Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 8, 2021

The video depicted its award as the well-known Emmy statuette with a coronavirus replacing the atom in the holder’s hands: The Television Academies, who own the IP rights to the statuette, targeted the video with a DMCA notice to YouTube, which YouTube honored. Copyright Infringement/Fair Use. Goodman counternoticed.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 24, 2022

Terms such as DMCA, copyright strike and fair use are now regular features in YouTube content creator communities but that hasn’t necessarily led to fewer infringements or happier rightsholders. Seventeen years later, with billions of internet users now both consumers and creators of content, people are becoming more educated.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 28, 2021

According to the Office, the current limitations hinder fair use modifications of these devices. “Proponents have satisfied their burden of showing that technological measures applied to video streaming devices and routers or other networking devices are having, or are likely to have, an adverse effect on noninfringing uses.

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Plagiarism Today

MAY 19, 2022

The case is expected to be heard on June 6, but before then the court has tapped an expert from the Center for Innovation, IP and Competition at National law University to weigh in on the extent fair use makes such playing infringing or non-infringing.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Japan does not recognize fair use and even if it did, experts predicted that ‘Fast Movies’ would still cross red lines. The aim is to keep the storyline more or less intact yet despite obvious drawbacks, millions of people enjoy watching them. Fast Movie Crackdown. million) in overall damages.

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Dear Rich IP Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Is it fair use to use the entire unclipped episode, if, throughout my recording, I am making commentary on the episode I am watching? Your project may qualify as fair use. A judge, when determining fair use, must consider four factors the purpose and character of your use. The factors?

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Recent appellate decisions in the United States have recognized expanded grounds for personal jurisdiction in cases of internet-based copyright infringements; divided on the extent to which the three-year statute of limitations limits damage recoveries; and increased the occasions for motions to dismiss on the ground of fair use.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

JUNE 21, 2023

The plaintiff extended his business and earned revenue by licensing the copyrighted works it owned to FM Radio services, television operators, television broadcasters and multi-system operators (MSO). Section 52 states that educational purposes, research, or criticism are all fair use and do not constitute copyright infringement.

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LexBlog IP

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

But wait, shouldn’t the Fair Use Doctrine imputed under the First Amendment apply to an obviously parodied creative work? Table of Contents: Fair Use Under the Copyright Act How much risk are we talking here? Case Law: Instances Where Fair Use Was Not Upheld Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 12, 2021

Sinclair owns a bunch of television stations. means to show a copy of it, either directly or by means of a film, slide, television image, or any other device or process or, in the case of a motion picture or other audiovisual work, to show individual images nonsequentially.”. Fair use : The court also grapples with fair use.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 19, 2024

Instead of focusing on alleged hacking practices, the company led with Jack Valenti’s ‘Boston Strangler’ analogy, part of an all-out effort by television and movie producers to stop a groundbreaking new technology. Microsoft filed a separate motion to dismiss. Hollywood was ultimately unable to stop the VCR.

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Copyright Lately

MAY 17, 2021

And putting aside its pure entertainment value, the sketch also raises some interesting questions about just how much of an original work may be taken before parodic fair use crosses the line into copyright infringement. The Supreme Court’s seminal fair use decision, Campbell v.

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The IP Law Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Those arguments were that (1) Take-Two’s use of the tattoos was authorized by an implied license, (2) the fair use doctrine insulates their utilization of the tattoos and (3) the tattoos constitute a de minimis part of the video game. The District Court also found that the use was not fair use.

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Velocity of Content

OCTOBER 19, 2021

wrote into the statute) the well-known four fair use factors which provide guidance for assessing whether, in cases of alleged infringement, an unauthorized use ought to be considered a fair use. One section of the new law, Section 107, codified (i.e.,

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2022

2K Games rejected similar infringement claims on the basis of de minimis use, implied license, and fair use. To briefly summarize, the court left the fair use question entirely to the jury, despite its own pre-trial order and the Supreme Court’s recent decision in Google v.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2022

The plaintiff extended his business and earned revenue by licensing the copyrighted works it owned to FM Radio services, television operators, television broadcasters and multi-system operators (MSO). According, to section 52 educational purposes, research or criticism are all fair use and do not attract copyright infringement.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 30, 2022

Finally, it points out Viacom is the owner of three valid trademark registrations for the KRUSTY KRAB mark and 400 copyright registrations covering “creative aspects of the SpongeBob SquarePants franchise,” including episodes from the animated television series, movies, drawings, and stylebooks featuring artwork from the franchise.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

JUNE 21, 2023

The plaintiff extended his business and earned revenue by licensing the copyrighted works it owned to FM Radio services, television operators, television broadcasters and multi-system operators (MSO). According, to section 52 educational purposes, research or criticism are all fair use and do not attract copyright infringement.

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IPilogue

APRIL 12, 2022

The Chinese National Radio and Television Administration introduced a regulation in 2018 to prevent illegal capture, cut, stitching, and adapting audio-visual programs. Japanese police arrested three people for posting a 10-minute move recap on June 23, 2021.

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IPilogue

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Cosplay (or “costume play”) is the act of dressing up as a character, often from anime, video games, comics, television, or film. In both the United States and Canada , costumes do not fall under copyright protection given their classification as “useful articles.”

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IPilogue

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Television producers need to be careful to ensure that they are not mimicking real-life businesses too closely to offer their fictitious shows some realism. Netflix eventually settled with Chooseco in late 2020 after unsuccessfully arguing on grounds related to trademark law and fair use allowances. . How similar is too similar?

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IPilogue

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Barlow and Bear may use the “fan fiction” defence to claim their work is not an infringement based on fair use by proving the elements of fair use: the art is transformative and adds new meaning to the original show. Additionally, fan fiction must be non-commercial and cannot result in profits for the creator.

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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. This has important implications for the doctrine of fair use.

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Kashishipr

JUNE 9, 2021

With the onset of the trend wherein users are gradually switching to online streaming to meet their music needs and discarding traditional methods such as radio, television, and music CDs, compulsory licensing for the internet was recognized as a key policy issue by the music industry last year.

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SpicyIP

MAY 2, 2022

You can see his previous posts for us here. New(s) Questions and Fair Use: Using Copyright to Curtail Expression? In response the Defendant claimed, “ fair use” and “ de minimis” use. Carlton UK Television Ltd. Akshat Agrawal. In Super Cassettes Industries Ltd. In Ashdown v.

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LexBlog IP

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Those arguments were that (1) Take-Two’s use of the tattoos was authorized by an implied license, (2) the fair use doctrine insulates their utilization of the tattoos and (3) the tattoos constitute a de minimis part of the video game. The District Court also found that the use was not fair use.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 26, 2023

A copy available via PRS Legislative Research ( pdf ) shows that the committee heard evidence from the Motion Picture Distributors Association, Viacom 18, the Film and Television Producers Guild of India, and others. Amended Amendments The Standing Committee Report referenced 18 U.S.

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JIPEL Copyright Blog

MARCH 14, 2022

Bridgerton is the Netflix television sensation that enraptured the United States in late 2020. However, as a Shonda Rhimes production, the television show is so much more, effortlessly weaving people of color into high society London in a reimagined history. Together, they explored the concept: What if Bridgerton was a musical ?

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Copyright Lately

AUGUST 2, 2022

While Barlow & Bear may now try to argue that their work constitutes fair use, it’s a weak defense in this case. The Musical Parody ,” “The Unofficial Bridgerton Musical” isn’t the type of parody musical that courts have often found to be fair use under the Copyright Act.

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IP and Legal Filings

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

The fact that the media experience (whether in a book, film, video, game, or interactive television) depends on both the creator, whose rights are protected by copyright law, and the viewer, who brings their own personal vision to the character, has become increasingly important in the context of interactive technology and user-generated content.

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

You see, when I was growing up, computers took up entire rooms and content was published on paper – books, newspapers, magazines, and yes, sometimes even broadcast on television or radio. It was always perfectly clear to me what someone else authored and owned. Copying was tedious. Copying took effort. That was then, this is now.

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SpicyIP

JULY 29, 2021

Secondly, imposing a straightjacket 10% limit is patently absurd as DU Photocopy had explicitly upheld the reasonable-nexus approach to determine permissible amount of copying (previously suggested by Prof Basheer ): ‘ utilization of the copyrighted work would be a fair use to the extent justified for purpose of education ’ (para 33, Div.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The court also credits the self-serving claim by the successor licensee that it considered fair use by comparing the works and evaluating if the works were being sold commercially or for other purposes. Signal 23 Television v. New Destiny Church. * ‘Reaction’ Video Protected By Fair Use–Hosseinzadeh v.

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IIPRD

AUGUST 11, 2023

There is no question of fair use as although it is not commercially beneficial but it is neither limited to private use. However, the US Court has held Napster [2] , which was a file-sharing platform as well, guilty of infringing copyrighted materials and was denied the defence of fair use.

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Velocity of Content

JUNE 8, 2022

Beginning in 1955, adaptations of the stage play for television begin. Having obtained film animation rights — a relatively new licensing concept at the time, but one which Disney Studios began frequently exploiting from the 1930’s on – Walt Disney and his studio release the famous animated film.

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 8, 2023

emphasized the fair use and dealing of copyrighted matters under section 52(1)(a) of the Act. The Tips Industries being the petitioner was given interim Relief on the basis that the defendant company was neither a radio nor a television. Rameshwari photocopy services & ors. In the case of Tips Industries Ltd. Wynk Music Ltd.

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Copyright Lately

JANUARY 13, 2023

Under the 1909 Act, the oral delivery of a speech, just like the broadcast of a television script or the public performance of a song, did not constitute a general publication. This has left other radio and TV outlets to play only short excerpts, which are protected under copyright’s fair use doctrine.

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