Music Group, Sony Music, and Warner Music, have taken legal steps to protect their intellectual property. Is AI training fair use?

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Can Intellectual Property Rights Safeguard Your Blog?

Kashishipr

Due to creative and original use of expressions, blogs are deemed to be counted as private property for which Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) can be sought. Blogging and Fair Use. However, quoting facts word-to-word, paragraph after paragraph, won’t be construed as constituting fair use.