Kluwer Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2023

2000) (“ copying an entire work militates against a finding of fair use. ”). To create its product, Clearview scraped billions of publicly available photos from websites and social media platforms. Such class actions can be considered part of the evolution of the regulatory landscape dedicated to Generative AI.

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IPilogue

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Sedlik claims that Kat Von D infringed the copyright protection of his iconic photograph of world-famous jazz musician Miles Davis (“Davis”) when she tattooed the image onto a client’s body without authorization and posted photos of the tattoo on social media. On May 31, 2022, Judge Dale S. Background. For example, in Alexander v.

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IP and Legal Filings

OCTOBER 18, 2022

The Nepal Privacy Act was passed in September 2018. The Privacy Act, which implemented the constitutional right to privacy, had a big influence on how personal information was used legally. An NFT and the corresponding permission to use, copy, or display the asset can be bought and sold in digital markets. Conclusion.

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43(B)log

DECEMBER 7, 2023

One of the individual defendants is “a social media personality and model who became well-known for her photos and videos, and who has also started an agency to provide management services to other models and influencers.” But in Bell , the copy was apparently always infringing, which doesn’t seem to be the case here.

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IPilogue

APRIL 4, 2022

Her privacy has been repeatedly invaded by complete strangers since childhood. Throughout her life, perfect strangers have invaded her privacy without regard for her emotional wellbeing. A letter was then sent to Elsevier briefing them on the serious privacy impacts of the use of Mariana’s name and image in their publications.

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Intepat

JULY 4, 2023

The digital age has afforded individuals the privilege of maintaining their privacy while carrying out infringing activities. This bad faith intent refers to the following Complete impersonation of the brand; Masquerading as the individual; Holding the account hostage in exchange for money from the brand owner. Ashok Kumar & Ors.

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 19, 2023

A new track by Drake and The Weeknd is going viral on social media and is bound to top the charts. There is nothing “copied” by the AI models and therefore no copyright to infringe. Data Privacy Data privacy may eventually create a path to protection but this will not come easy. million times on TikTok.

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IPilogue

JULY 28, 2021

An entity’s unauthorized use of a photographer’s image engages many legal issues: invasion of privacy , defamation , and violation of the right of publicity , to name a few. Roderique said she would like to see a financial donation as this “mistake” happens too often to IBPOC creation. The Legal Side.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 15, 2024

Think of social media, whose data are scraped and used to train Large Language Models (LLM) (e.g. Reddit or X (Twitter) data for ChatGPT) and which try to ban AI data scraping via technical tools and contractual terms (see class action against OpenAI for privacy and copyright infringement). This raises questions of liability.

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Traverse Legal Blog

MARCH 6, 2024

PopSugar allegedly created profiles of prominent social media influencers and copied their photos from Instagram without permission, leading to a class action lawsuit. This isn’t just a concern for celebrities and influencers but signals a broader threat to the privacy and rights of everyday individuals as well.

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IP Tech Blog

JULY 18, 2023

Other considerations for legal professionals abound, privacy being salient among them. Getty alleges that Stability’s image generator, with its uncanny ability to turn text into images, copied millions of photographs from Getty Images’ collection without permission from or compensation to Getty Images.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2021

In particular, they are having some success bending Section 230, and this genre offers some interesting considerations for folks paying attention to the privacy/230 borders. Whitepages decision , a more significant decision than I initially thought, the plaintiffs are making progress in the early rounds of their cases. Callahan v.

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 11, 2023

A brand that uses material generated by AI in a public-facing manner – such as in an ad or a social media post – could run the risk of infringing on another’s rights, for which the brand could be held liable. For more information on these issues, read our sister blogs here , here , and here.

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Velocity of Content

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

In this post, I’m looking at the vast domain of the YouTube video & social media platform —which, lest we forget, is a major division of Google/Alphabet — and how its copyright aspect manifests in options for individual contributors (“YouTubers,” in the jargon). YouTube is no different in that respect.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

When sales are replaced by pirated copies, authors earn a lot less. Whois Privacy Corp., A similar order was granted requiring email services, social media services, search engines and other online providers to disable service to all of the defendants’ websites. and NameCheap, Inc.,

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 6, 2024

PopSugar allegedly created profiles of prominent social media influencers and copied their photos from Instagram without permission, leading to a class action lawsuit. This isn’t just a concern for celebrities and influencers but signals a broader threat to the privacy and rights of everyday individuals as well.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 11, 2023

The most modern instalment of this long history comes in the form of another kind ‘copy’, less richly decorated, yet more relevant and politically sensitive for a country that has established a long-term foreign investment “partnership” with the tech and communication industry: the transposition of Directive 2019/790 into Irish law.

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Intepat

MAY 16, 2023

A fraudulent lottery-winning message with Amitabh Bachchan’s voice from KBC was viral through various social media platforms and many people fell into this trap. Ramkumar Jewellers (2012), the defendant copied the plaintiff’s advertisement picture containing a popular artistic pose of Amitabh Bachchan and Jaya Bachchan.

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LexBlog IP

JULY 18, 2023

Other considerations for legal professionals abound, privacy being salient among them. Getty alleges that Stability’s image generator, with its uncanny ability to turn text into images, copied millions of photographs from Getty Images’ collection without permission from or compensation to Getty Images.

Business 52

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2022

Note that Florida’s social media censorship law has relevance to the lost data question, because it says services must “allow a user who has been deplatformed to access or retrieve all of the user’s information, content, material, and data for at least 60 days.” Bonne chance.”).

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CopyrightsWorld

APRIL 4, 2022

Users were reluctant to upload their creations to a place where everyone could easily get a copy just by making a right-click. Also, our automation plugs into the creator’s workflow and pulls data from social media accounts and blogs, protecting and monitoring it automatically. Just set it and forget it.

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LexBlog IP

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Social Links is our ongoing series here at Socially Aware that rounds up current developments at the intersection of social media, policy, research, and the law. Embedding social media posts can be considered copyright infringement.but is it? ” These decisions will most likely end in appeals.

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IP and Legal Filings

APRIL 19, 2022

Rules on Information Technology, 2021 (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code). By adopting rules and regulations, as well as a privacy policy, the intermediary must prevent its users from presenting, uploading, changing, or transferring any information that may result in infringement of any trademark, patent, or copyright.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Moreover, contrary to The Satanic Temple’s novel argument, domain registration is not the same as registration for a social media website.” For ACPA purposes, “the alleged infringement regards a post-domain path, not a domain name within the meaning of Section 1127. March 29, 2023).

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IIPRD

JANUARY 29, 2023

It varies from creating an alternate persona on a social media account to voicing an animated character in a movie. The issues pertaining to the rights of VTubers encompass rights to the design of the character, the privacy of the individual, licensing and taking inspiration from an existing character.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 11, 2021

Earlier this week, independent fashion designer Bailey Prado took to Instagram to call attention to a different fashion label that, according to her, copied her “whole life.” For example, items that may sell on Prado’s website for up to $300 typical appear as copies on Shein’s app for less than $20.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

The same problems arose for Audible Magic, especially with the pandemic shift to live streamed performances, when classical concerts were wrongly flagged as copies of existing recordings, and for Content ID, showing that misidentification is a pervasive problem without a technical fix. Tech measures can still move the ball forward.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Those questions come from every angle and include debates about social media, the ethics of organ donation, writers’ ethics when using elements from another person’s life and much, much more. She took the words that someone else had written, copied them and used them in her story while presenting them as her work.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 13, 2024

Guardian : Australia will not force adult websites to bring in age verification due to privacy and security concerns US * California AB-1394 : Commercial sexual exploitation: child sexual abuse material: civil actions: (g) (1) A social media platform shall not knowingly facilitate, aid, or abet commercial sexual exploitation. (2)

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43(B)log

AUGUST 3, 2023

Dignitary interests: false light, IIED, privacy typically expire w/person. Keep up with the culture by considering social media. IP Subcommittee on AI: was a lot about whether we need a national ROP to deal with this. Wants to focus on the relevance of death. How do other areas of law treat relevance of death?

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 23, 2024

Cognosphere obtains the latter to compel online platforms, typically social media companies, to hand over whatever information they hold on alleged infringers. a process that grants subpoenas without safeguards, in particular the balancing of discovery requests against anonymous users’ privacy rights, risks violating those rights.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Your video has been removed from YouTube for a Terms of Service violation because it is a copy of another video that was previously removed from YouTube due to a copyright removal request that we received. Social media platform Facebook also reports huge numbers of takedowns to the EC.

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IIPRD

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Surveillance and analysis of IP-related activities on the internet, such as domain name registration, web crawling, social media monitoring, and online marketplace scanning which can help detect potential IP infringement cases, such as cybersquatting, phishing, counterfeiting, piracy, and plagiarism.

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Copyright Lately

MAY 21, 2021

The man in the photo, whom Dolezal previously identified as “my dad” in social media posts, was later revealed to be Albert Wilkerson Jr. , Here’s a copy of Dolezal’s complaint. who had worked with Dolezal but was not her father. And in the process, history can be erased. View Fullscreen.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Even where permission not legally required, thought was better results due to advances in technology—social media influencing: the advertiser wants customized content. Bill McGeveran: interesting b/c privacy/data protection regimes are very different in the two regimes. Movies: want access to info they wouldn’t otherwise have.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2021

.” This passage illustrates the brief’s duality: Florida’s version of the First Amendment would give the government sweeping authority over the digital public sphere and impede social media companies from addressing real harms online. Neither of these theories is defensible, and the Court should reject both of them.

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43(B)log

AUGUST 3, 2023

Are the outputs copies of the training data? Copying takes place prior to training; converted into tokens and training is a process of adjusting weights in the model, not copying tokens. 3) reasonable measures to safeguard privacy interests. (4) Expand social media monitoring. Fresh start. Christopher S.

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