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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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 11, 2022

Government regularly goes after copyright-infringing companies and individuals, both domestically and abroad. Last year, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit sided with the software company, concluding that the US Government is indeed liable. 600,000 ‘Infringing’ Copies.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 11, 2022

First off today, Christina Tabacco at Law Street reports that Microsoft has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against The Search People Enterprises over allegations that the company distributed pirated copies of Microsoft products. 2: Taiwan Amends Copyright Act in Set-Up-Box Crackdown.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 29, 2022

The largest is that it locks important research behind a paywall, meaning that other researchers, members of the public and even government agencies may not be able to access the work they need. This is largely achieved through the use of Creative Commons licenses. Typically, those licenses are Creative Commons Licenses.

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 4, 2023

According to Google, there were at least 50 instances of copying, some of which were “word-for-word”. Copy and Paste Roundup. In 2017, partially based upon that report, the European Union voted to renew the license for glyphosate. At this time, neither the CCI nor the European Commission has released any comment.

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43(B)log

AUGUST 11, 2021

ICC publishes revised I-Codes every three years, and it also publishes custom codes that reflect versions of the codes as adopted by states and local governments (the “Custom Codes”). I]ts primary funding source is the sale and licensing of publications containing its copyrighted works.” UpCodes, Inc., 2021 WL 1236106, Nos.

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Velocity of Content

JANUARY 9, 2024

However, many companies are unaware that much of the published scientific literature is protected by copyright law (with the rights typically held by the publisher or the author of the article), which governs how the information can be used and shared. It’s important to know, however, there are many types of open-access licenses.

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Velocity of Content

MAY 1, 2024

29 town hall, The Heart of the Matter: Copyright, AI Training and LLMs, presented a comprehensive case that AI systems do infringe copyrights and called for a licensing system to compensate content owners. Thus, it can be said that they have made complete and exact copies of everything they have ingested. In the U.S.,

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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

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. They further claim that Ye reached out to them for a licensing agreement, though no deal was ever struck.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 10, 2023

These companies typically take care of licensing and legal issues. When a video goes viral, thousands of copies are made without permission, even by mainstream news outlets, other licensing companies, and some of the world’s largest copyright businesses. The latter pair had been removed at the time of writing.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 7, 2021

However, as the case went along, LAMCO failed to produce any evidence of copying and even admitted that they didn’t own the tracks at issue. The story began in August 2018 when the Saudi government blocked access to beIN sports as part of a larger dispute with Qatar.

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Kashishipr

JUNE 9, 2021

With the onset of the trend wherein users are gradually switching to online streaming to meet their music needs and discarding traditional methods such as radio, television, and music CDs, compulsory licensing for the internet was recognized as a key policy issue by the music industry last year. Background. The Plaintiff, Tips Industries Ltd.,

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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?” These rules govern which country’s laws apply to a set of facts, activities, or conduct.

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IP and Legal Filings

JULY 21, 2022

This is the time when India is going through an upheaval of changes in our education system with the help of different policies of government as well as with the use of different technologies in modernizing the way of learning. for taking reprographic usage licenses after paying a prescribed tariff. Picture Credit: Shutterstock].

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 19, 2022

1: Government Pauses Plans to Rewrite UK Copyright Laws After Authors Protest. Without this rule, many authors fear the UK market would be flooded with cheaper international copies. The law, which took effect January 1, requires publishers that distribute e-books to offer a license to libraries on “reasonable” terms.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Last year, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit sided with the German software company, concluding that the US Government was indeed liable. The goal was to establish what the Navy would have paid for the software licenses if an agreement had been reached. The Court initially dismissed the complaint so Bitmanagement appealed.

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SpicyIP

JUNE 28, 2023

and Saranya Ravindran This June 28 th marks the thirteenth anniversary of the tabling of the Parliamentary Standing Committee Report on The Protection and Utilisation of Public Funded Intellectual Property Bill, 2008 (PUPFIP) – a legislation introduced by the UPA government on the recommendations of the National Knowledge Commission.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 4, 2023

This process is handled by India’s powerful Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC), a body within the government’s Ministry of Information and Broadcasting ( I&B ). This ultimately determines the content that citizens are allowed to view and under what circumstances, and the content they must not view at all.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 2, 2022

Back in January, the crypto group Spice DAO (decentralized autonomous organization) made headlines for spending approximately $3 million to acquire a physical copy of the book Jodorowsky’s Dune , a bible for a planned Dune move that would have been made in the 1970s. . The payment beyond excessive.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

When law enforcement agencies support these initiatives thanks to direct government backing, opportunities for action can open up signficantly. Hollywood believes that these ‘cam’ copies cause significant damage to the cinema industry, an opinion shared by the UK’s Film Distributors’ Association.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2021

In the first phase of the litigation, the government admitted infringement at ten airports, but challenged the validity of the patent, arguing that it was obvious over the prior art. The government’s failure to come forward with any evidence rebutting infringement was a factor that weighed in favor of the Court’s infringement finding.

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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. Legal scholars, professors, and former government officials, also chimed in. – Former government officials, former judges, and intellectual property scholars.

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Patently-O

JANUARY 4, 2024

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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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 2, 2023

A few days ago, high-quality pirated copies of the new Mission Impossible film began circulating on pirate sites. Among other things, it issues film screening licenses, which are displayed through an animated dragon logo at the start of films, as is the case here. Thus far, the advance pirate release hasn’t broken any records.

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Dear Rich IP Blog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Unless you're willing to follow up on the theft of your website with a threatening letter (or better yet, have your attorney do it), it's unlikely your copyright notice will have much effect on a bad actor bent on copying. Include a method for contacting you if someone wants to license content. Gather evidence of copying.

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Velocity of Content

MARCH 16, 2023

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. This, of course, could be an accident based on true intellectual curiosity, but I do not believe it. 3:22-cv-06823 – Whither transformative?

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 8, 2023

modification, and other forms of copying of the work fall under this category. Through a licensing agreement, they can give consent for other parties to utilize their creations. The Indian Government enacted The Copyright Act of 1957 to protect the rights of artists from getting copied or pirated. The Tips v.

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Michael Geist

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Canadian copyright lobby groups effort to persuade the government to restrict fair dealing has often focused on a particular use case: the course pack. The course packs were copied and typically sold as an alternative to course textbooks.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

In 2013, Philpot uploaded the photo to Wikimedia Commons, which is governed by the standard Creative Commons license requiring attribution. Philpot claims his standard photo licensing fee is $3,500, but reuses of the photo from Wikipedia Commons didn’t require any payment (just attribution). Nature of the Work.

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SpicyIP

JULY 1, 2021

The Government’s involvement in publishing is historically rooted in increasing accessibility of knowledge for the public [pgs 63-68]. The National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) was established by the government in 1961. As pointed out by R.R.

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Michael Geist

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

This week’s Law Bytes podcast features Western librarian Stephen Spong on fair dealing and prior posts in the series endeavoured to set the record straight and discussed site licensing , transactional licensing , and the disappearance of course packs.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 23, 2022

On the flipside, that business model effectively bypasses an entire industry built on the provision of licensed content, stability, investment, and associated employment opportunities. But with no licensed content available, it’s now a race to the bottom. ” The End. . ” The End.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 15, 2023

April came with the news that the Tanzanian government is prepared to launch a Regulatory Sandbox for start-ups which is aimed at testing innovative products and services. 102, outline the criteria for Collective Management Organizations to determine license fees for music usage. These tariffs, published in Kenya Gazette Supplement No.

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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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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

The Russian Government has also made matters worse for US copyright holders. A few months ago, it proposed a ‘forced licensing’ bill that would effectively legalize piracy of media produced by “unfriendly” states, including the US. That said, Russia’s response to the sanctions hasn’t gone unnoticed.

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Plagiarism Today

APRIL 20, 2022

For much of the web’s recent history, we scraping commonly referred a technique through which spammers would copy content from a website and republish it, either rewritten or verbatim. The CFAA is far from the only law that governs web scraping. Where Does This Leave Us. However, the Ninth Circuit’s ruling doesn’t really change that.

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