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Google Addresses Scraped and Spun Content

Plagiarism Today

This was in stark contrast to what Mueller said in June 2021, when he openly admitted that, on occasion, Google can accidentally rank copied content over original works and encouraged people to file copyright notices. For cases where filing a copyright notice is appropriate, that is still likely the best approach.

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Facebook’s Plagiarism Problems Are Deeper Than You Realize

Plagiarism Today

This was in part because the company feared running afoul of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). That’s because many people who reported copyright infringing content to Facebook were turned away by a DMCA takedown system that threw nothing but obstacles. Back in 2011, Google had a serious problem.

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Is Generative AI Fair Use of Copyright Works? NYT v. OpenAI

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Such uses, they argue, constitute copyright infringement. style fair use: South Korea adopted it in 2011 , and it has been considered for adoption by Australia. Indeed, it has been called “the most troublesome in the whole law of copyright.” Fair Use Precedent?

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A Preliminary Analysis of Trump’s Copyright Lawsuit Over Interview Recordings (Trump v. Simon & Schuster) (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

If the work was published with proper copyright notice, it received a federal statutory copyright. If the work was published without proper copyright notice, the work entered the public domain. 2011), aff’d , 283 F.3d In Random House, Inc. Rosetta Books, LLC , 150 F. 2d 613 (S.D.N.Y. 3d 490 (2d Cir.

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