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rebinding books doesn't create derivative works but may be actionable under Lanham Act

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2023 WL 416080, No. Spiralverse removed the original paperback glue bindings from the copies it purchased, punched holes in the pages, and installed spiral bindings. Spiralverse listed its modified copies for sale on Amazon at prices of $29.99 Copyright infringement: Rebinding doesn’t create a derivative work.

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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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Generative AI: admissibility and infringement in the two US class actions against Meta’s LLaMA

Kluwer Copyright Blog

The plaintiffs’ factual allegations in Kadrey v Meta and Chabon v Meta The first class action, Kadrey v Meta ( here ), was filed on 7 July 2023, in U.S. The second class action, Chabon v Meta, was filed on 12 September 2023 before the same court ( here ). District Court for the Northern District of California – San Francisco Division.

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

IIPRD

Such databases may include work that is copyrighted. 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. Goldsmith (2023) [2]. 1] Authors Guild v. Google, Inc., 3d 202 (2d Cir. Goldsmith, 598 U.S.

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Facebook’s LLaMa Defeats Copyright Claims–Kadrey v. Meta

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

This short opinion squarely addresses when AI training models constitute derivative works. Simply indexing copyrighted books into the model doesn’t create derivative works (the judge calls the argument “nonsensical”) because the training model doesn’t recast or adapt the books. .”

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The 5 Worst Copyright Lawsuits of 2023

Copyright Lately

Thousands will compete, many are objectively baseless, but only five can be crowned the worst of the worst copyright lawsuits of 2023. This year, I’m counting down the five most frivolous, ill-conceived, and all-around cringeworthy copyright lawsuits of 2023. Atlantic Records Lyrically Challenged. Carter wrote in Jones v. Polychron v.

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Generative AI: the US Copyright class action against OpenAI

Kluwer Copyright Blog

case number IL-2023-000007). It is based on “ large language models ” (so called LLM ), which is “ trained by copying massive amounts of text ” (so called training dataset ) “ and extracting expressive information from it ” (see § I.2). 35 quoting OpenAI’s paper introducing GPT-4 dated March 2023). and others v. and Awad M.