TorrentFreak

MARCH 18, 2024

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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IPilogue

DECEMBER 20, 2021

While most creators support fandoms, with some even regularly appearing at fan conventions , the line between appreciating a creator’s work and copying can be blurred. What may seem like a harmless activity in the spirit of fandom can at times give rise to copyright infringement. .

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Plagiarism Today

DECEMBER 6, 2022

2: UK Judge Delivers Mixed Ruling on Copyright Infringement in the Famous Love Story that Inspired Doctor Zhivago. A judge in the case has ruled that, while the order and selection of events can be protected by copyright, that TSWK did not copy those elements from Lara and, instead, took them from primary sources.

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Copyright Lately

JANUARY 13, 2023

had a dream—and a copyright. The answer, my friends, is copyright. Yes, in addition to being a noted clergyman and civil rights leader, Dr. King was a copyright litigant. The New York Times reported on Dr. The New York Times reported on Dr. Martin Luther King’s copyright lawsuit over “I Have a Dream” in 1963.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Image from DALL-E 3 Part 1 of this post introduced the challenges for copyright associated with generative IP and the legislative developments in this field. In the EU, Art. In the EU, Art. As in the case of generative AI, content creators were not able to monitor and enforce their rights while their works were used without remuneration.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 19, 2024

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 of alleging concrete copyright infringement by end users, the technology itself is framed as copyright-infringing. Microsoft filed a separate motion to dismiss.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2023

by guest blogger Kieran McCarthy Many characterize the law of copyright preemption of contracts as a circuit split. But that undersells the level of inconsistency in courts’ interpretations of the law of copyright preemption. With that, any state or common law claim that is equivalent to copyright must therefore be preempted.

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 8, 2023

When someone violates a creator’s exclusive rights to a piece of work, they are engaging in copyright infringement. modification, and other forms of copying of the work fall under this category. Music as well as the movie industry are two common industries that face copyright issues on a day to day basis.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Here's what Jørgen writes: Universal Copyright Convention – RIP by Jørgen Blomqvist On December 9, 2021, WIPO announced that the Kingdom of Cambodia has joined the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works, with effect from March 9, 2022.

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JD Supra Law

AUGUST 5, 2021

Author Denise Shull lost her challenge to the Showtime television show Billions, which she claims copied the character bearing her name in Shull’s book Market Mind Games: A Radical Psychology of Investing, Trading and Risk.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 12, 2021

Sinclair owns a bunch of television stations. Under the Copyright Act, display. means to show a copy of it, either directly or by means of a film, slide, television image, or any other device or process or, in the case of a motion picture or other audiovisual work, to show individual images nonsequentially.”.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Through our modern lens, this kind of copying can seem insane. Ethically, this type of copying would be seen as plagiarism and the creators would be treated accordingly, especially given that some of the images were traced. These days, comic artists and comic fans do not tolerate this kind of copying.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

First off today, Winston Cho at The Hollywood Reporter reports that A&E Television Networks has filed a lawsuit against Reels over the latter channel’s new hit series On Patrol: Live. However, A&E contends that the new series is an infringement of Live PD and, as such, are suing for both copyright and trademark violations.

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Plagiarism Today

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

1: Miramax Hits Tarantino With Copyright Suit on ‘Pulp Fiction’ NFTs. First off today, Samantha Handler at Bloomberg Law reports that the film studio Mirimax has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against director Quentin Tarantino over Tarantino’s plans to release of Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) related to the film Pulp Fiction.

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LexBlog IP

AUGUST 17, 2023

By: Weintraub Tobin Summer Associate Josh Concepcion The Ninth Circuit recently revisited the issue of “embedding” content by a website and its implication for copyright infringement claims. the website displaying that copyrighted image cannot be held liable for infringement.

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Velocity of Content

MAY 1, 2024

Do the creators and users of large language models (LLMs) and as sociated generative AI applications infringe the copyrights of content creators? Thus, it can be said that they have made complete and exact copies of everything they have ingested. Fair use loomed large among those rights. creates a substantially new and different work.

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Plagiarism Today

MAY 19, 2022

First off today, Pamela Chelin at Variety reports that the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has granted a significant victory so singer Toni Basil, granting her sole copyright in her 1981 debut album, which included the hit song Mickey. The case dates back to 2013 when Basil filed a notice of copyright termination on the album and her song.

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Velocity of Content

OCTOBER 19, 2021

The Copyright Act of 1976 became Public Law number 94-553 on October 19, 1976 and went into effect (as scheduled) as Title 17 of the United States Code on January 1, 1978. The Copyright Act of 1976 became Public Law number 94-553 on October 19, 1976 and went into effect (as scheduled) as Title 17 of the United States Code on January 1, 1978.

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SpicyIP

JULY 29, 2021

In the 6 odd pages devoted to the reform of the Copyright regime, a grand total of 5 statutory issues have been highlighted despite the fact that the last Copyright Amendment is nearly a decade old and comments for a new amendment had been sought fairly recently (see here , here , and here ). Watering down Section 52(1).

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

You see, when I was growing up, computers took up entire rooms and content was published on paper – books, newspapers, magazines, and yes, sometimes even broadcast on television or radio. Copying was tedious. Copying took effort. Much of that content is protected by copyright laws. That was then, this is now.

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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. Given the fact that the copyright law was originally framed to protect literary and artistic works, it needs to be seen how much the law has evolved to grant protection to digitalized works.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Recent appellate decisions in the United States have recognized expanded grounds for personal jurisdiction in cases of internet-based copyright infringements; divided on the extent to which the three-year statute of limitations limits damage recoveries; and increased the occasions for motions to dismiss on the ground of fair use. VNG Corp. [1]

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 10, 2024

When pirated copies of “Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas” came out nearly two decades ago, The Pirate Bay changed its front page logo. Times have changed but even the most staunch pro-copyright advocates can’t deny that piracy helped to lead the entertainment industries to new business models.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Thiccc Boy then sued for copyright infringement. “the allegedly infringing videos undisputedly commented on the quality of the discussion in the copyrighted works.” Swindelles admittedly duplicated the copyrighted videos’ full frames. Thiccc Boy sent 512(c)(3) takedown notices to YouTube; Swindelles counternoticed.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Better known online as YouTuber ‘Omi in a Hellcat,’ Carrasquillo ran an illegal internet-based television and movie streaming service using video content fraudulently obtained from cable providers. These companies supplied hundreds of set-top boxes and similar equipment to multiple properties owned by Carrasquillo.

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The IP Law Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Take-Two Interactive Software found that the depiction of tattoos on wrestler Randy Orton in a video game published by Take Two Interactive infringed the tattoo artist’s copyright in the tattoos. Take Two argued that its use of the copyrighted tattoos was transformative.

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SpicyIP

JULY 31, 2023

Prima facie, it seems like an improvement from the previous drafts which kept the contours of piracy open by limiting it to “authorized places;” however, it actually expands it by subjecting it to “a manner that amounts to the infringement of copyright under the provisions of the Copyright Act, 1957.”

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Grand Jury Indictment – Copyright Infringement. “The Infringing Service delivered Video Content, including television shows and movies, to subscribers to the Infringing Service, in exchange for payment,” it reads. They also operated a content library called Streams R Us (SRU) containing movies and other content.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 3, 2023

IP Address ‘Domains’ Reappeared in Google Search The Lithuanian Radio and Television Commission (LRTK) has responsibility for blocking actions in Lithuania. One example relates to Indonesian piracy giant Indoxxi, which reportedly shut down in December 2019 but lives on through an endless supply of clones and copies.

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SpicyIP

JULY 1, 2021

In this post, I look at the question of the government’s copyright ownership in State Board textbooks, and its implications on access to knowledge and education. Government’s Role as Publisher and Copyright Owner. Printed copies, adaptations or publications with new material would only widen the dissemination of these works.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Photo by Christian Wiediger from Unsplash The implementation transposition of the Copyright Directive 2019/790 (DSMD) in the summer of 2021 represented probably the greatest reform in German copyright law since the German Copyright Act (UrhG) came into force. Scope of protection (copyrighted works) 1.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 24, 2021

In April 2020, a coalition of entertainment companies headed up by Universal, Paramount, Columbia, Disney and Amazon filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against the operators of ‘pirate’ IPTV service Nitro TV. channels, which are only possible to offer after content is copied and stored, contrary to copyright law.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Importantly, however, none of this is illegal in the UK so, in what appears to be an overreaction with significant potential for overreach, lawmakers want changes to copyright law to retip the balance of power. Even then, anyone with a camera can record an event, without breaking copyright law. ” Copyright Law to Tackle Drones?

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 8, 2021

The video depicted its award as the well-known Emmy statuette with a coronavirus replacing the atom in the holder’s hands: The Television Academies, who own the IP rights to the statuette, targeted the video with a DMCA notice to YouTube, which YouTube honored. Copyright Infringement/Fair Use. Goodman counternoticed. ” UGH.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

In a strongly-worded copyright complaint sent this week, rightsholders say that will not be tolerated. Massive Copyright Infringement The language used in the complaint makes it extremely clear that the MPA views playlists as a threat and illegal under copyright law. Fung later settled with the MPA.

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Velocity of Content

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

This is the sixth (and, for now, final) post in this series, where we’ve looked at the copyright requirements and options for digital content creators, such as blogs and podcasts. At present, YouTube certainly has many other aspects, included music, television-like programming, and live streaming, but I am not going to get into those.).

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 23, 2023

“We […] request your assistance in addressing, the extensive copyright infringement of motion pictures and television shows that is occurring by virtue of the operation of the domain cloudstream.cf, which is hosted on and available for download from your repository GitHub Inc. Below is a list of all the targeted URLs.

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