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

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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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.

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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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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. URL of Unlisted Video Was Displayed In Podcast.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 8, 2024

To put it more metaphorically, it is the legal green light for web crawlers nowadays to scour all corners of the internet, scraping information from websites and databases, indexing their content, and storing it for later retrieval, typically by search engines. So, what does this memory problem actually mean?

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 2, 2025

INTRODUCTION Social media networking sites have grown significantly in the last few years, enabling users to exchange information with just a single click. Copyright law is in charge of controlling how literary, artistic, and theatrical works, among others, are used. Super Cassettes Industries Ltd. Vs Myspace Inc & Anr.

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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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SpicyIP

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Internet Archive, our fellowship applicant Tanishka Goswami explains the implication of the decision on fair use. Image from here Hachette Book Group v Internet Archive: Archiving Access to Information or Strengthening Copyright Laws? Through this post, I shall: firstly , examine the Appellate Court’s “fair use” analysis w.r.t.

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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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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 said defense is to ensure that media is able to inform the public of matters of current concern.

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Intepat

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

For business owners, publishers, and sellers, understanding copyright can prevent legal issues and ensure fair use of content. Copyright grants the author or creator exclusive rights to use, distribute, and sell their work. Copyright in books gives the author control over how their work is used, reproduced, and distributed.

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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. The Court of Appeal unanimously held that the scope and content of the fair dealing defence should include works of criticism.

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IP and Legal Filings

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

As a result, as media evolves to emphasize consumer choice, increased emphasis is being paid to the “viewer” component and the rights that viewers or users may claim to modify copyrighted information. THE DOCTRINE OF FAIR USE. the effect of the use on the copyrighted work’s potential market for or value.

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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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TorrentFreak

APRIL 23, 2024

The organization literally archives key parts of the Internet, copying older versions of websites to preserve them for future generations. This information becomes more and more valuable as time passes by. Each copy can only be loaned to one person at a time, to mimic the lending attributes of physical books.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 20, 2023

Supreme Court affirmed the Second Circuit’s ruling that the reproduction of Andy Warhol’s Orange Prince on the cover of a magazine tribute was not a fair use of Lynn Goldsmith’s photo of the singer-songwriter Prince, on which the Warhol portrait was based. By Guest Blogger Tyler Ochoa By a 7-2 vote, the U.S. Goldsmith , No. 569 (1994).

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Copyright Lately

DECEMBER 29, 2024

In a January 2024 report and recommendation later adopted by the court , the magistrate judge found that the repost infringed the plaintiff’s display right simply because it shows a copy of the photo on Chicken Joes social media account. Fair Use Declawed. For that reason, Prepared Food Photos v. Netflix, Inc.

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Michael Geist

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Unlike the NY Times, which focused on both the inputs (the materials used to train ChatGPT) and the outputs (allegations ChatGPT occasionally provides copyright infringing results), the Canadian claim only target the inputs with no allegation that ChatGPT results are infringing. In fact, OpenAI says it does not by-pass paywalls.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

A Few Words for a Lost Friend: Tribute to Dmitry Karshtedt (Bob Brauneis, Mark Lemley, Jake Sherkow) Closing Plenary Session: Fair use Robert Brauneis, Copyright Transactions in the Shadow of Fair Use Suppose a work does not infringe another work because and only because it’s been ruled a fair use.

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Copyright Lately

AUGUST 19, 2024

The AI copyright and fair use trial in Thomson Reuters v. On Friday, August 23, jurors are scheduled to hear opening statements in the first trial to test whether using copyrighted data to train an AI program qualifies as fair use. Ross Intelligence may not be glamorous, but it will be groundbreaking.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 29, 2025

Is Training of GenAI Models Fair Use? We Might Know Soon The 3rd issue framed by the Court will deal with the question of fair use, wherein the question is whether using the plaintiff’s data or copyrighted content constitutes fair use under Section 52 of the Copyright Act.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 7, 2021

The Letter: Doorland accuses Larson of copying her donor letter and including significant portions of it, in particular in early versions of the story. She took the words that someone else had written, copied them and used them in her story while presenting them as her work. That is, in a word, unacceptable.

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The IP Law Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Ross Intelligence Inc will provide guidance for similar AI training/copyright infringement cases and, as a bonus, it provides a bit of clarity (or muddies the waters… depending on your point of view) in the application of a post-Warhol fair use defense. These are the basic facts underlying this lawsuit.

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SpicyIP

MARCH 30, 2025

A language model merely compresses and cross-references linguistic information to identify predictable patterns and reduce redundancies by representing meaning probabilistically. 243) allowing identifying, extracting, and analysing information to improve the functioning of a computer program. However, Prof.

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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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TorrentFreak

JUNE 14, 2022

Internet Archive later called for a peaceful solution , offering to partner with publishers to create a “digital system that works” A month later IA filed its answer to the complaint supported by defenses under fair use and the DMCA’s safe harbor provisions, and later attempted to show that its library did publishers no harm.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 11, 2024

For example, Danish anti-piracy group Rights Alliance demanded The Eye to remove their copy of Books3, which it did. Fair Use Meta’s response doesn’t provide much additional detail and the full defense will be revealed as the case progresses. 107,” Meta notes. . 107,” Meta notes.

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Larson & Larson

JUNE 21, 2021

The most common limitation where the exclusive rights of a copyright holder can be limited fall under the doctrine of fair use- a defense against copyright infringement. That being said, here is a brief elucidation of what constitutes fair use. What is Fair Use? Nature of the Original Work Being Used.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 31, 2025

The problem, however, is that copyright holders never gave permission to use it. The lawsuits will ultimately determine whether the tech companies are liable for copyright infringement, linked to this and other unauthorized use, or whether ‘fair use’ is a valid defense.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 11, 2022

In response, Newman, the community moderator, copied all of the community’s posts and uploaded them to Dreamwidth–an action we used to call “mirroring” in the old days. He did not encourage or compel the original authors to produce the libelous information. ” Nature of Use. ” Nature of Use.

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43(B)log

AUGUST 9, 2024

Is this relevant to fair use? Satire involves using the same style to clothe different ideas; therefore it shouldn’t infringe (lack of substantial similarity as in the Greatest American Hero case; German case law; perhaps the jury’s reasoning in the Kat von D case). Writing ad copy, which authors need to sell their works.

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Copyright Lately

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

In addition to copyright infringement, Atari brought claims for business disparagement, false information and advertising, unfair competition, and unjust enrichment. As a result, the court found that Atari had plausibly alleged that the copying exceeded the threshold of de minimis use and allowed the copyright claim to move forward.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 1, 2023

” and “Is it copyright if nobody knows I copied a song and changed it so it sounds nothing like the original?” Who hasn’t seen copies of well-known tracks uploaded in full and protected by the statement: “I do not own this song. .” ” Similar gems are a regular occurrence on YouTube.

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SpicyIP

APRIL 15, 2024

Discussing the implications of unauthorized use of materials for training Generative AI models, we are pleased to bring to you this guest post by Goutham Rajeev and Vedant Bharadwaj Singh. Training GenAI: Infringement or Fair Use? The authors are third year students at the Hidayatullah National Law University, Raipur.

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 12, 2023

Scanning books to create a searchable database of books constitutes fair use. Will scanning images (or other copyright-protected content) to create a generative AI model for use in creating images be deemed fair use? Scanning books to create eBooks does not. In Authors Guild v. Google, Inc., (the Google, Inc., (the

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Copyright Lately

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Even die-hard copyright geeks would be forgiven for overlooking a lawsuit first filed over three years ago by information services company Thomson Reuters against AI start-up Ross Intelligence. These copies, Ross claims, are fair use. Thomson Reuters v. “But Your Honor, how am I supposed to get home?

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