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Authors Get Mixed Results With Initial Skirmish in OpenAI Lawsuit

The IP Law Blog

In 2023, several authors, including the comedian Sarah Silverman, filed putative class action lawsuits alleging various copyright infringement claims. The OpenAI defendants moved to dismiss all causes of action alleged by the author plaintiffs with the exception of the first cause of action for direct copyright infringement. (It

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IT’S THE COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT FOR ME: WHY CLAIMS AGAINST MEME CONTENT SHOULD NOT MATTER

JIPL Online

In particular, it explores why copyright of a meme’s underlying content does not matter in a normative sense. In this blog I argue that copyright protection of the content underlying memes does not matter because of the relative weakness of enforcement mechanisms for copyright infringement of this scale. 511, 523 (2012).

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Limited Licensing: An introductory overview

IP and Legal Filings

Main Blog Unlicensed use of any content registered under the Copyright Act, 1957 , violates the exclusive rights of the owner and amounts to copyright infringement. It includes reproduction, the preparation of derivative works, distributing copies by sale or rental, and public performance or display.

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Authors Get Mixed Results With Initial Skirmish in OpenAI Lawsuit

LexBlog IP

In 2023, several authors, including the comedian Sarah Silverman, filed putative class action lawsuits alleging various copyright infringement claims. The OpenAI defendants moved to dismiss all causes of action alleged by the author plaintiffs with the exception of the first cause of action for direct copyright infringement. (It

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First duel between NFTs and copyright before the Spanish courts: NFTs 1 – Authors 0

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Technically, from a copyright perspective, the NFTs were derivative works of the Paintings (underlying works), since the former included major copyrightable elements of the (previously created) latter.

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The Interplay of Personality Rights and Freedom of Expression- the Jackie Shroff’s Case’

IP and Legal Filings

Even though Section 52 of the Copyright Act classifies any artistic work under fair use, it is imperative to note that it does not safeguard total imitation of a work. This is where it usually becomes difficult to draw a fine line between fair use and copyright infringement. 2012 SCC OnLine Mad 3462. [10]

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Bungie Expert: Destiny 2 Cheats Logged “Active Military” Patient Data

TorrentFreak

In August 2021, Bungie filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against a number of defendants involved in the development and supply of Destiny 2 cheating tool, Wallhax. “When I first joined the Wallhax partnership in 2012, I was the primary software developer for the business,” Schaufuss writes. 11020781 Canada Inc.,