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How Can AI Models Legally Obtain Training Data?–Doe 1 v. GitHub (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

But I think this might have more to do with the way the lawyers pleaded this issue rather than the quality of the potential breach of contract claim here. Plaintiffs argued that with the popularity of Copilot, it is a near certainty that their code will be used with copyright notices removed or in violation of their open-source licenses.

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3 Steps to Protect Your Brand in the New Year

Erik K Pelton

Have you revisited your contracts with employees, vendors and independent contractors? Use copyright notices where applicable on your website and on content that you create. Videos, podcasts, eBooks, articles, blog posts, visuals and images—whatever type of content you’re generating, use copyright notice.

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A Preliminary Analysis of Trump’s Copyright Lawsuit Over Interview Recordings (Trump v. Simon & Schuster) (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

If the work was published with proper copyright notice, it received a federal statutory copyright. If the work was published without proper copyright notice, the work entered the public domain. The post A Preliminary Analysis of Trump’s Copyright Lawsuit Over Interview Recordings (Trump v.

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Is Your Website Published or Unpublished?

Plagiarism Today

Also in 2018, FDN filed the original complaint, targeting both Amazon and CCA, alleging that they both breached contracts and committed copyright infringement. Their pages contained a pair of copyright notices that read, “Nothing on this page may be copied or reproduced without explicit permission.”

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Court Allows Three of Plaintiffs’ Claims to Survive Motion to Dismiss in Lawsuit That Could Significantly Impact the World of Generative AI

LexBlog IP

As an example, the plaintiffs cite a GitHub blog post in which GitHub stated “in one instance, GitHub Copilot suggested starting an empty file with something it had even seen more than a whopping 700,000 different times during training—that was the GNU General Public License.”

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A Look Back at India’s Top IP Developments of 2021

SpicyIP

Particularly, it was argued that against the backdrop of the pandemic, the medicines produced were in high demand due to their characteristics of relieving some of the major symptoms exhibited by the patients who had contracted the Covid-19 virus. The significance of the report and its issues have been extensively covered on the blog here.

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