Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Many artists have found their work in the libraries of different AI systems and have expressed anger over it. Though every AI is different in how it operates, some feel that AIs are not creating new works, but creating derivative works based on existing images. Whether that is true under the law has not been tested.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JANUARY 16, 2024

To further develop this excursus on the US case law, in this post we consider two recent class actions against Meta launched by copyright holders (mainly book authors), for alleged infringement of IP in their books and written works through use in training materials for LLaMA (Large Language Model Meta AI).

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SpicyIP

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Discussing the decision of the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in Hachette Book Group v. Image from here Hachette Book Group v Internet Archive: Archiving Access to Information or Strengthening Copyright Laws? Several users could borrow a scanned book at once. Tanishka is an advocate at the High Court of MP.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

These rightsholders all object to the presumed use of their work without proper compensation. Several of the lawsuits filed by book authors include a piracy component. The general vision was that the plaintext collection of more than 195,000 books, which is nearly 37GB in size, could help AI enthusiasts build better models.

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Velocity of Content

DECEMBER 4, 2024

If so, infringement may occur unless an exception applies or the LLM did not have access to the original work. 1 Another key right is the creation of derivative works, which includes adaptations or translations. 7 This does not, however, fully answer hard questions about the right to prepare derivative works under US law.

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IIPRD

JANUARY 22, 2025

Such databases may include work that is copyrighted. Thus, fundamental questions arise, such as whether such copying amounts to infringement under copyright law or whether it falls under the purview of fair use. One of the biggest problems is the vagueness around AI-generated outputs and whether these are derivative works.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

AUGUST 13, 2023

It is based on “ large language models ” (so called LLM ), which is “ trained by copying massive amounts of text ” (so called training dataset ) “ and extracting expressive information from it ” (see § I.2). The plaintiffs are authors of books, who, as per US copyright law, have registered copyrights in the books they published.

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McBayer IP Blog

APRIL 15, 2022

Of course, buying a copy of a book, no matter how rare, does not grant you the copyright or license to its contents. Of course, buying a copy of a book, no matter how rare, does not grant you the copyright or license to its contents. But if purchasing a creative work does not give you rights to reproduce it, what does?

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Copyright Lately

JANUARY 23, 2023

Stable Diffusion Doesn’t Store Copies of Training Images The complaint also mischaracterizes Stable Diffusion by asserting that images used to train the model are “stored at and incorporated” into the tool as “compressed copies.” None of it includes copies of images. You’d be wrong.

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The IP Law Blog

MARCH 14, 2024

The author plaintiffs alleged that OpenAI infringed on their published works by using these works to help train its LLM. The plaintiffs alleged that OpenAI copied their published books, which are protected by copyright law, and used them in a training dataset for its LLM.

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IPilogue

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

However, I recall certain books had the answers in them. Although answers, the textbook usually gave one- or two-worded answers to those dreadful questions that ended with “explain your answer” or “show all your work.” Homework and studying for school have come a long way over the years. The complaint, made under title 17 of the U.S.

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IP and Legal Filings

DECEMBER 23, 2024

This principle means that as long as the copy of the copyrighted content is within its fair use, it is classified as an exception and meets legal standards. 1] This article aims to prove how the alleged copying fits within Fair Use by assessing these four factors to render OpenAIs challenge devoid of merit. Google, Inc.,

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Copyright Lately

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

Miramax claims, among other things, that the preparation and sale of these derivative works constitutes copyright infringement because the contractual rights Tarantino reserved in his 1993 agreement with Miramax don’t cover NFTs. A used copy will set you back $1.09; for reasons unknown, a new copy is going for $113.03—In

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Traverse Legal Blog

JANUARY 26, 2022

The article titled “Cryptobros spent $3 million on Dune book, believing it gave them copyright. An NFT group called TheSpiceDAO bought a copy of the book “Dune” believing they had purchased more than just the book. nThe book and the copyright ownership are two distinct things. See article below).

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

They accuse OpenAI of using books as training data, without permission, relying on datasets that were sourced from pirate sites. In addition to using copyrighted works for training data, the LLM models themselves are also infringing derivative works, and the same applies to the output of the models.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Fair use in US ( Google Books but reuse pattern different here. Singapore (computational data analysis; user must not “use the copy for any other purpose”) f. Does the machine infringe when it produces a new “work”? For the right to prepare a derivative work in US, linked to issue 3, see paper #1 and Getty Images lawsuit 3.

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Velocity of Content

MARCH 16, 2023

After all, while we are pondering the weighty issue of future ownership, we are not focusing on the fundamental issue of wholesale copying of works to train AI in a wide variety of situations. One core concept in AI-relevant cases that both find for, and against, fair use ( Google Books and Fox v. is being used as code.

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SpicyIP

JUNE 26, 2024

Data published by the World Blind Union in 2014 indicated that less than 10% of published material was available in accessible format for persons with visual impairment, and most such material was only available in English, thereby leading to a ‘book famine’.

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Copyright Lately

MAY 6, 2022

The first thing that’s important to understand is that buying a copy of a creative work, even if it happens to the only copy in existence, doesn’t give you any copyright interest in the work. So, if you buy a copy of “Dune,” you can read it. That is one expensive book.

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IPilogue

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Members of fandoms often participate in various creative activities inspired by their source material, including dressing up as the characters, writing stories based in the fictional universe, and making drawings about the original work. Unfortunately, laws around fanfiction and fanart are not clear.

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Copyright Lately

DECEMBER 24, 2023

The plaintiff in question was rapper Denise Jones, aka Necey X, who claimed that Cardi B, Megan Thee Stallion and Atlantic Records “copied and pasted the lyrics” from her original song Grab Em by the P * to use in the hit songs WAP and Thot S**t. You know, like a book. Maybe someday, but not yet.

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The IP Law Blog

MAY 5, 2022

According to reports, he included strict exam instructions, including “forbidding students from using any class materials, notes or online resources while taking the tests,” and instructing the students they were “prohibited from copying any part of the exam.”. Some have made the exams open book, hoping to reduce the “need” for cheating.

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43(B)log

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Professor Reese’s Transformativeness and the Derivative Work Right , 31 Colum. pointed out that many of the big data/evidentiary use-type fair use cases are well-described by the idea of a transformative purpose —a purpose orthogonal or unrelated to the expressive content of the original work or works used.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2022

While the occasional commercial use of a tattoo in a video game remains rare, tattooers use copyrighted material in their work on a regular basis. But the recent lawsuit against Kat Von D, alleging that she copied a portrait of Miles Davis by photographer Jeff Sedlik, suggests these once-tolerated uses may be under threat.

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 12, 2023

Scanning books to create a searchable database of books constitutes fair use. Scanning books to create eBooks does not. In that case, Google did not output new books, but rather just snippets of the book as part of the search results. The court distinguished the Google Books case and Authors Guild, Inc.

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LexBlog IP

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The court in this new decision rejected as “nonsensical” the plaintiffs’ argument that large language models (or LLMs) “are themselves infringing derivative works,” holding that “[t]here is no way to understand the [LLMs] themselves as a recasting or adaptation of any of the plaintiffs’ books.”

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IP and Legal Filings

MAY 3, 2023

Originality is the quality that distinguishes produced or invented works from copies, clones, forgeries, or derivative works by being new or novel. The papers were taken from copies of the examination papers that students provided, not from publications by the University of London Press Ltd.

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Copyright Lately

AUGUST 2, 2022

performances of “The Unofficial Bridgerton Musical”) or other derivative works that might compete with Netflix’s own planned live events,” including the multi-city “ Bridgerton Experience.” Fan sites prompted by a book or film, for example, may benefit the copyright owner. Petrella v. 1962, 1976 (2014).

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Patently-O

DECEMBER 11, 2023

so-called “non-expressive” use in which copying is undertaken not to distribute the copied material directly or indirectly but rather for some other purpose. The FTC Comments do not explicitly refer to or analyze the substantial body of court decisions holding that a range of non-expressive uses of copyrighted works are fair uses.

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 14, 2024

The author plaintiffs alleged that OpenAI infringed on their published works by using these works to help train its LLM. The plaintiffs alleged that OpenAI copied their published books, which are protected by copyright law, and used them in a training dataset for its LLM.

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Velocity of Content

APRIL 11, 2024

For their part, some GenAI companies like OpenAI argue that there is no infringement, either because there is no “copying” of protected materials or that the copyright principle of fair use uniformly applies to generative AI activities. It’s like cutting a book into small pieces, each containing a few sentences or paragraphs.

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Likelihood of Confusion

MAY 18, 2022

When copying 20,000,000 books without permission is not copyright infringement Jim Bouton’s last pitch to Google wasn’t Ball Four, at least according to the umps of the Second Circuit. The post Guest Post: Fair Use or Foul Ball? appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™.

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Intepat

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Fanfiction is when people write new stories using characters, settings, or plots from their favorite books, movies, or shows. Understanding Copyright Law and How It Applies to Fanfiction Indias Copyright Act of 1957 protects original works like books, movies, and art. What is Fanfiction? In Shemaroo Entertainment Ltd.

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BYU Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Internet Archive's Fair Use Defense Falls Short Fair Use,Literary Works,Infringement Found October 07, 11:03 AM October 07, 11:03 AM On May 15, 2024, we published a post about an important legal dispute between the Internet Archive (IA) and the publisher Hachette, along with other major publishers (the Publishers").

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LexBlog IP

MAY 19, 2023

On May 18, 2023, the Supreme Court found that artistic changes to a pre-existing work, alone, not necessarily sufficient to make a derivative work fair use. Applying a new lens on how to view the purpose of a derivative work under U.S. copyright law.

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LexBlog IP

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

According to OpenAI, Silverman’s attempt to convince the court that every ChatGPT output represents a derivative work, “regardless of whether there are any similarities between the output and the training works” is an “erroneous legal conclusion.”

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

District Court for the Northern District of California has knocked out the majority of their claims, refusing to accept the blanket allegation that “every output of the OpenAI Language Model is an infringing derivative work.” For a quick recap of the theories they are asserting, check out our recent AI Update.

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