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. How Do Different Departments Use the Annual Copyright License?

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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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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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Intellectual Property Law Blog

MARCH 13, 2024

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) and the United States Copyright Office (“USCO”) delivered a report to Congress entitled Non-Fungible Tokens and Intellectual Property on March 12, 2024 (“Report”). Proposals to use NFTs to replace or supplement copyright recordkeeping did not demonstrate added value.

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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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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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Velocity of Content

JUNE 20, 2022

But there is great excitement in the billion-dollar market for these digital images, which were launched in April 2021 and count singers Justin Bieber and Madonna among their celebrity owners. Cryptocurrency and Cryptic Copyright. Well, a smart contract isn’t really a contract – a smart contract is simply a bit of self-executing code.

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The IPKat

MARCH 22, 2024

The IPKat is pleased to host the following guest post by Katfriend Caroline Theunis (Bar of the Province of Antwerp) on the copyright troubles of music superstar and copyright-savvy artist Taylor Swift. Taylor however retained the copyrights over the compositions she created, enabling her to (re-)publish the music independently.

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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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SpicyIP

MARCH 28, 2022

She works in a law firm that advises technology companies. News and Views: Copyright Hues and Authors’ Dues. For instance, the EU has adopted a neighbouring right for press publishers under copyright regulations. The views expressed in this post are personal. Aparajita Lath. A recent post on SpicyIP traces the two approaches.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 2, 2022

Can tattoos infringe copyrights, and if yes, what remedies are appropriate? This is a venerable question–I remember evaluating it as a possible law review note topic 30+ years ago. ” As for whether the tattoo is substantially similar to the copyrighted elements of the photo, the court sends the issue to the jury.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 19, 2023

However, the ensuing craze and notoriety generated by many high-value NFT transactions has revealed a slew of unanswered legal copyright questions and issues. However, de facto they merely owned proof of ownership without any proprietary value, as all copyright and any related rights were retained and not granted upon purchase.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

As I wrote previously : lawsuits against IAPs are problematic for many reasons, including the failure of 512(a), the danger of assuming that notices of claimed infringements (NOCIs) actually reflect infringing behavior, and the mismatch between the wrongdoing of alleged copyright infringement and the remedy of terminating Internet access.

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SpicyIP

OCTOBER 28, 2022

As reported on Entrackr , Pocket FM has filed a copyright infringement case against Kuku FM before the Delhi High Court. Pocket FM alleges that Kuku FM has violated its copyright by providing audio summaries of books to which Pocket FM has exclusive rights to create audiobooks. Image from here. The matter is still being heard.

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Intepat

JUNE 15, 2023

Introduction With the rise of the mobile application industry, India emerges as a highly profitable market, witnessing over twenty-eight billion downloads in 2022, accounting for 5% of the total global downloads. What is copyright protection? In the context of the Copyright Act, computer software is categorized as a ‘literary work’.

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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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IIPRD

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

A thorough awareness of intellectual property laws is crucial, regardless of your career goals—be they that of a fashion designer, singer, filmmaker, or just someone curious about the legal side of entertainment. Copyright and trademark are the most important IP rights in this industry.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 5, 2021

As previously discussed , the Copyright (Rights and Remuneration of Musicians, Etc.) Bill proposed new laws for equitable remuneration for streaming, contract adjustment, right of revocation and transparency. to modernise the law so it reflects the reality of the music industry." This bill is not about anarchy in the UK.

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The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

This is a book review of ‘ Copyright, Creativity, Big Media and Cultural Value: Incorporating the Author ’, by Professor Kathy Bowrey , UNSW, Sydney. It seeks to address questions of how copyright generates income and how distributions of profits are allocated in the publishing, film and music industries.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

JUNE 23, 2022

Given the rapid growth of Non-Fungible Token (NFT) market, it was just a matter of time until a court recognised the labyrinth of intellectual property difficulties that surrounded the distribution and sale of NFT digital works. In China’s first copyright infringement case including NFT digital work, a court recently decided.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

JUNE 23, 2022

Given the rapid growth of Non-Fungible Token (NFT) market, it was just a matter of time until a court recognised the labyrinth of intellectual property difficulties that surrounded the distribution and sale of NFT digital works. In China’s first copyright infringement case including NFT digital work, a court recently decided.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 12, 2021

Under the Copyright Act, display. The first question is whether embedding the video on Sinclair’s website was a “display” that requires the permission of the copyright owner. But it cannot be that the Copyright Act grants authors an exclusive right to display their work publicly only if that public is not online.”

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The IP Law Blog

AUGUST 25, 2022

District Court can exercise personal jurisdiction over a foreign defendant with regard to a copyright infringement suit. Lang Van is a California corporation that produces and distributes Vietnamese music and entertainment, owning the copyrights to thousands of songs and programs. In 2014, Lang Van sued VNG for copyright infringement.

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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. What is copyright? Which ones? Work for Hire.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

JULY 19, 2022

What is copyright infringement? Unauthorized use of a work protected by copyright is referred to as copyright infringement. Thus, it is the unauthorised use of someone else’s copyrighted work that violates the owner’s rights, such as the right to reproduce, distribute, exhibit, or perform the protected work.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

APRIL 1, 2023

. * * * This ruling is part of an ongoing multi-iteration tussle (in and out of court) over market share between two rival unions. TL;DR: a copyright takedown notice that doesn’t meet the elements of 512(c)(3) cannot give rise to a 512(f) clam. I’m going to focus on the 512(f) claim. ” Cite to ISE v.

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IP and Legal Filings

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

It supports the numerous stakeholders who are engaged behind and in front of the scenes, it enables producers to get the funding required to launch production or marketing campaigns, and encourages technology advancements that push the bounds of creativity and make them possible.[1]. Image Source:iStock]. Intellectual Property Ownership.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

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 IPKat

MARCH 10, 2024

Webinar on navigating intellectual property in sustainable fashion (13 March) 4IPCouncil is organizing a webinar on second-hand luxury markets on 13 March at 16:00 CET. IMRO and Law Society Annual Copyright Lecture (1 May) The 5th annual IMRO/Law Society of Ireland Copyright Lecture will be held in Dublin on 1 May, 18:00 – 19:30.

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 13, 2024

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) and the United States Copyright Office (“USCO”) delivered a report to Congress entitled Non-Fungible Tokens and Intellectual Property on March 12, 2024 (“Report”). NFTs may offer opportunities for U.S. resale royalties).

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The IPKat

JANUARY 18, 2023

In particular, it stands out a concept which is frequently neglected when NFTs are explained: the link to the image, i.e., the artwork, is not contained in the smart contract (the piece of software written in Solidity programming language which generates an NFT) but in a JSON file (“JavaScript Object Notation”) which contains the NFT’s metadata.

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Traverse Legal Blog

JANUARY 26, 2022

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. Learn more about NFT Copyright Issues here. The NFT is a smart contract coded with the NFT.

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IP and Legal Filings

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Publicity, such as character, reputation and personal brand, will be protected under various statutes, such as the Copyright Act 1957 and the Trade Marks Act 1999. iii] Provisions in Indians Laws Trademarks Act, 1999 does not make any exact provision for publicity rights, but its definition of ‘Marks’ contains names within its ambit. [iii]

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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. m4ufree.to [link] 104.21.15.7 sx [link] 104.21.28.9

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2021

WhenU concluded that copyright was a dead-end. In this lawsuit, the plaintiffs aren’t suing Google for violating their copyrights or trademarks. A website can own the copyrights to the HTML code and the files that users download. That’s the purview of copyright–or not restricted at all. Wells Fargo v.

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LexBlog IP

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Meme Culture Meets Copyright Law: A Guide for Businesses & Creators Memes, often humorous media fragments that spread rapidly through online sharing, are a global phenomenon that have made their way into mainstream culture. Table of Contents: Fair Use Under the Copyright Act How much risk are we talking here?

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The IP Law Blog

MARCH 31, 2022

In an effort to market his script, Desny called Billy Wilder, a writer, producer and director at Paramount Pictures. The Court, however, held that Densy stated sufficient facts to establish the existence of an implied-in-fact contract between the parties. There had been idea theft cases prior to Desny. One such case is Stanley v.

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