IP Tech Blog

MARCH 28, 2023

A federal district court in New York held that the Internet Archive’s Open Library project was engaging in copyright infringement by publishing digital copies of millions of books online. The court engaged in an extensive analysis of whether the purpose and character of Internet Archive’s use was transformative.

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LexBlog IP

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

This time, a group of music publishing companies, including Concord Music Group, Inc., This time, a group of music publishing companies, including Concord Music Group, Inc., The ruling focused on one question: whether the first factor in a fair use analysis, the purpose and character of the use, barred Goldsmith’s claim.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 13, 2023

In 2020, publishers Hachette, HarperCollins, John Wiley and Penguin Random House sued the Internet Archive (IA) for copyright infringement, equating its ‘Open Library’ to a pirate site. Patrons can also borrow books that are scanned and digitized in-house, with technical restrictions that prevent copying.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

Depending on opinion, the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society, the supervising body and publisher for the Jehovah’s Witness religious group, either doesn’t like criticism, dislikes copyright infringement, or hates both. ” Fair Use Considerations.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 14, 2022

In the summer of 2020, publishers Hachette, HarperCollins, John Wiley and Penguin Random House filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Internet Archive (IA). “The only issue is whether Internet Archive’s massive infringement scheme is fair use under 17 U.S.C. §

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 28, 2023

A federal district court in New York held that the Internet Archive’s Open Library project was engaging in copyright infringement by publishing digital copies of millions of books online. Here, Internet Archive was simply offering a substitute for the books sold by the publishers. of America v.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 19, 2021

Last June, publishers Hachette, HarperCollins, John Wiley and Penguin Random House sued the Internet Archive for copyright infringement , describing its ‘Open Library’ as operating like a pirate site. Publishers Respond to Internet Archive’s Request.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 11, 2024

However, when the AI boom reached the mainstream last year, book authors and publishers took notice, then took retaliatory action. For example, Danish anti-piracy group Rights Alliance demanded The Eye to remove their copy of Books3, which it did. The fair use angle is expected to be a key part of this and other AI lawsuits.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 14, 2021

The service was not appreciated by book publishers. Publishers Sue IA For Copyright Infringement. HarperCollins Publishers LLC, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., and Penguin Random House LLC – all members of the Association of American Publishers – accused the Internet Archive of running a pirate site.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 19, 2023

Yesterday, the Supreme Court held 7-2 that a specific use of Andy Warhol’s “Orange Prince” silk screen—based on a copyrighted photograph of Prince—was not fair use. Lynn Goldsmith, a rock-and-roll photographer, took a photograph of Prince in 1981 that was published in a Newsweek article.

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Patently-O

JANUARY 4, 2024

2024) A recent copyright infringement lawsuit filed by small Boston intellectual property boutique Hsuanyeh Law Group PC (HLG) against international giant Winston & Strawn LLP focuses a dividing line that can highlight when copying the work of another firm is permissible. Winston & Strawn , 23-cv-11193 (S.D.N.Y.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2021

The Doctrine of Fair Use is a concept that originates from the case of Folsom vs. Marsh. Justice Story observed in his judgement, when the courts of law decide on cases like this, they must look to the nature and objects of the selection mode, the quantity and value of material used. Percentage of Original Material Used.

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Larson & Larson

JUNE 21, 2021

The most common limitation where the exclusive rights of a copyright holder can be limited fall under the doctrine of fair use- a defense against copyright infringement. That being said, here is a brief elucidation of what constitutes fair use. What is Fair Use? Commentary and Criticism.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

First off today, Andy Maxwell at Torrentfreak writes that the team behind the H3 Podcast has asked for the lawsuit against them to be dismissed, saying that the lawsuit is incorrect as a matter of law as they did not commit any copyright infringement. 2: Discovery Extension Requested in Internet Archive Book Scanning Suit.

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Copyright Lately

OCTOBER 24, 2022

The letter claimed that the director, an ad agency, and a popular theme park had all committed copyright infringement because a panda appeared in the background of their TV commercial. ” incident that results in a published court decision, there are dozens of others that are resolved quickly and quietly out of court.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Publishers vs. Internet Archive The self-scanning service is different from the licensing deals other libraries enter into. Not all publishers are happy with IA’s approach which triggered a massive legal battle two years ago. The publishers didn’t listen to these concerns.

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IPilogue

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

This past Monday, Osgoode’s very own Professor David Vaver delivered the 2021 Brace lecture on “User Rights: Fair Use and Beyond” as the series’ very first international speaker from outside the United States. It wasn’t until the late 1900s that courts in the UK began to recognize a problem with the tendency towards legal copyright.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 24, 2023

Goldsmith , Opinion located here , the estate of deceased pop artist Andy Warhol argued its use of the photo at issue was fair use under the first of the four Fair Use test factors (the “purpose and character of the use”), because Warhol’s contributions were transformative, adding new expression, meaning, or message.

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LexBlog IP

JULY 24, 2023

Silverman, Kadrey, and Golden allege that Meta and OpenAI used copies of the authors’ books without their permission by copying illegal online “shadow libraries” that contain the texts of thousands of books. Under the fair use doctrine of the U.S.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 19, 2023

On May 18, 2023, the Supreme Court found that artistic changes to a pre-existing work, alone, not necessarily sufficient to make a derivative work fair use. copyright law. copyright law, the Supreme Court focused on the actual use made, i.e. what the user does with the original work. Copyright law in the U.S.

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Dear Rich IP Blog

APRIL 5, 2020

Dear Rich: I am in the final stages of publishing an academic monograph. Is depositing the book at the library a form of "publishing?" I asked the estate for permission to publish small citations but they claimed I would give away the plot and thus their ability to make money on it if they were to publish. Paraphrasing.

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IPilogue

AUGUST 4, 2021

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. Intellectual property law professor Andres Guadamuz argues that Copilot, as it stands, does not infringe copyright.

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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. 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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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 16, 2024

The libraries use this concept of CDL justify the mass digitalization of copyright works digital versions of their legally obtained items and lending them to patrons in a controlled manner. This rule covers lending digital copies of copyrighted works, while works in the public domain can be freely digitized.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

“In 2021, Reddit permanently suspended 2,813 users and banned 2,625 subreddits for excessive copyright infringement,” the company writes. These figures represent a substantial increase over those published for 2020. under the doctrine of fair use.

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IPilogue

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

16,000 photographs taken by Christian Zervos, with added creative elements through deliberate choices of lighting, lens filters and framing, were published in Zervos Catalogue in 1932. In 1991, Wofsy, with permission from Picasso’s estate , published De Fontrbrune’s images in “The Picasso Project”.

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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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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. Of course, The Nation published the juiciest details from the memoir: Ford’s reasons for pardoning his predecessor, Richard Nixon.

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Velocity of Content

MAY 22, 2024

In other words, rightsholders are meant to be able in the first instance to choose whether to allow copying and licenses, or to refuse copying and licenses. Legally, licensing should precede use. In other words, “license or risk losing” is a significant consideration for rightsholders in the US and other countries.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 17, 2024

is one of the most interesting cases in history to rely on a fair use defense, arguing that the alleged infringement qualifies as a parody. ” 2 Live Crew had previously sought to license the track from Acuff-Rose to be used as a parody; Acuff-Rose refused and 2 Live Crew used it anyway. .” Campbell v.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 19, 2024

As reported yesterday , the decision was cited in the ongoing legal battle between book publishers and the Internet Archive. NYT vs. OpenAI/Microsoft Late last year The Times sued OpenAI and Microsoft , alleging that its generative AI models were trained on copyrighted news articles. Instead, it mostly sticks to its original claims.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

It points out that several publishers openly support this progress. Smaller journalistic outlets are on board as well, and some plan to use AI-innovations to their benefit. Fair Use None of the allegations above address the copyright infringement allegations directly.

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IPilogue

JULY 18, 2022

Last year, Andy Warhol lost an infamous copyright infringement lawsuit against photographer Lynn Goldsmith regarding an image of the pop singer Prince. Copyright Act —whether Warhol’s print is transformative of the original photograph so that it qualifies as fair use.

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BYU Copyright Blog

MAY 15, 2023

In the digital age where information flows freely, the clash between copyright protection and access to knowledge has become increasingly prominent. They maintain that the digitization and distribution of copyrighted books without explicit permission undermines the incentives for authors and publishers to create and publish new works.

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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.

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Velocity of Content

MARCH 16, 2023

This article was originally published in The Scholarly Kitchen. As a person involved in copyright on a daily basis, I’ve observed a number of events and requests for comment over the last few years on the issue of whether artificial intelligence (AI) systems can be “authors” in the copyright sense (or inventors of patents).

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Velocity of Content

JANUARY 25, 2024

This article originally appeared in IPWatchdog and is re-published with permission. “Is 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?”

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