Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 19, 2022

github copilot, with "public code" blocked, emits large chunks of my copyrighted code, with no attribution, no LGPL license. 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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Plagiarism Today

APRIL 25, 2022

According to the lawsuit, the musicians and their songwriters copied elements from the earlier track, including the chorus, verse and hook from the song. The 3 Count Logo was created by Justin Goff and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License. 2: MPA Wins Piracy Battle, US Court Orders PrimeWire to Shut Down.

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Plagiarism Today

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

His group specialized in modifying Nintendo game consoles and selling pirated copies of Nintendo games to customers. That owner, Tofig Kurbanov, is a Russian national that attempted to litigate the case early on but, when told to hand over server logs as evidence, went silent.

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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. Alexander had sought $2 for every copy of WWE 2K sold, an amount that would have equaled roughly $20 million. That board has a maximum total damages of $30,000.

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IP Watchdog

AUGUST 22, 2021

After a decade of litigation across two continents and an unpaid multi-million-dollar judgment, the parties are once again in court. This time, however, WPL’s arguments pose grave dangers to all owners of other copyrighted works. WPL did not try to compete with SAS by building a different or better product.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Anderson filed the lawsuit against Roup saying that Roup had copied several exercise routines that Anderson had created. Next up today, Kyle Orland at Ars Technica reports that a serial cheater at the video game Destiny 2 has tried a novel new tactic to avoid litigation.

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Velocity of Content

JANUARY 31, 2023

I have had people tell me with doctrinal certainty that Creative Commons licenses allow text and data mining, and insofar as license terms are observed, I agree. Full disclosure: CCC offers RightFind XML, a service that supports licensed commercial access to full-text articles for TDM with value-added capabilities.) GitHub Inc.,

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Velocity of Content

MARCH 16, 2023

After all, while we are pondering the weighty issue of future ownership, we are not focusing on the fundamental issue of wholesale copying of works to train AI in a wide variety of situations. Each of these cases is unique, fact dependent, and likely, if fully litigated on the merits, to shed light on different aspects of copyright law.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

APRIL 6, 2022

The “Platform Policy” appears to grant a broad license to users of the API. As the court notes in a footnote, Instagram has changed its policy since the onset of the litigation. The current terms make clear that platform API users are not automatically granted a license and must independently secure rights in any content they embed.

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Velocity of Content

JULY 31, 2024

No copies are made during the process of training generative AI systems. Humans learn through a combination of direct experience, observation, imitation, and abstract thinking, while large language models (LLMs) “learn” from the processing of vast amounts of training data, which is copied and stored. True or False? True or False?

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IP Watchdog

OCTOBER 10, 2024

In a landmark judgment with far reaching ramifications, a German court recently held that the copying of images by Large-scale Artificial Intelligence Open Network (LAION) - a nonprofit organization that provides datasets, tools and models to liberate machine learning research – did not infringe copyright law. The Kneschke v.

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Velocity of Content

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Just three short years ago, copyright litigation discussions centered around whether it is fair use to copy declaring code or make unlicensed use of Lynn Goldsmiths photographs of Prince. Some of them are class action lawsuits, which are not very common in copyright land (though not unheard ofremember the Google Books litigation ?)

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Traverse Legal Blog

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Enrico Schaefer, Copyright & Litigation Attorney. Misinterpreting Licenses: Incorrectly assuming permission to use copyrighted material. Preventing Accidental Infringement: Respect Copyright: Avoid copying others’ work without permission. Enrico Schaefer, Litigation Attorney Specializing in Copyright Infringement.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 14, 2022

Two Years of Litigation, Both Parties Request Summary Judgment. Koeltl at the District Court for the Southern District of New York, the plaintiffs say that as leading publishers of tens of thousands of books, they already issue licensed ebook editions to libraries. In a June 10 letter to Judge John G.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 6, 2023

Despite YouTube’s findings that at least one member of the putative class acted fraudulently (Pirate Monitor) to fabricate ‘evidence’ of YouTube’s alleged shortcomings in support of the lawsuit, litigation continued. YouTube’s Licensing Defense. It has not,” Judge Donato writes.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 17, 2021

The lawsuit was brought James’ Designworks, an aggressive litigant that has brought many similar lawsuits over alleged infringement of its floor plans and home designs. The 3 Count Logo was created by Justin Goff and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License.

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The IP Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Making a copy of a video or audio recording. Save the written permission, whether it is an email, letter, license, or other form. Do not copy things from the internet or anywhere else for your own use. Read any license for a work carefully to ensure that the work can be used commercially.

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

A Case of ‘Smart Copying’: ‘Peace Maker’ Restrained from Imitating ‘Officer’s Choice’ Do you enjoy your whiskey? They further argued that they lack a distribution license for it in Delhi, and neither party has a registered office or conducts their business in Delhi. Would you mix up these two labels: Officers choice and Peace Maker?

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BYU Copyright Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

As recompense, the complaint asks the court to declare that Wasatch Academy's "unauthorized conduct" violated the photographer's rights under the Federal Copyright Act, and enjoin Wasatch Academy and its affiliates from copying or republishing the photograph or otherwise infringing further on the photographer's copyrights.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

” Amount Taken “Defendants assert that it was necessary to copy each tattoo in its entirety to depict real life accurately. “Alexander testified that she had never licensed her tattoos for video games or any other medium. .” If not, then Alexander will come up completely dry after years of costly litigation.

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The IPKat

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Who receives the credit and the licensing rights? Relying on theatrical studies and the empirical study, the chapter provides insights into the way that producers, directors, playwrights, and actors regulate – or choose not to regulate – disputes about copying.

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Patently-O

APRIL 3, 2022

Although Warhol is dead, his art, legacy, copyrights, and potential copy-wrongs live on. As part of that process, VF obtained a license from Goldsmith, but only for the limited use “as an artist’s reference in connection with an article to be published in Vanity Fair Magazine.” by Dennis Crouch. Andy Warhol Foundation v.

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IP and Legal Filings

AUGUST 6, 2024

This gives an artist exclusive rights for use, distribution or licensing the creation thus prohibiting others from abusing it without permission. Economic Benefits: Registered copyright can enhance commercial value of the work thus making it easier to license, assign and sell. Why Should One Register Copyright?

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SpicyIP

OCTOBER 7, 2023

We recently came across one such short paper on “ SEP Litigations & Issues in Determining the FRAND License ” published in the September 2023 issue of the Journal of Intellectual Property Rights (see here ) and extended a guest post invitation to its authors to discuss their key arguments.

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IP Watchdog

OCTOBER 20, 2023

These outputs also copy the publishers’ lyrics because Claude is trained on the infringing works and does not license the copyrights to those works, like other music lyric aggregators, said the publishers.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2021

To my knowledge, the only litigated case that resulted in a 512(f) win was Online Policy Group v. This is the initial copying design (without of the background graphics in the precedent work): The copyright registrant alleged this copying design constituted copyright infringement. A New 512(f) Plaintiff Win! assertions.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 7, 2022

“Rightscorp refused to provide access to its databases and instead offered to create a new database, solely for purposes of this litigation and only containing data that Rightscorp deems relevant to RCN,” the ISP informed the court. License Revoked in California. — A copy of RCN’s request, filed at the U.S.

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SpicyIP

OCTOBER 9, 2024

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. the Court assessed that the Archive’s distribution of digital copies of the concerned books was not transformative.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2021

In the first phase of the litigation, the government admitted infringement at ten airports, but challenged the validity of the patent, arguing that it was obvious over the prior art. In the SecurityPoint case, the Court of Federal Claims bifurcated the case into two phases: (1) patent validity; and (2) extent of infringement and damages.

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IP Tech Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

licensing, assignment, JVs, cooperation and co-development etc.) If a secret is stolen, or the ownership or its proper apportionment are disputed, or if a third party is trying to copy software containing AI algorithms, the right holders must not shy away from taking proper enforcement measures. But rights holders must be prepared.

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 8, 2023

modification, and other forms of copying of the work fall under this category. Contingent liabilities, or funds saved in case of a potential litigation, may result from infringement instances. Through a licensing agreement, they can give consent for other parties to utilize their creations. Image Sources : Shutterstock].

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The IP Law Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Those arguments were that (1) Take-Two’s use of the tattoos was authorized by an implied license, (2) the fair use doctrine insulates their utilization of the tattoos and (3) the tattoos constitute a de minimis part of the video game. Take Two had good reason to believe in its implied license defense.

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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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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 1, 2023

By Guest Blogger Tyler Ochoa Recently, the Ninth Circuit reaffirmed what has become known as the “server test”: in order to be held directly liable for violating the public display right, the alleged infringer must have a fixed “copy” of the work stored on a server in its possession or control. Instagram, LLC , 2023 WL 4554649 (9th Cir.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 31, 2021

Factor three : The entirety of the work was copied. Factor four : The fourth factor also weighs against fair use: Unrestricted and widespread conduct of the sort Defendant engaged in would destroy the market for licensing Plaintiff’s work. Philpot is a serial litigant. The second factor weighs slightly against fair use.

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TraskBritt Intellectual Property

APRIL 10, 2021

Supreme Court issued a decision in litigation involving Google’s Android operating system for mobile devices on April 5, 2021. When developing Android, Google had copied the text and format of function calls from Oracle’s Java SE Application Programming Interface (API). In Google LLC v. 18-956, 2021 U.S. Software and IP.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

In 2013, Philpot uploaded the photo to Wikimedia Commons, which is governed by the standard Creative Commons license requiring attribution. Philpot claims his standard photo licensing fee is $3,500, but reuses of the photo from Wikipedia Commons didn’t require any payment (just attribution). Nature of the Work. Amount Taken.

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