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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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. Chegg Copyright Infringement Lawsuit appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 19, 2023

Clarifying Copyright Fair Use in Commercialized and Licensed Visual Arts: Insights from Warhol v. Goldsmith by Jaime Chandra Clarifying Fair Use in Commercialized & Licensed Visual Arts: Insights from the Warhol v. We’re talking about Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts, Inc. Let’s dive in!

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

They further claim that the podcasters obtained a pirated copy of the fight to use in the show. According to H3’s response, their use of the video in the podcast was a fair use and if the version they had was pirated, that is not itself a copyright infringement.

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Plagiarism Today

MAY 19, 2022

The case is expected to be heard on June 6, but before then the court has tapped an expert from the Center for Innovation, IP and Competition at National law University to weigh in on the extent fair use makes such playing infringing or non-infringing. appeared first on Plagiarism Today. The post 3 Count: Hey Mickey!

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 4, 2022

However, the important thing to know is that there was no doubt that Take-Two did copy the tattoos in question and there was no question of Alexander’s ownership of them. Fair Use – That the use of the tattoos was a fair use, meaning that the use was transformative enough to not be an infringement of the original work.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Cooper, who goes by the stage name Mr. Cooper, and Valentine, AKA Drum’n Skillz, allege that No Guidance copies several elements from their earlier work. According to the estate, the book infringed the copyright of the Dr. Seuss work Oh, the Places You’ll Go , but the defendants argued that the book was a parody and a fair use.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 17, 2021

This sends the case back to the district court where other defenses, most notably fair use, will have to be weighed next. 3: Microsoft is Looking to Use the Ethereum Blockchain to Prevent Piracy. The post 3 Count: Unplanned Floors appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 1, 2024

This alleged unauthorized use remains ongoing, the newspapers claim, and it will likely continue in the future. “On information and belief, Microsoft and OpenAI are currently or will imminently commence making additional copies of the Publishers’ Works to train and/or fine-tune the next generation GPT-5 LLM,” the complaint adds.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 5, 2022

” Second, Bayside said that copyright already accommodates First Amendment considerations via the fair use defense (citing the Reddit case ). Nature of the use. The photos were already published, which weighs in favor of fair use. ” This also weighs in favor of fair use (?). Amount taken.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 1, 2024

This alleged unauthorized use remains ongoing, the newspapers claim, and it will likely continue in the future. “On information and belief, Microsoft and OpenAI are currently or will imminently commence making additional copies of the Publishers’ Works to train and/or fine-tune the next generation GPT-5 LLM,” the complaint adds.

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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. Such a license would enable using the resources held by owners of the CC Licenses to the extent of editing, remixing, copying, and distributing the work without circumventing the copyright law.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 26, 2021

This means, theoretically, that elements such as the Superman “S” can be protected by copyright because they are separate elements that are merely copied onto the clothing. Unique Industries , the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that masks broadly fall outside the “useful article” classification and do qualify for copyright protection.

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Patently-O

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Moreover, as we detail below, the best understanding of the application of fair use principles to AI training would hold that the practice is in most if not all instances a fair use. The FTC has no authority to determine what is and what is not copyright infringement, or what is or is not fair use.

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Plagiarism Today

JULY 8, 2021

According to the court, Google’s use was transformative enough to be a fair use. That includes the August 2018 decision, also by the Second Circuit, that TVEyes infringed on Fox News’ copyright by copying all of Fox’s content for the purpose of creating a media clip search and sharing tool.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 19, 2022

According to Davis, he used the prompt “sparse matrix transpose, cs_” only to have Copilot produce code very similar to his earlier, open-source work. However, the Copilot version did not come with the LGPL license, a requirement of using code under that license, nor was there any indication that it was copied.

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IP and Legal Filings

JUNE 12, 2023

Since copying was for the purpose of criticism, it amounted to fair dealing and did not constitute infringement of the copyright. Anand case is the ultimate and all-encompassing test for copyright infringements involving films that are similar to original films in order to prove the levels of plagiarism or likeness.

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IP and Legal Filings

OCTOBER 23, 2021

This exclusive rights comprises of the right to copy, distribute, perform, license or adapt the work. While digitization has immensely benefited copyright related transactions in the digital space, issues such as unauthorized copying, plagiarism and infringement continues to plague several domains. WIPO Copyright Treaty.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

AUGUST 7, 2023

2] At one end of the spectrum, we find plagiarism: a completely derivative work that fails to contribute any creative elements to the original piece. An example would be an artist copying a previous painting and merely altering the colors to pass it off as a new creation. O fair use no direito autoral. 37, 2018). [3]

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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

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Designed to be freely available licensed or public domain; we occasionally use fair use images where no free image is available, such as when a famous work has been destroyed. One of the most requested tool from volunteers is a better tool to detect plagiarism. Narrowly tailored solutions are the most effective.

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IP Close Up

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Mark Helprin is a successful novelist. He is also on a mission to keep the content he and others create out of the public domain. Continue reading.

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Copyright Lately

DECEMBER 28, 2022

” But in McGucken , the court denied summary judgment, not only as to the server test, but on Newsweek’s implied license and fair use defenses too. Plagiarism much?” Breitbart became the first S.D.N.Y. But some dude steals my junk and pimps it for 120k+ in 2019. The inevitable lawsuit soon followed.

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Plagiarism Today

DECEMBER 8, 2022

While parody isn’t protected in the Constitution, fair use was codified into U.S. In that case, ComicMix LLC was seeking to release a comic book that mashed up themes from the two elements, only to have the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals rule against them, saying it was not protected by fair use. Where Who’s Holiday!

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LexBlog IP

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Dorland alerted publishers, writing conferences, and journalists to what she considered Larson’s plagiarism and ethical betrayal. The copyright claims came down to a fair use analysis, something that has occupied discussions by this poster before. ” Let’s see why. ’ Piccone v.

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43(B)log

AUGUST 11, 2022

Easiest way to make money was to make a film likely to succeed, and copying a successful foreign plot was a good way to do so. Around 2010, some studios started enforcing, e.g., Twentieth Century Fox sued over copying of plot of Phone Booth and was successful. In this case, certain gags had been copied from Knock on Wood.

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43(B)log

AUGUST 3, 2023

Matthew Sag, Copyright Safety for Generative AI Not addressing whether training is always fair use in every circumstance; explain how generative AI fits w/in existing law (nonexpressive uses) and identify best practices to make generative AI fairer. Are the outputs copies of the training data? What to do?

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 1, 2024

The labels claim that Udio and Suno “copied decades worth of the world’s most popular sound recordings” and then ingested those copies into AI models to generate outputs that “imitate the qualities of genuine human sound recordings” for the purpose of generating profit. In Authors Guild v. Google, Inc. Likewise, A.V. Vanderhye v.

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