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Tips for Avoiding Copyright Infringement

The IP Law Blog

Further, only a modicum, or small amount, of creativity is required for copyright protection to attach. Many find it surprising, but there is no requirement to include a copyright notice on a work for the work to be protected by copyright law. The lack of a copyright notice does not give you permission to use the work.

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Facebook’s Plagiarism Problems Are Deeper Than You Realize

Plagiarism Today

As part of their series The Facebook Files , which is an examination of leaked internal documents from the company, the paper published a scathing review of the company’s practices surrounding copied content. This was in part because the company feared running afoul of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). Bottom Line.

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Tips for Avoiding Copyright Infringement

LexBlog IP

Further, only a modicum, or small amount, of creativity is required for copyright protection to attach. Many find it surprising, but there is no requirement to include a copyright notice on a work for the work to be protected by copyright law. The lack of a copyright notice does not give you permission to use the work.

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ISP Optimum Questions ‘Evidence’ For Billion Dollar Piracy Lawsuit

TorrentFreak

“Rightscorp intentionally sends out millions of notices a year, and includes threatening settlement demands therein, as it stands to gain a portion of each settlement received as a result of each notice. To force the matter, Altice submitted a motion to compel Rightscorp to comply with the subpoenaed information.

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Records Labels and ISP Seek Summary Judgments in Piracy Lawsuit

TorrentFreak

.” Piracy Notices Never Came Through. If the court chooses not to dismiss the copyright claims, the ISP would like the claims to be drastically limited. The company explains that many of the copyright notices sent by the rightsholders should be excluded because they were sent to the wrong email address.

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

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

Users retain ownership of content they upload to GitHub, but grant GitHub: the “right to store, archive, parse, and display [the content], and make incidental copies, as necessary to provide the Service, including improving the Service over time.” 22-cv-7074-JST, ECF No. Not all was lost, however. Corelogic, Inc. , 3d 666, 671 (9th Cir.

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RIAA Sues Verizon After ISP “Buried Head in Sand” Over Subscribers’ Piracy

TorrentFreak

.” Knowledge of infringement, the labels say, was established at Verizon over a period of several years during which it received “hundreds of thousands” of copyright notices, referencing instances of infringement allegedly carried out by its subscribers.