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The FTC’s Misguided Comments on Copyright Office Generative AI Questions

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courts have addressed the legality of non-expressive uses of copyrighted works in the context of other copy-reliant technologies, including software reverse engineering, [2] plagiarism detection software, [3] and the digitization of millions of library books to enable meta-analysis, text data mining, and search engine indexing. [4]

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With Friends Like These: Copyright Implications Of Novelists Drawing Inspiration From The Real Lives They Cross

LexBlog IP

Dorland alerted publishers, writing conferences, and journalists to what she considered Larson’s plagiarism and ethical betrayal. But this holding left the Court to consider whether Dorland’s efforts to publicize Larson’s “plagiarism” amounted to defamation or tortious interference. ’ Piccone v.