TorrentFreak

MAY 1, 2024

In this case, eight major news publications are suing OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement. In addition, ChatGPT can recall large parts of their copyright-protected articles, which effectively bypasses their paywalls. In addition, they called out the lack of specific copyright infringements by third parties.

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IPilogue

MAY 4, 2022

You may remember the big music copyright infringement case of 2012 , where Robin Thicke was sued by Marvin Gaye over claims that Thicke’s hit song “Blurred Lines” infringed on Gaye’s “Got to Give It Up”. However, nowadays, it seems that many major artists are frequently being sued for copyright infringement.

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Plagiarism Today

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Life Music Inc, representing songwriters Gloria Parker and Barney Young, filed a lawsuit against Disney and others involved in the film alleging that the Disney version of Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious violated the copyright of their 1951 song Supercalafajalistickespeealadojus. However, the case didn’t make it very far.

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IPilogue

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Copyright infringement is the violation and piracy of an author’s exclusive right through the unauthorized use of a Copyright-protected work. Section 15 (1) (a)-(g) of the Copyright Act, C28, Laws of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (“LFN”), 2004 , provides several acts that amount to copyright infringement in Nigeria.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 3, 2023

Over the past several years, a wave of copyright infringement lawsuits has targeted alleged cheaters and cheat makers. Two years ago, Bungie filed a complaint at a federal court in Seattle, accusing AimJunkies of copyright and trademark infringement, among other things. Dismissal, Hacking and Arbitration Last year, U.S.

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IP Watchdog

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

One recurring thorn in the side of copyright owners is Cloudflare, the San Francisco-based web performance, optimization, and security company. When an end user requests content from one of Cloudflare’s customers, it is delivered to that user from the cached copy on the nearest Cloudflare server—not the customer’s own web host server.

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Copyright Infringement Copyright Copying Law 138

TorrentFreak

JULY 18, 2023

In common with content created in other fields, photographs generally enjoy protection under copyright law, allowing photographers to determine who can duplicate and/or distribute their work. Photographers Alexis Hunley and Matthew Brauer posted several of their copyrighted works on Instagram.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 16, 2021

On Friday, Buzzfeed published an article that highlights the widespread and long-running plagiarism of Snopes CEO and co-founder David Mikkelson. To that end, any plagiarism scandal represents a serious challenge, but to have one that involves dozens of articles written by the site’s co-founder, it becomes almost insurmountable.

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The IPKat

JUNE 17, 2023

Would you say that Cattelan’s work (realized for an exhibition in Miami in 2019) is an unauthorized reproduction of the 2001 work below, titled Banana and Orange , and thus an infringement of the copyright vesting in it? Let’s see more in detail how the judge reasoned.

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Velocity of Content

JULY 31, 2024

Copyrighted materials are the fuel for artificial intelligence (AI) systems, but misunderstandings persist about how copyright applies to the use of content as training material for AI models. Let’s explore some common assumptions about copyright and AI and address several widely held misunderstandings on the subject.

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IPilogue

MAY 19, 2022

Justin Bieber and Dan + Shay are next in a line of artists to face allegations of copyright infringement — after Ed Sheeran and Dua Lipa. Music distribution company The Orchard , a subsidiary of Sony , released First Time in 2014, and the original written song had been submitted to the US Copyright Office by Melomega in 1980.

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Plagiarism Today

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Zack Nelson, the man behind JerryRigEverything, claims that Casetify copied his and dbrand's work. The post Understanding The JerryRigEverything/Casetify Copyright Battle appeared first on Plagiarism Today. And he has significant proof.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

With the NFT craze reaching new heights, Quentin Tarantino finds himself at the receiving end of a copyright infringement battle. Movie studio Miramax, which owns most of the rights to the film, sees it as a contract breach and copyright infringement. Through the lawsuit, Miramax hopes to stop the NFT sales.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 2, 2023

The European Union recognizes that online piracy poses a serious threat to copyright holders and the public at large. This includes a requirement for large platforms to deter repeat copyright infringers. According to the EU, pirate sites lead to “high financial losses” for copyright holders. Scammers Exploit Europa.eu

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43(B)log

DECEMBER 14, 2023

New article with Chris Buccafusco: Houston Law Review, Vol. 61, 2023 Abstract To prove copyright infringement, a plaintiff must convince a jury that the defendant copied from the plaintiff’s work rather than independently creating it.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

JULY 7, 2024

The lawsuit accuses the tech giants of using CIR’s copyrighted material without authorization. CIR alleges that the big corporations OpenAI and Microsoft have used, copied, abridged, and displayed the contents of CIR to train ChatGPT without obtaining permission or providing any compensation.

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Copyright Lately

MARCH 6, 2022

Just days after Dua Lipa was sued by a Florida reggae band, “Levitating” is the target of a second copyright infringement lawsuit, this time over the songs “Wiggle and Giggle All Night” and “Don Diablo.” ” Any moderately successful songwriter can be sued for copyright infringement.

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Copyright Lately

OCTOBER 24, 2022

The letter claimed that the director, an ad agency, and a popular theme park had all committed copyright infringement because a panda appeared in the background of their TV commercial. But if they appear on film without permission, even fleetingly, they could prompt a copyright infringement lawsuit.

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IP Law 360

JANUARY 25, 2023

s copyright infringement suit accusing a prominent investment manager of unlawfully copying and distributing thousands of news articles from The Wall Street Journal be trimmed, saying the media company cannot claim statutory damages from each individual allegedly infringed article, among other things.

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Plagiarism Today

MAY 17, 2022

The system would scan the internet for potential infringements, inform artists of any that are detected, and allow the artist to file takedown notices of any works they felt were infringing. We’ve seen mass litigation efforts, commonly referred to as “copyright troll” operations , speculative invoicing and much more.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 5, 2024

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. domain, but the repo was reported for infringement nonetheless.

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IP Watchdog

JULY 12, 2023

district court, alleging the company’s generative AI product, ChatGPT, infringes on their copyrighted content. In addition to copyright infringement, the trio also claimed that the AI company violated the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), unfair competition laws and unjustly enriched the company.

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The IPKat

APRIL 15, 2024

In a recent judgment (in Czech) which is one of the first of its kind in Europe, the Municipal Court of Prague (the Court) held that an image generated by an AI tool was not capable of being protected by copyright, as it was not authored by a natural person. Show only hands. ” contractual) protections to prevent this.

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IP and Legal Filings

AUGUST 14, 2023

Copyright is a more complicated problem. Per Article 5(2) of the Berne Convention [9] , copyright is established without the need for any further procedures. Since copyright is “universal”, some argue that the lex originis should be utilised to determine who owns works that have been plagiarised.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 30, 2024

However, copyright protection may unexpectedly clash with this sustainable practice, as certain upcycled items could include copyrighted prints, ornaments, or design patterns from the original materials, such as new clothing items made out of old bed sheets, curtains, or tablecloths , or jewellery made from broken porcelain.

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The IPKat

MARCH 4, 2024

This time, Katfriend Spyridon Sipetas (Stockholm University) tells the story of a collaboration – the one between Jacquemus and Nike – that has been already plagued with accusations of copying. Here’s what Spyridon writes: Jacquemus x Nike Swoosh Bag: ‘Just Copy It’ or re-appropriation of Nike’s own trade mark?

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Velocity of Content

JANUARY 9, 2024

One area that often gets overlooked in the outsourcing and collaboration process is how to manage copyright compliance and the associated risks of non-compliance. When an article is purchased for download, it is typically only authorized for the use of the individual user who purchased it.

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IP Law 360

AUGUST 24, 2022

s copyright infringement suit accusing him of unlawfully copying and distributing thousands of news articles from The Wall Street Journal, arguing that his actions are protected under fair use. A prominent investment manager has asked a Texas federal judge to dismiss Dow Jones & Co.'s

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Yesterday, we looked at the myriad of ways that copyright and trademark impact Halloween costumes. However, that is just the latest in a decade-long history of discussing copyright, plagiarism and other authorship issues as they pertain to Halloween and horror. Copyright and Halloween.

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Velocity of Content

JULY 31, 2024

Copyrighted materials are the fuel for artificial intelligence (AI) systems, but misunderstandings persist about how copyright applies to the use of content as training material for AI models. Let’s explore some common assumptions about copyright and AI and address several widely held misunderstandings on the subject.

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Copyright Fair Use Licensing Copyright Infringement 52

IP and Legal Filings

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

The availability of a large variety of information has also increased the risk of Copyright Infringement due to its easy accessibility and dissemination. This has led to varying degrees of copyright infringements in this digital era.

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 13, 2023

Copyright infringement and De Minimis are often replaced to complement each other. However, de minimis is sometimes used as a defence in a copyright lawsuit. More often than not, the lawsuits filed for copyright infringement are cases of de minimis and thereto, get dismissed on the anvil of frivolity. INTRODUCTION.

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Velocity of Content

JANUARY 25, 2024

This article originally appeared in IPWatchdog and is re-published with permission. “Is Is offshoring the training of AI a credible and efficient response to minimize copyright compliance risks or is offshoring merely a theoretical argument designed to both influence lawmakers and for government relations purposes?”

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Copyright Lately

APRIL 6, 2024

A federal court has shot down a copyright infringement lawsuit claiming that Top Gun: Maverick flew too close to a 1983 magazine article that inspired the original film. The plaintiffs enlisted writer and professor Henry Bean to opine on the similarities between Yonay’s article and the sequel film.

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IP and Legal Filings

JULY 29, 2024

At the same time, this shift also raises various questions relating to copyrights and the safety of educational content and the authors’ rights. Another lesser-known problem of the authors of the schools providing educational services through the Internet is the question of the control of the distribution of copies of copyrighted works.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JULY 11, 2022

The Intellectual Property Enterprise Court (IPEC), part of the English High Court, has ruled that copyright subsists in the character of Derek ‘Del Boy’ Trotter and that a character can be protected as a literary work under the UK’s closed list of copyright works ([ 2022] EWHC 1379 IPEC ).

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The IPKat

AUGUST 11, 2021

IPKat readers interested in copyright are well aware of how, over the past several years, the right of communication to the public has gained a top spot in litigation and case law. 3(1) of the Copyright Directive ).

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