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Instagram and Facebook Users Are Engaging in Copyright Infringement?!

IPilogue

Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. 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.

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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. Copyright law is in charge of controlling how literary, artistic, and theatrical works, among others, are used. 1 (2022). [5]

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Does IP Law Protect Influencers’ Aesthetics?–Gifford v. Sheil (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

But the suit, in which 24-year-old influencer Sydney Nicole Gifford accuses another influencer, 22-year-old Alyssa Sheil, of copying both her posts and her style, may have an outsized effect on the law around online content creation. Surprisingly, the magistrate judge declined to dismiss the other challenged claims.

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

Kluwer Copyright Blog

We have also noted that this was not the only class action filed in the US against Open AI, since a parallel class action was based on alleged data breach ( here ). Such class actions can be considered part of the evolution of the regulatory landscape dedicated to Generative AI.

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

TorrentFreak

Kuik started his professional career at CIC Video International , shortly after he graduated from law school 42 years ago. In part, perhaps, because BREIN often found the law on its side in courts. “The best [achievement] is the CJEU ruling that The Pirate Bay is a copyright-infringing service.

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A Lady Whistledown-Worthy Scandal!

IPilogue

Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. Netflix argued that this is a direct violation of US copyright law , which provides that only copyright holders have the exclusive right to monetize and create derivative works of their IP. Raenelle Manning is an IPilogue Writer and 2L J.D.