IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 16, 2024

Introduction Controlled Digital Lending (“ CDL ”) in context of book lending became a buzzword during the pandemic period when the physical access of libraries was not possible. This rule covers lending digital copies of copyrighted works, while works in the public domain can be freely digitized.

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 3, 2022

The lawsuit claimed that the site was offering illegal downloads of their books and specifically targeted two Ukrainian nationals as the operators. Finally today, The Associated Press reports that, with the new year, several prominent works are lapsing into the public domain including the Ernest Hemingway novel The Sun Also Rises and A.A.

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Dear Rich IP Blog

JUNE 20, 2023

Despite the publication date, I can't tell if this book is in the US public domain. I have a recent UK copy of the book, and it has no copyright notice. But the book is also not in Google Books or Gutenberg, which leads me to believe it's still under US copyright.

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Plagiarism Today

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

This has led authors to include large amounts of protectable material with their works (often leading to frustration from readers) and to a culture of protecting attribution and limiting copying of recipes through community action. See Also: Why You Can’t Copy a Recipe Book. 4: What the ICE Domain Seizures Mean for You.

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IPilogue

JANUARY 17, 2022

While many were observing the new year, intellectual property scholars and the artistic community were celebrating Public Domain Day. The previously copyrighted works enter the public domain, free to use and copy. public domain. January 1 st marks the expiration of most jurisdictions’ copyright terms.

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Dear Rich IP Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2020

These photos are in the public domain and free for anyone to copy. You can't register your report with the Copyright Office unless you declare whether your book contains pre-existing works. You can't claim copyright in photos published before 1925 or in unpublished photos taken by photographers who died before 1950.

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Freed from the shackles of copyright, Walt Disney’s iconic rodent was now in the public domain and, therefore, available for everyone to copy. It is no surprise that the legalities of the public domain are more complicated than the headlines suggest. But not so fast.

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Copyright Lately

APRIL 30, 2021

version of the book credited Scott-Giles for the maps and diagrams he specially drew for the edition, but didn’t contain a copyright notice. The 1949 English-language publication of Dante’s “Inferno” was first published in the U.K. While the version of Sayers’ book published in the U.K. version did.

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IP Close Up

DECEMBER 20, 2022

He is also on a mission to keep the content he and others create out of the public domain. Mark Helprin is a successful novelist. Continue reading.

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The IPKat

APRIL 8, 2022

Nosferatu was a 1922 adaption (just how much was the subject of the copyright challenge to the movie) of the wildly popular 1897 book by Bram Stoker — Dracula. But the Stoker book did not emerge from a creative tabula rasa. The first modern vampire book — The Vampyre , was written by John Polidori in 1819. blood) of the living.

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IPilogue

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

The real-life tax company “Liberty Tax” claims that the show copied its logo and style, including the Statue of Liberty, which is a frequent identifier of the company. The fictitious business is run by Betsy and Craig Kettleman, who embezzle money by taking advantage of their clients who do not understand the tax system.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

They accuse OpenAI of using books as training data, without permission, relying on datasets that were sourced from pirate sites. These accusations and claims largely rely on the suspicion that OpenAI used hundreds of thousands of copyrighted books as training material.

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The IPKat

AUGUST 23, 2022

Perhaps the most difficult aspect of the move was dealing with his book collection. And, as long as it does, the library owner will face the challenge of dealing with the stark reality that while copyright may protect book contents at the incorporeal level, books only have personal meaning in their three-dimensional, physical context.

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Michael Geist

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

The course packs were copied and typically sold as an alternative to course textbooks. Copyright lobby groups and their supporters have long claimed that the practice relies on fair dealing and that universities are profiting from copying without compensation. of the pages assigned to students.

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IP and Legal Filings

MAY 13, 2024

[Image Sources: Shutterstock] Basic understanding of Copyright Copyright is a legal theory that provides artists complete ownership over their creative works, preventing unauthorised use and copying. This means that using the protected work requires prior consent from its creator.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Last month, the Danish Rights Alliance was the first group to claim a major victory on the takedown front, by removing a copy of the controversial Books3 AI training dataset from the web. The plaintext collection of 196,640 books, which is nearly 37GB in size, was used to train several AI models, including Meta’s.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

AUGUST 3, 2023

books, articles, poems), artistic works (e.g., After the expiration of the copyright term, the work enters the public domain, and anyone can use it without seeking permission. The specimen copies of the work should be sent in physical form.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 17, 2023

For the last few months, I have been wondering if our belief in “fair dealing” (or broadly, “limitations and exceptions”) has silently slipped into our “faith” in it – a faith that demands complete surrender to it while blinding us to the harm it covertly causes to the public domain. However, was that ever the case? Or, as Prof.

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SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Therefore, takedown orders cannot be directed against infringing copy of content hosted on OTT platforms. A complaint has to be filed by the copyright owner or member of the public. This could lead to a regime where each intermediary has to pre-screen the content being uploaded as to whether it is an infringing copy or not.

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 16, 2023

and Sumathi Chandrashekaran, in their book ‘Create, Copy, Disrupt: India’s Intellectual Property Dilemmas’ (p.120-121) [access various texts of the Berne Convention here ]. Although the original bill largely fell in line with the 1914 Act and the Berne Convention, Prashant Reddy T.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 22, 2021

It foresaw both registration of the work at the Copyright Office, deposit of copies, attachment of a copyright claim (© [year of first publication] by [name of owner of rights]), and, in certain cases, manufacture of the copies within the country.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 2, 2023

Do these creations belong to the artists or the public domain? Copyright Office took a stance against generative-AI works, cancelling a copyright claim by author Kris Kashtanova for comic book images made with the aid of Midjourney. s advertisement for hats, copying Sarony’s Oscar Wilde No. By guest blogger Prof.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2023

His defense is that the work he used was free for all; after his victory, that work remains in the public domain for others to build upon. The increase in sales was found to be stronger for less popular books and even spilled over to a digitized author’s nondigitized works Keyword Ads * Cohen v.

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IP and Legal Filings

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The audit of banking companies books of accounts calls for additional. which the books have been audited and any other observations to be brought to the. which the books have been audited and any other observations to be brought to the. Bank of India with a copy to the banking company. banking companies as well.

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Dragons' Den

APRIL 6, 2023

The duo were clearly aware how important it is to look at what registered IP you can get early into your product development phase before it’s in the public domain. It can really help with getting funding as well as deterring and/or stopping competitors from copying your product. A patent will last 20 years.

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SpicyIP

APRIL 24, 2022

Today, IP means and may include anything ranging from a comic book to a mobile chip, to a movie name, to software, to a famous chicken , or even one’s fame. For e.g., copyright does not actually protect a particular physical copy of the book or its pdf file, rather, it protects what lies inside it. . raised eyebrows ).

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IP Whiteboard

JULY 19, 2020

Public Resource Org ( PRO ), a non-profit organisation that facilitates public access to government records and legal materials, distributed for free and without authorisation, copies of the OCGA and its annotations. PRO counterclaimed seeking declaratory judgment that the entire OCGA was in the public domain.

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Art Law Journal

JUNE 30, 2022

Copyright is the type of Intellectual Property most often associated with artistic works like fine art, movies, or books. For example, anybody can publish a book about three teenagers who solve magical mysteries at a wizarding school. Your Copy-Rights. That’s an idea for a story. How To Win Big In a Copyright Infringement Case.

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IIPRD

JANUARY 23, 2023

Amazon was originally construed as an internet retailer or manufacturer of goods ranging from books, houseware, utility products, clothing to many varied ranges of products. Patent are valid for the duration of 20 years before coming into public domain) Patent infringement can occur in two ways.

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Copyright Lately

APRIL 3, 2023

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. When the electronic version is “checked out,” the physical copy is taken out of circulation. At least, that’s the theory.

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Art Law Journal

JUNE 30, 2022

Copyright is the type of IP most often associated with artistic works like fine art, movies, or books. For example, anybody can publish a book about three teenagers who solve magical mysteries at a wizarding school. Your Copy-Rights. With that basic structure, let’s review them and sort out some of the confusing aspects of each.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 19, 2022

C’s first subject matter—maps, charts, and books—may help us think about what facts are (as distinguished from works?). President Ford couldn’t prevent others from copying bare historical facts. Karp agrees that (c) is not like land, which preexisted the public domain and was acquired and distributed by gov’t. (c)

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IIPRD

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Chefs across the world spend a good amount of time to come up with new food recipes but even though how much fascinated was their recipe, their efforts often go in vain as there are no specific laws to give protection to their food recipes, in absence of which other people can easily copy their recipes without committing any illegal act.

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The IPKat

MARCH 7, 2022

Consider a book title, especially in connection with the television or movie adaptation of a literary work. Those looking for copyright protection for the book title will be disappointed. So, " Catcher in the Rye " may be a wonderfully creative book title, but it does not enjoy copyright protection. The question is: what kind?

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Copyright Lately

AUGUST 2, 2022

Fan sites prompted by a book or film, for example, may benefit the copyright owner. Copyright owners should be able to defend their works against substantial unauthorized copying used for profit. For now, suffice it to say that Barlow & Bear haven’t exactly dedicated their musical to the public domain. Petrella v.

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IP and Legal Filings

MAY 3, 2024

Copyright Law Copy Right is a legal concept that gives creators exclusive rights over their original works and allows them to control the use and distribution of those works. Once the period expires, the program enters the public domain and is free for all users. This situation brings new challenges to legal protection.

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SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The Court, however, disagreed with the Defendant’s argument holding that there was no information available in the public domain for the Plaintiff to reach at the above conclusion regarding relations between the Defendants. Comedian Vir Das, Netflix booked for copyright infringement. Hindustan Unilever Limited v.

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