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Artists Attack AI: Why The New Lawsuit Goes Too Far

Copyright Lately

Instead, the lawsuit is premised upon a much more sweeping and bold assertion—namely that every image that’s output by these AI tools is necessarily an unlawful and infringing “derivative work” based on the billions of copyrighted images used to train the models. You’d be wrong. 17 U.S.C. §

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The Battle Over Poker NFTs

Plagiarism Today

I understand a lot of you may be upset that I saw a photo on social media and loved it enough to imitate it in a very different style. No, I'm not opposed to giving photographers a %, it's hard work. The post The Battle Over Poker NFTs appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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With Friends Like These: Copyright Implications Of Novelists Drawing Inspiration From The Real Lives They Cross

LexBlog IP

Dorland alerted publishers, writing conferences, and journalists to what she considered Larson’s plagiarism and ethical betrayal. But this holding left the Court to consider whether Dorland’s efforts to publicize Larson’s “plagiarism” amounted to defamation or tortious interference. ’ Piccone v.