Copyright Lately

APRIL 30, 2021

Nineties grunge-rock band Nirvana, already embroiled in a long-running legal battle against fashion company Marc Jacobs over its “happy face” t-shirt designs , now finds itself on the less happy end of a new copyright infringement lawsuit worthy of Dante’s trip through the underworld. copyright law. and abroad for years.

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Velocity of Content

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The 1976 Act brought in many aspects of copyright with which we are now familiar, including codifying fair use in Section 107 (it previously had been applied on a common law basis). In sum, the traditional doctrine of fair use, as embodied in the Copyright Act, does not sanction the use made by The Nation of these copyrighted materials.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 24, 2022

When the film was released, the print was missing a copyright notice. Under the laws at the time, this mean that it didn’t have copyright protection. The reason for this comes down to copyright and both the limited copyright protection costumes get, but the much more broad protection their trademarked names do.

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SpicyIP

MAY 13, 2024

INTA filed an intervention on interpretation of the term “Article” under the Indian Designs Act. Shark Tank India sends legal notice to participants for using clips from their pitch in the show. Rajnikanth responds to Illaiyaraaja’s copyright notice, states that the producer and the composer should resolve the issue.

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Plaintiffs failed to allege that OpenAI altered or removed copyright management information (“CMI”), such as author names and copyright notices, from their works with the intent to conceal or induce infringement.

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Plagiarism Today

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

This is usually done with a copyright notice, but, in some cases, is done by working directly with the site that uploaded the content. At the very, very least this was incredibly sloppy and required a breakdown of design and writing conventions at multiple stages. Accident or Not, a Problem Remains.

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Art Law Journal

JUNE 30, 2022

Few people would want something that they put their heart and soul into creating, whether that’s art, music, design, or an invention, being used or sold without their permission. This duration didn’t start until 1989 when the United States signed the Berne Convention, the international copyright treaty. Utility and Design Patents.

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SpicyIP

OCTOBER 11, 2021

In a new low for Indian media, Aaj Tak (owned by the media conglomerate Living Media) has allegedly taken to using copyright claims to prevent criticism of its reportage by media watchdog Newslaundry.

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Art Law Journal

JUNE 30, 2022

Few people would want something that they put their heart and soul into creating, whether that’s art, music, design, or an invention, being used or sold without their permission. Unfortunately, IP law has gotten so complicated that many people aren’t even sure which types of IP (copyright, trademarks, or patents) protects their creative work.

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SpicyIP

OCTOBER 3, 2021

A Puducherry-based firm providing sustainable solutions for agriculture has moved the Madras High Court alleging infringement of its registered design of a ‘solar insect trap’ by a Vellore based company.

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Dear Rich IP Blog

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Publicity photos published after 1924 were rarely renewed (a requirement for works published before 1964) and they often did not include a copyright notice (a requirement for works published before March 1989). Any published photos pre-dating 1925 are automatically public domain (although Brooks' career didn't begin until 1925).

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 17, 2022

Find the Host’s Designated Agent: Hosts designate an agent to receive copyright notices on their behalf. Complete a Takedown Notice: Fill out a takedown notice with all the required information. This person can usually be found on the host’s website and/or in a central repository.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 17, 2023

Plaintiffs argued that with the popularity of Copilot, it is a near certainty that their code will be used with copyright notices removed or in violation of their open-source licenses. Plaintiffs alleged that Defendants reproduced code as output without attribution, copyright notice, or license terms. Corelogic, Inc. ,

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Designed to be freely available licensed or public domain; we occasionally use fair use images where no free image is available, such as when a famous work has been destroyed. RT: Designing for abuse is a great idea and not something that 512 and 1201 did. For example, privacy concerns with notices and counternotices.

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LexBlog IP

JUNE 7, 2023

DMCA Section 1202(b) Claims: Section 1202(b) of the DMCA prohibits anyone from (1) intentionally removing or altering any copyright management information (“CMI”), (2) distributing CMI knowing the CMI has been removed or altered or (3) distributing copies of works knowing that CMI has been removed or altered while “knowing, or.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 29, 2023

Now here he claims this infringed his copyright, when in fact this is merely a retaliatory claim due to my filing a DMCA claim based on his appropriation of my design and copyright computer code expressions on multiple occasions without written or verbal permission. I proceeded to do that. What is the burden? Section 401(d).

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 23, 2022

Using the DMCA’s takedown process as a weapon, persons unknown sent copyright notices to YouTube, claiming that the targeted videos should be taken down for infringing Bungie’s rights. Whether by carelessness or design, it also included his real name: Nick Minor. From Bad to Worse and Beyond.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JANUARY 16, 2024

LLaMA is a large language model in the form of an AI software program designed to emit convincingly naturalistic text outputs in response to user prompts. Meta used them as training data for the LLaMA language models and, by design, the training process does not preserve any CMI.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

There is no general right of attribution under United States copyright law , which only recognizes a right of attribution for artists.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 7, 2022

(Readers who are already familiar with the facts of the case and the advantages of registration may skip to “Fraud on the Copyright Office” below.). Unicolors’s business model is to create artwork, copyright it, print the artwork on fabric, and market the designed fabrics to garment manufacturers.” 3d 1194 , 1196 (9th Cir.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 2, 2022

In October, Newslaundry revealed that its YouTube operation had been suspended pending an enquiry into 53 separate copyright notices received from Aaj Tak. Aaj Tak had allegedly taken to using copyright claims to prevent commentary and criticism of its reportage by Newslaundry.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

If the work was published with proper copyright notice, it received a federal statutory copyright. If the work was published without proper copyright notice, the work entered the public domain. Once a work was published, state law was divested, and one of two things happened.

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