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3 Count: Dance Dance Lawsuit

Plagiarism Today

First off today, Austen Goslin at Polygon reports that choreographer Kyle Hanagami has filed a lawsuit against Epic Games alleging that the video game company copied his choreography for an emote in the game Fortnite. The companies have joined together to tackle a series of sites that stream Israeli content illegally.

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Legal Analysis Of Copyright Issues In YouTube And Other Social Media Content

IP and Legal Filings

INTRODUCTION Social media networking sites have grown significantly in the last few years, enabling users to exchange information with just a single click. Users of social media platforms are encouraged to share content, both user-generated and third-party, and this has expanded the audience.

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Instagram and Facebook Users Are Engaging in Copyright Infringement?!

IPilogue

Influencer culture and, by extension, content creation on social media, has become increasingly prevalent in recent years. In the past, content creators have had issues incorporating music into their posts due to copyright holder policies. Who is Epidemic Sound?

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Generative AI: the US class action against Google Bard (and other AI tools) for web scraping

Kluwer Copyright Blog

2000) (“ copying an entire work militates against a finding of fair use. ”). Google , which recognized property interest in personal information). Church of God, Inc., 3d 110, 1118 (9th Cir. 161 recalling the precedent Calhoun v. 161 recalling the precedent Calhoun v. Clearview created AI products using facial recognition technology.

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Social Media Giants and Copyright: Instagram’s Ninth Circuit Win Sets Precedent Against Photographers

The IP Law Blog

This ultimately means that when a copy of an image is not stored on a computer’s servers but merely “embedded” onto a website, search engine, etc., The concept of “embedding” content is not a new phenomenon. the website displaying that copyrighted image cannot be held liable for infringement.

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Anti-Piracy Veteran Tim Kuik Retires After Leading BREIN for a Quarter Century

TorrentFreak

Anti-Piracy Veteran Retires Earlier this month, Tim Kuik informed TorrentFreak that he’s retiring, passing on the baton to BREIN’s new director Bastiaan van Ramshorst. The downside was that pirates would create bootleg copies. secures structural employment in content creation and distribution.

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CCC Launches Collective AI License

Velocity of Content

What To Know and Why It Matters The Copyright Clearance Center (CCC) has introduced a collective licensing solution designed to allow organizations to be compliant when using data and information providers’ content within their internal AI systems. New AI licenses will open-up new revenue streams for content owners.

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