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July 24, 2023
The Biggest Copyright Decisions Of 2023: A Midyear Report
In the first half of this year, the U.S. Supreme Court held in a widely anticipated decision that Andy Warhol's portrait of musician Prince wasn't fair use, while the U.S. Copyright Office partially canceled a copyright registration on a comic book after finding its illustrations came from an artificial intelligence platform. Here's a look at the most significant copyright decisions of 2023 so far.
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March 24, 2023
Internet Archive Has No Right To Scan, Lend Ebooks
Internet Archive does not have the right to scan physical books and lend them out like a public library without permission from some of the world's biggest publishers, a Manhattan federal judge ruled Friday, but the library organization has vowed to appeal the decision.
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March 20, 2023
Judge Presses For Damages Details In Internet Archive Suit
Despite repeated prodding from a federal judge on Monday, a lawyer representing publishers suing the Internet Archive over allegations of "industrial scale" piracy remained tight-lipped regarding how much actual harm the companies were planning on tying to the nonprofit's unlicensed lending program.
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March 16, 2023
IP Forecast: NY Judge To Hear Internet Archive 'Piracy' Case
A New York federal judge will consider next week whether copyright law's fair use doctrine protects the Internet Archive's lending library of digitized books or if the nonprofit is committing what publishers call "digital piracy on an industrial scale." Here's a look at that case — plus all the other major intellectual property matters on deck in the coming week.
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January 02, 2023
Copyright & Trademark Cases To Watch In 2023
The major intellectual property fights that the U.S. Supreme Court plans to weigh in on include two cases at the intersection of art and free speech — a copyright battle over Andy Warhol's prints of the music icon Prince and a dispute involving a dog toy that parodies a Jack Daniel's whiskey bottle. Here are the top copyright and trademark cases to look forward to in 2023.
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September 06, 2022
Internet Archive Says Publishers Get Lending Program Wrong
The Internet Archive is doubling down on its defense that its program for a lending library of digitized books is protected by copyright law's fair use doctrine, telling a New York federal judge that the major publishers seeking to shut it down are painting an inaccurate picture of what it does.
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July 15, 2022
Profs Fight HarperCollins, Penguin In Library's Copyright War
More than 30 intellectual property academics have dropped in to endorse amicus briefs supporting the idea of "controlled digital lending" in order to defend the Internet Archive against publishers such as HarperCollins and Penguin Random House that are trying to use copyright law to stop the online library's lending program.
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July 08, 2022
Internet Archive, Publishers Spar For Summary Win In IP Row
A group of publishers, including HarperCollins and Penguin Random House, and the Internet Archive have each asked a New York federal judge to rule in its favor in a copyright fight over whether the organization is illegally scanning and lending out books.
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January 03, 2021
Copyright Cases To Watch In 2021
Yes, we're all still waiting to find out what the U.S. Supreme Court says about Google v. Oracle, but that's not the only copyright case you need to be watching in 2021. Here are the four cases you need to watch in the year ahead, plus three more to keep tabs on.
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June 19, 2020
COVID-19 IP Catch-Up: Trials Get Delayed, Moved To Video
As the COVID-19 pandemic wages on, more trials are being pushed into August and beyond, and others are gearing up for remote proceedings. Here are some recent intellectual property updates tied to the outbreak that you may have missed.