Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

.” The site also removed any piece that they had received a complaint about and promised that they will do what they can to make up for “past mistakes” and that they are reviewing their business model going forward. The most straightforward and accurate answer to that question is simply, “We don’t know.”

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IP and Legal Filings

MAY 3, 2024

The law is an important part of protecting intellectual property and protecting creators’ rights to their original works. Fair use provides some exceptions to copyright protection, allowing limited use of copyrighted material without the permission of the copyright owner. It was considered a criminal offense.

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JIPL Online

MARCH 15, 2021

7] Before the court could decide if the subtitled version, a type of derivative work, could still be protected even if the underlying film on its own was available to be used by all, both parties settled. [8]. Based on its fair use win in “Burlesque,” [30] Netflix may try to incorporate more content using the fair use defense.

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43(B)log

APRIL 7, 2021

Not all literary works are the same; Infinite Jest gets a different kind of copyright protection than my emails do. Anyway, in GvO, Justice Breyer instead reproduces an entire short story, which was just minding its own business and had nothing to do with the case, in two different languages no less.

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Trademark and Copyright Law Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Likely good business sense. One aspect of copyright law that makes adaptations attractive is derivative works. A derivative work is a work based on one or more existing copyrighted works. How has this come to be? That would have been a very different film! In Yonay v.

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LexBlog IP

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

The text also emphasizes the need to navigate the gray areas of copyright law, including understanding Fair Use and the distinction between Open Source and Copyrighted Material. It is essential to understand the boundaries of Fair Use, especially regarding AI. Understanding these gray areas is crucial for AI startups.

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Traverse Legal Blog

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

The text also emphasizes the need to navigate the gray areas of copyright law, including understanding Fair Use and the distinction between Open Source and Copyrighted Material. It is essential to understand the boundaries of Fair Use, especially regarding AI. Understanding these gray areas is crucial for AI startups.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2023

From the output side, the relevant issues are whether the output is copyright-protected, and whether it infringes the copyright of ‘works “ingested” during the training stage of the AI system’ ( see Quintais, here ; see also here and here ). To facilitate the process of TDM, data is the key.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 17, 2024

The plaintiff gets an expensive lesson in the law of derivative works. * * * UIRC offers bonds using a private placement memorandum (PPM) and an indenture of trust. Even if the verbatim copying qualifies as putative infringement, many republications are likely to be covered by fair use. See, e.g., White v.

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JIPEL Copyright Blog

MARCH 14, 2022

A derivative work itself, Netflix’s Bridgerton is based on the book series by Julia Quinn , a Regency-era series set between 1813 and 1827. As a new media company operating on a subscription model, Netflix likely has more flexibility to take business risks, including with their copyright holdings.

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IP Tech Blog

MARCH 18, 2022

NFTs can be based on three-dimensional items or artwork, or can be purely digital creations—for example, a collectable digital sneaker or a token used in a videogame. Most NFTs are protected under US Copyright Law as creative works and/or may be derivative works based on pre-existing copyright-protected works.

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 18, 2022

NFTs can be based on three-dimensional items or artwork, or can be purely digital creations—for example, a collectable digital sneaker or a token used in a videogame. Most NFTs are protected under US Copyright Law as creative works and/or may be derivative works based on pre-existing copyright-protected works.

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LexBlog IP

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Larson filed suit against Dorland, claiming that Dorland’s allegations of plagiarism amounted to defamation, and that Dorland’s repeated communications with American Short Fiction and the Boston Book Festival constituted intentional interference with Larson’s business relationships. ” Let’s see why.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

AUGUST 13, 2023

Plaintiffs’ factual allegations The plaintiffs’ allegations target the legitimacy of the Generative AI business model. Much of the material in OpenAI’s training datasets would come from copyrighted works – including books written by plaintiffs – that were copied by OpenAI without consent, without credit, and without compensation.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JANUARY 16, 2024

106, et seq): the plaintiffs never authorized Meta to make copies of their works and derivative works, publicly display copies (or derivative works), or distribute copies (or derivative works) during the training process of the LLaMA language models. Vicarious Copyright Infringement (17 U.S.C. §

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

AUGUST 7, 2023

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] 2] At one end of the spectrum, we find plagiarism: a completely derivative work that fails to contribute any creative elements to the original piece.

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Copyright Lately

APRIL 19, 2022

Over the past quarter-century, transformative use has become shorthand for fair use itself. When I first heard that the Supreme Court had agreed to take up the fair use fight over Andy Warhol’s “Prince Series,” my first reaction was “Oh wow.”. Fair use is supposed to be about balance and flexibility.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2021

” No, that’s exactly what the derivative work right covers, and it’s the exact issue litigated in the old WhenU cases. By analogy, a website owner is injured when its website is obscured by unwanted ads, regardless of the content displayed in the website. That can’t possibly be right. Implications.

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Copyright Lately

DECEMBER 24, 2023

The first was to ink an image of Tiger King star Joe Exotic (along with a can of Lysol and a “Quarantine 2020” toilet paper banner) onto her husband’s thigh as part of a gift certificate promotion for the business. The second was to demand $10 million from Netflix after the streamer showed a photo of said tattoo for 2.2

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JULY 16, 2023

Accordingly, this case is a useful example of how a court will: (1) assess the derivation requirement (of actual copying) of UK copyright; and, (2) as part of that, consider similarity between musical works for the purpose of copyright infringement.” by Pamela Samuelson “In March 2022 the U.S.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 1, 2023

Copyright Act grants authors five exclusive rights: “to reproduce the copyrighted work in copies or phonorecords”, “to prepare derivative works based on the copyrighted work,” “to distribute copies or phonorecords of the copyrighted work to the public,” “to perform the copy­righted work publicly,” and “to display the copyrighted work publicly.”

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

UK: TM protection depends on formalities/registration; registered TMs are property rights; goodwill in a business is a different property right protected through the tort of passing off; no generalized unfair competition law. OED: goodwill—the privilege, granted by the seller of a business to the purchaser, of trading as the successor.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 17, 2023

Also, ignoring copyright licenses is at least arguably copyright infringement, and your fair use claim probably won’t get you out of the lawsuit at the motion to dismiss stage. ¯_(ツ)_/¯ We can infer from this opinion that treatment of Copyright Management Information (“CMI”) will be tricky for generative AI developers. –Doe 1 v.

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Copyright Lately

OCTOBER 25, 2021

The good news is after the holiday was effectively ruined last year, we’re more or less back in business in 2021. The judge rejected BMG’s fair use defense, holding that the defendants took more elements from the “Nightmare on Elm” street films than they needed to accomplish any parodic purpose.

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 13, 2022

According to Miramax, the creation of the NFTs constituted copyright infringement because they were unauthorized derivative works of Pulp Fiction. [23] StockX asserted several affirmative defenses, including fair use and the first sale doctrine, claiming that Nike’s suit “threatens the legitimate use of NFTs.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Ushered in sea change in terms of how it was used in art cases. For years, those cases had determined fair use by focusing largely on whether the secondary work was transformative: new meaning or message. Nonetheless, courts are still in the fraught business of determining the meaning of art.

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Copyright Lately

MARCH 6, 2023

The plaintiff is also asking the court to enjoin Coakley’s Director Statements and nascent “making of Runt ” film project, claiming that when Coakley sold Runt , he also sold the copyright to any of his future works related to Runt as well. Are Coakley’s Materials Infringing Derivative Works or Protected Fair Use?

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Sixth, assuming Woodward published copyrighted material without Trump’s authorization, was he permitted to do so, either as a fair use, or by the First Amendment? Absent consent, fair use, or a First Amendment defense, publishing the interviews without Trump’s consent is therefore a violation of his copyright.

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43(B)log

AUGUST 11, 2022

Also: what about derivative works? So how do you build in that to recognize contribution to singular work v. creation of derivative work. In UK/Canada, joint ownership rules allow us to say “no derivative works without all of us agreeing.”

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