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

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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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

A class-action lawsuit filed by authors including Richard Kadrey, Sarah Silverman, and Christopher Golden is one such copyright infringement case. “By downloading through the bit torrent protocol, Meta knew it was facilitating further copyright infringement by acting as a distribution point for other users of pirated books.”

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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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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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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 15, 2024

law, rightsholders have an option to identify alleged copyright infringers, without directly having to file a lawsuit. ” After the parties got together, an agreement was reached to confidentially disclose basic subscriber information related to 64 Discord User IDs. Instead, they can request a DMCA subpoena.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 25, 2025

Most of these cases allege that AI developers used copyrighted works to train LLMs without first obtaining authorization. At the same time, however, the company denied the copyright infringement allegations, noting that it would rely on a fair use defense, at least in part. Meta admitted the use of these unofficial sources early on.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Today’s social media users see copyright conflicts on a regular basis, but probably due to the way copyright is enforced, tend to view images and text as faiir game when compared to movies and music. ” From: TF , for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more. .

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 15, 2025

According to the publisher, Nhentai shares copyrighted material without obtaining permission. Nhentai] hosts a vast collection of hentai works, including commercially produced content, much of which, based on information and belief, is shared without proper authorization from the owners, the complaint alleged.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Popular Internet infrastructure service Cloudflare has come under pressure from copyright holders in recent years. Instead of taking any direct action, Cloudflare said that it would inform its customers about the allegations. copyright law provides. These pirate sites have proven to be quite a headache for Cloudflare.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 11, 2025

In the race to build the most capable LLM models, several tech companies sourced copyrighted content for use as training data, without obtaining permission from content owners. At the same time, however, the company denied the copyright infringement allegations, noting that it would rely on a fair use defense, at least in part.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

When cassette recorders, VCRs and similar devices hit the mainstream, entertainment companies with business models reliant on customers buying copies faced uncertainty. Private Copying Levy Valenti’s statement in 1982 reached a broad audience but its essence wasn’t new.

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SpicyIP

OCTOBER 9, 2024

She graduated from National Law University, Delhi in 2023 & enjoys reading and writing on copyright laws. Image from here Hachette Book Group v Internet Archive: Archiving Access to Information or Strengthening Copyright Laws? Firstly, the FDL did not entail any criticism, commentary or information about the original books.

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SpicyIP

MARCH 30, 2025

Continuing from his earlier post, where he explained the technical workings of Large Language Models vis-a-vis where different copyright questions arise, in this post Shivam Kaushik argues that LLMS are in effect interacting with non-expressive parts of the works in question. But is all use of the text protected by copyright?

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

After more than two months of silence, local authorities have now released additional information on the investigation and the two men previously arrested. Phan Thanh Cong and Nguyen Tuan Anh will be prosecuted for infringement of copyright and related rights under Clause 2, Section 225, Penal Code 2015. Commercial Scale Offending?

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 24, 2024

The company tried to obtain a DMCA subpoena requiring Cloudflare to hand over all identifying information it has on the site’s operators. DMCA subpoenas have proven to be an effective legal tool to gather information. In this case, however, nHentai’s operators decided to intervene, asking the court to quash the subpoena.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

Founded over a decade ago, Dramacool became a go-to destination for pirated copies of Asian dramas and related content. information portal went offline too, leaving many users in the dark. Due to the copyright, we cannot run the sites anymore. From: TF , for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

copyright law, Internet providers must terminate the accounts of repeat infringers “in appropriate circumstances”. This legal requirement remained largely unenforced for nearly two decades but a series of copyright infringement liability lawsuits, with hundreds of millions of dollars at stake, have shaken up the industry.

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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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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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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 9, 2024

The company’s approach to copyright complaints differs based on the role it plays. Cloudflare Copyright Takedowns on the Rise Historically, Cloudflare hasn’t hosted much content. Through these notices, the group asks Cloudflare to inform the website owner and the hosting company to shut these sites down.

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Plagiarism Today

MARCH 30, 2022

First off today, Austen Goslin at Polygon reports that choreographer Kyle Hanagami has filed a lawsuit against Epic Games alleging that the video game company copied his choreography for an emote in the game Fortnite. 3: BBB Warns of Instagram Account Scam Through Fake Copyright Email.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 3, 2025

because the manga publisher requests information from third-party intermediaries such as Cloudflare, PayPal, Visa, and Google. Not much later, these domains also showed up in a separate request in a California federal court, where Google, Visa, and PayPal were asked to provide information on the alleged operators. net website.

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Plagiarism Today

MAY 18, 2022

When it comes to free stock photography websites, there are two reasons that are most commonly cited as issues: Copyright – Free stock photography sites, in general, allow virtually anyone to upload images. As such, the risk of copying images is only rising, and it may be a good time to seek out alternatives. The Reasons Given.

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Plagiarism Today

MAY 9, 2022

Most mornings, right after I wake up, my morning tasks include gathering any copyright and/or plagiarism news stories that I can find on the internet. . I read pretty much all of them, some copyright-related ones go into the 3 Count column and other stories get set aside for additional research to become full posts on the site.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 20, 2024

Government’s global copyright enforcement agenda going forward. The site, commonly abbreviated as “ FitGirl ” publishes slimmed down copies of pirated games which are easy to distribute and share. Both domains utilize a CDN,” ESA informs the USTR. that sells game accounts and virtual items without permission.

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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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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Copyright holders, for example, have pointed out that the San Francisco-based company is offering its services to pirates. Video Games Europe offered similar criticism, informing the EU that Cloudflare continues to act as an important intermediary in the delivery of pirated content, without voluntarily sharing private customer details.

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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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Erik K Pelton

APRIL 10, 2023

The following is an edited transcript of my video “The 5 Ws of Copyright Registration” The five Ws: Who, What, When, Where, and Why. I want to apply that to copyright registration Who can register a copyright? It is the owner of the work who generally would register a copyright. When to register a copyright?

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TorrentFreak

JULY 4, 2024

That basically allows one party to request evidence from the other, to properly support or refute the copyright infringement claims that form the basis of the lawsuit. OpenAI Seeks NYT ‘Source’ Material In its quest for evidence, OpenAI is particularly interested in the copyrights of the New York Times’ works.

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Intepat

DECEMBER 25, 2024

These industries heavily rely on database to store, manage, and analyse vast amounts of information. While the raw data within a database may not be eligible for copyright protection, the originality involved in selecting, organizing, or arranging the data can bring a database under the scope of copyright law.

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

carries significant implications for Generative AI and pending Copyright cases worldwide. Thomson Reuters argued that Legal Ease’s questions, incorporated by Ross in machine-readable form, essentially copied its creative headnotes. Ross Intelligence Inc. But, first, Some History!

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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? Such uses, they argue, constitute copyright infringement. As in the present context, the initial concern of copyright holders was that their consent had not been acquired by Google prior to scanning their works.

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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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Velocity of Content

OCTOBER 30, 2024

As these technologies continue to gain traction, pending lawsuits and legal uncertainty around the globe highlight the need to respect copyright law while leveraging the power of AI. Generative AI systems are strengthened by reliance on high quality, responsibly sourced training materials, including copyrighted works.

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SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

vs Sohail Kanungo on 26 October, 2024 (Delhi District Court) Image from here The plaintiff sought permanent injunction restraining the Defendants from infringing their copyright and trademark and also passing off their goods as that of the Plaintiffs. The Defendant was alleged to have copied both in name and in design a well known trimmer.

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