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Instagram and Facebook Users Are Engaging in Copyright Infringement?!

IPilogue

If you have ever incorporated music into your Instagram or Facebook videos, you may have committed copyright infringement. In the official pleading , they argued that Meta violated the US Copyright Act 17 USC § 501 for direct, induced, and contributory copyright infringement. The Infringement.

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Does IP Law Protect Influencers’ Aesthetics?–Gifford v. Sheil (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

But the suit, in which 24-year-old influencer Sydney Nicole Gifford accuses another influencer, 22-year-old Alyssa Sheil, of copying both her posts and her style, may have an outsized effect on the law around online content creation. Sheil (Guest Blog Post) appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog.

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Court Says No Human Author, No Copyright (but Human Authorship of GenAI Outputs Remains Uncertain) (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

copyright law protects only works of human authorship, and the defendant, Stephen Thaler, expressly told the Copyright Office that the work at issue, titled “A Recent Entrance to Paradise,” “lack[ed] traditional human authorship.” I recently gave a short talk on copyright and generative AI. The slides.

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OTT Platforms and Digital Piracy

Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

If viewers are able to access these contents for free then the amount of revenue generated from licensing of intellectual property will be far below estimations. Video content creation involves substantial investment. Measures to Prevent Piracy Digital Rights Management (DRM) technologies are employed to encrypt the content.

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A Lady Whistledown-Worthy Scandal!

IPilogue

With the increased prevalence of content creation on social media , it is important for creators to be aware of these IP laws. Rhimes acknowledged the efforts of the countless individuals who contributed to Bridgeton’s production, including author Julia Quinn. As catchy and creative as Bear and Barlow’s album is?

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Legal Issues with Using AI to Create Content – Written with Help from AI

LexBlog IP

One area where AI has already made significant inroads is in content creation. With the help of AI-powered writing assistants, businesses and individuals can generate high-quality content with minimal effort. Copyright law protects original works of authorship, including literary works like blog articles.

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TIME TO CUT THE MUSIC?: TWITCH’S UNFAIR SOLUTION TO AN INEVITABLE DIGITAL MILLENIUM COPYRIGHT ACT PROBLEM

JIPL Online

On November 11, 2020, the Amazon-owned live streaming platform Twitch quietly published a post titled “Music-Related Copyright Claims and Twitch” to the site’s official blog. [i] The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (the “DMCA”) is a 1998 amendment to U.S. By: Marcus McGinnis. Introduction.

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