TorrentFreak

MAY 14, 2022

Given that the production of today’s videogames requires the involvement of a large number of people, preventing all information leaks is an impossible task. After being uploaded in the preceding days, on April 26 the company filed a complaint at YouTube alleging copyright infringement. Aside from generating more than 4.6

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IP and Legal Filings

APRIL 19, 2022

A takedown notice is a type of complaint letter addressed to a website administrator, stating that the website’s material has infringed on the owner’s copyright and requesting that the content be removed from the website. Information Technology Act,2000. Safe Harbour Principle ( Section 79 of IT Act,2000).

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Velocity of Content

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

In addition to legal, compliance, and library/ information services (if you have that function), expand the policy team to include IT, marketing, and corporate communications. Be clear on why your organization is implementing a copyright policy. Maybe the goal is for your company to fulfill its obligations under copyright law.

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IPilogue

AUGUST 26, 2022

They claimed that Meta, on its social media platforms, has stolen hundreds of their content. In the official pleading , they argued that Meta violated the US Copyright Act 17 USC § 501 for direct, induced, and contributory copyright infringement. Who is Epidemic Sound?

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IPilogue

JUNE 13, 2022

Artists in the digital space have always been vulnerable to the unauthorized distribution, copying, and sale of their work. Listing someone else’s artwork on an NFT marketplace is as simple as saving a copy of the work from an artist’s website or social media platform and uploading it onto a marketplace where it is minted into an NFT.

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The IPKat

APRIL 3, 2023

Here’s what Desmond writes: Nigeria's new Copyright Act 2022: how libraries can benefit by Desmond Oriakhogba Background In October 2021, I wrote about the Nigerian copyright law reform process. The reform process is now complete with the recent assent to the Bill, as the Copyright Act 2022, by the Nigerian President.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 13, 2024

— Bright Data has long sold the data of all the major social media companies. — For the claims related to illegal selling of scraped data, the court dismissed those because they were preempted by copyright. As I wrote back in December, scraping claims are almost always about unwanted copying and distribution of data.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

In today’s social media-powered arena, those with access to leaked content can build huge audiences by putting it on display; when that content relates to Genshin Impact, publisher Cognosphere regularly calls in the lawyers. Copies of the notices sent in support of the DMCA subpoena application are similarly redacted.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 10, 2024

In a complaint filed at a Nashville federal court last spring , Universal Music, Sony Music, EMI and others, accused X Corp of “breeding” mass copyright infringement. The social media company allegedly failed to respond adequately to takedown notices and lacks a proper termination policy.

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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. Instagram, LLC , 2023 WL 4554649 (9th Cir.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 18, 2023

copyright law, Internet providers must terminate the accounts of repeat infringers “in appropriate circumstances.” Many ISPs have been reluctant to take such drastic measures, which triggered a wave of copyright infringement lawsuits in recent years. Internet provider RCN is among the targeted providers.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2023

2000) (“ copying an entire work militates against a finding of fair use. ”). Google , which recognized property interest in personal information). The defendants failed to register as data brokers under applicable laws of California ( here ). 4th 1149 (9th Cir. Church of God, Inc., 3d 110, 1118 (9th Cir.

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Copyright Lately

JUNE 2, 2022

Sedlik alleges that Von D infringed the copyright in his photo by tattooing a reproduction of the Miles Davis image onto the skin of Blake Farmer and then displaying images of the tattoo on her social media accounts. The Nature of the Copyrighted Work and the Amount and Substantiality of the Portion Used.

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LexBlog IP

OCTOBER 30, 2021

The Internet is a fantastic platform for the widespread dissemination and exchange of works and information. 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.

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SpicyIP

OCTOBER 11, 2021

New Social Media Rules, But No Clarity for Copyright Claims. To an extent, the misuse of notice and takedown procedures is a function of the strange evolution of copyright takedowns and intermediary liability issues in India (which we have covered extensively here).

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 11, 2023

The most modern instalment of this long history comes in the form of another kind ‘copy’, less richly decorated, yet more relevant and politically sensitive for a country that has established a long-term foreign investment “partnership” with the tech and communication industry: the transposition of Directive 2019/790 into Irish law.

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 11, 2023

First, generative AI is only as good and accurate as the information on which it was trained. Because of how the ChatGPT model is trained, it is possible that responsive outputs could contain elements of copyrighted material. For more information on these issues, read our sister blogs here , here , and here.

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Copyright Lately

MARCH 13, 2024

copyright registration limits the claimed authorship in the game to “computer program code and text of instructions.” ” This omission is important, because, per Copyright Office policy, the information provided in a copyright application defines the claim being registered. Wordle’s U.S.

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IP Tech Blog

JANUARY 4, 2023

Compared to NFTs as defined in the US, the DC in China: 1) are under strict market supervision that caps their valuation and pricing by avoiding social media hyping of the same; and 2) can only be purchased with Chinese currency, the Ren Min Bi (RMB) in the traditional or digital form. Copyright Ownership. Copyright Enforcement.

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Copyright Lately

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

From an archived copy of HitPiece’s FAQ. And now there’s a huge disagreement with the comedian population around what rights do comedians get for writing a joke because I don’t think that actually exists in copyright law yet. appeared first on Copyright Lately. So there’s a lot of nuances out there.

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Copyright Lately

JANUARY 23, 2023

Stable Diffusion Doesn’t Store Copies of Training Images The complaint also mischaracterizes Stable Diffusion by asserting that images used to train the model are “stored at and incorporated” into the tool as “compressed copies.” None of it includes copies of images. You’d be wrong.

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Spadika Jayaraj discussed a case where the Delhi High Court dismissed a suit by a media house accusing copyright infringement on its database of users. The issue has often arisen in the context of protecting confidential information through copyright law. For a more specific discussion, see Prof.

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IPilogue

APRIL 4, 2022

I explained that I had just finished reading a recent book about ‘her sister’ and that I only wished to speak to her about conflicting information contained in that publication, as I was conducting research about her medical condition. First, we considered copyright law to try to stop the circulation of the photograph.

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IP and Legal Filings

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

The primary goal of copyright law is to safeguard the interests of creators of original, publishable works. The purpose of copyright protection is to make sure that the artist reaps the rewards of creating their original work and that no one else benefits unfairly from it. Picture Credit: gettyimage]. What Constitutes Art.

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LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Branding has become more important than ever, particularly in developing an online presence through search engines, various online platforms, and social media. Nearly every mainstream marketplace and social media platform has Acceptable Use Policies, which provide procedures for reporting intellectual property infringements.

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Copyright Lately

JANUARY 31, 2023

” Primary Wave licensed the right to use the “Never Gonna Give You Up” composition to Yung Gravy’s team, which allowed them to copy the lyrics and melody, but not to record the actual sounds from the sound recording. ” “The exclusive rights of the owner of copyright in a sound recording.

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Copyright Lately

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

I’m talking about section 113(c) , which allows photographs of useful articles incorporating copyrighted works to be made and used without violating copyright law. While these sorts of objects typically aren’t themselves eligible for copyright protection, they often contain pictures or designs which are protectable.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 4, 2023

Compared to NFTs as defined in the US, the DC in China: 1) are under strict market supervision that caps their valuation and pricing by avoiding social media hyping of the same; and 2) can only be purchased with Chinese currency, the Ren Min Bi (RMB) in the traditional or digital form. Copyright Ownership. Copyright Enforcement.

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Copyright Lately

AUGUST 2, 2022

Multiple times throughout June and July 2022, Netflix informed Barlow & Bear’s lawyers that their July 26 performance wasn’t authorized and would give rise to claims for willful copyright and trademark infringement unless they negotiated a license—which Netflix was willing to do. Even better, it’s in the public domain.

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IP Tech Blog

AUGUST 15, 2022

Nature of the copyrighted work. The photos were published at the time of copying, which weighs in favor of fair use. However, the court did not consider this factor much because Bayside had not provided any information about the photographs. On the other hand, there is some artistic elements to some of the photographs.

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Copyright Lately

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Just because a work is in the public domain in the United States doesn’t mean it’s not protected by copyright elsewhere—and vice versa. For more information, check out the Copyright Myth Project. The Copyright That Wouldn’t Grow Up J. IMPORTANT Public domain is country-specific.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 1, 2023

In our brave new world where millions of ordinary people are copyright holders of snaps they publish to social media or videos they upload to YouTube, awareness of copyright law is at an all-time high. ” The image below shows a screenshot of that video, with the offending information redacted.

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 23, 2023

Copyrights safeguard the artists’ rights in the inventive and imaginative content that abounds in digital media. In today’s digital world, a lot of data and information have been shared online and are susceptible to corruption and copying. They serve as a medium for new ideas, images, and sounds.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

by the exclusion of the applicability of the doctrine of exhaustion, that is, the resale of lawfully acquired digital copies), but, more importantly, the examination of selected EULAs evidenced that platforms also tightened the grip on the potential uses of their services. For example, users of social media platforms (e.g.,

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IIPRD

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

With the overwhelming majority adopting cloud computing resources and the prevalent practice of storing data in the cloud, it is evident that cloud computing has emerged as the predominant model for computer and information technology services worldwide. Copyright laws, for instance, vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 27, 2023

This Kat has been receiving numerous inquiries from colleagues and friends, particularly well-versed in copyright law, about an AI-generated image copyright case in China. After reading the original judgment of this high-profile case carefully, this Chinese Kat brings her take on the case. Does the image constitute a work?

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Velocity of Content

MAY 11, 2023

Copyright protects original works of authorship of any kind, including journal articles, books, email, social media posts, content you post online, images (including illustrations and photographs), technical drawings, figures, and infographics. Sample questions: Where did the work come from?

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