Kluwer Copyright Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Like most copyright systems, French copyright law does not leave much room for the freedom of authors of transformative graphic works (also called “derivative works”). Three interesting cases on derivative works, two involving Jeff Koons and one Tintin, have recently put French copyright law in the international spotlight (e.g.

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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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Velocity of Content

JULY 14, 2023

In recent weeks, Paul Tremblay, Mona Awad, Sarah Silverman, Christopher Golden, and Richard Kadrey have all filed litigation , “accusing the companies of using the authors’ copyrighted books without consent to ‘train’ their artificial intelligence software programs,” reports the Los Angeles Times.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2021

The courts need to understand the degree to which such usage may harm the work or decrease the profits for the owner of the copyright. Today, this doctrine has become one of most popular doctrines in the realm of copyright law. It allows people a positive defense against the infringement of copyright. Definition.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 17, 2023

Multi-point, ongoing collisions between rightsholders, pirate sites, pirates and copyright law, are what fuel our daily reporting. Hovering a cursor over the blacked-out area revealed what should’ve been hidden and click led directly to the site considered most damaging to the home market in Japan.

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Plagiarism Today

MAY 11, 2022

Josh Hawley’s Move to Strip Disney’s Copyrights Called ‘Blatantly Unconstitutional’. He claims that it aims to revoke Disney’s “special” copyright protections though the law would rewrite copyright law for all creators. According to Sen.

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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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Plagiarism Today

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

According to reports, Hirst’s cherry blossom paintings sold for up to £2.5 This market has been described repeatedly as a scam. His name alone means that his work commands high dollar amounts on the market, and those that have invested in him have every incentive to make sure it stays that way: Plagiarism or not.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 5, 2023

Some recently expressed concerns that AI-generated works collide with copyright law. According to a 2022 lobbying disclosure report , RIAA lobbyists raised AI as an issue with the government. According to a 2022 lobbying disclosure report , RIAA lobbyists raised AI as an issue with the government. Revenues and Tax.

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The IPKat

MAY 7, 2024

Kat (re-)unification Should the EU unify the copyright laws of its Member States and introduce, over thirty years after the start of the harmonization process, a unitary copyright title? In 2015, the European Commission itself called unification of copyright laws “ a long-term target ”. The short answer is: yes.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

This week it sent an overview of global copyright-related challenges to the US Trade Representative (USTR), as input for the yearly report on foreign trade barriers. They include concerns over lacking anti-camcording legislation, weak anti-piracy enforcement, as well as general shortcomings in overseas copyright laws.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

For the past several years, Chinese-manufactured Ubox IPTV boxes have flooded the market in Taiwan. Taiwan made amendments to copyright law that outlawed piracy-configured devices. With Hollywood regularly reporting UnblockTech to the U.S. government as a serious piracy threat, the pressure on Taiwan continued.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Yet despite reported progress, including an overhaul of Vietnam’s copyright laws and promises to crack down on piracy, including the formation of a specialist anti-piracy unit , nothing has had any visible effect. Blocking a reported 1,000 sites presented few problems for the authorities then.

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SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

In a recent post , Divij discussed the use of copyright infringement claims by Aaj Tak against the independent media platform, Newslaundry. The videos in relation to which the copyright claims were made contained clips from videos of Aaj Tak’s reporting and as per Newslaundry were used to critique Aaj Tak’s reporting on certain issues.

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IIPRD

OCTOBER 28, 2023

Some classic examples of catchphrases in the commercial market include Nike’s “Just Do It,” KFC’s “Finger Lickin’ Good,” Thums Up’s “Taste the Thunder,” Redbull’s “Give you Wings,” among others. are generally not protected by copyright law. Additionally, names, titles, phrases, combinations, slogans, etc. In Reebok India v.

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Velocity of Content

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Fast-paced organizations that rely on and invest heavily in R&D should not only regard published content as the heart of innovation, but also possess a deep appreciation of the system of copyright protecting this intellectual property. Success is dependent on collaboration, networking, and sharing information.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Image by Pixabay Copyright Nedim reported the words of Katfriends Adrian Aronsson-Storrier and Oliver Faihurst, from Lewis Silkin, on the litigation commenced by Getty against the developers of the AI image generation software, Stability AI. Here is the latest recap of the posts written by the Kats since the last Never Too Late post.

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The IPKat

AUGUST 19, 2021

Earlier this year, The IPKat reported on the judgment of the Grand Chamber of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) in VG Bild-Kunst , C-392/19 , an important case concerning contractual restrictions to linking under EU copyright law (on that occasion, I also updated my linking table: see here ).

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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. This WeCast product was marketed towards the hotel market at some point but regardless of location or content, functionality doesn’t change.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 13, 2024

. — For the claims related to illegal selling of scraped data, the court dismissed those because they were preempted by copyright. I did a deep dive on this topic in December , but the general gist of it is that copyright law preempts state law claims if the state-law claims come within the general scope of copyright.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2023

A newly introduced article on “Obligations for providers of general-purpose AI models” includes two distinct requirements related to copyright. Since its inclusion in the IMCO report in the summer, the requirement to publish “sufficiently detailed summary” had also been criticized by some observers for its unclear nature.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

RIAA Reports Hellshare and Hellspy. Later in 2012, the RIAA submitted its regular report to the United States Trade Representative, requesting various sites to be branded notorious pirate markets. Servicing the local market in the Czech Republic, the platforms also rewarded uploaders based on the popularity of their files.

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The IPKat

OCTOBER 1, 2022

copyright law or European copyright law, most of the designs in the “Ciao, Kim” collection might be hard-pressed to be copyrighted. copyright law. Copyright Office’s refusal to register the Tommy Hilfiger flag ). In this negative space of copyright law in the U.S.,

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Olartemoure Blog

AUGUST 5, 2022

In addition, the new regulation establishes guidelines for payment initiation activities, further clarifies the rules for marketing financial services through electronic platforms and reiterates measures to protect consumers and ensures proper operation of the system. Source in Spanish. 08/04/22 – Copyright Law.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 9, 2024

After almost a decade of fine-tuning, including amendments to copyright law, the administration of Australia’s pirate site-blocking system looks organized and reliable. Australia’s blocking is carried out on a dynamic basis, meaning that a site can still be blocked regardless of domain or brand identity changes.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

The publishers dismiss this as “just a ruse” to account for a “massive piracy effort” that runs counter to the stated aim of copyright law. copyright law to ‘promote the progress of science and the useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors. Copyright Infringement (17 U.S.C. §

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Apart from revolutionizing the creative markets, the ability to obtain new artworks with an increasing marginalization of human contribution has inevitably tested the fitness of copyright legislations all over the world to deal with the so-called “artificial intelligence” (‘AI’). ChatGPT , Smodin ), to perform music (i.e.,

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

Many arrests have been reported too, not to mention anti-piracy action in the ‘ metaverse ‘, which may (or may not) yet exist. A reported 1.5 For owners of devices set for the market or even sitting at home, Anatel has just issued a reminder that illegal set-top boxes are punishable with a fine.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 18, 2023

Released on January 10, ‘Spare’ was an immediate smash-hit sensation, with PRH reporting record-breaking global sales of more than 3.2 As previously reported , that has caused huge issues for the cinema industry and beyond. Eksmo told TASS that permission from copyright holders is not required for retelling.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 16, 2023

On the criminal side, multiple police-led operations around Europe often sounded spectacular but didn’t have a significant effect on the market. What rightsholders really want is a change in the law, to compel intermediaries in receipt of a takedown notice to disable streams immediately, or face liability themselves.

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LexBlog IP

JULY 24, 2023

Authors Guild was a copyright case concerning fair use in copyright law and the transformation of printed copyrighted books into an online searchable database through scanning and digitization. Under the fair use doctrine of the U.S. Under the fair use doctrine of the U.S.

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IPilogue

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit reversed a 2019 federal district court’s ruling that held a French court’s ruling was unenforceable due to a conflict in copyright laws between the countries. Background The case between De Fontbrune and Alan Wofsy regarding photographs of Picasso’s paintings dates to 1991.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 7, 2024

Fingerprint, Find, and Report New York-based tech company WebKyte recognizes the potential and has developed a technology that might be able to fill the gap one day. WebKyte is certainly not a newcomer to the copyright scene. Several of these services have been listed in the USTR’s overview of notorious piracy markets.

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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. UMG Recordings, Inc. Grumpy Cat Limited v.

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The IPKat

OCTOBER 10, 2021

Copyright The Journal of Intellectual Property Law and Practice published an Author's Take piece considering what the way forward for the press publishers' right might be under EU copyright law. The Kluwer Copyright Blog thought it over.

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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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Intepat

JANUARY 8, 2024

Navigating the Intellectual Property Rights Dilemma The clash between The New York Times, OpenAI, and Microsoft unfolds in the realm of intellectual property law. In light of the Copyright Act of 1976 (United States), like The New York Times, creators have the exclusive right to reproduce, distribute, and display their works.

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