The IPKat

DECEMBER 1, 2023

As has been reported in the music press, the well-known digital music service Spotify has announced that it will be imminently ceasing its operations in Uruguay due to certain amendments included in the country's copyright laws regarding the remuneration of performers. Uruguayan Kat wondering where to find music now.

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The IPKat

MARCH 25, 2024

Here’s what Henning writes: Works of applied art – the difference between design and copyright law by Henning Hartwig I. USM Haller modular furniture In 2011, the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU), for the first time, had to decide on issues revolving around the protection of different categories of works under European copyright law.

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 19, 2022

1: Government Pauses Plans to Rewrite UK Copyright Laws After Authors Protest. The rule, entitled copyright exhaustion, places limits on the import of international editions of books. Without this rule, many authors fear the UK market would be flooded with cheaper international copies.

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The IPKat

OCTOBER 30, 2023

In the light of the foregoing, (…) a portrait photograph can (…) be protected by copyright if, which it is for the national court to determine in each case, such photograph is an intellectual creation of the author reflecting his personality and expressing his free and creative choices in the production of that photograph.

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IP Law 360

JANUARY 30, 2023

federal government on Monday to turn its focus to foreign countries' purported erosion of copyright protections, arguing that many nations have "failed to keep pace" with trends in copyright law reform. The International Intellectual Property Alliance urged the U.S.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

In Case C-426/21 , the CJEU looked into the complicated relationship between copyright law and online television services. The Court took the opportunity to shed new light on the role and interpretation of legal elements, such as the commercial purpose and the scalability of some uses of copyright protected materials.

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IIPRD

MAY 9, 2024

Hence, the concept of cross licensing agreement has originated with the intent to help various organizations in sharing patent licenses along with their rights and liabilities leading to their easier access to masses and reduction of monopolistic market tendencies. Cross-licensing agreements can both restrain and advance competition.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

But if you really want Kiwi Farms gone, have you considered using copyright law for its censorial power? Greer sued Moon and Kiwi Farms for contributory copyright infringement and other claims. As a result, the opinion only discusses common law contributory infringement claims. CloudFlare’s block ).

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Plagiarism Today

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

While that may be scary for the marketplace, it may be precisely what is needed for the market to enjoy any mainstream success. You simply cannot have a legitimate market that trades almost entirely in illegitimate goods. The biggest is how copyright law will apply to marketplaces like OpenSea. Shades of Napster.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

ID Tech believed that Bayam copies too much of its copyrighted website content and pursued a whirlwind of enforcement activity, including filing two lawsuits against Bayam and sending numerous DMCA takedown demands to Shopify. Bayam and ID Tech run rival online jewelry businesses. Both use Shopify as a service provider.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 6, 2024

New practice area alert for law students: the specialty niche of fish artists asserting IP claims against print-on-demand services. Any surviving services may need to be structured as marketing agencies that push all of the legal risk to the users and third-party vendors. The supervising judge agrees.

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The IPKat

APRIL 30, 2024

Should the EU unify copyright laws? The session started with the highly disputed topic of copyright unification with Prof. The session started with the highly disputed topic of copyright unification with Prof. see Katpost here ) When finally addressing the question, "Should the EU unify copyright laws?"

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Every year, the Office of the United States Trade Representative ( USTR ) publishes a list of ‘notorious markets’ that facilitate online piracy and related intellectual property crimes. 2022 Notorious Markets Review Yesterday, the USTR published its 2022 Review of Notorious Markets.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Earlier this month, several prominent copyright holder groups sent their annual “notorious markets” recommendations to the U.S. Government uses these documents as input for its yearly review of notorious piracy markets, which aims to provide an overview of threats to various copyright industries.

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JD Supra Law

APRIL 17, 2024

Companies often partner with influencers to market their products, hoping to tap into the influencer’s devoted audience. In recent years, the advent of the social media “influencer” has revolutionized advertising. Likewise, influencers create certain content to secure brand deals and attract advertisers. By: Farella Braun + Martel LLP

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Velocity of Content

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Copyrighted material is fuel for AI systems. Voluntary collective licensing is an effective solution enabling the use of copyrighted material as society realizes the benefits promised by AI systems. I invite our Velocity of Content blog readers to check out CCC’s “ Intersection of AI & Copyright ” page.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 2, 2024

Photo by TheoRivierenlaan from Pixabay The Austrian Supreme Court (hereinafter: “ASC”) ruled on 19th of December 2023 ( 4 Ob 112/23h ) in a case concerning the 2019 film “Yesterday” The Plaintiff alleged that the film infringed its copyright in a short screenplay idea published in 2011. is not protected under copyright.

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JD Supra Law

MARCH 1, 2024

Thank you for reading the February 2024 issue of Sterne Kessler's MarkIt to Market® newsletter. Nealy copyright infringement suit. This month, we discuss the advertising rights of luxury resellers and important updates to the Warner Chappell Music v.

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JD Supra Law

JANUARY 29, 2024

Check out the trailer for a new podcast coming from Venable’s Advertising and Marketing Law Group tomorrow, the Ad Law Tool Kit Show. By: Venable LLP

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TorrentFreak

MAY 1, 2024

Copyright law crafted decades ago to prevent infringement in an analog world has in many cases held up remarkably well in the digital age. In the United States, the existence of a loophole in copyright law had been an open secret for some time. Copying or reproduction remains relevant, as does the concept of distribution.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

EU Law On 26th February 2014, the CRM Directive was adopted. Italian Law Historically speaking, the Italian regulation of CMOs is peculiar. In fact, until 2017, when the Decree-Law No. In fact, until 2017, when the Decree-Law No. 180 of the Italian Copyright Act concerning the copyright intermediation activity.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 22, 2024

The rise in popularity of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) has attracted a great deal of attention from copyright practitioners and aficionados. Basically, because an NFT is an encoded digital metadata file of a copy of a work that can be copyright protected. And why is that?

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Photo by Emily Wang on Unsplash The UK’s attempt to deal with generative AI, training data and copyright law has taken yet another turn. The mandate of the group was to identify, develop and codify good practice on the use of copyright, performance and database material in relation to AI, including data mining.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

This is another preliminary ruling in the copyright battle over generative AI. Copyright law has the capacity to nix the entire generative AI category. Fortunately, Judge Chhabria easily rejects the copyright owners’ overclaims. The post Facebook’s LLaMa Defeats Copyright Claims–Kadrey v.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 26, 2021

[The 2021 edition of my Internet Law casebook is coming soon. Before mid-2022, the Copyright Office will deploy a new adjudicatory function called the Copyright Claims Board (CCB). The CCB will be dominated by claims over alleged online infringement, so it’s a major development for online copyright law.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

APRIL 22, 2024

This is one of several copyright cases brought by tattoo artists against videogame makers for depicting athletes bearing their tattoos. More details from Bloomberg Law. That case involved a photographer who sued the tattoo artist for depicting the copyrighted photo in a tattoo. I imagine an appeal is coming. Kat Von D case.

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Velocity of Content

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Fast-paced organizations that rely on and invest heavily in R&D should not only regard published content as the heart of innovation, but also possess a deep appreciation of the system of copyright protecting this intellectual property. How Do Different Departments Use the Annual Copyright License?

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

In its yearly “Out-of-Cycle Review of Notorious Markets”, the United States Trade Representative (USTR) lists a few dozen websites said to be involved in piracy or counterfeiting. The overview is largely based on input from copyright industry groups, including the RIAA and MPA, that submitted their recommendations late last year.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Publishers Hachette, HarperCollins, John Wiley, and Penguin Random House filed a lawsuit, equating IA’s controlled digital lending (CDL) operation to copyright infringement. Earlier this year a New York Federal court concluded that the library is indeed liable for copyright infringement.

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IP Watchdog

AUGUST 22, 2021

(WPL) is a British company that decided to build a clone of SAS’s popular analytics software and, as several courts have found, broke the law to do it. This time, however, WPL’s arguments pose grave dangers to all owners of other copyrighted works. WPL did not try to compete with SAS by building a different or better product.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 25, 2024

Publishers Hachette, HarperCollins, John Wiley, and Penguin Random House filed a lawsuit, equating IA’s controlled digital lending (CDL) operation to copyright infringement. Earlier this year a New York federal court concluded that the library is indeed liable for copyright infringement.

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IPilogue

JANUARY 5, 2023

Sally Yoon is an IPilogue Writer, IP Innovation Clinic Fellow, and a 3L JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. On November 29th, The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) released its final report of its market study into music and music streaming. What did your Spotify Wrapped look like this year?

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Velocity of Content

OCTOBER 19, 2023

On this day in 1976, President Gerald Ford signed the “new” US Copyright Act. The culmination of a decades-long effort, and well before the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and Copyright Term Extension Act were passed in 1998, the 1976 Copyright Act ushered in a new era of copyright law in the United States.

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Velocity of Content

MAY 22, 2024

This article originally appeared in The Scholarly Kitchen Copyright Licensing and Human Advancement Copyright licensing, that is, the granting of permission to reuse copyright works, has likely existed as long as copyright. Collective copyright licensing is nearly as old, generally viewed as dating from 1777.

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IP and Legal Filings

JUNE 14, 2023

When used in a marketing context, the brand has two primary goals: first, to represent the company in public to create maximum awareness and recognition for the organization and its business proposition. For a marketer, a brand is what represents the values of a company and aims to create awareness and trust.

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JD Supra Law

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Market Supervision Administration of Guangdong Province "2021 Typical Cases of Intellectual Property Administrative Law Enforcement" patent infringement case No. Market Supervision Administration of Guangdong Province "2021 Typical Cases of Intellectual Property Administrative Law Enforcement" patent infringement case No.

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JD Supra Law

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Through tactical litigation practices, copyright trolls rely on copyright law to allege infringement and threaten major statutory damages upon unsuspecting defendants. By: Foster Swift Collins & Smith

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