Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Photo by Udo Pohlmann via Pixabay Over the last decades, European lawyers got used to the – at times remarkable and even forceful – interventions of the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) in copyright law. The Safarov case In 2009, Safarov authors a book. He sues for copyright infringement and claims damages.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 3, 2024

Discussing the Mahatma’s take on copyright and the interplay between the 1955 Copyright Bill and the Berne Convention, we are pleased to bring to you this post by Shivam Kaushik. However, Article 372 of the newly enacted Constitution allowed for the continuation of the British made laws including Copyright Act of 1914.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

AUGUST 25, 2023

Perhaps it comes as no surprise that a copyright dispute regarding a fire- breathing – sneezing dragon would get so heated. Since 2009, these advertisements have been created by leading agency, adam&eve. It said this showed it had not copied the book. Was Ms Evans’ work protected by copyright?

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IP and Legal Filings

JUNE 12, 2023

Image Sources : Shutterstock] It is a general principle that no copyright lies in ideas, subject-matter, themes, movie plots till the expression of the same are different. If presentation of subject-matter or an idea is similar to the original work, then it amounts to copyright violation. Vipul Amrutlal Shah (2009) and MRF Limited v.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2023

by guest blogger Kieran McCarthy Many characterize the law of copyright preemption of contracts as a circuit split. But that undersells the level of inconsistency in courts’ interpretations of the law of copyright preemption. With that, any state or common law claim that is equivalent to copyright must therefore be preempted.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 18, 2023

Ever since its launch in 2009, rightsholders have complained that file-hosting platform 1fichier.com fails to take intellectual property rights seriously. The Court found that Dstorage could be held liable for failing to remove illegal copies of Nintendo games hosted on 1fichier, based on notifications sent by rightsholders.

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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. Take Two argued that its use of the copyrighted tattoos was transformative.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

The music industry had initially insisted on strong copy protection to make it harder for music pirates to share these files. The music companies accused the company of failing to take action against subscribers who were accused of repeat copyright infringements. From: TF , for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 24, 2022

Amazon’s Ongoing Plagiarism and Copyright Problem. Back in 2009, Amazon launched a Kindle service for blogs that made it easy for anyone to sell any blog’s content. . All it has to do is use readily available plagiarism detection tools to detect works that contain a large volume of clearly copied text.

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Intepat

APRIL 23, 2021

Java owned by Sun Microsystems was later acquired by Oracle in 2009. Android even though they developed their own run time environment independent of Java, used 37 API calls that are similar to Java API and literally copied 11,500 lines of code deemed central to Java. But this case establishes that API instructions are copyrightable.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 27, 2024

In the summer of 2009, hackers from all over the world gathered at an outdoor conference near Vierhouten in the Netherlands. The downside was that pirates would create bootleg copies. “So, I was tasked to collect evidence against video rental shops that carried illegal copies of it. “When ‘E.T.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 9, 2022

RCN focuses heavily on the piracy tracking evidence from Rightscorp but has also brought up another topic; the decision by major record labels to remove DRM from the iTunes music store in 2009. — A copy of Magistrate Judge Tonianne J. From: TF , for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

In addition to rights of the author, German copyright law also recognises related rights. This personal intellectual creation is lacking if the photographs in question are “mere reproductions of other photographs” in which an original has been merely reproduced (copied) as closely as possible. 3, second sentence UrhG.

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The IPKat

MAY 18, 2024

To celebrate the start of this event, this Kat has found a recent judgment issued by the Tribunal judiciaire (TJ) of Lyon [ the birthplace of cinema ] concerning a case of copyright infringement relating to the still of a short film. Facts Mr T trained as an editor at a film and audiovisual school run by ECAR CAMPUS from 2009 to 2011.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

In its judgment of 1 September 2022, the Court determines that Azerbaijan failed to enforce copyright in respect of the unlawful digital reproduction and communication of a published book. Although the IPU did not pursue an economic interest when making his book available online, the applicant argued that his copyright was infringed.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 19, 2022

Copyright Law Why are we so sure facts are excluded from the statute when the statute doesn’t use that word and uses a lot of other words. Harper & Row is cited by Feist to reiterate that selection coordination and arrangements of facts can be copyrightable. President Ford couldn’t prevent others from copying bare historical facts.

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LexBlog IP

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. Take Two argued that its use of the copyrighted tattoos was transformative.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 19, 2023

Protecting Rights Despite its authorization under the new law, the official launch of the Hadopi agency in 2009 met with significant opposition. ” In CJEU Advocate General Szpunar’s non-binding opinion issued last October, friction between privacy rights and the ability to enforce copyrights were on full display.

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Copyright Lately

JULY 12, 2021

The actor, who claims he’s never used cannabis in his life, objects to Solar Therapeutics’ unpermitted use of both the copyrighted Borat character and his own likeness. But the case settled in 2009 on the eve of trial for a cool $5 million – one of the few publicly reported settlements in cases like these.

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IPilogue

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

These events point to two prevalent issues within the current legal framework: First, that current intellectual property laws do not properly acknowledge collective ownership over shared culture within Indigenous communities and second, whether tattoo designs have the potential to be protected through copyright laws. Of note, in DRG Inc.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JANUARY 9, 2024

Photo by Heliberto Arias on Unsplash A loophole in copyright protection? The 2009 directive on the legal protection of computer programs (the Software Directive ) grants copyright protection to all forms of expression of computer programs. Its Article 4(1) mentions three exclusive rights.

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IIPRD

AUGUST 11, 2023

No strict actions are taken against these infringements; in fact, in a Supreme Court case in Japan in 2009 [1] the creator of file sharing program known as ‘Winny’ was not found guilty of infringing content through providing file-sharing software and his actual intent of legitimate legal use was considered over the alleged infringement.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

It is thus clear that TDM does matter - but what should its relationship with copyright and related rights be? It should be noted at the outset that, on the one hand, some commentators hold the view that TDM would not even be covered by copyright law.

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The IPKat

AUGUST 20, 2023

As IPKat readers are surely aware, his fame extends well beyond the art world, given that Koons has contributed as litigant to some of the most interesting copyright case law around the world [see, eg, IPKat coverage here ]. There, it was presented as an original Koons artwork of which three copies exist.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

The OTW’s nonprofit, volunteer-operated website hosting transformative noncommercial works, the Archive of Our Own, was launched in late 2009. Like most large websites that are not in the news every day, we receive very few copyright claims despite our size. It has over 4.2 million registered users, hosts over 8.5

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IIPRD

OCTOBER 17, 2022

As recently in 2022 Hermès, a fashion house sued Manson an NFT (non-fungible token) creator for trademark infringement who marketed a digital asset called “Metabirkins”, which was a digital copy of a bag created by Hermès, which sold at many high prices. Copyright Infringement. Later it was settled. Patent Infringement.

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Garrigues Blog

JUNE 7, 2021

IPL expressly excludes the protection of functionalities as follows: “The ideas and principles underlying any of the elements of a computer program, including those underlying its interfaces, shall not be protected by copyright”. Finally, as far as the matter we are dealing with today, article 96.4

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IP Intelligence

JUNE 7, 2023

A detailed analysis of Goldsmith , however, yields little comfort to content owners when assessing the applicability of fair use to non-expressive uses of copyrightable content for use in AI learning models. Goldsmith seeks to license her copyrighted photograph to exactly these kinds of buyers. Goldsmith , 598 S. 1258, (2023).

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Patently-O

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Copyright Office published a Notice of inquiry (“NOI”) and request for comments, Artificial Intelligence and Copyright, Docket No. We, who have been writing and teaching about copyright law and how it has responded to challenges posed by new technologies for decades, were among those who submitted comments, see [link].

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The TTABlog

JANUARY 24, 2022

Fender Musical Instruments , 94 USPQ2d 1549, 1555 (TTAB 2009) (guitar shape). "[C]ourts Text Copyright John L. The Board noted that the issues at hand, genericness and acquired distinctiveness, are interrelated in that third-party use of the same or a similar design affects each determination. See , e.g., Stuart Spector Designs, Ltd.

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 5, 2023

To profit on the reputation of another brand, competitors began copying marks or acquiring deceptively similar trade marks with a desire to obtain the goodwill of well-known marks. The mark of the plaintiff was also protected under The Copyright Act, of 1957. The Copyright Act, 1957 – [link]. COURT’S DECISION. REFERENCES.

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IP and Legal Filings

MAY 3, 2023

Introduction Originality in copyright works is the sine qua non of all the copyright regimes of the world. Originality is the quality that distinguishes produced or invented works from copies, clones, forgeries, or derivative works by being new or novel. Yet the Act does not define what “original” clearly means.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 18, 2022

Alex’s involvement with T411 starts in 2009. I still have an old copy of my CV from 2013, which I used to find a job in Sweden, and t411 was in the top list of projects I’ve described there.” The fact that copyright holders were complaining about the torrent tracker didn’t come as a surprise though. .

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LexBlog IP

JUNE 7, 2023

A detailed analysis of Goldsmith , however, yields little comfort to content owners when assessing the applicability of fair use to non-expressive uses of copyrightable content for use in AI learning models. Goldsmith seeks to license her copyrighted photograph to exactly these kinds of buyers. ” (S. Goldsmith , 598 S.

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IIPRD

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Hence, the traveling chaos of F1 is a world filled with patents, trademarks, copyrights, and Trade Secrets. Patents, Copyrights, and Trademarks can be registered to ensure that no individual would be eligible for economic gains apart from the author or the buyer of the rights. Trade secrets have their peculiar way of being protected.

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The TTABlog

JUNE 10, 2021

There was no survey evidence, no evidence of intentional copying, and minimal media coverage. Text Copyright John L. Acquired Distinctiveness: Applicant claimed that its proposed mark has acquired distinctiveness under Section 2(f), a claim that served a concession that the term is not inherently distinctive. See Cold War Museum, Inc.

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IP Intelligence

JUNE 6, 2023

A detailed analysis of Goldsmith , however, yields little comfort to content owners when assessing the applicability of fair use to non-expressive uses of copyrightable content for use in AI learning models. Goldsmith seeks to license her copyrighted photograph to exactly these kinds of buyers. Goldsmith , 598 S. 1258, (2023).

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