Plagiarism Today

APRIL 4, 2022

In some types of programming, especially when there’s only one correct way to do something, copying code isn’t just a shortcut, it’s the norm. Many lawyers also copy and paste heavily in the legal documents in a bid to meet the criteria there. The most significant difference between is that copyright is a function of the law.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 21, 2023

Staying true to the centuries-old library concept, only one patron at a time can get a copy. Mass Copyright Infringement or Fair Use? Stressing that the library offers a vital service, Internet Archive’s defense centers on the legal concept of fair use. As such, they want it permanently taken down.

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Copyright Lately

APRIL 23, 2021

The Andy Warhol Foundation (AWF) is asking the Second Circuit to reconsider its recent fair use ruling over Warhol’s “Prince Series,” arguing that the decision “threatens to render unlawful many of the most historically significant artistic works of the last half-century.”. Andy Warhol’s “Prince Series”.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 14, 2022

By definition, any lending is controlled and the library simply provides a digital alternative to physical libraries. They insist that copying their books without permission is illegal, despite IA’s claims that it only lends copies of books that it physically owns while maintaining a one-to-one “owned-to-loaned” ratio.

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Copyright Lately

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

It looks like Jake from State Farm is definitely going to blow through his deductible, as the insurance giant lost its bid to declare game over on a lawsuit brought by video game publisher Atari Interactive. Atari’s copyright infringement lawsuit against State Farm advances, underscoring the importance of careful clearance in advertising.

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43(B)log

MAY 19, 2023

Its TOS provide that users will not use Roblox content outside of the Roblox Platform, monetize Roblox content, or imply an association with Roblox for their businesses outside of the Roblox Platform. Wowwee sells a line of dolls called “My Avastars,” which plaintiffs allege were “copied directly from Roblox’s Classic Avatars.”

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IPilogue

JULY 18, 2022

Copyright Act —whether Warhol’s print is transformative of the original photograph so that it qualifies as fair use. As an avant-guard artist of his time, Warhol used the mechanical process of copying to challenge the conventional notion of art. In this sense, the act of copying is the very medium of Warhol’s art.

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IPilogue

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

De Fontbrune held the position that the estate did not have the power to approve such use. At the request of De Fontbrune , in 1998, the police confiscated copies of Wofsy’s book, and De Fontbrune sued for copyright infringement. The plaintiffs argued that the book has a commercial purpose, which weighs against fair use.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

APRIL 6, 2022

While the definition of “Platform” includes “content,” it doesn’t appear to contain “User Content.”. Whether Instagram granted Newsweek an implied sublicense : An implied license exists where someone (1) creates content (2) at another’s request and (3) handed it over, intending the other party copy and distribute it.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2021

The Doctrine of Fair Use is a concept that originates from the case of Folsom vs. Marsh. Justice Story observed in his judgement, when the courts of law decide on cases like this, they must look to the nature and objects of the selection mode, the quantity and value of material used. Definition. Code, section 107.

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IPilogue

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Despite its benefits, copying materials can present consequences for the content’s owners, artists, and publishers. The Copyright Board agreed, claiming that despite the permissible use of the photocopied materials for educational purposes, the use was not fair and so royalties needed to be paid. As Abella J.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Opponents of filtering technology warn that fair use and First Amendment rights are at stake. Rightsholders did not dispute that but noted that these issues don’t play a role when full copies of copyrighted content are shared. Tweaking the DMCA.

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Kashishipr

MAY 25, 2021

It may not always prevent unauthorized copying; however, it may serve as a public notice by securing a public record in one’s favor. You may consider dedicating a page that illustrates the definite reposting policies. Blogging and Fair Use. The process of seeking registration can be cumbersome and tedious.

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Velocity of Content

MARCH 16, 2023

After all, while we are pondering the weighty issue of future ownership, we are not focusing on the fundamental issue of wholesale copying of works to train AI in a wide variety of situations. I speculated that this was an attempt to avoid a messy fair use dispute. is being used as code.

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Velocity of Content

DECEMBER 4, 2024

8 This definition of the right could loosely be used as a definitionof machine-learning when applied to the creation of literary and artistic productions because AI machines can produce literary and artistic content (output) that is almost necessarily “based upon”a dataset consisting of preexisting works. 17 U.S.C. § ↩︎ See id.

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JD Supra Law

OCTOBER 1, 2024

A Federal appeals court has ruled that the nonprofit Internet Archive’s “controlled digital lending program” – which creates and lends fully digitized copies of books – does not meet the copyright law’s definition of a fair use. The September 4, 2024, decision in Hachette Books v.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 5, 2023

Fans loved ‘re3’ and ‘reVC’ but Take-Two and Rockstar Games most definitely did not. The company’s claims included damages for “willful and malicious” copyright infringement due to the illegal copying, adaption and distribution of GTA source code and other protected content.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 13, 2023

Patrons can also borrow books that are scanned and digitized in-house, with technical restrictions that prevent copying. Staying true to the centuries-old library concept, only one patron at a time can rent a digital copy of a physical book. Mass Copyright Infringement or Fair Use?

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IP Intelligence

APRIL 18, 2023

Many people were disappointed when the most-watched copyright case of the past 10 years, Oracle’s lawsuit against Google over Google’s copying Java application programming interface (API) code, failed to yield better guidance on the scope of copyright protection for computer programs. Many Internet pundits have interpreted Oracle v.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 30, 2022

The Rusty Krab court expands upon these points in its subsequent section detailing findings of law, but its discussion is fairly conclusory, mainly comprising maxims about what a parody is and isn’t rather than specific discussion of the defendants’ use and why it fails to qualify.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2023

The defendants’ wholesale collection and use of copyrighted material, with no option for copyright owners to opt out, would exceed the legal interpretation of “fair use” (see VHT vs Zillow Group , 918 F.3d 2000) (“ copying an entire work militates against a finding of fair use. ”). 4th 1149 (9th Cir.

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Intepat

DECEMBER 25, 2024

However, the Act does not provide a specific definition of creativity, and as a result, Indian courts often rely on the sweat of the brow doctrine, which focuses on the effort, skill, and judgment invested in the creation of the databases.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 26, 2023

So-called ‘cam’ copies appear online within hours of movies first appearing in theaters, yet as piracy releases go, cams are unique in their ability to disappoint just about everyone. For the last 40 years the Motion Picture Association has regularly highlighted the damage caused by in-theater recordings of the latest movies.

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Copyright Lately

JANUARY 23, 2023

Stable Diffusion Doesn’t Store Copies of Training Images The complaint also mischaracterizes Stable Diffusion by asserting that images used to train the model are “stored at and incorporated” into the tool as “compressed copies.” The current Stable Diffusion model uses about 5 gigabytes of data.

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43(B)log

OCTOBER 20, 2022

pointed out that many of the big data/evidentiary use-type fair use cases are well-described by the idea of a transformative purpose —a purpose orthogonal or unrelated to the expressive content of the original work or works used. Professor Reese’s Transformativeness and the Derivative Work Right , 31 Colum.

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IPilogue

AUGUST 4, 2021

This is because Copilot would copy small snippets of commonly used code which are unlikely to amount to substantial reproduction or meet the threshold of originality necessary to be protected under copyright. Intellectual property law professor Andres Guadamuz argues that Copilot, as it stands, does not infringe copyright.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

” Perhaps the plaintiffs were concerned that Instagram has insufficient “volition” for the copies made by its servers; or perhaps Instagram can claim the 512 safe harbor for any embedded user-uploaded files (but the 512 safe harbor also applies to contributory infringement, so this theory isn’t very plausible). ¯_(?)_/¯.

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IP and Legal Filings

JUNE 29, 2024

Certain sections like 2(qq) and 38, define a “performer” and specify whether a person’s personality falls under the definition of a performer, under which a performer’s right may be asserted, hence prohibiting the unapproved marketing of a performer’s work.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 9, 2023

The biggest copyright law question in the EU and US is probably whether using in-copyright works to train generative AI models is copyright infringement or falls under the transient and temporary copying and TDM exceptions (in the EU) or fair use (in the US). In the aftermath of cases like Authors Guild v.

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Trademark and Copyright Law Blog

APRIL 21, 2021

This dispute concerned Google’s use of Oracle’s “declaring code” – software that provides a list of functions and definitions that specify the parameters of application program interfaces (APIs) – in Google’s Android operating system. The decade-long dispute between Google LLC and Oracle America Inc.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

“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.” The court says the defendants waived any fair use defense by briefing it inadequately. Greer] money.”

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Reminder: the statutory definition of “service provider” is “provider of online services,” so this is not the place for copyright owners to draw their line in the sand. Instead, the plaintiff complained about the lingering backend copies and copies cached in third-party databases. Service Provider.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

.” So what is the current legal situation regarding the use of publicly available copyrighted works for the purpose of training ML systems? ” This definition clearly covers current approaches to machine learning that rely heavily on correlations between observed characteristics of training data. The future of copyright?

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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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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 29, 2023

Prutton admitted to copying and said that his adult daughter had helped him with his website. (A The CCB in the Final Determination sidesteps that issue, and looks to Prutton’s two defenses: fair use and unclean hands. Fair Use: From my perspective, the fair use analysis is what I’ve been waiting for.

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SpicyIP

AUGUST 6, 2024

Free access to AI voice cloning technologies has definitely caused a ruckus across jurisdictions, with its improper use ranging from politics to entertainment to crime. These technologies, capable of accurately replicating voices with 95% accuracy in multiple languages and accents, have been misused more often than put to good use.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 17, 2023

The overreliance on fair dealing, I argue, inadvertently expands the scope of copyright law and harms the public domain. Note: Fair dealing and fair use are construed to be conceptually different , the former being limited to an exhaustive list and the latter being open. What Fuels Faith in the First Place?

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