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October 19, 1976 – President Gerald Ford Signs the “New” Copyright Act…and Much More

Velocity of Content

The culmination of a decades-long effort, and well before the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and Copyright Term Extension Act were passed in 1998, the 1976 Copyright Act ushered in a new era of copyright law in the United States. In the many years that have since passed, the 1976 Act has been updated many times.

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Foreign Works, US Rights: The 7th Circle of Copyright Hell?

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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.

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Strategic Legal Algorithms Against Public Participation: YouTube Disables Newslaundry’s Account Following Copyright Claims from Aaj Tak

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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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Is Generative AI Fair Use of Copyright Works? NYT v. OpenAI

Kluwer Copyright Blog

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 in the present context, the initial concern of copyright holders was that their consent had not been acquired by Google prior to scanning their works.

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How Can AI Models Legally Obtain Training Data?–Doe 1 v. GitHub (Guest Blog Post)

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Users retain ownership of content they upload to GitHub, but grant GitHub: the “right to store, archive, parse, and display [the content], and make incidental copies, as necessary to provide the Service, including improving the Service over time.” 22-cv-7074-JST, ECF No. Not all was lost, however. 1202(b).

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Generative AI: admissibility and infringement in the two US class actions against Meta’s LLaMA

Kluwer Copyright Blog

LLaMA is a large language model in the form of an AI software program designed to emit convincingly naturalistic text outputs in response to user prompts. 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.

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Understanding the CCB’s First Two Final Determinations (Guest Blog Post–Part 3 of 3)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

Now here he claims this infringed his copyright, when in fact this is merely a retaliatory claim due to my filing a DMCA claim based on his appropriation of my design and copyright computer code expressions on multiple occasions without written or verbal permission. I proceeded to do that. Oppenheimer sent him a letter.