LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

In the fast-paced world where artificial intelligence (AI) is not just a buzzword but a significant part of our daily business operations, there’s a heated debate unfolding. It’s a topic that feels right out of a thrilling legal drama: should AI models be fed with copyrighted content?

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Michael Geist

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

He has never given a speech on the bill in the House of Commons and the government successfully cut off debate after allocating just two hours to it. Instead, the bill triggers a mandatory compensation process where news content is “made available” on Internet platforms, called digital news intermediaries (DNI).

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Michael Geist

APRIL 6, 2022

The Rodriguez post included a link to a La Presse article on the game (the same link I’ve just posted). If the principle was that links have value requiring compensation, then why shouldn’t I be required to pay for linking to the same article? Rodriguez: Because there’s a value to that.

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The IPKat

AUGUST 8, 2021

This Kat is just back from a jaunt around the IP blogs While the summer pause is in full swing, the IP blogosphere continues to provide its insights.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 16, 2023

“We just let ourselves be surprised,” he said. While zebra videos might have pleased David Attenborough, Naomi Foxx fans probably prefer videos that at least stay on topic. We will fix the problem as soon as possible and of course compensate for the downtime of the last days,” a spokesperson explained.

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IIPRD

APRIL 8, 2024

AI Generated Art: Algorithm or Creativity DALL-E and Stable Diffusion are some of the most well-known AI apps to generate artwork using algorithms wherein, you just need to put in some prompts in a box and within seconds you will receive a result of your choice. This still stands as an extremely contentious topic.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Several of the movie companies are Voltage affiliates and in our second report on the topic, we wondered whether members of this coalition intended to go after alleged pirates in the UK. ” In the event of a successful claim, Voltage says it would be entitled to recover compensation to reflect any losses suffered.

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The IPKat

JUNE 13, 2022

Despite the hype, it is a niche market, and purchasers are just as often speculative investors as they are fans or collectors. The purpose of the resale right is to compensate the author for the loss of control over their work by granting them remuneration for each successive sale and therefore seems appropriate in these circumstances.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

She requested compensation for damages, as well as the removal of the program from the RAI website and the publication of the judgment. In addition, the Court held that the work was to be considered creative.

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The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Form of Order Judgment; permission to appeal There is a subsequent Form of Order Judgment [2023] EWHC 1578 (Pat) which is just as important. InterDigital should be compensated now for the delay in receipt of those sums ([29]). Then it moved on to the inevitable topic of appeal. InterDigital advanced four grounds of appeal.

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The IPKat

MAY 22, 2023

Hayleigh Bosher and Coran Darling giving evidence at the Inquiry Artificial intelligence is a highly debated topic in the intellectual property field currently. Is AI just a tool? There seems to be resistance in considering the actions generative AI performs as creativity since the AI output is being compared to human creative works.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 16, 2022

After researching thousands of DMCA notices and reporting on hundreds of copyright lawsuits, more often than not it takes just a few seconds or minutes to broadly establish the purpose of any action. In most cases rightsholders want alleged infringement to stop and in some, they also seek compensation for their losses.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MARCH 2, 2022

Even though the order of these may vary, and some of them may be merged together, these stages always come back in one way or another as they represent the stages of any text generation – even when it is ‘just’ the product of a human author. Media and communications perspective.

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The IPKat

JULY 9, 2023

It might also have been interesting to examine the various topics covered from a European perspective. For some artists, a simple copy of the work featuring their work is enough to compensate for the absence of their name. Furthermore, although the book deals with copyright, it is mainly American copyright and not British copyright.

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Copyright Lately

OCTOBER 24, 2022

While decorative items often have thematic relevance to a story, they’re just as often used to avoid blank walls and unadorned coffee tables. It’s not my intent to minimize these issues; they just aren’t the focus of this article. When filmed, these items may be obscured, out of focus, and virtually unidentifiable.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 1, 2024

Many rightsholders say this is essentially piracy; the copying of copyrighted content without obtaining permission from creators for AI purposes is illegal; it should be restricted, compensated for, or banned completely, they insist. Fred: (amused) Now that’s just petty, Alan. Pirate Partridge – Ahaarrrr?

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TorrentFreak

MAY 18, 2023

The copyright angle is the topic of many debates and has already made its way to court in a few cases. Should all of these inputs be recognized or even compensated? The above is just a tiny overview of a single hearing and some of the responses. At the same time, AI is causing grave concerns for the copyright industry.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 9, 2023

TLDR Generative AI is one of the hot topics in copyright law today. Introduction Generative AI is one of the hot topics in copyright law today. Content moderation is a topic dealt with elsewhere in EU law by the Digital Services Act (DSA) and, for copyright protect content, in inter alia Article 17 CDSM Directive.

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SpicyIP

JULY 21, 2021

see here for our previous coverage on the Bolar exception and fans of an exhaustive reading on the topic can access the paper by Prof. Basheer and Prashant here.) . In coming to the above conclusion, the Single Judge J. C Hari Shanker discussed the Delhi High Court’s Bayer set of decisions and made the following observations:- .

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 15, 2022

Though judges may think they are adding just one fact-justified exception to Section 230 in deciding their cases, over time plaintiff-sympathetic judges would collectively manufacture enough fact-driven exceptions to Section 230 to cause the entire statute to fail. ” No. Similarly, in Downs v.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

The parliamentary and public debate mostly revolved around a few selected topics, leaving numerous aspects of the CDSMD-induced modernization of copyright rules virtually untouched. More from our authors: Law of Raw Data. by Jan Bernd Nordemann, Christian Czychowski. € Intellectual Property Law in China, 2nd edition. by Christopher Heath. €

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Trading Secrets

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Employee compensation thresholds must be carefully examined to determine if covenants are prohibited under state law for lower earning employees. Employer plaintiffs should carefully consider whether to bring DTSA and TUTSA claims or just TUTSA claims. Protecting Trade Secrets and Enforcing Restrictive Covenants Internationally.

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LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Employee compensation thresholds must be carefully examined to determine if covenants are prohibited under state law for lower earning employees. Employer plaintiffs should carefully consider whether to bring DTSA and TUTSA claims or just TUTSA claims. Protecting Trade Secrets and Enforcing Restrictive Covenants Internationally.

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Michael Geist

DECEMBER 2, 2022

However, earlier this week, just as the committee was hearing that the bill covers users Facebook posts with quotes and links to news content, it quietly expanded the scope of the definition of “eligible news business” in a manner that opened the eligibility door to some organizations that may not even produce news content.

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Copyright Lately

MAY 13, 2022

So, if anyone out there is looking to do a follow-up article that doesn’t consist solely of a regurgitated Josh Hawley press release , here are five topics for your consideration: 1. Of course, that’s just what I think. The good news is that it’s never too late to set the record straight. Code, Title 17. Constitution.

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43(B)log

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Transformativeness: Just because the video and song served different purposes didn’t make the video transformative. The film combined the burlesque performances “with cultural commentary on topics such as gender, sexuality, and the artistic process,” and incidentally captured a dancer’s use of the song as background for her performance.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 3, 2024

Expected to find a lot of talking around the topic of pleasure, but surprised to find a lot of hostility to, especially, defendants’ enjoyment of their own conduct. Administrative remedies: injunction; civil compensation; some criminal penalties. Claim is that IP is just part of the nonmarket economy. See also: 1201 and 1202!]

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 19, 2023

These allegations meet the “far more active form of participation” required to survive this stage of the proceedings [Just a reminder that the court’s casual suggestion that Omegle could adopt age verification technology might itself be an unconstitutional requirement. The age verification battle will ultimately reach the Supreme Court.]

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