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Radiohead ‘Leaked’ Their Own Track in 2009, Now We’re Accused of Pirating It

TorrentFreak

If 2009 sounds like it happened half a lifetime ago, many 30 year-olds would likely agree. Music Industry & Government Had it All Wrong In May 2009, Brian Message, a partner in Radiohead’s management company, did the unthinkable. Despite the polarized views, Radiohead hadn’t quite finished. Was It Really Happening?

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Announcing the Winners of the 2024 Shamnad Basheer Essay Competition on Intellectual Property Law!

SpicyIP

Shamnad Basheer 1976-2019; taken at NUJS, Kolkata circa 2009. In doing so, the essay highlights the paradoxical stance of companies on training other ML systems using the output generated by their own ML systems and discusses the copyrightability of ML system-generated output, if any. Basheers 48th birth anniversary.

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New(s) Questions and Fair Use: Using Copyright to Curtail Expression?

SpicyIP

You can see his previous posts for us here. New(s) Questions and Fair Use: Using Copyright to Curtail Expression? In response the Defendant claimed, “ fair use” and “ de minimis” use. A mere quantitative analysis of the duration of content used does not matter. Akshat Agrawal.

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The Battle Over Poker NFTs

Plagiarism Today

” 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. In 2009, the Associated Press filed a lawsuit against artist Shepherd Fairey over the famous Obama “Hope” poster that he designed.

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Amazon Owns Your E-Books and Wants More

SpicyIP

In light of Amazon’s decision to disable the ‘Download or Transfer via USB’ feature from their Kindle devices, Arnav Kaman discusses DRMs/TPMs, the rights of the user, what users can do with their ebooks within the fair use doctrine, and the future of ebooks in this guest post. Kindle is not a bookseller.

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What Goldsmith Means to AI Trainers

IP Intelligence

Sy Damle, (2016-2018 General Counsel) testified that “the training of AI models will generally fall within the established bounds of fair use.” (S. At the time Goldsmith was also licensing her original photograph to several magazines that were also writing articles about Prince’s life and music. Damle introductory statement, Tr.

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Tattoo Artist Copyright Win Will Create Uncertainty Over Celebrities with Tattoos

The IP Law Blog

Those arguments were that (1) Take-Two’s use of the tattoos was authorized by an implied license, (2) the fair use doctrine insulates their utilization of the tattoos and (3) the tattoos constitute a de minimis part of the video game. Take Two had good reason to believe in its implied license defense.