Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 26, 2021

As we’ve discussed in the past , copyright has played an oddly oversized role in our modern Halloween festivities. However, one of the areas that is generally less talked about is copyright’s impact on Halloween costumes. If the costume isn’t licensed, why is it not infringing regardless of the name change? Copyright Office.

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OCTOBER 5, 2021

1: ‘Friday the 13th’ Writer Wins Appeal in Copyright Termination Case. First off today, Brian Welk at The Wrap reports that a judge has granted copyright termination for the film Friday the 13th, allowing both the writer, Victor Miller, from the film’s producer/director, Sean S. Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday.

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OCTOBER 13, 2022

Supreme Court Tackles Andy Warhol Copyright Dispute. In 1984, Lynn licensed one of her photographs of the musician Prince to be converted into a painting by Warhol for Vanity Fair magazine. However, after Prince died in 2016, it was revealed that Warhol actually made an additional 14 prints using the photograph.

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OCTOBER 11, 2022

1: Justices to Consider Whether Warhol Image is “Fair Use” of Photograph of Prince. Goldsmith, a case that is expected to be a rare moment of the high court ruling on an issue of fair use. Goldsmith sued, saying that this use far exceeded the agreement that they made. Have any suggestions for the 3 Count?

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OCTOBER 3, 2022

After those tattoos appeared in the WWE 2K game series, she sued Take-Two Interactive for copyright infringement. That case, after many stops and starts, went to trial last week with the jury awarding victory to Alexander, saying that Take-Two’s use of the tattoos was not a fair use.

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MAY 19, 2022

First off today, Pamela Chelin at Variety reports that the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has granted a significant victory so singer Toni Basil, granting her sole copyright in her 1981 debut album, which included the hit song Mickey. The case dates back to 2013 when Basil filed a notice of copyright termination on the album and her song.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2022

1: Judge: Jehovah’s Witness Parodies Are Fair Use. First off today, Andy Maxwell at Torrentfreak writes that Watch Tower, is pushing ahead with a copyright infringement lawsuit against YouTuber “Kevin McFree” (not his real name) in hopes of revealing the YouTuber’s real name. Watch Tower: So What?

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Plagiarism Today

APRIL 19, 2022

The move comes at the behest of Disney, who claimed that the site was infringing their copyright by operating the unauthorized clone. 2: Newsweek Settles Copyright Fight Over Instagram Embedding. The court, in this case, rejected the test as well as Newsweek’s fair use arguments.

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AUGUST 2, 2021

1: Manhattan Judge Rejects ‘Server Test’ for Internet Copyright Infringement. District Court Judge Jed Rakoff has issued a controversial ruling denying the “server test” of copyright law and ruling that embedding images can be an infringement of copyright law. Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2022

1: Pandora Sued By Major Comedians Over Licensing Fees For Writing Jokes. According to the comics, the issue is intentional and points to Security and Exchange Commission filings by the company that cautioned it may lose access to comedy material due to a lack of license. Have any suggestions for the 3 Count?

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OCTOBER 19, 2022

1: RIAA Flags ‘Artificial Intelligence’ Music Mixer as Emerging Copyright Threat. However, since the system was trained on copyright-protected music without permission, the RIAA is claiming that the service is committing and enabling infringement. The post 3 Count: Noisy Hill appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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DECEMBER 8, 2021

1: YouTuber Hit With 150 Copyright Claims For Reviews Featuring Anime Footage. First off today, Brian Ashcraft at Kotaku reports that YouTuber Mark Fitzpatrick, better known as Totally Not Mark, says that he does not know what is next after the anime studio Toei has filed copyright claims against some 150 of the videos on his channel.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

1: H3 Podcast Asks Court to Throw Out “Fatally Defective” Triller Copyright Lawsuit. First off today, Andy Maxwell at Torrentfreak writes that the team behind the H3 Podcast has asked for the lawsuit against them to be dismissed, saying that the lawsuit is incorrect as a matter of law as they did not commit any copyright infringement.

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Plagiarism Today

JULY 8, 2021

The most vocal critics were in the open-source programming community , who were upset that GitHub trained their AI on significant amounts of open-source code and can even reproduce that code verbatim in some circumstances, but does not follow the respective open-source licenses. Is the code original enough to qualify for copyright protection?

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

1: Disney Loses Bid to Dismiss ‘Muppet Babies’ Reboot Copyright Suit. He claimed he owned the production bible that the original show was based upon, and Disney did not seek permission or license its use in the reboot. The 3 Count Logo was created by Justin Goff and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2022

1: YouTuber Hit With Ungodly Number Of Anime Copyright Strikes Gets A Win For Everyone. According to a video he uploaded, his videos will remain available in countries with a broad fair use exemption, like the United States, but not in countries like Toei’s native Japan that have narrow exemptions.

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OCTOBER 25, 2021

1: Nirvana Beats T-Shirt Copyright Lawsuit Involving Dante’s ‘Inferno’ First off today, Bill Donahue at Billboard reports that members of the band Nirvana have emerged victorious in a battle over their iconic Dante’s Inferno shirt, even if it is likely not the final word on the case.

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MAY 16, 2022

1: Supreme Court Leaves in Place Circuit Split Regarding Approach for Assessing Substantial Similarity in Copyrighted Works. 2: Judge Says ‘Vape’ Musical Parody May Go On as ‘Grease’ Copyright Claim Flops. 3: ComicMix To Publish Lost Dr Seuss Stories, Out Of Copyright. Have any suggestions for the 3 Count?

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OCTOBER 6, 2021

3: Seuss, ComicMix Close Book on Landmark Copyright Dispute Over ‘Star Trek’ Mashup. According to the estate, the book infringed the copyright of the Dr. Seuss work Oh, the Places You’ll Go , but the defendants argued that the book was a parody and a fair use. Neither side has commented on the lawsuit.

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AUGUST 17, 2021

1: 8th Circuit Revives Copyright Dispute Over House Floor Plans. First off today, Blake Brittain at Reuters reports that the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals has reinstated a copyright infringement lawsuit against the realtors Columbia House of Brokers Realty over the alleged infringement of floor plans.

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IP and Legal Filings

OCTOBER 23, 2021

Technology and copyright law. Copyright laws play a crucial role in protecting creative expressions such as literary works, artistic works and musical works. Through copyright enforcement, an exclusive right is granted to creators. The advancement of technologies has also significantly developed copyright laws over the years.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

In that apology, Butz admitted he was “clearly ignorant about copyright laws and got defensive when it was brought to my attention.” ” The case raises questions of fair use and whether the new paintings were transformative enough to be non-infringing or if they were simply derivative works.

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Kashishipr

MAY 25, 2021

Copyright and Blogs. Copyright is a legal protection afforded to an original, creative literary, musical, or artistic work. However, the content must reflect an expression of something since ideas are not governed under copyright. Therefore, it is always an option to copyright the entire blog.

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JULY 27, 2021

The reason is that the track has faced not one, but two separate allegations of plagiarism, with many fans and critics alike wondering if the band may have run afoul of copyright law. However, this turned out to be more of a licensing than a traditional plagiarism issue. My practice is primarily in text-based works.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Unique expertise on code too; code is different from photos, music, videos; some of the most valuable code on GitHub is licensed openly. Remediation not removal is often the goal—changes to the code rather than removing often resolves the problem, e.g. addressing violation of open source license by adding attribution etc.

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Copyright Lately

JANUARY 23, 2023

A group of artists has filed a first-of-its-kind copyright infringement lawsuit against the developers of popular AI art tools, but did they paint themselves into a corner? This arguably makes the use of copyrighted works by by Stable Diffusion even more transformative than Google Book Search. Stability AI Ltd.

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AUGUST 10, 2022

For independent creators, every hour spent working on one’s copyright is an hour not spent on creating new work or running their business. As such, many creators either neglect their work’s copyright protection or pay someone else to handle it, often at great cost. Copyright Office. Copyright Office fees.

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Patently-O

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Copyright Office published a Notice of inquiry (“NOI”) and request for comments, Artificial Intelligence and Copyright, Docket No. We, who have been writing and teaching about copyright law and how it has responded to challenges posed by new technologies for decades, were among those who submitted comments, see [link].

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

AUGUST 7, 2023

Goldsmith et al sheds light on different perspectives of copyright law in common law and civil law countries. In 1984, Condé Nast, the publisher, obtained a license from Goldsmith to allow Andy Warhol to use her Prince portrait as the foundation for a single serigraphy to be featured in Vanity Fair magazine.

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MARCH 3, 2022

1: Dua Lipa Sued for Alleged Copyright Infringement Over Hit Single Levitating. First off today, Murray Stassen at Music Business Worldwide reports that musician Dua Lipa has been hit with a copyright infringement lawsuit that claims her 2020 hit Levitating is an infringement of an earlier song. Have any suggestions for the 3 Count?

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Copyright Lately

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Remembering another lousy year with a countdown of the most ill-considered, unsatisfying and wrongly-decided copyright rulings of 2022. So what better way to commemorate 2022 than with a look at the worst copyright decisions from coast to coast? Remember: the smaller the numbers, the bigger the misses.

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AUGUST 25, 2021

1: Google/Oracle Doesn’t Affect Warhol Fair-Use Ruling, 2nd Circ Says. Recently, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of Google, granting a broader fair use exemption to computer code. In that case, they found that Warhol’s use of her photographs of Prince in an artistic piece was not a fair use.

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OCTOBER 19, 2022

github copilot, with "public code" blocked, emits large chunks of my copyrighted code, with no attribution, no LGPL license. According to Davis, he used the prompt “sparse matrix transpose, cs_” only to have Copilot produce code very similar to his earlier, open-source work. My code on left, github on right.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2022

First off today, Ashley Cullins at The Hollywood Reporter Esquire reports that Instagram has secured the dismissal of a lawsuit filed against it by two photographers who claimed that the service’s embedding feature enabled copyright infringement. 2: Warner Brothers Blocks Fidesz Attack Video for Breaching Copyright.

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AUGUST 18, 2021

Apple sued the company, alleging that it violated both their copyright and their rights under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. However, a judge tossed the case, ruling that Corellium’s use was a fair use. 2: Federal Court Awards $29M in Statutory Damages for Copyright Infringement in Media Case.

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43(B)log

AUGUST 11, 2022

The Hollywood movie is now out of copyright according to Indian law. Cross-cultural plagiarism: adaptation of a film to a different cultural context. Now, Bollywood copies Hollywood, but they use licenses—how does that compare? There’s no record of the judgment but there is contemporaneous reporting.

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43(B)log

AUGUST 3, 2023

Matthew Sag, Copyright Safety for Generative AI Not addressing whether training is always fair use in every circumstance; explain how generative AI fits w/in existing law (nonexpressive uses) and identify best practices to make generative AI fairer. 4) detailed records of works used and their provenance.

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