- 5 Things to Know About YouTube’s Copyright ChangesOn Thursday, YouTube announced some additional changes to its Content ID policies aimed at improving “fairness in their creator ecosystem while still respecting copyright owners’ rights to prevent unlicensed use of their content.” The change itself is actually fairly subtle. When rightsholders are manually claiming very short clip ... Read More
- 3 Count: DOJ BackingHave any suggestions for the 3 Count? Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday. 1: YouTube is Changing How Some Copyright Claims Work, and It Could Result in ‘More Blocked Content’ First off today, Jacob Kastrenakes at The Verge reports that YouTube is changing how it handles a certain class of copyright ... Read More
- The Law Bytes Podcast, Season One in Review: The Copyright EpisodesCopyright law and policy was an important part of season one of the Law Bytes podcast with several episodes devoted to Canadian reforms as well as international developments. The Canadian copyright review figured prominently: Episode 4 featured clips from my appearance before the Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology ... Read More
- German BGH: The destruction of the work does not infringe the moral rights of the authorJan Bernd Nordemann and Laura LeidlGerman Federal Supreme Court’s decisions of 21 February 2019 (ref.: I ZR 98/17, I ZR 99/17 and I ZR 15/18) Protection of moral rights in Germany, in particular the right to prohibit distortion of the work Moral rights derived from copyright are not harmonized within ... Read More
- Texas Bar Section Announces Nominations are Open for the Cindi Lazzari Artist Advocate Award — Artist Rights Watch[Thanks to Chris Castle for this post.] We’re pleased to help get out the word that nominations are open for the Cindi Lazzari Artist Advocate Award for “heroes and heroines” involved with artist advocacy in all Texas communities. For Texas readers, there’s info below about how to nominate. If you’re ... Read More
- “At the time of his arrest, the artist had draped a Cuban flag over his shoulders as part of a thirty-day performance, titled Drapeau, in protest of a new law passed earlier this year that regulates how national symbols can be displayed.”Artforum: "Cuban artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara, a staunch activist for artistic freedom in the country, was arrested outside the Museum of Dissidence in Havana on Saturday, August 10 and released two days later. Alcántara has previously been harassed and detained by the police on numerous occasions for his involvement ... Read More
- “HBO sought to have the case dismissed last November, claiming that its use was ‘transformative’ enough to be considered fair use”
- Playing Darts with a RembrandtExcept it wasn't darts and it's not a Rembrandt: Artist Sues Country Rapper Who Shot Paintings With Assault Rifle.Headline reference here.Brian Frye: "Interesting VARA claim. Seems like the defendant might have a 'fair use' argument? At the very least, the claim certainly implicates free expression." ... Read More
- “Now the executor of the artist’s estate has come forward in court papers to argue that Mr. Indiana had been poorly cared for by the caretaker, Jamie L. Thomas, who, the court filing says, ‘improperly lined his pockets’ with $1.1 million from the artist and took more than 100 works of art by claiming they were gifts.”
- Other Barks & Bites, Friday, August 16: Iancu to Brief CAFC on Precedential Opinion Panel Deference, China to Regulate Patent Agencies, and FCC Approves T-Mobile/Sprint MergerThis week in Other Barks & Bites: The Federal Circuit has asked USPTO Director Andrei Iancu to brief the appellate court on deference that should be paid to precedential PTAB opinions; China announced that it will create a credit rating mechanism for patent agents; Russ Slifer Op-Ed revives 101 debate; ... Read More
- Friday’s Endnotes – 08/16/19A small claims program for copyright violations? It’s an idea the ABA supports — “The ABA supports legislation that would create a new copyright small claims program within the U.S. Copyright Office to adjudicate copyright small claims more efficiently and economically than federal courts, according to a resolution passed overwhelmingly ... Read More
- EU opens copyright’s eyes to the blindness worldKarolina SztobrynThis October one year will have passed since the legal acts transposing the provisions of the Marrakesh Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works for Persons Who are Blind, Visually Impaired or Otherwise Print Disabled became applicable in EU Member States. Regulation 2017/1563 on the cross-border exchange between the ... Read More
- The Rise of the Peer Review BotsBack in June, behavior scientist Jean-François Bonnefon tweeted about a rejection he had received from an unnamed scientific journal. What made the rejection interesting was that it didn’t come from a human being, but from a bot. An automated plagiarism-detection tool had determined his paper had a “high ... Read More
- 3 Count: Nintendo MusicHave any suggestions for the 3 Count? Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday. 1: Wall Street Journal Publisher Tells Supreme Court of Being Victimized by California First off today, Eriq Gardner at The Hollywood Reporter Esquire reports that Dow Jones & Company has filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court ... Read More
- The Law Firm’s Reply: A (Satirical) Sequel to the IP Client’s ‘Love’ LetterUpon receipt of the fateful “love” letter from its fictitious IP client, the fictitious law firm was speechless—momentarily. Feeling aggrieved and misunderstood, and yet hopeful that their relationship could be saved with an added measure of TLC (top-tier legal counseling), the firm summoned up the courage to prepare this reply ... Read More
- Do “non-collecting entities” hold their (non) collections in the public trust?Last month, in a highly creative use of spin, Napa, California's di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art announced that they were going to start selling works to provide funding for their endowment, but it wasn't really a case of prohibited deaccessioning, it was just that they had "voted to cease ... Read More
- “The 4-to-3 vote, which came after a tense and emotional meeting, nullified the board’s earlier vote to paint over the murals”
- Copyright make-up tips – How to make a lasting impressionThe 1709 Blog is happy to host this guest contribution by former 1709 Blog team member Hugo Cox (Hamlins LLP) on a recent decision of the High Court of England and Wales concerning copyright and make-up.Here's what Hugo writes:Copyright make-up tips - How to make a lasting impressionby Hugo CoxOne ... Read More
- Blacklock’s Tendentious and Tenacious Litany of Litigation – the Latest (Lack of) DevelopmentsHere’s an update since my last blog concerning Blacklock’s “litany of litigation” (as I have described it) against the Attorney General of Canada (“AGC”) and several federal agencies. On July 2, 2019 the Case Management Judge, Prothonotary Sylvie Molgat, directed that ‘"The parties are to provide, by no later than ... Read More
- Retransmission – Mission Accomplished?After nearly 6 ½ years, on August 2, 2019 the Copyright Board of Canada has finally issued its retransmission tariff and reasons for its decision for the years 2014 to 2018. Spoiler alert: the maximum rate for each Canadian cable subscriber will increase from the previous amount of $.98 to ... Read More
- 3 Count: Choppa StyleHave any suggestions for the 3 Count? Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday. 1: DJ Names Cardi B and French Montana in Copyright Suit First off today, Saman Javed at World IP Review reports that Kirk Edwards, better known as DJ JMK, has filed a lawsuit against a variety of musicians, ... Read More
- The Breath of the Wild Plagiarism BattleRecently at E3, Chinese video game maker miHoYo announced its upcoming open-world action game Genshin Impact, scheduled to be released for the PlayStation 4 and PC. Earlier this month, at the China Joy gaming expo, the company debuted the first footage from the game at the Sony Booth. ... Read More
- 3 Count: Kinky SettlementHave any suggestions for the 3 Count? Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday. 1: Cyndi Lauper Settles Copyright Lawsuit Over ‘Kinky Boots’ Finale First off today, Jonathan Stempel at Reuters reports that musician and songwriter Cyndi Lauper has settled a lawsuit over the song Into the Night, which was the finale ... Read More
- THE COPYKAT – in the wake of “Blurred Lines” – more blurred linesThere have been two major US decisions in the word of music and sound recordings with a win for Kraftwerk and a loss for Katy Perry, and in the background a third (the Led Zepplin "Stairway to Heaven" case waits for an upcoming an en banc appeal in the Ninth ... Read More
- Other Barks & Bites, Friday, August 9: IP Litigation Getting More Expensive, WIPO Launches .CN Dispute Resolution ServiceThis week in Other Barks & Bites: WIPO launches dispute resolution service for Chinese domain names; Morrison Foerster report shows that IP litigation costs are increasing as the number of IP matters being handled are decreasing; the Federal Circuit issues precedential decisions upholding claim construction findings at the ITC and ... Read More
- Friday’s Endnotes – 08/09/19Fake News: Senate Moves Bill With NO $15,000 Fines For Sharing Memes Online — Lead Stories, a site dedicated to debunking online hoaxes, takes aim at criticism of the CASE Act, which would establish a copyright small claims process in the US Copyright Office. “Did the U.S. Senate move on ... Read More
- 3 Count: Fortnite JurisdictionHave any suggestions for the 3 Count? Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday. 1: Fortnite Creator Takes 14-year-old to Court Over Cheating First off today, 9News reports that attorneys representing a 14-year-old boy accused of cheating at Fortnite and posting videos about it on YouTube is trying to have the lawsuit ... Read More
- BOOK REVIEW: Copyright and the Court of Justice of the European Union by Eleonora RosatiCopyright and the Court of Justice of the European Union by Eleonora Rosati [Oxford University Press, 2019, ISBN: 9780198837176, #pp273, £70.00, h/bk]This title focuses on the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), primarily its role, action, and its legacy in the area of copyright law. In light of ... Read More
- Mircom & GoldenEye v Virgin Media – How (not) to obtain the names and addresses of an internet provider’s customers to bring proceedings for alleged copyright infringementsJeremy Blum and Sean IbbetsonIn the consolidated claims of Mircom & GoldenEye v Virgin Media, the claimants sought court orders from the UK court requiring Virgin Media to disclose the names and addresses of tens of thousands of its broadband subscribers who, the claimants say, had unlawfully downloaded pornographic films. The ... Read More
- @Hypebot Posts Claim Forms for PledgeMusic BankruptcyHypebot found the form you need to send if PledgeMusic owes you money! Continue reading → ... Read More
