Traverse Legal Blog

MARCH 3, 2021

There is an increasing number of brands, talent agencies, and influencers looking to leverage influencer marketing. Celebrities, Influencers, Talent Agents, Marketing Agencies & Brands. We represent agencies, marketing agencies trying to line up influencer campaigns for their clients, for brands.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

AUGUST 22, 2023

contracts) may play a decisive role in the final allocation of rights and obligations. Under EU Law, the most significant developments were introduced by articles 3 and 4 CDSMD, and its national implementations. We selected the Scientific Publishing industry to better understand how the obligations under art.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 13, 2024

sued Bright Data for trespass to chattels, breach of contract, tortious interference with a contract, violation of California Business and Professions Code Section 17200, and misappropriation. — For the claims related to illegal selling of scraped data, the court dismissed those because they were preempted by copyright.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Photo by Aaron Burden on Unsplash In 2019, the European Union (EU) adopted its most important copyright reform in the past 20 years with the Copyright in the Digital Single Market (DSM) Directive. A core goal of the DSM Directive was to adapt EU copyright law to the digital era, ensuring it could address new practices.

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Velocity of Content

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Fast-paced organizations that rely on and invest heavily in R&D should not only regard published content as the heart of innovation, but also possess a deep appreciation of the system of copyright protecting this intellectual property.

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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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Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The European Federation of Academies of Sciences and Humanities (ALLEA) has for many years supported the move away from proprietary models of scientific publishing towards Open Access (OA). [1] As a recent study demonstrates, commercial publishers currently derive more than two billion USD annually from APCs.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 14, 2021

While academics and stakeholders have been critically dissecting its controversial provisions on platform liability, news aggregation and text & data mining, the Directive’s Chapter 3 (‘Fair remuneration in exploitation contracts of authors and performers’) has gone almost unnoticed, save for a positive opinion of the European Copyright Society.

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The IPKat

AUGUST 19, 2021

Earlier this year, The IPKat reported on the judgment of the Grand Chamber of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) in VG Bild-Kunst , C-392/19 , an important case concerning contractual restrictions to linking under EU copyright law (on that occasion, I also updated my linking table: see here ).

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JULY 27, 2022

Source: European Copyright Society. Almost 3 years after the adoption of the Digital Single Market ( Directive (EU) 2019/790 ) (CDSM Directive), its transposition by the Member States (MS) has proved to be a significant challenge. The Society is not funded, nor has been instructed, by any particular stakeholders.

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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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SpicyIP

MARCH 28, 2022

News and Views: Copyright Hues and Authors’ Dues. Tensions between news publishers and digital platforms providing search and news aggregation services have been growing globally for years. For instance, the EU has adopted a neighbouring right for press publishers under copyright regulations. Aparajita Lath.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Parts 1 to 3 of this post (originally published in “Auteurs & Media”) summarising case law of the German Bundesgerichtshof from 2015 to 2019 are available here , here and here. Copyright contract law (Sections 31 et seqq. Claims under copyright law. Right of remuneration (Sections 32 et seqq.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

They have taken work away from lawyers by writing contracts. Now, last time I checked we live in a market economy. Imagine that you are a record company or book publisher. Some say that certain humans will always write books and music and make art and that there will always be a market for masterpieces of human creativity.

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Velocity of Content

AUGUST 10, 2022

In the aftermath of Brexit, many publishers were wondering if the UK — with its strong tradition of supporting the rights of publishers, authors, and artists — would provide another voice in defense of copyright. This article originally ran on The Scholarly Kitchen on 25 July. Reprinted with permission.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Some consider that the Government was influenced by the French union of book publishers Syndicat National de l’Edition – SNE when it decided to leave out the term ‘appropriate’ when transposing the principle of ‘ appropriate and proportionate remuneration ’ of articles 18 and 20 of the CDSM. The implementation of the CDSM into French law.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 7, 2023

This examined the problem of authors’ remuneration: authors’ contracts tend to result in disproportionately low revenues relative to the returns of investors and intermediaries. Importantly, the parties may not contract out of this right to readjustment. Reversion of rights That said, some balance is offered in the U.S.

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IP and Legal Filings

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

As a result, the sector works closely with various performers, artists, authors, publishers, production companies, record labels, online content providers, broadcasters, advertising, distributors, etc. Or whether the agencies should be provided royalties for the same if the idea is used for marketing purposes after their contract has ended?

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

6-7 April 2023: “From the DMCA to the DSA: A Transatlantic Dialogue on Online Platform Liability and Copyright Law” The Berkeley Center for Law and Technology will hold its 27th annual symposium, on 6 and 7 April 2023, at the International House, UC Berkeley. Click here and here to know more. Click here to know more.

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

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The IPKat

AUGUST 24, 2021

This said, based on what is already available, it is apparent that the provisions that the EU legislature adopted in 2019 to establish a ‘Digital Single Market’ will be implemented in different – if not altogether creative – ways across the EU. Examples of the latter are the articles on authors’ and performers’ contracts (Articles 18 to 23).

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JANUARY 9, 2023

YouTube’s first Copyright Transparency Report 2021 – A step towards “factfulness” by Jan Bernd Nordemann. At the end of 2021, YouTube’s first Copyright Transparency Report 2021 (“Report”) was published. T]he European Commission published its proposal for a Data Act. Copyright law and football matches: impossible to match?

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MARCH 8, 2023

4996/2022 in November 2022 ( ΦΕΚ Α´ 2022/24.11.2022 ), which amended the basic Greek Copyright Law ( L. 2121/1993 on “Copyright, Related Rights and Cultural Matters” ), as well as L. 4481/2017, on “Collective Management of Copyright and Related Rights” ( ΦΕΚ Α’ 100/20.7.2017 ). 15 of the CDSMD. 51B (para.

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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. It’s a creative photo, but it was published. Market Effect. Third, if the jury finds copyright infringement, ordinarily a permanent injunction would follow.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MARCH 6, 2023

A series of recent amendments to copyright law, including in the EU Copyright and the Digital Single Market Directive (Art. 3 and 4) and in Singapore’s new Copyright Act (Art. 243, 244), seek to protect the ability of text and data mining researchers to use copyrighted content in their work. 3d 87 (2d Cir.

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The IP Law Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Trump claims that Woodward did not have his permission to release these audiotapes as a separate audiobook, and sued Woodard and his publisher for, among other claims, copyright infringement. Does Trump have a claim, or is his copyright claim “trumped up”? And then there is the more recent case of Taggart v.

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The IPKat

OCTOBER 31, 2021

On 23 October 2021, the standing committee of the National People’s Congress, China’s top legislature, ratified the Marrakesh Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works for Persons Who Are Blind, Visually Impaired, or Otherwise Print Disabled (hereinafter referred to as “the Marrakesh Treaty”). In article 50.1(2),

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JANUARY 16, 2023

17 DSMD, was implemented into a separate legislative act, the German Copyright Service Provider Act, called in German “UrhDaG” (see III. All German copyright laws affected by the reform are available in an official English translation here (UrhG, UrhDaG, VGG.). Extensive changes to the German Copyright Act.

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The IPKat

MARCH 22, 2024

The role of US copyright law and economic rights As a signatory to the WPPT , the US grants performers economic rights to performances which are fixed in a sound recording. Taylor however retained the copyrights over the compositions she created, enabling her to (re-)publish the music independently.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 9, 2024

After almost a decade of fine-tuning, including amendments to copyright law, the administration of Australia’s pirate site-blocking system looks organized and reliable. More recently, however, the time between application and blocking injunction has contracted.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 26, 2023

At present, according to a new para 2 in art 23 of the CNRA, “Any arrangement which impedes or restricts the right of free use is null and void unless otherwise provided by law.” The press publishers’ right The new neighbouring right on press publications was introduced in art. of the law. 17 of the Directive. 90d et seq.

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Copyright Lately

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

While the Copyright Act gives the copyright owner the exclusive right to reproduce and distribute a digital file containing a copyrighted work, there’s no such thing as the “exclusive right to mint an NFT” as far as copyright law is concerned. This is, after all, supposed to be a copyright case.

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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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CopyrightsWorld

MARCH 30, 2021

If you ask any professional working on digital marketing what is the most valuable online asset for a business, you’ll get pretty the same answer. The second one is to get ownership of their copyright, know their rights under the copyright laws and how to protect them. Which ones? What is original work? Obviously no.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 22, 2023

CJPA would compel some bigger online publishers (called “covered platforms” in the bill) to transfer some of their wealth directly to other publishers–intended to be journalistic operations, but most of the dollars will go to vulture capitalists’ stockholders and MAGA-clickbait outlets like Breitbart.

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The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

It seeks to address questions of how copyright generates income and how distributions of profits are allocated in the publishing, film and music industries. Chapter 5, ‘Print capitalism meets Hollywood, the work of industrial authorship’, provides an analysis of cultural markets and copyright control.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Two weeks ago, former President Donald Trump filed a lawsuit against journalist Bob Woodward and his publisher, Simon & Schuster (and its parent company Paramount Global, formerly known as Viacom-CBS), in U.S. The audiobook is also published on CD, and transcripts were published in paperback and ebook formats.)

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