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. Understanding legal and fair use is especially important in academic settings because dissemination of information often requires the use of evidence.

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The IPKat

JULY 22, 2021

Katfriend Dr Sabine Jacques , Associate Professor in IP, IT & Media law at the University of East Anglia and author of The Parody Exception in Copyright Law (OUP 2019), provides the follow review of The Copyright/Trademark Interface: How the Expansion of Trademark Protection is Stifling Cultural Creativity – by Martin Senftleben.

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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’). 11 and 13 EUCFR , 19 UDHR , 27.1 UDHR, and 15.1

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

JULY 19, 2022

What is copyright infringement? Unauthorized use of a work protected by copyright is referred to as copyright infringement. Thus, it is the unauthorised use of someone else’s copyrighted work that violates the owner’s rights, such as the right to reproduce, distribute, exhibit, or perform the protected work.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2023

by guest blogger Kieran McCarthy Many characterize the law of copyright preemption of contracts as a circuit split. But that undersells the level of inconsistency in courts’ interpretations of the law of copyright preemption. With that, any state or common law claim that is equivalent to copyright must therefore be preempted.

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Larson & Larson

JUNE 21, 2021

Copyright law provides a safeguard against copyright infringement. That being said, here is a brief elucidation of all you need to know about copyright and copyright infringement. That being said, here is a brief elucidation of all you need to know about copyright and copyright infringement.

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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. Confused yet? Just wait.].

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IPilogue

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

After the release of “Black Mirror: Bandersnatch” in 2018, Netflix was sued by Chooseco , a children’s book publisher known for their ‘game books’ titled Choose Your Own Adventure. Netflix eventually settled with Chooseco in late 2020 after unsuccessfully arguing on grounds related to trademark law and fair use allowances. .

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Copyright Lately

AUGUST 2, 2022

The full story behind Netflix’s copyright infringement lawsuit against Barlow & Bear, and why it’s actually a win for the fan fiction community. When it comes to copyright cases, Netflix has seen stranger things. First, as far as copyright cases go, this one’s easy.

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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. Like most large websites that are not in the news every day, we receive very few copyright claims despite our size.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 20, 2023

Supreme Court affirmed the Second Circuit’s ruling that the reproduction of Andy Warhol’s Orange Prince on the cover of a magazine tribute was not a fair use of Lynn Goldsmith’s photo of the singer-songwriter Prince, on which the Warhol portrait was based. By Guest Blogger Tyler Ochoa By a 7-2 vote, the U.S. Goldsmith , No. 569 (1994).

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Velocity of Content

DECEMBER 6, 2023

This post originally appeared in the Scholarly Kitchen on 11/28/23 Monday, October 30 was the final date for interested parties to submit comments to a comprehensive “ Notice of inquiry and request for comments ” issued by the United States Copyright Office entitled “Artificial Intelligence and Copyright.”

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 22, 2024

The domain of copyright deals with the literary, musical, dramatic, and artistic works, and cinematograph films. Before the digital era, copyright protected tangible art or works, allowing authors to easily regulate usage, copies, and earnings.

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Copyright Lately

APRIL 3, 2023

The future of “controlled digital lending” is in doubt after a court rules that the Internet Archive’s online library is not protected by fair use. But the first sale doctrine only provides an exception to a copyright owner’s distribution right. ” What is Controlled Digital Lending?

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Copyright Lately

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Here are some of the greatest copyright horror stories, featuring such classics as “Nightmare on Elm Street,” “Halloween,” “Dracula,” “Ghostbusters” and … a creepy McDonalds character? The only thing scarier than a slasher flick is a lawsuit. It’s Halloween time again!

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

Akshat Agrawal, Copyright's distortive effects Copyright directs investment to excludable assets. Hughes: if publisher can’t get sequel rights, then it will insist on getting the film rights and impoverish authors. I could think that copyright is relatively neutral in an incredibly sexist society. Gendering of genius.

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SpicyIP

AUGUST 28, 2022

Given these terms shape our legal thinking and arguments, which in turn, influence the outcomes of court judgment and policies, this post attempts to highlight the extant confusion revolving around the relationship between copyright and user interests. create works and make them available). this would be non-justiciable.

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43(B)log

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Plaintiffs also alleged infringement of Monbo’s right of publicity, unjust enrichment, and violations of the Lanham Act and related Maryland trademark law. What about fragmented literal similarity based on use of clips from the 2001 Documentary (no clips from the 2003 Documentary were allegedly used)?

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The IPKat

OCTOBER 12, 2022

An international bestseller, it was the focus of a publishers' bidding war at the 2013 London Book Fair.[2] unless the title has been used on a series of creative works…; In re Cooper [full citation omitted] ("A book title. and is not associated in the public mind with the publisher, printer or bookseller.")….As

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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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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 10, 2024

That then plays off the rest of the title’s allusions to separating “subjects” from the “predicates” of copyright ownership, themselves words connoting the foundational elements of both “ any complete sentence ” and at times a court’s jurisdiction over infringement matters. ” US Const.,

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