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3 Count: Frequent Flyer

Plagiarism Today

In addition to the breach of contract and alleged violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, the lawsuit accuses The Points Guy of violating both their copyrights and trademarks for the use of the American Airlines logo as part of the app. The move does not come as a surprise to long-time Nintendo fans and followers.

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Copyright Owner Prevails in Lawsuit Over Form Contracts–Equine Legal v. Fireline Farms

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

Also, for unclear reasons, the defendant repeatedly kept uploading the files even after it previously removed the files in response to the plaintiff’s demands or pressure from upstream service providers who received the plaintiff’s DMCA notices. The plaintiff sued the defendant (and others) for copyright infringement.

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Is Your Website Published or Unpublished?

Plagiarism Today

Also in 2018, FDN filed the original complaint, targeting both Amazon and CCA, alleging that they both breached contracts and committed copyright infringement. Their pages contained a pair of copyright notices that read, “Nothing on this page may be copied or reproduced without explicit permission.”

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How Can AI Models Legally Obtain Training Data?–Doe 1 v. GitHub (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

¯_(ツ)_/¯ We can infer from this opinion that treatment of Copyright Management Information (“CMI”) will be tricky for generative AI developers. Also, ignoring copyright licenses is at least arguably copyright infringement, and your fair use claim probably won’t get you out of the lawsuit at the motion to dismiss stage.

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Digital Trails: How Bungie Identified a Mass Sender of Fake DMCA Notices

TorrentFreak

Using the DMCA’s takedown process as a weapon, persons unknown sent copyright notices to YouTube, claiming that the targeted videos should be taken down for infringing Bungie’s rights. Earlier this year, Bungie and its enthusiastic Destiny fan community were plunged into chaos.

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GitHub is Sued, and We May Learn Something About Creative Commons Licensing

Velocity of Content

As a final note, the complaint alleges a violation under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act for removal of copyright notices, attribution, and license terms, but conspicuously does not allege copyright infringement. OpenAI, LLC, OpenAI Startup Fund GP I, L.L.C.; you get the picture).

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Court Allows Three of Plaintiffs’ Claims to Survive Motion to Dismiss in Lawsuit That Could Significantly Impact the World of Generative AI

LexBlog IP

If any of these cases challenging the use of copyright-protected works in generative AI outputs or in developing generative AI models is successful, it could have significant implications for the future of generative AI, which relies on large and diverse datasets in order to provide accurate and unbiased results.