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Could this music law help Spotify dodge future copyright infringement battles?

IPilogue

However, with the convenience of streaming music through these digital platforms, the music industry has also had to deal with a wide range of copyright issues, including online copyright infringement. In 2017, music publishing company Wixen also filed a lawsuit against Spotify USA, seeking $1.6

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Parody under the Copyright Law

IP and Legal Filings

Image Sources : Shutterstock] It is a general principle that no copyright lies in ideas, subject-matter, themes, movie plots till the expression of the same are different. If presentation of subject-matter or an idea is similar to the original work, then it amounts to copyright violation. In the case of Pepsi Co v. s commercial.

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Christopher Sadowski Claims Copyright Infringement for Award-Winning Photography

Indiana Intellectual Property Law

New Jersey – Plaintiff Christopher Sadowski is suing Defendant Restoration 1 By J&D, LLC , of New Palestine, Indiana , over violation of the Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. § The complaint states that while the Plaintiff does sell limited, one-time use licenses to customers, he always retains copyright ownership of the photographs.

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Oops, I sampled again… The meaning of ‘pastiche’ as an autonomous concept under EU copyright law

Kluwer Copyright Blog

The facts of the case are all too familiar by now: in 2004, German band Kraftwerk took hip hop producer Moses Pelham to court for copyright infringement after he sampled two seconds of their song “Metall auf Metall” and looped it in Sabrina Setlur’s track “Nur Mir”. Although AG Crúz Villalon argued in his Opinion (para.

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Kanye West Faces A Copyright Infringement Lawsuit: Is “Fair Use” Fair?

IPilogue

Raenelle Manning is an IPilogue Writer and a 2L JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. Moten, a Texas pastor, filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against rapper Kanye West for incorporating a sample recording of his religious sermon into one of his songs. On May 3, 2022, Bishop David P. Both suits were settled.

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EU copyright law round up – fourth trimester of 2021

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Welcome to the fourth and final trimester of 2021 round up of EU copyright law! In this series, we update readers every three months on developments in EU copyright law. The rapporteur is very well-known to all copyright enthusiasts – Mr Axel Voss. Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash.

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“Inducing” Copyright Infringement in Canada: Is it a Thing?

IPilogue

Is there such a thing as “inducing” copyright infringement? Indeed, the court thought that inducing infringement, which to date had been considered wrong only in respect of patents, applied to all forms of intellectual property (“IP”). So is the Court’s view, that inducing copyright or IP infringement is indeed a Thing, sound?