Intellectual Property Law Blog

MAY 2, 2023

Some of these issues are specific to doing business with the government and others are broader issues that all companies face when using AI, and generative AI (GAI) in particular. Copyright Office and the U.S. This rapid increase in the use of AI creates a number of legal issues, some of which are addressed below. Both the U.S.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 22, 2022

It claims that TV-Novosti, which runs the RT Arabic channel, infringed its copyrights. Despite all of the back-and-forth, the plaintiff sued YouTube for copyright infringement–a very bold move. The plaintiff sent takedown notices to YouTube for the allegedly infringing RT Arabic videos. The suit goes nowhere. Direct Infringement.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 10, 2022

For independent creators, every hour spent working on one’s copyright is an hour not spent on creating new work or running their business. As such, many creators either neglect their work’s copyright protection or pay someone else to handle it, often at great cost. Copyright Office. Copyright Office fees.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 13, 2022

Companies in many sectors suspended or terminated business in Russia, including prominent entertainment industry players. Sony, Universal, and Warner, for example, aren’t releasing new movies or music but existing contracts are being honored, meaning that older content is still licensed and legally available.

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Velocity of Content

JANUARY 9, 2024

One area that often gets overlooked in the outsourcing and collaboration process is how to manage copyright compliance and the associated risks of non-compliance. While smaller companies without a librarian or information specialist onboard may be unaware of their obligations under copyright law, their lack of knowledge won’t help them. 

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Intepat

JANUARY 24, 2024

*Written by Uttara Nair INTRODUCTION The administration and assignment of intellectual property rights, encompassing patents, copyrights, trademarks, designs, geographical indications, and proprietary knowledge, are critical for all business entities, particularly those in the technology sector.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 26, 2021

As we’ve discussed in the past , copyright has played an oddly oversized role in our modern Halloween festivities. However, one of the areas that is generally less talked about is copyright’s impact on Halloween costumes. If the costume isn’t licensed, why is it not infringing regardless of the name change? Copyright Office.

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Erik K Pelton

JULY 14, 2022

The following is an edited transcript of my video Copyright Concerns When Using Others to Create Content. But there are some serious copyright issues that you ought to be aware of when you are working with others to create content for you. And that is a specific, important phrase in copyright law. What do you mean?

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Copyright Lately

MAY 6, 2024

Amazon and MGM Studios raise the stakes in a copyright termination fight over the Road House reboot, claiming that writer Lance Hill’s use of a loan-out corporation prevents him from recapturing the copyright in the original screenplay. Copyright Office that Hill was the screenplay’s “author.”

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SpicyIP

AUGUST 19, 2023

This bill seeks to promote business by reducing penalties and decriminalising offences across 42 legislations. Major intellectual property rights laws – the Copyright Act, 1957, the Patents Act, 1970, the Trade Marks Act, 1999 and the Geographical Indications Act, 1999, have also been amended.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 2, 2022

However, those familiar with copyright law, immediately began to point out flaws in the plan. However, for artists, rightsholders and those familiar with copyright, it was completely predictable. A rethinking of blockchain and crypto’s role in copyright, and an examination of both if and how it might actually help.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 23, 2024

The organization doesn’t license authorized digital copies from publishers; instead, its books are scanned and digitized in-house. They filed a lawsuit in 2020 equating IA’s controlled digital lending operation to copyright infringement. Thousands of libraries have digital lending services but IA’s approach is different.

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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 ). From this constitutional dimension of copyright emerged the notion of ‘user rights’ ( Geiger, 2020 ).

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Velocity of Content

JANUARY 25, 2024

“Is offshoring the training of AI a credible and efficient response to minimize copyright compliance risks or is offshoring merely a theoretical argument designed to both influence lawmakers and for government relations purposes?” Artificial Intelligence (AI) is global, and copyright laws are national.

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Velocity of Content

MARCH 5, 2024

CCC returns to the London Book Fair next week to host the “ Publishers, Copyright & AI: Taking Action , ” panel and welcome the publishing community to Booth 7H02 to discuss how our data-driven solutions can help them transition to and transform Open Access (OA) programs.

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Traverse Legal Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

As more and more projects in these fields adopt open-source licensing, the legal complexities tied to these licenses are becoming increasingly relevant, with dual licensing being a case in point. Second, altering the license could alienate a project’s community, leading to forks or abandonment.

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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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Velocity of Content

MARCH 14, 2023

Your employees and copyright awareness – sharing your policy may not be enough. shows that companies are discussing their copyright policies more frequently, leading to 74% of employees reporting awareness of those policies. Do Your Employees Understand Your Company’s Copyright Policies?

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 23, 2022

A new entry in Congress’ parade of terrible Internet bills: the ‘‘ Strengthening Measures to Advance Rights Technologies Copyright Act of 2022 ’’ or ‘‘SMART Copyright Act of 2022.’’ In 1998, Congress adopted the DMCA, consisting of five different sections intended to update copyright law for the 21st Century.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 17, 2022

Many of the enforcement efforts are targeted at services or tools that offer pirated content, but there are less visible copyright infringement challenges too. In recent years music publishers have repeatedly spoken out against online platforms that use their music without a proper license. Unlicensed Platforms and Apps.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Adidas, for example, is a brand that has achieved success in the sports business by introducing sports clothing and other related products. Because of its digital marketing being so powerful and influential, many small businesses come forward to collaborate with large companies like this. For Example, Nike, Apple, Haagen-Dazszl.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

years after the implementation deadline, Poland still had to implement the provisions of the 2019 Copyright in the Digital Single Market Directive into national law. This must have been the key insight at the Polish Culture and National Heritage Ministry when the new administration took over and discovered that more than 2.5

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 21, 2023

In 2020, publishers Hachette, HarperCollins, John Wiley and Penguin Random House sued the Internet Archive (IA) for copyright infringement, equating its ‘Open Library’ to a pirate site. Mass Copyright Infringement or Fair Use? The Internet Archive has no such license. As such, they want it permanently taken down.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Image from DALL-E 3 Part 1 of this post introduced the challenges for copyright associated with generative IP and the legislative developments in this field. The payment is integrated into a levy that is imposed on the cost of a physical medium or a device which allows the user to duplicate copyright protected works.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Today, we begin with developments in the copyright field. The Regulations were made pursuant to section 45 of the Copyright and Neighbouring Rights Act and came into force on 18th March 2022. The photographer, Esther Umoh called this person out for copyright infringement on social media platform “X”.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 15, 2023

‘Breeding Mass Copyright Infringement’ Universal Music, Sony Music, EMI and others filed a complaint at a federal court in Nashville, Tennessee, accusing Twitter’s parent company X Corp of “breeding” mass copyright infringement. copyright law. This hasn’t changed since Elon Musk took over.

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IP and Legal Filings

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Introduction The copyright covers a vast domain of subject matters such as literacy, drama, music, artistic, cinematographic, and sound recordings. The act lays provision for accessibility of such copyrighted work to people with disability, such as blind, visually impaired, etc but does not lays any such guidance over the procedure.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Over the years, various parties have called out Twitter/X over alleged copyright infringement. lawmakers also suggested that piracy is part of the company’s business model. Their main gripe is that unlike many other online services, X refuses to license the content shared by its users. ” U.S. In the U.S.

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Velocity of Content

MAY 11, 2023

CCC recently assembled a panel of expert leaders in publishing and medical communications for a broad discussion on copyright as it pertains to the work of medical communications professionals. While some of these licenses authorize use for business purposes, several of them specify that reuse is allowed for only non-commercial purposes.

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CoCal IP Law Institute

MARCH 1, 2024

Understanding Open Source Licensing: Risks, Benefits, and Implications for Intellectual Property Open-source licensing has existed since the late 1980s and early 1990s, when the Free Software Foundation introduced the concept of "free software" and launched the GNU General Public License (GPL).

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 3, 2021

“We write to you regarding the ongoing problem of copyright infringement on Twitter and the platform’s apparent refusal to address it,” the representatives inform Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey. To help identify pirated content, Twitter goes beyond legal requirements by offering copyright holders access to an API.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 22, 2021

Under US copyright law, Internet providers must terminate the accounts of repeat infringers “in appropriate circumstances.”. The ISP filed its amended answers to the music companies’ complaint at the federal court in New Jersey, denying the copyright infringement allegations. No Private Investigator’s License.

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Velocity of Content

DECEMBER 6, 2023

This post originally appeared in the Scholarly Kitchen on 11/28/23 Monday, October 30 was the final date for interested parties to submit comments to a comprehensive “ Notice of inquiry and request for comments ” issued by the United States Copyright Office entitled “Artificial Intelligence and Copyright.”

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IP and Legal Filings

JULY 21, 2022

The time is ripe to strike a balance between the copyright owner’s economic interests and the public’s right to have access to information and knowledge for growth and development of society before it turns out as blessings of talent over the curse of poverty. Copyright ensures certain minimum rights and it has never been an absolute right.

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 8, 2023

When someone violates a creator’s exclusive rights to a piece of work, they are engaging in copyright infringement. Music as well as the movie industry are two common industries that face copyright issues on a day to day basis. Through a licensing agreement, they can give consent for other parties to utilize their creations.

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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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The IP Law Blog

MARCH 2, 2023

Getty Images alleges that Stability’s actions constitute copyright infringement, false copyright management information, removal or alteration of copyright management information, trademark infringement, unfair competition, trademark dilution, and deceptive trade practices under Delaware law.

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