Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Copyright Office’s Review Board, found that human creativity is the sine qua non of copyrightability, refusing to register a work lacking human creative involvement or control. Such apparently creative outputs are not protectable as a matter of the American copyright law – or the law of the European Union (see Blaszczyk ).

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Another troubling ruling for an Internet access provider trying to shake a contributory copyright claim based on user-caused copyright infringement. 11, 2023): Time and again we have declared that “prevailing defendants in copyright cases are presumptively entitled (and strongly so) to recover attorney fees.” 22-1641 (7th Cir.

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The IPKat

JUNE 26, 2022

and Copyright in Graffiti and Street Art). Its massive use brings legal consequences for classic IP rights and offers real challenges in particular to trade marks, copyright and related rights and patents. closing dinner), IP Lunches (incl. Diversity and Inclusion Today, Would you like some IP with your Wine?,

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Voices emerged questioning whether current EU copyright laws should be amended in light of the many AI-generated works that have come about. One important question has been whether copyright law should be extended in order to protect such works. In this upcoming paper, this author takes a different approach to this hot topic.

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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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LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Once approved and published in the Official Journal, the AI Act would apply after a transitional period of two years after its entry into force, although it is envisaged that certain rules will come into effect at an earlier time.

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SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Congress and the KGF 2 Copyright Dispute: Ex-Parte Injunctions, Fair Dealing, and Blocking Orders. Call for Papers: NALSAR’s Indian Journal of Intellectual Property Law (IJIPL) Vol. Comedian Vir Das, Netflix booked for copyright infringement. Microsoft, GitHub, OpenAI face class action lawsuit for violating copyright terms.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 1, 2023

The members of the European Copyright Society (ECS ) have recently sent a letter to Mr. Thierry Breton ( Commissioner for Internal Market , European Commission ) outlining their view of what should be the priorities for a f uture agenda in the field of copyright law. The letter is available here and its contents are reproduced below.

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SpicyIP

MARCH 15, 2022

In 2019, the European Union (EU) has introduced the Press publishers’ rights under Article 15 of the Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single (CDMA) with an intention to redistribute the inequitable distribution of digital advertising revenue between the news media and information society service providers.

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SpicyIP

MAY 15, 2023

The series presently contains 50+ Copyright related empirical studies and 50+ Patent related empirical studies published over the period of the last 15 years, and this will continue to be expanded over time. In light of the above the court set aside the impugned order and directed to publish the mark in the journal.

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The IPKat

APRIL 11, 2023

Professor Neil Weinstock Netanel, in his influential article, "Copyright and a Democratic Civil Society", published in The Yale Law Journal in 1996, explained the stakes of getting copyright (including the broadest possible distribution of books) right in the interests of a robustly functioning democracy. Business is business.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The lawsuit seeks a declaratory judgment that Trump owns the copyright in the sound recordings (or in the alternative, in his interview responses on the recordings), and that Trump is entitled to all or the lion’s share of the profits made from the sale of those recordings and transcripts, which the lawsuit (absurdly) values at almost $50 million.

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