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Generative AI Training and Copyright: U.S. Copyright Office’s Pre-Publication Report

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This post offers a structured summary of Part 3 of the U.S. Copyright Office’s AI report series. It highlights the pre-publication report’s focus on legal concerns surrounding generative AI training and a link to the main report.

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R Indira Devi has no Copyrights over Guntur Sushendra Sharma’s “My Country My People”, says the Telangana High Court.

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In this case, the Telangana High Court found that a letter written by the author in 1989 granting his son the copyrights was valid and that the author’s wife’s later assignments of the copyrights were not valid.

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OTT Giants File Infringement Suit Against Forty Rogue Websites for Online Piracy

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The plaintiffs have filed a lawsuit against 40 defendants seeking a permanent injunction for infringement of their exclusive rights in their original content/work, protected under the Copyright Act of 1957. The defendants are rogue websites that engage in online piracy by acquiring the plaintiffs’ original content and offering access to infringing and unauthorized content available for download and streaming. The Court passed an interim order restraining the forty defendants from hosting, streaming, reproducing, distributing, making available to the public, or communicating any work on which the plaintiffs have a copyright.

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Youtuber Held Liable for Unauthorized Use of Trademarks: Dabur India Limited v. Dhruv Rathee and Ors.

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The petitioner, Dabur, who is the manufacturer of beverages under the name “Real”, is alleging that a Youtuber named Dhruv Rathee published a video tarnishing the petitioner’s brand reputation. The video also depicted an earlier advertisement aired, as well as a distorted image of the petitioner’s product Real, which infringes upon its trademark and copyright rights. The Calcutta High Court held that the acts of the respondent infringed upon the petitioner’s rights under section 29 (9) of the Trade Marks Act, 1999, and the Copyright Act, 1957, and the offending portions of the video were ordered to be removed.

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Weekly Copyright, Media, and Entertainment Law Updates

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This week’s copyright, media and entertainment law updates are as below: Slovenia Implements EU Directives on Copyright Law Protecting Author’s Right in Cinematographic Works The...

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CASE BRIEF : Phonographic Performance Ltd. vs. Union of India & Ors.

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Facts: The Petitioner, Phonographic Performance Ltd., a company registered under the Companies Act, 1956, was a registered copyright society. It had assigned the copyright in...

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