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OTT Platforms and Digital Piracy

Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

If viewers are able to access these contents for free then the amount of revenue generated from licensing of intellectual property will be far below estimations. Video content creation involves substantial investment. Measures to Prevent Piracy Digital Rights Management (DRM) technologies are employed to encrypt the content.

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Generative AI: the US class action against Google Bard (and other AI tools) for web scraping

Kluwer Copyright Blog

2000) (“ copying an entire work militates against a finding of fair use. ”). The defendants’ wholesale collection and use of copyrighted material, with no option for copyright owners to opt out, would exceed the legal interpretation of “fair use” (see VHT vs Zillow Group , 918 F.3d 3d 723, 743 (9th Cir. Church of God, Inc.,

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Copyright Evidence: 21 for 2021 (a year in review)

Kluwer Copyright Blog

New empirical research is needed to support policy making and legal reforms that embed considerations of the public domain into rights management and new content creation, rather than focusing solely or primarily on copyright. Despite being only one piece of the puzzle, copyright has dominated the debate in this area.

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The Other ‘Maybe’ Authors: Copyright Ownership for AI Trainers

IP Intelligence

That is, “superintending the arrangements” of content creation, being the effective cause and having decision-making authority on the final output are the hallmarks of control, not absolute certainty as to what the output would yield. Aalmuhammed v. Lee , 202 F.3d 3d 1227 (9th Cir.

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The Other ‘Maybe’ Authors: Copyright Ownership for AI Trainers

LexBlog IP

That is, “superintending the arrangements” of content creation, being the effective cause and having decision-making authority on the final output are the hallmarks of control, not absolute certainty as to what the output would yield. ” Aalmuhammed v. Lee , 202 F.3d 3d 1227 (9th Cir.

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Court Says No Human Author, No Copyright (but Human Authorship of GenAI Outputs Remains Uncertain) (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

It can also say that the year is actually 2000 and we are all living in a simulation.) That’s because the court repeatedly says numerous times in different ways: no human creation = no copyright. That answers the question when human involvement in content creation is a binary switch–either on or off.

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NASCAR Fan-Friendly Copyright Claims Needed Extra Boost to Pacify Fans

TorrentFreak

Why Sears Point Is Awesome , Johnny and The Fast White Car , and Darrell Waltrip’s Victory Tour 2000 , are among those most easily identified. At least as far as the truncated titles are useful, the videos for which monetization isn’t allowed were not taken down from YouTube.