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Smells Like Copyright Infringement

IPilogue

Seventy-two years later, Scott-Giles’ granddaughter, Jocelyn Bundy, noticed that “ an image virtually identical ” to Scott-Giles’ illustration was being used in the popular grunge-rock band Nirvana’s merchandise and brought a copyright infringement lawsuit in the United States for damages covering decades of sales.

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3 Count: Copilot Lawsuit

Plagiarism Today

However, he alleges that it doesn’t follow the terms of the licenses, including attribution and a copyright notice. 2: Vir Das, Netflix Among Four Booked for Copyright Infringement. million users.

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5 Spooky Articles About Copyright and Halloween

Plagiarism Today

When the film was released, the print was missing a copyright notice. Under the laws at the time, this mean that it didn’t have copyright protection. 2: Dracula vs. Nosferatu: A True Copyright Horror Story. However, at least one copy made it to the United States, where the original book was already in public domain.

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Is Your Website Published or Unpublished?

Plagiarism Today

Also in 2018, FDN filed the original complaint, targeting both Amazon and CCA, alleging that they both breached contracts and committed copyright infringement. This separation was created in a time before the internet and, though it applies cleanly to movies, books and records, it doesn’t apply as cleanly to online works.

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Generative AI: admissibility and infringement in the two US class actions against Meta’s LLaMA

Kluwer Copyright Blog

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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Is Generative AI Fair Use of Copyright Works? NYT v. OpenAI

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Such uses, they argue, constitute copyright infringement. Google Books and Transformative Use The past two decades have seen a wealth of technological developments, but generative AI is qualitatively different from everything that has come before. As such, it was permissible under United States copyright law.

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Foreign Works, US Rights: The 7th Circle of Copyright Hell?

Copyright Lately

Nineties grunge-rock band Nirvana, already embroiled in a long-running legal battle against fashion company Marc Jacobs over its “happy face” t-shirt designs , now finds itself on the less happy end of a new copyright infringement lawsuit worthy of Dante’s trip through the underworld. copyright law. Copyright Office.