Velocity of Content

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The culmination of a decades-long effort, and well before the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and Copyright Term Extension Act were passed in 1998, the 1976 Copyright Act ushered in a new era of copyright law in the United States. Nation Enterprises.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 6, 2021

This can include uploads with appropriate licensing or content posted within the guidelines of ‘fair use’, including criticism or parody, for example. Aside from the summary comments from the Judge based on Missingham’s transcripts, there are also some clues in the YouTube video URLs published in the judgment.

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LexBlog IP

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

This time, a group of music publishing companies, including Concord Music Group, Inc., They allege that Anthropic copies Plaintiffs’ copyrighted song lyrics and its AI chatbot, Claude, then generates those lyrics in response to user prompts—all without a license. ABCKO Music, Inc., ” Id. at ¶ 10.

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The IP Law Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Weintraub Tobin’s Intellectual Property podcast, The Briefing , published nearly 50 episodes this year covering a variety of IP issues relating to trademark, copyright, and entertainment law. 3: What Now for Fair Use After Warhol v. As we look back, we want to share The Briefing’s most popular episodes in 2023.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 2, 2021

District Court Judge Jed Rakoff has issued a controversial ruling denying the “server test” of copyright law and ruling that embedding images can be an infringement of copyright law. The judge also ruled against Sinclair on the issue of fair use, saying that it was too early in the case to rule on that issue.

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LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Weintraub Tobin’s Intellectual Property podcast, The Briefing , published nearly 50 episodes this year covering a variety of IP issues relating to trademark, copyright, and entertainment law. 3: What Now for Fair Use After Warhol v. Goldsmith The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Andy Warhol Foundation v.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 17, 2024

is one of the most interesting cases in history to rely on a fair use defense, arguing that the alleged infringement qualifies as a parody. Acuff-Rose sued members of hip hop group 2 Live Crew, claiming that their track “Pretty Woman” infringed the label’s copyright in the Roy Orbison song, “Oh, Pretty Woman.”

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Velocity of Content

OCTOBER 9, 2023

On Thursday, October 12, 2023, 1000 EDT/1500 BST/1600 CEST, CCC presents a Town Hall special program on LinkedIn Live, “AI, Licensing & The Path Forward.” As a legal precedent, Texaco paved the way for far broader license acceptance by Fortune 100 and other corporations,” he noted. “As

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IP Intelligence

JUNE 7, 2023

Sy Damle, (2016-2018 General Counsel) testified that “the training of AI models will generally fall within the established bounds of fair use.” Sy Damle, (2016-2018 General Counsel) testified that “the training of AI models will generally fall within the established bounds of fair use.” (S.

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Velocity of Content

JANUARY 25, 2024

This article originally appeared in IPWatchdog and is re-published with permission. “Is 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?”

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Velocity of Content

MARCH 16, 2023

This article was originally published in The Scholarly Kitchen. As a person involved in copyright on a daily basis, I’ve observed a number of events and requests for comment over the last few years on the issue of whether artificial intelligence (AI) systems can be “authors” in the copyright sense (or inventors of patents).

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 2, 2022

Even so, the court’s almost-banal treatment of this super-interesting topic suggests that there may not be much tattoo exceptionalism in copyright law. ” As for whether the tattoo is substantially similar to the copyrighted elements of the photo, the court sends the issue to the jury. Nature of Use.

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The IPKat

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

A Large Language Model (LLM) is an artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm that uses deep learning and large data sets to analyse, summarize, generate, and predict content. They are trained on large volumes of data in multiple steps including copyright protected works used with or without the permission of the creator or appropriate licenses.

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Copyright Lately

JUNE 2, 2022

In a 30-page order, the district court largely denies both parties’ motions for summary judgment, finding triable issues on substantial similarity and fair use. and High Voltage Tattoo) asked the court to determine that the use of Sedlik’s photo as a reference image qualified as a fair use of the copyrighted work.

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IPilogue

DECEMBER 13, 2022

In 1984, Vanity Fair magazine received a licence from photographer Lynn Goldsmith to use her 1981 portrait of Prince, which she had shot on assignment for Newsweek. In determining fair use according to the statute, one of the primary points of contention involved the meaning behind the “purpose and character” of the alleged use.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

AUGUST 13, 2021

Second Circuit reverses district court’s fair use declaration granted to Andy Warhol Foundation; artist’s works were not “transformative” and could harm the photographer’s market for licensing her image. A full summary of this case has been published on Kluwer IP Law. Case date: 26 March 2021.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

AUGUST 12, 2021

Second Circuit reverses district court’s fair use declaration granted to Andy Warhol Foundation; artist’s works were not “transformative” and could harm the photographer’s market for licensing her image. A full summary of this case has been published on Kluwer IP Law. Case date: 26 March 2021.

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IP and Legal Filings

JULY 21, 2022

If copyright protection is applied rigidly, it will hamper progress of the society. However, copyright laws were enacted with necessary exceptions and limitations to ensure that a balance is maintained between the interests of the owners and of the community. No educational institution applied for any licenses till now.

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LexBlog IP

JUNE 7, 2023

Sy Damle, (2016-2018 General Counsel) testified that “the training of AI models will generally fall within the established bounds of fair use.” Sy Damle, (2016-2018 General Counsel) testified that “the training of AI models will generally fall within the established bounds of fair use.” ” (S.

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Kashishipr

OCTOBER 27, 2021

It encourages them to make suitable programs that can work on their platforms by publishing documents and providing tools to help them adapt to their APIs. Copyright is the most obvious and preferred choice for protecting an API due to the basic reasons that it is permissible within the copyright laws of different nations.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2022

There are certain exceptions to copyright infringement that can be used as a shield in such cases. Firstly, the exception of fair use. One has to check if the way in which the photograph is being used falls within the scope of fair use.

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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. The local news could then take photos of the shirt to use in a story about what a lousy dad I am. You get the idea. Paging Section 113(c).

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IP Intelligence

JUNE 6, 2023

Sy Damle, (2016-2018 General Counsel) testified that “the training of AI models will generally fall within the established bounds of fair use.” Sy Damle, (2016-2018 General Counsel) testified that “the training of AI models will generally fall within the established bounds of fair use.” (S. emphasis original).

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

We will keep the law under review and could amend, replace or remove protection in future if the evidence supports it.” Registration was refused in August 2019, in line with previous US case law and guidance. We were not aware that the image may have been created by AI” 2.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 20, 2023

Supreme Court affirmed the Second Circuit’s ruling that the reproduction of Andy Warhol’s Orange Prince on the cover of a magazine tribute was not a fair use of Lynn Goldsmith’s photo of the singer-songwriter Prince, on which the Warhol portrait was based. This has important implications for the doctrine of fair use.

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IPilogue

AUGUST 4, 2021

These range from allegedly violating copyright (the subject of much debate on forums) to leaking functional API keys (i.e., This is because Copilot would copy small snippets of commonly used code which are unlikely to amount to substantial reproduction or meet the threshold of originality necessary to be protected under copyright.

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Michael Geist

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Canadian copyright lobby groups have relentlessly lobbied the government to overturn decades of Supreme Court of Canada jurisprudence, seeking unprecedented restrictions on fair dealing that include eliminating it for educational institutions if a licence is available. The addition of “education” was hardly an overhaul.

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SpicyIP

JULY 29, 2021

The Copyright section of the Report opens by stating that the ‘widely-scoped’ exceptions to infringement under Section 52 pose a ‘detrimental impact on the publishing industry and authors’. To put things in perspective, even the most IP-friendly jurisdiction of US in Cambridge v. Watering down Section 52(1). Bench decision).

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Indeed, human creators seek compensation for the novel use of their intellectual efforts while AI firms aim to maximize the free harvesting of data (including copyright-protected materials) for training their algorithms. It is very likely that many more cases will be brought to courts in the near future. Secondly, para.

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SpicyIP

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Pocket FM claims to have an exclusive license from Manjul Publishing House, the publisher of translated titles, that holds the Hindi rights to these books. We are not aware of the exact terms of this contract and the specific rights licensed to Pocket FM.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 3, 2023

31, 2022): When an individual’s decision to disseminate an Instagram post is the “very thing the article [is] reporting on,” the use of the Instagram post and its copyrighted material in the reporting has been deemed sufficiently transformative to support a fair use defense. 2K Games, Inc. , 1:17CV2635 (N.D.

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 8, 2023

The year 2020 brought a big change for the music and movie industries as the forced lockdown to control the pandemic issue made them launch their movies and music albums on the online platform, which also brought up the problem of copyright infringement as now it was easy to record and sell the movies online. Wynk Music Ltd. Conclusion.

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Copyright Lately

AUGUST 2, 2022

And unlike the vast majority of songwriters and performing artists who have relinquished ownership rights to musical publishers and record labels, Barlow & Bear decided to release “The Unofficial Bridgerton Musical” themselves, which means keeping more of the earnings. A Musical Parody ” and “ Friends!

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TorrentFreak

JULY 26, 2023

. ” The proposals stated that violations would be punishable by a prison term of up to three years, a fine, or both The bill was the subject of a Standing Committee Report published in March 2020. ” Image credit: Pixabay / igorovsyannykov From: TF , for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

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The IPKat

OCTOBER 3, 2022

October 26, 2022 | Bird & Bird | "Webinar: The DSM Directive one year on (part II) Article 15: A power shift back to the publishers?" | online Article 15 of Directive 2019/790 builds on and follows a number of national initiatives aimed at remedying declining revenues in the press sector.

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SpicyIP

MAY 2, 2022

We’re pleased to bring you a guest post from Akshat Agrawal on a recent order that raised questions on the extent / limitations of the exemptions and limitations to Indian copyright law. You can see his previous posts for us here. New(s) Questions and Fair Use: Using Copyright to Curtail Expression?

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

You see, when I was growing up, computers took up entire rooms and content was published on paper – books, newspapers, magazines, and yes, sometimes even broadcast on television or radio. Much of that content is protected by copyright laws. The Perks of Using Copyrighted Content: Should We Feed the Machine?

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