IPilogue

AUGUST 19, 2022

The defendants opened Only Fools The (cushty) Dining Experience in 2018 where the performers used the “ appearance, mannerisms, voices and catchphrases ” of various characters from OFAH. The defendants denied that they were passing off OFAH characters on the basis that their show is seen as an unofficial tribute.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Like most copyright systems, French copyright law does not leave much room for the freedom of authors of transformative graphic works (also called “derivative works”). Three interesting cases on derivative works, two involving Jeff Koons and one Tintin, have recently put French copyright law in the international spotlight (e.g.

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LexBlog IP

AUGUST 26, 2021

Calling it a “ball of confusion,” the Ninth Circuit recently considered a case involving the music of the Turtles, SiriusXM Satellite Radio, and whether royalties are owed under California copyright law for music dating prior to 1972. In a lawsuit that was originally filed in 2013 titled, Flo & Eddie, Inc.

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Plagiarism Today

MAY 11, 2022

Josh Hawley’s Move to Strip Disney’s Copyrights Called ‘Blatantly Unconstitutional’. He claims that it aims to revoke Disney’s “special” copyright protections though the law would rewrite copyright law for all creators. million settlement in 2018. According to Sen.

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Plagiarism Today

APRIL 7, 2022

2: Senate Passes Bill to Strengthen Copyright Law, Prohibits Online Duplication, Rebroadcasting without Consent. Next up today, Vanguard reports that the Nigerian Senate has passed a bill that would reform the nation’s copyright law and add new penalties for those that broadcast any digital or online works.

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 19, 2022

1: Government Pauses Plans to Rewrite UK Copyright Laws After Authors Protest. The IPO has said that it will continue evaluating potential changes to copyright law but did not set a timetable. 2: Maryland Defends Its Library E-book Law, Seeks Dismissal of AAP Lawsuit. Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday.

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LexBlog IP

JUNE 10, 2022

Should copyright protection be given for AI-generated inventions? In 2018, Thaler filed an application to register a copyright for an AI-generated work produced by one of his AI systems, the Creativity Machine. From 2002 to 2018, annual AI patent applications increased from 30,000 to 60,000. The Complaint. Slater, 888 F.3d

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IP Intelligence

JUNE 10, 2022

Should copyright protection be given for AI-generated inventions? In 2018, Thaler filed an application to register a copyright for an AI-generated work produced by one of his AI systems, the Creativity Machine. From 2002 to 2018, annual AI patent applications increased from 30,000 to 60,000. The Complaint. Slater, 888 F.3d

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 3, 2023

Next up today, Mia Robson at The Canadian Press reports that, in Canada, a new copyright law has taken effect that will extend the copyright on works in Canada another 20 years, bring the country up to the same term used by the United States.

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IP Watchdog

AUGUST 31, 2023

A Virigina-based rapper, Gutta, accused the rap star of copying his song “When U Think About It” when Future released “When I Think About It” on a 2018 mixtape. copyright law. The district court judge ruled that none of the elements brought forward by Gutta were protectable under U.S.

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LexBlog IP

AUGUST 26, 2021

Calling it a “ball of confusion,” the Ninth Circuit recently considered a case involving the music of the Turtles, SiriusXM Satellite Radio, and whether royalties are owed under California copyright law for music dating prior to 1972. In a lawsuit that was originally filed in 2013 titled, Flo & Eddie, Inc.

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Intepat

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

To delve deeper into the question of ownership, we need to grasp the traditional concept of copyright. Copyright laws are designed to safeguard the rights of creators. Historically, these rights have been attributed to human creators, forming the cornerstone of copyright law.

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IPilogue

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

Spotify and Wixen mutually agreed to dismiss the lawsuit in 2018. New Copyright Law: A Solution for Spotify. The relevant US copyright law is section 115 of the Copyright Act , which states that a person or entity seeking to distribute a musical work must first obtain a compulsory license.

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IPilogue

JUNE 7, 2022

Serena Nath is an IPilogue Writer and a 2L JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. Copyright law reform has allowed publishers and innovators to prevent third-party reproduction of their work. However, one notable exception was South Africa who could not sign the Marrakesh treaty because its copyright laws prohibited it.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 9, 2022

2: Artists to Cash in When Work is Resold with Update of Copyright Laws. Next up today, Marie Woolf of the Canadian Press reports that, in Canada, a new law is being drafted by Innovation Minister François-Philippe Champagne and Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez that would give artists a “resale right” in their paintings.

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JIPEL Copyright Blog

APRIL 26, 2021

This pattern begins as far back as May of 2018, when Bernstein was accused of copying pieces from several smaller jewelry lines for a collaboration she did with Nordstrom. However, an equally long list of controversies accompanies this list of accomplishments, the majority of which involve alleged copying.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 9, 2021

This new one addresses the time period between July 26, 2018 to the present and accuses Charter of doing little in response to some 150,000 notices of infringement, including notices targeting “flagrant and serial infringers.” 2: World Kung Fu Governing Body Uses Copyright Law to Hunt Down YouTube Critics.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 10, 2024

Nealy sues over ‘dated’ copyright infringements The underlying deal didn’t benefit Nealy, who found out about it after he was released from prison for the second time. In response, he filed a lawsuit against Warner Chappell in 2018, demanding compensation for the alleged copyright infringements, dating back to 2008.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Then, in 2018, the degree of a photographer’s control over the subject matter arose again with the so-called “monkey selfie” case ( Naruto v. 2018) ), questioning whether a non-human could be the author of a copyrighted work. copyright subsists automatically in an original qualifying work. Copyright Office and the U.S.

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The IP Law Blog

MARCH 10, 2022

The work was created by a machine called “Creativity Machine” and was submitted for copyright registration in 2018 by Steven Thaler. In his copyright application, Mr. Thaler stated that he was the owner of the Creativity Machine and that the machine had autonomously created the work of art using an algorithm.

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Plagiarism Today

MARCH 30, 2022

Masihzadeh then turned that story into a 45-minute documentary entitled All Winners, All Losers , which debuted in 2018. However, I know very little about Iranian copyright law. and European copyright law. Though much of copyright law is fairly standardized internationally, it may or may not apply to Iran.

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Patently-O

APRIL 18, 2024

” In November 2018, Thaler filed an application with the Copyright Office seeking to register a copyright in this AI-generated work. The Copyright Office refused registration in August 2019, stating that it “cannot register this work because it lacks the human authorship necessary to support a copyright claim.”

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LexBlog IP

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Copyright Office (“USCO”) in which the USCO denied an application to register a work authored entirely by an artificial intelligence program. In its refusal of Thaler’s second request for reconsideration, the USCO reflected on decades of case law in both the Supreme Court and lower courts, as well as the Compendiums of U.S.

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Patently-O

MAY 13, 2024

This time, the Supreme Court might actually decide whether the “discovery rule” applies to the Copyright Act’s statute of limitations. Copyright law provides that “[n]o civil action shall be maintained under the provisions of this title unless it is commenced within three years after the claim accrued.”

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Plagiarism Today

MARCH 8, 2022

In My Feelings and Nice for What were both released in early-to-mid 2018, Dancing with a Stranger was released in January 2019 and Levitating in March 2020. Some of this is simply because it takes time for a copyright infringement lawsuit to be filed. The reason may well be an issue of timing. Interesting Timing.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 18, 2022

However, after trips through regional courts and eventually Germany’s Supreme Court, in April 2018 Adblock Plus and Eyeo came out on top having been found not in breach of competition law. Axel Springer Claims Adblocking is Copyright Infringement. ” In other words, AdBlock Plus breaches copyright law.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 18, 2021

Finally today, Kathleen Dailey at Bloomberg Law reports that 2 Chainz, Offset and UMG Recordings have emerged victorious in a lawsuit filed by Soloman Clanton, over the popular 2018 2 Chainz song Proud. Clanton, who performs under the name Slugga, claimed that 2 Chainz ripped off his 2015 song of the same name.

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Trademark and Copyright Law Blog

APRIL 25, 2022

CBD, hemp, and the 2018 Farm Bill. Reed , Partner, Co-Chair, Trademark, Copyright & Unfair Competition Practice. The post WEBINAR: Trademark and Advertising Basics for Cannabis Companies first appeared on Trademark and Copyright Law. Leveraging alternative IP strategies for brands.

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LexBlog IP

JUNE 28, 2023

3) According to the Court, the term “sale” used in article 41 of the Copyright Law must be interpreted in a broad sense. The compensation for damages cannot be less than twice the fee that is usually or by law paid for the type of exploitation that the infringer did without license.

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Above the Fold

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

On February 14, 2022, the Review Board of the United States Copyright Office issued an opinion letter denying a claimant’s second request for reconsideration to register an Artificial Intelligence artwork piece titled “A Recent Entrance to Paradise” (“Work”). Thaler identified the author of the work as the “Creativity Machine.”

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TorrentFreak

MAY 23, 2022

In 2018, top-tier Spanish football league LaLiga caused widespread uproar with a clever yet intrusive anti-piracy tool. Following a complaint filed by LaLiga in January 2022, Spain’s National Police launched an investigation into a piracy network supplying bars across the country in breach of copyright law.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

JANUARY 11, 2023

Copyright Office by year for the last 10 years. Copyright Office while register the software aspect of the designs (e.g., source code) under copyright law. Copyright Office, there is no need to concern about the leakage of the deposits. Here is the number of mask works registered with the U.S.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

So-called copyright trolls come in all shapes and sizes and while most have a cynical approach to copyright law, some are prepared to go to extremes. The most notable case in the United States involved Prenda Law. In May 2021, licenses were obtained from Vie Vision Pictures Co.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 1, 2024

Copyright law crafted decades ago to prevent infringement in an analog world has in many cases held up remarkably well in the digital age. In the United States, the existence of a loophole in copyright law had been an open secret for some time. Between 2018 and May 2020, Valverde sold reseller credits to ‘M.D’,

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 15, 2023

“Twitter fuels its business with countless infringing copies of musical compositions, violating Publishers’ and others’ exclusive rights under copyright law,” the complaint reads. According to the music companies, these tweets are the kind of quintessential copyright infringement explicitly prohibited by U.S.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 31, 2022

According to Asahi, since 2020 the publishers have been asking Cloudflare to stop “delivering” pirated content from unlicensed sites but under US copyright law, that was unsuccessful. In 2018, the publishers filed a motion at the Tokyo District Court demanding that Cloudflare stop providing services to several pirate sites.

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IIPRD

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Upendra Baxi, COPYRIGHT LAW AND JUSTICE IN INDIA Author(s): Upendra Baxi Source : Journal of the Indian Law Institute , October-December 1986 , Vol.28,No.4Published 4Published by : Indian Law Institute Stable URL : [link] , 28 497 (1986). Aram Sinnreich, Intellectual Property in Global Arena (6 th ANU Press 2018).

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