Olartemoure Blog

JUNE 30, 2023

Seeking to mitigate the impact on the media industry, the Canadian parliament recently passed a law requiring technology companies, social networks, and search engines to get licenses for sharing local news content.

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LexBlog IP

OCTOBER 28, 2021

A recent California District Court ruling affirmed that Perfect 10’s ruling applied to the embedding of images from social media onto third party websites. the user name and image, user caption, number of likes, and branding of the social media platform). What is Embedding?

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 21, 2021

2: Kairosoft, the Beloved Mobile Tycoon Game Developer, Openly Accuses its Chinese Publisher of Copyright Infringement and Contract Violation. The two companies signed an agreement in 2017 that gave Beijing Shi Jun publishing rights for Kairosoft games in China. 3: Facebook Signs Copyright Agreement with Some French Publishers.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Barbera filed the lawsuit, alleging that Cyrus posted a photo he took on her various social media presences. Next up today, Andy Maxwell at Torrentfreak writes that several manga piracy websites, targeted by Japanese publishers in a US Court, have moved and are now operating openly in Russia.

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Velocity of Content

APRIL 30, 2024

What role might CCC play in licensing for AI applications? Since our founding, we’ve been putting users and rightsholders together, so people can find good ways to license the works that they need. We offer various licensing models. We have a collective, or blanket, license covering thousands of publishers and millions of items.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 2, 2022

She tattooed the Sedlik photo onto Farmer and promoted the tattoo on social media. It’s a creative photo, but it was published. “no one has told [Sedlik] they would not buy a copy of the Portrait because they had seen the Tattoo or social media posts about the Tattoo.” Nature of the Work.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 5, 2022

Following the example of the United States, the EU started publishing its very own piracy watchlist a few years ago. The third iteration of the EU watchlist will be published towards the end of the year and several interested parties have already submitted their nominations. IFPI Flags Top Piracy Problems. This also applies to Twitter.

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IPilogue

AUGUST 26, 2022

The suit was filed in California Northern District Court by Swedish music label and publishing company, Epidemic Sound. They claimed that Meta, on its social media platforms, has stolen hundreds of their content. On July 20 th , 2022, Meta Platforms Inc. Meta”) was hit with a $142 million lawsuit. Who is Epidemic Sound?

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LexBlog IP

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Businesses looking to capitalize on amusing or interesting videos in social media channels should beware of potential copyright infringement liability and bear in mind that a fair use defense may not be available. Frank Kent moved to dismiss the action, but the U.S.

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BYU Copyright Blog

JUNE 3, 2024

Boyages alleges that the University knowingly and unlawfully used an art-designed logo (logo or art design) created by the Plaintiff without her authorization or license and is therefore entitled to damages and monetary relief according to 17 U.S.C. In her complaint, Ms. According to Ms. Boyages' work can be considered a work for hire or not.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Research published by the EU Intellectual Property Office found that the service is rife with piracy-related discussions. Their main gripe is that unlike many other online services, X refuses to license the content shared by its users. That way, the social media platform would have to respond. ” U.S.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 15, 2023

Many of the large social media platforms stick to these rules, but according to a lawsuit filed this week by several prominent music companies, Twitter is not among them. This activity generates many millions of views which are monetized by the social media platform, while rightsholders are not compensated.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

On 21 st October 2021, Facebook announced that it has reached an agreement with APIG , an association of French press publishers, committing itself to the payment of licensing fees pursuant to the press publishers’ right introduced by the 2019 Copyright Directive. Social media (aka Facebook) were not a part of the conversation.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 11, 2024

Music publishers sued Twitter for users’ alleged copyright infringement. The publishers argued that Twitter “transmitted” their works. The publishers tried a number of tired/old-school arguments that would categorically hold UGC sites liable for user-caused copyright infringement. Direct Copyright Infringement.

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The IP Law Blog

AUGUST 4, 2022

Embedding” means the process of copying unique HTML code assigned to the location of a digital copy of the photo or video published to the Internet, and the insertion of that code into a target webpage or social media post so that photo or video is linked for display within the target post. It’s been a long-standing practice.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 9, 2023

ICS provider: “message boards and social media sites qualify as ‘interactive computer services.'” Publisher/Speaker claims. Even if the plaintiff established a prima facie case, the claims likely would be preempted by Section 230 because he’s suing over content that Twitter didn’t originate.

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43(B)log

MARCH 1, 2022

Bell allegedly offers licenses for its use. Anyway, Bell goes around suing unauthorized users of the passage, mostly public schools or nonprofits that publish the passage on social media. Nature of the work: Somewhat creative, but very published. But that’s not plausible. Factor four favors fair use.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 3, 2023

Moreover, reproductions of a social media post are clearly used for the purposes of reporting on the post where, as here, the reproductions include the accompanying elements of the social media application, such as the frame of the Instagram application and standard Instagram hyperlinks. 2K Games, Inc. , 1:17CV2635 (N.D.

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The IPKat

JUNE 21, 2022

In Chapter 4, Beatriz Conde Gallego debates whether owners of standard-essential patents (SEPs) must grant licences in “license to all” or “access to all” approaches. Giuseppe Mazziotti examines, in Chapter 8, the solutions to online music licensing, adopted by the EU. Extent: 232 pp.

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Velocity of Content

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

In my first post in this series, after discussing the basics of good copyright practice for bloggers (and other creators whose distribution is primarily through social media sites), I went on to look at the DMCA and how it may be seen as a useful first-line-of-defense bit of IP protection for content first appearing on such sites.

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 7, 2022

TikTok, a video-sharing platform, has quickly become one of the most popular social media platforms to date. As part of this agreement, NMPA members will be able to opt in to “a licensing framework that allows them to receive benefits for their work on TikTok.” By: Noelle Henry.

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The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

For instance, if a designer publishes his prototype on social media before filing for a design right, he may currently lose his opportunity to obtain a registration. The grace period will provide designers with 12 months to apply for design protection after publishing or using their design. Unported license.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 4, 2024

(I’m ignoring the complicating effects of various social media censorship laws that may require Internet services to enforce their TOSes as written, a requirement I think is unconstitutional).

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 25, 2023

This raises an obvious corollary: at most, Shah has a non-exclusive license to those photos, so what are the terms of those licenses and could Shah potentially infringe the owners’ copyrights by posting them? However, the fact the publishers didn’t ask at all could be a defect in their rights clearance process.

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IPilogue

JANUARY 17, 2023

They are “published” by the Registrar of Trademarks as opposed to being “registered” like trademarks. The actual process of publishing official marks is very different to obtaining registration of a trademark. My placement at TVO taught me how such an organization functions internally.

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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. When it first was published, Eric did an excellent job summarizing the opinion in this post. a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license”), and there is no allegation that it was corrupted, changed, or deleted. on all counts.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 17, 2022

It is unlikely that these features will appear on a licensed mainstream service but that doesn’t stop subscribers from desiring them. for a ‘lifetime’ license. You agree that as a condition of your license, you will not: i. People Want to Download and Keep Movies & TV Shows.

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Velocity of Content

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

In this post, I’m looking at the vast domain of the YouTube video & social media platform —which, lest we forget, is a major division of Google/Alphabet — and how its copyright aspect manifests in options for individual contributors (“YouTubers,” in the jargon). Also, I am not focusing on how people make money on YouTube.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 14, 2023

January: The year kicked off in Tanzania with the news that the Parliamentary Standing Committee in Tanzania received a report from the Ministry of Culture, Arts and Sports addressing its efforts to review and improve the loopholes found in the Copyright Licensing and Rights to Benefit from Re-Sale Regulations, 2022.

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 26, 2022

With the increased consumption of media and the ease of creating and publishing content on various social media platforms, the time couldn’t be better for such a celebration. They should understand what they’re giving up and how granting that license may affect later opportunities to monetize that content.

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IP Intelligence

APRIL 26, 2022

With the increased consumption of media and the ease of creating and publishing content on various social media platforms, the time couldn’t be better for such a celebration. They should understand what they’re giving up and how granting that license may affect later opportunities to monetize that content.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 31, 2023

” “Plaintiff appears to argue Twitter’s placement of information in “social media feeds” renders it an information content provider. P]roliferation and dissemination of content does not equal creation or development of content.”” ” Cite to Kimzey. ” Cite to King v. . ” Cite to King v.

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IP and Legal Filings

AUGUST 22, 2022

The primary source of law with respect to the media sector in the UAE is Federal No. 15 of 1980 Concerning Publications and Publishing. The legal framework covers a large number of regulations on the media including ownership, prohibitions on certain kinds of defamation.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 15, 2023

Many of the large social media platforms stick to these rules, but according to a lawsuit filed by several prominent music companies earlier this year, X is not among them. ” The music companies say that while many online platforms have agreed to licensing deals, X has shown little interest in compensating musicians. .

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The IP Law Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Take-Two Interactive Software found that the depiction of tattoos on wrestler Randy Orton in a video game published by Take Two Interactive infringed the tattoo artist’s copyright in the tattoos. Take Two had good reason to believe in its implied license defense. In this author’s personal opinion, the District Court got it all wrong.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 18, 2023

In January 2016, Time published an article titled ‘These Photographers Are Covering the Presidential Campaign on Instagram.’ In June 2020, during the Black Lives Matter protests, BuzzFeed News published an article titled “17 Powerful Pictures Of The Protests Through The Eyes of Black Photographers.”

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Copyright Lately

JUNE 2, 2022

Sedlik alleges that Von D infringed the copyright in his photo by tattooing a reproduction of the Miles Davis image onto the skin of Blake Farmer and then displaying images of the tattoo on her social media accounts. Kat Von D’s Instagram post. The Nature of the Copyrighted Work and the Amount and Substantiality of the Portion Used.

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