Intepat

JANUARY 8, 2024

New York Times alleges that this unauthorised use of articles infringes on their copyright and threatens its business model by diverting web traffic from its site. They argue that the AI chatbots created by OpenAI and Microsoft, like ChatGPT and Copilot, also copy the unique and distinctive style of the Times’ articles.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

.” ‘Hired Guns Don’t Stop Evolving Technology’ The OpenAI defendants continue their motion to dismiss by noting that AI is yet another technical evolution that will change the world, including journalism. However, OpenAI notes that the suggestion that its activities threaten journalism is overblown, or even fiction.

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IP Law 360

AUGUST 24, 2022

s copyright infringement suit accusing him of unlawfully copying and distributing thousands of news articles from The Wall Street Journal, arguing that his actions are protected under fair use. A prominent investment manager has asked a Texas federal judge to dismiss Dow Jones & Co.'s

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

In order to train their technologies, should AI companies be allowed to use works under copyright protection without consent? The lawsuits brought by the owners of such works, including artworks in the case of image-generators and journalism in the NYT case, claim that this should not be allowed. Fair Use Precedent?

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Patently-O

AUGUST 31, 2021

The focus of the case is copyrightability of the SAS statistical software and its outputs. SAS argues that it made a “plethora of creative choices” in developing its material, and that creativity is more than sufficient to satisfy the originality requirements of copyright law. The Federal Circuit’s Google v.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 30, 2023

The new technology also brings up novel copyright questions. Several rightsholders are worried that their work is being used to train AI without any form of compensation, for example. How these and other copyright questions will be dealt with is not entirely clear. Meanwhile, rightsholders don’t intend to stand idly by.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

It involves several IP rights, some of which overlap in some cases: copyright, trademarks, patents, trade secrets/confidential information, and the right of publicity (and similar rights with different names). Copyright 1. Fair use in US ( Google Books but reuse pattern different here. Fair dealing c.

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 13, 2023

Copyright infringement and De Minimis are often replaced to complement each other. However, de minimis is sometimes used as a defence in a copyright lawsuit. More often than not, the lawsuits filed for copyright infringement are cases of de minimis and thereto, get dismissed on the anvil of frivolity. INTRODUCTION.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 1, 2023

By Guest Blogger Tyler Ochoa Recently, the Ninth Circuit reaffirmed what has become known as the “server test”: in order to be held directly liable for violating the public display right, the alleged infringer must have a fixed “copy” of the work stored on a server in its possession or control. Instagram, LLC , 2023 WL 4554649 (9th Cir.

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Copyright Lately

MAY 1, 2023

If you’ve been glued to news coverage of the Ed Sheeran trial for the past two weeks, you may have missed an even bigger story from the world of music copyright. From a copyright perspective, these particular tracks are clearly derivative of both the original sound recordings and the underlying musical compositions.

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43(B)log

JUNE 26, 2023

16, 2023) The court refused to dismiss copyright and trademark claims based on copying of a TV show format, including the hosts. The key question is, of course, how far copyright will go to interfere with that artistic continuity.) Big Fish Entertainment, LLC, 2023 WL 4053871, No. 7411 (KPF) (S.D.N.Y.

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 22, 2024

The domain of copyright deals with the literary, musical, dramatic, and artistic works, and cinematograph films. Before the digital era, copyright protected tangible art or works, allowing authors to easily regulate usage, copies, and earnings.

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Velocity of Content

JANUARY 31, 2023

The making of copies to perform text and data mining, machine learning, and AI training (collectively “TDM”) without additional licensing is authorized for commercial and non-commercial purposes under CC BY , and for non-commercial purposes under CC BY-NC. Open licenses can create a very practical challenge for users who go beyond the terms.

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Velocity of Content

AUGUST 10, 2022

In the aftermath of Brexit, many publishers were wondering if the UK — with its strong tradition of supporting the rights of publishers, authors, and artists — would provide another voice in defense of copyright. The options ranged from no change to UK law, to improving the licensing environment, to offering new copyright exceptions.

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The IPKat

AUGUST 6, 2023

And, speaking of the book, we are happy to re-publish the review that Bill Patry (Mayer Brown) provided of it, as just published by the Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice. Developments in Copyright and Image/Publicity Rights’ Part 3. Hers is titled ‘Copyright at the CJEU: Back to the Start (Of Copyright Protection)’.

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LexBlog IP

AUGUST 31, 2022

Jacobs on the copyright side. Humor is also central to trademark infringement claims through notions of parody, and as part of copyright claims through satire. ii) For Laughs : Real Infringement Cases Impacted, In The US and Elsewhere, By Claims To Humor To Show Fair Use Or Non-Confusion. constitutional system.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The lawsuit seeks a declaratory judgment that Trump owns the copyright in the sound recordings (or in the alternative, in his interview responses on the recordings), and that Trump is entitled to all or the lion’s share of the profits made from the sale of those recordings and transcripts, which the lawsuit (absurdly) values at almost $50 million.

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 20, 2022

As described here in a previous post: The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit rejected an artistic intent or purpose test for fair use on March 26, 2021, in The Andy Warhol Foundation v. ” Then, as I noted , the US Supreme Court decided a few days later, “in Google v. at 7-9) were transformative.,”

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