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Understanding the Pearson v. Chegg Copyright Infringement Lawsuit

Plagiarism Today

Yesterday, news broke that Pearson Education, the largest publisher of textbooks in the world, has filed a lawsuit against the website Chegg alleging widespread copyright infringement of its content on the site. As a result, Pearson is suing Chegg alleging copyright infringement.

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Fair Use: Graham v. Prince and Warhol v. Goldsmith

LexBlog IP

A pair of copyright decisions issued in May, one involving the appropriation artist Richard Prince [1] and the other involving works portraying the musician known as Prince, explore and expand on the “fair use” defense to copyright infringement. On May 11, the U.S. 2] A week later, the U.S.

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AI and Copyright Wars: The New York Times Takes on OpenAI and Microsoft

Intepat

Training AI models using these works could infringe on these rights, especially without authorisation. 1) Section 106 Exclusive Rights : Section 106 of the Copyright Act of 1976 grants copyright owners exclusive rights to reproduce, prepare derivative works, and distribute their copyrighted material.

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Artists Attack AI: Why The New Lawsuit Goes Too Far

Copyright Lately

A group of artists has filed a first-of-its-kind copyright infringement lawsuit against the developers of popular AI art tools, but did they paint themselves into a corner? Inputs When it comes to potentially infringing actions committed by the developers of AI tools, the most likely candidate is the initial scraping (i.e.

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The Interplay of Personality Rights and Freedom of Expression- the Jackie Shroff’s Case’

IP and Legal Filings

Copyright laws also provide plausible remedies for enforcing one’s right to personality. Ramkumar Jewellers , wherein it was held that an individual should be able to control the circumstances around the use of their identification. [8] This usually applies in cases of news, parody, commentary, non-commercial use etc.

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Why do artists infringe copyright – the tension between artistic creativity and copyright law

IPilogue

Last year, Andy Warhol lost an infamous copyright infringement lawsuit against photographer Lynn Goldsmith regarding an image of the pop singer Prince. The focus of the conflict was the meaning of “transformative works” in the U.S. In other cases, museums invited artists to create derivative works based on museum collections.

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How Prince and Warhol Got to the Supreme Court

Velocity of Content

Goldsmith realized what had happened—that Warhol had made over a dozen works based on her photograph, the majority of which had not been licensed. She brought suit for copyright infringement, lost at the trial court because of the Warhol estate’s fair use defense but won on appeal to the Second Circuit.