The IPKat

JULY 7, 2021

Late in May, a High Court in South Africa delivered judgment in Bliss Brands (Pty) Ltd v Advertising Regulatory Board NPC & Others , on the issue of the extent of the powers of the Advertising Regulatory Board (‘ARB’) in matters relating to trade mark and copyright laws. you are not one of us! [An the public).

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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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Trademark and Copyright Law Blog

APRIL 25, 2022

Business is booming for cannabis ventures, but the legal landscape for brand protection and product advertising is rife with complications that demand special consideration. Advertising best practices and what not to say. Reed , Partner, Co-Chair, Trademark, Copyright & Unfair Competition Practice.

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JD Supra Law

JULY 27, 2023

Whether prompted to write a corporate slogan, create music, generate works of art and advertisements, or summarize a book – GAI can do it all. GAI programs can generate new texts, images, and content (outputs) based on textual prompts by a user (inputs). However, its increasing. By: Troutman Pepper

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IP and Legal Filings

APRIL 19, 2022

Although Section 81 of the IT Act specifies that the prohibitions of Section 79 do not preclude anyone from exercising any rights allowed under the Copyright Act 1957, intermediaries are exempted from accountability for copyright infringement. As a result, the IT Act’s obligations have precedence over all other laws.

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Trademark and Copyright Law Blog

JANUARY 14, 2021

Advertising can take many forms, including statements about a company’s products on websites and social media platforms. In this 60-minute webinar, designed exclusively for in-house counsel, you will learn how you can protect your company against legal challenges based on its advertising practices.

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JD Supra Law

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Foreword - In legal sense, "architectural works" refer to works with aesthetic significance expressed in the form of buildings or structures, which are protected by Copyright Law. However, landmark buildings have public attributes in addition to the legal attributes of copyright. By: Linda Liu & Partners

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

copyright law; material contribution to copyright infringement should be sufficient to state a claim. Responding to the vicarious copyright infringement allegations, X disputes the notion that it financially profits from copyright infringing activities on is platform and that it has the ability to do anything about it. .

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

More than five years ago the USTR described Taiwan’s ISD problem as “rampant” but welcomed amendments to copyright law in 2019 that criminalized the provision of piracy apps, helping the public to access pirated content, and the importation or manufacture of piracy devices.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 18, 2022

In order to finance their operations, millions of websites rely on advertising to generate revenue. For some readers, however, excessive or obtrusive advertising is something to be combatted, often through the use of adblocking tools. ” In other words, AdBlock Plus breaches copyright law.

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IP Watchdog

MAY 20, 2022

This week in Other Barks & Bites: the European Commission sent notice to several EU member states directing them to codify recent rule changes to EU copyright law; a WIPO report shows that China has a significant lead in global patent application filings for hydrogen fuel cell vehicle technologies; Judge O’Grady is removed from the criminal copyright (..)

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 17, 2024

It lost for two reasons: one grounded in contract law and the other external. First, the court held that the damages X incurred (primarily the loss of advertisers after CCDH published negative reports using scraped data) were unforeseeable when the ToS were agreed upon in 2019. The First Amendment would not have helped Bright Data.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 15, 2024

The site isn’t fazed by copyright law but does rely on advertising revenue, and it’s no secret that advertisement rates for U.S. From: TF , for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more. While FMovies hasn’t responded to the controversy, there must be some concern there too.

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The IP Law Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Goldsmith that Andy Warhol’s portrait of music legend Prince did not qualify as fair use under copyright law. In The Briefing , intellectual property attorney Scott Hervey and his guests provide insight in connection with copyrights, trademarks, patents, trade secrets, false advertising, licensing, promotions, and sweepstakes.

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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. ‘Music Piracy Fuels Revenue’ Twitter’s revenue partly relies on advertising which, in turn, is boosted by additional views.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 15, 2023

After a criminal complaint to the Tamil Nadu Police Cyber Cell failed, Disney filed a First Information Report (FIR) with the Bengaluru Cyber Cell, alleging various crimes under computer abuse and copyright laws. PikaShow didn’t shut itself down – it doubled down instead.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 13, 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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The IPKat

APRIL 8, 2022

The CJEU might also clarify whether the approach recently adopted under copyright law with regard to the right of communication to the public and the liability of internet platforms is to be applied to other areas of IP.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 16, 2024

.” The claims against Giardiniblog, which would soon lead to its blocking throughout Italy, read as follows (translated from Italian) ; The pages indicated in the petition advertise several streaming sites with content not authorized by the rights holders. Entertainment, Vision Distribution S.p.A, and Rai Cinema S.p.A,

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43(B)log

APRIL 7, 2023

DSA covers almost everyone, though advertising providers and payment providers are touched only tangentially. Advertising marketplaces are available to the public. The “good guy” theory of EU copyright law: court finds a way around liability for a good faith player, and a way for direct liability if there’s not.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 24, 2022

When YouTube first got off the ground in 2005, most of its users would’ve been oblivious to how closely copyright law would govern their online activities moving forward. The overall message is one of deterrence coupled with the reaffirmation of copyright law, Goto said.

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Michael Geist

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Indeed, critics will rightly note the market distortion it creates for private entities who stand to lose further advertising-related revenues to the CBC, while supporters should be concerned that the bill undermines the CBC’s claim to a public interest role and makes an ad-free version of the service even less likely.

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LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Goldsmith that Andy Warhol’s portrait of music legend Prince did not qualify as fair use under copyright law. In The Briefing , intellectual property attorney Scott Hervey and his guests provide insight in connection with copyrights, trademarks, patents, trade secrets, false advertising, licensing, promotions, and sweepstakes.

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The IPKat

JULY 18, 2021

Other Chijioke also commented on the decision of the in Bliss Brands (Pty) Ltd v Advertising Regulatory Board NPC & Others, issued by a High Court in South Africa. The judgment covers the issue of the extent of the powers of the Advertising Regulatory Board (‘ARB’) in matters relating to trade mark and copyright laws.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 12, 2023

Initially, the site was promoted as a commercial advertising platform but soon transformed into a full-blown piracy portal pulling in millions of visitors each month and generating large sums in advertising revenue. Founded in 2014 by two Taiwanese software engineers, movie and TV show piracy site 8maple is a prime example.

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Barry Sookman

DECEMBER 5, 2021

'Out of step with other nations': Canada's Crown copyright laws in need of an overhaul, say library associations [link] 2021-12-01. Getting ready for Quebec’s Bill 64 privacy law impacts on outsourcing [link] 2021-12-02. Computer and Internet Weekly Updates for 2021-11-27 [link] 2021-11-28. 'Out

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 19, 2023

Caveat Emptor The common notion that acquiring ownership of an NFT representing a work in which copyright subsists equates to owning the copyright to the underlying work is clearly false. The UK’s Advertising Standards Authority had emphasised this in its April 2021 guidance on advertising cryptocurrencies.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 27, 2022

Ideally, YouTube is looking for someone with experience of SQL and running a quality assurance program but it’s likely that the successful candidate will have a solid knowledge of relevant copyright law too. Handling ‘High-Risk’ Internal Escalations.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Marketing fast Internet is evidence that the service is trying to profit from copyright infringement…? I guess RCN can better manage its copyright liability exposure by advertising that it provides shitty connections. The court says it’s possible to contributorily violate 1202.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 18, 2021

This week Malaysia’s Dewan Rakyat (House of Representatives) passed the Copyright (Amendment) Bill 2021 which, among other things, will more directly address the challenges of illegal streaming.

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LexBlog IP

AUGUST 31, 2023

This decision raises many issues regarding copyright ownership that will require further court involvement and/or policy reform. The primary challenge arising from AI-generated artwork pertains to copyright existence and ownership. Copyright law traditionally assigns authorship to individuals who create original works.

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Chicago IP

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The Award honors those who have made a significant creative contribution in one or more of the following substantive areas of intellectual property law: Patent Law: An invention or group of inventions having technological significance and an important social and economic impact, resulting in one or more U.S.

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Trademark and Copyright Law Blog

AUGUST 27, 2021

Foley Hoag will present a 60-minute webinar offering guidance on social media issue spotting for in-house legal practitioners, with a focus on intellectual property, publicity rights and advertising. Advertising claims, endorsements, and disclosures in the social media context. Topics to Be Discussed. Risky use of third-party content.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 2, 2022

Even so, the court’s almost-banal treatment of this super-interesting topic suggests that there may not be much tattoo exceptionalism in copyright law. Second, the court had little interest in exploring the many broad and interesting policy issues about using human skin as a medium for expression of copyrighted works.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 19, 2023

Goldsmith was whether or not Warhol’s use of Goldsmith’s photograph as a reference and departure point for the creation of an image of Prince constituted fair use or copyright infringement under U.S. copyright law. Copyright law in the U.S. copyright law.

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43(B)log

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Malwarebytes, which allowed a false advertising claim to proceed based on one software provider’s use of the terms “malicious” and “threat” to describe its alleged competitor’s software, despite a dissent raising free speech arguments. Then I’ll talk about the 9 th Circuit case Enigma Software v.

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The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Copyright A High Court in South Africa delivered a judgment holding that certain provisions of the Advertising Regulatory Board ( ARB )’s Code of Advertising Practice were unconstitutional. This touched upon issues relating to the ARB’s power in relation to trade mark and copyright laws.

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