Plagiarism Today

MAY 16, 2022

1: Supreme Court Leaves in Place Circuit Split Regarding Approach for Assessing Substantial Similarity in Copyrighted Works. 2: Judge Says ‘Vape’ Musical Parody May Go On as ‘Grease’ Copyright Claim Flops. 3: ComicMix To Publish Lost Dr Seuss Stories, Out Of Copyright. Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Six causes of action including copyright infringement, trafficking in circumvention devices contrary to the DMCA, trademark violations, and unfair competition, encouraged three defendants to settle with Bungie. However, with Ring-1 still in business, more work lay ahead. However, with Ring-1 still in business, more work lay ahead.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 31, 2023

This week’s big IP news is the New York Times suing OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement, trademark dilution and other violations of existing laws. As with most current cases related to AI’s copyright infringement, this one will most likely result in the issuance of a landmark ruling. Microsoft Corp.,

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Last week we reported that a San Francisco law firm acting for Japanese publisher Shueisha had filed an ex parte application at a California district court. The application, which sought discovery of information for use in a foreign proceeding ( 28 U.S. Earlier DMCA Subpoena Forced Cloudflare to Hand Over Information.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 26, 2022

Code § 1202 prohibits the intentional removal of CMI without obtaining permission from the copyright owner, when it is known that will “induce, enable, facilitate, or conceal an infringement.” ” CMI Claims Against YouTube. While YouTube denies them all, at some point the CMI matter will need to be addressed.

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The IPKat

JANUARY 30, 2022

PermaKat Neil Wilkof commented on the reproduction of the work of art " Detail from the Portrait of Eugénie-Pamela Larivière" (which is in the public domain) by Louis Larivière in the Louvre, Paris" on a book cover. Reminder: last call to vote for your best IP book of 2021 by participating in the poll here !

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 19, 2023

When issuing a CC0 NFT, the artist declares the entirety of a project’s content to be in the public domain, allowing the public at large to use, modify or recreate the NFT artwork in compliance with the CC0 license for commercial purposes, without attributing it to the original artist.

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SpicyIP

JULY 17, 2023

Looking at the Data from the IPO Annual Reports Patent filings and grants are at an all-time high in India. Looking for an answer, Swaraj, Praharsh, and Anshuman explore the data from the Indian Patent Office’s annual reports in their post. But who are the parties filing these patent applications? Petersburg.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

In a nutshell, generative AI raises two main copyright issues that branch off into further sub-problems which in turn intercept (if not collide with) some fundamental rights, especially freedom of artistic expression, freedom of art and science and the right to science and culture (Arts. 11 and 13 EUCFR , 19 UDHR , 27.1 UDHR, and 15.1

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Supreme Court of India , which dealt with issues of confidentiality, privacy (prior consent) of litigants and witnesses, restrictions on access to proceedings of trials and the preservation of the larger public interest due to the sensitivity of the proceedings. as per Rule 9(2)(iv).

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IIPRD

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Oracle Software India Ltd, the court held that duplicating CD reception may amount to piracy and violation of Section 14 of the Copyright Act, 1957. Consistent with the recent report of the Indian Federation of Phonographic Industry (IFPI), music piracy has reached unacceptable levels in India, China, Brazil, Indonesia, and Pakistan.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The precedent work is “a set of replacement stickers for the dashboard climate controls for certain GM vehicles”: The Copyright Office registered this design. All of these facts placed Defendant on actual notice that it was highly likely that, in fact, Plaintiff’s Sticker Sheet was not infringing the Subject Design.

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SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The order was passed by the Delhi High Court in further to the order of ex-parte interim injunction restraining the infringement of the rights of the Plaintiff in Asia Cup cricket matches and associated content. However, it was reported that a few DNR are not giving effect to the injunction orders passed by the court.

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IP and Legal Filings

MAY 3, 2024

However, registering a work with a copyright office can provide additional benefits, such as the ability to pursue legal action against infringers. Copyright protection generally lasts for the lifetime of the creator and for several years after his death.

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IP Whiteboard

APRIL 15, 2021

The Duchess of Sussex) was recently granted summary judgment in a privacy claim against Associated Newspapers Limited, over the publication of extracts from a hand-written letter to her father (see HRH The Duchess of Sussex v Associated Newspapers Ltd [2021] EWHC 273 (Ch) ). Background.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 25, 2024

Act I When the Committee charged with conducting Canada’s 2019 Copyright Act Review turned its mind to AI, its primary concern was with “help[ing] Canada’s promising future in artificial intelligence become reality” ( Report 2019 ). The training process can involve reproductions of the training data…. data —reside).

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IP and Legal Filings

MAY 3, 2023

Here, merely automated and mechanical work that lacks originality is also protected by the said copyright doctrine. For instance, in accordance with this doctrine, the author would be entitled to copyright protection if someone collected different poems that were previously in the public domain and produced in a single document.

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SpicyIP

MARCH 27, 2023

filed an application to place additional documents on record, before framing the issues, against the defendants, ARG Outlier Media Pvt Ltd, which also included the examination reports of the Registry and the responses by the defendants regarding trademark/taglines that are the subject matter of the suit. MSM Discovery Pvt.

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Copyright Lately

OCTOBER 25, 2021

But Lewis thought the song was a rip-off of “I Want a New Drug” and asserted a copyright infringement claim against Columbia Pictures. The studio settled quietly out of court, so there’s no reported decision in this one. Ghostbusters, Part II. The Ghostly Trio. stock features of cartoon ghosts in general.?

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Copyright Lately

APRIL 3, 2023

Internet Archive’s “Open Library” Project Historically, copyright owners haven’t pursued infringement actions against the relatively few libraries that have implemented some form of CDL, leaving the model legally untested in court. million additional books protected by valid copyrights.

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IP and Legal Filings

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

According to a report by Markets and Markets, the cryptocurrency market is expected to grow from USD 1.6 According to a report by Business Insider, more than half of the 100 largest banks in the world have already invested in crypto and blockchain-based companies. billion in 2021 to USD 2.2

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 2, 2022

The Court noted that redacting one’s name from a judgment acquitting them is counterproductive when there are other tarnishing publications in the public domain and that access to court judgments are integral to “open justice”, subject only to some exceptions. Parliamentary Standing Committee Report on the IP regime.

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LexBlog IP

AUGUST 23, 2023

But I will describe what happened when I read a few news reports describing the outcome in Morford v. Though articles about many of those, or related, issues have appeared here in the past, they present issues that will not be solved, or even too well-defined, in this August blog post. ” Id. Morford , at 11. ” Id.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 20, 2023

Thus, if an artist creates a derivative work based on a photograph unlawfully , and copies of that derivative work are reproduced and distributed to the public, the owner of copyright in the photograph is entitled to sue for copyright infringement and to recover remedies for the unlawful use of their photograph.

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The IPKat

AUGUST 11, 2022

KECOBO did mention that a work may be in the public domain because copyright has expired and companies should conduct due diligence before engaging in meme creation].

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

If the work was published with proper copyright notice, it received a federal statutory copyright. If the work was published without proper copyright notice, the work entered the public domain. Nation Enterprises , 723 F.2d 2d 195 (2d Cir. 1983), rev’d on other grounds , 471 U.S. 17 U.S.C. §

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