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Instagram and Facebook Users Are Engaging in Copyright Infringement?!

IPilogue

If you have ever incorporated music into your Instagram or Facebook videos, you may have committed copyright infringement. In the official pleading , they argued that Meta violated the US Copyright Act 17 USC § 501 for direct, induced, and contributory copyright infringement. The Infringement.

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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. the website displaying that copyrighted image cannot be held liable for infringement.

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Anti-Piracy Veteran Tim Kuik Retires After Leading BREIN for a Quarter Century

TorrentFreak

Anti-Piracy Veteran Retires Earlier this month, Tim Kuik informed TorrentFreak that he’s retiring, passing on the baton to BREIN’s new director Bastiaan van Ramshorst. The downside was that pirates would create bootleg copies. The friendly photo both men took afterward is a testament to that. “When ‘E.T.

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

Kluwer Copyright Blog

2000) (“ copying an entire work militates against a finding of fair use. ”). Google , which recognized property interest in personal information). Church of God, Inc., 3d 110, 1118 (9th Cir. 161 recalling the precedent Calhoun v. 161 recalling the precedent Calhoun v.

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OTT Platforms and Digital Piracy

Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

If viewers are able to access these contents for free then the amount of revenue generated from licensing of intellectual property will be far below estimations. Video content creation involves substantial investment. Measures to Prevent Piracy Digital Rights Management (DRM) technologies are employed to encrypt the content.

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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. the website displaying that copyrighted image cannot be held liable for infringement.

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

LexBlog IP

When I was growing up, the Encyclopedia was my “go-to” place for information. Copying was tedious. Copying took effort. The Internet is exponentially growing; and along with it Internet-based digital content creation. Our family home always had the latest edition. That was then, this is now.