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3 Count: Swimsuit Edition

Plagiarism Today

First off today, Kevin Shalvey at Business Insider reports that “Sports Illustrated” swimsuit model Genevieve Morton has filed a lawsuit against Twitter alleging that the site was slow to remove infringing material and that an AI photo editing tool created unlawful derivative works.

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Copyright Liability for LLM Outputs

Velocity of Content

If so, infringement may occur unless an exception applies or the LLM did not have access to the original work. 1 Another key right is the creation of derivative works, which includes adaptations or translations. 7 This does not, however, fully answer hard questions about the right to prepare derivative works under US law.

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Authors Get Mixed Results With Initial Skirmish in OpenAI Lawsuit

The IP Law Blog

The Court noted that the Copyright Act “grants the copyright holder exclusive rights to (1) `reproduce the copyrighted work and copies;’ (2) `prepare derivative works;’ and (3) `distribute copies of the copyrighted work to the public’.” East Coast Foods, Inc.,

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Sony Loses as CJEU Rules Datel’s RAM Data ‘Cheat’ Non-Copyright Infringing

TorrentFreak

Therefore, the software creating an unauthorized derivative work. In 2012, the Landgericht Hamburg (Regional Court) partially upheld Sony’s claims. According to Sony, Datel’s software intervened in the ‘program flow’ of its games and, by changing the flow, Sony’s copyrighted game code was modified.

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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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YouTube Wins Partial Summary Judgment in Maria Schneider Copyright Lawsuit

TorrentFreak

The YouTube TOS grants YouTube “a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicensable and transferable license to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display, and perform” any content uploaded by users.

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Limited Licensing: An introductory overview

IP and Legal Filings

It includes reproduction, the preparation of derivative works, distributing copies by sale or rental, and public performance or display. In 2012, Netflix obtained an exclusive multi-year deal to stream live-action TV series based on Marvel superheroes like Daredevil, Luke Cage, and Jessica Jones.