Plagiarism Today

APRIL 4, 2022

Why is it acceptable for Carolyn Keene to be a pseudonym for over a dozen authors penning Nancy Drew stories, but not ok for Cristiane Serruya to use ghostwriters when producing books with her name (outside the fact the books were plagiarized from other sources). The answer is that plagiarism is complicated.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 7, 2021

On Tuesday, journalist Robert Kolker published an article in the New York Times Magazine entitled Who is the Bad Art Friend? This prompted Dorland to first report the alleged plagiarism to a wide variety of groups and worked on getting the story pulled while working through lawyers to demand financial compensation.

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Plagiarism Today

JULY 27, 2021

The reason is that the track has faced not one, but two separate allegations of plagiarism, with many fans and critics alike wondering if the band may have run afoul of copyright law. However, this turned out to be more of a licensing than a traditional plagiarism issue. The challenge is determining what is plagiarism and what is not.

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Plagiarism Today

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The Copyright Claims Board has handed three more determinations, including one fair use issue and two questions on damages. The post 3 New Copyright Claims Board Decisions appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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Plagiarism Today

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

appeared first on Plagiarism Today. A new study published in the Harvard Business Review examines the impact of AI systems on human creators. The answers are not encouraging. The post Does AI Replace Human Creators?

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Patently-O

JANUARY 4, 2024

I believe that Winston & Strawn will eventually prevail based upon a fair use defense, but it is still an embarrassing situation for the firm and attorneys involved. In this case, HLG alleges that Winston & Strawn plagiarized a motion to dismiss that HLG had filed on behalf of a client in an earlier consolidated patent case.

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Plagiarism Today

MAY 23, 2023

The post What the Warhol Ruling May Mean for AI appeared first on Plagiarism Today. The Andy Warhol ruling is less than a week old, but the Supreme Court may have just shaken the world of artificial intelligence to its core.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

The post 5 Takeaways from the Internet Archive Ruling appeared first on Plagiarism Today. Yesterday, the Internet Archive lost its appeal in its case against book publishers. Here's what you need to know.

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Plagiarism Today

JUNE 12, 2024

The post 3 New and Interesting Cases Before the Copyright Claims Board appeared first on Plagiarism Today. As such, we're taking a look at three new and interesting cases being heard by it.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 23, 2023

The post Axanar Creator Faces New Legal Threat appeared first on Plagiarism Today. Axanar creator Alec Peters is facing fresh legal peril as CBS and Paramount seek to enforce a $300,000 arbitration judgement against him.

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Plagiarism Today

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

The post Why The Kat Von D Ruling is Confusing appeared first on Plagiarism Today. Recently, Kat Von D won a key jury verdict in a trial over a tattoo. However, it has many copyright watchers scratching their heads.

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Plagiarism Today

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

The post The First Major Impact of the Warhol Ruling appeared first on Plagiarism Today. The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals has just handed down a ruling that highlights how much of a shift the SCOTUS Warhol ruling is causing.

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 18, 2024

The post 4 More Contested Cases Before the Copyright Claims Board appeared first on Plagiarism Today. The Copyright Claims Board is seeing a sharp rise in contested cases, here's four of the latest and most interesting to receive a response.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 25, 2021

In that ruling, the Supreme Court found that Google’s use of the code was, ultimately, a fair use and did so with language that seemed to many to be extremely broad. Oracle case had no bearing on this one or any fair use analysis in an “artistic” context. At least not broadly. Bottom Line.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The Appeals Court ruled against the Warhol estate finding that the images in question were not a fair use. The post 3 Count: Warhol Battle appeared first on Plagiarism Today. However, the estate appealed to the Supreme Court, which heard oral arguments yesterday. 2: Textile Designer Sues Zulily for Copyright Infringement.

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Plagiarism Today

APRIL 12, 2023

The post The Case Against Roy Lichtenstein appeared first on Plagiarism Today. A recent documentary about Roy Lichtenstein looks at his appropriations. Was he an artistic genius, a plagiarist, or both?

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Plagiarism Today

APRIL 19, 2022

The lawsuit was filed by photographer Elliot McGucken, who claimed that Newsweek infringed his copyright by embedding an Instagram post of his on their site as part of a news article. The court, in this case, rejected the test as well as Newsweek’s fair use arguments. The terms of the settlement have not been disclosed.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Costumes are considered “useful articles” and, similar to most of the fashion industry , does not qualify for any kind of copyright protection. . First, design elements that are “physically or conceptually separate” from the article can be protected. However, commercial use of costumes still raises legal questions.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 2, 2021

According to the lawsuit, Nicklen uploaded a viral video of a starving polar bear that Sinclair embedded into a news article about the video. The judge also ruled against Sinclair on the issue of fair use, saying that it was too early in the case to rule on that issue. The case was filed by Paul Nicklen against Sinclair Media.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Un)Fair Use and Other Questions. This hurts uses that, according to most people, would likely be considered a fair use and non-infringing. This means that it can be very difficult and even unreliable to use third party content on sites monitored by bots. Even if that use is a probable fair use.

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Plagiarism Today

APRIL 20, 2023

The post Update: 4 Copyright Claims Board Cases to Watch appeared first on Plagiarism Today. In September, we looked at four Copyright Claims Board cases to watch. Now we're revisiting them and seeing what's happened with them.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 16, 2023

The post xQc and the 2023 Reaction Video Controversy appeared first on Plagiarism Today. Streamer and YouTuber xQc is under fire for his reaction videos. Here's why it's not the first such battle and why this may be different.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Fair Use: Since the questions at issue only make up a small portion of the textbooks at issue, Chegg may argue fair use. To make matters worse for Chegg, companies engaged in behavior seen as “unethical” by the courts, often struggle to make fair use arguments.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 10, 2022

The Assess Tool also provides a basic fair use analysis and helps to make sure that the use isn’t covered under any other exceptions to copyright law. As such, RightsClick is not a shortcut for bloggers and online journalists to quickly register and protect their articles.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Last week, Moss summarized the history of the case in an article that is well worth reading. Implied License – Second, Take-Two could have argued that, by placing the tattoo on Randy Orton, that Alexander granted an implied license for it to be used as part of his image, including on TV, film and video games.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

” The case raises questions of fair use and whether the new paintings were transformative enough to be non-infringing or if they were simply derivative works. In addition to the above fair use issues, there is also one other to consider: The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). 3: The Andy Warhol Ruling.

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Plagiarism Today

DECEMBER 6, 2022

In some 610 cases, Reddit declined to remove the work due to, what they claim, is fair use. Reasonable people can and do disagree about what is and is not fair use. This includes people using the copyright system for non-copyright issues, failing to clearly identify the work at issue and filing against non-Reddit content.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

This, in turn, raises questions of fair use and those types of cases are often long, drawn out, expensive and difficult to predict. In short, fair use is largely subjective and there is a great deal of uncertainty when heading into such a case.

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Plagiarism Today

JULY 8, 2021

As was pointed out in this excellent article in The Verge , there is no legal precedent here. According to the court, Google’s use was transformative enough to be a fair use. Is it so short that its use is a fair use? Unfortunately, the real answer is that no one actually knows. Is it identical?

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Plagiarism Today

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Rules around fair use, notice and takedown and so forth are replaced by bots that are incapable of understanding the nuances of the law itself. Back when I first launched Plagiarism Today in 2005, the internet was a very different place. The post We Need to Rethink YouTube appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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Plagiarism Today

MARCH 17, 2022

However, that required working with Patreon, which previously had used Vimeo as a video hosting partner for their users. In an article from The Verge , other Vimeo uploaders, primarily those that used it through Patreon, were facing similar issues. the data used in order to deliver your videos to viewers).

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43(B)log

AUGUST 9, 2024

Is this relevant to fair use? Satire involves using the same style to clothe different ideas; therefore it shouldn’t infringe (lack of substantial similarity as in the Greatest American Hero case; German case law; perhaps the jury’s reasoning in the Kat von D case). W/o fair use, these tools are far more limited.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 5, 2022

” Second, Bayside said that copyright already accommodates First Amendment considerations via the fair use defense (citing the Reddit case ). Nature of the use. The photos were already published, which weighs in favor of fair use. ” This also weighs in favor of fair use (?). Amount taken.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 1, 2024

Newspapers Sue OpenAI and Microsoft The New York Daily News, Chicago Tribune, Orlando Sentinel, Sun-Sentinel, Mercury News, Denver Post, Pioneer Press, and Orange County Register, claim that the AI companies used their publications to train and develop ChatGPT models without obtaining permission.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 1, 2024

Newspapers Sue OpenAI and Microsoft The New York Daily News, Chicago Tribune, Orlando Sentinel, Sun-Sentinel, Mercury News, Denver Post, Pioneer Press, and Orange County Register, claim that the AI companies used their publications to train and develop ChatGPT models without obtaining permission.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Right now, the fair use questions around software make it difficult to predict how a court might rule. The post The Ethical and Legal Challenges of GitHub Copilot appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 31, 2025

Top articles will receive exciting prizes and certificates in recognition of their work. Analysing the impact of Indian copyright law on fair use in academic and critical writing. Evaluating the doctrine of fair use for Indian social media platforms in light of global cases. The use of AI is strictly prohibited.

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