Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Another troubling ruling for an Internet access provider trying to shake a contributory copyright claim based on user-caused copyright infringement. 11, 2023): Time and again we have declared that “prevailing defendants in copyright cases are presumptively entitled (and strongly so) to recover attorney fees.”

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 1, 2023

In 2016, Time “embedded” one of Brauer’s Instagram posts, featuring one of his photos of Hilary Clinton, in its entirety (preserving his username or “handle”, his caption, and his links and hashtags). The vast majority of people who post to social media want their posts to be embedded and made available to others.

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LexBlog IP

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Larson also sought a declaration that she owns the copyright to The Kindest and that the letter in the short story does not infringe Dorland’s copyright. Dorland counterclaimed for copyright infringement, claiming that Larson’s use of Dorland’s letter was a violation of intellectual property law.

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LexBlog IP

JULY 7, 2023

A pair of copyright decisions issued in May, one involving the appropriation artist Richard Prince [1] and the other involving works portraying the musician known as Prince, explore and expand on the “fair use” defense to copyright infringement. Goldsmith counterclaimed for copyright infringement.

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The IPKat

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

The long history of the parties’ joint presence on the UK market clearly added a degree of complexity to the judgment, which contains a detailed review of each side’s business over the years. The judge found trade mark infringement (of both the logo with and without the word “LIDL”), passing-off and copyright infringement.

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Copyright Lately

MAY 1, 2023

Finally, speaking to the question of whether new copyright legislation was needed to prevent generative AI from eating the music industry’s lunch, Nash said: We believe that most key markets’ copyright laws are fit for purpose right now, and don’t—we don’t see a requirement for new legislation per se.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 8, 2022

Published each year by the United States Trade Representative, the ‘notorious markets’ report highlights piracy threats located outside the US, in the hope that foreign authorities will take action. According to the MPA, content stored on these sites is also made available via apps, social media, forums, blogs and email.

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SpicyIP

OCTOBER 16, 2023

While passing the order, the court opined that though JPO does not have a trademark or copyright registration in its favor, it could have never imagined that its logo would be imitated by anyone. POI Social Media Pvt. British MPs urge motion on NFT copyright infringement, crypto fan tokens.

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 30, 2023

Delhi High Court] On August 9, the Delhi High Court devised a judicial mechanism to combat novel ways of copyright infringement and issued the first-ever Dynamic+ injunction in favour of Universal City Studios LLC., The judgement was passed collectively in an appeal against 4 orders (two impugning the 2016 Ericsson v.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 27, 2022

First, governments can never successfully operate a social media service. Of course, mobs, riots, rebellions, pogroms, lynchings, and other coordinated killings have taken place throughout human history, well before social media existed. social media has played an outsized role in finding and prosecuting the insurrection.

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