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Social Media Giants and Copyright: Instagram’s Ninth Circuit Win Sets Precedent Against Photographers

The IP Law Blog

By: Weintraub Tobin Summer Associate Josh Concepcion The Ninth Circuit recently revisited the issue of “embedding” content by a website and its implication for copyright infringement claims. the website displaying that copyrighted image cannot be held liable for infringement.

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The Intriguing Debate Over Copyrighted Content in AI Training: What Entrepreneurs Need to Know

LexBlog IP

You see, when I was growing up, computers took up entire rooms and content was published on paper – books, newspapers, magazines, and yes, sometimes even broadcast on television or radio. The Internet is exponentially growing; and along with it Internet-based digital content creation. Copying was tedious.

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Social Media Giants and Copyright: Instagram’s Ninth Circuit Win Sets Precedent Against Photographers

LexBlog IP

By: Weintraub Tobin Summer Associate Josh Concepcion The Ninth Circuit recently revisited the issue of “embedding” content by a website and its implication for copyright infringement claims. the website displaying that copyrighted image cannot be held liable for infringement.

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Copyright Evidence: 21 for 2021 (a year in review)

Kluwer Copyright Blog

When we launched the Copyright Evidence Portal , our ambition was no less than to create a catalogue of all existing empirical studies about copyright. We invited experts to offer a synthesis of empirical evidence catalogued on the Evidence Portal in response to 21 topical copyright questions of importance for the 21 st century.

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The Unofficial Bridgerton Musical: The easy permission model of Netflix should be the future for fan-created works

JIPEL Copyright Blog

Bridgerton is the Netflix television sensation that enraptured the United States in late 2020. However, as a Shonda Rhimes production, the television show is so much more, effortlessly weaving people of color into high society London in a reimagined history. Together, they explored the concept: What if Bridgerton was a musical ?

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Government Gets the Law Wrong as it Finally Makes the Case Why it is Rejecting the Bill C-11 User Content Regulation Fix

Michael Geist

When they make money from these activities, social media companies must be obliged to reinvest in our creators and into local content creation. It is up to the creator to trigger the Content ID system and to choose whether to advertise against those third party uploaded videos. Senator Gold and the government are wrong.

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IP Report 2021

LexBlog IP

It outlines trends, data and legal rights pertaining to patents, trade marks, designs, plant breeder rights ( PBR ) and copyright. Although copyright is an unregistered form of IP, the COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in increased consumption of copyright work producing industries, being online, audio and screen content.