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Understanding the Pearson v. Chegg Copyright Infringement Lawsuit

Plagiarism Today

Pearson alleges that, with many of the questions and answers in Chegg Study, Chegg simply repeats the question verbatim or uses a poor paraphrase of it. In short, since the answers require the question to be created, those answers are themselves a derivative work of the question and one that harms the value of those questions.

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Artists Attack AI: Why The New Lawsuit Goes Too Far

Copyright Lately

Over the past week, the plaintiffs’ lawsuit has been the subject of thousands of articles which have largely parroted the complaint’s key talking point: that AI image generators are nothing more than “ a 21st-century collage tool that remixes the copyright works of millions of artists whose work was used as training data.”

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The clash of artistic rights: Warhol, Goldsmith, and the boundaries of copyright in Brazil and in the U.S.

Kluwer Copyright Blog

This is explicitly stated in Article 5, XXVII, of the Brazilian Constitution, and Article 1, Section 8, of the United States Constitution. Thus, guided by the principle of equality, copyright operates as a spectrum of creativity, where the level of protection granted to a work corresponds to its level of originality. [2]

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The Battle Over Poker NFTs

Plagiarism Today

” The case raises questions of fair use and whether the new paintings were transformative enough to be non-infringing or if they were simply derivative works. In addition to the above fair use issues, there is also one other to consider: The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). Bottom Line.

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

Patently-O

Moreover, as we detail below, the best understanding of the application of fair use principles to AI training would hold that the practice is in most if not all instances a fair use. The FTC has no authority to determine what is and what is not copyright infringement, or what is or is not fair use.

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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. The copyright claims came down to a fair use analysis, something that has occupied discussions by this poster before. ” Let’s see why.