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

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

Plaintiffs argued that with the popularity of Copilot, it is a near certainty that their code will be used with copyright notices removed or in violation of their open-source licenses. Plaintiffs alleged that Defendants reproduced code as output without attribution, copyright notice, or license terms. Corelogic, Inc. ,

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3 Steps to Protect Your Brand in the New Year

Erik K Pelton

Use copyright notices where applicable on your website and on content that you create. Videos, podcasts, eBooks, articles, blog posts, visuals and images—whatever type of content you’re generating, use copyright notice. Each New Year, make sure you’re reflecting the proper year on those notices.

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

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

Section 504(c)(2) says: “in a court’s discretion where the infringer “sustains the burden of proving, and the court finds, that such infringer was not aware and had no reason to believe that his or her acts constituted an infringement of copyright.” His daughter submitted a declaration that she found no copyright notice on the image.

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Is Your Website Published or Unpublished?

Plagiarism Today

Their pages contained a pair of copyright notices that read, “Nothing on this page may be copied or reproduced without explicit permission.” There wasn’t even a system for registering blog content, like this site, until June 2020. But this is where FDN introduces a new wrinkle. Even today, the system is wholly inadequate.

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U.S. Supreme Court Fixes Ninth Circuit’s Test for Mistakes in Copyright Registrations—Unicolors v. H&M (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

Under the 1909 Act, an author received a federal statutory copyright merely by publishing the work with proper copyright notice. Copyright Office before an infringement lawsuit could be filed. (For For more details, see the section “A Brief History of Copyright Registration” in my previous blog post.).

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Tips for Avoiding Copyright Infringement

The IP Law Blog

Copyright law “protects original works of authorship including literary, dramatic, musical, and artistic works, such as poetry, novels, movies, songs, computer software, and architecture.” It also protects images, photos, videos, and other written work, such as blog posts.

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Smells Like Copyright Infringement

IPilogue

As part of the course requirements, students were asked to write a blog on a topic of their choice. publications of the translated work, which lacked both registration and copyright notice in Scott-Giles’ name. Background. In 1949, C.W. Scott-Giles created an illustration called Upper Hell. It was published in the U.K.