Copyright Lately

JUNE 2, 2022

In a 30-page order, the district court largely denies both parties’ motions for summary judgment, finding triable issues on substantial similarity and fair use. and High Voltage Tattoo) asked the court to determine that the use of Sedlik’s photo as a reference image qualified as a fair use of the copyrighted work.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 26, 2023

Takedown Trouble Triggers Lawsuit This takedown policy is widely accepted as the standard for social media services but every now and then, disputes can arise. However, as often happens with popular media, pirated footage was readily available too. Alternatively, they may be classified as fair use.

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43(B)log

MARCH 10, 2023

Plaintiff WATL is allegedly the preeminent governing body and league for the sport of axe throwing and uses the trademark “WATL” to market and publicize the axe throwing league. First, nominative fair use permits only the “truthful use of a mark.” Toyota, 610 F.3d 3d at 1177.

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Copyright Lately

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

A screenshot from the (now deleted) social media video at the center of the controversy. In May, State Farm filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit (read here) , arguing that Atari was “seeking a windfall for the inadvertent and fleeting use of a decades-old arcade game.”

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 2, 2022

Just recently, Japanese company Toei Animation used Content ID to remove around 150 of his videos claiming that the use of Toei clips infringed their copyrights. Mark believes his work is allowed under fair use but that didn’t seem important to Toei.

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Copyright Lately

AUGUST 19, 2024

The AI copyright and fair use trial in Thomson Reuters v. On Friday, August 23, jurors are scheduled to hear opening statements in the first trial to test whether using copyrighted data to train an AI program qualifies as fair use. Ross Intelligence may not be glamorous, but it will be groundbreaking.

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Copyright Lately

DECEMBER 29, 2024

The trouble began when Albany radio station WGNA asked its social media followers to vote for the regions best fried chicken and tagged a few contenders, including Chicken Joes, which retweeted the stations original post. Fair Use Declawed. The retweet that started the chicken wars. Whyte Monkee Productions, LLC v.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 3, 2022

He markets the books through online retailers and his own website. Bell waited almost a year to notify the school that two of its social media accounts had infringed the copyright. The school district invoked the fair use defense and moved to dismiss the claim for failure to state a claim.

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IPilogue

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Barlow and Bear went on to become viral sensations on social media and Grammy-winning artists (2022 Best Musical Theatre Album) for their production. Netflix has responded that “ Barlow & Bear’s conduct began on social media, but stretches ‘fan fiction’ well past its breaking point. District Court in D.C.

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The IP Law Blog

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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43(B)log

APRIL 26, 2023

The parties compete in the market for skid steer attachments and other products. The nature of the work didn’t disfavor fair use, since they were not particularly “creative or artistic” but were made to sell post drivers. The ads used the entire images. The “most important” factor was market effect, and there was none.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 30, 2022

Judging from the Rusty Krab’s marketing efforts and social media promotion as detailed in Viacom’s complaint, the pop-up was far more focused on providing the backdrop for Instagram-worthy selfies than it was on producing edible food. As a bar and restaurant, the use is commercial, but is it also transformative?

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LexBlog IP

JULY 7, 2023

A pair of copyright decisions issued in May, one involving the appropriation artist Richard Prince [1] and the other involving works portraying the musician known as Prince, explore and expand on the “fair use” defense to copyright infringement. On May 11, the U.S. 2] A week later, the U.S. 3] Graham v.

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LexBlog IP

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Businesses looking to capitalize on amusing or interesting videos in social media channels should beware of potential copyright infringement liability and bear in mind that a fair use defense may not be available. Frank Kent moved to dismiss the action, but the U.S. Read more

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MARCH 6, 2023

A series of recent amendments to copyright law, including in the EU Copyright and the Digital Single Market Directive (Art. 243, 244), seek to protect the ability of text and data mining researchers to use copyrighted content in their work. 3 and 4) and in Singapore’s new Copyright Act (Art. HathiTrust, 755 F.3d 3d 87 (2d Cir.

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Copyright Lately

MARCH 31, 2024

” A screenshot from the (now deleted) social media video at the center of the controversy. Its lawsuit reeks of an opportunistic attempt to profit from State Farm’s mistake rather than a legitimate effort to protect its copyright from real market harm.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

Judge Rakoff: Embedding Social Media Content is a “Display” Under the Copyright Act. Another Court Says Embedding Instagram Photos May Be Fair Use–Boesen v. Instagram appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. Case citation: Hunley v. Instagram LLC , 21-cv-03778-CRB (N.D. The complaint. Related posts.

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Copyright Lately

OCTOBER 2, 2023

It’s time to start paying attention though, because a Delaware District Court judge just ordered this low-profile AI case to trial, largely denying the parties’ motions for summary judgment on copyright infringement and fair use (read the opinion here). These copies, Ross claims, are fair use. Thomson Reuters v.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 29, 2022

6th Edition of Advertising & Marketing Law: Cases and Materials (with Rebecca Tushnet). How Fair Use Helps Bloggers Publish Their Research , Association of Research Libraries blog, Feb. Will California Clone-and-Revise Some Terrible Ideas from Florida/Texas’ Social Media Censorship Laws? Blog Posts.

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Copyright Lately

APRIL 19, 2022

Over the past quarter-century, transformative use has become shorthand for fair use itself. When I first heard that the Supreme Court had agreed to take up the fair use fight over Andy Warhol’s “Prince Series,” my first reaction was “Oh wow.”. Fair use is supposed to be about balance and flexibility.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

APRIL 3, 2023

Professor Farley and I propose a trademark fair use defense that would apply to any informational or expressive use of language or designs claimed by another as a mark in connection with any goods or services. Grimaldi , and later adopted and expanded by the Ninth Circuit.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 25, 2023

After he was released from jail, he got copyright registrations for the photos and sued (pro se) the media entities for copyright infringement, 1202 violations, and more. The court held that the photographer, and not the group or other members, held the copyright, so the group’s posting of the photos to social media could infringe.

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Traverse Legal Blog

MAY 1, 2022

An Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) (also known as a Fair Use Policy) is a set of rules applied by the owner, creator or administrator of a network, website, or service that restricts the ways in which the network, website, or service may be used and sets guidelines as to how it should be used. Pornography.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 18, 2023

Google cases (as well as decisions in the Warhol copyright fair use case and the Amgen patent enablement case). A quick reminder about the cases: both involve terrorist attacks where the plaintiffs allege that terrorist organizations used social media to post and disseminate their content. Supreme Court [FN].

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 3, 2023

31, 2022): When an individual’s decision to disseminate an Instagram post is the “very thing the article [is] reporting on,” the use of the Instagram post and its copyrighted material in the reporting has been deemed sufficiently transformative to support a fair use defense.

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Copyright Lately

MAY 17, 2021

And putting aside its pure entertainment value, the sketch also raises some interesting questions about just how much of an original work may be taken before parodic fair use crosses the line into copyright infringement. The Supreme Court’s seminal fair use decision, Campbell v.

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43(B)log

MAY 19, 2023

WowWee’s Vice President of Brand Development & Creative Strategy, Sydney Wiseman, used her WowWee email address to create a Roblox user account and used her Roblox account to promote My Avastars dolls on social media, including videos on her TikTok account.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 5, 2021

Some interesting discussion on the use of Google and Twitter to determine genericness: Plaintiffs also offered evidence of Google searches and social media mentions on Twitter to support their position that PRETZEL CRISPS is not generic. A company used [competitortrademark].com Whole Foods Market Service, Inc.,

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 7, 2024

Several of these services have been listed in the USTR’s overview of notorious piracy markets. Errors and Nuance Upload filters are not perfect and generally lack ability to factor-in the nuances of copyright law, such as fair use.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2023

It could also undercut the commercial market for books and works already created; this is because, on demand, the Products are able not only to summarize books in detail, chapter by chapter, but also to regenerate the text of books (§ I.B.110-111). 2000) (“ copying an entire work militates against a finding of fair use. ”).

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The court also credits the self-serving claim by the successor licensee that it considered fair use by comparing the works and evaluating if the works were being sold commercially or for other purposes. OK, I guess, but this is a reminder of how hard it is to win 512(f). Paul Rudolph Heritage Foundation, 2021 WL 4482608 (S.D.N.Y.

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IP Tech Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

As a way to supplement her income, she put on a contest whereby her social media followers would buy gift certificates for future tattoos and would get to vote on one of several funny tattoos that would eventually be tattooed onto the artist’s husband. Netflix moved to dismiss the complaint on, among other grounds, fair use.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 16, 2024

The realm of content protection may yet have an AI savior waiting in the wings, but until a model can accurately determine fair use and conduct complex, error-free investigations, humans retain the upper hand. With piracy close to ubiquitous, work opportunities exist, to put it mildly. And that’s just the lucky ones.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JULY 24, 2024

While creative industries claim their work has been not only stolen but specifically used to replace them, AI providers continue, remarkably, to insist that the millions of images ‘fed’ to the AI can be used without permission as part of the ”social contract” of the Internet.

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Copyright Lately

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

Internet Archive (read the opinion here) , the court dealt a decisive blow to the Internet Archive, ruling that its practice of scanning and lending digital copies of books doesn’t qualify as fair use under the Copyright Act. Hit me up in the comments below or @copyrightlately on social media. For research.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

There is uncertainty over how much selection and refinement is needed to produce the best work (see examples of selection, refinement and reworking here and here ) and getting the right prompt is challenging enough to have created a market for effective prompts.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2021

For example, if a third-party poster copies a newspaper article and posts it to their social media page, the court implies that the social media service can never assert Section 230 protection for that article–even if the third-party poster isn’t infringing copyright because of, say, fair use.

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