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

Velocity of Content

On this day in 1976, President Gerald Ford signed the “new” US Copyright Act. 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.

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

Kluwer Copyright Blog

In order to train their technologies, should AI companies be allowed to use works under copyright protection without consent? Such uses, they argue, constitute copyright infringement. Fair Use Precedent? In this regard, an important precedent lies in the history of US litigation involving Google Books.

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Copyright Fair Use for Education

IP and Legal Filings

Fair use provides some exceptions to copyright protection, allowing limited use of copyrighted material without the permission of the copyright owner. Understanding legal and fair use is especially important in academic settings because dissemination of information often requires the use of evidence.

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The United States Copyright Office Notice of Inquiry on AI: A Quick Take

Velocity of Content

This post originally appeared in the Scholarly Kitchen on 11/28/23 Monday, October 30 was the final date for interested parties to submit comments to a comprehensive “ Notice of inquiry and request for comments ” issued by the United States Copyright Office entitled “Artificial Intelligence and Copyright.”

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

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Image via Pixabay The two US class actions against Meta We have previously analysed US class actions against Open AI ( here ) and Google ( here ) for unauthorized use of copyright works in the training of generative AI tools, respectively ChatGPT, Google Bard and Gemini.

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The Latest Chapter in Authors’ Copyright Suit Against OpenAI: Original Pleadings Insufficient

LexBlog IP

The class of plaintiff authors seeking to hold OpenAI liable for copyright infringement has faced yet another setback. The lawsuits claim that because the defendants copied their original works of authorship to use as training material for the LLMs, the AI companies are liable under the federal Copyright Act and various state tort laws.

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

Kluwer Copyright Blog

At the end of 2021, YouTube’s first Copyright Transparency Report 2021 (“Report”) was published. In 2012, US NASA’s robotic rover touched down on Mars. In 2012, US NASA’s robotic rover touched down on Mars. It was taken down after one hour, as it was subject to a copyright notice by a news channel relying on the US DMCA.