Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 26, 2021

Welcome to the fourth and final trimester of 2021 round up of EU copyright law! In this series, we update readers every three months on developments in EU copyright law. Stay tuned as a comment on the judgment is coming soon in the blog. Stay tuned as a comment on the study is coming soon in the blog.

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Copyright Law Copyright Law Reporting 115

The IPKat

OCTOBER 10, 2021

This Kat is having a haunted October This post promises to take readers around the IP blogs in eight posts. Copyright The Journal of Intellectual Property Law and Practice published an Author's Take piece considering what the way forward for the press publishers' right might be under EU copyright law.

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Blogging IP Intellectual Property Law Journalism 67

Kashishipr

MAY 25, 2021

A blog is like any other creative work of literature manifested in a different form. Due to creative and original use of expressions, blogs are deemed to be counted as private property for which Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) can be sought. Copyright and Blogs. Alternatives to Seeking Copyright Protection.

Intellectual Property 98

Intellectual Property Blogging Fair Use Registration 98

Velocity of Content

OCTOBER 20, 2021

ET), the US Copyright Office, and the US Patent and Trademark Office are co-hosting a three-part discussion on “ Copyright Law and Machine Learning for AI: Where Are We Now and Where Are We Going?” “The event is available to the public for free, and attendees must register in advance.

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Copyright Law Copyright Social Media Law 105

The IPKat

JANUARY 2, 2022

We say goodbye to 2021 with the most interesting posts and articles from the surrounding IP blogs of the past week! v EUIPO | Case T-509/19) and the importance of presenting valid arguments for the existence of a link between the marks - even in the case of marks with an exceptional reputation ( Puma v EUIPO | Case T-71/20).

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Blogging IP Non-Fungible Tokens Cease and Desist 126

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 18, 2023

Moritz College of Law The copyright – contract tension Stewart Brand famously said that information wants to be free. We know, however, that many laws limit free access and use of information goods, most prominently copyright law (and IP law generally). ML Genius v.

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Blogging Contracts Copyright Law Copyright 92

IPilogue

MARCH 2, 2023

Recently in Alexander v Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc , a jury of the US District Court of the Southern District of Illinois concluded that tattoo artist Catherine Alexander has a valid copyright claim in the designs she tattooed on World Wrestling Entertainment Inc. Copyright protection over tattoos has been a hot topic for some time.

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Copyright Law Copyright Law Artwork 106

Kluwer Copyright Blog

JULY 16, 2023

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. Here are the most popular posts over the past few months.

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Blogging Law IP Fair Use 52

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2023

At the district court level, the law of copyright preemption is a morass of ad hoc explanations of whether certain contracts are “equivalent” to the exclusive rights within the general scope of copyright law. Platforms that copy online data and use it to create AI have a strong fair use argument under copyright laws.

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Blogging Copyright Contracts Cease and Desist 80

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 15, 2024

Combining these two holdings, it concluded: “we must apply the discovery rule to determine when a copyright infringement claim accrues, but a three-year lookback period from the time a suit is filed to determine the extent of the relief available.” to license works from the Music Specialist catalog. 4th 1236 (9th Cir.

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Music Blogging Copyright Ownership 95

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. The copyright holder can enforce its rights through an infringement claim if uses are made without obtaining the appropriate permissions.

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Copyright Journalism Licensing Copyright Infringement 98

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. And that is a specific, important phrase in copyright law.

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Social Media Copyright Cease and Desist Contracts 147

Kluwer Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Welcome to the third trimester of 2021 round up of EU copyright law! In this series we update readers every three months on developments in EU copyright law. The AG suggests that the private copyright exception applies in the cloud, but a separate levy may not be payable. Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash.

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Copyright Law Copyright Law Television 60

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 22, 2023

18, 2023), affirming the Copyright Office’s position that “a work generated entirely by an artificial system absent human involvement [is not] eligible for copyright.” Eric previously blogged about the Copyright Review Board’s affirmance of the Office’s repeated refusal to register the work back in March 2022. The slides.

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Blogging Copyright Copyright Law Content Creation 88

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. Condé Nast paid $400 for the license, which specified “No other usage right granted.” Figure 1, Slip op.

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Fair Use Derivative Work Blogging Licensing 96

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 29, 2023

Both agreed to this move, and as part of that, dropped the removal of copyright information claim. The Final Determination notes that Oppenheimer feels entitled to a licensing fee, even though he has not sold this photograph, and suggests that he is entitled to $2,775 a year for the use of the photograph. I then offered $500.00.

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Blogging Fair Use Copyright Copyright Notice 96

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Fifth, assuming Trump owns a valid copyright, did he grant an implied license to Woodward to publish transcripts of the interviews and/or the record­ings themselves? Sixth, assuming Woodward published copyrighted material without Trump’s authorization, was he permitted to do so, either as a fair use, or by the First Amendment?

Copyright 120

Copyright Blogging Publishing Fair Use 120

The IPKat

MARCH 16, 2024

2024 IViR Summer Course on International Copyright Law & Policy The Institute for Information Law organizes an annual intensive post-graduate course on international copyright law and policy. Blogs The SPC blog has been revived on LinkedIn and can be found here. Read more about this course here.

Intellectual Property Law 67

Intellectual Property Law Intellectual Property Blogging Copyright Law 67

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 23, 2022

If this sounds a little like Trump’s promise to build a wall and make Mexico pay for it, well, welcome to copytrump law in the 21st century. In 1998, Congress adopted the DMCA, consisting of five different sections intended to update copyright law for the 21st Century. Background. 512 provided 5 safe harbors.

Technology 113

Technology Licensing Copyright Designs 113

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 1, 2023

On the other hand, professional photographers have to make a living by licensing their photos to publishers (and other intermediaries) who are willing to pay them to reproduce and display those photos. Instagram, of course, was licensed to publicly display the post under its own terms and conditions, so there is no direct infringement.

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Blogging Copying Social Media Copyright 96

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.

Intellectual Property 52

Intellectual Property Cease and Desist Copyright Law Music 52

IPilogue

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

In 2015, guitarist David Bowery filed a lawsuit against Spotify USA, a Spotify subsidiary, for streaming songs without first obtaining mechanical licenses , which are the standard payment for reproducing or distributing a song. New Copyright Law: A Solution for Spotify. The law was set to take effect in 2021.

Copyright Infringement 124

Copyright Infringement Music Copyright Law 124

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. The label can then license the music and receive a portion of the royalties.

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Copyright Law Copyright Law Music 45

SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

Whether the government plans to amend the Copyright Act of 1957 to update copyright laws to cover AI-generated content. By imputing a similar logic, not obtaining licenses for uses such as training of GenAI systems by developers could also be considered commercial exploitation and might not qualify as fair dealing.

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Moral Rights Copyright Infringement Related Rights Government 113

JIPEL Copyright Blog

APRIL 11, 2022

The Second and Ninth Circuits have consistently led the way in establishing the scope of American copyright law. In the past few years, the Second Circuit in particular has had the difficult task of reconciling copyright law with appropriation art, an artistic style predicated on the intentional use of preexisting images and objects.

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Art Copyright Law Fair Use Copyright 52

TorrentFreak

MAY 10, 2024

While Nealy was doing time, his former partner licensed the Music Specialist catalog to Warner Chappell. The popular Flo Rida track was subsequently licensed to several TV-shows, while other works from Music Specialist ended up in recordings by the Black Eyed Peas and Kid Sister. According to U.S.

Copyright Infringement 111

Copyright Infringement Copyright Music Copying 111

Plagiarism Today

JULY 27, 2021

The reason is that the track has faced not one, but two separate allegations of plagiarism, with many fans and critics alike wondering if the band may have run afoul of copyright law. The composer of Towering Catastrophe , Nakamura Kojo, took to his personal blog and addressed the issue.

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Plagiarism Music Licensing Copying 325

Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2021

The courts need to understand the degree to which such usage may harm the work or decrease the profits for the owner of the copyright. Today, this doctrine has become one of most popular doctrines in the realm of copyright law. It allows people a positive defense against the infringement of copyright. Definition.

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Fair Use Copyright Law Copyright Law 52

Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

JUNE 23, 2022

Although privacy invasion has been the main topic of discussion in this virtual context, there is another issue at hand: copyright infringement. The rights of speakers, organisers, and participants under Indian copyright law will be discussed in this Article, which will explore copyright concerns connected to webinars.

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Fair Use Ownership Copyright Licensing 52

The IP Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Specifically, copyright protection attaches to the original, creative work when it is fixed in a tangible medium, such as when it is written, drawn, recorded digitally, or typed electronically. It also protects images, photos, videos, and other written work, such as blog posts. If you don’t own the text, image, video, art, etc.,

Copyright Infringement 122

Copyright Infringement Copyright Social Media Fair Use 122

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. The defense argued that a requirement to obtain copyright licenses conflicts with the norms in the tattoo artist community. Prior Tattoo Copyright Blog Posts.

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Copyright Social Media Fair Use Licensing 143

Kluwer Copyright Blog

MARCH 13, 2024

This crucial development, which restores copyright as an access right (see Geiger, 2016 ; Efroni, 2010 ) provides a normative foundation to reinforce the societal bargain that creates incentives for authors, but also creates room for downstream creativity and innovation. licenses for specific uses). 7(1) and art.

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Copyright Art Licensing Contracts 121

Velocity of Content

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

In the second , I looked at the group registration procedures – recently made available by the US Copyright Office – which are specifically useful to bloggers and to managers of blog sites. In the third , I looked at the copyright options currently available for podcasters. With more than 1.4

Copyright 116

Copyright Licensing Social Media Derivative Work 116

IPilogue

AUGUST 26, 2022

YouTube, especially, has been known to enforce copyright law by either muting or taking down infringing content. Epidemic Sound solves this problem by offering music licenses to creators who publish on platforms like Facebook, Instagram, Twitch, TikTok and YouTube.

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Copyright Infringement Copyright Music Social Media 104

SpicyIP

MAY 1, 2023

Her previous posts on the blog can be viewed here , here , here , here. Licensing of training datasets The licensing of datasets – for the concerned rights under Sec. 14 of the Copyright Act, 1957 (the Act), along with attribution seems like a possible solution that would address the concerns raised in the above cases.

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IP Licensing Fair Use Moral Rights 129

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 30, 2021

The ruling overturns a “seismic” district court ruling from 2014 that I wrote about in a previous blog post , one that “threaten[ed] to undo a 75-year-old consensus that state law does not provide a public performance right for sound recordings.” See my previous blog post on the New York ruling.) Flo & Eddie, Inc.

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Blogging Copyright Settlement Ownership 84

Intepat

MAY 28, 2024

In this blog we will be looking at the procedure to take intellectual property management forward, the various strategies that will be useful for SMEs while managing their intellectual property and how law firms & intellectual property attorneys can aid in the process.

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