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South Africa Rejects Copyright Lobby Critique, Defends Broad ‘Fair Use’ Exceptions

TorrentFreak

Government. There are also grave concerns that proposed “fair use” exceptions, which are partly modeled after U.S. That was four years ago and the South African Government is now making it clear that it doesn’t intend to let external forces dictate its law. to use it as a basis for sanctions.

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Fourth Circuit Issues a Bummer Fair Use Ruling–Philpot v. IJR

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

In 2013, Philpot uploaded the photo to Wikimedia Commons, which is governed by the standard Creative Commons license requiring attribution. This is what I call a “commercial editorial use”–ad-supported editorial content. Courts routinely split on whether commercial editorial use is commercial for fair use purposes.

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"TM-compliant" ads not shown to be nominative fair use

43(B)log

Plaintiff WATL is allegedly the preeminent governing body and league for the sport of axe throwing and uses the trademark “WATL” to market and publicize the axe throwing league. First, nominative fair use permits only the “truthful use of a mark.” Cold Steel Inc., 2023 WL 2372059, No. 2:20−cv−11407 JAK (Ex) (C.D.

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UK Government axes plans to broaden existing text and data mining exception

The IPKat

In mid-2022, the UK Intellectual Property Office (IPO) announced that Government would consider broadening the scope for unlicensed TDM activities and introduce a new E&L that would allow TDM for any purpose (including commercial TDM), subject to a lawful access requirement to the relevant copyright works and other protected subject-matter.

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Publishers Secure Widespread Support in Landmark Copyright Battle With Internet Archive

TorrentFreak

Legal scholars, professors, and former government officials, also chimed in. Internet Archive’s theory of fair use represents a threat just as grave.” ” According to the amici, there is nothing fair about IA’s digital library; instead, they see it as “unambiguous copyright infringement.”

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Plagiarism Police come for Winston & Strawn

Patently-O

2024) A recent copyright infringement lawsuit filed by small Boston intellectual property boutique Hsuanyeh Law Group PC (HLG) against international giant Winston & Strawn LLP focuses a dividing line that can highlight when copying the work of another firm is permissible. Winston & Strawn , 23-cv-11193 (S.D.N.Y.

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Some Thoughts on Five Pending AI Litigations – Avoiding Squirrels and Other AI Distractions

Velocity of Content

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. I speculated that this was an attempt to avoid a messy fair use dispute. is being used as code.