TorrentFreak

AUGUST 20, 2021

Game developer Bungie is continuing its legal battle against businesses and individuals who develop and distribute cheats for its popular multiplayer game Destiny 2. They illegally downloaded Destiny 2 in violation of the company’s licensing terms and willfully distributed copyright infringing code.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 10, 2022

The complaint named Canadian business entities Elite Boss Tech and 11020781 Canada Inc., ” The defendants argued that during the development of the cheating software, no copies of Destiny 2 were made or distributed, and no derivative works were created. 1201(a) and (b) ).

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JIPL Online

MARCH 15, 2021

The Conan Doyle estate, heirs to the author of the works about the famed detective Sherlock Holmes, alleged that Netflix infringed on the character Sherlock Holmes in its portrayal of Sherlock Holmes in the 2020 movie “Enola Holmes.” [2] 18] Netflix admitted it had access to and copied the memoir. [19]

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Intepat

MAY 24, 2023

In today’s business landscape, the significance of intellectual property (IP) assets is on the rise and is becoming increasingly crucial in various sectors. The value of a business is now closely tied to its IP assets, which can be licensed, transferred, or used as capital in a joint venture.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 28, 2021

“Defendants’ conduct has caused, and is continuing to cause, massive and irreparable harm to Plaintiffs and their business interests. Defendants’ Business Model. They want the Ring-1 website (and any copies) to be shut down, along with the cheating software itself. Ring-1 is said to largely operate from Ring-1.io

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The IPKat

JUNE 27, 2022

Trade mark infringement cause of action is brought under common law while unfair competition cause of action is brought under both common law and California Business and Professions Code §§ 17200 et seq. This is a U.S federal court which has jurisdiction in the case pursuant to Title 28 of the United States Code. Ether (USD 1+ million).

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Intellectual Property Office Blog

JULY 29, 2021

The 21-year-old is the sole director of MMH Group Holdings which plays host to 3 businesses: Filter, MMH International and FM Cosmetics. According to their Terms of Use, the user owns the copyright to the image posted but automatically agrees to license that image to Instagram.

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43(B)log

APRIL 7, 2021

Not all literary works are the same; Infinite Jest gets a different kind of copyright protection than my emails do. Anyway, in GvO, Justice Breyer instead reproduces an entire short story, which was just minding its own business and had nothing to do with the case, in two different languages no less.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 1, 2023

By Guest Blogger Tyler Ochoa Recently, the Ninth Circuit reaffirmed what has become known as the “server test”: in order to be held directly liable for violating the public display right, the alleged infringer must have a fixed “copy” of the work stored on a server in its possession or control. July 17, 2023).

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

JANUARY 16, 2024

Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) refer to the legal rights granted to individuals or businesses for their creations or inventions. Copyrights: Copyrights protect original works of authorship such as software codes, artistic creations, literature, music, films, etc. What are Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs)?

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IP Tech Blog

JANUARY 4, 2023

The emergence of blockchain-supported Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) has captured the interest of the entertainment and business worlds in the past couple of years. NFTs are both a new creative form of intellectual and artistic expression and a lucrative business opportunity. Is this the same in the US and China? The United States.

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Copyright Lately

JANUARY 31, 2023

What makes Astley’s case interesting is that Gravy and his record label obtained the appropriate copyright license to recreate the melody and lyrics from “Never Gonna Give You Up” (which Astley didn’t write and doesn’t control) for “Betty (Get Money).” The defendants obtained a license to use the former, but not the latter.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 4, 2023

The emergence of blockchain-supported Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) has captured the interest of the entertainment and business worlds in the past couple of years. NFTs are both a new creative form of intellectual and artistic expression and a lucrative business opportunity. Is this the same in the US and China? The United States.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JANUARY 16, 2024

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. Books3 is a dataset of books derived from a copy of the contents of the “ Bibliotik private tracker ”. This body of text is called the training dataset.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Plaintiffs want and expect Google to copy and display their websites in Chrome browser and Search App, and acknowledge that Google has license to do so.” We need to know more about this license. It seems like this license could be dispositive to the case, but the court doesn’t explore it more.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

First off today, Kevin Shalvey at Business Insider reports that “Sports Illustrated” swimsuit model Genevieve Morton has filed a lawsuit against Twitter alleging that the site was slow to remove infringing material and that an AI photo editing tool created unlawful derivative works.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 17, 2023

Also, ignoring copyright licenses is at least arguably copyright infringement, and your fair use claim probably won’t get you out of the lawsuit at the motion to dismiss stage. The court also held that the coders did not have standing to seek damages, but they did have standing to pursue injunctive relief. Complaint at 2.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

AUGUST 7, 2023

In 1984, Condé Nast, the publisher, obtained a license from Goldsmith to allow Andy Warhol to use her Prince portrait as the foundation for a single serigraphy to be featured in Vanity Fair magazine. In 2016, Condé Nast acquired a license from the Warhol Foundation to use the Prince Series as illustrations for a new magazine.

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Copyright Lately

OCTOBER 25, 2021

The good news is after the holiday was effectively ruined last year, we’re more or less back in business in 2021. As the story goes, they provided him with a copy of a few scenes from “Ghostbusters” in which the theme would appear. You can judge for yourself by downloading a copy of “Jap Herron” here.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JULY 16, 2023

The case focuses on whether Ed Sheeran consciously copied Sami Switch’s chorus. Accordingly, this case is a useful example of how a court will: (1) assess the derivation requirement (of actual copying) of UK copyright; and, (2) as part of that, consider similarity between musical works for the purpose of copyright infringement.”

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43(B)log

AUGUST 4, 2023

At the same time, the risk of copying essentially went away. So now, we have lots of protection for implementation where we don’t need it and no protection for interfaces where new entrants can easily be copied. Big difference is the direction of copying. Thinks there’s too much copying—why would anyone buy when they could copy?

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Cases answered transformativeness question in an undisciplined way; the SCt said the question shouldn’t have been so central to the inquiry, instead elevating commercial concerns and the “purpose” of the use over the questions of artistic contribution of the new work. Q: how does the antitrust view handle the derivative works right?]

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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? The bottom line: even if he gets past the implied license problem, Trump still has to survive several other substantive and procedural hurdles to recovery. .

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43(B)log

AUGUST 11, 2022

Also: what about derivative works? So how do you build in that to recognize contribution to singular work v. creation of derivative work. In UK/Canada, joint ownership rules allow us to say “no derivative works without all of us agreeing.” That’s not property rights reasoning. Mozart wrote melody.

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