Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 3, 2022

First off today, Andrew Albanese at Publishers Weekly Reports that a collection of publishers and authors have secured a default judgement against a piracy service named KISS Library, this one awarding them $7.8 Copyright Law, works lapse into the public domain on January First of the year their copyright expires.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 17, 2024

In 2022, Lokka faced Finland’s Supreme Court over videos of a 2016 protest published to his YouTube channel, to which Lokka added subtitles in various languages. Without obtaining permission, Lokka made a copy of the report, added his own subtitles, and then retransmitted the new version to the public via Twitter.

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Plagiarism Today

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

However, publishing companies had been continuing to collect royalties on behalf of songwriters even after the rights were reclaimed due to the law saying that publishers can continue licensing any existing derivative works.

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 14, 2024

The author plaintiffs alleged that OpenAI infringed on their published works by using these works to help train its LLM. The plaintiffs alleged that OpenAI copied their published books, which are protected by copyright law, and used them in a training dataset for its LLM.

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IPilogue

JULY 18, 2022

As an avant-guard artist of his time, Warhol used the mechanical process of copying to challenge the conventional notion of art. In this sense, the act of copying is the very medium of Warhol’s art. Copyright, in the simplest terms, is “ the right to copy.”

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Velocity of Content

MARCH 16, 2023

This article was originally published in The Scholarly Kitchen. After all, while we are pondering the weighty issue of future ownership, we are not focusing on the fundamental issue of wholesale copying of works to train AI in a wide variety of situations. is being used as code. Case 2- Anderson, et al. v Stability A.I.

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Copyright Lately

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Deadly Doll’s theory was that by taking a photo of Shayk wearing clothes that included its artwork, Vila had created an unlawful derivative work that reproduced its copyrighted image. His main argument was that the photo couldn’t be considered an infringing derivative work simply because it captured Deadly Doll’s design.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 19, 2023

The first factor did not apply to Warhol’s image as published in Condé Nast in 2016, so that specific use 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. of a commercial nature. .”

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IPilogue

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Members of fandoms often participate in various creative activities inspired by their source material, including dressing up as the characters, writing stories based in the fictional universe, and making drawings about the original work. Despite the legal uncertainty, fanfiction and fanart continue to rise.

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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. Applying a new lens on how to view the purpose of a derivative work under U.S. copyright law.

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The IP Law Blog

MAY 5, 2022

According to reports, he included strict exam instructions, including “forbidding students from using any class materials, notes or online resources while taking the tests,” and instructing the students they were “prohibited from copying any part of the exam.”. This lawsuit was dismissed one month after it was filed.

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The IPKat

JANUARY 25, 2022

The cover provides the requisite information—title, author, and publisher. For Benjamin, the aura of a work of art in its primal sense was integrated within the practice of ritual, such as a fresco on the wall of a medieval church. But it also includes the reproduction of a portrait of a young woman. But of course.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 6, 2023

YouTube’s main defense to Schneider’s copyright claims in other works is that it holds a “ blanket catalog license ” granted by Modern Works Music Publishing (MWP). According to YouTube, that license covers all of Schneider’s musical compositions, so Schneider’s infringement claims cannot succeed.

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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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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 17, 2024

The plaintiff gets an expensive lesson in the law of derivative works. * * * UIRC offers bonds using a private placement memorandum (PPM) and an indenture of trust. There was no question about the copying–the revised William Blair documents sloppily retained references to UIRC). West Publishing (not cited by this court).

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JIPEL Copyright Blog

APRIL 28, 2021

Sites like AO3 provide fanfiction authors with a forum to publish their works, as well as huge audiences from around the world to consume them for free. The problem is that most fanfiction could be characterized as derivative works of other already existing original works, as defined in 17 U.S.C. §

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2022

While the occasional commercial use of a tattoo in a video game remains rare, tattooers use copyrighted material in their work on a regular basis. But the recent lawsuit against Kat Von D, alleging that she copied a portrait of Miles Davis by photographer Jeff Sedlik, suggests these once-tolerated uses may be under threat.

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Section 4 of the 1914 Act provided for the modification of copyright as regards the translation of works first published in British India. For works initially published in British India, the copyright for translating, producing, reproducing, performing, or publishing is limited to ten years from the first publication.

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Copyright Lately

MAY 22, 2023

A lot of ink has been spilled ( mine included, if you need a refresher ) on litigation that ultimately boiled down to whether it was fair use for AWF to license the right to publish Warhol’s artwork based on Goldsmith’s Prince photo. Vanity Fair used it (pursuant to a license) to publish Warhol’s illustration in 1984.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 16, 2021

In 2019, Artem Stoliarov, a Russian DJ whose stage name is Arty, filed a lawsuit before the US District Court for the Central District of California, alleging that Marshmello’s song ‘ Happier ’ copied the synthesizer melody from his 2014 remix of OneRepublic’s ‘I Lived’ (OneRepublic is an American pop rock band). by Tito Rendas. €

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Copyright Lately

AUGUST 2, 2022

And unlike the vast majority of songwriters and performing artists who have relinquished ownership rights to musical publishers and record labels, Barlow & Bear decided to release “The Unofficial Bridgerton Musical” themselves, which means keeping more of the earnings. Was it a license on the world’s greatest terms?

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LexBlog IP

MAY 5, 2022

According to reports, he included strict exam instructions, including “forbidding students from using any class materials, notes or online resources while taking the tests,” and instructing the students they were “prohibited from copying any part of the exam.” This lawsuit was dismissed one month after it was filed.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2022

When the said sensor recognizes it is in front of the Ara Pacis, it gives the order to copy the colored reproductions of some parts of the Ara Pacis, stored in a cloud-based database, and display them on the screen of the goggles. published in Grur. When copyright is involved, both economic and moral rights issues are at stake.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Christopher Buccafusco (& Rebecca Tushnet), Base Rate Neglect in Copying-in-Fact Comes out of an excellent Buccafusco paper about the failures of copying in fact, which led me to think about base rate neglect in cases where plaintiff’s expert claims that it’s not possible that these similarities arose in the absence of copying.

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The IPKat

JANUARY 23, 2023

The cross-media creative franchise (think "Wonder Woman", from comics to film), is the apotheosis of the commercial potential of derivative works within the copyright system. Often few copies, and sometimes no copy, of a silent film would survive. But the cross media franchise is hardly a modern phenomenon.

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Kashishipr

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Each work has various rights, such as theatrical rights, distribution rights, rental rights, broadcasting rights, rights related to adoption and translation, rights to prepare derivative works, and so on, each of which can be exploited separately. These rights can be disjointedly assigned for a limited term or perpetually.

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More Than Your Mark

AUGUST 27, 2021

Only the copyright owner has the right to make copies, distribute copies, perform, display, or make derivative works of the copyrighted work. A copyright lasts for the life of the author plus 70 years (for works made for hire, 95 years from when they are first published).

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Kashishipr

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Where a copyright is secured in the favor of the choreographer, it translates to the fact that the proprietor has the right to make copies, prepare derivative works or adaptations, distribute the same for sale, perform it, or even display it in another medium. Why Consider Registering a Copyright?

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

AUGUST 13, 2023

It is based on “ large language models ” (so called LLM ), which is “ trained by copying massive amounts of text ” (so called training dataset ) “ and extracting expressive information from it ” (see § I.2). The plaintiffs are authors of books, who, as per US copyright law, have registered copyrights in the books they published.

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Copyright Lately

JANUARY 31, 2023

Interpolations (Get Money) Interpolations are big business, especially for many of the venture-capital backed companies looking to recoup some of the hundreds of millions of dollars they’ve spent acquiring music publishing rights from the likes of Paul Simon, Stevie Nicks, and Bob Dylan. ” 17 U.S.C. § Ford Motor Co.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Types of IPR for Software Protection in India Copyright – According to Copyrights Act, 1957; Copyright grants the exclusive rights, to perform certain actions regarding a work or its substantial part. This applies to literary, dramatic, musical, artistic works, computer programs, cinematograph films, and sound recordings.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 20, 2023

Legal Background: Copyright and Derivative Works Copyright law protects original works of authorship, including “pictorial, graphic, and sculptural works,” 17 U.S.C. For obvious reasons, the copyright in a photograph does not include the right to publicly perform the copyrighted work.

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Art Law Journal

JUNE 30, 2022

More importantly, because the work must be tangible, that also means that an idea can’t be copyrighted , only the execution of that idea. For example, anybody can publish a book about three teenagers who solve magical mysteries at a wizarding school. Your Copy-Rights. That’s an idea for a story.

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Art Law Journal

JUNE 30, 2022

More importantly, because the work must be tangible, that also means that an idea can’t be copyrighted , only the execution of that idea. For example, anybody can publish a book about three teenagers who solve magical mysteries at a wizarding school. Your Copy-Rights. That’s an idea for a story.

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LexBlog IP

JUNE 5, 2023

The case began after Prince died in 2016, when Vanity Fair magazine’s parent company, Condé Nast, published a special commemorative magazine celebrating his life. Goldsmith notified AWF of her belief that the work infringed her copyright. Warhol and his Foundation’s claim of fair use lost. ” Id. ” Id.

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IP Intelligence

JUNE 7, 2023

But AI models are not interested in any work qua work, but rather they need a massive collection of as many works as possible to get at the patterns lurking within the vast combination of works. Second, the number of copies/downloads/users/seat licenses model simply does not work in the AI training context.

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JIPL Online

APRIL 9, 2021

Miceli, Law and Economics: Private and Public 23 (West Academic Publishing 2018). [v] Keller, Recognizing the Derivative Works Right as a Moral Right: A Case Comparison and Proposal , 63 Case W. 405 (2019); Terrica Carrington, Grumpy Cat or Copy Cat? 277 (2020). [iv] iv] Maxwell L. Stearns, Todd J. Zywicki & Thomas J.

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