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How Can AI Models Legally Obtain Training Data?–Doe 1 v. GitHub (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

documents, or other files”, a definition that necessarily comprises source code, and hence the Licensed Materials. (As Plaintiffs argued that with the popularity of Copilot, it is a near certainty that their code will be used with copyright notices removed or in violation of their open-source licenses. Not all was lost, however.

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BYU Copyright Blog

Post University claimed that Course Hero committed, among other things, multiple instances of copyright infringement, trademark infringement, violation of the DMCA, and unfair competition by posting and creating derivative works of educational materials owned by Post University without Post University's permission.

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U.S. Supreme Court Fixes Ninth Circuit’s Test for Mistakes in Copyright Registrations—Unicolors v. H&M (Guest Blog Post)

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Before the 1909 Act, the author was required to register the title of the work before publication, as a condition of receiving copyright protection. Under the 1909 Act, an author received a federal statutory copyright merely by publishing the work with proper copyright notice.

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A Preliminary Analysis of Trump’s Copyright Lawsuit Over Interview Recordings (Trump v. Simon & Schuster) (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

Once a work was published, state law was divested, and one of two things happened. If the work was published with proper copyright notice, it received a federal statutory copyright. If the work was published without proper copyright notice, the work entered the public domain.

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