JD Supra Law

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

1:20-cv-613, potentially shaping how future courts will analyze transformative use and intermediate copying of copyrighted works used to train artificial intelligence models. On Tuesday, February 11, a Delaware district court issued much-awaited summary-judgment decisions in Thomson Reuters Enterprise Centre GmbH et al v.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 20, 2025

Crucially, however, Meta denied the copyright infringement allegations, noting that it would rely on a fair use defense, at least in part. To the extent that Meta made any unauthorized copies of any Plaintiffs registered copyrighted works, such copies constitute fair use under 17 U.S.C.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 18, 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 for a limited period. Mass Copyright Infringement or Fair Use?

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Such uses, they argue, constitute copyright infringement. Fair Use Precedent? Google Books and Transformative Use The past two decades have seen a wealth of technological developments, but generative AI is qualitatively different from everything that has come before. However, the U.S.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 27, 2024

There are also grave concerns that proposed “fair use” exceptions, which are partly modeled after U.S. South Africa Defends Broad Fair Use Exceptions This week, the Government sent a response to the USTR addressing IIPA’s critique. to use it as a basis for sanctions.

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JD Supra Law

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

On February 11, 2025, Third Circuit visiting Judge Stephanos Bibas, sitting by designation on the U.S.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

The company demanded damages under copyright law claiming that the team “willfully and maliciously” copied, adapted and distributed its source code and other content without permission. Affirmative Defense – Fair Use. The doctrine of fair use bars the relief sought by Plaintiff,” the response adds.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 25, 2025

Meta admitted the use of these unofficial sources early on. 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. The authors said that the downloading of millions of books cannot be classified as fair use.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

Parrish Publishes LifeWise’s Children’s Curriculum, LifeWise Sues In the belief that the curriculum contains information supportive of the opposition group’s cause, Parrish obtained a copy of the closely-guarded documents and, in the public interest, posted them publicly online. Factors of Fair Use A.

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IP Watchdog

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

“Fair Use” is a flexible defense to claims of copyright infringement. It is a doctrine that evolves as technology and the way in which people use copyrighted works advance. Naturally, the way courts analyze the “fair use” defense must adapt as technology advances and the way in which creative content is developed evolves.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Early September the defendants fired back with a motion to dismiss the “fatally defective” complaint, arguing that they only used a very small portion of the four-hour broadcast for the purposes of commentary and criticism, a key component of a fair use defense. Other Fair Use Factors Cannot Be Relied Upon.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Among its arguments to dismiss the claims, the AI company cited fair use. It argued that the use of large amounts of copyrighted texts could be seen as ‘fair’ because it helps to facilitate progress and innovation. “Fair use, of course, is an important—yet limited—feature of U.S. copyright law. .

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Many of the details were previously sealed, but unsealed copies added to the docket yesterday reveal new information. This doesn’t mean that Meta denies using shadow libraries, its argument is that using such data to train its LLM models constitutes fair use under U.S. The request was denied. copyright law.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 11, 2025

Meta admitted the use of these unofficial sources early on. 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 could argue that the use of the pirated books as AI training data qualifies as fair use.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 31, 2024

In Japan, where the concept of fair use isn’t recognized, there’s arguably less cause for confusion. While some consider this less damaging than uploading a full movie, CODA says that when use of copyrighted text goes beyond the scope of quotation, copying and distribution amount to serious crimes.

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Traverse Legal Blog

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Misinterpreting Licenses: Incorrectly assuming permission to use copyrighted material. Fair Use Misconception: Believing that a particular use falls under fair use guidelines. Preventing Accidental Infringement: Respect Copyright: Avoid copying others’ work without permission.

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IPilogue

MAY 26, 2022

An artist who fails to acquire permission from the copyright owner can use the ‘fair use’ defence. Under section 107 , fair use allows persons to use parts of a copyright protected work without permission for limited purposes. The fair use defence is rarely used in music sampling cases.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

JUNE 5, 2023

s (AWF), [1] in a long-awaited decision impacting fair use under Section 107(1) of the Copyright Act. Goldsmith and, as a result, did not constitute fair use. [2] The amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work. Since the Supreme Court’s decision in Campbell v.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

Some of McFree’s critical videos use copyrighted material owned by Watch Tower so in 2018, the group filed an application for a DMCA subpoena which asked a court to compel YouTube/Google to hand over his details. ” Fair Use Considerations. Overall then, the first factor weighs in favor of fair use.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

In the lawsuit, Pearson alleges that Chegg, through the use of thousands of freelancers, provides answers to questions found in textbooks it publishes and, in doing so, often copies the question verbatim or with slight paraphrasing. As a result, Pearson is suing Chegg alleging copyright infringement.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

The Internet Archive is widely known for its Wayback Machine, which preserves copies of the web for future generations. The motion is centered around the statute of limitations but IA also stressed the importance of their archiving efforts, hinting that it would be eligible for a fair use defense. ” Fair Use?

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Indiana Intellectual Property Law

JUNE 1, 2023

Supreme Court has ruled that Andy Warhol’s orange silkscreen portrait of musician Prince, adapted from a photograph by Lynn Goldsmith, does not qualify as “fair use” under copyright law. The commercial nature of the copying further weighed against fair use. Continue reading

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The IP Law Blog

MAY 25, 2023

Supreme Court ruled Thursday that Andy Warhol’s portraits of music legend Prince did not qualify as fair use under copyright law. However, the majority rejected this argument, stating that the new expression alone did not determine the purpose or character of the copying use. In a closely watched copyright case, the U.S.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

The court finds fair use. Purpose and Character of Use. However, to copy any less than the entire frame of each video would have disturbed the material and made the videos useless to the commentary. 22, 2024) The post Reaction Videos Are Fair Use–Thiccc Boy v. ” Amount Taken.

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 2, 2025

Copyright law is in charge of controlling how literary, artistic, and theatrical works, among others, are used. The law of copyright regulates the activities of copying and disseminating the words of someone who has copyright over something online without that person’s consent. Super Cassettes Industries Ltd. 1 (2022). [5]

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Plagiarism Today

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

1: ‘GTA’ Reverse-Engineer Modders Defend Projects as Under “Fair Use”. First off today, Will Nelson at NME reports that video game modders are fighting back against a lawsuit filed by Rockstar Games claiming that their fan-created mods are a fair use, not a copyright infringement.

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SpicyIP

MAY 2, 2022

You can see his previous posts for us here. New(s) Questions and Fair Use: Using Copyright to Curtail Expression? In response the Defendant claimed, “ fair use” and “ de minimis” use. The Court also recognized that use in “a reduced form” would be fair. Akshat Agrawal. Harper et al.,

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 8, 2024

Copy-reliant technologies have banked heavily on that principle over recent years and it wouldn’t be a stretch to say that the principle of non-expressive use has become the legal foundation of how the internet essentially works. Litigation against these models has piled up at the same breakneck speed as they have gained ground.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 8, 2024

YouTuber files a class action lawsuit against OpenAI, Finland slashes its private copying fund, and an Ole Miss coach is sued over a tweet. The post 3 Count: Finland Controversy appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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JD Supra Law

MAY 23, 2023

On May 18, the Supreme Court addressed the issue of “fair use” in copyright law, specifically in relation to the petitioner Andy Warhol Foundation’s (AWF) commercial licensing of a Warhol print entitled “Orange Prince” based on respondent Lynn Goldsmith’s photograph of the artist Prince Rogers Nelson, better known simply as “Prince.”.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

This is what I call a “commercial editorial use”–ad-supported editorial content. Courts routinely split on whether commercial editorial use is commercial for fair use purposes. 6, 2024) The post Fourth Circuit Issues a Bummer Fair Use Ruling–Philpot v. Amount Taken. 21-2021 (4th Cir.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 18, 2025

Instead, XXL relied on a fair use defense, which works: Nature of use: “the video was the subject of the news story and because the article added new information and context about the contents of the video.” ” Amount taken: “Townsquare copied the entire Jordan video. .”

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IPilogue

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

This past Monday, Osgoode’s very own Professor David Vaver delivered the 2021 Brace lecture on “User Rights: Fair Use and Beyond” as the series’ very first international speaker from outside the United States. It wasn’t until the late 1900s that courts in the UK began to recognize a problem with the tendency towards legal copyright.

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

The Court has granted summary judgment in respect of 2,830 headnotes belonging to Thomson Reuters and admittedly used by Ross Intelligence to train its Natural Language Processing and Artificial Enabled Legal Research tool, finding Direct Copyright Infringement and rejecting fair use. But, first, Some History!

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The IPKat

JULY 7, 2024

case concerning the creation and dissemination of a meme on social media saw the Court of Appeals clarify that “the fact that everyone else is doing it is not a particularly compelling justification” for the fair use doctrine under 17 U.S.C. § emphasizing that the four statutory fair use factors should not be considered separately.

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JD Supra Law

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Oracle computer software code fair use decision. Astronics, a military aerospace contractor, was accused of copying code from Teradyne, a competitor, in order to ensure that Astronics' products could work compatibly with Teradyne's instruments, which are used by the military to test electronics in aircraft and missiles.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 25, 2023

IA’s library is operated by a non-profit organization that scans physical books and then lends the digital copies to patrons in an ebook format. In this case, IA sent physical books it owned to a scanning facility and made its own copies. Fair Use or Mass Copyright Infringement? Competing With Free?

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