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Copyright Fair Use for Education

IP and Legal Filings

Fair use provides some exceptions to copyright protection, allowing limited use of copyrighted material without the permission of the copyright owner. Understanding legal and fair use is especially important in academic settings because dissemination of information often requires the use of evidence.

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October 19, 1976 – President Gerald Ford Signs the “New” Copyright Act…and Much More

Velocity of Content

The 1976 Act brought in many aspects of copyright with which we are now familiar, including codifying fair use in Section 107 (it previously had been applied on a common law basis). Harper & Row brought suit and The Nation argued that publishing the excerpts was a fair use.

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Kat Von D Tattoo Lawsuit Appears Headed to a Jury

Copyright Lately

In a 30-page order, the district court largely denies both parties’ motions for summary judgment, finding triable issues on substantial similarity and fair use. and High Voltage Tattoo) asked the court to determine that the use of Sedlik’s photo as a reference image qualified as a fair use of the copyrighted work.

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Understanding the CCB’s First Two Final Determinations (Guest Blog Post–Part 3 of 3)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

This claim was brought by a photographer–the population we thought would be using the CCB. But it was not a claim filed by Oppenheimer, but a claim referred to the CCB from the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. The citations for the basics of fair use do come from 9th circuit cases.

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The United States Copyright Office Notice of Inquiry on AI: A Quick Take

Velocity of Content

Word embeddings are usually stored in vector databases but a detailed description of all the approaches to storage is beyond the scope of this response since there is a wide variety of vendors, processes, and practices that are in use. law has no specific rules governing the use of copyrighted materials to train AI. TVEyes, Inc.,

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Generative AI: admissibility and infringement in the two US class actions against Meta’s LLaMA

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Meta used them as training data for the LLaMA language models and, by design, the training process does not preserve any CMI. This is supported by a single allegation: that LLaMA “ cannot function without the expressive information extracted from Plaintiffs’ Works and retained inside [it].”

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The Latest Chapter in Authors’ Copyright Suit Against OpenAI: Original Pleadings Insufficient

LexBlog IP

Here’s a quick rundown on the court’s decision as to each of these claims: Direct copyright infringement (Count I) – SURVIVES OpenAI did not move to dismiss on this claim (we suspect this is because they plan to assert a fair use defense at summary judgment).