Plagiarism Today

DECEMBER 12, 2022

First off today, Bruce Houghton at Hypebot reports that the video sharing and social networking service Triller has hit back in a lawsuit filed by Sony Music Entertainment, saying that it did nothing wrong even as it acknowledges a $2 million debt to the company. 3: Shelby Trust Prevails in Mustang Eleanor Copyright Lawsuit.

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The IPKat

JUNE 9, 2023

It was dedicated to the best and worst copyright and design cases of the past 20 years. Lord Justice Arnold, opening the first panel (photo: Neil Graveney) Lord Justice Arnold opened the panel, suggesting Infopaq ( C-5/08 ) as both the best and the worst copyright case (and certainly the most influential).

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Plagiarism Today

APRIL 7, 2022

The website features information about the CCB, updates on the process, and users can register a CCB Designated Service Agent to receive notices and communication from the CCB. 2: Senate Passes Bill to Strengthen Copyright Law, Prohibits Online Duplication, Rebroadcasting without Consent.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 6, 2024

In 2017, Trading Standards went on record stating that streaming consumers had nothing to fear under copyright law, a position supported – albeit briefly – by the European Commission. No carefully crafted sentences designed to mislead. He has since been released under investigation while enquiries continue.”

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The IPKat

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The event was Organised by AI Fringe (AI for everyone) and co-convened by DACS (The Design and Artists Copyright Society). At the moment, copyright law in relation to the use of existing copyright works for the purpose of training machine learning software as well as in relation to the work created by AI is ambiguous.

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IP Watchdog

MAY 20, 2022

This week in Other Barks & Bites: the European Commission sent notice to several EU member states directing them to codify recent rule changes to EU copyright law; a WIPO report shows that China has a significant lead in global patent application filings for hydrogen fuel cell vehicle technologies; Judge O’Grady is removed from the criminal copyright (..)

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 27, 2023

And indeed, most of the listed URLs that were reported to Google sell T-shirts emblazoned with this meme. One of the Reported T-shirts While there’s no question that Musk shared the meme, the copyright claim is trivial. One notice highlights an exclusive design for the official Tesla AI Day t-shirt.

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The IPKat

OCTOBER 1, 2022

According to The Business of Fashion , Kardashian “tweaked Dolce & Gabbana styles from the 1990s and early 2000s” creating “finished looks” with Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana “that were, the designers said, about 20 percent different from the originals.” copyright law. copyright law.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Liu ) that an AI-generated image is copyrightable and that a person who prompted the AI-generated image is entitled to the right of authorship under Chinese Copyright Law (see our bilingual version , and the later-released official translation ). The court therefore ruled that Defendant infringed upon Plaintiff’s copyright.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Copyright Anastasiia Kyrylenko discussed the recent interpretation of Article 4 of Directive 2004/48/EC by the CJEU in relation to possibility for collective management organisations to bring, in their own name, actions for copyright infringement on behalf of the right holders.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 11, 2023

Mask work is a type of intellectual property protection designed to protect layout designs (topographies) of integrated circuits. Under the SCPA, a mask work is a series of related images that forms a design or part of a design used to produce an integrated circuit. Statistics from Copyright Office’s Annual Reports.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 17, 2024

It lost for two reasons: one grounded in contract law and the other external. First, the court held that the damages X incurred (primarily the loss of advertisers after CCDH published negative reports using scraped data) were unforeseeable when the ToS were agreed upon in 2019. The First Amendment would not have helped Bright Data.

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Velocity of Content

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Where copyright protection begins and ends Employees consume and share copyrighted materials all day long. However, routine content exchanges such as sharing published reports, articles and other information found on the Web, have copyright implications, which can expose companies to a greater risk of infringement.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

AI-generated works have won awards: The Crow , an “AI-made” film won the Jury Award at the Cannes Short Film Festival and the story of an AI artwork winning the Colorado State Fair’s annual art competition was reported in The New York Times. Registration was refused in August 2019, in line with previous US case law and guidance.

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SpicyIP

AUGUST 2, 2021

A Parliamentary Standing Committee Report that Challenges the Fine Balances Within the IP System. In a guest post , Dr. Arul George Scaria writes about the macro and structural issues with the recently released Parliamentary Standing Committee Report on IPR. The post focuses on three methodological flaws in the Report.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 7, 2023

At least in theory, copyright law in both the United States and Europe should provide adequate protections for intermediaries but if a chink appears in the armor, nothing can stop rightsholders filing a lawsuit. ” The report further revealed that DISH and Datacamp had engaged in settlement discussions.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 31, 2022

But for some companies, Cloudflare doesn’t go far enough and according to a report coming out of Japan, will soon face a new lawsuit related to manga piracy. As noted in our report , the publishers asked Cloudflare to hand over the personal details of the operators of manga1000.com com and manga1001.com. At the time, manga1000.com

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Can a work entirely created by a machine be protected by copyright? COPYRIGHT OFFICE, REPORT TO THE LIBRARIAN OF CONGRESS BY THE REGISTER OF COPYRIGHTS 5 (1966). were actually conceived and executed not by man but by a machine.” First, held the Board, a machine cannot enter into any binding legal contract.

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The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

COPYRIGHT Lokesh Vyas delivered a guest contribution exploring the potential of Article 17 of the Berne Convention as an unexplored emergency provision in international copyright law. Anastasiia Kyrylenko also summarised the European Parliament‘s adoption of the GI Regulation.

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The IPKat

MARCH 10, 2022

The IPKat's favourite Le Pliage When you have a handbag design bestseller with over 54 million copies sold around the world since its creation in 1993, the question concerning the IP rights vesting in it is not just an academic one. All this was at the centre of a recent decision of the Milan Court of First Instance ( decision 10280/2021 ).

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 15, 2023

Our own experience shows that URLs on this very website have been wrongfully reported to Google almost 150 times by 65 reporting organizations and rightsholders. We were targeted again in February for referring to a piracy app by name in an article reporting that its alleged creator had been arrested. RoboCop: Book him!

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The IPKat

MARCH 6, 2022

The IPKat has reported on a few of them below. Marks IP has reported on the background to the dispute and the JPO's decision on the invalidity action. The concepts and role of the informed user and the degree of freedom of choice were recently clarified in Turkish design law, and Marques has reported on the case.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

These videos are often around 10 minutes in length but rather than giving a flavor of a movie to whet the appetite, they are designed to give away entire plotlines and necessarily include spoilers. The other suspects who were arrested last summer all pleaded guilty to criminal breaches of Japan’s copyright law.

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SpicyIP

JULY 22, 2023

Later, on page 46, while listing the key challenges in India’s ‘march towards leadership in AI’, the report terms India’s intellectual property regime ‘unattractive’ and one of the impediments to incentivising research and adoption of AI. Committee D – This report is on cyber security, safety, legal and ethical issues.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Copyright This Kat is counting the minutes for 2022 The Rt Hon Sir Richard Arnold, Judge of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales, reviewed the book ‘Exceptions in EU Copyright Law: In Search of a Balance Between Flexibility and Legal Certainty’ by Tito Rendas.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 27, 2022

Those wanting to learn how many DMCA notices have been sent to Google over the past few years need look no further than the copyright section of its vast and constantly updated Transparency Report. Handling ‘High-Risk’ Internal Escalations. Handling ‘High-Risk’ Internal Escalations.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Copyright Office and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office held a conference on machine learning and copyright law (see “ Copyright Law and Machine Learning for AI: Where Are We and Where Are We Going ?”). Copyright Office launched a study to examine the copyright law and policy issues raised by generative AI.

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The IPKat

MAY 17, 2023

Copyright Mr Justice Zacaroli finds manufacturing software copyright infringed and confidence breached in ex-employee fight Annsley Merelle Ward reported on the English High Court’s decision in PQ Systems Europe v Jeff Aughton and Factroia Ltd. But not only that, here’s what you missed from the IPKat last week.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 3, 2023

” However, Wallshoppe does not allege Defendant knew of the specific acts of infringement at issue here—Sienna Lewis selling products featuring the Palm Design on Defendant’s website. .'” Mitchell’s caption, make absolutely clear that the focus of its reporting is on the Post and the controversy. *

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LexBlog IP

MAY 19, 2023

Goldsmith was whether or not Warhol’s use of Goldsmith’s photograph as a reference and departure point for the creation of an image of Prince constituted fair use or copyright infringement under U.S. copyright law. Copyright law in the U.S. copyright law.

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The IPKat

JANUARY 2, 2022

The analysis also referred to a pending case before the CJEU dealing with Community design law ( EUIPO v The KaiKai Company Jaeger Wichmann | C-382/21-P) and other EU trade mark cases from 2021. The search for EUTM case law before EU Courts from the previous year was based on decisions included in the eSearch Case Law database.

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Likelihood of Confusion

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

The New York Post reports that Diane von Furstenberg is suing over knockoffs of her designer smock dress things: The famed designer thinks cheapie-fashion store Forever 21’s $32 “Sabrina” smock. The post Mock smocks spur suit appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™.

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The IPKat

NOVEMBER 28, 2021

Katfriend Jan Jacobi reported on a recent judgment of the Court of Appeal of The Hague (19 October 2021) dealing with the Van Doren Lifestyle judgment, which deserves special attention. TRADE MARKS In the context of European trade, proving trade mark exhaustion can be challenging. Montagnani, OUP, 912 pp.),

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SpicyIP

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Challenges Under IP Law Dark patterns are deceptive or manipulative design elements or techniques used in user interfaces to trick users into taking actions they may not want to take. Misuse of copyrighted content: It also includes misuse of copyrighted material, such as using images or content without permission to mislead users.

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Copyright Lately

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

I’m talking about section 113(c) , which allows photographs of useful articles incorporating copyrighted works to be made and used without violating copyright law. While these sorts of objects typically aren’t themselves eligible for copyright protection, they often contain pictures or designs which are protectable.

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Copyright Lately

AUGUST 10, 2021

In a 91-page report and recommendation, a magistrate judge finds that the new version of the Philadelphia Phillies’ mascot falls within the “derivative works exception” to copyright termination. Overall, the report is a bit of a mixed bag for the team. But questions still remain.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

While I would expect two separate schematics of the ride to be very similar, after all they are both reporting on the object, there are too many small details that overlap. Graphic design is credited to award-winning graphic designer Jeremy Samples, so it's disappointing they would copy instead of producing original artwork.

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