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Research Exceptions in Comparative Copyright Law

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Promoting research and access to its products has always been a core purpose of copyright law, often expressed in limitations and exceptions for research uses. Empirical scholarship has highlighted the positive impact on scholarship of copyright exceptions for TDM and of more “open” exceptions for research uses.

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Copyright case: Brown v. Netflix Inc., USA

Kluwer Copyright Blog

A documentary film’s incorporation of an eight-second excerpt of the children’s song “Fish Sticks n’ Tater Tots” was a noninfringing fair use, the U.S. A full summary of this case has been published on Kluwer IP Law. Court of Appeals in New York City has held. Netflix, Inc., May 18, 2021, Jacobs, D.).

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Cloud TV Service Boss Sentenced to 3 Years Prison Plus $505,000 Damages

TorrentFreak

When TVkaista launched in Finland way back in 2007, storing video in the cloud certainly wasn’t taken for granted as it is now. TVkaista Faces Legal Action In advance of TTVK’s letters being sent out, TVkaista’s CEO, technical director, and legal advisor, faced legal action for criminal copyright infringement and aggravated fraud.

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Journey Through “Decembers” on SpicyIP (2005 – Present)

SpicyIP

The issue earlier came up in 2007 during the Novartis dispute. E.g. check Namratha’s post on CovEducatio and Fair Use and Divij’s take on the Legality of Digital Libraries in a Lockdown. Tis not done.

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Web Scraping and Intellectual Property Rights

IIPRD

Data scraping majorly involves the copying of data from a source; therefore the Copyright laws come into the picture. Section 2 (o) of the Copyright Act, 1957 provides that a literary work includes compilations and since the data scraping is a compilation it comes under the category of a literary work. References]. [1]

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13 Spooky Copyright Cases, Just in Time for Halloween

Copyright Lately

The judge rejected BMG’s fair use defense, holding that the defendants took more elements from the “Nightmare on Elm” street films than they needed to accomplish any parodic purpose. In 2007, Peter Gallagher (an author, not the dad on “The O.C.”) ” “The Little White Trip” (2007).

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Ninth Circuit Reaffirms the “Server Test” for Direct Infringement of the Public Display Right — Hunley v. Instagram, LLC (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

The Ninth Circuit ultimately ruled, however, that making and displaying thumbnail images to facilitate an image search engine was a fair use. Ultimately, the problem is that copyright law compensates photographers and other copyright owners through a model of artificial scarcity. Amazon.com, Inc. , 3d at 1160.