TorrentFreak

MAY 14, 2022

Given that the production of today’s videogames requires the involvement of a large number of people, preventing all information leaks is an impossible task. After being uploaded in the preceding days, on April 26 the company filed a complaint at YouTube alleging copyright infringement. Aside from generating more than 4.6

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The IP Law Blog

MAY 5, 2022

When standard approaches failed, a business professor recently turned to copyright law, hoping for a solution. Course Hero declined to provide the information absent a subpoena. To obtain a subpoena, Berkovitz would have to register his copyrights and file a lawsuit for copyright infringement, which he did.

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IP and Legal Filings

APRIL 19, 2022

A takedown notice is a type of complaint letter addressed to a website administrator, stating that the website’s material has infringed on the owner’s copyright and requesting that the content be removed from the website. Information Technology Act,2000. Safe Harbour Principle ( Section 79 of IT Act,2000).

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The Illusion of More

JULY 18, 2024

On July 11, Senators Cantwell, Blackburn, and Heinrich introduced a bill called the Content Origin Protection and Integrity from Edited and Deepfake (COPIED) Media Act. One of many AI related bills in Congress, the heart of COPIED is transparency in artificial intelligence through implementation of content provenance information (CPI).

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

But if you really want Kiwi Farms gone, have you considered using copyright law for its censorial power? “Kiwi Farms users provided a Google Drive link to a full copy of Mr. Greer’s book.” Somebody,” he explained, “created a copy of [his] book and put it in a Google Drive that is accessible on Kiwi Farms.”

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 18, 2023

Moritz College of Law The copyright – contract tension Stewart Brand famously said that information wants to be free. We know, however, that many laws limit free access and use of information goods, most prominently copyright law (and IP law generally). ML Genius v.

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Velocity of Content

OCTOBER 20, 2021

ET), the US Copyright Office, and the US Patent and Trademark Office are co-hosting a three-part discussion on “ Copyright Law and Machine Learning for AI: Where Are We Now and Where Are We Going?” Agenda and registration information are available here.”. On Tuesday, October 26 (from 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 24, 2022

The guide is an amazingly thorough overview of copyright, written in a way to be understood by lay people and it includes nearly all of the important information one needs to know in just 10 pages and 4,000 words. Copyright Office, which is part of the federal government, the work itself is in the public domain.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 12, 2022

The judgment notes that the plaintiff did not, in fact, claim that the defendant had copied his screenplay and did not claim originality in any one element or that there was a shot-by-shot reproduction. It is interesting that the plaintiff did not claim originality of his screenplay when seeking copyright protection.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash Welcome to the third trimester of the 2023 round up of EU copyright law! In this edition, we update you on what has happened between July and September 2023 in EU copyright law. The autumn has started with full speed – the courts and the policy makes have been very active.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 13, 2023

Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash Welcome to the first trimester of the 2023 round up of EU copyright law! In this edition, we report on an AG Opinion that came out late in 2022 and update you on what has happened in the first trimester of 2023 in EU copyright law.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Furthermore, they allege that Reelz has copied many elements from Live PD including the show’s format, the show’s hosts and the same catchphrase to name a few. 2: HC Directs Telegram to Disclose Details of Channels Violating Copyright Law. The lawsuit was filed by songwriters L.

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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.

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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. This information becomes more and more valuable as time passes by. Each copy can only be loaned to one person at a time, to mimic the lending attributes of physical books.

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JD Supra Law

APRIL 25, 2024

Website operators in particular are increasingly seeking to use their online terms of service to prohibit the use of content and information hosted on their sites to train AI systems. By: Perkins Coie

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 9, 2021

After some digging, KokomRoilly found multiple lengthy passages of verbatim copying and posted highlighted passages on their Twitter account. Likewise, KokomRoily is continuously updating their Twitter account as new information comes to light. I'm what you'd call a voracious reader. I read all the time, everywhere.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JANUARY 4, 2024

Welcome to the fourth (and last) round up of EU copyright law for 2023! In this edition, we update you on what has happened in the last three months of 2024 in EU copyright law. All in all, 2024 promises to be an exciting year for EU copyright law. Stay tuned!

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TorrentFreak

MAY 17, 2022

While most site operators use fake information to sign up, some of the information is actionable. This is also what James Gibson , Professor of Law at Richmond University, hinted at. Unlike downloading pirated movies, consuming pirated streams isn’t a clear violation of copyright law. No Lasting Copy.

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Patently-O

AUGUST 30, 2022

Contract not Copyright: Genius does not hold the copyright to the lyrics and so has no copyright infringement claim. But, Genius does require its users to agree to an extensive contractual agreement that includes a promise that the user will not commercially reproduce, copy, or distribute any portion of the Genius service.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

The company demanded damages under copyright law claiming that the team “willfully and maliciously” copied, adapted and distributed its source code and other content without permission. Take-Two also demanded damages for alleged misrepresentations in the defendants’ DMCA counternotices.

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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. Thus, the decisions about what textual information to include in the training dataset are deliberate choices. Vicarious Copyright Infringement (17 U.S.C. §

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TorrentFreak

MAY 31, 2022

In common with other countries attempting to reduce their movie and TV show piracy problem, India has provisions in copyright law that allow rightsholders to limit access to pirate sites. Complaint Confirmed, Two People Named.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 10, 2024

Nintendo Targets Suyu, Nuzu, Uzuy, Torzu, and Sudachi As Nintendo continues to target Yuzu-like emulators that remain available online, takedown notices now feature detailed information about Yuzu to ensure compliance. For good measure, copies of the Yuzu judgment and the injunction that restrains its developers are supplied for reference.

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The IPKat

JANUARY 31, 2022

Under article 8(1) of the Enforcement Directive (Directive 2004/48/EC) a claimant in infringement proceedings can request a court to order certain parties to disclose information. This so-called ‘right to information’ includes information on the origin of the infringement (e.g. One image is depicted below.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 4, 2024

OpenAI Seeks NYT ‘Source’ Material In its quest for evidence, OpenAI is particularly interested in the copyrights of the New York Times’ works. This includes copyrighted news articles, which are often based on a variety of information gathered by its journalists. For example, discovery requests no.

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The IPKat

APRIL 3, 2023

Here’s what Desmond writes: Nigeria's new Copyright Act 2022: how libraries can benefit by Desmond Oriakhogba Background In October 2021, I wrote about the Nigerian copyright law reform process. The reform process is now complete with the recent assent to the Bill, as the Copyright Act 2022, by the Nigerian President.

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IPilogue

JUNE 13, 2022

Artists in the digital space have always been vulnerable to the unauthorized distribution, copying, and sale of their work. Listing someone else’s artwork on an NFT marketplace is as simple as saving a copy of the work from an artist’s website or social media platform and uploading it onto a marketplace where it is minted into an NFT.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 4, 2022

” Indeed, the court says “the Deposit Copy reads like a manual, instructing a user how to generate digital messages—and convert those digital messages to analog signals—that Pyrotechnics’s control panel and field module can send and understand.” ” Pyrotechnics’ copyright registration then starts to fall apart.

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Dear Rich IP Blog

AUGUST 13, 2022

The Copyright Office Public Records Portal does not provide copies of the images, books, movies, or other copyrighted materials that are registered under copyright law. All of this information (and more) is provided in Copyright Circular 6.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 17, 2024

It involved the use of copyrighted content to create an alleged ‘parody’ (one that many people would find offensive), the distribution of that content to the public via Twitter, and a defendant claiming immunity under copyright law. When he copied and then rebroadcast the news report, that was copyright infringement.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

Parrish Publishes LifeWise’s Children’s Curriculum, LifeWise Sues In the belief that the curriculum contains information supportive of the opposition group’s cause, Parrish obtained a copy of the closely-guarded documents and, in the public interest, posted them publicly online.

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SpicyIP

JULY 5, 2021

In Rajeev Kumar vs Jamia Millia Islamia (12th April 2021), an extremely interesting tussle was seen with the copyright over a thesis being pitted against a person’s right to obtain information under the Right to Information Act, 2005. Background. suo moto mandatory disclosures. What is this ‘intent’ anyway?

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

‘Library Genesis,’ or ‘Libgen’ for short, is a group of pirate websites through which a vast array of written material is illegally copied and distributed online without any authorization, and with no remuneration to copyright holders.” “[T]he Sites undermine the very purpose of U.S.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 19, 2024

The company has a process in place to disclose hosting information with eligible rightsholders, for example, and will also share details of allegedly pirating customers in response to DMCA subpoenas. As far as we know, Cloudflare has not terminated any customers solely based on copyright holder complaints.

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The IPKat

JANUARY 25, 2022

The cover provides the requisite information—title, author, and publisher. We are also informed that photograph itself is by RMN Photo—Arnaudet. As such, mechanical reproduction can never be authentic, nor can a copy ever be perfect, because it is detached from its aura. But of course. But this is not the case for works of art.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 20, 2022

Under US copyright law, Internet providers must terminate the accounts of repeat infringers “in appropriate circumstances.”. This information was central to (part of) the piracy notifications on which the repeat infringer claims are based. From: TF , for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 31, 2024

On October 29, officers from Miyagi Prefectural Police Headquarters and Tome Police Station arrested three men on suspicion of violating copyright law. ” From: TF , for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

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