Results for "copyright infringement"
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General
Go beyond citing names of composers for copyright-Expert admonishes musicians
Merely mentioning the name of an artist in a song does not satisfy the requirements of the Copyright law in using said artist's song
DL News
Business
Sue repeat offenders-Court of Appeal Justice urges copyright holders
Justice Dr Poku Adusei warned that illegal photocopying, scanning, downloading, and digital circulation of learning materials have become “widespread and systemic” across the country’s universities.
DL News
Tech
AI and Copyright: GIMPA Law Dean calls for modernization of Ghana’s framework
He called for the amendment of the provisions of the Copyright Act to acknowledge the transformative nature of AI-generated content on copyrightable works
DL News
Tech
Authors file copyright infringement against OpenAI, claiming books used as training material for ChatGPT
It alleged that large portions of the copyrighted material was allegedly used to train ChatGPT to enable it to “emit convincingly naturalistic text outputs in response to user prompts,” according to the complaint.
LAW.COM
Courts
Obrafour sues Drake for copyright infringement, seeks $10m in damages
Obrafour says an agent of Drake had previously sought permission to use the copyrighted work, which he never granted, and then released the track days later anyway.
DL News
Tech
Bollywood music labels sue OpenAI over copyright
The music labels argue that OpenAI, the company behind popular AI tools like ChatGPT, has been using their recordings without permission to train its language models.
Lawyer Monthly
Tech
How ChatGPT challenges current intellectual property laws
New AI technologies may infringe on others’ copyrights by being deemed infringing derivatives of a copyrighted source they used to generate their output.
LAW.COM
Europe
Ed Sheeran wins Thinking Out Loud copyright case
The British singer-songwriter had denied stealing elements of Marvin Gaye's Let's Get It On song for his 2014 worldwide hit.
BBC
Europe
Ed Sheeran wins Shape of You copyright case and hits out at 'baseless' claims
The Shape of You songwriters took legal action in 2018 after the track's royalties were frozen when Chokri and O'Donoghue asked the Performing Rights Society (PRS) to add them to the hit's credits as co-writers.
BBC
Courts
High Court orders UPSA to desist, pay compensation over copyright infringement
The lawsuit was initiated by the Reprographic Rights Organisation of Ghana (CopyGhana), a body representing the interests of authors and publishers.
Richard Osei Boateng
Courts
Hotel Association sues GHAMRO over unlawful royalty charges
According to court documents, the GHA is challenging the current model used by GHAMRO and ARSOG to assess and collect royalties from its members, describing it as inconsistent with Ghana’s copyright laws.
DL News
Others
India: Supreme Court refuses to quash copyright complaint against Puma
The complaint alleged that their music was being played in the retail outlet of the Puma store at Elante Mall, without there being a licence in their favour issued under the Copy Right Act.
LawBeat
General
Writers should adopt collective licensing to safeguard IPs-Justice Poku Adusei
According to him, such creators should collaborate with Collective Management Organisations (CMOs) to make this a reality. CMOs are entities that handle licensing, royalty collection, and distribution of payments to creators and copyright h...
DL News
Tech
OpenAI says it's 'impossible' to train AI without copyrighted materials
OpenAI faces multiple lawsuits over its use of copyrighted articles, books, and art to train its generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools.
Euronews
Tech
AI chief quits over 'exploitative' copyright row
Ed Newton-Rex was head of audio at the firm, which is based in the UK and US.
BBC
General
Building Your own Legal Empire: Dare to be Different -Lawyer Maxwell Opoku-Agyemang writes
I remember at the Faculty of Law University of Ghana at our time, the most popular electives were Trade and Investment Law, Commercial Law, Private International Law. However, I chose with few others to study Natural Resources Law.
Maxwell Opoku-Agyemang, Former Director of the Ghana School of Law