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TikTok Copyright Notices Up Again in 2023, Success Rate Collapses to 56%

TorrentFreak

Using the raw data made available as part of TikTok’s reporting, we removed trademark-related statistics and homed-in on copyright matters, to produce the charts seen below. Close to half failing to have any effect in the last six months of 2023 is an all-time low, if we discount the first half of 2021 as a reporting anomaly.

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Does Copyright Notice Protect a Website?

Dear Rich IP Blog

Dear Rich: Does putting "Copyright 2023" at the bottom of page pages protect it from site visitors who download an image or narrative content? Placing a copyright notice on your website is like sticking a "Keep off the grass" sign on your front lawn. you'll just have to chase them away.

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5 Spooky Articles About Copyright and Halloween

Plagiarism Today

When the film was released, the print was missing a copyright notice. Under the laws at the time, this mean that it didn’t have copyright protection. However, that copyright is not long for this world as it expired this year, meaning that it will formally end on January 1, 2023.

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How Can AI Models Legally Obtain Training Data?–Doe 1 v. GitHub (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

2023 WL 3449131 at *1 (N.D. May 11, 2023). As of May 2023, GitHub has updated this provision on its website to explicitly read “any code, text, … documents, or other files”). Plaintiffs alleged that Defendants reproduced code as output without attribution, copyright notice, or license terms. GitHub, Inc.

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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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Understanding the CCB’s First Two Final Determinations (Guest Blog Post–Part 3 of 3)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

Eight months after filing, the first two Copyright Claims Board (CCB) Final Determinations have been handed down. Mitrakos, 22-CCB-0035 , February 15, 2023, and Oppenheimer v. Prutton, 22-CCB-0045 , February 28, 2023. The respondent did not respond then, and the CCB sent a notice on January 11, 2023. Oppenheimer v.

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Pro-Plex News Articles on Facebook Deleted By Markscan On Behalf of Plex

TorrentFreak

On January 1, 2024, TorrentFreak published a review of the wrongful DMCA notices filed against us in 2023, either directly via email or at Google demanding deindexing of our articles. Our small request for 2024 was not unreasonable: stop sending us bogus copyright notices.