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

The IP Law Blog

By: Weintraub Tobin Summer Associate Josh Concepcion The Ninth Circuit recently revisited the issue of “embedding” content by a website and its implication for copyright infringement claims. the website displaying that copyrighted image cannot be held liable for infringement.

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Instagram and Facebook Users Are Engaging in Copyright Infringement?!

IPilogue

They claimed that Meta, on its social media platforms, has stolen hundreds of their content. In the official pleading , they argued that Meta violated the US Copyright Act 17 USC § 501 for direct, induced, and contributory copyright infringement. 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

Google , which recognized property interest in personal information). The defendants failed to register as data brokers under applicable laws of California ( here ). To create its product, Clearview scraped billions of publicly available photos from websites and social media platforms. 4th 1149 (9th Cir.

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The Potential Risks of ChatGPT and Other Generative AI

LexBlog IP

First, generative AI is only as good and accurate as the information on which it was trained. harmful instructions or biased content.” Because of how the ChatGPT model is trained, it is possible that responsive outputs could contain elements of copyrighted material. Additionally, under current U.S.

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‘Google Zero’: Incentives & Remuneration in a New Era of ‘Agentic’ Copyright

Kluwer Copyright Blog

What happens to the Internet when major tech companies no longer support references to content creators? What happens to information created by online newspapers, magazines, and bloggers if Google does not provide links to their content? Would there be any incentives to create original content?

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