Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Cooper, who goes by the stage name Mr. Cooper, and Valentine, AKA Drum’n Skillz, allege that No Guidance copies several elements from their earlier work. According to the estate, the book infringed the copyright of the Dr. Seuss work Oh, the Places You’ll Go , but the defendants argued that the book was a parody and a fair use.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 17, 2021

This sends the case back to the district court where other defenses, most notably fair use, will have to be weighed next. 3: Microsoft is Looking to Use the Ethereum Blockchain to Prevent Piracy. The 3 Count Logo was created by Justin Goff and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 19, 2022

github copilot, with "public code" blocked, emits large chunks of my copyrighted code, with no attribution, no LGPL license. According to Davis, he used the prompt “sparse matrix transpose, cs_” only to have Copilot produce code very similar to his earlier, open-source work. My code on left, github on right.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 26, 2021

If the costume isn’t licensed, why is it not infringing regardless of the name change? This means, theoretically, that elements such as the Superman “S” can be protected by copyright because they are separate elements that are merely copied onto the clothing. However, commercial use of costumes still raises legal questions.

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Kashishipr

MAY 25, 2021

It may not always prevent unauthorized copying; however, it may serve as a public notice by securing a public record in one’s favor. You may sign-up for a Creative Common License where the issue lies in seeking acknowledgment of the work. Blogging and Fair Use. is being utilized?

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Plagiarism Today

JULY 8, 2021

The most vocal critics were in the open-source programming community , who were upset that GitHub trained their AI on significant amounts of open-source code and can even reproduce that code verbatim in some circumstances, but does not follow the respective open-source licenses. Is it so short that its use is a fair use?

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Patently-O

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Moreover, as we detail below, the best understanding of the application of fair use principles to AI training would hold that the practice is in most if not all instances a fair use. The FTC has no authority to determine what is and what is not copyright infringement, or what is or is not fair use.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

AUGUST 7, 2023

In 1984, Condé Nast, the publisher, obtained a license from Goldsmith to allow Andy Warhol to use her Prince portrait as the foundation for a single serigraphy to be featured in Vanity Fair magazine. In 2016, Condé Nast acquired a license from the Warhol Foundation to use the Prince Series as illustrations for a new magazine.

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IP and Legal Filings

OCTOBER 23, 2021

This exclusive rights comprises of the right to copy, distribute, perform, license or adapt the work. Moreover, the advent of digitalization in various industries have impacted the manner in which copyrights are marketed, licensed or consumed. Secondly, several have contended that DMCA jeopardizes fair use.

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Copyright Lately

JANUARY 23, 2023

It will learn that tables most commonly have four legs, but not always; that tables found in a dining room are used for seated persons to eat meals, while tables found next to a bed are used to hold objects like alarm clocks; that tables don’t need to be made from any particular material or have a particular color, etc.

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43(B)log

AUGUST 11, 2022

Easiest way to make money was to make a film likely to succeed, and copying a successful foreign plot was a good way to do so. Around 2010, some studios started enforcing, e.g., Twentieth Century Fox sued over copying of plot of Phone Booth and was successful. In this case, certain gags had been copied from Knock on Wood.

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43(B)log

AUGUST 3, 2023

Matthew Sag, Copyright Safety for Generative AI Not addressing whether training is always fair use in every circumstance; explain how generative AI fits w/in existing law (nonexpressive uses) and identify best practices to make generative AI fairer. Are the outputs copies of the training data? What to do?

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Unique expertise on code too; code is different from photos, music, videos; some of the most valuable code on GitHub is licensed openly. Remediation not removal is often the goal—changes to the code rather than removing often resolves the problem, e.g. addressing violation of open source license by adding attribution etc.

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Copyright Lately

DECEMBER 28, 2022

” But in McGucken , the court denied summary judgment, not only as to the server test, but on Newsweek’s implied license and fair use defenses too. Simply put, the ruling calls into question the ability of tattoo owners to control the right to make or license realistic depictions of their own likenesses.

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