Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 25, 2023

The media entities republished 20 photos he uploaded to Facebook and IMDB and misattributed the photo credits. After he was released from jail, he got copyright registrations for the photos and sued (pro se) the media entities for copyright infringement, 1202 violations, and more. he’s not the sole or joint owner).

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 6, 2023

On March 16th, the US Copyright Office issued a policy statement regarding the registration of works that contain material generated by artificial intelligence (AI) technology. The Copyright Office has stated that it will not recognize copyright in AI-generated work, and due to pre-emption, state law cannot provide similar protection.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

MAY 30, 2022

Jack Dorsey, the CEO of famous social media platform twitter sold an NFT of his first tweet for $2.5 In this article we understand the relationship between NFTs and copyright. How does Copyright come into the picture? Although in principle, a NFT of a trademark or any work in public domain can be created.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

MAY 30, 2022

Jack Dorsey, the CEO of famous social media platform twitter sold an NFT of his first tweet for $2.5 How does Copyright come into the picture? Although in principle, a NFT of a trademark or any work in public domain can be created. Let us now understand how copyright can play a role for some NFTS.

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IP and Legal Filings

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

The primary goal of copyright law is to safeguard the interests of creators of original, publishable works. The purpose of copyright protection is to make sure that the artist reaps the rewards of creating their original work and that no one else benefits unfairly from it. The Copyrights Act of 1957 regulates copyright law in India.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 13, 2024

— Bright Data has long sold the data of all the major social media companies. — For the claims related to illegal selling of scraped data, the court dismissed those because they were preempted by copyright. That’s what copyright law is for. In November 2023, X corp. on all counts. Bright Data Ltd. ,

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Copyright Lately

AUGUST 25, 2023

As screenwriters and studios negotiate AI’s role in the entertainment industry, it’s important to be mindful of some core copyright protection principles. ” Dr. Stephen Thaler’s “A Recent Entrance to Paradise”: No human, no copyright. Material that is in the public domain. Not exactly.

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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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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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JIPEL Copyright Blog

MARCH 9, 2022

The museum industry, it would seem, is taking note of technology’s growing role in its operations, particularly in regards to visitor engagement and staying relevant in a social media-driven society where declining visitation rates have only been exacerbated by the ongoing pandemic.

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 3, 2022

To that end, 2022 is looking to be a major year for copyright in a myriad of ways. But that raises the question, with the new year what are just a handful of the major copyright stories on the horizon. While there are far too many for any single list, here are 5 copyright stories that you should definitely watch in 2022.

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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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Dragons' Den

APRIL 6, 2023

With healthy sales on Amazon attributed to social media platform Tik Tok, Laura charmed the Dragons with her talk of loving numbers and having solid IP protection. The duo were clearly aware how important it is to look at what registered IP you can get early into your product development phase before it’s in the public domain.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2021

A refresher: in 1998, Congress created a notice-and-takedown scheme for user-submitted items that allegedly infringe copyright. Copyright owners send takedown notices, and service providers either remove the items or lose the safe harbor. The DMCA’s main counterbalance to copyright owner overreach was supposed to be 512(f).

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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! Skully Curly.

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 23, 2023

Copyrights safeguard the artists’ rights in the inventive and imaginative content that abounds in digital media. Image Sources : Gettyimages] One of the important issues in online is copyrights. One such area where copyright violations are common is the internet.

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The IP Law Blog

JANUARY 12, 2023

Even companies that regularly take steps to protect intellectual property through, for example, registering trademarks or registering copyrights, can benefit from a yearly review. For trademarks, a good place to start is the company’s marketing and promotional materials, website, mobile app, and social media.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

MARCH 6, 2024

Prior art, the term mostly used during patent applications, is used to describe all information available in the public domain before the priority or filling date of the patent application. Articles available on social media platforms are also considered prior art. This information is related to the patent applications.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 12, 2023

Even companies that regularly take steps to protect intellectual property through, for example, registering trademarks or registering copyrights, can benefit from a yearly review. For trademarks, a good place to start is the company’s marketing and promotional materials, website, mobile app, and social media.

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Copyright Lately

APRIL 3, 2023

book publishers, rejecting the Internet Archive’s argument that its practice of scanning and lending digital copies of books qualifies as fair use under the Copyright Act. But the first sale doctrine only provides an exception to a copyright owner’s distribution right. million additional books protected by valid copyrights.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 17, 2023

The H2020 project reCreating Europe performed an unprecedented mapping of EU and Member States’ sources on copyright flexibilities. along the same lines, the presence of a wave of amendments of national copyright flexibilities after 2001 , which, however, regarded only certain categories (e.g., Teaching and research uses.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 2, 2022

The decisions in the first category , i.e., Top 10 IP Judgments/Orders (Topicality/Impact) reflect those that we thought were important from a topical point of view and were covered by the media in some way owing to the importance of parties litigating or the issue being considered or for impact on industry and innovation/creativity ecosystem etc.

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The IPKat

AUGUST 11, 2022

Last week, Kenya's government agency in charge of copyright matters, Kenya Copyright Board (KECOBO) published an advisory via its Twitter handle. This advisory is coming in the wake of the proliferation of memes on Kenya's ongoing election campaigns and elections, trending on various social media platforms.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 13, 2024

And what if we could freely use the photos from that site because they’re all in the public domain? There are no strings attached as all photos are in the public domain. AI-generated public domain photos A service like this isn’t of much use to people who aim to generate completely custom images or photos.

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