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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 ยง 501 for direct, induced, and contributory copyright infringement. The Infringement.

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OTT Platforms and Digital Piracy

Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

The potential flow of advertisement traffic for this content makes them lucrative assets for any commercial establishment. The producers have broadened monetization prospects with separate licensing agreements with traditional broadcasters and OTT platforms. Most of the content on these platforms is subscription-based.

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Social Media Giants and Copyright: Instagramโ€™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 โ€œembeddingโ€ 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

The downside was that pirates would create bootleg copies. “So, I was tasked to collect evidence against video rental shops that carried illegal copies of it. “The best [achievement] is the CJEU ruling that The Pirate Bay is a copyright-infringing service. “When ‘E.T.

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Social Media Giants and Copyright: Instagramโ€™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

Copying was tedious. Copying took effort. The Internet is exponentially growing; and along with it Internet-based digital content creation. Proposing a Truce: When Content Meets Coding What if I told you there’s a middle ground? It was always perfectly clear to me what someone else authored and owned.