Plagiarism Today

MAY 17, 2022

1: GPL Legal Battle: Vizio Told by Judge it Will Have to Answer Breach-of-Contract Claims. SFC filed the lawsuit alleging that Vizio had failed to comply with the licenses by not releasing source code they produced based on open-source code. 2: Kenya’s Sauti Sol Threatens to Sue Raila Odinga Over Copyright.

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Erik K Pelton

JULY 14, 2022

One is the contract with the individual or individuals doing the work who help create content; and two is the type of content that they create and where they get photos from, in particular. First, contracts. And that is a specific, important phrase in copyright law. Make sure you have proper contracts.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 19, 2023

Caveat Emptor The common notion that acquiring ownership of an NFT representing a work in which copyright subsists equates to owning the copyright to the underlying work is clearly false. Assignment The copyright owner may transfer the entirety of the copyright in the work to the purchaser by assignment.

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Indiana Intellectual Property Law

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

The parties then entered into a Design-Build Contract , which included financial terms, budgets, building plans, completion dates, etc. The Plaintiffs also claim that the contract granted Cardinal a limited, irrevocable, and nonexclusive license to use the drawings, specifications, calculations, etc. Continue reading

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Traverse Legal Blog

JANUARY 29, 2022

One of the big problems with the NFT marketplace, where NFTs are both sold and purchased, is that the platform doesn’t provide any licensing language for the digital asset that the owner attaches to the NFT. “These platforms are not providing any license language for the actual asset attached to the NFT.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 2, 2021

District Court Judge Jed Rakoff has issued a controversial ruling denying the “server test” of copyright law and ruling that embedding images can be an infringement of copyright law. 3: Jake Owen Sued for Alleged Copyright Infringement Over No. The case was filed by Paul Nicklen against Sinclair Media.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

MARCH 13, 2024

copyright law does not expressly provide for such renumeration, these opportunities depend on the code underlying the NFTs and the rules of the platforms on which they’re sold rather than any statutory entitlement. NFTs may offer opportunities for U.S. artists to obtain remuneration from downstream resales of their works (a.k.a.

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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.

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Plagiarism Today

MARCH 14, 2022

copyright law. However, Genius, not the copyright holder on the lyrics, opted to sue claiming breach of contract and unfair competition laws. When the case got moved to a federal court, the judge dismissed the case, saying that copyright law preempted those claims.

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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). Guy Rub , The Ohio State University Michael E.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2023

by guest blogger Kieran McCarthy Many characterize the law of copyright preemption of contracts as a circuit split. But that undersells the level of inconsistency in courts’ interpretations of the law of copyright preemption. But fair use isn’t a defense to a breach of contract claim.

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Plagiarism Today

MAY 31, 2022

2: Amendment Passes to Grant Teachers Fair Use of Copyrighted Work Remotely. Next up today, Focus Taiwan reports that the Taiwan legislature has passed a new copyright law that would grant educators a fair use protection when using copyright-protected works via online classes. Village Roadshow sued Warner Bros.

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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 ). licenses for specific uses). However, it is only a first step towards making user’s rights a reality.

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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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LexBlog IP

MAY 4, 2022

It was formed following a state license, in order to collect, among other things, the equitable remuneration provided by article 49 of Law 2121/93 in favour of producers, performers, and musicians for the public performance of legitimately released sound carriers. The direct licensing of in-store music was not covered by the agreement.

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Velocity of Content

JUNE 20, 2022

Fred Simian –the deal included licensing rights, and Green created a television show to feature Fred. In the past week, Green revealed that Fred Simian is home, yet the strange, twisted tale of a Bored Ape has many more turns left, involving copyright law, cryptocurrency, and blockchain code.

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Traverse Legal Blog

JANUARY 26, 2022

Today, we will be talking about NFT non-fungible token licensing. There was a recent story that is an instructive lesson in copyright law that has application to the NFT market. The article titled “Cryptobros spent $3 million on Dune book, believing it gave them copyright. How to Create an NFT License Agreement.

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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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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 18, 2024

Copyright: WIPO. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. that allows a contracting party to limit the rights of a broadcasting organization from another contracting party when that contracting party provides fewer rights. 12–Tech.

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IPilogue

JUNE 14, 2022

At the heart of Taylor’s decision was an often overlooked but significant legal distinction in the copyright law governing the music industry. All music can be subdivided into three categories of copyright: lyrical, compositional, and sound.

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Traverse Legal Blog

MARCH 8, 2022

In this video, we will also examine the legal strategies each project got right on trademark registration and copyright licensing. Your trademark identifies your company as the source of goods and services related to your NFTs and digital assets (the pictures linked to your NFT smart contracts). Learn more about NFT licensing.

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Patently-O

OCTOBER 21, 2023

by Dennis Crouch Conventional wisdom in copyright law has been to presumptively treat all online content as protected by copyright. This approach has made sense because of the low originality standard for copyright protection. This potential future holds many uncertainties.

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Thus, companies have a clear interest in ensuring that the freelancers they occasionally contract with are deemed independent contractors, not employees. Companies also benefit under federal copyright law if the celebrity or influencer can be classified as an independent contractor.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 26, 2023

As readers may be aware, Articles 18-22 of the Directive (EU) 2019/790 (DSM Directive) [IPKat coverage here ] establish protective measures for authors and performers that license or transfer the exclusive economic rights over their works and performances to third parties for the purpose of exploitation.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2022

In August 2022, the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Research and Innovation published a study on EU copyright and related rights and access to and reuse of scientific publications, including open access. Current EU copyright framework. Legislative Initiatives.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Fraud has been the key charge in several big UK piracy cases over the last few years, despite the key offenses having a direct link to copyright law. “These provisions may include breach of contractual terms, fraud or secondary copyright infringement depending on the circumstances.” So what else is on the table?

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IPilogue

APRIL 5, 2022

With a SOCAN license, businesses comply with copyright laws and may play songs that are part of SOCAN’s repertoire while supporting the creators of that music. After reading the title you might be wondering, what does the cobra pose have to do with copyrights?

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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. Copyright in Tattoos. Background.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Every time he signed back up he breached Bungie’s Limited Software License Agreement (LSLA), Bungie said. Bungie calls this ‘cheat software” and according to Mann, the company has been trying to “shoehorn” its use into a recognized cause of action, such as copyright infringement and/or breach of contract.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 2, 2022

However, those familiar with copyright law, immediately began to point out flaws in the plan. Back in November 2021, copyright non-repudiation service Safe Creative announced a new system that would affix copyright information to NFTs. It’s a simple idea, but one that hasn’t taken off yet.

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Copyright Lately

MARCH 16, 2023

The court’s March 14 ruling (read here) rejected the defendants’ assertion that copyright terminations served by Bono’s heirs effectively preempted Cher’s state law contract rights. At this rate, the Cher-Bono litigation may end up lasting longer than the couple’s marriage.

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 13, 2024

copyright law does not expressly provide for such renumeration, these opportunities depend on the code underlying the NFTs and the rules of the platforms on which they’re sold rather than any statutory entitlement. NFTs may offer opportunities for U.S. artists to obtain remuneration from downstream resales of their works (a.k.a.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 18, 2023

The limitation on the use of Meta’s libraries occurred after the tech behemoth and the Italian copyright collecting society for authors and editors (“Società Italiana degli Autori ed Editori”, “SIAE”) came to an impasse during the renewal of the license agreement for the exploitation of the Italian repertoire.

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Copyright Lately

APRIL 6, 2024

Yonay’s widow and son launched the legal action in June 2022 after Paramount Pictures released the blockbuster sequel Top Gun: Maverick without renegotiating a license to adapt Yonay’s “Top Guns” article, despite a 2018 copyright termination notice served by his heirs.

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IP and Legal Filings

JULY 21, 2022

Copyright ensures certain minimum rights and it has never been an absolute right. If copyright protection is applied rigidly, it will hamper progress of the society. Along a similar line, the USA also offers blanket licensing through the national RRO (Reproduction Rights Organization). The number suggests its misery.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MARCH 14, 2024

Part I covers decisions in the areas of copyright protection and exploitation rights, as well as exceptions and limitations. Part II will focus on copyright contract law and claims under copyright law. I. Copyright protection 1. This follows from the LG’s Berlin decision in The Unknowable.

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The IP Law Blog

MARCH 23, 2023

10, 2023), the Ninth Circuit held that the trial court had properly enforced contractual provisions to find that the Plaintiff’s copyright infringement claims were barred by the agreed-to shortened, statute of limitations period. Evox Productions creates and licenses images of cars. Chrome Data Solutions, LP (filed Feb.

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