The IP Law Blog

MAY 5, 2022

When standard approaches failed, a business professor recently turned to copyright law, hoping for a solution. To obtain a subpoena, Berkovitz would have to register his copyrights and file a lawsuit for copyright infringement, which he did. This lawsuit was dismissed one month after it was filed.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JANUARY 4, 2024

Welcome to the fourth (and last) round up of EU copyright law for 2023! In this edition, we update you on what has happened in the last three months of 2024 in EU copyright law. Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash Dear readers, Happy new year! The end of the year was busy for both the courts and the policy makers.

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LexBlog IP

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Specifically, copyright protection attaches to the original, creative work when it is fixed in a tangible medium, such as when it is written, drawn, recorded digitally, or typed electronically. Many find it surprising, but there is no requirement to include a copyright notice on a work for the work to be protected by copyright law.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

People have become less dependent on print media and more likely to use a digital medium such as computerized documents of soft copies. While these developments have certainly made our lives easier, it has also led to many concerns regarding intellectual property right protection. Kind of Copyright Infringement.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 4, 2022

This is the type of behavior that has attracted copyright infringement lawsuits in the past but in this case, the makers of Genshin XYZ are using copyright law to prevent piracy of their product. DMCA’s Anti-Circumvention Provisions. Github’s Analysis Results in Takedown.

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IPilogue

AUGUST 4, 2021

Claire Wortsman is an IPilogue Writer and a 2L JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. . Is GitHub Copilot a Copyright Infringer? While Ziegler’s use of the word “mostly” may not reassure those fearing copyright infringement, his paper highlights two details that might. Photo by Christopher Gower ( Unsplash).

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IP and Legal Filings

MAY 30, 2022

A careful step towards ensuring the acquisition of prosperity gained through your work is to copyright it. The copyright laws in India are governed under the Copyright Act, 1957. The courts can order the disposal of such copies under Section 66. 50,000 to 2 lakhs.

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 19, 2022

1: Government Pauses Plans to Rewrite UK Copyright Laws After Authors Protest. Without this rule, many authors fear the UK market would be flooded with cheaper international copies. The IPO has said that it will continue evaluating potential changes to copyright law but did not set a timetable.

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JIPEL Copyright Blog

APRIL 26, 2021

In this case, via alleged copyright infringement. However, an equally long list of controversies accompanies this list of accomplishments, the majority of which involve alleged copying. Nordstrom removed the pieces at issue, and everything seemed to be fine on the copying front—until 2020 hit. The account and its 2.6

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IP and Legal Filings

AUGUST 14, 2023

Choice Of Law In Ipr Infringement The nature of the rights is the primary concern in any international dispute that involves intellectual property rights. SHOULD LEX LOCI PROTECTIONIS BE APPLIED BLANKETLY TO COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT? Today, most of the copyright infringement happen through the Internet.

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Indiana Intellectual Property Law

MARCH 30, 2023

for Copyright Infringement, Removal of Copyright Management Information and Addition of False Copyright Management Information. A Copyright Registration was issued on December 15, 2008 under Register Number VAu 989-644. 501 , damages pursuant to 17 U.S.C. § The case was assigned to Judge Damon R. Gotsch, Sr.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JULY 19, 2023

It is not the first time that the French courts have ruled that fonts may be protected by copyright (e.g. In 2020, the creator of Le Monde newspaper’s font, together with the company he founded, brought a copyright infringement case against Google and the company that created the ‘Spectral’ font.

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LexBlog IP

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Meta Platforms (parent company of Facebook) and OpenAI (creator of ChatGPT) have individually filed a Motion to Dismiss the class-action lawsuit filed by comedian Sarah Silverman and authors Richard Kadrey and Christopher Golden for alleged copyright infringement.

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IIPRD

APRIL 21, 2021

These goods and services present online that form the bread and butter for business are a protected product/content that is categorized as intellectual property and is protected under the Intellectual Property laws through copyright, trademark , design , etc. 2] The Copyright Act, 1957.—Section

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LexBlog IP

MAY 5, 2022

When standard approaches failed, a business professor recently turned to copyright law, hoping for a solution. To obtain a subpoena, Berkovitz would have to register his copyrights and file a lawsuit for copyright infringement, which he did. This lawsuit was dismissed one month after it was filed.

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 2, 2023

According to Getty Images, Stability copied Getty’s photographs with associated text and metadata to train its Stable Diffusion model, which uses AI to generate computer-synthesized images in response to text prompts. According to Getty, this is clear copyright infringement.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JULY 11, 2022

The Intellectual Property Enterprise Court (IPEC), part of the English High Court, has ruled that copyright subsists in the character of Derek ‘Del Boy’ Trotter and that a character can be protected as a literary work under the UK’s closed list of copyright works ([ 2022] EWHC 1379 IPEC ). The Infringement.

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IP and Legal Filings

MAY 13, 2024

This way of doing things with the help of generative AI technology carries numerous legal challenges of intellectual property violation. Is copyright, patent, or trademark infringement applicable to AI creations or not, and who owns the material that AI platforms generate for you or your clients is still an unanswered question.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 25, 2024

Publishers Hachette, HarperCollins, John Wiley, and Penguin Random House filed a lawsuit, equating IA’s controlled digital lending (CDL) operation to copyright infringement. Earlier this year a New York federal court concluded that the library is indeed liable for copyright infringement. – Copyright Alliance.

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LexBlog IP

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

and Universal Music Group (“Plaintiffs”) sued AI start-up Anthropic PBC (“Anthropic”) on October 18, 2023, in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee “to address the systematic and widespread infringement of their copyrighted song lyrics” by Anthropic. ABCKO Music, Inc.,

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JIPL Online

APRIL 9, 2021

ii] Existing copyright law is ineffective in its application to new forms of digital media. iii] While intellectual property remedies are painfully slow, the internet is on the cutting-edge of fast paced communication. LAW AND ECONOMICS. Costs Versus Benefits of Copyright Protection.

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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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LexBlog IP

JULY 24, 2023

The lawsuits, filed in San Francisco federal court, highlight the legal challenges faced by developers of chat bots who rely on copyrighted material to create realistic responses. One hurdle plaintiffs may struggle to overcome is the 2 nd Circuit Court’s decision in Authors Guild v. Under the fair use doctrine of the U.S.

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The IP Law Blog

MARCH 14, 2024

In 2023, several authors, including the comedian Sarah Silverman, filed putative class action lawsuits alleging various copyright infringement claims. The OpenAI defendants moved to dismiss all causes of action alleged by the author plaintiffs with the exception of the first cause of action for direct copyright infringement. (It

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IP Watchdog

AUGUST 31, 2023

District Court for the Northern District of Illinois dismissed a copyright infringement lawsuit filed against the rapper and singer, Future. A Virigina-based rapper, Gutta, accused the rap star of copying his song “When U Think About It” when Future released “When I Think About It” on a 2018 mixtape. copyright law.

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LexBlog IP

OCTOBER 30, 2021

It is also an increasingly popular medium for infringers to illegally source and share copyrighted materials. Fortunately, copyright law prohibits the unauthorized reproduction of a work. Copyright disputes do not need to escalate into costly and time-consuming litigation. How is Copyright Infringed?

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JULY 20, 2022

Since the underlying asset in NFTs is primarily art, disputes in relation to NFTs bring up interesting questions pertaining to copyright law, the answers to which have the potential to shape the evolution and growth of NFTs as a medium to create, distribute and collect art. The reproduction right. The distribution right.

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IP and Legal Filings

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

However, many a times, we witness these designs being copied or recreated. Copying designs as well as creating replicas of any sort which closely resemble the general composition or the original blueprint infringes the right of the creator. To counter this issue laws are placed so that the original ideas can be protected.

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Indiana Intellectual Property Law

JANUARY 19, 2024

In a recent legal action, photographer Ivan Radic has filed suit against AllCity Adjusting LLC and Zor Development LLC for allegedly infringing upon his intellectual property rights. He has accused the defendants of unauthorized use and distribution of his copyrighted work.

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Indiana Intellectual Property Law

JUNE 1, 2023

Supreme Court has ruled that Andy Warhol’s orange silkscreen portrait of musician Prince, adapted from a photograph by Lynn Goldsmith, does not qualify as “fair use” under copyright law. The commercial nature of the copying further weighed against fair use.

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Indiana Intellectual Property Law

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The issue revolved around copyright infringement claims brought by UIRC-GSA Holdings against William Blair, a financial services company. UIRC-GSA Holdings (hereafter referred to as UIRC) alleged that Blair copied certain documents used in bond offerings, which UIRC claimed copyright protection over.

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Patently-O

AUGUST 31, 2021

SAS argues that it made a “plethora of creative choices” in developing its material, and that creativity is more than sufficient to satisfy the originality requirements of copyright law. Thus far, the courts have disagreed with SAS and rejected its copyright assertions. Patents should be the go-to in this area.

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LexBlog IP

OCTOBER 4, 2022

While copyright law is at the center of a few recent disputes over intellectual property protection for typefaces and fonts, design patents are an often-overlooked mechanism for protecting these designs. and NBCUniversal Media, LLC relating to alleged copying of fonts. Copyrights. Design Patents.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Photo by Udo Pohlmann via Pixabay Over the last decades, European lawyers got used to the – at times remarkable and even forceful – interventions of the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) in copyright law. He sues for copyright infringement and claims damages. The Safarov case In 2009, Safarov authors a book.

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IPilogue

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

These events point to two prevalent issues within the current legal framework: First, that current intellectual property laws do not properly acknowledge collective ownership over shared culture within Indigenous communities and second, whether tattoo designs have the potential to be protected through copyright laws.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2021

The courts need to understand the degree to which such usage may harm the work or decrease the profits for the owner of the copyright. Today, this doctrine has become one of most popular doctrines in the realm of copyright law. It allows people a positive defense against the infringement of copyright. Definition.

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IP and Legal Filings

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Additionally, the Covid-19 epidemic has sped up the process of digitization and renewed debate over online copyright. Through the Internet Protocol, the growing idea of intellectual property has successfully adapted the law over time to the online community. They need to be accepted by the law. Introduction.

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