The IP Law Blog

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 OpenAI copied their published books, which are protected by copyright law, and used them in a training dataset for its LLM. OpenAI, Inc.

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Velocity of Content

JANUARY 9, 2024

Ignoring Copyright is Risky Business Research in the life sciences depends in part on the ability to acquire and share scientific information, particularly journal articles, in a timely manner. In the United States, Sci-Hub has been sued twice for copyright infringement and lost both cases.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 13, 2024

May 9, 2024). — For the claims related to illegal selling of scraped data, the court dismissed those because they were preempted by copyright. I did a deep dive on this topic in December , but the general gist of it is that copyright law preempts state law claims if the state-law claims come within the general scope of copyright.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 27, 2024

Almost half a decade ago, eight Las Vegas men were indicted by a grand jury for conspiring to violate criminal copyright law. A request made in February that year required the defense to supply their own hard drives in order to receive copies of the data. The data requested contains 63.2 TB of storage.”

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Velocity of Content

MAY 1, 2024

This article appears in the Information Today May 2024 print issue. Do the creators and users of large language models (LLMs) and as sociated generative AI applications infringe the copyrights of content creators? Thus, it can be said that they have made complete and exact copies of everything they have ingested.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 16, 2024

The Retraction Order The relevant AGCOM ‘order of annulment’ is dated May 10, 2024, and, like most documents published by the regulator, it begins with a list of relevant laws dating back to 1941 before getting to the crux a page and a half later.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 26, 2024

The process has shown itself to be an effective diplomatic tool and has helped to kick-start copyright reforms around the globe. 2024 Special 301 Report USTR’s latest Special 301 Report , published yesterday, features considerable overlap with previous editions. Still, no country wants to be included in the list.

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 5, 2022

copyright law, works of corporate or pseudonymous authorship lapse into the public domain after either 95 years from first publication or 120 years after creation, whichever ends first. What this means is that the Milne’s original Winnie-the-Pooh book is now free of copyright. What Actually Happened.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2023

1] From this perspective, it can be argued that the introduction of a limitation-based remuneration right will preserve the anthropocentric approach to copyright law, preventing an upside-down scenario where human creativity becomes instrumental to artificial intelligence. In the EU, Art. In particular, Art. Thouvenin, A. Peukert, T.

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Copyright Lately

JANUARY 23, 2024

A first-of-its-kind copyright infringement trial is scheduled to begin today in Los Angeles. Like the tattoo at issue in the case, the lawsuit is poised to leave a lasting impression, not only on copyright law, but the entire multi-billion-dollar tattoo industry. It’s almost certainly the first such lawsuit to go to trial.

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LexBlog IP

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The exemption would allow those researching bias in artificial intelligence (“AI”) to bypass any technological measures that limit the use of copyrighted generative AI models. Reply comments will then be due March 19, 2024. books, movies, video games, computer software). 1201(a)(1)(A). [2] 1201(a)(3). [3] 1201(a)(1)(C). [4]

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 6, 2024

He ultimately summarizes: “District court decisions within the Sixth Circuit have held that plaintiffs must show the defendant ‘intentionally and knowingly’ copied the copyrighted work.” This plaintiff emphasized copyright law but got little traction. Sunfrog LLC , 2024 WL 940238 (E.D.

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SpicyIP

MAY 23, 2024

Image from here Sweet Sound of Victory: Looking at the Calcutta HC’s Decisive Decision on Rights of Authors By Surabhi Katare In a major development, Calcutta High Court’s passed a landmark judgement on May 17, 2024, in safeguarding the copyrights of authors of music and literary work used in sound recordings.

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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 OpenAI copied their published books, which are protected by copyright law, and used them in a training dataset for its LLM. OpenAI, Inc.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The deal reached on Friday night now paves the way for the adoption of the AI Act in the first half of 2024, bringing to an end a legislative process that has lasted more than two and a half years and during which the scope of the Act has been significantly expanded.

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Velocity of Content

JUNE 8, 2023

Additionally, the Biden Administration’s 2024 proposed budget includes an increase of approximately $6.5 Be sure that your document delivery provider gives you full details about the rights you have access to so that you can ensure compliance with copyright laws and regulations. increase from 2021.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MARCH 13, 2024

More crucially, rightholders can instrumentalize their exclusive right to control initial access to their works, making the exercise of user rights increasingly difficult if not impossible ( Kretschmer & Margoni, 2024 ). However, it is only a first step towards making user’s rights a reality.

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Copyright Lately

OCTOBER 23, 2023

” So much for Trump having a basic understanding of copyright law. As I’ve explained in the Copyright Myth Project , while there are still some people who think that copyright laws don’t apply to the internet, those people are wrong. 14· · · · · Q.· ·Mr. Of course, that’s just what I think.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MARCH 19, 2024

Indeed, in a world where “ nothing is lost, nothing is created, everything is transformed “, it is a rather daunting exercise for any court to draw the line between inspiration and imitation in copyrighted works, let alone in copyrighted art works.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MARCH 19, 2024

Indeed, in a world where “ nothing is lost, nothing is created, everything is transformed “, it is a rather daunting exercise for any court to draw the line between inspiration and imitation in copyrighted works, let alone in copyrighted art works.

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Copyright Lately

MARCH 13, 2024

Per its DMCA takedown notice: The Times’s Wordle copyright includes the unique elements of its immensely popular game, such as the 5×6 grid, green tiles to indicate correct guesses, yellow tiles to indicate the correct letter but the wrong place within the word, and the keyboard directly beneath the grid. Inbounds or overreach?

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IIPRD

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

There are few e-commerce companies which explicitly make copies of brands such as Firstcopyclub, ShoesKartel etc. Challenges in IPR Regulation in e-commerce As per a survey, around 38% online buyers experienced counterfeit products and 1/3 rd people have gotten copied products. 5] Kirsty Phillips et al., 379 (2022). [6]

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

January 1, 2024, brought numerous hangovers along with an unprecedented amount of media attention to intellectual property law. Freed from the shackles of copyright, Walt Disney’s iconic rodent was now in the public domain and, therefore, available for everyone to copy. Trademark law has something to say about use.

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SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Considering section 124, the court clarified that in such a case where rectification and an infringement suit are filed against the impugned mark, the rectification petition has to be decided first, before proceeding with the trial of the suit and listed the rectification for hearing on January 9, 2024. Eicore Technologies Pvt.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 15, 2024

May 9, 2024). In so holding, however, the Court declined to resolve the logically antecedent question of whether the discovery rule applies to the three-year copyright statute of limitations, finding “that issue is not properly presented here, because Warner Chappell never challenged the Eleventh Circuit’s use of the discovery rule below.”

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 30, 2023

We’ve tried to represent a diversity of subject matter also in this list, so it’s a mixed bag of cases dealing with patents, trademarks, copyright law etc. Apart from the Madras High Court, the Calcutta High Court has recently published the Draft IPD Rules for public comments by January 5, 2024. HULM Entertainment v.

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