TorrentFreak

MARCH 11, 2025

In the race to build the most capable LLM models, several tech companies sourced copyrighted content for use as training data, without obtaining permission from content owners. This case has a clear piracy angle, as Meta used libraries of pirated books as training material. Meta admitted the use of these unofficial sources early on.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 25, 2023

In 2020, publishers Hachette, HarperCollins, John Wiley and Penguin Random House sued the Internet Archive (IA) for copyright infringement, equating its ‘Open Library’ to a pirate site. IA’s library is operated by a non-profit organization that scans physical books and then lends the digital copies to patrons in an ebook format.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

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. The complaints allege that the authors’ books were sourced from pirate sites.

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Indiana Intellectual Property Law

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Bell (Plaintiff), has filed another copyright infringement suit in Indiana ( see past suit ), this time against Bartholomew Consolidated School Corporation (Bartholomew) and Timothy Bless (Bless), again claiming infringement of his intellectual property. Copyright Office. Author, Dr. Keith F.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 2, 2022

Back in January, the crypto group Spice DAO (decentralized autonomous organization) made headlines for spending approximately $3 million to acquire a physical copy of the book Jodorowsky’s Dune , a bible for a planned Dune move that would have been made in the 1970s. . After winning the book, the group announced their plans.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Copyright holders are not happy with the unauthorized distribution of their content. Rightsholder Targets nHentai California company PCR Distributing is one of the affected copyright holders. Last October, attorneys for the alleged pirate site offered to confidentially settle all copyright infringement claims with PCR.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 27, 2024

NVIDIA Faces Copyright Infringement Claims Earlier this year, several authors sued NVIDIA over alleged copyright infringement. The class action lawsuit claims that the company’s AI models were trained on copyrighted works taken from the ‘pirate’ site Bibliotik. Copyright Act,” the company writes.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 24, 2022

But, before I go, I wanted to leave you with five tales of how copyright has shaped Halloween that I’ve written over the years. 1: How a Copyright Mistake Created the Modern Zombie. When the film was released, the print was missing a copyright notice. 2: Dracula vs. Nosferatu: A True Copyright Horror Story.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 18, 2023

In 2020, publishers Hachette, HarperCollins, John Wiley and Penguin Random House sued the Internet Archive (IA) for copyright infringement, equating its ‘Open Library’ to a pirate site. IA’s library is a non-profit operation that scans physical books, which can then be lent out to patrons in an ebook format.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 21, 2023

In 2020, publishers Hachette, HarperCollins, John Wiley and Penguin Random House sued the Internet Archive (IA) for copyright infringement, equating its ‘Open Library’ to a pirate site. IA’s library is a non-profit organization that scans physical books, which can then be lent out to patrons in an ebook format.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 17, 2024

This applies to photographers, artists, music companies, journalists, and authors, some of whom formed groups to file copyright infringement lawsuits to protect their rights. Book authors, in particular, complained about the use of pirated books as training material. The authors clearly have a different take.

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 2, 2025

ABSTRACT Technology advancements are linked to copyright, which gives authors of original works of literature, music, drama, or art, as well as audio recordings and cinematic films, a legal claim over their creations. Every day, there are several ways that someone’s copyright is violated on social networking sites.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Popular Internet infrastructure service Cloudflare has come under pressure from copyright holders in recent years. Cloudflare’s Moldovan Piracy Lawsuit In Moldova, for example, book authors Eugeniu and Radu Turuta, sued Cloudflare and several of its customers, including the anonymous operators of file hosting platform doku.pub.

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The IPKat

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

, this Kat was delighted to review Performing Copyright: Law, Theatre and Authorship by Dr Luke McDonagh (Assistant Professor of Law at LSE Law School). This is the first academic monograph that solely considers the relationship between UK copyright law and historical and contemporary theatre. And who poses moral rights in the work?

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 29, 2023

From a copyright perspective, AI brings up some interesting questions. For example, can content created by an AI be copyrighted? And can an AI be trained on copyrighted works without limitation? “The books aggregated by these websites have also been available in bulk via torrent systems. ” the authors wrote.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

White created “beats” and got copyright registrations for them. He orally licensed the beats to Rivers for a 50% royalty and a promise to keep booking live performances for White. White alleges that Rivers stopped booking live performances and thereby abrogated the beats license. Ugh, so much going wrong here.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

government, another of the world’s most recognized book piracy platforms has fresh legal problems of its own. Majors Publishers File Copyright Complaint Against Libgen According to a copyright lawsuit filed in the U.S. With two alleged operators of Z-Library currently defending a criminal lawsuit filed by the U.S.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 25, 2025

Most of these cases allege that AI developers used copyrighted works to train LLMs without first obtaining authorization. Meta is among a long list of companies now being sued for this allegedly-infringing activity, including a class action lawsuit filed by authors Richard Kadrey, Sarah Silverman, and Christopher Golden.

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Michael Geist

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Canada’s largest media companies, including the Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, Postmedia, CBC, and Canadian Press, came together last week to file a copyright infringement lawsuit against OpenAI, the owners of ChatGPT. Doubts About the Copyright Claims The copyright claims themselves will face a stiff challenge.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 1, 2024

The list of complainants includes record labels, book authors , visual artists, a chip maker , and news publications. In this case, eight major news publications are suing OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement. The plaintiffs show that ChatGPT can reproduce content from copyrighted news articles when prompted.

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SpicyIP

MARCH 1, 2025

Image from here Amazon Owns Your E-Books and Wants More Arnav Kaman To admit authorities, however heavily furred and gowned, into our libraries and let them tell us how to read, what to read, what value to place upon what we read, is to destroy the spirit of freedom which is the breath of those sanctuaries. Kindle is not a bookseller.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 1, 2024

The list of complainants includes record labels, book authors , visual artists, a chip maker , and news publications. In this case, eight major news publications are suing OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement. The plaintiffs show that ChatGPT can reproduce content from copyrighted news articles when prompted.

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Copyright Lately

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

Just days before the festival, Tintinimaginatios in-house counsel sent an email to Duke Laws Center for the Study of the Public Domain , disputing the Center’s conclusion that the earliest Tintin comics are now free of copyright protection in the United States. copyright law, the Tintin rightsholders’ argument is just plain wrong.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Although copyright infringement wasn’t cited as a reason for the arrest, Telegram has attracted criticism from rightsholders in the past. Earlier this year, a Spanish court ordered Internet providers to block the service in its entirety due to copyright issues. The shadow library is also the target in a U.S.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 31, 2025

copyright protection standards. Various groups stressed the importance of copyright protection when it comes to new AI technologies. They argued that foreign governments should be mindful of potential copyright infringements. Not just for copyright holders, but also for American tech giants.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 25, 2022

1: Taylor Swift Sued for $1 Million by Memphis-Area Poet for Copyright Infringement. First off today, Lucas Finton at Commercial Appeal reports that Taylor Swift is facing a new copyright infringement lawsuit, this one filed by a Memphis-area poet that accuses Swift of lifting her work.

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SpicyIP

OCTOBER 28, 2022

As reported on Entrackr , Pocket FM has filed a copyright infringement case against Kuku FM before the Delhi High Court. Pocket FM alleges that Kuku FM has violated its copyright by providing audio summaries of books to which Pocket FM has exclusive rights to create audiobooks. The matter is still being heard.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

1: H3 Podcast Asks Court to Throw Out “Fatally Defective” Triller Copyright Lawsuit. First off today, Andy Maxwell at Torrentfreak writes that the team behind the H3 Podcast has asked for the lawsuit against them to be dismissed, saying that the lawsuit is incorrect as a matter of law as they did not commit any copyright infringement.

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Copyright Lately

OCTOBER 20, 2024

million in copyright damages against Skiplagged—but the website’s business model remains largely unaffected. Yes, there was a copyright infringement claim in the mix, based on Skiplagged’s use of American’s “flight symbol” logo. Jury awards American Airlines $9.4 Talk about a case of the tail wagging the dog.

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Plagiarism Today

JULY 8, 2021

She says that text and data mining is not a copyright infringement and that, since an AI cannot produce a copyright-protected work, its output cannot be an infringement. On the first question, the Google Book Search case is often cited as one that was a victory for such data mining. Is it identical? Bottom Line.

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Plagiarism Today

DECEMBER 6, 2022

2: UK Judge Delivers Mixed Ruling on Copyright Infringement in the Famous Love Story that Inspired Doctor Zhivago. Next up today, Hebah Berhan at IPWatchdog reports that a UK high court has issued a mixed ruling in an ongoing case over the love story that inspired the book Doctor Zhivago.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 22, 2024

Library Genesis ( LibGen ) is one of the oldest shadow libraries on the Internet, offering free access to millions of books and academic papers for which people would otherwise have to pay. In September, a New York federal court ordered the operators of LibGen to pay $30 million in copyright infringement damages.

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Plagiarism Today

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Shopify, for its part, has issued a statement saying that it takes intellectual property violations very seriously and has processed over 90% of its copyright and trademark reports within one business day. All totaled, the plaintiffs are seeking up to $150,000 for each infringed copyright and $2 million for each infringed trademark.

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Indiana Intellectual Property Law

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Plainfield, Indiana – Allen Lee Asher-Butler has filed a copyright infringement suit against Amazon KDP and Jeff Bezos , claiming they are committing copyright infringement regarding four books that he designed and illustrated the covers for.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 11, 2024

The list of complainants includes record labels, book authors, visual artists, even the New York Times. “Books3” Many of the lawsuits filed by book authors come with a clear piracy angle. After pushback from rightsholders and anti-piracy outfits, Books3 was taken offline over copyright concerns.

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Plagiarism Today

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

1: Miramax Hits Tarantino With Copyright Suit on ‘Pulp Fiction’ NFTs. First off today, Samantha Handler at Bloomberg Law reports that the film studio Mirimax has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against director Quentin Tarantino over Tarantino’s plans to release of Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) related to the film Pulp Fiction.

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SpicyIP

MARCH 30, 2025

Part I- Applying Natural Intelligence (NI) to Artificial Intelligence (AI): Understanding why training ChatGPT transcends the contours of copyright Shivam Kaushik The hearing in the ANI v. Post the breakdown of pre-training, I argue this understanding lends itself to seeing the pre-training process as one that does not violate copyright.

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