TorrentFreak

JUNE 14, 2022

Internet Archive later called for a peaceful solution , offering to partner with publishers to create a “digital system that works” A month later IA filed its answer to the complaint supported by defenses under fair use and the DMCA’s safe harbor provisions, and later attempted to show that its library did publishers no harm.

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Olartemoure Blog

AUGUST 19, 2022

Colombia’s National Business Association (ANDI) published the 6th edition of its Business Innovation Ranking reviewing innovative dynamics in the Colombian business network inside several economic sectors. Appropriation of exponential technologies . 08/19/22 – Technology. 08/19/22 – Innovation. First Name.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 29, 2022

6th Edition of Advertising & Marketing Law: Cases and Materials (with Rebecca Tushnet). We posted three chapters from the book: Featuring People in Ads (2022 Edition). Regulation of Political Advertising (2022 Edition). Regulation of Housing Advertising (2022 Edition). Books and Academic Articles. Blog Posts.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2023

And will this bedrock principle be limited to generative AI, or may it lead to revisiting copyright protection for other technologies where creative decisions are left to machines? On August 18, 2023, the US District Court for the District of Columbia affirmed the U.S.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 31, 2023

The Court held that the first factor of the copyright fair use test favored respondent photographer, Lynn Goldsmith, rather than petitioner, Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts (“AWF”). In response, AWF sued Goldsmith, seeking a declaratory judgment of non-infringement, or alternatively, fair use.

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The IPKat

MARCH 7, 2024

This Kat is delighted to present a review of Propriété intellectuelle et développement durable / Intellectual Property & Sustainable Development, edited by Prof. The analysis concludes with a review of recent US cases. Jacques de Werra (University of Geneva). In “Does Intellectual Property Promote or Hinder Sustainability?

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

.” So what is the current legal situation regarding the use of publicly available copyrighted works for the purpose of training ML systems? More from our authors: Guide to EU and UK Pharmaceutical Regulatory Law, Eighth Edition by Sally Shorthose € 265 New forms of collective action? The future of copyright?

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 9, 2023

This opt-out can be exercised for instance via technological tools but relies significantly on the public availability of training datasets. As a counterpoint, some commentators note that these tools benefit many artists and content creators, whose interests should be considered when regulating how copyright law tackles these technologies.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

The conference was organized (in hybrid format) in partnership with the Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property (IPI) with the support of AIPPI and constituted the 2023 edition of the annual international IP conference organized at the Faculty of Law of the University of Geneva ( j ournée de droit de la propriété intellectuelle - JDPI ).

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Generative AI also showed its power in creating clear, sustained text in a variety of formats and styles with the launch of ChatGPT in November, generating daily interest in the news, debates over bans in schools , universities , scientific conferences and websites and speculation that the technology could be baked into Microsoft Office.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

General Exception, Including Fair use. Personal or Private Uses. Temporary Copies for Technological Processes. Most countries have allowed some sort of personal use exception for a long time. On the other hand, copyright exceptions that apply to ICT technologies tend to be weaker and more varied.

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

Our family home always had the latest edition. The proliferation of advanced chatbots, virtual assistants, and generative AI systems has already captivated over 100 million users, underscoring the widespread adoption and embrace of AI technologies. If not in the encyclopedia, the local public library was my next stop.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Sixth, assuming Woodward published copyrighted material without Trump’s authorization, was he permitted to do so, either as a fair use, or by the First Amendment? Absent consent, fair use, or a First Amendment defense, publishing the interviews without Trump’s consent is therefore a violation of his copyright.

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43(B)log

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Neo4j originally offered a free and open source version of the Neo4j platform known as the Neo4j Community Edition, with limited features and no technical or administrative support. PureThink is a software and information technology consulting company that specializes in supporting agencies within the U.S. Government.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 17, 2024

Despite UIRC’s copyright registrations, the court says the UIRC’s edits aren’t copyrightable: UIRC did not independently create most of the language in the documents at issue. The court provides details about UIRC’s minor edits to the Idaho precedent: The only differences (besides formatting) between Section 5.01

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LexBlog IP

OCTOBER 3, 2023

And will this bedrock principle be limited to generative AI, or may it lead to revisiting copyright protection for other technologies where creative decisions are left to machines? On August 18, 2023, the US District Court for the District of Columbia affirmed the U.S. It cited its AI Registration Guidance, 88 Fed.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 25, 2023

A livestream shares certain similarities with a Let’s Play video, but the latter features a higher degree of editing and curation while the former is an unedited, real-time performance. More from our authors: Guide to EU and UK Pharmaceutical Regulatory Law, Eighth Edition by Sally Shorthose € 265

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 25, 2024

Submissions received on the training of AI systems were subsequently summarized in the following terms: Stakeholders from the technology sector, scholars, and user groups generally argued for an exception making clear that the use of works in text and data mining activities (TDM) does not require additional authorization from rightsholders.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MARCH 6, 2023

The study was made possible through the reproductions of books by the Google Books project and provided to the HathiTrust, whose making available of the resource for text and data mining research was held to be a fair use in Authors Guild v. HathiTrust, 755 F.3d 3d 87 (2d Cir.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2023

In the Vans case, the Vans sneaker company sued the Brooklyn art collective known as MSCHF (sound it out) after MSCHF sold a limited-edition shoe it called “ The Wavy Baby ” (depicted at right). The Vans decision highlights the constrains the Jack Daniel’s decision has placed on fair use arguments in trademark disputes.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 24, 2023

A very dumb law that would authorize the Copyright Office to force UGC sites to adopt expensive and overrestrictive technological controls as dictated by copyright owners. Censorship-minded advocates won’t stop until they achieve both goals. * * * Some other developments of note in 2022: Government Use of Social Media.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 27, 2022

The first Supreme Court ruling on fair use in over a quarter-century, and it’s a good one. It’s rare to see an Internet service walk back such an important technology like facial recognition. Internet Law: Cases & Materials (2021 edition). Yay, we got our first Supreme Court opinion interpreting the CFAA.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 15, 2022

If the submitted content was accepted by the editor, it would be published, usually within 48 hours… Once the content was published on the Web site, the content contributor was “locked out” of the content and could not edit or make changes to the content. HuffPost Gets 512(c) Defense for Contributor-Uploaded Photo–Downs v.

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The IPKat

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Papers and presentations are expected to discuss how copyright law would address myriad disruptive phenomena such as the evolving use of artificial intelligence, the creation of the metaverse, text and data-mining, new communication technologies, NFTs and fast fashion. More information here (download or open the paper).

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JIPL Online

MARCH 19, 2021

ii] These events were sudden and came as a shock to the platform’s creators who were given no opportunity to submit counternotifications or edit their content to remove the allegedly infringing material per the provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (the “DMCA”) and Twitch’s own DMCA Guidelines. 6, 2021).

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LexBlog IP

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Indeed, the directors of the US Patent and Trademark Office and US Copyright Office are in the process of conducting a joint study to untangle the various interests at play, having promised Sens. District Court for the Central District of California. The case is in the discovery phase. Nike, Inc. StockX LLC , Case No.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 10, 2024

Those snippets seem arguably suggestive of an intent to use the former President’s input generously, perhaps more generously than fair use might otherwise allow, and in a manner often unvarnished or unprocessed to the point of being an author’s, or an author-like, contribution. ” Id.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JANUARY 20, 2022

Another – more recent – example involves the video of a 2020 copyright panel at New York University where music was played to explain the application of the US fair use rules. Intellectual Property Law in China, 2nd edition. A commentator noted that “NASA’s new rover arrives on Mars, crash lands in YouTube’s DMCA hell”.

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43(B)log

OCTOBER 4, 2021

The court found that this was nominative fair use, which provides a defense in the Ninth Circuit when a trademarked product or service isn’t readily identifable without use of the mark, the use is no greater than necessary, and the defendant does nothing else to suggest confusion. But Abrahams failed to do so.

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