Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Through our modern lens, this kind of copying can seem insane. Ethically, this type of copying would be seen as plagiarism and the creators would be treated accordingly, especially given that some of the images were traced. These days, comic artists and comic fans do not tolerate this kind of copying. Where We Are Today.

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43(B)log

JANUARY 27, 2023

Spiralverse removed the original paperback glue bindings from the copies it purchased, punched holes in the pages, and installed spiral bindings. Spiralverse listed its modified copies for sale on Amazon at prices of $29.99 Copyright infringement: Rebinding doesn’t create a derivative work. Wisdom Paths, Inc.,

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Traverse Legal Blog

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Preventing Accidental Infringement: Respect Copyright: Avoid copying others’ work without permission. However, courts may reduce damages if you can prove: Unawareness: You were unaware of the infringement and had no reason to suspect it. Prompt Removal: You promptly removed the infringing material after receiving notice.

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Velocity of Content

DECEMBER 4, 2024

If so, infringement may occur unless an exception applies or the LLM did not have access to the original work. 1 Another key right is the creation of derivative works, which includes adaptations or translations. 7 This does not, however, fully answer hard questions about the right to prepare derivative works under US law.

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Plagiarism Today

JULY 28, 2021

The lawsuit alleges that the group is committing copyright infringement not only because they are making derivative works based upon their games, but because they are circumventing copyright protection tools. Only three of the defendants were identified by name, two located in the U.S.

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 3, 2022

For works published before 1978, that is 95 years after publication meaning that works from 1926 expired into the public domain at the start of the year. Works that enter the public domain are free to be copied, used, distributed and have derivative works created of them without a license.

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The Illusion of More

JANUARY 19, 2022

By now, even people who don’t follow copyright and crypto stories may have read somewhere that a crypto group called Spice DAO purchased a rare copy of Frank Herbert’s Dune for €2.66 million and then announced its intent to make the work publicly available, produce an animated series, and promote derivative works.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 17, 2022

The RIAA logically doesn’t want third parties to strip music or vocals from copyrighted tracks, particularly when these derivative works are further shared with others. Unauthorized Copies and Derivatives. While Songmastr’s service is a bit more advanced, the RIAA sees it as clearly infringing.

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Plagiarism Today

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

However, publishing companies had been continuing to collect royalties on behalf of songwriters even after the rights were reclaimed due to the law saying that publishers can continue licensing any existing derivative works.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JANUARY 16, 2024

Rather than being programmed in the traditional way, a large language model is “trained” by copying massive amounts of text and extracting information from it. Books3 is a dataset of books derived from a copy of the contents of the “ Bibliotik private tracker ”. This body of text is called the training dataset.

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LexBlog IP

AUGUST 31, 2021

.” In other words, when you own the copyright on a particular artistic work, you not only own the right to copy and sell the work, but also the right to create derivative works (modifications or new expressions, based on the original), perform the work in public, and broadcast it.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Many artists have found their work in the libraries of different AI systems and have expressed anger over it. Though every AI is different in how it operates, some feel that AIs are not creating new works, but creating derivative works based on existing images. Whether that is true under the law has not been tested.

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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.” None of it includes copies of images. You’d be wrong.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The vicarious copyright infringement claim fails because the court doesn’t agree that all output produced by OpenAI’s models can be seen as a derivative work. “Plaintiffs’ allegation that ‘every output of the OpenAI Language Models is an infringing derivative work’ is insufficient.

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IIPRD

JANUARY 22, 2025

Such databases may include work that is copyrighted. Thus, fundamental questions arise, such as whether such copying amounts to infringement under copyright law or whether it falls under the purview of fair use. One of the biggest problems is the vagueness around AI-generated outputs and whether these are derivative works.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 20, 2021

They released ‘sizzle reels’ to market the cheat using Destiny 2 artwork and developed software to hook into copyrighted Destiny 2 code thereby producing an unlicensed derivate work. They illegally downloaded Destiny 2 in violation of the company’s licensing terms and willfully distributed copyright infringing code.

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Copyright Lately

AUGUST 10, 2021

In a 91-page report and recommendation, a magistrate judge finds that the new version of the Philadelphia Phillies’ mascot falls within the “derivative works exception” to copyright termination. The law permits the owner of a derivative work prepared before termination to continue using that new work even after termination.

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Plagiarism Today

DECEMBER 1, 2021

He is briefly dubbed a copycat for simply having some similar ideas to an earlier work, but yet a new derivative work can come along and find even greater success. For those trying to create original works, it raises the question: Why bother? They’ll be copied into oblivion. Why Bother?

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

It is that functionality, and not the copying, to which Apple truly objects. Opening software to information gathering and vulnerability testing is transformative, just as gathering information about and criticizing other types of works are classic transformative fair uses. But fair use protects precisely this kind of analysis.

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IPilogue

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Chegg works by hiring freelance workers to prepare step-by-step processes to answer the questions at the end of each chapter of Pearson textbooks. Nicole Haff , a litigation partner at Romano Law PLLC, states, “ answers to study guides and explanations to study guide questions are not protected as derivative works under the Copyright Act.”

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IP and Legal Filings

DECEMBER 23, 2024

This principle means that as long as the copy of the copyrighted content is within its fair use, it is classified as an exception and meets legal standards. 1] This article aims to prove how the alleged copying fits within Fair Use by assessing these four factors to render OpenAIs challenge devoid of merit.

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The IPKat

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Here’s what Felicia writes: Archival Authenticity or Iconic Copies? It also suggests that copying might have some effect on our understanding of what is and is not iconic. Assuredly, Dolce & Gabbana may not be able to prevent copies on the U.S. In this negative space of copyright law in the U.S., As in the U.S.,

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 17, 2024

Without obtaining permission, Lokka made a copy of the report, added his own subtitles, and then retransmitted the new version to the public via Twitter. When he copied and then rebroadcast the news report, that was copyright infringement. Subtitle Defense 2.0:

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 10, 2022

” The defendants argued that during the development of the cheating software, no copies of Destiny 2 were made or distributed, and no derivative works were created. The defendants threaten the gaming experience, Bungie added, noting that anti-cheating mitigation technology had cost it “exorbitant amounts of money.”

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

AUGUST 13, 2023

It is based on “ large language models ” (so called LLM ), which is “ trained by copying massive amounts of text ” (so called training dataset ) “ and extracting expressive information from it ” (see § I.2). OpenAI made copies of Plaintiffs’ books during its training process without plaintiffs’ permission. Code § 103 and 106.

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The IPKat

JUNE 7, 2022

It subsequently became a global success, topping the charts in 26 countries, with an estimated sales of over 16 million copies worldwide. The song is certified Diamond by RIAA, denoting sales of 10 million copies in the United States, becoming the first and only holiday song to accomplish this feat.

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McBayer IP Blog

APRIL 15, 2022

Of course, buying a copy of a book, no matter how rare, does not grant you the copyright or license to its contents. A clear gaff to be sure, which is then heightened by the fact that the purchase was funded almost entirely by investors and fans of the Dune franchise.

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The IP Law Blog

MARCH 14, 2024

The author plaintiffs alleged that OpenAI infringed on their published works by using these works to help train its LLM. The plaintiffs alleged that OpenAI copied their published books, which are protected by copyright law, and used them in a training dataset for its LLM.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

is further accused of selling Bungie emblems on third-party platforms and using cheating software that modifies the Destiny 2 game, violates the DMCA’s anti-circumvention provisions, and creates infringing derivative works. Cheat Software and Derivative Works. In a recent and spirited motion to dismiss, L.L.

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Indiana Intellectual Property Law

JUNE 1, 2023

The court’s decision has significant implications for artists and content creators, as it raises questions about the transformative nature of derivative works. The commercial nature of the copying further weighed against fair use.

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JIPL Online

MARCH 15, 2021

The Conan Doyle estate, heirs to the author of the works about the famed detective Sherlock Holmes, alleged that Netflix infringed on the character Sherlock Holmes in its portrayal of Sherlock Holmes in the 2020 movie “Enola Holmes.” [2] 18] Netflix admitted it had access to and copied the memoir. [19]

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IPilogue

JULY 18, 2022

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. Copyright, in the simplest terms, is “ the right to copy.”

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Singapore (computational data analysis; user must not “use the copy for any other purpose”) f. Does the machine infringe when it produces a new “work”? For the right to prepare a derivative work in US, linked to issue 3, see paper #1 and Getty Images lawsuit 3. Switzerland (scientific research) g.

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Copyright Lately

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

Miramax claims, among other things, that the preparation and sale of these derivative works constitutes copyright infringement because the contractual rights Tarantino reserved in his 1993 agreement with Miramax don’t cover NFTs. A used copy will set you back $1.09; for reasons unknown, a new copy is going for $113.03—In

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Barry Sookman

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

… The post Generative AI litigation: the Github and Tremblay decisions appeared first on Barry Sookman.

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The IP Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Thus, here, given that the plaintiff has Copyright Registrations, the burden shifts to Defendants to come forward with “evidence that the work[s] [were] copied from the public domain.” Defendants argued that because information concerning the Second Holy Temple is in the public domain, Plaintiff’s copyrighted works are not original.

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Copyright Lately

MAY 6, 2022

The first thing that’s important to understand is that buying a copy of a creative work, even if it happens to the only copy in existence, doesn’t give you any copyright interest in the work. So, if you buy a copy of “Dune,” you can read it. Want to Create New Derivative Works?

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