TorrentFreak

JANUARY 31, 2025

copyright protection standards. Various groups stressed the importance of copyright protection when it comes to new AI technologies. They argued that foreign governments should be mindful of potential copyright infringements. The problem, however, is that copyright holders never gave permission to use it.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 27, 2024

The seventh installment of the Government-backed anti-piracy sweep, details of which were released in September , took down 675 pirate sites, 14 apps, and led to nine arrests. Piracy Challenges Remain Despite these successful enforcement efforts, the MPA still sees room for progress, to further clamp down on copyright infringement.

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 2, 2025

ABSTRACT Technology advancements are linked to copyright, which gives authors of original works of literature, music, drama, or art, as well as audio recordings and cinematic films, a legal claim over their creations. Every day, there are several ways that someone’s copyright is violated on social networking sites.

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IP and Legal Filings

MAY 30, 2022

A careful step towards ensuring the acquisition of prosperity gained through your work is to copyright it. The copyright laws in India are governed under the Copyright Act, 1957. The courts can order the disposal of such copies under Section 66. 50,000 to 2 lakhs.

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IPilogue

AUGUST 4, 2021

Is GitHub Copilot a Copyright Infringer? While Ziegler’s use of the word “mostly” may not reassure those fearing copyright infringement, his paper highlights two details that might. Intellectual property law professor Andres Guadamuz argues that Copilot, as it stands, does not infringe copyright.

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 19, 2022

1: Government Pauses Plans to Rewrite UK Copyright Laws After Authors Protest. Without this rule, many authors fear the UK market would be flooded with cheaper international copies. The IPO has said that it will continue evaluating potential changes to copyright law but did not set a timetable.

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IP Law 360

JANUARY 16, 2024

didn't engage in copyright infringement of UIRC-GSA Holding's bond offering documents, stating that UIRC's paperwork was not eligible for protection because the government contractor copied it from a housing association.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 4, 2025

This procedure allows the Government’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) to regulate dominant tech firms, ensuring fair competition and consumer protection. As part of the investigation, the Government requested input from stakeholders on Googles search dominance and its effects, both positive and negative.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 24, 2024

All five men were convicted of conspiracy to commit criminal copyright infringement. Dallmann was further convicted of two counts of money laundering by concealment and three counts of misdemeanor criminal copyright infringement. One of Dallmann’s objections relates to an episode of the TV show Paradise. and $16.97

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 11, 2022

Government regularly goes after copyright-infringing companies and individuals, both domestically and abroad. That doesn’t mean that there are no copyright issues within its own ranks. At the United States Court of Federal Claims, the German company accused the US Navy of mass copyright infringement.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

At these locations, content supplied by the TV providers had its copy protection stripped before being transmitted, stored, and then retransmitted to Gears subscribers using servers and other hardware controlled by Carrasquillo and his co-defendants. On February 1, 2022, Carrasquillo pled guilty to the following: 1. 371 2. . §

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 13, 2021

In response to a request from the Office of the US Trade Representative (USTR), the Entertainment Software Association (ESA) has submitted a list of so-called ‘Notorious Markets’ to the US government. After making an appearance in earlier reports, the main thorn in the ESA’s side remains 1fichier.com.

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Plagiarism Today

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

It was not intended to prevent the songwriter from gaining the rights in their original works, and that the copyright owner of the work is the one entitled to the royalties from the song itself. The rightsholders may be able to get at least some of that money from assets seized by the government as part of the ongoing criminal case.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

This includes millions of organizations, including 30% of Fortune 500 companies, as well as various government agencies. Copyright holders, for example, have pointed out that the San Francisco-based company is offering its services to pirates.

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IPilogue

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

In July 2021, the Government of Canada launched a consultation on Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) and the Internet of Things (“IoT”). The Supreme Court concluded that the creation of electronic copies through “cashing” did not implicate the interests of copyright owners. Background. Final Recommendations.

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Plagiarism Today

APRIL 20, 2022

For much of the web’s recent history, we scraping commonly referred a technique through which spammers would copy content from a website and republish it, either rewritten or verbatim. The CFAA is far from the only law that governs web scraping. Copyright and breach of contract are just two other areas to consider.

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IPilogue

MAY 3, 2022

In July 2021, the Government of Canada launched a consultation requesting stakeholder submissions on Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) and the Internet of Things (“IoT”). Additionally, the submission noted the importance of modernizing the current Copyright Act with an eye to larger trends and anti-competitive practices within the marketplace.

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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. . The payment beyond excessive. One potential use is Safe Creative’s.

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IIPRD

OCTOBER 16, 2024

It is a set of the legal framework that protects and governs the right of individual. There are various laws in India that govern IPR and gaming laws, but the primary law are Patents Act, of 1970 , Trademark Act, of 1999 and Indian Contract Act, of 1872. Licensing of their games are also controlled under Copyright only.

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SpicyIP

MARCH 11, 2025

Interestingly, the civil suit has been disposed of by the Madras High Court, holding that there is no copyright infringement, and the proceedings in the criminal case have been stayed. The Court was of the opinion that Tamilnadan failed to prove copyright infringement. But it may not be copyright infringement.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 30, 2023

How these and other copyright questions will be dealt with is not entirely clear. Governments around the world are taking different approaches, with U.S. According to the authors, ChatGPT was partly trained on their copyrighted works, without permission. Congress recently stating that it doesn’t plan to overreact.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MARCH 10, 2025

Image via Pixabay We have so far seen a considerable (and increasing) discussion on AI and copyright infringement, especially in terms of how current exceptions such as TDM and fair use apply and whether new exceptions or remuneration models are needed. Arguably, AI models do not store copies of training data.

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Copyright Lately

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

While some have been quick to downplay its significancepointing to Judge Stephanos Bibass explicit disclaimer that Rosss AI is not generative AI make no mistake: the decision will be cited early and often in the 40+ pending AI copyright lawsuits across the country that do involve generative models trained on massive datasets.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Six years ago, the US Navy was sued for mass copyright infringement and accused of causing hundreds of millions of dollars in damages. Last year, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit sided with the German software company, concluding that the US Government was indeed liable.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

In addition, the maximum punitive damages for copyright infringers in China was increased ten-fold. However, the US copyright groups see a lot more room for improvement. They hope that the Chinese government will step up its efforts on this front too. These allow pirates to play copies of games on their consoles.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

MARCH 17, 2022

The action for infringement can be taken under the following acts: If the work has been copied or duplicated for illegal use and exploitation with respect to literary, dramatic, musical, artistic, or cinematographic. If the original contents of a cinematographic film have been duplicated, copied, and pirated. And Others.,

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 27, 2024

Almost half a decade ago, eight Las Vegas men were indicted by a grand jury for conspiring to violate criminal copyright law. government labeled Jetflicks and iStreamitAll as two of the largest pirate streaming platforms in the United States. “Besides this data, the government provided another 18.68 TB of storage.”

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TorrentFreak

JULY 29, 2021

The “repeat infringer” issue remains a hot topic in US courts after rightsholders filed lawsuits against several ISPs. These Internet providers are accused of not doing enough to stop copyright infringers on their networks, even after receiving multiple ‘copyright infringement’ notifications.

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IP Tech Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Instagram, filed a complaint in the Northern District of California seeking class-wide relief against Instagram for inducing copyright infringement and for contributory copyright infringement and vicarious copyright infringement. In contrast, Sinclair and another case last year, McGucken v.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 12, 2024

The Road to Trial After pleading guilty to copyright infringement and money laundering, in 2021 a key defendant was sentenced to 57 months in prison and a $1m forfeiture order. In the same year, another pled guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit copyright infringement and was sentenced to one year and a day in prison.

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Copyright Lately

OCTOBER 20, 2024

Yes, there was a copyright infringement claim in the mix, based on Skiplagged’s use of American’s “flight symbol” logo. The court denied summary judgment on American’s trademark infringement and unfair competition claims, citing unresolved factual issues. It sought $94.4

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

copyright protection standards. The annual overview is meant to motivate foreign governments to improve policy and legislation in favor of US copyright holders. Over the past year, the government organization has asked ISPs to block several stream-ripping sites, for example, and these efforts will continue.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

The group offered hardware and software solutions that allowed people to install and play games – including pirated copies – on various consoles such as the popular Nintendo Switch. Government stressed that a five-year prison term was indeed justified. Nintendo had been trying to shut down the group for years but without much result.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 20, 2024

Copyright infringement is a global issue and Ghana is no exception. However, the issue was bought to the attention of the Ghanaian government which, through its National Film Authority ( NFA ), issued a stark warning yesterday. A copy of the public advisory notice, posted by NFA , is shown below.

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Patently-O

JANUARY 4, 2024

2024) A recent copyright infringement lawsuit filed by small Boston intellectual property boutique Hsuanyeh Law Group PC (HLG) against international giant Winston & Strawn LLP focuses a dividing line that can highlight when copying the work of another firm is permissible. Hsuanyeh Law Group v.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

The groups sent a copy of the UK High Court order to Google, requesting removal of the listed domains. The Electonic Frontier Foundation (EFF), for example, wrote an amicus curiae brief in support of Flvto and 2Conv when they were sued for copyright infringement in the United States. Google Removes YouTube Rippers.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JANUARY 16, 2024

Rather than being programmed in the traditional way, a large language model is “trained” by copying massive amounts of text and extracting information from it. Books3 is a dataset of books derived from a copy of the contents of the “ Bibliotik private tracker ”. Vicarious Copyright Infringement (17 U.S.C. §

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