TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Patrons can also borrow books that are scanned and digitized in-house, with technical restrictions that prevent copying. Staying true to the centuries-old library concept, only one patron at a time can rent a digital copy of a physical book for a limited period. The Internet Archive has no license.

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Velocity of Content

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Marketplace customers can also assemble academic course pack projects comprised of content, purchase single copies of articles and chapters, and request article Reprints/ePrints from thousands of publishers.

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Traverse Legal Blog

APRIL 17, 2021

Copyright Licensing of Digital Assets Attached to NFT Sales. Bonus: Free Open Source Copyright License for NFT sales below]. What are the terms by which you are selling the NFT and licensing your work, the art you put into the platform that’s going to be attached to the NFT? NFT Copyright Licensing.

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 18, 2022

million ($3 million) acquiring a physical copy of the book Jodorowsky’s Dune. With previous ones selling for around €25,000 ($28,000), their copy cost more than 100 times the going rate. Many copies of the book are already easy to access just through a simple search. Last year, the group spent €2.66

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Plagiarism Today

JULY 25, 2022

It accuses VNG Group of releasing the Zing MP3 app, which features music owned by Lang Van even though VNG, according to the lawsuit, do not have license to use. This is a library that Facebook and Instagram users can use when editing videos for those platforms. The lower court agreed, dismissing the case.

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 19, 2022

The rule, entitled copyright exhaustion, places limits on the import of international editions of books. Without this rule, many authors fear the UK market would be flooded with cheaper international copies. The 3 Count Logo was created by Justin Goff and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License.

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Traverse Legal Blog

JANUARY 26, 2022

Today, we will be talking about NFT non-fungible token licensing. THE NFT smart contract does NOT include the licensing terms for the underlying digital asset (i.e. Without a separate licensing contract (typically a web page) for the underlying asset, an essential part of the NFT transaction is unaddressed.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 14, 2022

Koeltl at the District Court for the Southern District of New York, the plaintiffs say that as leading publishers of tens of thousands of books, they already issue licensed ebook editions to libraries. As for IA’s “Controlled Digital Lending” concept, the plaintiffs insist that has no basis in law.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 15, 2024

3) What is the effect of open source licenses on the AI model that uses only some open source components? (4) There are many AI models that claim to be open source – just as there are multiple forms of open source licenses , from permissive licenses (e.g. MIT License or Apache License ) to less permissive licenses (e.g.

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Copyright Lately

APRIL 3, 2023

book publishers, rejecting the Internet Archive’s argument that its practice of scanning and lending digital copies of books qualifies as fair use under the Copyright Act. When the electronic version is “checked out,” the physical copy is taken out of circulation. ” What is Controlled Digital Lending?

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 21, 2022

Both of these are photographers who accuse the counterparty of using their work without a license. “My own photos of my design were used in image edits and displayed on 11:11 Digital / Paris Hilton’s social media accounts without my permission. Most of the other cases are related to photography as well.

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Copyright Social Media Editing Copyright Infringement 141

Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 19, 2023

Specifically, a group called Spice DAO purchased an NFT displaying a copy of filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky’s ‘Dune’ for $3 million, assuming it would grant them the ability to produce derivative works, such as an animated Dune series.

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Non-Fungible Tokens IP Ownership Contracts 98

Kluwer Copyright Blog

MARCH 16, 2022

The consultation sought views on the prospects for facilitating patent and copyright protections for “inventions and creative works which are made by AI”, and for making easier the use of copyright-protected material by AI in innovation and research, through alternative approaches to licensing and text and data mining (TDM) exceptions.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 17, 2024

” 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. 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. Subtitle Defense 2.0:

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IPilogue

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Photocopying classroom materials in a K-12 public school system may have seemed harmless and benign before the 2012 Supreme Court of Canada case, Alberta v Canadian Copyright Licensing Agency (Access Copyright). Other times, we looked at diagrams from an older edition of a textbook that were “much better for the purposes of our class.”

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LexBlog IP

MAY 24, 2023

The Court countered that while relevant to whether a copying use has a sufficiently distinct purpose or character, it is not, without more, dispositive. Here, the specific use of Goldsmith’s photograph alleged to infringe her copyright is AWF’s licensing of Orange Prince to Condé Nast.

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LexBlog IP

JUNE 28, 2023

Accordingly, the Court held that the holder of the IP right to a computer program cannot object to the resale of a copy thereof where such a copy is accompanied by a licence for unlimited use, whether material or immaterial. The Court made specific reference to certain European Court of Justice decisions in this respect. (3)

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Copying Copyright Law Copyright Editing 52

TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

The company demanded damages under copyright law claiming that the team “willfully and maliciously” copied, adapted and distributed its source code and other content without permission. “Any complained of copying of copyright protected material that did occur, if any, was not undertaken for profit or commercial purposes.

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Fair Use Copying Copyright Copyright Law 145

Kluwer Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 2, 2023

In this edition, we update you on what has happened between July and September 2023 in EU copyright law. CJEU judgments and AG Opinions Ocilion, CJEU, C-426/21 In July, the CJEU delivered its judgment in the Ocilion case, which related to the right of communication to the public and the private copying exception.

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Copyright Law Law Copyright Copying 74

TorrentFreak

MARCH 25, 2024

Publishers vs. Internet Archive The self-scanning service offered by the Internet Archive (IA) differs from the licensing agreements entered into by other libraries. “IA’s exploitation of copyrighted books is thus the polar opposite of the copying that was found to be transformative in Google Books and HathiTrust.

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Publishing Copyright Fair Use Intellectual Property Law 141

Kashishipr

MAY 25, 2021

It may not always prevent unauthorized copying; however, it may serve as a public notice by securing a public record in one’s favor. You may sign-up for a Creative Common License where the issue lies in seeking acknowledgment of the work. The process of seeking registration can be cumbersome and tedious. is being utilized?

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The IPKat

AUGUST 24, 2021

Here is what Alexander has to say: It was a delight to learn last year that Simon Stokes, copyright solicitor at Blake Morgan in London, was working on a third edition of his eminently useful Art and Copyright. Much has changed in the world of copyright since the last edition was published in 2012. This book will help them through.

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SpicyIP

OCTOBER 7, 2023

We recently came across one such short paper on “ SEP Litigations & Issues in Determining the FRAND License ” published in the September 2023 issue of the Journal of Intellectual Property Rights (see here ) and extended a guest post invitation to its authors to discuss their key arguments. Apple Retail UK Ltd.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Fifth, assuming Trump owns a valid copyright, did he grant an implied license to Woodward to publish transcripts of the interviews and/or the record­ings themselves? The bottom line: even if he gets past the implied license problem, Trump still has to survive several other substantive and procedural hurdles to recovery. .

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Copyright Blogging Publishing Fair Use 120

43(B)log

AUGUST 3, 2023

Musicologists in litigation: (1) identify formal similarities—instrumentation, chord progression; (2) opine on how aesthetically similar/significant those similarities are; (3) opine about the rarity of similar features; (4) opine that copying did or didn’t occur. Mistaken faith in musicology: let’s find an expert to talk about copying.

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Velocity of Content

JANUARY 26, 2023

Some tools may require users to move back and forth between Microsoft Word and the reference manager when adding or editing reference. In many reference managers, this requires you to copy and paste individual citations into the reference manager, or to use a separate software or process to get access to request a copy of the article.

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Copying Licensing Copyright Editing 98

IPilogue

OCTOBER 18, 2022

After a test copy of New Genesis was leaked online, WOTC took issue with development company TSR LLC’s use of their IP rights in the game. Since then, WOTC has licensed the marks to another company which sells older editions of both D&D and the original Star Frontiers.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

On 21 st October 2021, Facebook announced that it has reached an agreement with APIG , an association of French press publishers, committing itself to the payment of licensing fees pursuant to the press publishers’ right introduced by the 2019 Copyright Directive. Misguided comparisons with Australia.

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43(B)log

OCTOBER 13, 2021

The use of the song itself in the video was “best described as a wholesale copying of music to accompany a political campaign ad.” Here, there was no editing of the “lyrics, vocals, or instrumentals at all.” The quantity and value were plainly not reasonable in relation to the purpose of the copying. So too here.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 22, 2022

Furthermore, Business Casual alleged that although YouTube has automated processes to identify and flag videos containing copyrighted content, TV-Novosti intentionally circumvented these processes by applying certain editing techniques to the content that TV-Novosti allegedly copied. The plaintiff basically said “WTF?

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LexBlog IP

JUNE 27, 2023

3] Goldsmith received a small licensing fee for this use and was co-credited with Warhol in the magazine. The case turned on the issue of licensing, and focused on the purpose of the use being something commercial. Between 1984 and his death in 1987, Warhol created a total of 16 variations in his Prince series. [4]

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

at [former repo location],” the notice reads (minor edits for clarity). Fung was found liable for contributory copyright infringement on the basis that he induced third parties (isoHunt’s users) to download infringing copies of the studios’ copyrighted works. Fung later settled with the MPA.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 20, 2023

The first sale doctrine restricts the rights holder’s exclusive right to distribute a copyrighted work to the public, where the distribution right to control secondary sales is ‘exhausted’ upon completion of the first lawful sale of a copy of the work by the rights holder or with their consent.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 31, 2023

The decision was limited to AWF’s commercial licensing of a silkscreen image of Prince, based on Goldsmith’s underlying photograph, to Condé Nast. Goldsmith later granted a limited, “one time” license to Vanity Fair in 1984 for the magazine to use the photograph as an artist reference.

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Copyright Lately

MAY 6, 2022

What about editing some NBA Top Shots moments to create a fantasy matchup between Michael Jordan and Steph Curry? The first thing that’s important to understand is that buying a copy of a creative work, even if it happens to the only copy in existence, doesn’t give you any copyright interest in the work.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 27, 2023

2-g: the Portuguese transposition did not opt for any licensing carve-out nor any fair compensation schemes. º-B/1 seems to unduly restrict the information duties in the cases of (only) exclusive licenses or assignments, which appears to contradict Art.19 Worth noting is that the implementation of Art. 19 CDSM Directive. º-B and 74.º-D

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Art Contracts Publishing Licensing 103

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. The submission of hard copies of the logos or decorations is essential.

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