Copyright Lately

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

It looks like Jake from State Farm is definitely going to blow through his deductible, as the insurance giant lost its bid to declare game over on a lawsuit brought by video game publisher Atari Interactive. A screenshot from the (now deleted) social media video at the center of the controversy.

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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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IP Intelligence

JULY 15, 2021

For attorneys frequently engaged in copyright infringement litigation, drilling down into the specifics of the four fair use defense factors set forth in 17 U.S.C. § 107(1) asks whether the contested use “is of a commercial nature.” Kingsport Publish. 107 is common practice. Indeed, part of 17 U.S.C. § See Castle v.

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Plagiarism Today

APRIL 4, 2022

As gray area as the law can be, especially in areas like fair use and determining what is “substantially similar”, the law is codified, written down and has tomes of case law behind it. In April 2021, researcher Jess L Gregory published an article entitled “ Plagiarism as a Social Contract, a New Way to Approach Plagiarism ”.

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LexBlog IP

OCTOBER 10, 2023

So if graffiti can be protected, does one need permission from the artist to photograph the work and then “publish” it to a social media platform? What if the social media account is used to promote the account owner’s own goods or services, or a third party’s brand?

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LexBlog IP

JULY 15, 2021

For attorneys frequently engaged in copyright infringement litigation, drilling down into the specifics of the four fair use defense factors set forth in 17 U.S.C. § § 107(1) asks whether the contested use “is of a commercial nature.” Kingsport Publish. § 107 is common practice. See Castle v.

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IP Tech Blog

MARCH 28, 2023

A federal district court in New York held that the Internet Archive’s Open Library project was engaging in copyright infringement by publishing digital copies of millions of books online. The court engaged in an extensive analysis of whether the purpose and character of Internet Archive’s use was transformative. of America v.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 3, 2022

Keith Bell published a book in 1982 entitled Winning Isn’t Normal which provides strategies for success in athletics. The school district did not seek his permission before publishing the tweets. Bell waited almost a year to notify the school that two of its social media accounts had infringed the copyright.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 7, 2021

On Tuesday, journalist Robert Kolker published an article in the New York Times Magazine entitled Who is the Bad Art Friend? Those questions come from every angle and include debates about social media, the ethics of organ donation, writers’ ethics when using elements from another person’s life and much, much more.

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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.

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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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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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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. UMG Recordings, Inc., Wright v.

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Copyright Lately

MARCH 31, 2024

Video game publisher Atari Interactive has launched a copyright infringement lawsuit against State Farm, claiming that the insurer improperly appropriated artwork from Atari’s 1983 arcade game “Crystal Castles” for an advertising campaign as part of a “cynical plot” to resonate with fickle millennial and Gen Z consumers.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MARCH 6, 2023

Other TDM projects have examined social media and other online sources to track and explain COVID-19 vaccination hesitancy, and to identify High-Risk COVID-19 patients. The project is therefore studying their rights to make unauthorized research uses under African copyright law. HathiTrust, 755 F.3d 3d 87 (2d Cir.

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 6, 2023

2(c), the fair use exemption thereof under Sec. 52(1)(t); and (ii) if yes, whether the proviso of the same or ‘fixation requirement’ excludes it from the scope of fair use. Lastly, I will discuss the argument of moral rights of the author in contending the ‘fair use exemption’ of their work.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

A journalist used Midjourney to illustrate an article in The Atlantic and was attacked on social media for not hiring an illustrator. Text and data mining There is wide disparity in the scope of exceptions in national copyright laws permitting copying for the use of training AI.

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The IP Law Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Take-Two Interactive Software found that the depiction of tattoos on wrestler Randy Orton in a video game published by Take Two Interactive infringed the tattoo artist’s copyright in the tattoos. The District Court also found that the use was not fair use. However, the jury did get instructions on fair use.

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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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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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The IPKat

APRIL 3, 2023

Selected key innovations of the Copyright Act 2022 The official copy of the Copyright Act 2022 will be published in due course in the Official Gazette. The Act introduces a new vista in Nigerian copyright law as it repeals the Copyright Act 2004. How can libraries in Nigeria benefit from the Copyright Act 2022?

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Velocity of Content

AUGUST 10, 2022

In the aftermath of Brexit, many publishers were wondering if the UK — with its strong tradition of supporting the rights of publishers, authors, and artists — would provide another voice in defense of copyright. The need remains for high quality, validated news unavailable from social media. Reprinted with permission.

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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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Velocity of Content

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

In this post, I’m looking at the vast domain of the YouTube video & social media platform —which, lest we forget, is a major division of Google/Alphabet — and how its copyright aspect manifests in options for individual contributors (“YouTubers,” in the jargon). Also, I am not focusing on how people make money on YouTube.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2021

2021 has seen the emergence of a litigation genre against “yearbook” database vendors that publish old yearbooks online. ” Notice how this legal standard skips a step in the publication process, because it was likely not the initial authors/publishers who submitted the yearbooks to PeopleConnect. Ancestry , Knapke v.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 19, 2024

As reported yesterday , the decision was cited in the ongoing legal battle between book publishers and the Internet Archive. “At most, The Times’s allegations establish Microsoft’s awareness that someone could use a GPT-based product to infringe. Instead, it mostly sticks to its original claims.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 29, 2022

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? Big Ruling for Free Speech: Most of Florida’s Social Media Censorship Law (SB 7072) Remains Enjoined–NetChoice v.

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Copyright Lately

APRIL 3, 2023

The future of “controlled digital lending” is in doubt after a court rules that the Internet Archive’s online library is not protected by fair use. While the lawsuit takes issue with IA’s entire digital library project, it seems pretty clear that NEL was the poke that prompted publishers to take legal action.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 16, 2022

For years the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society, the supervising body and publisher for the Jehovah’s Witness religious group, has used the cheap DMCA subpoena process to identify anonymous people said to have infringed their copyrights, usually in music or videos. DMCA Subpoenas Are Cheap and Powerful.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 7, 2023

A few days before we published that report, Google had just processed its seven billionth removal request, having reached six billion less than a year earlier. Social media platform Facebook also reports huge numbers of takedowns to the EC. Those listed below represent just a small sample.

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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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Copyright Lately

AUGUST 2, 2022

And unlike the vast majority of songwriters and performing artists who have relinquished ownership rights to musical publishers and record labels, Barlow & Bear decided to release “The Unofficial Bridgerton Musical” themselves, which means keeping more of the earnings. A Musical Parody ” and “ Friends!

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Copyright Lately

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

In the alternative, Vila asserted that his reproduction of Deadly Doll’s copyrighted work in connection with the photograph of Shayk was protected by the fair use doctrine. “These books behind me don’t just make the office look good, they’re filled with useful legal tidbits just like that!”.

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SpicyIP

AUGUST 4, 2024

Play Games 24X7 Private Limited vs R Y Easy Shop Private Limited & Anr on 29 July 2024 (Delhi High Court) The Court ordered that until the next date, the defendant and related parties are restrained from using the mark ‘RUMMYCIRCLE’ in any manner including the logo, domain name, or on social media, etc.

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LexBlog IP

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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Copyright Lately

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

As I’ve written before , Miley Cyrus’s “Flowers”—a textbook example of an “answer song” in response to “When I Was Your Man”—almost certainly qualifies as a fair use of Bruno Mars’s original. For the fourth song, the court found the use qualified as fair use, further defeating Tresóna’s claims.

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IP Tech Blog

AUGUST 15, 2022

On the first inquiry, the court determined that Bayside did not establish a clear case of copyright infringement because MoneyBag’s use of the photos constitutes fair use. If the use is fair, it is not infringement. The tweets were not for commercial gain, which weighs in favor of fair use.

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