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[Guest Post] Complexities of audiovisual copyright claims in Nigeria: Ini Edo and Chinenye Nworah’s dispute over Shanty Town (Neflix)

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The IPKat has received and is pleased to host the following guest contribution by Nkem Itanyi (University of Nigeria) on a recent dispute over copyright ownership of the movie, Shanty Town which premiered on Netflix in January 2023 and discussions over a sequel to the movie. They both signed off as the executive producers of the movie.

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Court Mistakenly Thinks Copyright Owners Have a Duty to Police Infringement–Sunny Factory v. Chen

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That’s by design–the DMCA was designed to resolve matters outside of court. Now, imagine the rightsowner also overclaimed trade dress protection for its sage leave design. Chen , 2022 WL 742429 (N.D. March 11, 2022). ” This is clearly wrong. Case citation : The Sunny Factory, LLC v. Babybus. *

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The analysis also referred to a pending case before the CJEU dealing with Community design law ( EUIPO v The KaiKai Company Jaeger Wichmann | C-382/21-P) and other EU trade mark cases from 2021. The final part of the round-up provides an update on the latest referrals to the CJEU and cases that will be decided in 2022. 21-438).

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512(f) Plaintiff Must Pay $91k to the Defense–Digital Marketing v. McCandless

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

McCandless Group, LLC, 2022 WL 17403067 (C.D. Universal. * Two 512(f) Rulings Where The Litigants Dispute Copyright Ownership. * It Takes a Default Judgment to Win a 17 USC 512(f) Case–Automattic v. Summit Entertainment. * Cease & Desist Letter to iTunes Isn’t Covered by 17 USC 512(f)–Red Rock v.

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Anti-Circumvention Takedowns Aren’t Covered by 512(f)–Yout v. RIAA

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2022 WL 4599203 (D. Universal. * Two 512(f) Rulings Where The Litigants Dispute Copyright Ownership. * It Takes a Default Judgment to Win a 17 USC 512(f) Case–Automattic v. Summit Entertainment. * Cease & Desist Letter to iTunes Isn’t Covered by 17 USC 512(f)–Red Rock v. 512(f) disappears entirely. The complaint.

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Once Again, LinkedIn Can’t Use CFAA To Stop Unwanted Scraping–hiQ v. LinkedIn

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The court remains skeptical of LinkedIn’s privacy-based arguments: LinkedIn has no protected property interest in the data contributed by its users, as the users retain ownership over their profiles. Are robots.txt, IP address blocks, or cease-and-desist letters still relevant to the CFAA at all? Eric’s Comments.

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Another 512(f) Claim Fails–Moonbug v. Babybus

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2022 WL 580788 (N.D. Universal. * Two 512(f) Rulings Where The Litigants Dispute Copyright Ownership. * It Takes a Default Judgment to Win a 17 USC 512(f) Case–Automattic v. Summit Entertainment. * Cease & Desist Letter to iTunes Isn’t Covered by 17 USC 512(f)–Red Rock v. Case citation : Moonbug Entertainment Ltd.