Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 3, 2023

31, 2022): When an individual’s decision to disseminate an Instagram post is the “very thing the article [is] reporting on,” the use of the Instagram post and its copyrighted material in the reporting has been deemed sufficiently transformative to support a fair use defense.

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The IP Law Blog

JUNE 3, 2021

We recently wrote about a case in the Southern District of New York against Mashable relating to the embedding of content from social media platforms like Instagram. The plaintiffs claim that “Instagram has been caught red-handed in its scheme to usurp the value from copyrighted works for its own benefit.”

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TorrentFreak

MAY 17, 2022

Anyone who breaches their legal agreement with a platform is, at a minimum, in breach of relevant contract law. Copyright Law and DRM. Even when such copying is allowed there tend to be restrictions, such as owning an original copy and making a backup, or conditional on the payment of a blank media levy.

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Copyright Lately

MARCH 16, 2023

But in 2016, Sonny Bono’s heirs issued a notice of termination under Copyright Act section 304(c) on various music publishers to whom Sonny had previously assigned rights in his musical compositions. Let me know in the comments below or @copyrightlately on social media. And at least for now, the beat—and the case—go on.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

I understand a lot of you may be upset that I saw a photo on social media and loved it enough to imitate it in a very different style. In that apology, Butz admitted he was “clearly ignorant about copyright laws and got defensive when it was brought to my attention.”

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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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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 11, 2023

These contract law provisions, totally alien to the Irish legal tradition, are designed to apply in negotiations and contractual relationships between artists and commercial exploiters of their works, including social media platforms and streaming services.

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LexBlog IP

AUGUST 4, 2022

. “Embedding” means the process of copying unique HTML code assigned to the location of a digital copy of the photo or video published to the Internet, and the insertion of that code into a target webpage or social media post so that photo or video is linked for display within the target post.

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Spadika Jayaraj discussed a case where the Delhi High Court dismissed a suit by a media house accusing copyright infringement on its database of users. The issue has often arisen in the context of protecting confidential information through copyright law. To get an overall picture, see Prashant’s post “ The Rs.

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Copyright Lately

MAY 1, 2023

First of all, in terms of copyright, to reiterate our very clearly articulated position. sophisticated generative AI that’s enabled by large language models, which trains on our intellectual property, violates copyright law in several ways. copyright law really doesn’t seem to give UMG a ton of options.

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JIPL Online

APRIL 9, 2021

ii] Existing copyright law is ineffective in its application to new forms of digital media. ” How Stagnant Copyright Law is Stifling Creativity , 27 J. Miceli, Law and Economics: Private and Public 23 (West Academic Publishing 2018). 139 (2016). [ix] 29, 2013), [link]. [ii] 277 (2020). [iv]

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JIPL Online

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Mods are beneficial for the video game industry, [3] but mods can threaten a company’s copyright exclusivity because of their status as derivative works. [4] 4] Mods that collect revenue by paywalls are likely to scare copyright holders into litigation. [5] 6] Mod creators are not always deterred by these setbacks. [7] Formgen Inc.,

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MARCH 6, 2023

A series of recent amendments to copyright law, including in the EU Copyright and the Digital Single Market Directive (Art. 3 and 4) and in Singapore’s new Copyright Act (Art. 243, 244), seek to protect the ability of text and data mining researchers to use copyrighted content in their work. million abstracts.

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IIPRD

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Although cloud offerings are often global and multi-jurisdictional, the IP laws governing services generally remain territorial and national. Copyright laws, for instance, vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. What constitutes copyright infringement in one country may not be in another. Thus, in Tiffany(NJ) Inc.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JANUARY 31, 2022

Bernt Hugenholtz, Kluwer Law International, 2021. It derives from a paper given at the 25 th Anniversary celebration of IViR on 4 July 2014 and at the University of Oxford IP Moot “converzatione” on 18 March 2016. Indeed, social media is replete with collections of ‘unusual’ penalty kicks.

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Copyright Lately

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Conjuring up a Copyright Case. In 2016, author Gerald Brittle alleged that the Warner Bros. movie “The Conjuring” and its sequels infringed the copyright in his book “The Demonologist” as well as his claimed exclusive rights in the case files of paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren. And there you have it!

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 30, 2023

The decisions in the first category, i.e., Top 10 IP Cases/Judgements (Topicality/Impact) reflect those that we thought were important from a topical point of view and were covered by the media in some way owing to the importance of parties litigating or the issue being considered or for impact on industry and innovation/creativity ecosystem etc.

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Copyright Lately

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Does a copyright termination by Sonny Bono’s heirs trump Cher’s marital settlement agreement? Copyright and family law intersect in Cher v. As I’ve discussed before here on Copyright Lately , copyright termination is one of the thorniest areas of copyright law. Agree or disagree?

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 20, 2022

Oracle , that ‘fair use’ is an ‘equitable rule of reason’ requiring ‘judicial balancing’ of ‘the sometimes conflicting aims of copyright law’ so that copyright does not ‘stifle the very creativity which the law las was meant to foster.’ ’ (Op.

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