TorrentFreak

JANUARY 4, 2022

Despite a reported development and marketing budget in excess of $100m, Genshin Impact is free to play but is monetized via gacha game mechanics. This is the type of behavior that has attracted copyright infringement lawsuits in the past but in this case, the makers of Genshin XYZ are using copyright law to prevent piracy of their product.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

JULY 19, 2022

What is copyright infringement? Unauthorized use of a work protected by copyright is referred to as copyright infringement. In this blog we will take a look at best practices to avoid copyright infringement. In this blog we will take a look at best practices to avoid copyright infringement.

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LexBlog IP

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Ross Intelligence Inc will provide guidance for similar AI training/copyright infringement cases and, as a bonus, it provides a bit of clarity (or muddies the waters… depending on your point of view) in the application of a post-Warhol fair use defense. The first factor assesses whether the use is ‘transformative.'”

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TorrentFreak

JULY 28, 2021

According to the plaintiffs, these people operate, oversee or participate in Ring-1, an operation that develops, distributes and markets a range of cheats for Destiny 2 and Rainbow Six Seige, among others. Copyright Infringement Offenses. Ring-1 is said to largely operate from Ring-1.io Defendants’ Business Model.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 23, 2024

The organization literally archives key parts of the Internet, copying older versions of websites to preserve them for future generations. This information becomes more and more valuable as time passes by. Each copy can only be loaned to one person at a time, to mimic the lending attributes of physical books.

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 2, 2023

According to Getty Images, Stability copied Getty’s photographs with associated text and metadata to train its Stable Diffusion model, which uses AI to generate computer-synthesized images in response to text prompts. According to Getty, this is clear copyright infringement.

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The IPKat

MAY 12, 2023

When one hears the claims of copyright infringement, confidential information and employment claims one can readily assume that this is an employer/ex-employee dispute. They develop, market and sell statistical process control (SPC) software and gauge management software.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 14, 2022

Given that the production of today’s videogames requires the involvement of a large number of people, preventing all information leaks is an impossible task. After being uploaded in the preceding days, on April 26 the company filed a complaint at YouTube alleging copyright infringement. Aside from generating more than 4.6

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Patently-O

JANUARY 4, 2024

2024) A recent copyright infringement lawsuit filed by small Boston intellectual property boutique Hsuanyeh Law Group PC (HLG) against international giant Winston & Strawn LLP focuses a dividing line that can highlight when copying the work of another firm is permissible. Hsuanyeh Law Group v.

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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. Notwithstanding this framework, not every use of a work during the term of copyright is restricted.

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Velocity of Content

DECEMBER 14, 2023

After all, many kinds of published literature, including news, blogs, books, journals, and standards — including the organizations’ own materials — are protected by copyright laws that place limits on how content can be used by others without the rightsholder’s permission.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 19, 2024

copyright law, Internet providers must terminate the accounts of repeat infringers “in appropriate circumstances.” Many ISPs have been reluctant to take such drastic measures, which triggered a wave of copyright infringement lawsuits in recent years with WideOpenWest ( WOW! ) as one of the targets.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 30, 2023

Authors Sue OpenAI for Copyright Infringement This week, authors Paul Tremblay and Mona Awad filed a class action lawsuit against OpenAI, accusing ChatGPT’s parent company of copyright infringement and violating the DMCA, among other things. This information must have come from somewhere.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Last year, Texas-based model Deniece Waidhofer sued Thothub for copyright infringement after the site’s users posted many of her ‘exclusive’ photos. The trio accused Cloudflare of both direct and contributory copyright infringement. This prompted Waidhofer to change priorities. Lawsuit Dismissed.

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Velocity of Content

MARCH 1, 2023

From research to medical communications to legal to marketing, sharing content with colleagues across job roles and departments is critical. s Information Seeking and Consumption Study, commissioned by CCC, is that executives share the most content and have the highest likelihood of copyright infringement.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

AUGUST 13, 2023

It imposes legislative obligations at all stages of the lifecycle of an AI system, from: training, testing and validation; to conformity assessments; risk management systems; and post-market monitoring. The UK approach focuses on guidance for specific sectors and risks. Many kinds of material have been used to train large language models.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 2, 2022

In the meantime, unofficial ‘scanlation’ groups stepped in to meet demand with their scanned and translated copies, leaving official suppliers to play catch-up and pirate sites to reap the benefits. Identifying the Alleged Infringers Using Cloudflare. Applicants Seek Information From Tech & Payment Companies.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Publishers Hachette, HarperCollins, John Wiley, and Penguin Random House filed a lawsuit, equating IA’s controlled digital lending (CDL) operation to copyright infringement. Earlier this year a New York Federal court concluded that the library is indeed liable for copyright infringement.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Publishers Share IPFS Concerns This week, IPFS was repeatedly mentioned by the Association of American Publishers ( AAP ) in its overview of the most notorious piracy markets submitted to the U.S. Most gateways accept copyright infringement notices. Trade Representative. Perhaps these will also pose a problem some day.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

The company doesn’t even have to find these pirates itself because the plaintiffs have provided infringement notices carrying all of the information it needs. Hundreds of Thousands of Infringements. In some cases, infringement notices weren’t even forwarded to the allegedly-infringing subscribers, the plaintiffs add.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

“Kiwi Farms users provided a Google Drive link to a full copy of Mr. Greer’s book.” Greer sued Moon and Kiwi Farms for contributory copyright infringement and other claims. The district court dismissed the contributory claim because the defendants didn’t materially contribute to the infringement.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 4, 2022

Pyrotechnics registered a copyright in its protocol and sued FireTek for copyright infringement. ” Pyrotechnics’ copyright registration then starts to fall apart. .” ” Pyrotechnics’ copyright registration then starts to fall apart. Implications.

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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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Copyright Lately

OCTOBER 2, 2023

While a flurry of AI copyright lawsuits from prominent authors and artists grab headlines, another case has quietly taken something more important: a head start. This means that a jury could weigh in on some of the thorniest copyright questions involving artificial intelligence as early as May 2024.

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Velocity of Content

APRIL 12, 2023

since 2007, further shows that the transition to hybrid and remote work has created new dynamics for information sharing. New Dynamics for Information Sharing This shift in behaviors and attitudes is important to note with published content being at the heart of innovation. 1] so important to note? In one word – risk.

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 8, 2023

When someone violates a creator’s exclusive rights to a piece of work, they are engaging in copyright infringement. modification, and other forms of copying of the work fall under this category. Music as well as the movie industry are two common industries that face copyright issues on a day to day basis.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

After the H3 Podcast aired a short clip of the event on YouTube, featuring a fight that lasted just 119 seconds, Triller filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against creators Ethan and Hila Klein. the day of the Broadcast), TEI employees watched an unauthorized stream of the Broadcast on the Internet,” TEI informs the court.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Formerly known as MindGeek, and Manwin before that , the company conquered the online adult market over the past decade by offering free porn to the masses. MG Premium sued the platform for widespread copyright infringement, hoping to shut it down, but after two years that had proven elusive.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Earlier this month, several copyright holder groups sent their annual “Notorious Markets” recommendations to the U.S. However, rightsholders have seized the opportunity to point out that the CDN service helps pirate sites with their infringing activities. Trade Representative (USTR). There are also more direct options.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 27, 2024

Anti-Piracy Veteran Retires Earlier this month, Tim Kuik informed TorrentFreak that he’s retiring, passing on the baton to BREIN’s new director Bastiaan van Ramshorst. Speaking with TorrentFreak, Kuik recalls that the home video market was just opening up. The downside was that pirates would create bootleg copies.

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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. One particular IP address was reported 782 times for infringement, another 626 times.

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SpicyIP

APRIL 15, 2024

Moreover, it is also necessary for the program to make copies of the information before it analyses it. As the worlds of GenAI and copyright collide, the issue before us is whether the use of copyrighted works through TDM for the training of GenAI amounts to copyright infringement?

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

The company demanded damages under copyright law claiming that the team “willfully and maliciously” copied, adapted and distributed its source code and other content without permission. This leads to the question of whether the alleged conduct of the defendants affected the market for those games and if so, in what way.

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43(B)log

DECEMBER 16, 2022

12, 2022) Plaintiffs sued defendants for copyright infringement, violation of the Lanham Act, breach of contract, and violation of unfair competition law; copyright and breach of contract claims survived a motion to dismiss but the others didn’t. Tracy Anderson Mind & Body, LLC v. Roup, 2022 WL 17670418, No.

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Patently-O

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Below is the substance of our reply comments explaining why we believe the agency’s comments were ill-informed, misguided, and highly ambiguous. In our view, the FTC plays a vital role in keeping markets open and honest, and we have long been admirers of the intelligence and energy that the agency brings to that task.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 2, 2022

Back in January, the crypto group Spice DAO (decentralized autonomous organization) made headlines for spending approximately $3 million to acquire a physical copy of the book Jodorowsky’s Dune , a bible for a planned Dune move that would have been made in the 1970s. . The payment beyond excessive.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 5, 2024

South American news site Hollogram TV informs TF that their copyright complaint problems relate to just two URLs, but the consequences for them could be much more severe. Streaming News and Reviews Reaching out to a South American audience, Hollogram TV launched in 2019 and today covers all aspects of the streaming market.

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