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

IP and Legal Filings

The nature and notion of copyright, as well as a brief overview of social networking sites, have remained the main focus of this research study. The article then turns its attention to how social media culture is violating owners’ copyrights. Due to excessive mobile use, social media has become a popular platform.

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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 concept of “embedding” content is not a new phenomenon. On July 17, 2023, the Ninth Circuit issued its opinion in Hunley v.

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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. Influencer culture and, by extension, content creation on social media, has become increasingly prevalent in recent years. Who is Epidemic Sound?

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

LexBlog IP

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 concept of “embedding” content is not a new phenomenon.

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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). By failing to do so prior to scraping the internet, the defendants did not allow all the class members a right to delete their personal information collected by the defendants, and a right to opt out of the use of that information, which was used to build the Products.

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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. Sydney Nicole LLC v. Alyssa Sheil LLC , 1:24-cv-00423-RP (W.D.

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World IP Day – A Day To Celebrate Youth-Led Creativity

LexBlog IP

With the increased consumption of media and the ease of creating and publishing content on various social media platforms, the time couldn’t be better for such a celebration. Today’s youth are increasingly creating IP-protected content.