Plagiarism Today

APRIL 27, 2022

Though the “firm” had a realistic-looking domain with all the information one my expect, the firm didn’t exist and the “lawyers” were actually AI-generated faces. When he followed up, he never received a response. That didn’t stop his investigations, as he realized that the law firm and the lawyer were both fake.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 10, 2023

. “In 2022, we saw a 43% increase over the previous year in the total number of copyright notices received, a 126% increase in the amount of content reported for removal, and a 97% increase in the amount of content removed,” Reddit reports. Compared to other content removals, copyright actions are relatively modest.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

In common with the vast majority of large companies based in the US, Reddit has to follow the requirements of the DMCA which means that when it receives a valid copyright notice, it must comply by taking the identified content down. “In 2021, Reddit received 177,450 copyright notices reporting 920,672 pieces of content.

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Plagiarism Today

DECEMBER 6, 2022

For new DMCA filers, this information could be a boon to help spot common pitfalls. To that end, let’s take a look at the reasons Reddit easy that they rejected copyright notices, and understand how filers could avoid similar issues in the future. Problems with the Notice. Source: Reddit Transparency Report.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Thus far, however, the piracy tracking company has failed to hand over all requested information. To force the matter, Altice submitted a motion to compel Rightscorp to comply with the subpoenaed information. In reality, the volume of these notices is so high that it risks crippling Altice’s systems,” the motion adds.

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Plagiarism Today

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

One of the more trying elements of working with Facebook on copyright issues is that, for much of the past two years, Facebook has made it very difficult for smaller rightsholders to file takedown notices. When a DMCA notice was filed, even if it was done using Facebook’s own DMCA form, the company would request additional information.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 7, 2023

Last year, governments and law enforcement sent more than 1,000 information requests to Reddit, seeking user details. Reddit complies with most of these information requests, but not all. The Redditors in question discussed issues such as RCN’s handling of copyright infringement emails. According to U.S.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 17, 2023

What does all that mean for companies looking to develop generative AI, and the online sources of their training data that might be looking to stop them? ¯_(ツ)_/¯ We can infer from this opinion that treatment of Copyright Management Information (“CMI”) will be tricky for generative AI developers. Emphasis in original).

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Plagiarism Today

APRIL 7, 2022

They asked about the descriptions on the FDN-hosted CCA website, but were informed that those were owned by FDN. In 2015, FDN filed a DMCA takedown notice, but Amazon did not take down the work in question. However, in spite of this, Amazon scraped those descriptions and used them in Amazon listings.

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Copyright Lately

APRIL 30, 2021

The new lawsuit raises a host of complicated legal issues that, while exciting for copyright nerds like me, are often a nightmare to litigate. Key among them is the extent to which pre-1978 works first published abroad without proper copyright notice are still protected under U.S. copyright law. Copyright Office.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Instead of the usual DMCA copyright notices, the music group asked the search engine to remove various URLs for alleged violations of the DMCA’s anti-circumvention provision. To put this number into perspective, the RIAA sent just over 100 anti-circumvention notices this year, while the BPI is stuck at roughly 180.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 3, 2022

“From January to June of 2022, Reddit received 176,959 copyright notices reporting 738,010 pieces of content. We removed 564,730 pieces of content in response to these takedown notices,” the company writes. Images and videos are included, along with links that point to infringing content shared elsewhere.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 9, 2022

It is normal for the Lumen Database to redact targeted URLs in copyright notices it makes generally available. ” So the denial of access to information completes itself. . ” So the denial of access to information completes itself. Google Removes Links But Cannot Reveal Them.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 30, 2021

“Defendants have the capability to log their subscribers’ access to their VPN service but purposely delete the logged information or set up their system so that the logged information is deleted so that they can promote their service as a means to pirate copyright protected Works anonymously.”

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IP Law 360

MARCH 10, 2025

violated the Digital Millennium Copyright Act claim with its large language model product, ruling that they've adequately alleged that Meta intentionally removed copyright notice information to conceal infringement. A California federal judge has refused to throw out group of authors' claim that Meta Platforms Inc.

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Velocity of Content

MARCH 20, 2024

There are several factors that should be taken into consideration even when using public data: Nature of the Data Publicly available data can include a wide range of information, such as government datasets, publicly shared research data, research published under open access (OA) licenses, and datasets that fall within the public domain.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 31, 2022

By including genuine information in the message and coupling that with the genuine fear of account loss, the scammers hoped that panic would lead to urgency, and that urgency would lead to less scrutiny. But Hammond is not just a YouTuber, he’s also a cybersecurity researcher, and this didn’t feel right.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

The movie companies say they notified Comcast of these infringements in more than 250,000 DMCA notices. Despite receiving more than a quarter of a million copyright notices, Comcast failed to take action against its allegedly infringing customers, the lawsuit claims. Failure to Terminate Repeat Infringers.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 5, 2024

On January 1, 2024, TorrentFreak published a review of the wrongful DMCA notices filed against us in 2023, either directly via email or at Google demanding deindexing of our articles. Our small request for 2024 was not unreasonable: stop sending us bogus copyright notices. ” Interesting.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 14, 2024

.” Knowledge of infringement, the labels say, was established at Verizon over a period of several years during which it received “hundreds of thousands” of copyright notices, referencing instances of infringement allegedly carried out by its subscribers.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 20, 2024

Unlike the initial claims, there’s no evidence that Facterra or anyone else informed WOW about the added infringements. “Plaintiffs do not allege that Facterra ever sent email ‘notices’ to WOW about those alleged infringements.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 21, 2022

. “The record contains no evidence that Bright House supplied Internet service to subscribers or otherwise handled infringement notices with the object of fostering copyright infringement,” Bright House informs the court. ” Piracy Notices Never Came Through. .”

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JANUARY 16, 2024

Rather than being programmed in the traditional way, a large language model is “trained” by copying massive amounts of text and extracting information from it. Thus, the decisions about what textual information to include in the training dataset are deliberate choices. Vicarious Copyright Infringement (17 U.S.C. §

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SpicyIP

OCTOBER 3, 2021

We informed our readers that the Microsoft IPR Chair and the DPIIT IPR Chair at Gujarat National Law University (GNLU), Gandhinagar are jointly organising a webinar on ‘Traditional Knowledge as Intellectual Property: Opportunities and Challenges at the International Level’ on 13th October, 2021. For details, please read the announcement.

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IP and Legal Filings

MAY 3, 2024

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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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

This involves the making of exact reproductions of NYT articles, which OpenAI argues is a “bug” that the developers intend to resolve – that the purpose of OpenAI is not the exact reproduction of training materials, but the generation of new texts arising out of the information absorbed through training. Attribution for artists under s.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 23, 2022

Using the DMCA’s takedown process as a weapon, persons unknown sent copyright notices to YouTube, claiming that the targeted videos should be taken down for infringing Bungie’s rights. Bungie’s early attempts to obtain information from Google/YouTube ran into trouble.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 27, 2022

The obvious fakes are pretty easy to spot but there is no simple way to steer towards more truthful information – until someone draws unusual attention to it, that is. The poster noted that while it appeared the information had multiple sources, several people might have copied existing information.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 13, 2023

Matthew Slatoff, Marvel’s Vice President, Global Security & Content Protection, informed the Court that his responsibilities include monitoring and addressing infringement of MVL Film Finance’s rights. The timeframe seems relevant; around January 20 it was reported that the entire plot of the movie had been leaked online.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 29, 2023

The CCB Board found his complaint met “statutory and regulatory requirements for bringing a claim,” and that the claim “provided enough information” for respondent to respond to the claim. Oppenheimer sued two years later, alleging infringement and removal of copyright management information. There would have been no reason to.

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Velocity of Content

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Historically, publishers and authors reserved rights with a copyright notice or the statement all rights reserved. Well, when a crawler visits a page that corresponds to one of its target URLs, it extracts the relevant information from that page, such as the title, the headers, certain keywords, image descriptions, and so on.

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43(B)log

APRIL 29, 2024

False advertising: Meishe pointed to statements defendants made in their copyright notice at tiktok.com, in the ByteDance Code of Conduct, in TikTok’s Intellectual Property Policy, and in TikTok’s terms of service. 2015) “in this circuit, a reverse passing off claim requires the alteration of a product and a subsequent sale.”

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SpicyIP

OCTOBER 11, 2021

In a new low for Indian media, Aaj Tak (owned by the media conglomerate Living Media) has allegedly taken to using copyright claims to prevent criticism of its reportage by media watchdog Newslaundry.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 13, 2023

In Iraq, for example, tackling copyright infringement isn’t seen as a priority or a new phenomenon. As a result, “copyright notices” were sent to US bases and United States Central Command was put on high alert. At the end of 2021, the U.S.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 4, 2023

By 2021, many lawsuits in Sweden alone suggested a link between CMS and PML, if only due to the latter picking up where the former had left off while continuing to use data provided by Maverickeye as the basis of copyright actions. Our information was that PML was not entitled to any portion of the settlement recoveries.”

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Canadian Intellectual Property Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Automatic Forwarding Unfortunately, the original system was subject to abuse as social media platforms tended to forward all copyright notices they received in order to limit their liability. Therefore, it is important to determine the actual source of the notice and its content.

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Velocity of Content

JANUARY 31, 2023

In the TDM context, this raises interesting questions: Does the attribution requirement mean that the author’s information may not be removed as a data element from the content, even if inclusion might frustrate the TDM exercise or introduce noise into the system? Does the attribution need to be included in the data set at every stage?

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