TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 17, 2022

The site’s underlying technology is powered by the open-source Matchering 2.0 The RIAA logically doesn’t want third parties to strip music or vocals from copyrighted tracks, particularly when these derivative works are further shared with others. Unauthorized Copies and Derivatives.

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 25, 2023

History suggests the law will split inventorship down the middle and grant rights to those “portions” of an invention or copyrightable work that were created by a human, and avoid granting protection to the “portions” that were AI-generated. Copyright law does this well with the protection of derivative works.

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Intellectual Property Brief

MARCH 10, 2022

The development of three-dimensional information is becoming ever more beneficial for the construction industry; yet, with this rapid expansion of technology comes an equally rapid expansion of legal issues over intellectual property, specifically over ownership, rights of use or reuse, liability, confidentiality, and derivative works.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 10, 2022

The defendants threaten the gaming experience, Bungie added, noting that anti-cheating mitigation technology had cost it “exorbitant amounts of money.” ” The defendants argued that during the development of the cheating software, no copies of Destiny 2 were made or distributed, and no derivative works were created.

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IP and Legal Filings

MAY 15, 2024

It includes reproduction, the preparation of derivative works, distributing copies by sale or rental, and public performance or display. The License fees and royalties can provide income to help further develop the content or technology. Limited licenses also have fewer risks than outright purchases of IP.

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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. had no permission from Bungie, that amounts to an unauthorized derivative work. “When read as a whole, the statute clearly states that avoiding or bypassing a technological measure violates the DMCA.

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IP Tech Blog

JUNE 2, 2023

What is or is not “transformative,” however, is largely framed by the original author’s statutory right to control derivative works, i.e., a new work of authorship that is created by modifying, transforming or adapting the original in some way. At this point, this speculation seems a little premature.

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LexBlog IP

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The court in this new decision rejected as “nonsensical” the plaintiffs’ argument that large language models (or LLMs) “are themselves infringing derivative works,” holding that “[t]here is no way to understand the [LLMs] themselves as a recasting or adaptation of any of the plaintiffs’ books.”

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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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TorrentFreak

MAY 10, 2023

The defendants admitted that Wallhax injected new code into Bungie’s code, thereby creating an unlicensed derivative work. They also conceded that Wallhax circumvented Bungie’s technological measures in breach of the DMCA. In June 2022, Bungie was awarded $13.5m 11020781 Canada Inc., and owner Robert James Duthie Nelson.

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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. You have to look at the use, not the work, but the use.”

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LexBlog IP

MAY 19, 2023

On May 18, 2023, the Supreme Court found that artistic changes to a pre-existing work, alone, not necessarily sufficient to make a derivative work fair use. Applying a new lens on how to view the purpose of a derivative work under U.S. copyright law.

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Intepat

JANUARY 8, 2024

Response from OpenAI and Microsoft OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT, and Microsoft, emphasised its commitment to respecting the producer’s content rights and hopes to collaborate to benefit from AI technology models. Training AI models using these works could infringe on these rights, especially without authorisation.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

is further accused of selling Bungie emblems on third-party platforms and using cheating software that modifies the Destiny 2 game, violates the DMCA’s anti-circumvention provisions, and creates infringing derivative works. Cheat Software and Derivative Works. In a recent and spirited motion to dismiss, L.L.

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LexBlog IP

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

[vi] Plaintiffs’ claims that AI outputs are “derivative works” failed in part for lack of substantial similarity to third-party copyrighted content. ” [viii] Skepticism that the AI model itself could be a “derivative work.”

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Specifically, the judge said that for their vicarious copyright infringement claims to remain viable, the plaintiffs would have to at least allege that derivative works created using AI programs that generate images in response to user prompts are “substantially similar” to their original copyright-protected works.

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IPilogue

JULY 18, 2022

New technologies, such as virtual reality (“VR”) and augmented reality (“AR”) further complicate things. Because of pandemic restrictions, many museums and galleries now rely on new media technology to attract audiences. In other cases, museums invited artists to create derivative works based on museum collections.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 19, 2023

Image by Tumisu via Pixabay Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are altering society’s notion of digital ‘ownership’ and redefining the common perspective on distribution of original works to consumers by introducing scarcity to the digital realm. TSPs are natural or legal persons responsible for the validation and security of digital signatures.

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Velocity of Content

APRIL 30, 2024

I’d like to start the conversation by following up on the technology concepts covered in your webinar. What is it about the technology involved in LLMs that creates a copyright concern? Babis Marmanis: LLMs would not work without word embeddings. Our licenses evolve as technology evolves. That’s what we’re doing here.

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The IPKat

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Furthermore, it is not at all clear to what extent creators who use the technology have copyright in the output and so far, it is not even clear if the work they create using AI infringes other people’s copyright work. Mr Blackmore also raised the issue of copyright protection of AI created works.

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LexBlog IP

JUNE 2, 2023

What is or is not “transformative,” however, is largely framed by the original author’s statutory right to control derivative works, i.e., a new work of authorship that is created by modifying, transforming or adapting the original in some way.

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LexBlog IP

AUGUST 4, 2023

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 Idea of copyright is actually a bundle of different rights. turning a book into a movie, a translation of a book from one language to another).

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LexBlog IP

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

These lawsuits highlight the potential legal consequences industry leading AI technologies will begin to face as these technologies become more mainstream. Both Meta and OpenAI moved to dismiss all claims except the direct infringement claim, as the companies plan to contest this claim later as a matter of law. .”

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LexBlog IP

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

It is not enough for the output to merely be “based upon” another work, Open AI argued. OpenAI also made passing reference to the fair use defense, arguing that courts are empowered to adapt the defense “to account for ‘rapid technological change.’”

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Copyright Lately

AUGUST 25, 2023

If AI technology determines the expressive elements of its output, the generated material is not considered to be the product of human authorship, and therefore not protected by copyright. Don’t worry about providing a detailed spreadsheet of every use of AI technologies in the creation of your work.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 28, 2021

The plaintiffs believe that Ring-1 or those acting in concert with them fraudulently obtained access to the games’ software clients before disassembling, decompiling and/or creating derivative works from them. Copyright Infringement Offenses. 1201(a)(2)).

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 22, 2022

The creation and development of copyright law are closely connected to technological and associated business transformations (see, e.g. here ). What is perhaps different with AI technologies is the magnitude of the potential impact, brought about by the unprecedented scale of automation that increases productivity and access to creativity.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 20, 2023

FlowGpt on the other hand, and creator of “NostalgIA'' using AI, came back with an answer, offering peace, and pointing out the beauty of creativity that new technologies can bring. However, AI technology is getting so good that even an amateur can create a song worth listening to, in any style of music or artist , and do so fast.

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 15, 2022

Disney should also be strategically liberal in its lawsuits—both under trademark law and under derivative works. The Disney Plus platform pulls Disney’s works together and allows the consumer to pay one monthly fee for access to all of them. While copyright protection expires, trademark protection does not.

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The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Just as when two painters, setting up their easels in the same place and painting the same landscape, create two independent works (p. They therefore introduced additional rights for derivative works, such as translations, film adaptations or musical arrangements (pp. This is pure fiction. It's simple. The whole world is data.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2022

While the occasional commercial use of a tattoo in a video game remains rare, tattooers use copyrighted material in their work on a regular basis. WWE 2K (Guest Blog Post) appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. The tattoo industry has largely avoided copyright scrutiny.

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JIPEL Copyright Blog

MARCH 9, 2022

A collaboration between the AGO and Toronto-based digital artist Alex Mayhew, ReBlink sought to exploit cutting-edge technology to provide AGO visitors an opportunity to experience its Canadian and European Collections in an entirely new way. There are clear advantages to the use of these technologies in the museum context.

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Intepat

MAY 24, 2023

2)NON DISCLOSURE AGREEMENTS While taking into account business relationships, one is obligated to execute Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDAs) as a way to protect the information covered by the intellectual property that is also essential to the operation of the company, such as trade secrets, business plans or structures, technologies, or codes.

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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.

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Traverse Legal Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Open-source software development isn’t a new kid on the block, but its importance has skyrocketed with the emergence of game-changing technologies like blockchain and AI. Our technology lawyers understand blockchain technology and artificial intelligence, representing companies and projects in new and emerging fields.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 17, 2022

You agree not to archive, reproduce, distribute, modify, display, perform, publish, license, create derivative works from, offer for sale, or use (except as explicitly authorized in these Terms of Use) content and information contained on or obtained from or through the Netflix service. Still, here’s the relevant section.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

The new technology also brings up novel copyright issues. For example, several rightsholders are worried that their work is being used to train and exploit AI without any form of compensation. These concerns have triggered numerous AI-related lawsuits in the United States, many of which target OpenAI.

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