The IP Law Blog

JUNE 15, 2023

On June 7, 2023, the Ninth Circuit issued its opinion in VHT, Inc. First, it primarily used them in connection with the display of properties listed for sale on Zillow’s site. The Copyright Act contains a provision that “all the parts of a compilation or derivative work constitutes one work” for purposes of statutory damages.

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 14, 2024

In 2023, several authors, including the comedian Sarah Silverman, filed putative class action lawsuits alleging various copyright infringement claims. ” The plaintiffs alleged that the OpenAI defendants had “by design” removed CMI from their copyrighted books during the LLM training process. OpenAI, Inc.

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LexBlog IP

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

21, 2023) (Hector Gonzalez), the District Court for the Eastern District of New York granted the plaintiff’s motion for summary judgment regarding the validity of its copyright. The plaintiff also consulted with various rabbis as part of the design process for the Second Holy Temple Product. In JBrick, LLC v. Chazak Kinder, Inc.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 7, 2023

Described as “an intellectual property pioneer and modern legal historian” , his untimely death in January 2022 was a blow for the academic community. Ginsburg’s lecture took place on 3 May 2023. 2:22-cv-800-BJR, 2023 WL 1068513, at *5 n.9 Professor Lionel Bently of the University of Cambridge acted as a commentator.

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SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

She is keenly interested in Intellectual Property Law, Technology Law, and Corporate Law ]. years after the initial injunction, the SB proceeded to vacate this interim injunction on October 17 2023 , and also undertook a detailed discussion on the question of copyrightability of GUIs. Tejaswini is a 3rd-year B.A.

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LexBlog IP

JUNE 7, 2023

In January 2023, the same lawyers who brought the class action suit against Copilot on behalf of the Doe plaintiffs filed a complaint in the Northern District of California ( Andersen v. Getty Images filed a similar lawsuit in January 2023 in the UK High Court and in February 2023 in the District of Delaware ( Getty Images (US), Inc.

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LexBlog IP

JUNE 15, 2023

On June 7, 2023, the Ninth Circuit issued its opinion in VHT, Inc. First, it primarily used them in connection with the display of properties listed for sale on Zillow’s site. Thus, the Ninth Circuit had to determine whether, for purposes under that provision, “the photos at issue qualified as `one work.'”

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Copyright Lately

MAY 1, 2023

Within just over a month, a raft of barely-underground Discord servers like AI Hub have popped up to provide users with access to software—and step-by-step instructions—for creating new songs using hundreds of community-made AI models designed to mimic specific artists’ voices. year over year to $2.71

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 10, 2024

But, in this space, headlines are usually a source of inspiration (so we can write about intellectual property issues that may interest more than just IP attorneys), and titles a bit of fun (so we can draw in those looking for a bit of lightness amid more serious legal analysis). What did those papers say? ’” Id.

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IP and Legal Filings

MAY 3, 2023

Originality is the quality that distinguishes produced or invented works from copies, clones, forgeries, or derivative works by being new or novel. Hailshree Saksena, Doctrine of sweat of the brow SSRN (2009), [link] (last visited Apr 14, 2023). [1] It was written with a distinct style and message. 1] [1916] 2 Ch 601. [2]

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LexBlog IP

OCTOBER 25, 2023

The question then arises as to whether the fiction writer alone owns the copyright to work drawn in whole or part from another’s writings or experience. Dorland counterclaimed for copyright infringement, claiming that Larson’s use of Dorland’s letter was a violation of intellectual property law.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 1, 2023

By Guest Blogger Tyler Ochoa Recently, the Ninth Circuit reaffirmed what has become known as the “server test”: in order to be held directly liable for violating the public display right, the alleged infringer must have a fixed “copy” of the work stored on a server in its possession or control. Instagram, LLC , 2023 WL 4554649 (9th Cir.

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LexBlog IP

AUGUST 23, 2023

.” From ongoing debates about the human element (or requirement) of authorship to debates over what constitutes a transformative work to the gauntlet laid down in footnote 2 of Justice Kagan’s dissent in the Supreme Court’s May 18, 2023 decision in Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts, Inc., Google] , 804 F.3d

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 13, 2022

According to Miramax, the creation of the NFTs constituted copyright infringement because they were unauthorized derivative works of Pulp Fiction. [23] A trial is set to begin February 28, 2023. [were] far too narrow for him to unilaterally produce, market, and sell the Pulp Fiction NFTs.” [22]. Mason Rothschild.

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