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Copyright Fair Use for Education

IP and Legal Filings

Fair use provides some exceptions to copyright protection, allowing limited use of copyrighted material without the permission of the copyright owner. Understanding legal and fair use is especially important in academic settings because dissemination of information often requires the use of evidence.

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Why Reddit Declined to Remove 173,280 Pieces of Content

Plagiarism Today

To that end, let’s take a look at the reasons Reddit easy that they rejected copyright notices, and understand how filers could avoid similar issues in the future. Problems with the Notice. When looking at the reasons Reddit gave for declining to remove notices, one reason stands out: The content was already removed.

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Reddit Banned 2,625 Subreddits For Excessive Copyright Infringement in 2021

TorrentFreak

In common with the vast majority of large companies based in the US, Reddit has to follow the requirements of the DMCA which means that when it receives a valid copyright notice, it must comply by taking the identified content down. “In 2021, Reddit received 177,450 copyright notices reporting 920,672 pieces of content.

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Copyright Office Technical Measures Consultations

43(B)log

Designed to be freely available licensed or public domain; we occasionally use fair use images where no free image is available, such as when a famous work has been destroyed. Given all this, the idea of using technical measures to prescreen content is foolish and counterproductive. million new creations for no purpose.

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

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

¯_(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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GitHub is Sued, and We May Learn Something About Creative Commons Licensing

Velocity of Content

Also sued were a confusing mishmash of for profit and non-profit related entities all using a variation of the name OpenAI (OpenAI, Inc., A material breach of a copyright license can give rise to an infringement claim, so this is an interesting move. OpenAI, LLC, OpenAI Startup Fund GP I, L.L.C.; you get the picture).