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Instagram and Facebook Users Are Engaging in Copyright Infringement?!

IPilogue

Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. 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.

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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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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. It’s a topic that feels right out of a thrilling legal drama: should AI models be fed with copyrighted content? They need rich, diverse, and real-world content.

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

Kluwer Copyright Blog

3:23-cv-03440 ) In a recent post we analysed a class action filed in the US against Open AI for unauthorized use of copyright works for training of generative AI tools such as ChatGPT ( here ) (“Generative AI” or “Gen AI”). District Court for the Northern District of California, No.

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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. This wasn’t unexpected, but it posed a major problem.

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The Potential Risks of ChatGPT and Other Generative AI

LexBlog IP

Second, there may be copyright risks attached to the use of outputs from generative AI in public-facing works. Because of how the ChatGPT model is trained, it is possible that responsive outputs could contain elements of copyrighted material. Copyright Office, Compendium of U.S. Copyright Office Practices § 313.2 (3d

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NASCAR Fan-Friendly Copyright Claims Needed Extra Boost to Pacify Fans

TorrentFreak

Recurring news that another established and popular content creator faces copyright issues on YouTube is something the world will have to get used to. Two screenshots, featuring copyright claims against a long list of his older videos, were headed by, “I’m getting too old for this.” What About Fair Use?