The IPKat

OCTOBER 1, 2022

The IPKat is delighted to host the contribution below by Katfriend Felicia Caponigri (IMT Alti Studi Lucca and Fashion by Felicia) on the IP implications of the recent and seemingly already iconic Dolce&Gabbana fashion show at the recent Milan Fashion Week. Here’s what Felicia writes: Archival Authenticity or Iconic Copies?

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IP Law 360

DECEMBER 1, 2023

million for copyright infringement after finding that a U.S. Department of Defense contractor made unauthorized copies of the company's software and the DOD tried to cover up that copying. A Court of Federal Claims judge has awarded a software developer $12.7

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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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IP Law 360

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

The owner of the Naked Wolfe brand has accused two online footwear retailers of design and copyright infringement, alleging that they "slavishly copied" its chunky boot designs.

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The IP Law Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Ross Intelligence Inc will provide guidance for similar AI training/copyright infringement cases and, as a bonus, it provides a bit of clarity (or muddies the waters… depending on your point of view) in the application of a post-Warhol fair use defense. The court found, as a matter of law, that Ross copied portions of the Westlaw headnotes.

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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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The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 4, 2022

Is a country’s failure to ensure the protection of IP rights a breach of human rights, more precisely the right to the peaceful enjoyment of one’s own possessions under Article 1 of Protocol No. The copy was subsequently removed from the NGO’s website at Safarov’s request. 1 to the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR) ?

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash Welcome to the third trimester of the 2023 round up of EU copyright law! In this edition, we update you on what has happened between July and September 2023 in EU copyright law. In this case, the video game publishers are the copyright holders for the video games in the entire EU and EEA.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 18, 2024

While Google already shared the Gmail addresses of the alleged abusers, CreativeCode now requests additional information including names, payment details, and IP-addresses. IP-addresses and More Specifically, the proposed order seeks the following information from Google, all related to Gmail addresses.

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IP Law 360

MAY 21, 2024

A top product security engineer at Bungie told a Seattle federal jury on Tuesday that a hacker accused of exploiting a popular game to make cheat software likely never had access to the game's source code and acknowledged the game company hasn't seen the cheat code that it claims amounts to copyright infringement.

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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 Right to Create and Sell NFTs. The reproduction right.

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Olartemoure Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

In the digital world, and working with visuals and sometimes with external brands, you navigate a potential minefield of IP risks. Say No to Copycats: Letting others know your content is protected deters them from copying it. It’s very important for you to protect yourself and your creative gems!

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JD Supra Law

MARCH 23, 2024

By: Entertainment Law Update Podcast

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 15, 2022

This post is the third and final instalment in the “Africa IP Highlights 2022" series of posts highlighting some of the key developments in IP in Africa in 2022. The first 2 posts covered copyright and trade marks. This post is about patents, other IPRs and reforms in IP policy, legislation and administration.

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IP Tech Blog

MAY 15, 2023

Enter copyright. It appears that the beat and lyrics (sung with an AI trained on Drake) were original to Ghostwriter977, but the songwriter inadvertently left in a small snippet of copyrighted music belonging to UMG in the form of a “producer tag.” This is like a watermark that a producer can place in their song to detect copying.

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Dear Rich IP Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

Each issue of the print magazine had a copyright notice ("© Krause Publications, Inc.") Questions: (1) As I understand it, the publisher would have had to submit 2 copies of the magazine to the Library of Congress to complete the registration process. So, who owns the magazine copyright? Did the authors retain copyright?

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IP Law 360

JANUARY 3, 2024

A Boston boutique law firm has filed a copyright infringement complaint against Winston & Strawn LLP, accusing it and four of its attorneys of copying a motion-to-dismiss filing "nearly verbatim" in a patent dispute where both firms were representing co-defendants.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

The comments in question were picked up by Kerry Culpepper, a copyright attorney who leads several piracy lawsuits against Internet providers on behalf of independent film companies. Contrary to the earlier requests, the film companies were no longer looking for any names or email addresses, only the applicable IP address logs.

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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. Similarly, the CJEU has confirmed the fundamental protection of IP (Art.

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IP Law 360

MAY 17, 2024

An insurance policy licensing group and an underwriting firm told a Connecticut federal judge Friday that they have agreed to end their dispute with two insurance underwriting competitors they accused of infringing their copyrights by copying certain language from a marine transportation policy and using it without permission.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 15, 2023

This post is the third and final instalment in the “Africa IP Highlights 2023" series of posts highlighting some of the key developments in IP in Africa in 2023. The first 2 posts covered copyright and trade marks. This post is about reforms in IP policy, legislation and administration.

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IP Law 360

MAY 1, 2024

A British game developer has hit back at its French rival in a copyright feud over the pair's mobile games, telling a London court that any similarities between the apps are nondistinctive features that don't merit protection.

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IP Law 360

MAY 16, 2024

A California federal judge on Wednesday ruled that the Internet Archive and the foundation that helps fund it must face a suit from record labels accusing the archive of copyright infringement by willfully copying and distributing thousands of protected recordings for free, saying the archive failed to show that the complaint was untimely.

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The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

The IPKat has received and is pleased to host the following guest contribution by Katfriend Jakub Wyczik (University of Silesia in Katowice) on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the application of copyright subsistence criteria. Human author It is well known that copyright protects products of the human mind (see Feist v. 99 (1879) ).

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The IP Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

21, 2023) (Hector Gonzalez), the District Court for the Eastern District of New York granted the plaintiff’s motion for summary judgment regarding the validity of its copyright. The plaintiff owns copyright registrations for its Second Holy Temple Product and its photograph of its Second Holy Temple Product (the “Copyright Registrations”).

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 16, 2021

It’s December and time for what is now an annual ritual for this Africa Correspondent – The Africa IP Highlights! The Africa IP Highlights is an initiative of this Kat and is a series of posts put together to highlight some of the key developments in IP in Africa each year.

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IP Watchdog

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Music publishing companies Universal Music, ABKCO and Concord filed suit on Wednesday, October 18, in a Tennessee district court against generative artificial intelligence (AI) company, Anthropic, alleging “widespread infringement of their copyrighted song lyrics.”

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 6, 2024

He sued a print-on-demand service (Sunfrog) over alleged IP violations of his illustrations. If that rings a bell, it’s because just yesterday I blogged on a DIFFERENT fish painter, DeYoung, who also brought an IP lawsuit against a print-on-demand service (Pixels). The supervising judge agrees. Volitional Conduct.

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IP Law 360

DECEMBER 11, 2023

A Los Angeles furniture business infringed the copyrights of a late iconic French designer, a California federal judge has concluded, saying the estate that brought the suit established that the furniture designs at issue are original and not copied from other sources as the defendants argued.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 3, 2024

In parallel, information on which domains and IP address have been blocked, aren’t being published according to the rules. It contains 1267 IP addresses but less than 10 domains names have been revealed to the public in official records. All other countries were were linked to five IP addresses or less.

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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. What Is Copyright? They must not be used by anyone other than the artist himself.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 30, 2024

On several occasions, courts dismissed piracy claims after ruling that “an IP address is not a person” In 2014, for example, Florida federal court Judge Ursula Ungaro dismissed a lawsuit ruling that IP address evidence can’t identify the person who allegedly shared a pirated movie. Anonymous Speech at Stake?

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

It involves several IP rights, some of which overlap in some cases: copyright, trademarks, patents, trade secrets/confidential information, and the right of publicity (and similar rights with different names). The following is a checklist for scholars and practitioners who are looking at an AI-related IP issue. Copyright 1.

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IP and Legal Filings

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

The availability of a large variety of information has also increased the risk of Copyright Infringement due to its easy accessibility and dissemination. This has led to varying degrees of copyright infringements in this digital era.

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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. Copyright, in the simplest terms, is “ the right to copy.”

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 3, 2023

New Domains Switched For IP Addresses For years pirate sites have deployed new domains to defeat ISP blocking. A more recent trend in some regions has seen pirate sites dump domains entirely and rely on IP addresses instead. ” Using IP addresses instead of domain names has another potential upside too. .”

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IP Law 360

APRIL 29, 2024

A group of visual artists has filed a proposed class action claiming Google's text-to-image artificial intelligence tool Imagen is trained by copying "enormous amounts" of artists' copyrighted works without authorization, the latest suit challenging the use of vast datasets for AI training.

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