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3 Count: Not Very Private

Plagiarism Today

However, RCN has hit back, saying that Righscorp, which was responsible for most of the detection of pirated material, unfairly flooded them with too many copyright notices. The site launched in 2018 and, until recently, was receiving about 18 million visitors per month.

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5 Spooky Articles About Copyright and Halloween

Plagiarism Today

This year, for the first time since 2018, we will be open, and we couldn’t be more excited. When the film was released, the print was missing a copyright notice. Under the laws at the time, this mean that it didn’t have copyright protection. However, for the past few years, the haunt has been closed.

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Is Your Website Published or Unpublished?

Plagiarism Today

In 2015, FDN filed a DMCA takedown notice, but Amazon did not take down the work in question. Though Amazon did remove some 2,000 descriptions in 2018, that came after Amazon asserted that they had proper authorization to use the descriptions and that there was nothing they could do. But this is where FDN introduces a new wrinkle.

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How Can AI Models Legally Obtain Training Data?–Doe 1 v. GitHub (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

Plaintiffs argued that with the popularity of Copilot, it is a near certainty that their code will be used with copyright notices removed or in violation of their open-source licenses. Plaintiffs alleged that Defendants reproduced code as output without attribution, copyright notice, or license terms. Corelogic, Inc. ,

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Shelbyville-Based Photographer Sues Dr. Brite for Alleged Copyright Infringement

Indiana Intellectual Property Law

Haehl claims she first gained national notoriety in 2018 after she recreated scenes from “A Christmas Story” featuring a baby wearing pink bunny pajamas. Copyright Office as Group Reg. Further, Haehl claims she posted a copyright notice alongside each photograph posted on her Facebook page. VA0002191510.

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Court Allows Three of Plaintiffs’ Claims to Survive Motion to Dismiss in Lawsuit That Could Significantly Impact the World of Generative AI

LexBlog IP

GitHub, acquired by Microsoft in 2018, is an online repository used by software developers for storing and sharing software projects. In collaboration with OpenAI, GitHub released an artificial intelligence-based offering in 2021 called Copilot, which is powered by OpenAI’s generative AI model, Codex.

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Understanding the CCB’s First Two Final Determinations (Guest Blog Post–Part 3 of 3)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

On June 4, 2018, Oppenheimer found his image on Prutton’s website. The claim says hat infringement is ongoing from 2018-present, even though the photo was removed in 2019. His daughter submitted a declaration that she found no copyright notice on the image. Screengrabs from October 29, 2019 from the Wayback Machine.