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Will eBook Ruling Impact Fair Use Analysis for Generative AI?

Intellectual Property Law Blog

It noted that an eBook recast from a print book is a paradigmatic example of a derivative work and the changes involved in preparing a derivative work can be described as transformations. However, the output of the GAI is a new image (albeit typically not a copy of the scanned image(s)).

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Software Downloads Netflix & Disney+ Videos to Make DRM-Free Copies

TorrentFreak

Long before the advent of legitimate online video streaming services, torrent sites and similar platforms allowed users to download and keep copies of movies and TV shows. Is it permissible to download and keep copies of movies and TV shows if you’ve paid for a legal subscription? Subscriber Agreements.

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Generative AI: admissibility and infringement in the two US class actions against Meta’s LLaMA

Kluwer Copyright Blog

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. Thus, the decisions about what textual information to include in the training dataset are deliberate choices. This body of text is called the training dataset.

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Hachette Book Group v Internet Archive: Archiving Access to Information or Strengthening Copyright Laws?

SpicyIP

Image from here Hachette Book Group v Internet Archive: Archiving Access to Information or Strengthening Copyright Laws? Other than a brief period in 2020, the Archive maintained a one-to-one ratio of books owned by it in physical copies and made available digitally for users through its free digital library.

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Court Dismisses Authors’ Copyright Infringement Claims Against OpenAI

TorrentFreak

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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RIAA Flags ‘Artificial Intelligence’ Music Mixer as Emerging Copyright Threat

TorrentFreak

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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Copyright Parody Exception Denied Due to Defendant’s Discriminatory Use

TorrentFreak

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: Lokka chose parody but under the circumstances, that underperformed.

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