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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The IPKat

APRIL 8, 2022

But for IP types, perhaps their most notable accomplishment was the revenge that they took upon the copyright system. And, while the copyright laws were used to try to keep the film from public view, ultimately it failed, to the continuing benefit of cinematic creation. Enter the copyright laws.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 18, 2024

No amendment offered in public session. Measures A prohibition on circumvention of TPMs could extend protection to materials in the public domain or prevent the exercise of exceptions. 5- National Treatment Paragraph 5.2 Restore Article 12(3) mandating exceptions to the circumvention prohibition.

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Copyright Lately

JANUARY 13, 2023

Yes, in addition to being a noted clergyman and civil rights leader, Dr. King was a copyright litigant. The New York Times reported on Dr. Martin Luther King’s copyright lawsuit over “I Have a Dream” in 1963. CBS brought a summary judgment motion to establish that the speech was in the public domain.

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Trademark and Copyright Law Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

We are pleased to report that the promised smooth transition has indeed come to pass: As of January 1, every valid EU trademark registration has spawned a UK “clone” with the same scope of protection and same priority date, preserving the owner’s existing rights in the UK. Look for it soon at your favorite independent bookstore!

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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. Moreover, the Italian Supreme Court, in decision no. Secondly, para. of the CDSM Directive.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 22, 2022

The creation and development of copyright law are closely connected to technological and associated business transformations (see, e.g. here ). Yet, the very same automation poses challenges for the application of copyright law, increasing legal uncertainty, as demonstrated in this report vis-à-vis AI music outputs.

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CopyrightsWorld

APRIL 29, 2022

” On May 27, 2020, Thaler filed a second appeal, arguing that AI artworks should be copyrightable because it would “advance the fundamental aims of copyright law, including the constitutional foundation for copyright protection.” ” In the United States, only human creators have copyright.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 18, 2023

Moritz College of Law The copyright – contract tension Stewart Brand famously said that information wants to be free. We know, however, that many laws limit free access and use of information goods, most prominently copyright law (and IP law generally). ML Genius v.

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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. They have a lengthy and aggressive history when it comes to protecting their rights , even as many of their stories are based on public domain tales.

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IPilogue

MARCH 21, 2022

Nikita Munjal is an IP Innovation Clinic Fellow, a Student Editor with the Intellectual Property Journal, and a third-year JD/MBA Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. Sabrina Macklai is an IPilogue Senior Editor and a 2L JD Candidate at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law.

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CopyrightsWorld

APRIL 29, 2022

” On May 27, 2020, Thaler filed a second appeal, arguing that AI artworks should be copyrightable because it would “advance the fundamental aims of copyright law, including the constitutional foundation for copyright protection.” ” In the United States, only human creators have copyright.

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The IP Law Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2021

They further claimed that any similarities that did exist were derivative of Irish folk songs such as Danny Boy (aka Londonderry Air ), which was in the public domain. Before turning to the differences in the expert witness reports, the district court examined the legal framework for a copyright infringement claim.

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Supreme Court of India , which dealt with issues of confidentiality, privacy (prior consent) of litigants and witnesses, restrictions on access to proceedings of trials and the preservation of the larger public interest due to the sensitivity of the proceedings. as per Rule 9(2)(iv).

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 16, 2023

Shrimali, the term of both copyright and the term of translations was set at 25 years. Post the Joint Parliamentary Committe’s Report on the Bill , the former was increased to 50 years, whereas the latter was reduced to 10 years. It determines the tangible period during which the owner of copyright can exercise their right.

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SpicyIP

JULY 14, 2023

By voting to limit the period of copyright, the House of Lords created the Public Domain. The decisive events in London from 1710 to 1774 determined the course of modern Anglo-American copyright. The influenced the American Copyright Statute of 1790. The others have only the world as their limits.” (Le

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LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 14, 2023

According to some reports, technical meetings between experts are expected to start on Tuesday 19 December to hash out details of the text, including the scope of certain rules (e.g., According to certain reports, open-source AI models [17] might fall outside the scope of certain rules under the AI Act, although the position is not yet clear.

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IIPRD

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

RIGHTS PROTECTED : Under this law Copyright law protects the copyright of authors, musicians, etc. Copyright is essentially a right to copy. Copyright is a term describing rights given to creators for their literary and artistic works. Internet technology is developing faster than the laws that govern it.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 19, 2022

Copyright Law Why are we so sure facts are excluded from the statute when the statute doesn’t use that word and uses a lot of other words. Feist cites INS for proposition that the “news element” is not the creation of the writer but the report of the history of the day which is public property. Feist cites INS v.

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Kashishipr

MAY 25, 2021

Such a license would enable using the resources held by owners of the CC Licenses to the extent of editing, remixing, copying, and distributing the work without circumventing the copyright law. Configure the RSS (Really Simple Syndication or Rich Site Summary) Feed on the WordPress site to keep yourself updated about the website.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 25, 2024

Act I When the Committee charged with conducting Canada’s 2019 Copyright Act Review turned its mind to AI, its primary concern was with “help[ing] Canada’s promising future in artificial intelligence become reality” ( Report 2019 ). The training process can involve reproductions of the training data…. .… data —reside).

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IP and Legal Filings

MAY 3, 2024

Fair use provides some exceptions to copyright protection, allowing limited use of copyrighted material without the permission of the copyright owner. Copyright Law Copy Right is a legal concept that gives creators exclusive rights over their original works and allows them to control the use and distribution of those works.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 17, 2023

The mapping of national legal sources of copyright flexibilities and their comparative analysis provided a detailed overview of the state of the art of copyright flexibilities in all the 27 Member States, organized in 27 national reports which illustrated national provisions using the same taxonomy applied to EU sources.

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IP and Legal Filings

MAY 3, 2023

Here, merely automated and mechanical work that lacks originality is also protected by the said copyright doctrine. For instance, in accordance with this doctrine, the author would be entitled to copyright protection if someone collected different poems that were previously in the public domain and produced in a single document.

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Copyright Lately

APRIL 3, 2023

The theory behind CDL is that by maintaining a consistent “owned-to-loaned” ratio between physical books and digital copies, libraries can meet the needs of twenty-first-century patrons without violating existing copyright law. million additional books protected by valid copyrights. At least, that’s the theory.

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SpicyIP

MARCH 15, 2022

The provision does not apply to individual words, very short abstracts, scientific and academic blogs, journals and publication, mere facts reported in the publication, or works that are already in the public domain and hyperlinked.The right does not have an originality threshold.

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SpicyIP

AUGUST 28, 2022

The Narendera Publishing House case provided a more interesting view by regarding copyright as a “privilege” and user interests as the “ competing interest of enriching the public domain” The Rameshwari Photocopy judgment is interesting as it used differing descriptions for Section 52. But if this is so.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 16, 2024

It seems that one of the intended purposes of the obligation to disclose training data is to enable better enforcement, through an ex-post tool, of the above-mentioned opt-out mechanism under Article 4 of the Copyright Directive.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MARCH 8, 2023

4996/2022 in November 2022 ( ΦΕΚ Α´ 2022/24.11.2022 ), which amended the basic Greek Copyright Law ( L. 2121/1993 on “Copyright, Related Rights and Cultural Matters” ), as well as L. 4481/2017, on “Collective Management of Copyright and Related Rights” ( ΦΕΚ Α’ 100/20.7.2017 ). 2121/1993, whereas the rule of Art.

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Copyright Lately

OCTOBER 25, 2021

But Lewis thought the song was a rip-off of “I Want a New Drug” and asserted a copyright infringement claim against Columbia Pictures. The studio settled quietly out of court, so there’s no reported decision in this one. The 13 spookiest, Halloweeniest copyright cases that I could think of. The Ghostly Trio.

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LexBlog IP

AUGUST 23, 2023

Whether one focuses on the word’s connotation of silliness or excitement, or maybe even anger , or analogizes to the raucous and rhymingly-named team from Savannah that makes up its own baseball rules , US copyright law is currently going a little “bananas.” Morford , at 11. ” Id.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 2, 2022

The Court noted that redacting one’s name from a judgment acquitting them is counterproductive when there are other tarnishing publications in the public domain and that access to court judgments are integral to “open justice”, subject only to some exceptions. Parliamentary Standing Committee Report on the IP regime.

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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. As a result, Time magazine canceled its contract to publish a 7,500-word excerpt shortly before the book’s publication.

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The IPKat

AUGUST 11, 2022

Last week, Kenya's government agency in charge of copyright matters, Kenya Copyright Board (KECOBO) published an advisory via its Twitter handle. This post reviews KECOBO’s advisory in the light of Kenya’s copyright law and policy. This is so for several reasons but this post highlights two.

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Copyright Lately

MAY 13, 2022

Josh Hawley’s proposed copyright legislation is riddled with problems, but you wouldn’t know that from most media reports about the bill. But you’d never know that by the way much of the media reported on Hawley’s legislation this week. special copyright protections.” Disney of its?

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Examples of trademark experts with this view include professors Rebecca Tushnet and Jennifer Rothman ; attorneys Megan Bannigan, David Bernstein, Timothy Cuffman , and Jon Jekel ; and news reporters from the New York Times ( Adam Liptak ) and Bloomberg ( Greg Stohr ). Tam ” (pages 433 n. 150 and 449 n.

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Barry Sookman

MAY 4, 2020

The goals of patent law are generally recognized as seeking to foster and reward invention; promote disclosure of inventions to stimulate further innovation and to permit the public to practice the invention once the patent expires; and to assure that ideas in the public domain remain there for the free use of the public.

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