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

TorrentFreak

“The best [achievement] is the CJEU ruling that The Pirate Bay is a copyright-infringing service. After a legal battle of 14 years, the Dutch Supreme Court concluded that NSE itself was not liable for copyright infringement. secures structural employment in content creation and distribution.

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A Lady Whistledown-Worthy Scandal!

IPilogue

Netflix argued that this is a direct violation of US copyright law , which provides that only copyright holders have the exclusive right to monetize and create derivative works of their IP. Netflix claimed that the defendants declined their licensing offer before the live performance and proceeded without authorization.

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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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Legal Issues with Using AI to Create Content โ€“ Written with Help from AI

LexBlog IP

One area where AI has already made significant inroads is in content creation. With the help of AI-powered writing assistants, businesses and individuals can generate high-quality content with minimal effort. In the legal context, however, plagiarism is more properly referred to as “copyright infringement.”

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

LexBlog IP

The Internet is exponentially growing; and along with it Internet-based digital content creation. Those users are generating millions of posts, videos, blogs, images.every type of content imaginable; content readily accessible to millions of people all around the world. That was then, this is now.