Olartemoure Blog

MAY 26, 2023

The ensuing litigation unfolded in the Court of Rome, where it was determined that cultural heritage serves as an expression of national identity. The Supreme Court ruled that the use and modification of photographs solely for commercial purposes does not qualify as fair use and therefore constitutes a violation of copyright law.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 15, 2023

” That wasn’t what Maria Schneider had in mind, according to her 2016 Music Tech Policy piece, which begins with a surprise apology. When copyright holders report uploaded content as infringing, YouTube follows the DMCA and takes the content down. 1202 , which prohibits the removal of Copyright Management Information.

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Plagiarism Today

APRIL 25, 2022

1: Dan + Shay, Justin Bieber Sued for ‘10,000 Hours’ Copyright Infringement. First off today, Mathew Lemkuehler at The Tennessean reports that a new lawsuit claims the song 10,000 Hours , performed by Dan + Shay and Justin Bieber, is a copyright infringement of an earlier work. Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 26, 2021

Before mid-2022, the Copyright Office will deploy a new adjudicatory function called the Copyright Claims Board (CCB). The CCB will be dominated by claims over alleged online infringement, so it’s a major development for online copyright law. Currently, all federal copyright infringement claims must be filed in federal court.

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Copyright Lately

MARCH 16, 2023

In a long-awaited decision, the court allows Cher’s royalty lawsuit to proceed despite copyright termination notices from Sonny Bono’s heirs. At this rate, the Cher-Bono litigation may end up lasting longer than the couple’s marriage. “Therefore, her claim fails.” state laws” from its scope.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

JANUARY 11, 2023

Registration of a mask work with the Copyright Office provides certain legal benefits, including the ability to bring a lawsuit for infringement of the mask work. Unlike copyrights, which are not necessarily registered with the United States Copyright Office (USCO), mask works must be federally registered in order to receive protection.

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The IP Law Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Trump claims that Woodward did not have his permission to release these audiotapes as a separate audiobook, and sued Woodard and his publisher for, among other claims, copyright infringement. Does Trump have a claim, or is his copyright claim “trumped up”? In the 1981 case of Falwell v.

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Nealy , an appeal of the Eleventh Circuit’s determination that a copyright plaintiff can recover damages for infringement occurring more than three years prior to filing suit. Much of alleged infringement occurred while Nealy was incarcerated, and he alleged that he did not become aware of the infringement until 2016.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

In just a few years, New York lawyer Richard Liebowitz filed over a thousand copyright infringement lawsuits. When we first spotted this emerging trend in 2016, Liebowitz told us that he was helping independent photographers to protect their rights. From: TF , for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

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IPilogue

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

On March 26, 2021, the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals in New York found that the famed artist Andy Warhol violated photographer Lynn Goldsmith’s copyright by using her photo of the singer Prince to create his “Prince Series.” Tianchu Gao is an IPilogue Writer and a 1L JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. . .

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The IP Law Blog

MARCH 23, 2023

The Ninth Circuit recently addressed the issue of whether parties can contractually agree to shorten the statute of limitations period for bringing a copyright infringement claim. Normally, the statute of limitations for a copyright violation is three years. In an unpublished opinion in the case, Evox Productions, LLC v.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

JANUARY 11, 2023

Registration of a mask work with the Copyright Office provides certain legal benefits, including the ability to bring a lawsuit for infringement of the mask work. Unlike copyrights, which are not necessarily registered with the United States Copyright Office (USCO), mask works must be federally registered in order to receive protection.

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The IP Law Blog

AUGUST 25, 2022

District Court can exercise personal jurisdiction over a foreign defendant with regard to a copyright infringement suit. Lang Van is a California corporation that produces and distributes Vietnamese music and entertainment, owning the copyrights to thousands of songs and programs. In 2014, Lang Van sued VNG for copyright infringement.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 13, 2024

But by providing a foil in litigation against both the Center for Countering Digital Hate (“CCDH”) and Bright Data (the world’s largest seller of scraped data), he’s given judges in the most important district court in the country for tech legal issues, the Northern District of California, plenty of motivation to rule against him.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

AUGUST 23, 2023

Copyright and its lawful use by another are more important than is often deemed by people. An example of the same can be drawn from the recent litigation proceedings of Sony Music Entertainment v. An example of the same can be drawn from the recent litigation proceedings of Sony Music Entertainment v. Triller Inc.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The lawsuit involves sound recordings of 19 interviews that then-President Trump voluntarily gave to Woodward between December 2019 and August 2020, plus one interview from 2016 (when Trump was still a candidate). Second, if so, who is the initial owner of the copyright(s)? complaint filed Jan.

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Above the Fold

APRIL 4, 2022

On Monday, March 28, the Supreme Court agreed to hear a copyright case about Andy Warhol’s artwork that will evaluate the scope of the fair use defense, which permits a party to use a copyrighted work without the owner’s permission. The Supreme Court will now determine whether Warhol violated copyright law.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 29, 2023

In 2016, a group of movie companies known for their pursuit of alleged BitTorrent pirates attempted something rare in Canada. The case was then referred back to the Federal Court with two questions: was a reverse class action the preferable procedure in this case, and did Voltage have a workable litigation plan?

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 14, 2022

The new information centers around the copyright infringement notices that were sent by MarkMonitor, the anti-piracy outfit that tracked files downloaded by BitTorrent pirates. This evidence was central to prove direct copyright infringement. From: TF , for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Much of the litigation thus turns on what it means for a similarity to be probative of copying. Rosen, Fog and Fiction and Copyright Term Extension aka Who Framed Mickey Mouse? Zahr Said, Shotgun Damages in Copyright Multipliers used to ratchet up damages. In 2016, Leonard v. Mostly music infringement.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 2, 2024

copyright law, Internet providers must terminate the accounts of repeat copyright infringers “in appropriate circumstances.” The company first launched a proactive lawsuit against music rights group BMG in 2016, which ended in a settlement. The movie distributor also requests a broad injunction.

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The IPKat

OCTOBER 25, 2023

The Belgian litigation, initiated in July 2021, concerns a dispute between the musicians of the Belgian National Orchestra (ONB) and the ONB itself. Between 2016 and 2020, the labour unions of the ONB musicians and the ONB unsuccessfully tried to negotiate a collective agreement.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 30, 2021

It also marks the likely end of an eight-year campaign by Flo & Eddie (owners of the sound recording copyrights of the band “The Turtles”) to obtain royalty payments for digital broadcasts and streaming of pre-1972 sound recordings under state law. See my previous blog post on the New York ruling.)

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 9, 2022

As you can see, emoticon references peaked in 2016, and the number has roughly stayed steady since then (but see the footnote above). Copyright Review Board ruling on emoji copyrightability. Individual emoji symbols can obtain copyright registrations… sometimes. When exactly?

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Larry Philpot is a repeat copyright plaintiff. In 2016, the defendant IJR published an article/listicle titled “15 Signs Your Daddy Was a Conservative.” Philpot sued in 2020 over the 2016 IJR publication, i.e., after the 3 year statute of limitations that no one seems to care about post-Petrella. (In This was a concert photo.

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IP Watchdog

AUGUST 18, 2022

DDI took a license in 2016 to the copyright for artwork created by Harold Walters for a set of replacement stickers for the dashboard climate controls for certain General Motors vehicles. began selling a sticker that DDI alleged infringed the licensed copyright. In 2018, Alper Automotive, Inc.

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43(B)log

AUGUST 4, 2023

2016 survey says 59% of Americans would be willing to buy a smart gun, including 56% of political conservatives and 4 of 14 gun owners. Tort tries to get people to make safer products to encourage innovation, but also leads to anxieties about creating new stuff b/c it risks litigation v. Shootings by children, suicides, etc.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 22, 2023

Founded on July 28, 2016, Bitcache Limited was the legal entity behind Kim Dotcom’s Bitcache, an upcoming blockchain/crypto solution set to revolutionize the utility of Bitcoin through the introduction of cost-effective microtransactions. Just Wait For It In October 2016, with the launch of Megaupload 2.0

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LexBlog IP

AUGUST 25, 2022

District Court can exercise personal jurisdiction over a foreign defendant with regard to a copyright infringement suit. Lang Van is a California corporation that produces and distributes Vietnamese music and entertainment, owning the copyrights to thousands of songs and programs. In 2014, Lang Van sued VNG for copyright infringement.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 26, 2021

This was highlighted in 2019 when both the New York Times and Vulture released follow-ups on the impact of the case for songwriters and found that, while litigation wasn’t necessarily increasing, interest was. However, there is another element at play, and that’s the changing nature of music itself. songwriters affixed to them.

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IP and Legal Filings

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Patents, trademarks, geographical indications, industrial designs, layout-designs of integrated circuits, plant variety protection, and copyright are all examples of intellectual property. i] said that all disputes stemming from trademarks, copyrights, and patents are inherently unarbitrable. Paramasivam & Ors. [i]

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Patently-O

JULY 19, 2023

Patents and copyrights were established in the Constitution and enacted by the First Congress in 1790. Those rights were fairly quickly established as exclusively federal, meaning that there is effectively no patents or copyrights offered by individual states. It is common for litigation to assert both.

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43(B)log

AUGUST 11, 2021

Panel 17 – Copyright Substantial Similarity Crossprogrammed with my panel; I came here first because I had more experience with the first paper in the other panel. Asay, An Empirical Study of Copyright Law’s Substantial Similarity Test 1005 cases found. Significant rise in substantial similarity litigation starting in 2006—tripled.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 22, 2023

The Supreme Court ruled on May 18 that Andy Warhol’s “Orange Prince” work of pop art was not a fair use when licensed to Condé Nast in 2016. Although this landmark copyright decision is hot off the presses, the facts date back to 1981 when the underlying photograph was first shot. § 107 ). § 107 ).

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The IPKat

AUGUST 20, 2023

As IPKat readers are surely aware, his fame extends well beyond the art world, given that Koons has contributed as litigant to some of the most interesting copyright case law around the world [see, eg, IPKat coverage here ]. Jeff Koons is one of the best-known contemporary artists.

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IPilogue

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Flashing back to 2016, only a year after Snapchat first launched its filters (more commonly referred to then as “ Lenses ”), the app introduced a design closely resembling, if not an exact replica of the rainbow teary-eyed makeup look by artist Mykie. Let’s dive into the copyright landscape to further explore this subject.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

In Canada, Voltage is attempting to obtain the personal details of a large group of copyright infringers through a reverse class-action lawsuit, which is relatively rare. The lawsuit in question was initially filed in 2016 and has dragged on for years. From: TF , for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

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