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Instagram and Facebook Users Are Engaging in Copyright Infringement?!

IPilogue

If you have ever incorporated music into your Instagram or Facebook videos, you may have committed copyright infringement. In the official pleading , they argued that Meta violated the US Copyright Act 17 USC § 501 for direct, induced, and contributory copyright infringement. The Infringement.

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Battle of Storytellers

Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

The HoB argued in the Delhi High Court that PoI had developed an “imitative platform” by replicating its content. The focal point of the discussions on art ethics and commercialization took a turn towards alleged copyright infringement in the case between HoB and PoI.

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

TorrentFreak

“The best [achievement] is the CJEU ruling that The Pirate Bay is a copyright-infringing service. After a legal battle of 14 years, the Dutch Supreme Court concluded that NSE itself was not liable for copyright infringement. secures structural employment in content creation and distribution.

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A Lady Whistledown-Worthy Scandal!

IPilogue

With the increased prevalence of content creation on social media , it is important for creators to be aware of these IP laws. Rhimes acknowledged the efforts of the countless individuals who contributed to Bridgeton’s production, including author Julia Quinn. As catchy and creative as Bear and Barlow’s album is?

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

IP and Legal Filings

It also discusses national and international viewpoints on the subject before going into the Indian judiciary’s stance on copyright violations in the social media era. Ning Zhang , Copyright Infringement on YouTube- Understanding Consequences and Best Practices , (29 TH 2023). 1 (2022). [5]

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OTT Platforms and Digital Piracy

Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

If viewers are able to access these contents for free then the amount of revenue generated from licensing of intellectual property will be far below estimations. Video content creation involves substantial investment. Measures to Prevent Piracy Digital Rights Management (DRM) technologies are employed to encrypt the content.

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

Kluwer Copyright Blog

The Common Crawl dataset is owned by a non-profit, which makes the data available to the public for free — but it is intended to be used for research and education and, according to the plaintiffs, it was never intended to be turned into an AI product for commercial use (see here and here ).

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