Plagiarism Today

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

As part of their series The Facebook Files , which is an examination of leaked internal documents from the company, the paper published a scathing review of the company’s practices surrounding copied content. This was in part because the company feared running afoul of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). Bottom Line.

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

OpenAI, Inc. , [1] a putative class action filed on behalf of a group of authors alleging that OpenAI infringed their copyrighted literary works by using them to train ChatGPT. [2] 2] OpenAI moved to dismiss all claims against it, save the claim for direct copyright infringement, and the court largely sided with OpenAI.

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Velocity of Content

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The 1976 Act brought in many aspects of copyright with which we are now familiar, including codifying fair use in Section 107 (it previously had been applied on a common law basis). In sum, the traditional doctrine of fair use, as embodied in the Copyright Act, does not sanction the use made by The Nation of these copyrighted materials.

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Plagiarism Today

APRIL 7, 2022

Also in 2018, FDN filed the original complaint, targeting both Amazon and CCA, alleging that they both breached contracts and committed copyright infringement. Copyright Office, “Online content is considered published if the copyright owner authorizes the end user to retain copies of the content or further distribute the content.”.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 21, 2022

‘Copyright Claims Should be Dismissed’ Bright House requests the court to dismiss the only remaining copyright infringement claim. This accuses the ISP of contributory infringement, which means that the company induced, caused or materially contributed to the piracy activities of its subscribers.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 5, 2024

On January 1, 2024, TorrentFreak published a review of the wrongful DMCA notices filed against us in 2023, either directly via email or at Google demanding deindexing of our articles. Our small request for 2024 was not unreasonable: stop sending us bogus copyright notices.

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Copyright Lately

APRIL 30, 2021

Nineties grunge-rock band Nirvana, already embroiled in a long-running legal battle against fashion company Marc Jacobs over its “happy face” t-shirt designs , now finds itself on the less happy end of a new copyright infringement lawsuit worthy of Dante’s trip through the underworld. copyright law. Copyright Office.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 20, 2023

Specifically, they alleged that the company failed to terminate repeat infringers. A Texas federal jury found Grande guilty of willful contributory copyright infringement, and the ISP was ordered to pay $47 million in damages to the record labels. Whatever the court decides, this case is far from over.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 27, 2022

The poster noted that while it appeared the information had multiple sources, several people might have copied existing information. Post Removed By Reddit For Copyright Infringement. ” The important thing here is to find out who sent the notice and on what grounds. .”

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Since Sony’s Betamax-format recorders were able to record TV shows, studios including Universal and Disney sought to hold Sony liable for users’ alleged copyright infringements. Time Running Out Issuing copyright notices is core work for many anti-piracy companies. ‘The Say Hey Kid,’ as himself.

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SpicyIP

OCTOBER 11, 2021

In a new low for Indian media, Aaj Tak (owned by the media conglomerate Living Media) has allegedly taken to using copyright claims to prevent criticism of its reportage by media watchdog Newslaundry.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 13, 2023

In Iraq, for example, tackling copyright infringement isn’t seen as a priority or a new phenomenon. As a result, “copyright notices” were sent to US bases and United States Central Command was put on high alert.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

In Iraq, tackling copyright infringement appears to have very little priority. As a result, “copyright notices” were sent to US bases and even United States Central Command was put on high alert. — A copy of the beIN/Miramax submission to the Office of the U.S. This isn’t a new phenomenon.

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Copyright Lately

JUNE 2, 2022

When lighting technician Blake Farmer got a tattoo of Miles Davis from celebrity tattoo artist Kat Von D in 2017, he never could have imagined that the image on his right arm would one day become Exhibit A in a copyright infringement lawsuit. a jury) could find infringement.

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Art Law Journal

JUNE 30, 2022

But, if the author writes a book where one of those kids is named Harry and has a scar on his head from the villain that tried to kill him as a baby, that author will probably receive a copyright infringement letter in the near future. . How do I get a Copyright? How To Win Big In a Copyright Infringement Case.

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Art Law Journal

JUNE 30, 2022

But, if the author writes a book where one of those kids is named Harry and has a scar on his head from the villain that tried to kill him as a baby, that author will probably receive a copyright infringement letter in the near future. . How do I get a Copyright? How To Win Big In a Copyright Infringement Case.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JANUARY 16, 2024

Rather than being programmed in the traditional way, a large language model is “trained” by copying massive amounts of text and extracting information from it. Books3 is a dataset of books derived from a copy of the contents of the “ Bibliotik private tracker ”. Vicarious Copyright Infringement (17 U.S.C. §

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Such uses, they argue, constitute copyright infringement. Over the course of a decade, Google copied large volumes of books and made them available online, both through excerpts, known as “snippets”, and as entire publications. As such, it was permissible under United States copyright law. Fair Use Precedent?

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 17, 2023

¯_(ツ)_/¯ We can infer from this opinion that treatment of Copyright Management Information (“CMI”) will be tricky for generative AI developers. Also, ignoring copyright licenses is at least arguably copyright infringement, and your fair use claim probably won’t get you out of the lawsuit at the motion to dismiss stage.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 30, 2021

Over the past years, we have seen copyright holders take several ISPs to court, accusing them of failing to disconnect repeat copyright infringers. In their complaint, the filmmakers accuse Surfshark, VPN Unlimited, Zenmate and ExpressVPN of being involved in widespread copyright infringement.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

The plaintiffs alleged that by failing to terminate subscribers that had been accused of copyright infringement multiple times, Cox failed to meet its obligations under the DMCA. Lawsuit Accuses Comcast of Copyright Infringement. Failure to Terminate Repeat Infringers. Several Types of Copyright Infringement.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 13, 2021

2: Le Tigre’s Kathleen Hanna and Johanna Fateman Sue Over “Deceptacon” Copyright Infringement Accusation. Instead, they argue that he copied them from black artists performing in the 1950s and 1960s. 3: Back 4 Blood Streamers Will Have to Turn Off Licensed Music to Avoid Copyright Strikes.

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

The class of plaintiff authors seeking to hold OpenAI liable for copyright infringement has faced yet another setback. Vicarious copyright infringement (Count II) – DISMISSED OpenAI argued that this claim fails because plaintiffs did not make a threshold showing of direct infringement.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 7, 2023

The Redditors in question discussed issues such as RCN’s handling of copyright infringement emails. According to the filmmakers, they have no other options to secure the evidence which, among other things, includes comments on Grande’s handling of copyright notices.

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LexBlog IP

JUNE 7, 2023

If any of these cases challenging the use of copyright-protected works in generative AI outputs or in developing generative AI models is successful, it could have significant implications for the future of generative AI, which relies on large and diverse datasets in order to provide accurate and unbiased results.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 23, 2022

Using the DMCA’s takedown process as a weapon, persons unknown sent copyright notices to YouTube, claiming that the targeted videos should be taken down for infringing Bungie’s rights. Earlier this year, Bungie and its enthusiastic Destiny fan community were plunged into chaos.

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Velocity of Content

JANUARY 31, 2023

The making of copies to perform text and data mining, machine learning, and AI training (collectively “TDM”) without additional licensing is authorized for commercial and non-commercial purposes under CC BY , and for non-commercial purposes under CC BY-NC.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 29, 2023

Prutton admitted to copying and said that his adult daughter had helped him with his website. (A Oppenheimer’s attorney emailed me suggesting that we agree to present the claim to the copyright claims board in lieu of trial. His daughter submitted a declaration that she found no copyright notice on the image.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JANUARY 20, 2022

It was taken down after one hour, as it was subject to a copyright notice by a news channel relying on the US DMCA. This news channel had used the (open source) NASA video for its own news video and ended up raising unjustified claims against other copies on YouTube, including NASA’s original video. 17 (4) DSMD).

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

If the work was published with proper copyright notice, it received a federal statutory copyright. If the work was published without proper copyright notice, the work entered the public domain. 101 ] Issue 1: Are the recorded interviews a copyright-eligible “work of authorship”?

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