Copyright Lately

JUNE 2, 2022

In a 30-page order, the district court largely denies both parties’ motions for summary judgment, finding triable issues on substantial similarity and fair use. and High Voltage Tattoo) asked the court to determine that the use of Sedlik’s photo as a reference image qualified as a fair use of the copyrighted work.

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SpicyIP

OCTOBER 11, 2021

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. Section 52(1)(a)(ii) of the Copyright Act exempts from infringement ‘fair dealing’ with any work for the purpose of criticism or review.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 27, 2022

Over the years we’ve published thousands of articles on copyright law, from how it works in theory to its application in full-blown lawsuits. But other copyright disputes, where infringement isn’t so obvious, can trigger new complexity and polarized legal opinions. Post Removed By Reddit For Copyright Infringement.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

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. Like most large websites that are not in the news every day, we receive very few copyright claims despite our size.

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Velocity of Content

DECEMBER 6, 2023

This post originally appeared in the Scholarly Kitchen on 11/28/23 Monday, October 30 was the final date for interested parties to submit comments to a comprehensive “ Notice of inquiry and request for comments ” issued by the United States Copyright Office entitled “Artificial Intelligence and Copyright.”

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 29, 2023

Koerner Endowed Professor of Law, Tulane University Law School [See part 1 about defendant opt-outs and part 2 about defendant defaults.] Eight months after filing, the first two Copyright Claims Board (CCB) Final Determinations have been handed down. By guest blogger Elizabeth Townsend Gard , John E. I proceeded to do that.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 17, 2023

What does all that mean for companies looking to develop generative AI, and the online sources of their training data that might be looking to stop them? ¯_(ツ)_/¯ We can infer from this opinion that treatment of Copyright Management Information (“CMI”) will be tricky for generative AI developers. This will make it hard to prove damages.

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

The class of plaintiff authors seeking to hold OpenAI liable for copyright infringement has faced yet another setback. The lawsuits claim that because the defendants copied their original works of authorship to use as training material for the LLMs, the AI companies are liable under the federal Copyright Act and various state tort laws.

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Velocity of Content

JANUARY 31, 2023

Mining is a legitimate use of content under a CC BY license, but if you need permission from authors to, e.g., not include attribution information, time and effort may be needed. With journals, some publishers require authors to sign copyright agreements even for content that is then published under an open license.

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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. In 2012, US NASA’s robotic rover touched down on Mars. In 2012, US NASA’s robotic rover touched down on Mars. It was taken down after one hour, as it was subject to a copyright notice by a news channel relying on the US DMCA.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JANUARY 16, 2024

Image via Pixabay The two US class actions against Meta We have previously analysed US class actions against Open AI ( here ) and Google ( here ) for unauthorized use of copyright works in the training of generative AI tools, respectively ChatGPT, Google Bard and Gemini.

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Velocity of Content

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

In the quaint days of 2019, when the EU issued its Digital Single Market Copyright Directive (DSM) , much attention was focused on issues such as a news publishers’ right and the obligations of platforms to take down infringing materials. Is a copyright notice sufficient? What about the words “all rights reserved?”

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 23, 2022

Using the DMCA’s takedown process as a weapon, persons unknown sent copyright notices to YouTube, claiming that the targeted videos should be taken down for infringing Bungie’s rights. Bungie needs to rectify these copyright takedowns and lock down their brand management,” he wrote.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The lawsuit seeks a declaratory judgment that Trump owns the copyright in the sound recordings (or in the alternative, in his interview responses on the recordings), and that Trump is entitled to all or the lion’s share of the profits made from the sale of those recordings and transcripts, which the lawsuit (absurdly) values at almost $50 million.

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