Velocity of Content

JULY 31, 2024

The copying and retention of these works in AI systems and their reproduction in outputs implicates copyright, making appropriate licensing essential for copyright compliance. Using copyrighted content for training LLM systems is fair use. Copyright stands in the way of innovation. It depends.

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Nelligan Law

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

With advancements in tattooing technology, equipment, and artistic styles, the boundaries of skin artistry have expanded exponentially, empowering artists to stretch the limits of creativity and ingenuity. Each tattoo carries its own bundle of legal considerations, from the origins of inspiration to the replication of copyrighted material.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 25, 2024

Publishers vs. Internet Archive The self-scanning service offered by the Internet Archive (IA) differs from the licensing agreements entered into by other libraries. Internet Archive’s theory of fair use represents a threat just as grave.” IA offers no ‘utility-expanding’ searchable database to its subscribers.

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IP Intelligence

JUNE 7, 2023

Sy Damle, (2016-2018 General Counsel) testified that “the training of AI models will generally fall within the established bounds of fair use.” Sy Damle, (2016-2018 General Counsel) testified that “the training of AI models will generally fall within the established bounds of fair use.” (S.

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Velocity of Content

OCTOBER 9, 2023

From Large Language Models (LLMs) to other research-based applications, AI technologies rely on millions of books, scholarly journals, and other curated publications. Responsibly using these works is a foundational part of the discussion. Click below to listen to the latest episode of the Velocity of Content podcast.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Publishers vs. Internet Archive The self-scanning service is different from the licensing deals other libraries enter into. Publishers Hachette, HarperCollins, John Wiley, and Penguin Random House filed a lawsuit, equating IA’s controlled digital lending (CDL) operation to copyright infringement. .

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 17, 2024

But it won on a different and, in many respects, much broader legal theory: conflict preemption with copyright law. A Brief Recap on Contract Preemption To appreciate the significance of this opinion, let’s revisit the law of copyright preemption. The Copyright Act includes an express preemption clause, 17 U.S.C. §

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 2, 2022

Even so, the court’s almost-banal treatment of this super-interesting topic suggests that there may not be much tattoo exceptionalism in copyright law. ” As for whether the tattoo is substantially similar to the copyrighted elements of the photo, the court sends the issue to the jury. Nature of Use.

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IPilogue

OCTOBER 26, 2021

The decade-long dispute between Google and Oracle over computer code’s copyrightability finally came to an end on April 5, 2021. copyright law. It is arguably, as Stanford law professor Mark Lemley coined it, “ the copyright case of the century. ” . Oracle appealed successfully.

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IP and Legal Filings

OCTOBER 23, 2021

Technology and copyright law. Copyright laws play a crucial role in protecting creative expressions such as literary works, artistic works and musical works. Through copyright enforcement, an exclusive right is granted to creators. International efforts to curb copyright infringement in the digital space.

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Velocity of Content

AUGUST 9, 2022

Vanity Fair (magazine) took a license to use and modify the image for its magazine and hired Warhol to use his artistic talents to develop a new image. 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.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 12, 2021

The court notes the language of section 106 reflects an intent to be “technology-neutral”. Fair use : The court also grapples with fair use. Citing to Barcroft and McGucken , the court says that the “photograph itself is the subject of the story” so this weighs in favor of fair use.

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The IPKat

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

As the UK Government grapples with how to address the new technological landscape of artificial intelligence, several Committee Inquiries are underway to consider if or how the Government should intervene, including the House of Lords Communications and Digital Committee on Large Language Modules, at which this Kat was invited to provide evidence.

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Velocity of Content

MARCH 16, 2023

Regardless, as of this writing there are now five cases that may provide some clarity on this less frequently discussed but foundational issue of the unauthorized use of copyrighted materials as training data for AI (I use “AI” here as a shorthand which also includes text and data mining and machine learning).

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LexBlog IP

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

It highlights the importance of understanding copyright laws when using data for AI training or generating content. It debunks common misconceptions, such as assuming publicly available data is protected from copyright protections. It is essential to understand the boundaries of Fair Use, especially regarding AI.

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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). W/o fair use, these tools are far more limited.

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Velocity of Content

MAY 1, 2024

29 town hall, The Heart of the Matter: Copyright, AI Training and LLMs, presented a comprehensive case that AI systems do infringe copyrights and called for a licensing system to compensate content owners. Legal & Copyright Issues With that technical background, the discussion moved to legal and copyright issues.

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LexBlog IP

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

They allege that Anthropic copies Plaintiffs’ copyrighted song lyrics and its AI chatbot, Claude, then generates those lyrics in response to user prompts—all without a license. ” Id. at ¶ 10. Andy Warhol Found. for the Visual Arts, Inc. Goldsmith , 143 S. 1258 (2023). at 1273-74.

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LexBlog IP

JUNE 7, 2023

Sy Damle, (2016-2018 General Counsel) testified that “the training of AI models will generally fall within the established bounds of fair use.” Sy Damle, (2016-2018 General Counsel) testified that “the training of AI models will generally fall within the established bounds of fair use.” ” (S.

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 2, 2023

Getty Images, a global visual content creator and leading source for visual content, has filed a lawsuit against startup technology company Stability AI for allegedly scraping more than 12 million photographs from Getty Images’ portfolio without consent or compensation. According to Getty, this is clear copyright infringement.

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IIPRD

APRIL 8, 2024

This is a major point of contention in the realm IP laws today whether or not AI can be given the said rights and protections under law. This question even after a broad reading of the Indian Copyright law remains unanswered, demanding an amendment in the present law or more clarity on the same by the way of judicial decisions.

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IPilogue

AUGUST 4, 2021

The Guardian ’s UK Technology Editor Alex Hern identified a couple of simple tasks that programmers can now hand off to Copilot, including sending a valid request to Twitter’s API (application programming interface) and pulling the time in hours and minutes from a system clock. Some licensing agreements contain “copyleft” obligations.

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IP Intelligence

JUNE 6, 2023

Sy Damle, (2016-2018 General Counsel) testified that “the training of AI models will generally fall within the established bounds of fair use.” Sy Damle, (2016-2018 General Counsel) testified that “the training of AI models will generally fall within the established bounds of fair use.” (S. emphasis original).

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2022

In USA, the person who presses the shutter button of a camera becomes the copyright holder of the photograph, in certain cases the person who sets up the camera has also been held as the copyright holder of the photograph. There are certain exceptions to copyright infringement that can be used as a shield in such cases.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 27, 2023

The court summarizes the case: “plaintiffs allege that YouTube has violated the copyright laws by withholding broad access to Content ID… Plaintiffs also allege that YouTube automatically strips metadata out of uploaded videos, including copyright management information (CMI), which makes it harder to catch infringing conduct.”

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IP Tech Blog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

The USCO is doing this with an eye toward possible changes or clarifications on what is copyrightable in this realm and to fulfill its functions of advising Congress and serving as a public resource on copyright law matters. Emphasis added.) See Questions 6-14 of Notice. We will track further developments in this space.

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Kashishipr

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Still, if keeping it as a trade secret is preferred, the entity owning the information can consider licensing its API while explicitly preventing it from reverse engineering or sharing the same with a third party by the inclusion of a separate clause. Copyright and APIs. An example of this is the Sega v. Conclusion.

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IP and Legal Filings

JULY 21, 2022

This is the time when India is going through an upheaval of changes in our education system with the help of different policies of government as well as with the use of different technologies in modernizing the way of learning. If copyright protection is applied rigidly, it will hamper progress of the society. Way Forward.

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LexBlog IP

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

The USCO is doing this with an eye toward possible changes or clarifications on what is copyrightable in this realm and to fulfill its functions of advising Congress and serving as a public resource on copyright law matters. ” (Emphasis added.) See Questions 6-14 of Notice.

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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. This has important implications for the doctrine of fair use.

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 8, 2023

Through a licensing agreement, they can give consent for other parties to utilize their creations. Over the years, there have been many different copyright infringement difficulties, but as technology has advanced quickly, the Copyright Department has had to deal with an increasing variety of problems in an effort to stay up with innovation.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Generative AI also showed its power in creating clear, sustained text in a variety of formats and styles with the launch of ChatGPT in November, generating daily interest in the news, debates over bans in schools , universities , scientific conferences and websites and speculation that the technology could be baked into Microsoft Office.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Indeed, human creators seek compensation for the novel use of their intellectual efforts while AI firms aim to maximize the free harvesting of data (including copyright-protected materials) for training their algorithms. Indeed, the endemic cross-border applications of this technology make a fragmented approach highly undesirable.

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Trademark and Copyright Law Blog

APRIL 21, 2021

Google responded that access to this software language is crucial to innovation in technology and software programming, and should be considered fair use. Justice Breyer, writing for the majority, concluded that Google’s use of the Java code was protected under fair use.

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

The proliferation of advanced chatbots, virtual assistants, and generative AI systems has already captivated over 100 million users, underscoring the widespread adoption and embrace of AI technologies. Much of that content is protected by copyright laws. The Perks of Using Copyrighted Content: Should We Feed the Machine?

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2023

At the district court level, the law of copyright preemption is a morass of ad hoc explanations of whether certain contracts are “equivalent” to the exclusive rights within the general scope of copyright law. Platforms that copy online data and use it to create AI have a strong fair use argument under copyright laws.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

It should be noted at the outset that, on the one hand, some commentators hold the view that TDM would not even be covered by copyright law. On the other hand, the debate around TDM has not developed in a context devoid of licensing practices, at least in Europe.

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