Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The recital makes it clear that the “summary should be comprehensive in its scope instead of technically detailed, for example by listing the main data collections or sets that went into training the model, such as large private or public databases or data archives, and by providing a narrative explanation about other data sources used.”

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SpicyIP

JULY 1, 2021

Further, scanning and uploading books on repositories like the Internet Archive which permits optical character recognition, allows for better discoverability via search engines as well as greater access for the visually impaired. Image from here. Government’s Role as Publisher and Copyright Owner.

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U.S. Department of Commerce

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Observational studies enable DOC decision-makers to understand the effectiveness of specific policy approaches intended to drive common outcomes, such as local job growth, business revenue, business formation, employment trends, educational attainment, and ecosystem habitat restoration. Bureaus and Offices U.S.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 22, 2024

More than 35 years after the Beetlejuice debut, a sequel is about to be released. The post didn’t include any other information but came with tags such as #beetlejuice , #timburton , #leak and #warner bros , an archived copy reveals. “As you know, it is our policy to review every bit of legal process we receive.

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Plagiarism Today

MAY 18, 2022

All the major free stock photography websites have a policy for removing such infringing images. The Reasons Given. When it comes to free stock photography websites, there are two reasons that are most commonly cited as issues: Copyright – Free stock photography sites, in general, allow virtually anyone to upload images.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 13, 2021

“We removed the content following an investigation into a report that it was in violation of our Acceptable Use Policies and Additional Terms for GitHub Pages, which is intended for showcasing personal and organizational projects and not for promoting unrelated sites or services,” GitHub tells us. . GitHub Removes Unblockit Repo.

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The IPKat

APRIL 29, 2022

Also, l ibraries and archives, whose mission is to facilitate access to these materials, can be constrained by the fact that the services they offer are often primarily physical and they may not be equipped to render digital services, as required by the reality thrown up by the pandemic. see here ).

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 11, 2022

In 2017, LiveJournal changed its policies. And, in the manner and form of republishing the posts, he neither offered nor implied any view of his own about the posts. I previously blogged this case last year. I summarized the facts: This case involves a LiveJournal community (the Davis Square community for Somerville, MA).

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 20, 2024

Basheer raised in his 2018 post on the Politics of Patent Citation. While the question made sense ever since I read the post, it started making more sense (and bothering me more) after working on the SpicyIP Open IP Syllabus where I witnessed a relative “over-accessibility” of US-European IPR scholarship. The query resurfaced during my current Ph.D.

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 20, 2023

With further ado, here’s what I found in Novembers: Database Protection in India: Since Prof Basheer’s 2005 post about the inaccurate implication of the theft of data as copyright infringement, to 2023, not much seems to have changed. Basheer’s two larger-than-law type posts: The Seed(y) Saga and Pest Policy.

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Copyright Lately

MARCH 13, 2024

While the repository itself has been removed, you can view the archived page on the Wayback Machine to see a list and descriptions of some of the variants. Using the DMCA to target hundreds of Wordle-likes, the publication claims exclusive rights in the game’s grid dimensions and color scheme.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

These notices are not standard DMCA notices but point out links that supposedly bypass DRM restrictions, which violates the DMCA’s anti-circumvention policy. However, they are sent to Lumen’s takedown archive, where we spotted dozens of these dubious takedowns. Video Industry Association of America”.

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Perhaps taking a leaf from the Swapnil Tripathi case, Rule 9(2)(i) read with Rule 9(2)(iii) state that the Delhi High Court shall have exclusive copyright in recordings and archival data and that the live-streaming should not be recorded, shared or transmitted in any form without a prior written authorisation of the Court.

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The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

To do so, it surveys the incorporation of authorship into modern industry dynamics and embarks on a history of the media industries in the 20th century, linking the relevance of that history to 21st-century grievances about copyright. The methodology of this book is interdisciplinary and socio-legal, so there is a lot to unpack.

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

This case is particularly interesting as it involves an interesting question about the plausibility of performance as a copyrighted work. The Oddity of John Doe Orders: Perusing some past posts, I chanced upon Sai Vinod’s post on John Doe orders for Blocking Websites, which kindled my curiosity about this legal oddity.

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Patently-O

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

From the life and health sciences perspective, the AAMC drew on public health and access considerations, noting “that law and policy must protect and balance the public good, including access to timely patient care, with proprietary rights in support of science and technology, particularly in the fields of medicine and public health.

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U.S. Department of Commerce

MARCH 17, 2022

Commerce Women in STEM: Educating People About Our Changing Planet and Improving Safety and Health. There was no grand plan for this,” Mackey says, talking about her career in the safety field. “I My dad would pay me a dollar per day, and I saved up for about six years and bought my very first computer.” . March 17, 2022.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Four key points: (1) One side fits all approach is burdensome for different stakeholders depending on level of control over content, different platforms attracting different content—search engine and cloud computing policies differ. (2) Encourage CO to think carefully about smaller nonprofit and educational uses. It has over 4.2

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LexBlog IP

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

In recent years, Turkey has sought details from CMA about the statue, as it believes it was also illicitly excavated and exported, expressing a desire to conduct scientific examinations on it. However, two months later, the museum filed a complaint against NYDA to block the seizure order by contesting its rightful ownership of the statue.

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The IPKat

MAY 19, 2022

Moreover, the concerns raised by countries from the Global South (AG and GRULAC), supported by the majority of the CSOs, about the absence of an adequate L&E regime in the draft broadcasting treaty need to be addressed in the draft, and these require time. This proposal failed for lack of consensus. The EU and CEBS echoed Group B.

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Copyright Lately

APRIL 3, 2023

The future of “controlled digital lending” is in doubt after a court rules that the Internet Archive’s online library is not protected by fair use. book publishers, rejecting the Internet Archive’s argument that its practice of scanning and lending digital copies of books qualifies as fair use under the Copyright Act.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 17, 2023

Users retain ownership of content they upload to GitHub, but grant GitHub: the “right to store, archive, parse, and display [the content], and make incidental copies, as necessary to provide the Service, including improving the Service over time.” Complaint at 31. Simply put: Training data is the data-fuel that makes AI systems go.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Image by Rudy and Peter Skitterians from Pixabay In recent years, a so called ‘Secondary Publication Right’ (SPR) has been adopted in a number of European countries and become a policy hot topic at the EU level. It also left scholarly authors extremely vulnerable to unfair practices. of the Directive. A new para 2 to art.

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43(B)log

APRIL 7, 2023

Points of contact for authorities/legal representatives are existing obligations but new are terms of service/content moderation policies and tools disclosure requirements, including algorithmic decision-making and human review, as well as rules of procedure of internal complaint handling. What about the copyright interface w/ the DSA?

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

AUGUST 22, 2023

Scientific Publishers Analyzing Commercial Scientific Publishers, we found indicative evidence of a higher awareness about TDM than with the Stock Images providers. There also seems to be a lack of clarity about which uses are allowed under the licenses. In this fragmented landscape, self-regulation (e.g., While art. 7(1), CDSM), art.

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The IPKat

MAY 22, 2022

The Retromark conference (about which we wrote a post in February) is upon us. It's getting hot out there! Perfect timing for our Sunday rundown of key IP events and opportunities for the rest of this month and the start of June! Picture by idea-saras. For the full program and to register, please visit this link.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 8, 2024

To put it more metaphorically, it is the legal green light for web crawlers nowadays to scour all corners of the internet, scraping information from websites and databases, indexing their content, and storing it for later retrieval, typically by search engines. So, what does this memory problem actually mean?

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JANUARY 16, 2024

Thus, the decisions about what textual information to include in the training dataset are deliberate choices. Rather than being programmed in the traditional way, a large language model is “trained” by copying massive amounts of text and extracting information from it. This body of text is called the training dataset.

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The IPKat

JUNE 26, 2023

At each public hearing, a representative of the Department of Trade, Industry, and Competition (DTIC) was present, summarising the Department’s policy objectives as well as setting out the key provisions of the CAB. Constitutionally, Parliament is empowered to exercise its discretion in responding to the reservations. Kat Kouncil.

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U.S. Department of Commerce

APRIL 19, 2022

Whether trekking out to local beaches to count horseshoe crabs under a full moon or measuring Earth’s magnetic field from a smartphone, citizen scientists support NOAA’s mission while learning more about the world around them. NOAA works with a diverse set of partners to coordinate the citizen science opportunities.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 16, 2024

7] In particular, according to a recent proposal, providers [8] of such GPAI models will be required to draw up and make publicly available a “ sufficiently detailed summary about the content used for training ” such systems or models. [9]

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IP and Legal Filings

MARCH 14, 2023

[ii] Their similarities about the importance of bonds and interdependence among individuals, groups, countries, and the spiritual realm have been compared to “epistemic ignorance [iii].” ” But many instruments now strictly abide by the recognition of TK as such.

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43(B)log

AUGUST 4, 2021

There was pushback to coordinated call for libraries to use exceptions and limitations, but these were important for users—emergency access through Internet Archive and HathiTrust; fair dealing scans for patrons; generally able to meet info needs more or less. Sheff: why is coherence an aim? Could it be?

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Trust implies uncertainty about future behavior. So we need to know who has to trust to think about building trust. Andrew Michaels: Everyone likes to complain about the Fed Cir, but they are doing their best and he thinks that’s doing ok. There are other policy concerns about research such as privacy, human subjects rules.

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 30, 2023

As in previous years, we have divided these developments into five categories: a) Top 10 IP Judgements/Orders (Topicality/Impact) b) Top 10 IP Judgements/Orders (Jurisprudence/Legal Lucidity) c) Top 10 IP Legislative and Policy Related Developments d) Other IP Developments; and e) Other Notable Developments.

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Michael Geist

DECEMBER 21, 2021

There was also widespread support for removing the 24 hour takedown requirement, though there was less agreement about what should replace it. Stop this proposal and undertake a more robust consultation process with explanations/justifications for the policy. Internet Archive of Canada. Recommendations. Who Recommended It?

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Michael Geist

APRIL 21, 2022

Earlier this year, Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez released a “what we heard” report that again blocked making the actual submissions public, but provided a summary that left little doubt that the government’s plans were widely criticized and required a policy reset.

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