Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

First off today, Kevin Shalvey at Business Insider reports that “Sports Illustrated” swimsuit model Genevieve Morton has filed a lawsuit against Twitter alleging that the site was slow to remove infringing material and that an AI photo editing tool created unlawful derivative works.

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Patently-O

DECEMBER 11, 2023

so-called “non-expressive” use in which copying is undertaken not to distribute the copied material directly or indirectly but rather for some other purpose. The FTC Comments do not explicitly refer to or analyze the substantial body of court decisions holding that a range of non-expressive uses of copyrighted works are fair uses.

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 23, 2023

In today’s digital world, a lot of data and information have been shared online and are susceptible to corruption and copying. Due to the recurrent copyright difficulties, which have a significant impact on an individual’s business interest, it is imperative to preserve the ownership rights of digital works.

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43(B)log

AUGUST 4, 2023

The problem is that this system fell apart around 2008-2012 when smartphones came out. At the same time, the risk of copying essentially went away. So now, we have lots of protection for implementation where we don’t need it and no protection for interfaces where new entrants can easily be copied. That’s more problematic.

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LexBlog IP

JULY 21, 2021

Likewise, the Office cannot register a work purportedly created by divine or supernatural beings, although the Office may register a work where the application or the deposit copy(ies) state that the work was inspired by a divine spirit. 66 (2012), and Association for Molecular Pathology v Myriad Genetics, Inc.,

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

109 5/8 by 49 ¼ by 32 ¼ inches; Lauren Clay, No side to fall into , 2012 paper and acrylic, 18 ½ by 7 by 3 inches—triggered a C&D. There’s no way to explain what the Clay work does through aesthetics, and likewise no way to explain Sherrie Levine’s After Walker Evans. Hierarchy: derivative works trump fair use?

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

. §202(a) ] “Fixed” means that the work is embodied in a material object in some permanent form. A work is fixed in either a “copy” or a “phonorecord.” “Phonorecords” are defined as material objects in which only sounds are fixed, while “copies” are defined as material objects in which any other kind of work is fixed. [ 17 U.S.C.

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