Erik K Pelton

JULY 14, 2022

The following is an edited transcript of my video Copyright Concerns When Using Others to Create Content. Many of my clients have contractors or vendors or virtual assistants who assist them with writing blog posts, creating newsletters, doing social media posting and work. First, contracts. Make sure you have proper contracts.

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Social Media Copyright Cease and Desist Contracts 147

Kluwer Copyright Blog

JANUARY 9, 2023

AI Music Outputs: Challenges to the Copyright Legal Framework – Part I by Oleksandr Bulayenko , João Pedro Quintais , Joost Poort and Daniel Gervais. Yet, the very same automation poses challenges for the application of copyright law, increasing legal uncertainty, as demonstrated in this report vis-à-vis AI music outputs.

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Copyright Blogging Fair Use Reporting 95

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 17, 2023

But I think this might have more to do with the way the lawyers pleaded this issue rather than the quality of the potential breach of contract claim here. Plaintiffs alleged that Defendants reproduced code as output without attribution, copyright notice, or license terms. And this case is just beginning. –Doe 1 v.

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Blogging Licensing Privacy Copyright Notice 128

Kluwer Copyright Blog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

To ensure you don’t miss out on interesting IP law developments reported on our other IP blogs, we will, on a regular basis, provide you with an overview of the most-read posts from each of our IP law blogs. Top 3 Kluwer Copyright Blog posts. ” Top 3 Kluwer Trademark Blog posts. by Edward J.

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Blogging Law IP Copyright 52

IIPRD

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Copy Right Law in the Entertainment Industry The cornerstone of intellectual property protection in the entertainment sector is copyright law. Copyright law is especially crucial in the entertainment sector for safeguarding movies, TV series, songs, screenplays, and literary works.

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Intellectual Property Cease and Desist Copyright Law Music 52

JIPEL Copyright Blog

APRIL 23, 2021

To get around the tangle of copyright law. There are two types of copyright registrations available for music: composition rights, which can cover lyrics and sheet music, and sound recording rights, which cover the actual recording of the song.

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Copyright Law Copyright Law Music 45

LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

This blog has been cross-posted on Seyfarth’s California Peculiarities Employment Law blog. Thus, companies have a clear interest in ensuring that the freelancers they occasionally contract with are deemed independent contractors, not employees. According to California Labor Code section 3351.5(c)

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Social Media Intellectual Property Contracts Branding 52

Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 20, 2023

Image by Tumisu via Pixabay Part I of this blog introduced the first of three ambiguities NFT purchasers may face. In this part II we discuss two additional aspects, with a focus on UK copyright law and the EU copyright acquis. The preferred form of regulation in the NFT sector is code rather than copyright law.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 12, 2024

Instead of asserting copyright and trademark claims, they tried trespass to chattels. My angst-filled blog post on that ruling. Worse, it’s not clear the users have a “possessory interest” in those bits due to the possibility that copyright and contract law that may limit what users can do with those bits.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Under the 1976 Copyright Act, copyright subsists automatically in any “original work of authorship” that is “fixed in any tangible medium of expression.” [ 17 U.S.C. The post A Preliminary Analysis of Trump’s Copyright Lawsuit Over Interview Recordings (Trump v.

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Copyright Blogging Publishing Fair Use 120

Intepat

MAY 17, 2024

The nature of Prompts can be understood as Literary Works which is defined in Section 2(o) of the Copyright Act, 1957, as it includes computer programmes, tables and compilations including computer databases. For a prompt to be protected under copyright law, it must meet the criteria of originality and fixation.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 20, 2023

To fully understand these conflicting views of the majority opinion, it is necessary to understand both the specific facts of the case and the history of the Supreme Court’s case law concerning the fair-use doctrine. As a result, Time magazine canceled its contract to publish a 7,500-word excerpt shortly before the book’s publication.

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Fair Use Derivative Work Blogging Licensing 96

IPilogue

APRIL 5, 2022

Samantha Melhado is an IP Intensive student and a 3L JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. As part of the course requirements, students were asked to write a reflective blog on their internship experience. After reading the title you might be wondering, what does the cobra pose have to do with copyrights?

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Music Copyright IP Contracts 119

JIPL Online

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

1] It’s not uncommon to hear artists complain about record label contracts once they see the impact their deals have on the control of their own music. [2]. To understand the source of the problem, it’s first necessary to understand the copyrighted work at issue in many record label agreements. BACKGROUND. ANALYSIS AND UPSHOT.

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Music Ownership Copyright Law Contracts 98

IP and Legal Filings

MAY 29, 2022

In this blog, you will learn about various provisions of the law which help in protecting trade secrets as well as the remedies available in case of misappropriation and infringement of same. Contract Law- the supply regarding restraint of commerce in Section 27 of the Indian Contract Act makes this clear.

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Contracts Confidentiality Copyright Law Law 52

Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Photo by Christian Wiediger from Unsplash The implementation transposition of the Copyright Directive 2019/790 (DSMD) in the summer of 2021 represented probably the greatest reform in German copyright law since the German Copyright Act (UrhG) came into force. Germany’s implementation of Art.

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Copyright Law Copyright Law Contracts 52

IPilogue

JUNE 14, 2022

At the heart of Taylor’s decision was an often overlooked but significant legal distinction in the copyright law governing the music industry. All music can be subdivided into three categories of copyright: lyrical, compositional, and sound.

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Music Contracts Ownership Licensing 120

Kluwer Copyright Blog

MARCH 18, 2024

Photo by Christian Wiediger from Unsplash Part I of this annual post reporting on the copyright case law of the German Bundesgerichtshof covered decisions in the areas of copyright protection and exploitation rights, as well as exceptions and limitations. IV. Copyright contract law (Sections 31 et seqq.

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Law Copyright Law Copyright Contracts 63

CopyrightsWorld

MARCH 30, 2021

The second one is to get ownership of their copyright, know their rights under the copyright laws and how to protect them. According to the copyright laws, a work that has required significant mental activity to create, and is, therefore, considered original, automatically becomes its creator’s intellectual property.

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Copyright Ownership Intellectual Property Blogging 74

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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Copyright Social Media Fair Use Licensing 143

SpicyIP

MARCH 28, 2022

She works in a law firm that advises technology companies. Her previous posts on the blog can be viewed here, here , here and here. News and Views: Copyright Hues and Authors’ Dues. Being the owner of the copyright, the proprietor of the newspaper is entitled to receive payments for the use of the news content.

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Velocity of Content

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Fast-paced organizations that rely on and invest heavily in R&D should not only regard published content as the heart of innovation, but also possess a deep appreciation of the system of copyright protecting this intellectual property. Success is dependent on collaboration, networking, and sharing information.

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Licensing Copyright Publishing Journalism 98

Intepat

JUNE 15, 2023

Hence, the purpose of this blog is to delve into the significance of copyright protection, the limits of protection and the remedies against infringement. What is copyright protection? Who owns the copyright? The nature and extent of both parties’ usage of the contract subject-matter post termination should be detailed.

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Copyright Intellectual Property Ownership Intellectual Property Law 52

Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 15, 2024

UpstateNYer, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons The forthcoming article “Creation and Generation Copyright Standards” to be published in NYU JIPEL 2024 (see pre-publication version here ) analyses and critiques the different standards for copyright eligibility between expressive works and generative products in the U.S.

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Copyright Fair Use Copyright Law Editing 56

Kluwer Copyright Blog

JANUARY 16, 2023

17 DSMD, was implemented into a separate legislative act, the German Copyright Service Provider Act, called in German “UrhDaG” (see III. All German copyright laws affected by the reform are available in an official English translation here (UrhG, UrhDaG, VGG.). Extensive changes to the German Copyright Act.

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Copyright Contracts Copyright Law Law 52

Kluwer Copyright Blog

MARCH 13, 2024

The purpose of copyright, at its very basic level, finds its normative implementation in the interplay between access to protected works and the protection of the moral and material interest of creators (see Geiger, 2017 ). The purpose of copyright, its social and innovation function, is thereby seriously undermined.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

APRIL 1, 2023

Additionally, App Star argues that the applications are denied copyright protection and that “Bar-Z knew or should have known that the design elements cited in the DMCA Notification” are not subject to protection under copyright law. Zimmerman * Rare Ruling on Damages for Sending Bogus Copyright Takedown Notice–Lenz v.

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Fair Use Cease and Desist Contracts Ownership 103

Kashishipr

JUNE 23, 2021

Copyright comes into the picture since the law safeguards the computer software and programs that are used to collect and analyze big data. Also, the European Union has a Database Directive in place as an initiative to harmonize Copyright Protection offered to databases in all Member States alike. For more visit: [link].

Intellectual Property 98

Intellectual Property Invention IP Copyright 98

Barry Sookman

APRIL 3, 2022

The Humanity of Copyright – Hugh Stephens Blog [link] 2022-03-27. online contract terms enforced by court, Scott v. Computer and Internet Weekly Updates for 2022-03-26 [link] 2022-03-27. Contempt penalty for streaming IPTV contrary to court order, probation 2022 ONSC 1710 (CanLII) | Dish Network L.L.C… [link] 2022-03-30.

Privacy 57

Privacy Contracts Blogging Copyright 57

Barry Sookman

MAY 8, 2022

The Anti-Copyright Hyperbole Fails to Sway the Canadian Government – Hugh Stephens Blog [link] 2022-05-01. Delaware Court Issues Novel Ruling Clarifying Treatment of Cryptocurrency Assets When Evaluating Contract Damages [link] 2022-05-02. Computer and Internet Weekly Updates for 2022-04-30 [link] 2022-05-01.

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Privacy Contracts Government Blogging 57

IIPRD

JANUARY 5, 2023

A growing number of daily releases makes India’s copyright laws particularly important in. However, to a lesser extent, other IP laws like the Trademark Act and the Designs Act will also be important. Introduction. It may be said that this protection is essential for the commercialization of pictures and movies.

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Intellectual Property Cinema Ownership Music 98

Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

They have taken work away from lawyers by writing contracts. This is what would happen if copyright were interpreted as protecting AI machine productions that have no human cause. [1]. To be clear, this is a debate about applying copyright law to the outputs of AI machines. More from our authors: Law of Raw Data.

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Music Intellectual Property Art Intellectual Property Law 144

IPilogue

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Through Twitter, she expressed that she had outlived all her recording contracts and that her master recordings should legally belong to her. copyright law. When Baker described outliving her contracts, she was referring to her right of reversion , which lets her reclaim her copyright after 35 years.

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Music Ownership Contracts Copyright 59

Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Parts 2 to 4 will address exploitation rights, related rights, exceptions and limitations, copyright contract law and enforcement. Germany has always had an extensive judicial practice in copyright law. The case law of that copyright law senate of the BGH from 2015 to 2019 is summarised below.

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Moral Rights Law Copyright Copyright Law 52

Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 18, 2023

The limitation on the use of Meta’s libraries occurred after the tech behemoth and the Italian copyright collecting society for authors and editors (“Società Italiana degli Autori ed Editori”, “SIAE”) came to an impasse during the renewal of the license agreement for the exploitation of the Italian repertoire. Firstly, Art.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JANUARY 18, 2023

Part I of this post discussed the changes to copyright contract law and the new text and data mining exemption provisions that formed part of the 2021 copyright law reform. It also addresses changes to the German Collecting Societies Act (VGG) and copyright liability of online content sharing service providers.

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Copyright Related Rights Copyright Law Publishing 52

Velocity of Content

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Readers of this blog might wonder what this quaint vignette has to do with copyright. While US copyright law is a matter of federal law (in Title 17 of the U.S. If your name wasn’t “Scotty” or “Kirk”, where would you even get one? Well . . . . Code) , the states also have a role to play in right-to-repair policy.

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