Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 3, 2022

The lawsuit claimed that the site was offering illegal downloads of their books and specifically targeted two Ukrainian nationals as the operators. For works published before 1978, that is 95 years after publication meaning that works from 1926 expired into the public domain at the start of the year. They are free of copyright.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

It targeted an individual who had deployed cheats in Destiny 2 and as a result, now faced claims of breaching security mechanisms controlling access to a copyrighted work. For modifying the Destiny 2 game, thereby creating an unauthorized derivative work, Bungie was able to demand another $150,000.

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LexBlog IP

AUGUST 4, 2023

Download and listen in on the discussion here. one of the copyright rights is the right to prepare derivate works (e.g., It’s a way where you take your original work and add new expression to it. Goldsmith et al, Case No. ” “The Idea of copyright is actually a bundle of different rights.

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IP Tech Blog

AUGUST 4, 2023

The Idea of copyright is actually a bundle of different rights… one of the copyright rights is the right to prepare derivate works (e.g., It’s a way where you take your original work and add new expression to it. The case – and the SCOTUS ruling – have many in the art world still thinking through the impact.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 20, 2021

They released ‘sizzle reels’ to market the cheat using Destiny 2 artwork and developed software to hook into copyrighted Destiny 2 code thereby producing an unlicensed derivate work. They illegally downloaded Destiny 2 in violation of the company’s licensing terms and willfully distributed copyright infringing code.

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 22, 2023

Several recent, high-profile lawsuits raise the issue of whether such training algorithms violate copyright law’s restrictions on creating derivative works without the creators’ consent. What is a Derivative Work? What is Generative AI?

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TorrentFreak

MAY 10, 2023

The defendants admitted that Wallhax injected new code into Bungie’s code, thereby creating an unlicensed derivative work. Additionally, Bungie has shown that Larsen violated § 1201(b)(1) by creating an infringing derivative work. In June 2022, Bungie was awarded $13.5m 11020781 Canada Inc.,

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TorrentFreak

MAY 11, 2023

’s use of cheat software modified Destiny 2 and led to the creation of an unauthorized derivative work. With no license in place, Bungie said that every download and every play of Destiny 2 amounted to copyright infringement, potentially placing L.L. In common with other lawsuits against cheaters, Bungie says that L.L.’s

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The IPKat

JUNE 27, 2022

These digital files are freely downloadable by everyone (there is no DRM protection in NFTs). Ripps has clearly downloaded the digital files of the original BAYC collection, copied and re-used them to create his own RR BAYC collection. A digital file (an artwork, a song, etc.),

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 17, 2022

The defendants accepted that their cheating software “displays a graphical overlay” that integrates into and annotates Bungie’s copyrighted Destiny 2 work, and injects new code into Destiny 2’s copyrighted code, in both cases creating an unlicensed derivative work.

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IIPRD

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

A standard myth about the Internet is that anything posted online can be copied or downloaded. COPYRIGHT ISSUES ON THE INTERNET: • DOWNLOADING AND UPLOADING: Downloading involves producing a replica or reproduction of the file copied. MP3 REVOLUTION (DERIVATIVE WORKS) MP3 stands for MPEG audio layer 3.

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Velocity of Content

MARCH 16, 2023

It is somehow different from the right to make transformative derivative works (where the word “transformed” is used in Section 101 ) such as film adaptations of books, which clearly require copyright owner consent. As the case approaches its three-year birthday, we are now in the summary judgement phase.

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Velocity of Content

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Other common forms of the CC licenses include: CC BY-NC —“This license lets others remix, adapt, and build upon your work non-commercially, and although their new works must also acknowledge you and be non-commercial, they don’t have to license their derivative works on the same terms”— and CC BY-NC-ND — “This license is the most restrictive of our (..)

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IP Intelligence

JUNE 7, 2023

But AI models are not interested in any work qua work, but rather they need a massive collection of as many works as possible to get at the patterns lurking within the vast combination of works. Second, the number of copies/downloads/users/seat licenses model simply does not work in the AI training context.

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LexBlog IP

JUNE 7, 2023

But AI models are not interested in any work qua work, but rather they need a massive collection of as many works as possible to get at the patterns lurking within the vast combination of works. Second, the number of copies/downloads/users/seat licenses model simply does not work in the AI training context.

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IP Intelligence

JUNE 6, 2023

But AI models are not interested in any work qua work, but rather they need a massive collection of as many works as possible to get at the patterns lurking within the vast combination of works. Second, the number of copies/downloads/users/seat licenses model simply does not work in the AI training context.

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Art Law Journal

JUNE 30, 2022

For those looking to find copyright-free works to use, one rule of thumb is that any work created prior to 1924, no longer has copyright protection (in the public domain). For any works created before 1989 and 1924, use the flowchart below. Trademarks.

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Art Law Journal

JUNE 30, 2022

For those looking to find copyright-free works to use, one rule of thumb is that any work created prior to 1924 no longer has copyright protection (in the public domain). For any works created before 1989 and 1924, use the flowchart below. Trademarks. Trademarks are one of the types of IP that often get confused with copyright.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2021

A website can own the copyrights to the HTML code and the files that users download. ” No, that’s exactly what the derivative work right covers, and it’s the exact issue litigated in the old WhenU cases. A website can sometimes control access to its servers (see the Van Buren case ).

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TorrentFreak

JULY 17, 2022

The company’s lawsuits variously claim copyright infringement (when cheat makers use pieces of original code or creative derivative works ), circumvention of technical measures (under the DMCA), breach of contract, and/or violation of consumer protection laws. And then the screw gets turned again – and again.

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JIPEL Copyright Blog

MARCH 21, 2022

While it is technically possible to distill a ROM from the game’s original disk, most players opt for the easier route of finding the file online and illegally downloading it. TOs have no practical means of checking how individual ROMs were downloaded, but are certainly aware that most players obtain the ROM illegally.

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43(B)log

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

A USA Today 2 producer downloaded the BTO ad from YouTube and then took a high-resolution screengrab from the commercial that comprised the Sowers photo. He uploaded the high-resolution screengrab of the Sowers photo and the downloaded video into Presto, Gannett’s content management system, and added tags including “USA TODAY” and “Ad Meter.”

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 12, 2024

As for the claims’ equivalency to copyright law: We need not decide whether it is more appropriate to characterize Plaintiffs’ Complaint as implicating rights to (a) display or reproduce copies or (b) prepare derivative works because the Complaint invokes both rights and both rights are recognized under federal copyright law.

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SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

However, this order was later modified on April 25 ( pdf ), where Fantasy Sports was restrained from using Hulm Entertainment’s copyrighted works through their “MyFab11” app but allowed their app to be downloaded.

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Copyright Lately

OCTOBER 25, 2021

You can judge for yourself by downloading a copy of “Jap Herron” here. Faced with the prospect of either pulling Twain’s name from a poorly-reviewed novel that couldn’t stand on its own or turning over the book’s profits, publisher Mitchell Kennerley agreed to cease publication and destroy all remaining copies.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 10, 2023

“This has led to an explosion of unauthorized derivative works of our members’ sound recordings which harm sound recording artists and copyright owners,” the RIAA reports. The RIAA believes that ripping YouTube tracks is a violation of the DMCA and using a voice model to create a derivative work is problematic too.

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Copyright Lately

MARCH 6, 2023

Soon after, an unauthorized version of Runt was uploaded to YouTube and online torrent sites and allegedly downloaded more than 50,000 times. Wagging Tails contends that these materials are “unauthorized and infringing derivative works” based on its motion picture.

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