Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

JUNE 21, 2023

However, if such streaming of copyrighted music is done without obtaining license from the copyright holder, then it amounts to copyright infringement. Copyright involves the exclusive right to reproduce and distribute the original work. Hence, the plaintiff filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against them.

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IPilogue

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

According to Copyright Lately , tensions are rising in the Livingston family as to who earns the royalties from the Academy Award-winning composer, Jay Livingston’s hit songs. These songs include hits such as Que Sera, Sera and theme songs for various television programs. The Deal with Copyright Termination.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 9, 2023

However, when the new EU Copyright Directive passed a few years ago, dark clouds started to form. Article 17 of the Copyright Directive requires online services to license content from copyright holders. The upload filters were implemented in collaboration with the local Association of Commercial Television (AKTV).

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Velocity of Content

JUNE 20, 2022

Fred Simian –the deal included licensing rights, and Green created a television show to feature Fred. In the past week, Green revealed that Fred Simian is home, yet the strange, twisted tale of a Bored Ape has many more turns left, involving copyright law, cryptocurrency, and blockchain code.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Massive Copyright Infringement The language used in the complaint makes it extremely clear that the MPA views playlists as a threat and illegal under copyright law. The terms of Pluto TV’s license ( section 5.2 ) forbid users from accessing the service in ways that are not expressly authorized by the platform.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 25, 2024

Publishers vs. Internet Archive The self-scanning service offered by the Internet Archive (IA) differs from the licensing agreements entered into by other libraries. ” According to the amici, there is nothing fair about IA’s digital library; instead, they see it as “unambiguous copyright infringement.”

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Velocity of Content

MAY 1, 2024

29 town hall, The Heart of the Matter: Copyright, AI Training and LLMs, presented a comprehensive case that AI systems do infringe copyrights and called for a licensing system to compensate content owners. Legal & Copyright Issues With that technical background, the discussion moved to legal and copyright issues.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 12, 2021

Sinclair owns a bunch of television stations. Under the Copyright Act, display. means to show a copy of it, either directly or by means of a film, slide, television image, or any other device or process or, in the case of a motion picture or other audiovisual work, to show individual images nonsequentially.”.

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Copyright Lately

MAY 7, 2021

The studio argues that a complaint seeking an accounting of profits from its planned Rin Rin Tin film doesn’t arise under the Copyright Act. He’s the canine film and television star made famous in the 1920’s, which makes him nearly 700 if you’re counting in dog years. In 2019, Warner Bros.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 24, 2023

. “This is a collaboration of like minded corporate Industry associations and individual right holders to help fight piracy,” the Copyright Board added. Copyrighted content being distributed without a license appears to be the root of the allegations facing Lime Fiber.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 3, 2023

DataCamp faces secondary copyright infringement claims, none of which hold water, the company now insists. “The Channels are not Registered Copyrighted Works with the U.S. .” The CDN company says the aim was to “aggressively monetize DISH’s contractual rights under the guise of United States Copyright Law.”

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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. Conclusion. The Tips v.

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SpicyIP

JULY 29, 2021

Fourthly , the preposterous recommendation to prohibit/restrict storage of copied works in digital form during a global crisis like the Covid-19 pandemic betrays a myopic understanding of copyright law. Another major issue is that it only superficially touches upon issues relevant to copyright law. Concluding thoughts.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 18, 2024

Copyright: WIPO. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. Restrict the treaty’s terms to apply only to traditional broadcasting–linear radio and television broadcasting and cablecasting. Photo: Emmanuel Berrod. See Love 2023.

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Copyright Lately

JANUARY 13, 2023

and 20th Century-Fox Records argued that, because King had distributed advance copies of the speech to the press without restricting them from reproducing or distributing it further (and without the copyright notice required under copyright law at the time), the speech was in the public domain.

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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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LexBlog IP

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Meme Culture Meets Copyright Law: A Guide for Businesses & Creators Memes, often humorous media fragments that spread rapidly through online sharing, are a global phenomenon that have made their way into mainstream culture. All meme-like images in this article are properly licensed. Are Memes Dangerous? Yes and no.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 4, 2022

It was formed following a state license, in order to collect, among other things, the equitable remuneration provided by article 49 of Law 2121/93 in favour of producers, performers, and musicians for the public performance of legitimately released sound carriers. The direct licensing of in-store music was not covered by the agreement.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 26, 2023

A copy available via PRS Legislative Research ( pdf ) shows that the committee heard evidence from the Motion Picture Distributors Association, Viacom 18, the Film and Television Producers Guild of India, and others. Amended Amendments The Standing Committee Report referenced 18 U.S.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Photo by Christian Wiediger from Unsplash The implementation transposition of the Copyright Directive 2019/790 (DSMD) in the summer of 2021 represented probably the greatest reform in German copyright law since the German Copyright Act (UrhG) came into force. Germany’s implementation of Art.

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LexBlog IP

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Despite the proliferation of streaming services, there’s still a market for broadcast television, as evidenced by the fact that cable packages remain a thing, albeit a diminished thing, and that there are ever more options that offer customers the channels they love served to them over the internet rather than through a cable box.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

v GO4YU GmbH ( Case C‑423/21 ) The facts of the case are representative of the grey areas of the application of copyright territoriality in the digital era. is a Serbian company which produces television programs that are broadcast in Serbia by a TV channel, Prva Srpska Televizija. Grand Production d.o.o.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2023

At the district court level, the law of copyright preemption is a morass of ad hoc explanations of whether certain contracts are “equivalent” to the exclusive rights within the general scope of copyright law. Platforms that copy online data and use it to create AI have a strong fair use argument under copyright laws.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 1, 2023

On the other hand, professional photographers have to make a living by licensing their photos to publishers (and other intermediaries) who are willing to pay them to reproduce and display those photos. Instagram, of course, was licensed to publicly display the post under its own terms and conditions, so there is no direct infringement.

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The IP Law Blog

AUGUST 17, 2023

a case where plaintiffs alleged that the defendant violated their rights under the Act by selling services that allowed users to watch television programs over the internet at the time the programs were available on live television. Aereo, Inc. ,

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JIPL Online

APRIL 9, 2021

Memes utilize pop culture content, such as movies, television shows, and other various forms of media, often in a parodic way. Such uses are often methods of social commentary regarding the user’s own life, or more broadly, current events; they also often utilize copyrightable material. [i] By: Taylor Bussey. INTRODUCTION.

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Copyright Lately

AUGUST 2, 2022

Multiple times throughout June and July 2022, Netflix informed Barlow & Bear’s lawyers that their July 26 performance wasn’t authorized and would give rise to claims for willful copyright and trademark infringement unless they negotiated a license—which Netflix was willing to do.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 26, 2021

Welcome to the fourth and final trimester of 2021 round up of EU copyright law! In this series, we update readers every three months on developments in EU copyright law. Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash. We started this rubric in the beginning of 2021.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

- 24 February 2022 The Institute of European Media Law of the University of Luxembourg will hold the webinar "Piracy on all waves?" One of those Scholarships provides the opportunity to undertake an investigation into the regulation of IP licensing in a pandemic context. Registration is available here.

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IPilogue

JANUARY 14, 2022

This article summarizes the top developments reported on our blog and in patents, trademarks, and copyright law in 2021. Keep Calm and Fandom On: Copyright in Cosplay, Fanfiction and Fanart by Sabrina Macklai & Emily Chow. Some iteration of the bill will likely become law by the end of this year. Copyright Law.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Welcome to the third trimester of 2021 round up of EU copyright law! In this series we update readers every three months on developments in EU copyright law. improve authoritative and updated information on right holders, terms and conditions and licensing opportunities). Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash.

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Velocity of Content

JUNE 8, 2022

All copyrights, except one, expire.*. Preface: I wanted to learn more about the concept (and applications) of “derivative works” and adaptations under copyright law, and I was searching for a useful example that might also be interesting for readers of Velocity of Content to read about. Peter Pan” (1953 animated film).

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 28, 2021

Union law does not provide for a neighboring right to copyright for sport event’s organizers but that some Members States have introduced specific rights for sports events organizers in their legislation, including a new “neighboring right” to copyright. by Tito Rendas. € by Martin Senftleben. €

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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. New(s) Questions and Fair Use: Using Copyright to Curtail Expression? You can see his previous posts for us here.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Barr makes explicit a factor we had long suspected with the skew of evidence on the Portal: the music industry is disproportionately overrepresented in empirical copyright literature. This provokes the question of how we can transplant evidence gleaned from one industry to another (in Barr’s synthesis, to television).

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Michael Geist

JULY 20, 2022

For much of the past two decades, copyright groups have steadfastly sought to deny what the Supreme Court of Canada has repeatedly endorsed, namely that the purpose of Canadian copyright law is to serve the public interest by balancing users’ and authors’ rights. ” The decision – SOCAN v.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 20, 2023

To fully understand these conflicting views of the majority opinion, it is necessary to understand both the specific facts of the case and the history of the Supreme Court’s case law concerning the fair-use doctrine. Condé Nast paid $400 for the license, which specified “No other usage right granted.” Figure 1, Slip op.

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