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. In this blog we will take a look at best practices to avoid copyright infringement. In this blog we will take a look at best practices to avoid copyright infringement.

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Copyright Lately

MARCH 31, 2024

Video game publisher Atari Interactive has launched a copyright infringement lawsuit against State Farm, claiming that the insurer improperly appropriated artwork from Atari’s 1983 arcade game “Crystal Castles” for an advertising campaign as part of a “cynical plot” to resonate with fickle millennial and Gen Z consumers.

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IPilogue

DECEMBER 9, 2022

In the verdict form the jury stated that Defendants had not proven fair use, the Plaintiff (Alexander) should receive $3,750 USD for actual losses from the Defendant’s use of the tattoo designs, and did not answer as to profits can be attributed to the Plaintiff for use of the tattoos. Citing Muhammad-Ali v.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 19, 2023

Clarifying Copyright Fair Use in Commercialized and Licensed Visual Arts: Insights from Warhol v. Goldsmith by Jaime Chandra Clarifying Fair Use in Commercialized & Licensed Visual Arts: Insights from the Warhol v. We’re talking about Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts, Inc. Let’s dive in!

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Velocity of Content

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The 1976 Act was the first major revision of US copyright law since the 1909 Act , which was passed during the era of Mark Twain, ragtime, player pianos, and early silent films. Harper & Row brought suit and The Nation argued that publishing the excerpts was a fair use.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 22, 2023

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.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Such uses, they argue, constitute copyright infringement. Fair Use Precedent? Google Books and Transformative Use The past two decades have seen a wealth of technological developments, but generative AI is qualitatively different from everything that has come before. However, the U.S.

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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

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Yesterday, Plaintiffs hit back, noting that OpenAI hasn’t moved to dismiss the “core claim” in the lawsuits—direct infringement. Yesterday, Plaintiffs hit back, noting that OpenAI hasn’t moved to dismiss the “core claim” in the lawsuits—direct infringement.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 6, 2022

Babybus runs a competitive channel that Moonbug believes infringes its copyrights. An example: Moonbug submitted takedown notices to YouTube covering at least 70 videos and sued Babybus for copyright infringement. Babybus counterclaimed for 512(f). The court dismisses Bbybus’ counterclaims. Alper Automotive v.

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Copyright Lately

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

That order actually topped my list of the 5 Worst Copyright Decisions of 2020 because, by sending the case to a jury, the court effectively ruled that anyone with a tattoo is not in control of the uses to which his or her likeness is put. A plaintiff typically has the burden at trial to prove ownership of a valid copyright.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Last week, an Illinois jury awarded tattoo artist Catherine Alexander $3,750 in damages at the conclusion of a copyright infringement trial. 2K Games rejected similar infringement claims on the basis of de minimis use, implied license, and fair use.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 8, 2021

The Television Academies sued Goodman for copyright infringement, trademark infringement and dilution, and defamation. Copyright Infringement/Fair Use. The Crony graphic appeared as the video’s thumbnail image and in the video’s first 10 seconds, so it was not a de minimis use.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2023

The Common Crawl dataset is owned by a non-profit, which makes the data available to the public for free — but it is intended to be used for research and education and, according to the plaintiffs, it was never intended to be turned into an AI product for commercial use (see here and here ). 4th 1149 (9th Cir. 3d 723, 743 (9th Cir.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 17, 2021

First off today, Blake Brittain at Reuters reports that the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals has reinstated a copyright infringement lawsuit against the realtors Columbia House of Brokers Realty over the alleged infringement of floor plans. 2: Eurovision Singer James Newman Wins Copyright Case over Rudimental Hit.

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Copyright Lately

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

While these sorts of objects typically aren’t themselves eligible for copyright protection, they often contain pictures or designs which are protectable. Section 113(c) would also allow me to use my photos in a blog post talking about how I flipped the t-shirts for a profit because Alyssa priced them too low. Deadly Doll, Inc.

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IPilogue

OCTOBER 28, 2021

In general, any clothing, including costumes, is not protected by copyright laws. In Canada, under section 64(2) of the Copyright Act , it is not an infringement of copyright to reproduce the design of a “useful article”, so long as more than 50 copies are made. In Pyrrha Design Inc.

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Patently-O

AUGUST 31, 2021

In addition, SAS argues that the formatting of the reports is also copyrighted. There apparently is no claim of copying of any lines of software, but instead it is copying of the functionality and use of the particular coding language. The Federal Circuit’s Google v. Oracle decisions are sitting in the background.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 17, 2023

The calls for revisiting copyright in the wake of generative AI – with proposals to create new exceptions or design remuneration models for authors – further fortify this “faith,” I believe. The overreliance on fair dealing, I argue, inadvertently expands the scope of copyright law and harms the public domain.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The precedent work is “a set of replacement stickers for the dashboard climate controls for certain GM vehicles”: The Copyright Office registered this design. Defendant had not obtained the Deposit Design from the Copyright Office.

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Patently-O

AUGUST 25, 2021

In Google , the Supreme Court found fair-use but did not decide the issue of copyrightability. WPL is a UK based software company who obtained several copies of SAS statistical software and made a clone version. SAS sued in E.D.Tex for both copyright infringement and patent infringement.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2022

But if they want to be double-sure, send a takedown notice on any grounds other than copyright infringement and voila! Day to Day Imports. * Satirical Depiction in YouTube Video Gets Rough Treatment in Court. * 512(f) Preempts Tortious Interference Claim–Copy Me That v. You know how this claim went. 512(f) disappears entirely.

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IP and Legal Filings

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Initially, the District Court adjudicated that Napster’s file-sharing service did not fall under the ambit of fair use. Direct and contributory infringement. To this, Napster contended that they could not differentiate between infringing and non-infringing files and, hence, did not know what constitutes copyright infringement.

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IP and Legal Filings

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

The Court held that it was not infringement as the idea behind both the plaintiff and defendant’s works were similar, but the method in which each of them portrayed it was different, hence that was not a copyright infringement. Yashraj Films , the High Court of Bombay reiterated that ideas are not covered under Copyrights.

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IP and Legal Filings

OCTOBER 4, 2022

The Court held that it was not infringement as the idea behind both the plaintiff and defendant’s works were similar, but the method in which each of them portrayed it was different, hence that was not a copyright infringement. Yashraj Films , the High Court of Bombay reiterated that ideas are not covered under Copyrights.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

These include (and may be limited to) Hong Kong ( section 11(3), Copyright Ordinance ), India (section 2(d)(vi), Copyright Act, 1957 ), Ireland ( Art. Text and data mining There is wide disparity in the scope of exceptions in national copyright laws permitting copying for the use of training AI.

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Patently-O

APRIL 6, 2023

In that case, the Court found that Google’s use of Java API naming conventions in its Android operating system was fair use under copyright law. Because its fair use decision decided the case, the court did not rule separately on whether the API was even copyrightable in the first place.

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SpicyIP

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Fair dealing requirements under Indian law are quite broad, but one would assume they are purpose built for circumstances like this, where short clips from Aaj Tak have been taken and critical commentary added to it by Newslaundry.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 25, 2023

Photo by Artur Shamsutdinov on Unsplash This is a two-part post summarising the authors’ findings from the report on Copyright Infringement in the Video Game Industry which was prepared by the authors for the World Intellectual Property Organization.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 1, 2023

By Guest Blogger Tyler Ochoa Recently, the Ninth Circuit reaffirmed what has become known as the “server test”: in order to be held directly liable for violating the public display right, the alleged infringer must have a fixed “copy” of the work stored on a server in its possession or control. July 17, 2023).

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43(B)log

AUGUST 4, 2021

Cathay Smith: Do you foresee a point in time at which an AI might be able to make a fair use/fair dealing decision in the moment? But fair use/dealing typically involves reproduction of a limited portion, and AI could calculate portion. EFF doesn’t want fair use cases in the system; MPAA does.

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SpicyIP

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Challenges Under IP Law Dark patterns are deceptive or manipulative design elements or techniques used in user interfaces to trick users into taking actions they may not want to take. Misuse of copyrighted content: It also includes misuse of copyrighted material, such as using images or content without permission to mislead users.

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Copyright Lately

MAY 1, 2023

Within just over a month, a raft of barely-underground Discord servers like AI Hub have popped up to provide users with access to software—and step-by-step instructions—for creating new songs using hundreds of community-made AI models designed to mimic specific artists’ voices. Most voice model files are actually quite small.)

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43(B)log

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Structural connectors are used to join, and transfer the load between, different structural members, including vertical members like studs and posts, horizontal members like floor joists and roof trusses, and foundations. Though MiTek’s use was commercial, so was Simpson’s, and there was more scope for fair use of its highly factual work.

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LexBlog IP

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Larson also sought a declaration that she owns the copyright to The Kindest and that the letter in the short story does not infringe Dorland’s copyright. Dorland counterclaimed for copyright infringement, claiming that Larson’s use of Dorland’s letter was a violation of intellectual property law.

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Copyright Lately

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Despite a number of solid affirmative defenses—including implied license, de minimis use and waiver—the jury was only asked to determine whether defendants had proven that their conduct qualified as a fair use under the Copyright Act. Skull arm design. Bible verse design. Upper back design.

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Copyright Lately

APRIL 3, 2023

The future of “controlled digital lending” is in doubt after a court rules that the Internet Archive’s online library is not protected by fair use. When the electronic version is “checked out,” the physical copy is taken out of circulation. ” What is Controlled Digital Lending?

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