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3 Count: It’s Not Complicated

Plagiarism Today

However, though most agreed the two routines appeared to be similar, a judge has dismissed Hanagami’s lawsuit claiming that the two works are not similar enough to be a copyright infringement. 2: YouTube Holds Licenses For Copyright Lawsuit Plaintiff’s “Entire Back Catalog”.

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Lawsuit: Comcast Must Terminate Pirates & Block Top Torrent Sites

TorrentFreak

In 2019, a Virginia jury ordered Internet provider Cox Communications to pay a billion dollars in damages to record labels including Capitol Records, Warner Bros, and Sony Music. Lawsuit Accuses Comcast of Copyright Infringement. Failure to Terminate Repeat Infringers. Several Types of Copyright Infringement.

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Generative AI: admissibility and infringement in the two US class actions against Meta’s LLaMA

Kluwer Copyright Blog

The Cause of Action The cause of action in both cases is the same and can be summarized as follows: Direct Copyright Infringement (17 U.S.C. § LLaMA language models cannot function without the expressive information extracted from the alleged infringed works and the LLaMA language models are themselves infringing derivative works.

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5 Spooky Articles About Copyright and Halloween

Plagiarism Today

In 2019, it was due to road work on my street and both 2020 and 2021 due to the pandemic. When the film was released, the print was missing a copyright notice. Under the laws at the time, this mean that it didn’t have copyright protection. 2: Dracula vs. Nosferatu: A True Copyright Horror Story.

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How to protect your photos from unauthorized use online

CopyrightsWorld

For photographers and image creators, digital photos’ infringement is a cruel reality. billion photos were stolen daily in 2019. Copyright infringement of digital photos differs in important ways from infringement in the markets of music and movies. Use a copyright notice. Based on statistics , 2.5

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Pro-Plex News Articles on Facebook Deleted By Markscan On Behalf of Plex

TorrentFreak

On January 1, 2024, TorrentFreak published a review of the wrongful DMCA notices filed against us in 2023, either directly via email or at Google demanding deindexing of our articles. Our small request for 2024 was not unreasonable: stop sending us bogus copyright notices.

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YouTube’s first Copyright Transparency Report 2021 – A step towards “factfulness”

Kluwer Copyright Blog

At the end of 2021, YouTube’s first Copyright Transparency Report 2021 (“Report”) was published. It is interesting to look at this Report against the background of the 2019 EU rules for the liability of platforms like YouTube through the famous Art. 17 DSM Directive 2019/790 (“DSMD”). 17 DSMD tries to establish such rules.