Plagiarism Today

APRIL 19, 2022

First off today, Joe Tidy at the BBC reports that the City of London Police have arrested three people and shuttered the website of a group that was running an unauthorized clone of Club Penguin, the Disney social media site/game that shuttered in 2017. The terms of the settlement have not been disclosed.

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The IPKat

JULY 7, 2024

See Katpost here ) With the introduction of Article 17 of the DSMD , this position has been reaffirmed, as online platforms must prevent the uploading of copyrighted content without proper authorisation, with the aim of ensuring that rightholders are remunerated for their works. 107 to apply. According to 17 U.S.C. § Goldsmith and Campbell v.

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Plagiarism Today

APRIL 4, 2022

However, when a programmer plagiarizes in a white paper or a lawyer in an article, the pitchforks come out anew. The reason for this is simple: Plagiarism is governed by social norms. In April 2021, researcher Jess L Gregory published an article entitled “ Plagiarism as a Social Contract, a New Way to Approach Plagiarism ”.

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43(B)log

MARCH 1, 2022

25, 2022) “The softball team and flag corps at a public high school outside Fort Worth used their Twitter accounts to post a motivational passage from sports psychologist Keith Bell’s book, Winning Isn’t Normal.” He sued; the court of appeals affirms a finding of fair use on a motion to dismiss and an award of attorneys’ fees.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 2, 2022

Just recently, Japanese company Toei Animation used Content ID to remove around 150 of his videos claiming that the use of Toei clips infringed their copyrights. Mark believes his work is allowed under fair use but that didn’t seem important to Toei.

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IP Watchdog

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Copyright Office is studying and requesting comment on a proposal to defer registration examination; a bipartisan group of Senators introduce a new bill that would require social media companies to provide data to NSF-vetted independent researchers; Toyota Motor announces that it will shutdown production at two Japanese facilities due to labor and (..)

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IP and Legal Filings

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Such work may include any literary or artistic work such as books, articles, films, databases, computer programs etc. However, it is not so and such use will be unauthorized unless and until the permission of the owner has been taken, or he has been referenced or if the information has been made available by the government.

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IPilogue

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Sedlik claims that Kat Von D infringed the copyright protection of his iconic photograph of world-famous jazz musician Miles Davis (“Davis”) when she tattooed the image onto a client’s body without authorization and posted photos of the tattoo on social media. Fischer found triable issues on substantial similarity and fair use.

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The IP Law Blog

JULY 22, 2021

Over the past few weeks, there have been a number of news articles and stories about police officers playing popular music during a citizen/officer interaction that is being filmed by the citizen. This would include a belief that the display or performance of the copyrighted material in the video was covered under fair use.

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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. Social media silos like Twitter, Facebook and TikTok dominate the landscape. This has put YouTubers in a bind. Since then, the internet has become much more consolidated.

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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.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 19, 2024

OpenAI/Microsoft Late last year The Times sued OpenAI and Microsoft , alleging that its generative AI models were trained on copyrighted news articles. The news publication also suggested that, when prompted the right way, ChatGPT could recite content from these articles. Instead, it mostly sticks to its original claims.

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IPilogue

OCTOBER 28, 2021

In Canada, under section 64(2) of the Copyright Act , it is not an infringement of copyright to reproduce the design of a “useful article”, so long as more than 50 copies are made. The Act defines a “useful article” as having a utilitarian function, which encompasses most clothing. There are notable exceptions.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 3, 2023

31, 2022): When an individual’s decision to disseminate an Instagram post is the “very thing the article [is] reporting on,” the use of the Instagram post and its copyrighted material in the reporting has been deemed sufficiently transformative to support a fair use defense. The focus of the article is Ms.

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SpicyIP

AUGUST 22, 2022

This article seeks to examine how trademark law interacts with the freedom of expression of artists to choose the subject matters they wish to engage with, using the dispute between Hermès, a fashion industry giant and Mason Rothschild, a digital artist, as a contextual backdrop. C) Any non-commercial use of a mark.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

APRIL 3, 2023

Christine Haight Farley and I recently wrote an article that discusses the options for the Court if it wants to hold that the First Amendment limits trademark rights, but not adopt the Rogers test applied by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in the Jack Daniel’s dispute (I will discuss the Rogers test later).

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Copyright Lately

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Despite a number of solid affirmative defenses—including implied license, de minimis use and waiver—the jury was only asked to determine whether defendants had proven that their conduct qualified as a fair use under the Copyright Act. This left only the fair use defense remaining for the jury.

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Traverse Legal Blog

MAY 1, 2022

An Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) (also known as a Fair Use Policy) is a set of rules applied by the owner, creator or administrator of a network, website, or service that restricts the ways in which the network, website, or service may be used and sets guidelines as to how it should be used. Pornography.

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Is training of GenAI models fair use? The defendants were accused of illegally uploading copyrighted works online on social media and other online private groups. Read Bharathwaj Ramakrishnans first part of his two part post where he analyses the issues framed by the Delhi HC in ANI vs OpenAI.

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JD Supra Law

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Genteman discussed best practices and evaluating practical risks, by exploring common copyright issues encountered by in-house counsel, including photo licenses and releases, using music, posting to social media, dealing with copyright trolls, and fair-use basics. Please see full article below for more information.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

A journalist used Midjourney to illustrate an article in The Atlantic and was attacked on social media for not hiring an illustrator. Text and data mining There is wide disparity in the scope of exceptions in national copyright laws permitting copying for the use of training AI.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 7, 2024

While pirate sites are not necessarily eager to install upload filters, plenty of legitimate platforms might find them useful. In addition to appeasing rightsholders, ContentCore also helps to ensure that UGC platforms comply with Article 17 of the EU Copyright Directive. ContentCore essentially automates the takedown process.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 16, 2022

Neither does the group chase down people who share its music in a friendly way on social media or file-sharing networks. However, if critics (so-called ‘apostates’) use Watch Tower copyrighted content to challenge its authority or practices, bad things can follow. Devine Intervention Levels The Playing Field.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 5, 2021

Some interesting discussion on the use of Google and Twitter to determine genericness: Plaintiffs also offered evidence of Google searches and social media mentions on Twitter to support their position that PRETZEL CRISPS is not generic. (Spoiler: after dozens of pages, the court says it is generic). Stebbins v.

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IP Tech Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

As a way to supplement her income, she put on a contest whereby her social media followers would buy gift certificates for future tattoos and would get to vote on one of several funny tattoos that would eventually be tattooed onto the artist’s husband. Netflix moved to dismiss the complaint on, among other grounds, fair use.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2021

For example, if a third-party poster copies a newspaper article and posts it to their social media page, the court implies that the social media service can never assert Section 230 protection for that article–even if the third-party poster isn’t infringing copyright because of, say, fair use.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Phase two was carried out in January 2022 to address whether and how selected OCSSPs (that is, only platforms that fit within the frames of the CDSM Directive’s new regime under Article 17) complied with the relevant provisions of the CDSM Directive (namely, Article 17(4), (7) and (9)) following its implementation deadline.

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Copyright Lately

AUGUST 2, 2022

While Barlow & Bear may now try to argue that their work constitutes fair use, it’s a weak defense in this case. The Musical Parody ,” “The Unofficial Bridgerton Musical” isn’t the type of parody musical that courts have often found to be fair use under the Copyright Act.

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Copyright Lately

OCTOBER 6, 2024

In that case, the court ruled in Adjmi’s favor because 3C was a parody of the sitcom and protected by fair use. David Adjmi was previously sued over his Three’s Company parody 3C , but in 2015 the court found the play protected by fair use. As always, I’d love to hear what you think.

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Velocity of Content

AUGUST 10, 2022

This article originally ran on The Scholarly Kitchen on 25 July. The EU decided to create a roughly equivalent non-commercial exception (Article 3), along with a broader exception for commercial and non-commercial TDM, subject to a rightsholder opt-out (Article 4). Reprinted with permission.

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Velocity of Content

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

In this post, I’m looking at the vast domain of the YouTube video & social media platform —which, lest we forget, is a major division of Google/Alphabet — and how its copyright aspect manifests in options for individual contributors (“YouTubers,” in the jargon). (I’m Also, I am not focusing on how people make money on YouTube.

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LexBlog IP

JULY 22, 2021

Over the past few weeks, there have been a number of news articles and stories about police officers playing popular music during a citizen/officer interaction that is being filmed by the citizen. This would include a belief that the display or performance of the copyrighted material in the video was covered under fair use.

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LexBlog IP

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

As a way to supplement her income, she put on a contest whereby her social media followers would buy gift certificates for future tattoos and would get to vote on one of several funny tattoos that would eventually be tattooed onto the artist’s husband. Netflix moved to dismiss the complaint on, among other grounds, fair use.

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SpicyIP

MARCH 10, 2023

It is capable of writing articles, translating, summarizing and answering follow-up questions and can also create content that can be protected under copyright law. The territory would ideally have to be the world, for an artwork or an article published online, and also, it would be difficult to practically take down the same after 5 years.

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Copyright Lately

JANUARY 23, 2023

Over the past week, the plaintiffs’ lawsuit has been the subject of thousands of articles which have largely parroted the complaint’s key talking point: that AI image generators are nothing more than “ a 21st-century collage tool that remixes the copyright works of millions of artists whose work was used as training data.”

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 20, 2023

by Despoina Dimitrakopoulou Recently, the news of reggaeton mega-star Bad Bunny's eloquently put disappointment spread on social media, bringing up interesting questions concerning music creation using AI. Over to Despoina: Bad Bunny shoo shooes anyone liking AI-generated song replicating his style and voice – is he right?

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 1, 2023

In other words, the gist of the case is whether the photographers surrender their right to exclude others by voluntarily posting their own photos to social media. The Ninth Circuit ultimately ruled, however, that making and displaying thumbnail images to facilitate an image search engine was a fair use. 3d at 1160.

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