Plagiarism Today

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

1: Songwriters take the win with this Copyright Office ruling. First off today, Bobby Owsinski at Hypebot reports that the U.S. Copyright Office has handed down a ruling that may help songwriters that have reclaimed the rights to their songs receive their royalties directly. Have any suggestions for the 3 Count?

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 10, 2022

Bungie’s claims were underpinned by alleged breaches of copyright law, including the DMCA’s anti-circumvention provisions. In a February 2022 status report, Bungie stressed that Destiny 2’s commercial viability depends on the integrity of its gameplay and the positive experiences of its players. 1201(a) and (b) ).

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 17, 2024

Free Speech Has Limits A criminal copyright infringement trial that concluded in Finland this week also saw the defendant rely on a fair use-style parody defense. Without obtaining permission, Lokka made a copy of the report, added his own subtitles, and then retransmitted the new version to the public via Twitter.

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JIPL Online

APRIL 9, 2021

In particular, it explores why copyright of a meme’s underlying content does not matter in a normative sense. In this blog I argue that copyright protection of the content underlying memes does not matter because of the relative weakness of enforcement mechanisms for copyright infringement of this scale. Stearns, Todd J.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 11, 2023

’s use of cheat software modified Destiny 2 and led to the creation of an unauthorized derivative work. With no license in place, Bungie said that every download and every play of Destiny 2 amounted to copyright infringement, potentially placing L.L. Bungie says that each time L.L. ’s license.

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Copyright Lately

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

This means that if Alyssa has sold her hula hooping cat t-shirts to the public, I could take my own photographs of one of the shirts in order to list them on eBay without infringing Alyssa’s copyright in the underlying design. 17 U.S.C. § Deadly Doll, Inc. Carlos Vila’s photo of Irina Shayk wearing Deadly Doll sweatpants.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 22, 2022

Movie studio Miramax, which owns most of the rights to the film, sees the plan as a contract breach and copyright infringement. They will be based on the screenplay which is still owned and copyrighted by the director. “The Film is a derivative work created from the Screenplay, not the other way around.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Filed in May, the complaint alleged two types of copyright infringement, violations of the Federal Communications Act (FCA), conversion, and violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. According to them, that’s not infringement. TEI) and the operators of the H3 Podcast, Ethan and Hila Klein, as defendants.

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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.

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The IP Law Blog

MAY 5, 2022

Berkovitz administered a midterm exam and a final exam, which comprised copyrighted material. It has been reported that Prof. To obtain a subpoena, Berkovitz would have to register his copyrights and file a lawsuit for copyright infringement, which he did. As part of that course, Prof.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

JUNE 5, 2023

When Goldsmith issued a cease and desist letter claiming copyright infringement, AWF brought a declaratory judgment action asserting that its use of Goldsmith’s photograph in Orange Prince was protected under the Copyright Act’s fair use doctrine. Goldsmith was not paid or credited for this use.

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43(B)log

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Prompted by recent reporting and inspired in particular by Ian Bogost's piece , I fed ChatGPT some of the questions I ask my students, and I am not worried about it helping anyone pass a law school class at this point, though perhaps that will change. Q: If the derivative works right were abolished, would anything important be lost?

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TorrentFreak

JULY 17, 2022

The company’s lawsuits variously claim copyright infringement (when cheat makers use pieces of original code or creative derivative works ), circumvention of technical measures (under the DMCA), breach of contract, and/or violation of consumer protection laws.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JULY 24, 2024

If output works infringe copyright, who is responsible (e.g. prompt filtering) to try to reduce the risk of copyright infringement in outputs? In almost every model or service studied, the risk of copyright infringement in the output work was left, with some decisiveness, with the user.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 20, 2023

As usual, readers who are already familiar with the case and/or with copyright law may skip the “Background” sections below (but don’t skip the commentary “The Road Not Taken”). Legal Background: Copyright and Derivative Works Copyright law protects original works of authorship, including “pictorial, graphic, and sculptural works,” 17 U.S.C.

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IP and Legal Filings

MAY 3, 2024

Copyright Law Copy Right is a legal concept that gives creators exclusive rights over their original works and allows them to control the use and distribution of those works. These rights generally include the rights to reproduce, distribute, perform, publish and create derivative works.

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Copyright Lately

DECEMBER 24, 2023

When Netflix refused to pay up, Cramer sued for copyright infringement. The plaintiff claimed that ABC Network and its local affiliate falsely reported that she was performing as part of the Renaissance Tour at Soldier Field in Chicago. Will folks ever get tired of suing Taylor Swift over ridiculous copyright claims ?

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Copyright Lately

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

Breaking down Miramax’s copyright infringement lawsuit against Quentin Tarantino, a dispute about NFTs that isn’t really about NFTs. The breathless media reports soon followed. But that doesn’t seem particularly relevant, because the derivative works at issue are actually the screenplay scans, not the NFTs.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 19, 2023

Specifically, a group called Spice DAO purchased an NFT displaying a copy of filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky’s ‘Dune’ for $3 million, assuming it would grant them the ability to produce derivative works, such as an animated Dune series.

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

The class of plaintiff authors seeking to hold OpenAI liable for copyright infringement has faced yet another setback. Stability AI , which involved analogous claims related to visual art instead of written works.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 9, 2023

TLDR Generative AI is one of the hot topics in copyright law today. In the EU, a crucial legal issue is whether using in-copyright works to train generative AI models is copyright infringement or falls under existing text and data mining (TDM) exceptions in the Copyright in Digital Single Market (CDSM) Directive.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 19, 2023

On May 18, 2023, the Supreme Court found that artistic changes to a pre-existing work, alone, not necessarily sufficient to make a derivative work fair use. copyright law. Applying a new lens on how to view the purpose of a derivative work under U.S. copyright law.

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Copyright Lately

OCTOBER 25, 2021

But Lewis thought the song was a rip-off of “I Want a New Drug” and asserted a copyright infringement claim against Columbia Pictures. The studio settled quietly out of court, so there’s no reported decision in this one. Ghostbusters, Part II. ” 13.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

To ensure you don’t miss out on interesting IP law developments reported on our other IP blogs, we will, on a regular basis, provide you with an overview of the most-read posts from each of our IP law blogs. Top 3 Kluwer Copyright Blog posts. Here are the most popular posts over the past few months. here and here). here and here).

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Intepat

JANUARY 8, 2024

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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Kashishipr

JUNE 16, 2021

Copyright and trade secrets like software, secret formula/recipes, music, etc., The 2018 Netwrix IT Risks Report found that small and medium businesses are even more vulnerable to IP theft and cyber espionage than enterprises; however, their losses go unnoticed.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 5, 2022

Berkovitz administered a midterm exam and a final exam, which comprised copyrighted material. It has been reported that Prof. To obtain a subpoena, Berkovitz would have to register his copyrights and file a lawsuit for copyright infringement, which he did. As part of that course, Prof.

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Intepat

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

However, even though fanfiction is fun and fosters a sense of community, it can raise legal issues under copyright law. In India, this leads to questions about copyright infringement, fair use, and how fanfiction fits into intellectual property (IP) law. Without this, fanfiction could technically violate copyright laws.

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Corsearch

MARCH 13, 2023

An intelligent trademarks strategy is therefore needed, from screening and search reports to clear your proposed marks relating to works that are entering public domain, to watching services to monitor your marks once registered. References [1] [link] [2] [link] [3] [link]

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 20, 2023

The song, and specifically the part of Bad Bunny´s voice and style of lyrics, was reported by his fans to be so much like Bad Bunny that had them fooled. Essentially, FlowGPT would have fed the copied songs into the system, and that could mean copyright infringement. probably without having Bad Bunny´s consent.

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IP and Legal Filings

MAY 3, 2023

Originality is the quality that distinguishes produced or invented works from copies, clones, forgeries, or derivative works by being new or novel. University Tutorial Press was sued by the plaintiff, University of London Press, for copyright infringement. The issue is whether judgements are copyrighted.

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IP Tech Blog

MARCH 18, 2022

Intellectual property owners need to add the metaverse to places to watch for possible infringement, specifically, trademark or copyright infringement in the form of NFTs or non-fungible tokens. Other brand owners have been fighting back infringers, commentators and/or parodists as in the METABIRKINS saga.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JULY 16, 2023

To ensure you don’t miss out on interesting IP law developments reported on our other IP blogs, we will, on a regular basis, provide you with an overview of the most-read posts from each of our IP law blogs. ” 3) How to Distinguish Transformative Fair Uses From Infringing Derivative Works? It will focus on the s.10(3)

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LexBlog IP

JUNE 5, 2023

When Goldsmith issued a cease and desist letter claiming copyright infringement, AWF brought a declaratory judgment action asserting that its use of Goldsmith’s photograph in Orange Prince was protected under the Copyright Act’s fair use doctrine. .” Goldsmith was not paid or credited for this use.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 26, 2023

When Goldsmith issued a cease and desist letter claiming copyright infringement, AWF brought a declaratory judgment action asserting that its use of Goldsmith’s photograph in Orange Prince was protected under the Copyright Act’s fair use doctrine. .” Goldsmith was not paid or credited for this use.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 19, 2023

The Copyright Act motivates creativity by granting the author of an original creative work rights to reproduce their work, prepare derivatives works, and (in the case of pictorial or graphic works) display the copyrighted works publicly. 4] “The larger the difference, the more likely the.

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Copyright Lately

MAY 1, 2023

” On April 26, UMG held an earnings call in which it reported that revenues rose 11.5% It’s a new issue and there’s been some fresh reporting on it with some recent developments. year over year to $2.71 And we’re happy to have the opportunity to be very, very clear about our view of the legal landscape.

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