Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 9, 2023

TLDR Generative AI is one of the hot topics in copyright law today. In the EU, a crucial legal issue is whether using in-copyright works to train generative AI models is copyright infringement or falls under existing text and data mining (TDM) exceptions in the Copyright in Digital Single Market (CDSM) Directive.

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Copyright Lately

APRIL 30, 2021

Nineties grunge-rock band Nirvana, already embroiled in a long-running legal battle against fashion company Marc Jacobs over its “happy face” t-shirt designs , now finds itself on the less happy end of a new copyright infringement lawsuit worthy of Dante’s trip through the underworld. copyright law.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Collective licensing with extended effect covers various mechanisms in national copyright law to fill the gaps in the repertoire of the collective management organization (“CMO”), which can then conclude licences for works of right holders who are not affiliated to the CMO. More from our authors: Law of Raw Data. 218 et s. ).

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 7, 2023

Article 21 establishes an unwaivable right to alternative dispute resolution (ADR), which may be a practical necessity for authors who cannot afford to litigate to enforce their rights to contract review and revision. More from our authors: Guide to EU and UK Pharmaceutical Regulatory Law, Eighth Edition by Sally Shorthose € 265

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 10, 2024

It would also seem that that designation would prohibit Woodward from private ownership of the copyright in the full work, a concept that Woodward would surely resist and with which his own copyright registrations are inconsistent. ” Trump Responding Brief at 5. Woodward Motion Brief at 16; Woodward Reply Brief at 7.

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43(B)log

AUGUST 3, 2023

Courts make errors about the law of infringement, leading them to think that certain things are relevant when they are not. Primer: Le Labo is a “mainstream perfumery,” not niche; owned by licensees Estee Lauder, designed by outside “nose,” who works for a “composition house” that develops perfumes for other people.

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JIPL Online

MARCH 19, 2021

ii] These events were sudden and came as a shock to the platform’s creators who were given no opportunity to submit counternotifications or edit their content to remove the allegedly infringing material per the provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (the “DMCA”) and Twitch’s own DMCA Guidelines.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Other contributions have focussed on creators within these industries, and look to the interplay between law and practice, examining whether specific provisions in copyright are successful in their application. We anticipate exciting new contributions on topical issues such as litigation data, trade, and diversity in the coming months.

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LexBlog IP

JULY 21, 2021

.” Jarrod Welsh, Copyrighting God: New Copyright Guidelines Do Not Protect Divine Beings, 17 Rutgers Journal Of Law & Religion 121 (2015). As that Compendium notes in its 2021 edition at Section 313.2 : The Office will not register works produced by nature, animals, or plants. copyright law.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

If not, the court may have to address several other interesting, rarely-litigated issues concerning the proper scope of copyright in recorded interviews. Based solely on the complaint that was filed, there are six major issues raised by the case: First, were the recorded interviews a copyright-eligible “work of authorship”?

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 27, 2023

In particular, ChatGPT is a type of “language” model designed to respond with a natural language reply when prompted with a text-based question. The “Chat” in ChatGPT refers to this question-and-answer design, where ChatGPT behaves like a ChatBot. ” OpenAI, ChatGPT General FAQ.

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