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Delaware court finds fair use defence unsuccessful in AI training copyright motion

The IPKat

In a recent decision ( Case 1:20-cv-00613, ECF 770 ) on the use of copyrighted texts for AI (but not generative AI) training, the Delaware District Court (the Court) held that a fair use defence was unsuccessful on a summary judgment motion for copyright infringement. If so, could Ross rely on the fair use defence?

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DMCA Subpoena to Unmask Twitter User Hits Fair Use & Constitutional Roadblock

TorrentFreak

Around October 2020 a Twitter user called ‘ MrMoneyBags ‘ began posting critical messages targeting billionaires. On October 29, 2020, a business entity called Bayside Advisory LLC contacted Twitter stating that since it owns the copyrights in the six photos, they should be taken down under the DMCA.

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Internet Archive: Digital Lending is Fair Use, Not Copyright Infringement

TorrentFreak

In 2020, publishers Hachette, HarperCollins, John Wiley and Penguin Random House sued the Internet Archive (IA) for copyright infringement, equating its ‘Open Library’ to a pirate site. Mass Copyright Infringement or Fair Use? The library argues that the court erred by rejecting its fair use defense.

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Fair Use for Documentaries in US Copyright Law: Brown v Netflix

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Chapman (‘plaintiffs’) collectively filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Netflix, Amazon, and Apple (‘defendants’), claiming that the defendants had directly and indirectly infringed their copyright over the song “ Fish Sticks n’ Tater Tots ” by using it in their documentary titled ‘Burlesque’ ( Brown v. Netflix , Inc. ).

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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? It was however terminated at the instance of the Defendant with effect from 1 st August 2020. In response the Defendant claimed, “ fair use” and “ de minimis” use. Akshat Agrawal.

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Fourth Circuit Issues a Bummer Fair Use Ruling–Philpot v. IJR

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

Philpot sued in 2020 over the 2016 IJR publication, i.e., after the 3 year statute of limitations that no one seems to care about post-Petrella. (In This is what I call a “commercial editorial use”–ad-supported editorial content. 6, 2024) The post Fourth Circuit Issues a Bummer Fair Use Ruling–Philpot v.

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3 Count: YouTube Battles

Plagiarism Today

According to a video he uploaded, his videos will remain available in countries with a broad fair use exemption, like the United States, but not in countries like Toei’s native Japan that have narrow exemptions. However, in the second half of 2020, the trend started to reverse, with 2021 marking a 2.8%

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