3 Count: Fish Market
Plagiarism Today
JUNE 20, 2023
The post 3 Count: Fish Market appeared first on Plagiarism Today. Bad Bunny seeks dismissal of Reggaeton lawsuit, Live PD lawsuit moves forward and Nintendo Switch piracy Subreddit shuttered.
Copyright for AI-generated works: a task for the internal market?
Kluwer Copyright Blog
FEBRUARY 8, 2023
Voices emerged questioning whether current EU copyright laws should be amended in light of the many AI-generated works that have come about. One important question has been whether copyright law should be extended in order to protect such works. In this upcoming paper, this author takes a different approach to this hot topic.
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3 Count: Notorious Markets 2022
Plagiarism Today
MAY 2, 2022
1: US Government Publishes its Latest Copyright Watch Lists. The companies allege that the services enable piracy by protecting infringing users and even market their products in such a way as to encourage the behavior. The post 3 Count: Notorious Markets 2022 appeared first on Plagiarism Today.
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Should the EU unify copyright laws?
The IPKat
MAY 7, 2024
Kat (re-)unification Should the EU unify the copyright laws of its Member States and introduce, over thirty years after the start of the harmonization process, a unitary copyright title? Just a few examples: in 2010, the Wittem Group of academics released a model EU copyright code. The short answer is: yes.
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3 Count: AI Copyright
Plagiarism Today
FEBRUARY 23, 2022
1: The US Copyright Office Says an AI Can’t Copyright its Art. Copyright Office has declined to register the copyright of an AI-created image that it says did not include an element of “human authorship.” Copyright Office on the work. The list includes some 42 online markets and 35 physical markets.
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Book review: Copyright in the Digital Single Market
The IPKat
AUGUST 8, 2022
Many readers will already be familiar with this title, since it won our IPKat book of the year award 2021 for best copyright book! But, for those who are yet to pick up a copy, here is what is in store: The EU legislature adopted Directive 2019/790 on Copyright in the Digital Single Market (DSM) in 2019.
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How Grey Is Your Market? Identifying Grey Market Issues and Strategies to Combat Them
Corsearch
JANUARY 23, 2024
However, whilst international trade fosters economic growth and exchange, it also creates opportunities for grey market goods to emerge. Table of contents : • What is the grey market? • Supply chain inefficiencies: Misallocation of products or product returns can lead to grey market sales.
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Copyright, Upcycling, and the Human Right to Environmental Protection
Kluwer Copyright Blog
MAY 30, 2024
However, copyright protection may unexpectedly clash with this sustainable practice, as certain upcycled items could include copyrighted prints, ornaments, or design patterns from the original materials, such as new clothing items made out of old bed sheets, curtains, or tablecloths , or jewellery made from broken porcelain.
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MarkIt to Market® - February 2024
JD Supra Law
MARCH 1, 2024
Thank you for reading the February 2024 issue of Sterne Kessler's MarkIt to Market® newsletter. Nealy copyright infringement suit. This month, we discuss the advertising rights of luxury resellers and important updates to the Warner Chappell Music v.
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Neutral Intermediaries are Not Notorious Piracy Markets, Coalition Warns
TorrentFreak
OCTOBER 19, 2022
Earlier this month, several prominent copyright holder groups sent their annual “notorious markets” recommendations to the U.S. Government uses these documents as input for its yearly review of notorious piracy markets, which aims to provide an overview of threats to various copyright industries.
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NFTs Were Never About Copyright
Plagiarism Today
AUGUST 23, 2022
An article by Adi Robertson at The Verge looks at a recent study by The Galaxy , which examines the top 25 most valuable NFT projects and examines what the buyer is obtaining in terms of copyright or other intellectual property rights. NFTs were never meant to address copyright issues, they had a different purpose altogether.
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USTR Urged To Eye Canada, Other Foreign Copyright Markets
IP Law 360
JANUARY 30, 2023
federal government on Monday to turn its focus to foreign countries' purported erosion of copyright protections, arguing that many nations have "failed to keep pace" with trends in copyright law reform. The International Intellectual Property Alliance urged the U.S.
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U.S. Identifies Top Pirate Sites and Other ‘Notorious Markets’
TorrentFreak
FEBRUARY 1, 2023
Every year, the Office of the United States Trade Representative ( USTR ) publishes a list of ‘notorious markets’ that facilitate online piracy and related intellectual property crimes. 2022 Notorious Markets Review Yesterday, the USTR published its 2022 Review of Notorious Markets.
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Copyright in the Digital Single Market: a taster
WIPO Magazine
DECEMBER 9, 2021
Eleonora Rosati, author of Copyright in the Digital Single Market, offers a taster of her article-by-article commentary of the the EU Digital Single Market Directive, which seeks to make EU copyright fit for the digital single market.
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The Coming Copyright/Trademark Storm for NFTs
Plagiarism Today
FEBRUARY 7, 2022
While that may be scary for the marketplace, it may be precisely what is needed for the market to enjoy any mainstream success. You simply cannot have a legitimate market that trades almost entirely in illegitimate goods. The biggest is how copyright law will apply to marketplaces like OpenSea. Shades of Napster. Bottom Line.
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A plea for EU copyright unification coming from … the EUIPO?
The IPKat
NOVEMBER 7, 2023
As IPKat readers know, unlike other areas of IP, the creation of an EU-wide copyright title has never appeared like a concrete possibility. Indeed, the history of EU copyright harmonization has progressed in steps, with several directives (and a couple of regulations) being adopted over a period of 30+ years.
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3 Count: Copyright Exhaustion
Plagiarism Today
JANUARY 19, 2022
1: Government Pauses Plans to Rewrite UK Copyright Laws After Authors Protest. The rule, entitled copyright exhaustion, places limits on the import of international editions of books. Without this rule, many authors fear the UK market would be flooded with cheaper international copies. Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday.
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The Intersection of Artificial Intelligence and Copyright
Velocity of Content
SEPTEMBER 13, 2023
Copyrighted material is fuel for AI systems. Voluntary collective licensing is an effective solution enabling the use of copyrighted material as society realizes the benefits promised by AI systems. I invite our Velocity of Content blog readers to check out CCC’s “ Intersection of AI & Copyright ” page.
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First duel between NFTs and copyright before the Spanish courts: NFTs 1 – Authors 0
Kluwer Copyright Blog
APRIL 22, 2024
The rise in popularity of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) has attracted a great deal of attention from copyright practitioners and aficionados. Basically, because an NFT is an encoded digital metadata file of a copy of a work that can be copyright protected. And why is that? an exploitation that caused them no harm).
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CCC Names New Vice President of Marketing
Velocity of Content
OCTOBER 23, 2023
Information industry veteran Ian Palmer was named CCC’s new Vice President of Marketing via press release today. Palmer, who most recently was Chief Sales and Marketing Officer at cloud-based software company PubHive, brings more than two decades of strategic marketing communications expertise to CCC.
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MarkIt to Market® - October 2022
JD Supra Law
OCTOBER 28, 2022
Thank you for reading the October 2022 issue of Sterne Kessler's MarkIt to Market® newsletter. This month, we discuss an ongoing trademark suit involving a claim of irreparable harm, share the now open gTLD Sunrise periods, and feature analysis of Supreme Court copyright case Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Inc.
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Marketing and IPR
IP and Legal Filings
JUNE 14, 2023
When used in a marketing context, the brand has two primary goals: first, to represent the company in public to create maximum awareness and recognition for the organization and its business proposition. For a marketer, a brand is what represents the values of a company and aims to create awareness and trust.
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Print-on-Demand Service Defeats Fish Illustrator’s Copyright Claim–Tomelleri v. Sunfrog
Technology & Marketing Law Blog
MARCH 6, 2024
Any surviving services may need to be structured as marketing agencies that push all of the legal risk to the users and third-party vendors. A magistrate judge recommended dismissing Tomelleri’s copyright claims. That only works if the users and vendors can tolerate that legal risk. The supervising judge agrees.
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Is Generative AI Fair Use of Copyright Works? NYT v. OpenAI
Kluwer Copyright Blog
FEBRUARY 28, 2024
In order to train their technologies, should AI companies be allowed to use works under copyright protection without consent? Such uses, they argue, constitute copyright infringement. As in the present context, the initial concern of copyright holders was that their consent had not been acquired by Google prior to scanning their works.
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How a licence-based copyright proved to be crisis-proof and fulfilled societal needs
Kluwer Copyright Blog
DECEMBER 6, 2023
Photo by Aaron Burden on Unsplash In 2019, the European Union (EU) adopted its most important copyright reform in the past 20 years with the Copyright in the Digital Single Market (DSM) Directive. A core goal of the DSM Directive was to adapt EU copyright law to the digital era, ensuring it could address new practices.
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US Govt Identifies Top Pirate Sites and Other ‘Notorious Markets’
TorrentFreak
FEBRUARY 18, 2022
In its yearly “Out-of-Cycle Review of Notorious Markets”, the United States Trade Representative (USTR) lists a few dozen websites said to be involved in piracy or counterfeiting. The overview is largely based on input from copyright industry groups, including the RIAA and MPA, that submitted their recommendations late last year.
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Utilizing the Annual Copyright License Across Your Organization
Velocity of Content
DECEMBER 14, 2023
Fast-paced organizations that rely on and invest heavily in R&D should not only regard published content as the heart of innovation, but also possess a deep appreciation of the system of copyright protecting this intellectual property. How Do Different Departments Use the Annual Copyright License?
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CMA Releases Report on Music Streaming Market
IPilogue
JANUARY 5, 2023
On November 29th, The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) released its final report of its market study into music and music streaming. Moreover, competition between music streaming services and the digitization of the market improved consumer outcomes greatly, though creators still had concerns about their earnings from streaming.
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CCC Wins Multiple Content Marketing Awards
Velocity of Content
APRIL 6, 2022
CCC is proud to be recognized for our Velocity of Content blog and podcast in the “Branded Blog” and Branded Podcast” categories as part of PR Daily’s Content Marketing Awards. Additionally, the host of our Velocity of Content podcast, CCC’s Christopher Kenneally , was among six recipients of the “Content Marketer of the Year” honor.
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The Interplay Between Copyright Licensing and Exclusive Rights: AI Edition
Velocity of Content
MAY 22, 2024
This article originally appeared in The Scholarly Kitchen Copyright Licensing and Human Advancement Copyright licensing, that is, the granting of permission to reuse copyright works, has likely existed as long as copyright. Collective copyright licensing is nearly as old, generally viewed as dating from 1777.
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European Copyright Society (ECS): Comment on Copyright and the Digital Services Act Proposal
Kluwer Copyright Blog
JANUARY 18, 2022
Image by European Copyright Society. On 15 December 2020, the European Commission submitted a proposal for a Regulation on a Single Market For Digital Services (Digital Services Act, DSA) and amending Directive 2000/31/EC. 17 of the Copyright in the Digital Single Market Directive (CDSMD). EXECUTIVE SUMMARY.
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European Copyright Society letter to Commissioner Breton on a future agenda in the field of copyright law
Kluwer Copyright Blog
JUNE 1, 2023
The members of the European Copyright Society (ECS ) have recently sent a letter to Mr. Thierry Breton ( Commissioner for Internal Market , European Commission ) outlining their view of what should be the priorities for a f uture agenda in the field of copyright law.
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Copyright Office as Pivot Between Copyright Holders and AI-Service Providers
Kluwer Copyright Blog
MAY 15, 2024
UpstateNYer, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons The forthcoming article “Creation and Generation Copyright Standards” to be published in NYU JIPEL 2024 (see pre-publication version here ) analyses and critiques the different standards for copyright eligibility between expressive works and generative products in the U.S.
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Facebook’s LLaMa Defeats Copyright Claims–Kadrey v. Meta
Technology & Marketing Law Blog
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
This is another preliminary ruling in the copyright battle over generative AI. Copyright law has the capacity to nix the entire generative AI category. Fortunately, Judge Chhabria easily rejects the copyright owners’ overclaims. The post Facebook’s LLaMa Defeats Copyright Claims–Kadrey v. The complaint.
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Authors & Copyright Scholars Back ‘Internet Archive’ in Landmark Legal Battle
TorrentFreak
DECEMBER 22, 2023
Publishers Hachette, HarperCollins, John Wiley, and Penguin Random House filed a lawsuit, equating IA’s controlled digital lending (CDL) operation to copyright infringement. Earlier this year a New York Federal court concluded that the library is indeed liable for copyright infringement.
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AI Models Reveal Pro-Copyright Bias By Shutting Down Piracy Research
TorrentFreak
MAY 25, 2024
This week Michael Kearns of Penn Engineering wrote about “model disgorgement,” a potential solution that forces models to purge themselves of “content that leads to copyright infringement or biased responses.” ” From our admittedly very narrow perspective, that proposition couldn’t be more ironic.
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Reddit Reports Surge in Copyright-Related User Bans
TorrentFreak
APRIL 17, 2024
Last month, the community-driven news and discussion platform went public and, with a market cap of more than $6 billion, immediately became one of the larger tech players. 779,628 ‘Infringing’ Items Flagged At TorrentFreak, we are mostly interested in copyright-related actions. The company does typically respond to U.S.
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Generative AI, Copyright and the AI Act
Kluwer Copyright Blog
MAY 9, 2023
TLDR Generative AI is one of the hot topics in copyright law today. In the EU, a crucial legal issue is whether using in-copyright works to train generative AI models is copyright infringement or falls under existing text and data mining (TDM) exceptions in the Copyright in Digital Single Market (CDSM) Directive.
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TDM: Poland challenges the rule of EU copyright law
Kluwer Copyright Blog
FEBRUARY 20, 2024
years after the implementation deadline, Poland still had to implement the provisions of the 2019 Copyright in the Digital Single Market Directive into national law. This must have been the key insight at the Polish Culture and National Heritage Ministry when the new administration took over and discovered that more than 2.5
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[Guest Post] The wisdom of Dune and copyright litigation
The IPKat
OCTOBER 27, 2021
Kat friend Hans Eriksson discusses an interesting decision (only available in Swedish) concerning copyright protection and originality, namely whether the sequence of twenty words in an instruction manual may be regarded as being enough for copyright to arise. Remaining hooks are evenly distributed over the roof.”
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Comment of the European Copyright Society Addressing Selected Aspects of the Implementation of Articles 3 to 7 of Directive (EU) 2019/790 on Copyright in the Digital Single Market
Kluwer Copyright Blog
JULY 27, 2022
Source: European Copyright Society. Almost 3 years after the adoption of the Digital Single Market ( Directive (EU) 2019/790 ) (CDSM Directive), its transposition by the Member States (MS) has proved to be a significant challenge. The Society is not funded, nor has been instructed, by any particular stakeholders.
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[Guest post] Under the influence: Influencer marketing – when private individuals become professionals and (potentially) responsible for IP infringements
The IPKat
FEBRUARY 5, 2023
The IPKat has received and is pleased to publish another guest contribution by Danish Katfriends Jakob Plesner Mathiasen , Hanne Kirk and Thit Nymand Nisbeth (all Gorrissen Federspiel) tackling influencer marketing from an IP perspective. This emerging breed is - very tellingly - called influencer marketing.
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Newspapers Sue OpenAI for Copyright Infringement and ‘Fake News’ Hallicunations
TorrentFreak
MAY 1, 2024
In this case, eight major news publications are suing OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement. In addition, ChatGPT can recall large parts of their copyright-protected articles, which effectively bypasses their paywalls. The plaintiffs show that ChatGPT can reproduce content from copyrighted news articles when prompted.
Publishers Secure Widespread Support in Landmark Copyright Battle With Internet Archive
TorrentFreak
MARCH 25, 2024
Publishers Hachette, HarperCollins, John Wiley, and Penguin Random House filed a lawsuit, equating IA’s controlled digital lending (CDL) operation to copyright infringement. Earlier this year a New York federal court concluded that the library is indeed liable for copyright infringement.
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