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

JANUARY 13, 2023

The New York Times reported on Dr. Martin Luther King’s copyright lawsuit over “I Have a Dream” in 1963. Shortly after his “I Have a Dream” speech was delivered in August 1963, King moved for a preliminary injunction preventing record companies from selling copies of the speech. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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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. That’s a concern for copyright holders. At the end of 2021, the U.S. businesses.

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The IPKat

APRIL 8, 2022

The report goes that Grau's inspiration for the movie came from hearing stories about vampires from local farmers in Serbia, this while he was serving in the German army in 1916. However, there was no longer copyright protection of the book in the U.S. However, there was no longer copyright protection of the book in the U.S.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

As a result, “copyright notices” were sent to US bases and even United States Central Command was put on high alert. The USTR uses these and other public comments to create its Special 301 Report, an annual list of countries that deserve extra attention due to various shortcomings that may hurt U.S. businesses.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 4, 2023

However, Millennium says that the defendants should’ve sent the new agent “monthly reports providing details of the Infringement Actions including, but not limited to, any number of actions filed, the number of settlement agreements reach, and collections made as a result of any such settlement agreements.”

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Time Running Out Issuing copyright notices is core work for many anti-piracy companies. The problem for Klein and many others before him is that while YouTube suggests that disputes can be discussed with Markscan, an abundance of online reports beg to differ. If these cannot be resolved, the entire project may disappear.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 21, 2022

.” Piracy Notices Never Came Through. If the court chooses not to dismiss the copyright claims, the ISP would like the claims to be drastically limited. The company explains that many of the copyright notices sent by the rightsholders should be excluded because they were sent to the wrong email address.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 27, 2022

Rumors relating to the as-yet-unnamed ‘Mario Movie’ are rife on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and other platforms, but how does one even begin to separate fact from fiction in these numerous reports? The poster noted that while it appeared the information had multiple sources, several people might have copied existing information.

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SpicyIP

APRIL 24, 2022

For e.g., copyright does not actually protect a particular physical copy of the book or its pdf file, rather, it protects what lies inside it. . Definitely, I will not like somebody copying it without my permission. Everyone tries to copy my style on the field, but it’s not them that the audience comes to cheer.

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SpicyIP

JULY 1, 2021

Of late, there have been multiple reported cases of suicides by students (see here and here ) on account of lack of access to the means of education. Printed copies, adaptations or publications with new material would only widen the dissemination of these works. This shows how digitising access to textbooks can improve accessibility.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JANUARY 20, 2022

At the end of 2021, YouTube’s first Copyright Transparency Report 2021 (“Report”) was published. It is interesting to look at this Report against the background of the 2019 EU rules for the liability of platforms like YouTube through the famous Art. It is the first ever report by YouTube on copyright actions.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 13, 2021

1: Sinclair, Photographer Resolve Copyright Dispute Over Polar Bear Video. First off today, Blake Brittain at Reuters reports that Sinclair Broadcast Group has settled its dispute with Canadian photographer Paul Nicklen over Sinclair’s embedding of a video of polar bears that Nicklen took. Have any suggestions for the 3 Count?

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

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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Velocity of Content

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Additionally, in science publishing, under “ open access ” business models, copyright owners employ open licensing which sometimes allows licensed reuse for AI under the terms of such licenses. According to this report , open models accounted for 31% of articles, reviews and conference papers in 2021. ROSS Intelligence Inc.,

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

As we’ve previously reported, named plaintiffs including Paul Tremblay, Sarah Silverman, and Michael Chabon have filed class action lawsuits against several companies associated with popular Large Language Model tools like ChatGPT. Stability AI , which involved analogous claims related to visual art instead of written works.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

Lawsuit Accuses Comcast of Copyright Infringement. In general terms, the new lawsuit filed against Comcast is almost a direct copy of those filed against Verizon and AT&T. The movie companies say they notified Comcast of these infringements in more than 250,000 DMCA notices. Failure to Terminate Repeat Infringers.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 30, 2021

“Defendants advertise their service for allowing their subscribers to bypass regional restrictions of streaming platforms to stream copies of copyright protected content including Plaintiffs’ Works from locations Plaintiffs have not authorized the platform to stream the Works,” the lawsuit reads. Logging Repeat Infringers?

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

We do receive copyright claims based on titles or trademarks, which are invalid, and while we occasionally receive a valid claim not based on an initially authorized posting, our records indicate that we have never received a second copyright notice based on rights in the same complaining work.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 28, 2022

Takedown notices are a vital tool for copyright holders who want to make sure that infringing copies of their work are not widely distributed. In fact, quite a few high-profile DMCA takedown notices have been sent to the platform, including several that targeted tweets from former U.S. Takedown Notices Increase.

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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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