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The War Over the Future of WHOIS

Plagiarism Today

The WHOIS system (pronounced “Who Is”) is a decentralized database of all the owners of the various domains accessible on the internet. Even back then, privacy issues were a hot topic with many concerned that such a public database of personal information would lead to spam, harassment and other issues.

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Announcing the SpicyIP Empirical Scholarship Database Series!

SpicyIP

Thus, it is with great excitement that today, on Shamnad’s 47th birth anniversary, we are launching the SpicyIP Empirical Scholarship Database Series! General tips: The database’s search feature instantly searches all the entries and can be very useful. Given the size of the database, mobile view is not recommended.

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Are AI models’ weights protected databases?

Kluwer Copyright Blog

On the topic of authorship, it could be argued that someone (one person or a group of persons) will still have high-level control of the training process, and that control could be enough to attribute authorship. Can model weights qualify as a database? More recent case law has adopted a broad er notion of a database.

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‘More Than 600,000 Students and Teachers Use Z-Library’

TorrentFreak

This makes the site a popular repository for students all around the world, as statistics from Z-Library’s user database now reveal. The team analyzed its user database to check how many user email-addresses are linked to universities, colleges and schools.

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Another Tough People Search Ruling–Spindler v. Seamless

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

In opposition, Plaintiff argues that Defendant’s “limitation would exclude most modern advertising, the vast majority of which is delivered by search engines like Google in response to user searches for topics of interest, just as Seamless delivered its advertisement in response to a search for Mr. Spindler.” The Court agrees.

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Anti-Piracy Group Takes Prominent AI Training Dataset ”Books3? Offline

TorrentFreak

The copyright angle is the topic of many debates and has already made its way to court in a few cases. Books3 AI Training Database This week, Rights Alliance entered the arena with one of the most high-profile takedowns thus far. The anti-piracy group acted on behalf of Danish book publishers whose works were featured in the database.

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CCC to Host Publisher Panel on Copyright & AI, Showcase Solutions for Transforming Open Access Programs at 2024 London Book Fair

Velocity of Content

Attendees will learn what they can do when it comes to facilitating permission to use copyrighted works to train AI models. The London Book Fair takes place from 12 – 14 March 2024 at The Olympia London.