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Social Media Giants and Copyright: Instagram’s Ninth Circuit Win Sets Precedent Against Photographers

The IP Law Blog

By: Weintraub Tobin Summer Associate Josh Concepcion The Ninth Circuit recently revisited the issue of “embedding” content by a website and its implication for copyright infringement claims. On July 17, 2023, the Ninth Circuit issued its opinion in Hunley v. The concept of “embedding” content is not a new phenomenon.

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The Intriguing Debate Over Copyrighted Content in AI Training: What Entrepreneurs Need to Know

LexBlog IP

The Internet is exponentially growing; and along with it Internet-based digital content creation. Those users are generating millions of posts, videos, blogs, images.every type of content imaginable; content readily accessible to millions of people all around the world. They need rich, diverse, and real-world content.

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

Kluwer Copyright Blog

3:23-cv-03440 ) In a recent post we analysed a class action filed in the US against Open AI for unauthorized use of copyright works for training of generative AI tools such as ChatGPT ( here ) (“Generative AI” or “Gen AI”). District Court for the Northern District of California, No.

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Social Media Giants and Copyright: Instagram’s Ninth Circuit Win Sets Precedent Against Photographers

LexBlog IP

By: Weintraub Tobin Summer Associate Josh Concepcion The Ninth Circuit recently revisited the issue of “embedding” content by a website and its implication for copyright infringement claims. On July 17, 2023, the Ninth Circuit issued its opinion in Hunley v.

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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

district court granted summary judgment for the Copyright Office in Thaler v. 18, 2023), affirming the Copyright Office’s position that “a work generated entirely by an artificial system absent human involvement [is not] eligible for copyright.” The Copyright Act neither defines “authorship” nor “works of authorship.”