Kluwer Copyright Blog

JANUARY 6, 2022

It modifies the French Intellectual Property Code (‘IPC’). Thus, ARCOM’s has extensive powers to fight against all forms of online infringement: peer-to-peer and direct downloading, streaming, IPTV, etc. Intellectual Property Law in China, 2nd edition. More from our authors: Law of Raw Data.

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Indiana Intellectual Property Law

AUGUST 20, 2021

Haehl claims that she drew inspiration from her previous success with using model babies to use photo editing software to add teeth to her infant subjects. Copyright Office as Group Reg. Therefore, Haehl is seeking damages for direct copyright infringement in violation of 17 U.S.C. § VA0002191510. 1202(b).

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The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

As September is coming to an end , here are the latest events and opportunities for IPKat readers: ALAI European Author’s Right Award The 6th edition of the ALAI European Authors’ Right Award, supported by GESAC, is now accepting nominations for the 2023 edition. Conditions and application form available here. Dr. Alexander J.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Marcel Pemsel examined the decision of the Higher Regional Court of Cologne on whether the provider of domain name system (DNS) resolver and content delivery network (CDN) services can be liable for copyright infringement if it provides its services to the operators of websites with illegal content (in this case, music).

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 25, 2024

Publishers Hachette, HarperCollins, John Wiley, and Penguin Random House filed a lawsuit, equating IA’s controlled digital lending (CDL) operation to copyright infringement. Earlier this year a New York federal court concluded that the library is indeed liable for copyright infringement. – Copyright Alliance.

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The IPKat

MAY 31, 2023

Copyright This Kat reflected on a judgment issued by the Tribunal Judiciaire of Paris on 31 March 2023 which concerned a claim of copyright infringement in a typeface. The Court held that a musical box infringed of an author’s moral rights. A Kat waiting for the next IP case.

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 19, 2022

First off today, Alison Flood at The Guardian reports that, in the United Kingdom, the Intellectual Property Office (IPO) has announced that they are pausing any changes to their copyright laws after authors expressed concern the change could drastically hurt their income.

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IP and Legal Filings

MAY 13, 2024

This way of doing things with the help of generative AI technology carries numerous legal challenges of intellectual property violation. Is copyright, patent, or trademark infringement applicable to AI creations or not, and who owns the material that AI platforms generate for you or your clients is still an unanswered question.

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SpicyIP

AUGUST 27, 2021

Following on from the success of last year’s inaugural edition of the Shamnad Basheer Essay Competition on IP Law, on May 14 th , 2021 we announced the 2 nd edition of the Shamnad Basheer Essay Competition on the occasion of Shamnad ‘s 45 th birth anniversary. A photograph of Prof. (Dr.) Shamnad Basheer.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 30, 2024

Copyright exceptions: Quotation and pastiche Apart from exhaustion, another possible avenue of “legitimizing” upcycling in the face of copyright infringement allegations could lie with copyright exceptions. More from our authors: International Cybersecurity and Privacy Law in Practice, Second Edition by Charlotte A.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

This Conference marks the 25th anniversary of the Boards of Appeal and will bring together leading intellectual property experts from multiple jurisdictions, representing a broad spectrum of professional interests with representatives from some of the leading IP offices, lawmakers, judges, academics, and lawyers.

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LexBlog IP

JULY 21, 2021

That question is “how have various countries’ intellectual property laws addressed efforts to copyright, trademark, or patent holy names, sacred words, or outputs of creation?” The report notes on page 11 that “In 2003, research estimates put the [U.S.] market for religious publishing and products at $6.8

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2021

De minimis analysis involves the substantiality of the copying, not the use to which the infringing work is put; by definition, wholesale copying of a protected work cannot be de minimis copying. De minimis use is not a copyright infringement defense but involves weighing the degree to which a protected work has been copied (Bell v.

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The IPKat

MAY 18, 2024

To celebrate the start of this event, this Kat has found a recent judgment issued by the Tribunal judiciaire (TJ) of Lyon [ the birthplace of cinema ] concerning a case of copyright infringement relating to the still of a short film. In 2011, Mr T directed and edited a short film entitled “ Rêve d'enfants ”.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 11, 2022

Intellectual Property Law in China, 2nd edition. Because Marquardt did not raise any legal issues concerning the materiality of the disputed factual issues, the collateral order doctrine did not apply. A full summary of this case has been published on Kluwer IP Law. More from our authors: Law of Raw Data.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2021

In a copyright infringement suit brought by a children’s clothing company against retailer Target Corporation, the U.S. Intellectual Property Law in China, 2nd edition. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has reversed the decision by the federal district court in Texas to dismiss the case.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

.” Google LLC’s copying of approximately 11,000 lines of code from the Java SE application programming interface to create the Android mobile operating system was a fair use of that material as a matter of law and did not support copyright infringement by the code’s owner, Oracle America, Inc., by Christopher Heath. €

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LexBlog IP

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

However, commonly overlooked is the fact that the underlying image or media fragment in a meme is someone’s intellectual property, and thus subject to potential legal implications if used improperly. Often, memes transform and grow as viewers and sharers add new, individualized glosses to the underlying media. Warner Bros.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The UK Government’s Intellectual Property Office has published a new edition of its Online Copyright Infringement Tracker study. For most categories the purely illegal group has remained stable and low,” the Intellectual Property Office explains. only) illegal group.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 24, 2023

Photo by Artur Shamsutdinov on Unsplash This is a two-part post summarising the authors’ findings from the report on Copyright Infringement in the Video Game Industry , which was prepared by the authors for the World Intellectual Property Organization.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JANUARY 18, 2022

To achieve these aims, the DSA sets out numerous due diligence obligations of intermediaries concerning any type of illegal information, including copyright infringing content. Copyright enforcement online is a major issue in the context of the DSA, and the DSA will be of utmost importance for the future of online copyright in the EU.

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The IPKat

MAY 28, 2023

Copyright infringement cases often involve works of art, literature, or design. This recent French decision gives us an opportunity to look at a rarer case, that of copyright infringement in a typeface. Mr X founded ZeAssociates to edit, publish and distribute models of typographic works and software. 112-1 and L.112-2

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LexBlog IP

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Introduction Digital technologies such as the metaverse, non-fungible tokens ( NFTs ), blockchain and augmented realities are directly influencing how we cultivate and protect various forms of intellectual property, including trade marks.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 25, 2023

Photo by Artur Shamsutdinov on Unsplash This is a two-part post summarising the authors’ findings from the report on Copyright Infringement in the Video Game Industry which was prepared by the authors for the World Intellectual Property Organization.

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LexBlog IP

JUNE 27, 2023

In any case, the US Supreme Court has again confounded the legal world by upending expectations, if not years of precedent – though this time in the intellectual property arena. Goldsmith counter-sued, claiming copyright infringement. .” Or maybe he took the phrase from someone else. Prince , 714 F.3d

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 17, 2024

Both the US Copyright Office and Canada Intellectual Property Office (CIPO) maintain publicly searchable copyright registers. More from our authors: International Cybersecurity and Privacy Law in Practice, Second Edition by Charlotte A.

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IP and Legal Filings

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

In the absence of permission, the owner can file a suit against unauthorized use and infringement of his work. History Of Fashion Copyright During the 1800s the root idea for the intellectual property rights was entertained in the Paris Convention to muster up joint action among international jurisdiction.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MARCH 2, 2022

Readers of this blog will be familiar with the English High Court’s strong track record in issuing injunctions to compel internet service providers (“ISPs”) to block access to copyright-infringing websites. As there is no written judgment, we do not have details of the copyright infringements taking place via the relevant websites.

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IPilogue

JULY 22, 2021

On June 8 th , the Federal Court of Australia ruled that AGL Energy, Australia’s largest electricity generator, failed to establish its trademark and copyright infringement claim against Greenpeace , an international environmental activist organization. Therefore, no damages were awarded to AGL. Parody in Canada.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JANUARY 4, 2024

Welcome to the fourth (and last) round up of EU copyright law for 2023! In this edition, we update you on what has happened in the last three months of 2024 in EU copyright law. Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash Dear readers, Happy new year! The end of the year was busy for both the courts and the policy makers.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 19, 2024

We would like to thank the Economic Crime Suppression Division of the Royal Thai Police for their steadfast commitment to protecting intellectual property rights. However, the most concerning aspect (copyright infringement aside) is the promotion of these scripts to people with little to no relevant experience.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 7, 2022

Each year the UK Government publishes a new edition of its Online Copyright Infringement Tracker which reveals the results of an annual survey polling the piracy habits of people twelve years old and above. The UK Intellectual Property Office has just published the results of the 11th wave which took place in 2021.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 26, 2021

On the copyright side, the following concerning themes emerge: the use of copyright law to silence voice online, procedures in tackling copyright infringing content, as well as the Article 17 CDSM safeguards. European Union Intellectual Property Office, Report on Online Copyright Infringement in the EU.

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LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 20, 2023

The plaintiff sued for copyright infringement in May 2023. The plaintiff argued that the “intellectual investment” of selecting and arranging the inputs necessary to generate the image at issue is akin to photographers manually adjusting antique cameras to achieve a desired result in a photograph.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

To be sure, Recital 66 CDSMD notes that “[the liability mechanism] should be without prejudice to remedies under national law for cases other than liability for copyright infringements and to national courts or administrative authorities being able to issue injunctions in compliance with Union law.” According to Art.

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CopyrightsWorld

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

For photographers and image creators, digital photos’ infringement is a cruel reality. Copyright infringement of digital photos differs in important ways from infringement in the markets of music and movies. Watermarks can be removed with a series of photo editing software and apps. Based on statistics , 2.5

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The IPKat

JULY 23, 2023

The second edition of the "Conférence luxembourgeoise sur la jurisprudence européenne en propriété intellectuelle (JEuPI)" will take place on 28 September 2023 in Luxemburg, hosted at the Chambre de Commerce du Luxembourg. The speakers include Tom Nener (Pinsent Masons), Kate O’Rourke (Mewburn Ellis) and Andrew Marsden (Wilson Gunn).

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