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How to Defeat an AI-Powered DMCA Scam

Plagiarism Today

As we discussed in March 2021 , many scammers are turning to fake copyright notices as a way to extort money, push malware, obtain backlinks (as in this case) or obtain personal information. The fake lawyer identifies herself as a trademark attorney, but is handling a copyright issue. It would be a copyright infringement case.

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

Velocity of Content

The Act also did away with some formalities; no longer do you have to renew your copyright to enjoy the full term of protection and no longer are copyright notices required for protection. Interestingly, President Ford’s signature on the 1976 Act was not his last public brush with copyright law.

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AI Rights Reservation: Human Readable is Machine Readable

Velocity of Content

Historically, publishers and authors reserved rights with a copyright notice or the statement all rights reserved. STM publishers typically attach Creative Commons licenses to content that is openly available. This is not a material problem, in my view, but that would be a plausible explanation for their choice.

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

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

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. Both agreed to this move, and as part of that, dropped the removal of copyright information claim. Prutton The second final determination was handed down on February 28, 2023.

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

Velocity of Content

Significant amounts of content are available through licenses, including open licenses such as CC BY and CC BY-NC. To what extent are copyrighted works licensed from copyright owners for use as training materials? To your knowledge, what licensing models are currently being offered and used? 529 F.Supp.3d

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A Look Back at India’s Top IP Developments of 2021

SpicyIP

This judgment concerned the classification of payments under end-user license agreements (EULA). In this judgment, the Delhi High Court delved into the interpretation of section 8 of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 with respect to disputes involving trademark licensing agreements. CIT [Supreme Court].

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

Kluwer Copyright Blog

1202(B)): the plaintiffs included one or more forms of copyright-management information (‘CMI’) in each of their works, including: copyright notice, title and other identifying information, or the name or other identifying information about the owners of each book, terms, and conditions of use, and identifying numbers or symbols referring to CMI.