Velocity of Content

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

With collaboration tools and practices continuously evolving, companies must take care to protect their organization from the risk of copyright infringement,” said Tracey Armstrong, President and CEO, CCC. Methodology Outsell designed the questionnaire with input from CCC.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

The White House Executive Order on AI (“EO”) is comprehensive and covers a wide range of topics. One of the topics which raises many legal issues, particularly with generative AI (“genAI”), is intellectual property. We provided a summary here. It addresses many of the risks and problems that can arise with AI.

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JD Supra Law

JANUARY 25, 2024

Artificial intelligence raises various novel legal questions about data privacy, bias in outputs, cybersecurity, and ethics, among other topics. In the last year, at least twelve lawsuits have been brought against generative AI companies raising copyright infringement and related claims. By: Jenner & Block

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LexBlog IP

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Plaintiffs state that AI technology is no differently situated than the traditional printing press or copy machine, and must adhere to these foundational principles of copyright law. ” Id. at ¶ 10. ” Id. at ¶ 78.

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Plagiarism Today

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

The word and the song that it titles has remained a part of our lexicon for nearly sixty years and, despite being a famous tongue-twister (so much so, it was featured in a recent Mental Floss episode on the topic ), has been on the tongues of generations. However, in 1965, there was a very different conversation about the song.

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Plagiarism Today

MAY 2, 2022

Normally, a company like Facebook would be protected by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) from such arguments. However, Cook’s allegations speak to those requirements, both claiming that “removed” content isn’t truly removed and that they have failed to terminate repeat infringers. The Complicated Backdrop.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 20, 2022

The “repeat infringer” issue remains a hot topic in US courts and over the years several ISPs have been sued because of them. These Internet providers stand accused of not doing enough to stop copyright infringers on their networks, even after receiving multiple ‘copyright infringement’ notifications from rightsholders.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 18, 2022

The community-driven platform has “subreddits” dedicated to pretty much every topic you can think of. They delete spam, remove off-topic content, and make sure that ‘unauthorized’ content is swiftly removed. They delete spam, remove off-topic content, and make sure that ‘unauthorized’ content is swiftly removed.

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The IPKat

APRIL 15, 2024

The claimant brought this action for copyright infringement against the defendant, alleging that it was the author of the Image, and seeking injunctive relief. The Court’s judgment The main issue which the Court had to determine was the authorship of the Image, and whether it was possible for AI to be the author of a copyright work.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 4, 2022

The “repeat infringer” issue remains a hot topic in US courts and several ISPs have been sued over the years. These Internet providers stand accused of not doing enough to stop copyright infringers on their networks, even after receiving multiple ‘copyright infringement’ notifications.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Popular CDN and DDoS protection service Cloudflare has come under a lot of pressure from copyright holders in recent years. The company offers its services to millions of sites, some of which provide access to copyright-infringing material. This makes Cloudflare liable for the associated copyright infringements, they said.

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 19, 2024

While this appears on its face to be a simple case of copyright infringement with justice achieved in a relatively straightforward way, there are certain important questions relating to the interplay between AI and copyright that the court did not (or perhaps avoided) touching upon.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 29, 2021

The “repeat infringer” issue remains a hot topic in US courts after rightsholders filed lawsuits against several ISPs. These Internet providers are accused of not doing enough to stop copyright infringers on their networks, even after receiving multiple ‘copyright infringement’ notifications.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 7, 2023

” After establishing that the albums had been available for download from October 2013 until November 2022, police charged the man with criminal copyright infringement offenses. Unlike the man recently charged with music piracy offenses, these sites only linked to copyright-infringing material, rather than hosting it directly.

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SpicyIP

AUGUST 27, 2021

Like last year, we kept the topic selection open to participants – asking them to choose any topic they wanted so long as it related to IP. Nonetheless, we were glad to see entries across a range of interesting topics and are very happy to see relatively uncommon topics take the podium places.

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IPilogue

JANUARY 27, 2022

Furthermore, a lot of these tasks required me to draft case summaries in relation to these topics, which allowed me to strengthen my legal research and writing skills. A task in particular that stood out was the drafting of a response to a copyright infringement claim.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 1, 2024

AI and copyright: Prompts and Intellectual Inputs This Time from China Recently in a copyright infringement dispute concerning a work generated by using an AI, the Beijing Internet Court held that it qualifies as an original work of human intellectual achievement. Read Aparajita’s post to know more about the development.

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IPilogue

MAY 6, 2022

Dua Lipa’s 2020 pop hit “Levitating” is facing copyright infringement lawsuits as of March 2022. Copyright infringement proceedings are the best course of action for instances of song stealing, but are often expensive and difficult to win, as a complainant must demonstrate more than ‘alike sounds’ or ‘similar vibes’.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 13, 2022

Over the past few years, we have seen copyright holders take several ISPs to court, accusing them of failing to disconnect repeat copyright infringers. In one of these cases, the filmmakers accused Torguard of being involved in widespread copyright infringement. Settlement & U.S. Torrent Blocking.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 16, 2021

According to former Snopes managing editor Brooke Binkowski, he created the new identity as a means to shield himself when he covered politically heated topics. Though, it mentions him engaging in “multiple serious copyright violations of content that Snopes didn’t have rights to use,” he never once mentions plagiarism.

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The IPKat

JULY 11, 2023

Copyright Katfriend Alessandro Cerri reported on the the injunction against copyright infringement in the case concerning Tesco’s infringement of the Lidl’s copyright in its blue-and-yellow logo. Book reviews Kevin Bercimuelle-Chamot reviewed the book ‘Copyright in the Street.

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The IPKat

MARCH 7, 2024

The Case of Upcycling”, Irene Calboli and Siroos Tanner address the IP dimension of upcycling and explore ways to prevent this environmentally friendly practice from being hindered by claims of potential trademark and copyright infringement. centred perspective, it — unsurprisingly —managed to grasp the essence of the topic globally.

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The IP Law Blog

MAY 5, 2022

To obtain a subpoena, Berkovitz would have to register his copyrights and file a lawsuit for copyright infringement, which he did. He further alleged that Defendants knew or should have known that their acts constituted copyright infringement. Course Hero declined to provide the information absent a subpoena.

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CopyrightsWorld

MARCH 9, 2021

Luckily, you are one of many creators today who have to work to protect their work against potential copyright infringement, be it accidental, or very much deliberate. This is precisely why constant professional monitoring of infringement can be a life-saver. It may even land you, the wronged party, in hot water.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 2, 2022

This is a venerable question–I remember evaluating it as a possible law review note topic 30+ years ago. Even so, the court’s almost-banal treatment of this super-interesting topic suggests that there may not be much tattoo exceptionalism in copyright law. Prior Tattoo Copyright Blog Posts. May 31, 2022).

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 14, 2023

Russia already requires Internet providers and search engines to block hundreds of thousands of sites, for reasons that include copyright infringement. Ukraine Censorship or Copyright Enforcement? This includes documentaries covering topics such as Navalny or the Ukraine conflict, which are effectively banned in Russia.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Early last year, a group of filmmakers obtained a subpoena which required Reddit to reveal the identities of users who commented on piracy-related topics. Direct Infringement The movie companies argue that the requested information is relevant and proportional to the needs of the case.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 8, 2023

This brings us to the next topic on the court’s agenda; a request from the filmmakers to release the identities of 125 Grande subscribers who were repeatedly flagged for sharing pirated films. As mentioned earlier, there was one subscriber who objected by claiming that they never received a copyright infringement notice from Grande.

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SpicyIP

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

He wrote detailed posts on this topic later here and here. Talking about this topic, the issue of Judicial Recusals also shouldn’t be left untouched – an issue that has been the heart of several IP controversies, notably the Novartis dispute. The results revealed that the Ministry of Home Affairs had no source or backing of the data.

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Above the Fold

JANUARY 30, 2024

Finally, the amendments clarify the rules governing submission of evidence, including actions the presiding Copyright Claims Officer can take if a party violates these rules.”

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 26, 2022

One of the alleged parodic busts The comic strip "The adventures of Tintin" and its characters, created by the Belgian cartoonist Hergé, have been the source of numerous copyright infringement disputes in recent years [ here ]. On 18 March 2019, a counterfeit seizure was carried out.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

Topics will include access and substantial similarity, fair use, performers' rights, moral rights, expert testimony, the role of lay listeners, sound sampling as it appears in court and out-of-court litigation. The course consists of 10 sessions via Zoom.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Bloggers often pay attention to issues that are too niche-y or esoteric for mainstream media coverage, and bloggers can provide expert commentary and repositories of source materials on fast-moving topics. Publishing these materials can create substantial legal risk for research-focused bloggers, including the risk of copyright infringement.

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LexBlog IP

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

The White House Executive Order on AI (“EO”) is comprehensive and covers a wide range of topics. One of the topics which raises many legal issues, particularly with generative AI (“genAI”), is intellectual property. We provided a summary here. It addresses many of the risks and problems that can arise with AI.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 11, 2022

YouTube is an incredible site with an unbelievable amount of content covering every conceivable topic. This notice also alleged infringement due to unauthorized circumvention but GitHub processed the claim based on other copyright infringement(s). But it’s certainly not perfect.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Topics include access and substantial similarity, fair use, performers’ rights, moral rights, expert testimony, the role of lay listeners, sound sampling, as demonstrated in dispositions of litigated and settled infringement disputes. More information about this event here. Registration is open here.

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Patently-O

AUGUST 30, 2022

Contract not Copyright: Genius does not hold the copyright to the lyrics and so has no copyright infringement claim. The case ties in directly to lots of academic work on the topic. With the data in hand, Google now displays the lyrics in the search results rather than directing traffic to Genius. Genius sued.

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