updated Fri. April 26, 2024
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Computerworld Australia
March 8, 2018
Organisations representing copyright holders are pitted against digital businesses and online service providers in Australia's latest clash over intellectual property rules. Late last year the federal government tabled a bill that, if passed, will expand Australia's safe harbour rules. The proposed legislation willÃâà...
Intellectual Property Watch
March 8, 2018
Throughout the week, participants celebrated the essential limitations and exceptions to copyright that fair use and fair dealing provide, allowing the use of copyrighted materials without permission from the copyright holder under certain circumstances. While fair use and fair dealing are employed on a dailyÃâà...
Lexology
March 8, 2018
The Government of Vietnam has recently issued Decree No. 22/2018/ND-CP (“Decree No. 22”) to replace Decree No. 100/2006/ND-CP dated 21 September 2006 detailing and guiding implementation of a number of articles of the Civil Code and Law on Intellectual Property regarding copyright and relatedÃâà...
Techdirt
March 8, 2018
If you're reading this, you're probably well aware of Pepe the Frog, the cartoon character created by Matt Furie years ago that turned into quite the meme by the 4chan crowd. Over time, the meme morphed into one favored by Trump supporters and the alt-right (though, upset that Pepe has become tooÃâà...
NBCNews.com
March 7, 2018
The cartoonist who created Pepe the Frog has sued conspiracy-promoting website Infowars for selling a poster copying the character, which became hijacked by racist internet trolls and far-right extremists. The copyright infringement lawsuit, filed Monday in Los Angeles, is the second that California-basedÃâà...
The Japan Times
March 6, 2018
A government panel has issued a recommendation supporting the Japanese Society for Rights of Authors, Composers and Publishers (JASRAC) in its pursuit to collect copyright fee payments from music schools. The recommendation on Monday strongly hinted that the government will issue a decisionÃâà...
Hollywood Reporter
March 6, 2018
The lawsuit pinpoints one poster in particular as a source of copyright infringement. The poster features Pepe alongside InfoWars founder Alex Jones, President Donald Trump, Milo Yiannopoulos, Ann Coulter, Matt Drudge, Roger Stone and others with the text "MAGA," short for Trump's campaign slogan,Ãâà...
Hollywood Reporter
March 6, 2018
Rearden LLC, the VFX firm that claims ownership to a popular facial motion-capture technology used in Hollywood, is not giving up on hopes of winning a copyright lawsuit against Disney, Paramount and Fox. On Tuesday, the plaintiff brought an amended lawsuit that tests a new copyright theory overÃâà...
Recode
March 6, 2018
BlackBerry, a former messaging powerhouse, is suing Facebook, a current messaging powerhouse, for copyright infringement, according to a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in California. BlackBerry claims that Facebook “created mobile messaging applications that co-opt BlackBerry's innovations,” andÃâà...
Publishers Weekly
March 5, 2018
In the years since the Modernization Act, many educational institutions have paid Copyright Access nothing at all, taking advantage of the vague language of the act. The result has been an unmitigated disaster for Canadian educational publishing, with estimated losses of some C$50 million in payments toÃâà...
International IP and the Public Interest
March 2, 2018
I am here to speak about the importance of including provisions in NAFTA to protect the abilities of countries to have general and open public interest copyright exceptions. All three countries have such exceptions to varying degree. And all three are under threat from the agenda of some copyright holders inÃâà...
Engadget
March 2, 2018
The Electronic Frontier Foundation, which represented Boing Boing in this case, said at the time that Boing Boing's reporting of the Playboy photos is protected by copyright's fair use doctrine. EFF Senior Staff Attorney Daniel Nazer stated that "journalists, scientists, researchers, and everyday people on theÃâà...
PDN Online
March 1, 2018
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has rejected photographer Co Rentmeester's copyright infringement claim against Nike, affirming a lower court decision that Nike's famous “Jumpman” logo and the photograph on which that logo was based are not “substantially similar” to a photograph by Rentmeester.
The Daily Pennsylvanian
February 28, 2018
In the hour-long event, Wolff described the inner-workings of the Hollywood industry and his interactions with copyright law through licensing and royalty negotiations and disputes. He talked at length about what he had learned about contractual rights while creating scores for B-movies, many of which wasÃâà...
Intellectual Property Watch
February 28, 2018
Copyright “safe harbour” rules aimed at ensuring the free flow of information by internet service providers without liability for infringing content are “distorting the digital market, profiting tech giants and leading to significant underpayment of copyright owners,” according to an international authors' industryÃâà...
The Register
February 28, 2018
A US appeals court has backed Fox News in the broadcaster's copyright-infringement battle against online telly streamer TVEyes. Essentially, TVEyes was showing clips of Fox News on its website alongside text transcripts of the reports. Fox News took the biz to a district court, alleging copyrightÃâà...
EFF
February 28, 2018
In a victory for journalism and fair use, Playboy Entertainment has given up on its lawsuit against Happy Mutants, LLC, the company behind Boing Boing. Earlier this month, a federal court dismissed Playboy's claims but gave Playboy permission to try again with a new complaint, if it could dig up some newÃâà...
TNW
February 27, 2018
Last week, the European Parliament's MEP in charge of overhauling the EU's copyright laws did a U-turn on his predecessor's position. Axel Voss is charged with making the EU's copyright laws fit for the Internet Age, yet in a staggering disregard for advice from all quarters, he decided to include aÃâà...
