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). Of course, The Nation published the juiciest details from the memoir: Ford’s reasons for pardoning his predecessor, Richard Nixon.

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SpicyIP

JULY 1, 2021

In this post, I look at the question of the government’s copyright ownership in State Board textbooks, and its implications on access to knowledge and education. Government’s Role as Publisher and Copyright Owner. The government’s role as a publisher can allow it to set affordable prices and distribute widely.

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Dear Rich IP Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

From 1983 to 1989 a print magazine, Postcard Collector, published many articles which we would like to republish. Each issue of the print magazine had a copyright notice ("© Krause Publications, Inc.") How can I find out if the publisher actually sent copies of the magazine to the LoC to complete the process? (2)

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SpicyIP

OCTOBER 3, 2021

Zolgensma and the Inadequacies of the Compulsory Licensing Regime. Akhil discusses the compulsory licensing provisions in the TRIPS Agreement, as well as the objectives and principles relating to safeguarding public interest in Articles 7 and 8 and how they find reflection in India’s Patent Act. Poster for Zolgensma.

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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. What’s the difference?

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43(B)log

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Algthough Logan published the photos on Wikimedia under a Creative Commons license, he alleged that Meta stripped the photos of all identifying information and falsely identified itself as the owner by displaying its “copyright tag on the bottom of each Facebook user page,” breaching the license. 3d 1137 (9th Cir.

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Velocity of Content

JANUARY 31, 2023

This article was originally published in The Scholarly Kitchen. I have had people tell me with doctrinal certainty that Creative Commons licenses allow text and data mining, and insofar as license terms are observed, I agree. An analogous situation involving open software licenses (GNU and the like) is now being litigated.

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The IP Law Blog

MARCH 12, 2021

1:20-cv-4865-AKH), a photographer who licensed a photo that he took of Vergara walking onto the set of America’s Got Talent sued Vergara for copyright infringement after she reposted the photograph on her Instagram account to her 21.2 In the matter of Clint Brewer v. Sofia Vergara Enterprises, Inc. million followers.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 17, 2023

What does all that mean for companies looking to develop generative AI, and the online sources of their training data that might be looking to stop them? ¯_(ツ)_/¯ We can infer from this opinion that treatment of Copyright Management Information (“CMI”) will be tricky for generative AI developers. Complaint at 2.

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Copyright Lately

JUNE 2, 2022

Examining the “nature of the copyrighted work,” the court found that while Sedlik’s image was a work of creative expression as opposed to a factual work, the fact that it had been published several decades ago weighed in favor of the defendants’ tattoo being a fair use.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Unique expertise on code too; code is different from photos, music, videos; some of the most valuable code on GitHub is licensed openly. Remediation not removal is often the goal—changes to the code rather than removing often resolves the problem, e.g. addressing violation of open source license by adding attribution etc.

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Velocity of Content

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Does the increasing use or distribution of AI-generated material raise any unique issues for your sector or industry as compared to other copyright stakeholders? AI generated materials may both advance text publishing and hinder it. To what extent are copyrighted works licensed from copyright owners for use as training materials?

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Velocity of Content

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

In the quaint days of 2019, when the EU issued its Digital Single Market Copyright Directive (DSM) , much attention was focused on issues such as a news publishers’ right and the obligations of platforms to take down infringing materials. Is a copyright notice sufficient? What about the words “all rights reserved?”

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 29, 2023

Flores sent a DMCA 512(g) counter-notice on June 27, 2022, and filed with the CCB the next day. Both agreed to this move, and as part of that, dropped the removal of copyright information claim. We also get the declaration of his daughter, Mariana Prutton, who is a licensed marriage and therapy counselor in California.

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Copyright Lately

JANUARY 16, 2022

Crabtree claims that Kirkman later licensed “Invincible” television rights to Amazon Studios and denied the existence of a oral agreement to give Crabtree a share of the revenue. The 2003 copyright notice at the bottom of the title page is in the name of Kirkman and Walker. Invincible #1.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 2, 2022

This judgment concerned the classification of payments under end-user license agreements (EULA). In this judgment, the Delhi High Court delved into the interpretation of section 8 of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 with respect to disputes involving trademark licensing agreements. CIT [Supreme Court].

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Two weeks ago, former President Donald Trump filed a lawsuit against journalist Bob Woodward and his publisher, Simon & Schuster (and its parent company Paramount Global, formerly known as Viacom-CBS), in U.S. The audiobook is also published on CD, and transcripts were published in paperback and ebook formats.)

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