TorrentFreak

MARCH 19, 2022

Since 2017, the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society, the supervising body and publisher for the Jehovah’s Witness religious group, has filed more than 70 DMCA subpoena applications in the United States. However, Watch Tower is still pursuing a parallel copyright infringement lawsuit against McFree in another court. Until now, that is.

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IPilogue

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

This past Monday, Osgoode’s very own Professor David Vaver delivered the 2021 Brace lecture on “User Rights: Fair Use and Beyond” as the series’ very first international speaker from outside the United States. That anyone’s use of a copyright-protected work infringes the copyright owner’s property.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 19, 2023

On May 18, 2023, the Supreme Court found that artistic changes to a pre-existing work, alone, not necessarily sufficient to make a derivative work fair use. copyright law. copyright law, the Supreme Court focused on the actual use made, i.e. what the user does with the original work.

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IPilogue

JULY 18, 2022

Copyright Act —whether Warhol’s print is transformative of the original photograph so that it qualifies as fair use. As an avant-guard artist of his time, Warhol used the mechanical process of copying to challenge the conventional notion of art. Copyright, in the simplest terms, is “ the right to copy.”

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Acko General Insurance , the Delhi High Court is faced with the opportunity to elaborate whether and how street art in general is subject to the Copyright Act, the scope of ‘artistic work’ under Sec. 2(c), the fair use exemption thereof under Sec. 52(1)(t) and thus would fall under the ‘fair use’ exception of the Copyright Act.

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Dear Rich IP Blog

AUGUST 3, 2022

But if you can't get permission, you may have a reasonable fair use argument. Reproducing the image without the copyright owner's permission is an infringement unless you can claim fair use. Architectural copyright. If the museum is new (built after 1990), copyright law protects the building's design.

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IP Watchdog

MAY 25, 2023

Copyright Office General Counsel. The letter was published in full on the Copyright Alliance website.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

But if you really want Kiwi Farms gone, have you considered using copyright law for its censorial power? He self-published a book about the experience (“ Why I Sued Taylor Swift and How I Became Falsely Known as Frivolous, Litigious and Crazy “). Copyright Law Might Disagree–Greer v.

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Larson & Larson

JUNE 21, 2021

Without a shred of doubt, copyright law envisages the protection of the copyright holder’s rights. The most common limitation where the exclusive rights of a copyright holder can be limited fall under the doctrine of fair use- a defense against copyright infringement. What is Fair Use?

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Velocity of Content

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The culmination of a decades-long effort, and well before the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and Copyright Term Extension Act were passed in 1998, the 1976 Copyright Act ushered in a new era of copyright law in the United States. Nation Enterprises.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Publishers vs. Internet Archive The self-scanning service is different from the licensing deals other libraries enter into. Not all publishers are happy with IA’s approach which triggered a massive legal battle two years ago. The publishers didn’t listen to these concerns.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 6, 2021

This can include uploads with appropriate licensing or content posted within the guidelines of ‘fair use’, including criticism or parody, for example. Aside from the summary comments from the Judge based on Missingham’s transcripts, there are also some clues in the YouTube video URLs published in the judgment.

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The IP Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

A photographer is suing a real estate media site for copyright infringement after publishing several of his photos without permission. Scott Hervey and Jamie Lincenberg discuss this case and explain how media companies can avoid similar lawsuits in a post-Warhol world on this episode of The Briefing.

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IPilogue

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit reversed a 2019 federal district court’s ruling that held a French court’s ruling was unenforceable due to a conflict in copyright laws between the countries. In 1991, Wofsy, with permission from Picasso’s estate , published De Fontrbrune’s images in “The Picasso Project”.

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LexBlog IP

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

This time, a group of music publishing companies, including Concord Music Group, Inc., Plaintiffs state that AI technology is no differently situated than the traditional printing press or copy machine, and must adhere to these foundational principles of copyright law. ABCKO Music, Inc., Andy Warhol Found. Goldsmith , 143 S.

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The Illusion of More

MARCH 18, 2024

Publishers File Brief in Response to Internet Archive Appeal On Friday, the publishers in Hachette, et al. IA maintains that its practice of “Controlled Digital Lending” is not copyright infringement under the doctrine of fair use despite the […] The post Copyright News to Watch appeared first on The Illusion of More.

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Plagiarism Today

MAY 31, 2022

2: Amendment Passes to Grant Teachers Fair Use of Copyrighted Work Remotely. Next up today, Focus Taiwan reports that the Taiwan legislature has passed a new copyright law that would grant educators a fair use protection when using copyright-protected works via online classes.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Copyright law was never meant to work this way. It is a law that was designed to let humans govern how other humans use content. However, they are an especially difficult one for copyright. Copyright law was written, quite deliberately, to allow for a lot of nuance and judgment. Fixing the Issue.

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Likelihood of Confusion

MAY 18, 2023

Mack Reed puts his finger on it — almost — in the Online Journalism Review: The Web has made unauthorized propagation of information — whether copyrighted or not — instantaneous. The post Publishers vs. YouTube appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™.

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The IP Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

A photographer is suing a real estate media site for copyright infringement after publishing several of his photos without permission. Scott Hervey and Jamie Lincenberg discuss this case and explain how media companies can handle similar situations in a post-Warhol world on this episode of The Briefing.

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The IP Law Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Weintraub Tobin’s Intellectual Property podcast, The Briefing , published nearly 50 episodes this year covering a variety of IP issues relating to trademark, copyright, and entertainment law. 3: What Now for Fair Use After Warhol v. As we look back, we want to share The Briefing’s most popular episodes in 2023.

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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. MySpace Inc.

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Larson & Larson

JUNE 21, 2021

Copyright law provides a safeguard against copyright infringement. That being said, here is a brief elucidation of all you need to know about copyright and copyright infringement. The duration of copyright protection is often date and fact-sensitive. How Can You Protect Your Work? Bottom Line.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Like most copyright systems, French copyright law does not leave much room for the freedom of authors of transformative graphic works (also called “derivative works”). Three interesting cases on derivative works, two involving Jeff Koons and one Tintin, have recently put French copyright law in the international spotlight (e.g.

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IP Law 360

MARCH 16, 2023

A New York federal judge will consider next week whether copyright law's fair use doctrine protects the Internet Archive's lending library of digitized books or if the nonprofit is committing what publishers call "digital piracy on an industrial scale."

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Such uses, they argue, constitute copyright infringement. Fair Use Precedent? Google Books and Transformative Use The past two decades have seen a wealth of technological developments, but generative AI is qualitatively different from everything that has come before. copyright law. However, the U.S.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Yesterday, news broke that Pearson Education, the largest publisher of textbooks in the world, has filed a lawsuit against the website Chegg alleging widespread copyright infringement of its content on the site. As a result, Pearson is suing Chegg alleging copyright infringement. Chegg’s Potential Defenses.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 17, 2024

It lost for two reasons: one grounded in contract law and the other external. First, the court held that the damages X incurred (primarily the loss of advertisers after CCDH published negative reports using scraped data) were unforeseeable when the ToS were agreed upon in 2019. They scraped X’s platform to sell the data.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 17, 2024

is one of the most interesting cases in history to rely on a fair use defense, arguing that the alleged infringement qualifies as a parody. Acuff-Rose sued members of hip hop group 2 Live Crew, claiming that their track “Pretty Woman” infringed the label’s copyright in the Roy Orbison song, “Oh, Pretty Woman.”

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TorrentFreak

MAY 27, 2024

The company published its latest quarterly results last week, reporting $26 billion in revenue; a 340% increase compared to two years ago. The company lists several affirmative defenses, including an absence of copyright infringement displaced by fair use.

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 16, 2024

The concept of CDL revolves around the idea of two major doctrines under Copyright law i.e. Doctrine of fair use and doctrine of exhaustion. However, the ambiguity as to the lawfulness of such mass digitalisation and controlled lending has attracted major debates in different jurisdictions.

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LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Weintraub Tobin’s Intellectual Property podcast, The Briefing , published nearly 50 episodes this year covering a variety of IP issues relating to trademark, copyright, and entertainment law. 3: What Now for Fair Use After Warhol v. Goldsmith The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Andy Warhol Foundation v.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 2, 2021

District Court Judge Jed Rakoff has issued a controversial ruling denying the “server test” of copyright law and ruling that embedding images can be an infringement of copyright law. The judge also ruled against Sinclair on the issue of fair use, saying that it was too early in the case to rule on that issue.

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The Illusion of More

MAY 2, 2023

Internet Archive wholly rejected IA’s fair use defense constructed on the theory called Controlled Digital Lending (CDL). On March 24, the court in Hachette et al.

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IP and Legal Filings

MAY 3, 2024

The law is an important part of protecting intellectual property and protecting creators’ rights to their original works. Fair use provides some exceptions to copyright protection, allowing limited use of copyrighted material without the permission of the copyright owner.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 27, 2022

When coupled with the Lumen Database there are ample opportunities to research the copyright takedown landscape but there is an important omission. At no point has Google ever published the detailed takedown requests it receives for YouTube. Copyright Operations Specialist. Handling ‘High-Risk’ Internal Escalations.

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LexBlog IP

JULY 24, 2023

Silverman, Kadrey, and Golden allege that Meta and OpenAI used copies of the authors’ books without their permission by copying illegal online “shadow libraries” that contain the texts of thousands of books. Under the fair use doctrine of the U.S.

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