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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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Smells Like Copyright Infringement

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copyright law, a particularly confusing subject for foreign works published before 1978. copyright law. The defendants argued , among other things, that Bundy erred in application of Twin Books , because it does not apply to works which have been published in the U.S. Copyright Act of 1909.

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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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October 19, 1976 – President Gerald Ford Signs the “New” Copyright Act…and Much More

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The culmination of a decades-long effort, and well before the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and Copyright Term Extension Act were passed in 1998, the 1976 Copyright Act ushered in a new era of copyright law in the United States. In the many years that have since passed, the 1976 Act has been updated many times.

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Take What You Want From Sherwood Forest

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Despite the publication date, I can't tell if this book is in the US public domain. It appears to have been only published in the UK, and I've seen evidence the copyright was renewed in the 30's. I have a recent UK copy of the book, and it has no copyright notice.

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YouTube’s first Copyright Transparency Report 2021 – A step towards “factfulness”

Kluwer Copyright Blog

It was taken down after one hour, as it was subject to a copyright notice by a news channel relying on the US DMCA. We are naturally drawn to extreme examples, and they are so easy to recall”, says Hans Rosling in his book Factfulness (2018, p. In 2012, US NASA’s robotic rover touched down on Mars. 6) and intentional abuse (p.

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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)

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Before the 1909 Act, the author was required to register the title of the work before publication, as a condition of receiving copyright protection. Under the 1909 Act, an author received a federal statutory copyright merely by publishing the work with proper copyright notice. Wiesen-Hart, Inc. , 2d 706 (6th Cir.