Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 23, 2022

1: Ex-White House Photographer Sued for Copyright Over His Own Photo: ‘You Can’t Make This Up’. First off today, Bevan Hurley at The Independent reports that former White House photographer Pete Souza says that he is facing legal threats over his use of a photograph he took on his own website. Have any suggestions for the 3 Count?

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IP and Legal Filings

MAY 3, 2024

Fair use provides some exceptions to copyright protection, allowing limited use of copyrighted material without the permission of the copyright owner. Copyright Law Copy Right is a legal concept that gives creators exclusive rights over their original works and allows them to control the use and distribution of those works.

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 19, 2022

1: Government Pauses Plans to Rewrite UK Copyright Laws After Authors Protest. The rule, entitled copyright exhaustion, places limits on the import of international editions of books. Without this rule, many authors fear the UK market would be flooded with cheaper international copies. Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

With more than 238 million copies sold, it’s also the best-selling video game in history, a reign that looks set to continue. Mojang is totally fine with this, as long as people don’t charge money or distribute modded copies of the game. All repositories are reportedly linked to copies of Eaglercraft.

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The IPKat

MARCH 4, 2024

This time, Katfriend Spyridon Sipetas (Stockholm University) tells the story of a collaboration – the one between Jacquemus and Nike – that has been already plagued with accusations of copying. Here’s what Spyridon writes: Jacquemus x Nike Swoosh Bag: ‘Just Copy It’ or re-appropriation of Nike’s own trade mark?

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TorrentFreak

MAY 1, 2024

In this case, eight major news publications are suing OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement. In addition, ChatGPT can recall large parts of their copyright-protected articles, which effectively bypasses their paywalls. The plaintiffs show that ChatGPT can reproduce content from copyrighted news articles when prompted.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 16, 2024

Some of these sites have been repeatedly reported by FAPAV to AGCOM and blocked by the Authority. Most of the pages mentioned in the petition have already been reported to AGCOM in petition DDA/5427. The same web pages often include directions on how to change DNS or use VPNs to obviate the blocking of some sites by Internet providers.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JANUARY 20, 2022

At the end of 2021, YouTube’s first Copyright Transparency Report 2021 (“Report”) was published. It is interesting to look at this Report against the background of the 2019 EU rules for the liability of platforms like YouTube through the famous Art. It is the first ever report by YouTube on copyright actions.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 17, 2024

Acuff-Rose sued members of hip hop group 2 Live Crew, claiming that their track “Pretty Woman” infringed the label’s copyright in the Roy Orbison song, “Oh, Pretty Woman.” When he copied and then rebroadcast the news report, that was copyright infringement. Acuff-Rose Music, Inc.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 1, 2024

In this case, eight major news publications are suing OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement. In addition, ChatGPT can recall large parts of their copyright-protected articles, which effectively bypasses their paywalls. The plaintiffs show that ChatGPT can reproduce content from copyrighted news articles when prompted.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Earlier this February, South Africa’s Portfolio Committee on Trade, Industry and Competition began the process of consideration and report on the Copyright Amendment Bill [B13F-2017]. Kat long walk. In addition to the foregoing, clauses relating to circumstances where the author of literary or musical works, visual artistic work, etc.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Majors Publishers File Copyright Complaint Against Libgen According to a copyright lawsuit filed in the U.S. . “This collection consists of over 6 million files that include illegal copies of works from a diverse cross-section of the publishing industry. “[T]he Sites undermine the very purpose of U.S.

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Velocity of Content

JANUARY 9, 2024

In a 2023 report published by EndPoints News , it is suggested that for 2022, an estimated 70% of US FDA approvals for new treatments originated in small companies when compared to 66% in 2021. In  In addition to this, 6,918 clinical programs were reported in 2022 with an astonishing 77% originating from small companies.

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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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The IPKat

AUGUST 30, 2023

Three US cases were brought claiming that the song Thinking Out Loud performed by Ed Sheeran, copied Let’s Get It On performed by Marvin Gaye. Both parties submitted expert musicologist reports. Sheeran’s Thinking Out Loud had been created independently and therefore did not infringe the copyright of Let’s Get It On.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 9, 2023

To protect copyright holders, YouTube regularly removes, disables, or demonetizes videos that allegedly contain infringing content. While anyone can send a DMCA notice to the platform, most copyright actions come from the Content ID system that can only be used by a select group of copyright holders.

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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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The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

Kat cloud Does the private copying exception and, with it, the fair compensation requirement under Article 5(2)(b) of the InfoSoc Directive apply to reproductions carried out by using cloud-based recording services? In Austro-Mechana , the question is once again one of private copying in the cloud.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 31, 2024

The USTR’s report aims to motivate governments and various players in the private sector to take appropriate action, wherever that’s possible, to disrupt and limit infringement. reappeared in the report last year. As expected, the most-visited torrent site on the internet also appears in this year’s report.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 4, 2022

Despite a reported development and marketing budget in excess of $100m, Genshin Impact is free to play but is monetized via gacha game mechanics. This is the type of behavior that has attracted copyright infringement lawsuits in the past but in this case, the makers of Genshin XYZ are using copyright law to prevent piracy of their product.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 29, 2021

The European Commission’s Directorate-General for Taxation and Customs Union ( DG TAXUD ) and the European Union Intellectual Property Office ( EUIPO ) recently released the first joint annual report on EU enforcement of intellectual property rights: results at the EU border and in the EU internal market 2020.

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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. In this case, the video game publishers are the copyright holders for the video games in the entire EU and EEA.

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Copyright Lately

DECEMBER 24, 2023

Thousands will compete, many are objectively baseless, but only five can be crowned the worst of the worst copyright lawsuits of 2023. We’re nearing the end of December, which means it’s time for Copyright Lately ’s annual worst-of list. When Netflix refused to pay up, Cramer sued for copyright infringement.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 18, 2022

At TorrentFreak we do our best to keep readers updated on the latest copyright and piracy news, highlighting issues from different points of view. We report on the opinions and efforts of copyright holders when it comes to online piracy and have active dialogues with anti-piracy outfits.

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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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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

This post looks back at the key developments in AI and copyright in 2022, covering generative AI, text and data mining exceptions, the pastiche exception, deep fakes, voice cloning and infringement and enforcement of copyright using AI. Very few jurisdictions expressly provide for copyright in computer-generated works.

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Velocity of Content

MARCH 1, 2023

s Information Seeking and Consumption Study, commissioned by CCC, is that executives share the most content and have the highest likelihood of copyright infringement. Downloading content through any tool makes a new copy of that content – and copying often requires permission. However, an intriguing insight from Outsell Inc.’s

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 7, 2023

A few years ago copyright holders paid little attention to these discussions. In 2017, the site removed ‘just’ 4,352 pieces of content in response to copyright holders’ complaints. User access requests, which allow users to ask for a copy of their account information, skyrocketed in the first half of 2023.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 17, 2022

From a copyright perspective, AI can bring up some interesting questions. For example, can content created by an AI be copyrighted like any other work? Or perhaps AI can infringe copyrights held by others? Unauthorized Copies and Derivatives. From: TF , for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

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Plagiarism Today

JUNE 2, 2022

Levy at Kristina Wang at Wilson Sonsini reports that the U.S. However, after examining the facts of the case, the judge has ruled that, even with the most favorable interpretation for the Zorikova, that no copyright infringement took place. 2: Toots Hibbert Estate Loses Major Copyright Battle To The Reggae Legend’s Former Manager.

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The IPKat

JUNE 7, 2022

Readers may have seen that the media have picked up on a claim made against Mariah Carey for copyright infringement by her infamous song " All I Want for Christmas is You ". It subsequently became a global success, topping the charts in 26 countries, with an estimated sales of over 16 million copies worldwide.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 14, 2022

News outlet IZ recently contacted cinema owners in several areas of the country and was informed that if a decent copy becomes available, Avatar 2 will feature in their line-ups. Early cammed copies are commonplace, as are high-quality releases later on, but when everything comes together, big things can happen. Quality and Timing.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 17, 2023

The H2020 project reCreating Europe performed an unprecedented mapping of EU and Member States’ sources on copyright flexibilities. The reports commented on the main features of Member States’ rules and, in case of correspondence to an EU provision, they assessed convergences, divergences and degree of flexibility compared to the EU model.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 21, 2023

In 2020, publishers Hachette, HarperCollins, John Wiley and Penguin Random House sued the Internet Archive (IA) for copyright infringement, equating its ‘Open Library’ to a pirate site. Staying true to the centuries-old library concept, only one patron at a time can get a copy. Mass Copyright Infringement or Fair Use?

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BYU Copyright Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

In our June 6, 2021, blog post we reported on a lawsuit between two companies that guide prospective college students in their application process. Lehren”), claiming that Lehren copied “significant portions” of its website.Since then, Lehren has responded to these allegations. Plaintiff Ivy Coach, Inc. (“Ivy”)

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Plagiarism Today

DECEMBER 6, 2022

1: Freeplay Sues CNN Over Music Used in News Reports. First off today, Chris Cooke at Complete Music Update reports that the music production company Freeplay music has filed a lawsuit against CNN, alleging that the news organization used their music in news segments without a license. Have any suggestions for the 3 Count?

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 9, 2023

TLDR Generative AI is one of the hot topics in copyright law today. In the EU, a crucial legal issue is whether using in-copyright works to train generative AI models is copyright infringement or falls under existing text and data mining (TDM) exceptions in the Copyright in Digital Single Market (CDSM) Directive.

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