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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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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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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. They need rich, diverse, and real-world 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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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. The greatest defeat came in a Usenet-related lawsuit, where the court ultimately ruled that the provider was not violating copyright law. secures structural employment in content creation and distribution.

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TIME TO CUT THE MUSIC?: TWITCH’S UNFAIR SOLUTION TO AN INEVITABLE DIGITAL MILLENIUM COPYRIGHT ACT PROBLEM

JIPL Online

Given the disparity in negotiating power between a platform the size of Twitch and individual creators, Twitch is better situated to take on the burdens of negotiating a music licensing solution on behalf of all of the creators who drive traffic to their site. Background.

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