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

TorrentFreak

Speaking with TorrentFreak, Kuik recalls that the home video market was just opening up. Initially, movie studios saw videotapes as a threat, but they soon realized that they could market official movies to consumers as well, which proved to be a new source of revenue. The downside was that pirates would create bootleg copies.

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Social Media Giants and Copyright: Instagram’s Ninth Circuit Win Sets Precedent Against Photographers

The IP Law Blog

This ultimately means that when a copy of an image is not stored on a computer’s servers but merely “embedded” onto a website, search engine, etc., the website displaying that copyrighted image cannot be held liable for infringement. The concept of “embedding” content is not a new phenomenon.

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

Kluwer Copyright Blog

It could also undercut the commercial market for books and works already created; this is because, on demand, the Products are able not only to summarize books in detail, chapter by chapter, but also to regenerate the text of books (§ I.B.110-111). 2000) (“ copying an entire work militates against a finding of fair use. ”). 110-111).

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The Potential Risks of ChatGPT and Other Generative AI

LexBlog IP

1997) (holding that “some element of human creativity must have occurred in order for the [b]ook to be copyrightable” because “it is not creations of divine beings that the copyright laws were intended to protect”). [5] Kristen Maaherra , 114 F.3d 3d 955, 957-59 (9th Cir.