Plagiarism Today

JULY 10, 2024

Nexon, developers of The First Descendent, are accused of copying icons from Destiny 2. The post Copyright, Trademark and Plagiarism in Icons appeared first on Plagiarism Today. However, the story is more complicated.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Yesterday, news broke that Pearson Education, the largest publisher of textbooks in the world, has filed a lawsuit against the website Chegg alleging widespread copyright infringement of its content on the site. As a result, Pearson is suing Chegg alleging copyright infringement. Questions, Answers and Copyright.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 26, 2021

As we’ve discussed in the past , copyright has played an oddly oversized role in our modern Halloween festivities. However, one of the areas that is generally less talked about is copyright’s impact on Halloween costumes. Copyright and Halloween Costumes. Copyright Office. However, copyright is only half the picture.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 23, 2022

An article by Adi Robertson at The Verge looks at a recent study by The Galaxy , which examines the top 25 most valuable NFT projects and examines what the buyer is obtaining in terms of copyright or other intellectual property rights. NFTs were never meant to address copyright issues, they had a different purpose altogether.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

APRIL 12, 2023

Copyright Office (USCO) launched a new AI Initiative to examine the copyright law and policy issues raised by artificial intelligence (AI), including the scope of copyright in works generated using AI tools and using copyrighted materials in AI training. On March 16, 2023, the U. A summary of this guidance is here.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 4, 2022

The case pits Sheeran against Structured Asset Sales, a company that owns a one-third stake in the copyrights of Ed Townsend. Sheeran’s attorneys argued the elements that were allegedly copied, namely a chord progression and the harmonic rhythm, were both commonplace in music and not protectable by copyright.

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 3, 2022

To that end, 2022 is looking to be a major year for copyright in a myriad of ways. But that raises the question, with the new year what are just a handful of the major copyright stories on the horizon. While there are far too many for any single list, here are 5 copyright stories that you should definitely watch in 2022.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 2, 2022

Back in January, the crypto group Spice DAO (decentralized autonomous organization) made headlines for spending approximately $3 million to acquire a physical copy of the book Jodorowsky’s Dune , a bible for a planned Dune move that would have been made in the 1970s. . Copyright Office. The payment beyond excessive.

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 24, 2022

If you are new to copyright, there are many great guides on the internet, including this one here. However, for someone coming in with almost no understanding of how copyright works, it may not be the best place to begin. If your interest in copyright is more broad, you need to be aware of the copyright circulars published by the U.S.

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 18, 2022

million ($3 million) acquiring a physical copy of the book Jodorowsky’s Dune. With previous ones selling for around €25,000 ($28,000), their copy cost more than 100 times the going rate. Many copies of the book are already easy to access just through a simple search. Last year, the group spent €2.66

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 23, 2022

1: Ex-White House Photographer Sued for Copyright Over His Own Photo: ‘You Can’t Make This Up’. According to the notice, the photo rights group WENN holds the rights to the image and accused Souza of infringing their copyright. 2: Bungie’s Copyright Infringement Claims Against AimJunkies ‘Insiders’ Can Continue.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 4, 2022

This prompted Alexander to file a lawsuit against Take-Two, claiming copyright infringement of her work. He called an earlier decision in the case one of the 5 worst copyright decisions in 2020 and, with the jury verdict, called it a loss for bodily autonomy and free speech. Instead, she only won actual damages totaling $3,750.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 4, 2024

found pirated copies on 53 sites and continually issued takedown notices for a full year. Takedowns Were Effective, Sales Trend Up After the research was completed, three assistants were asked to conduct online searches to confirm whether it was harder to find pirated copies ‘protected’ books online. In total, Plagiat.pl

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 23, 2024

The organization literally archives key parts of the Internet, copying older versions of websites to preserve them for future generations. The organization doesn’t license authorized digital copies from publishers; instead, its books are scanned and digitized in-house. IA has plenty of other archive projects too.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Authors Sue, OpenAI Responds In a lawsuit filed last June , authors Paul Tremblay and Mona Awad accused OpenAI of direct and vicarious copyright infringement, among other things. The only claim that should be able to survive is direct copyright infringement, but OpenAI said it expects to defeat that at a later stage.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 17, 2024

Acuff-Rose sued members of hip hop group 2 Live Crew, claiming that their track “Pretty Woman” infringed the label’s copyright in the Roy Orbison song, “Oh, Pretty Woman.” When he copied and then rebroadcast the news report, that was copyright infringement. Acuff-Rose Music, Inc.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

APRIL 12, 2023

Will scanning images (or other copyright-protected content) to create a generative AI model for use in creating images be deemed fair use? HathiTrust (which had similar facts as Google ), noting that in both cases the scanning created a searchable database but did not output a copy of the books. In Authors Guild v. Google, Inc., (the

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 11, 2021

Earlier this week, independent fashion designer Bailey Prado took to Instagram to call attention to a different fashion label that, according to her, copied her “whole life.” For example, items that may sell on Prado’s website for up to $300 typical appear as copies on Shein’s app for less than $20.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 18, 2021

A Long History of Copying. Most notably, that included the PUBG Corporation, which filed a lawsuit against Epic Games in May 2018 for alleged copyright infringement. However, it wasn’t the end of Epic Games’ issues with copying. Their copying is flagrant, but unlikely to be illegal. billion for Epic Games.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 17, 2024

This applies to photographers, artists, music companies, journalists, and authors, some of whom formed groups to file copyright infringement lawsuits to protect their rights. Authors sued NVIDIA Earlier this year, several authors sued NVIDIA over alleged copyright infringement. The authors clearly have a different take.

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Hugh Stephens Blog

AUGUST 3, 2021

On July 30 the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) delivered what can only be described as body blow to the management of collective rights in Canada, although the collective society at the centre of the action, Access Copyright, pointed out in its press release that the Court “refuses to legitimize uncompensated copying by the education … Continue (..)

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Hugh Stephens Blog

JUNE 20, 2023

district court ruled that San Francisco–based non-profit Internet Archive (IA) infringed the copyright of four international publishing houses when it loaned unlicensed digital copies of … Continue reading "Implications of the U.S. Whether the decision against Internet Archive in the U.S. Earlier this year, a U.S.

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Traverse Legal Blog

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

The infringer owes at a minimum a reasonable royalty to the copyright holder. Enrico Schaefer, Copyright & Litigation Attorney. What Is Accidental Copyright Infringement. 2024 Update) Accidental copyright infringement occurs when someone unknowingly violates copyright law.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 16, 2021

1: Man Files Copyright Lawsuit Against Nickelback Over ‘Rockstar’ First off today, Lauryn Schaffner at Loudwire reports that a musician named Kirk Johnston has filed a lawsuit against Nickelback, Roadrunner records and others involved with the band. 3: Saga Over Garment Design Copyright Infringement Ends with Ceremonial Fire.

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Hugh Stephens Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2021

A couple of weeks ago I put up a blog posting looking at the history of copyright and news content over the past two hundred years or more. It discussed the longstanding question of who “owns” the news, and who should be compensated when news content is copied. The US Launches Study on Free-Riding by News Aggregators"

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Copyright Lately

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

In a copyright battle over pop music’s building blocks, the Second Circuit delivers a win for Ed Sheeran—and for future creativity. In a decision issued Friday, the court ruled that Ed Sheeran’s 2014 song “Thinking Out Loud ” didn’t infringe the copyright in “Let’s Get It On.”

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Copyright Lately

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

Why a new court win for OpenAI and a tough Supreme Court standard could leave AI copyright claims on shaky ground. A relatively obscure Supreme Court case involving the Fair Credit Reporting Act might seem like an odd fit for the high-stakes world of copyright in the age of artificial intelligence.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 27, 2024

NVIDIA Faces Copyright Infringement Claims Earlier this year, several authors sued NVIDIA over alleged copyright infringement. The class action lawsuit claims that the company’s AI models were trained on copyrighted works taken from the ‘pirate’ site Bibliotik. Copyright Act,” the company writes.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 8, 2024

YouTuber files a class action lawsuit against OpenAI, Finland slashes its private copying fund, and an Ole Miss coach is sued over a tweet. The post 3 Count: Finland Controversy appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 10, 2024

That release sold millions of copies reaching the Billboard chart’s top ten. Nealy sues over ‘dated’ copyright infringements The underlying deal didn’t benefit Nealy, who found out about it after he was released from prison for the second time. According to U.S. In the Nealy v.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Copyright holders are not happy with the unauthorized distribution of their content. Rightsholder Targets nHentai California company PCR Distributing is one of the affected copyright holders. Last October, attorneys for the alleged pirate site offered to confidentially settle all copyright infringement claims with PCR.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 19, 2024

and Morford sued him for copyright infringement. The works at issue (Morford’s on the left, Cattelan’s on the right): I could teach an entire semester’s Copyright class around this one case. It seems more likely that Cattelan heard the idea and decided to riff on it–something copyright law permits.

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Copyright Lately

OCTOBER 6, 2024

A new lawsuit over Broadway’s Stereophonic tests copyright’s limits, as Fleetwood Mac’s former sound engineer claims the hit play copies his real-life story about working on the Rumours album. And contrary to popular belief, no one needs to acquire “life rights” to tell those stories.

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Copyright Lately

AUGUST 19, 2024

The AI copyright and fair use trial in Thomson Reuters v. On Friday, August 23, jurors are scheduled to hear opening statements in the first trial to test whether using copyrighted data to train an AI program qualifies as fair use. Ross Intelligence may not be glamorous, but it will be groundbreaking. Sorry, future jurors.)

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Plagiarism Today

JUNE 2, 2022

However, after examining the facts of the case, the judge has ruled that, even with the most favorable interpretation for the Zorikova, that no copyright infringement took place. According to the right of first sale, rightsholders have the right to sell a physical copy the first time. The post 3 Count: Physical Media?

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 5, 2024

Every day, millions of people break the law; by posting copyrighted images, music, and videos on social media, for example. For most of these people, copyright is merely an afterthought, not a real concern. Especially when snippets of copyrighted content are posted to a small audience, the chances of being noticed are small.

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The IPKat

APRIL 15, 2024

In a recent judgment (in Czech) which is one of the first of its kind in Europe, the Municipal Court of Prague (the Court) held that an image generated by an AI tool was not capable of being protected by copyright, as it was not authored by a natural person. Show only hands. ” contractual) protections to prevent this.

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