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AI and Fair Use: Navigating Legal Challenges in India and the United States

IIPRD

One such legal issues is what is referred to as “fair use,” which becomes particularly problematic in the context of the copyright law. Thus, fundamental questions arise, such as whether such copying amounts to infringement under copyright law or whether it falls under the purview of fair use.

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Copyright, AI Training, and LLMs: Historical Perspective and Infringement Analysis

Velocity of Content

The fair use debate in the United States is likely to continue for several years until one or more Supreme Court opinions shed additional light on the issue. While LLMs are a significant and new technology and may be capable of multiple non-infringing uses, not every use of them with copyrighted material is transformative.

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Copyrightability of a Programming Language

Patently-O

Although the Supreme Court eventually sided with Google on fair use grounds, it did not disturb the Federal Circuit’s copyrightability decision that strongly supported copyright protection even for functional software. Posner, The Economic Structure of Intellectual Property Law (2003). 702 (2015).

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

IP and Legal Filings

The personality rights in India are generally enforced in the context of Intellectual Property Laws. Ramkumar Jewellers , wherein it was held that an individual should be able to control the circumstances around the use of their identification. [8] So, various courts have over the time drawn a clear line in this regard.

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Humanizing Copyright Infringement: “Who Is the Bad Art Friend?” by Robert Kolker

IPilogue

Lamont Abramczyk is a 3L JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School, enrolled in Professor David Vaver’s 2021-2022 Intellectual Property Law & Technology Intensive Program. In 2015, Dorland decided to donate one of her kidneys to a stranger. It is common practice for jockeys to equip horses with blinders.

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A Novel Dataset Measuring Change in Copyright Exceptions

Kluwer Copyright Blog

In 2015, the Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property (PIJIP) set out to conduct empirical research on the impact of copyright exceptions. We soon realized that information about the changes to copyright law over time – which would be especially useful for empirical studies – was lacking.

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The Modern Copyright Dilemma: Digital Content Ownership and Access

IP and Legal Filings

Introduction The Intellectual property laws are designed in such a way that not only reward the creator of his intellectual creation thereby incentivising other creators for further innovation, while balancing the rights of the creator with the right of the society to access information or knowledge.