Copyright Lately

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

Why a new court win for OpenAI and a tough Supreme Court standard could leave AI copyright claims on shaky ground. A relatively obscure Supreme Court case involving the Fair Credit Reporting Act might seem like an odd fit for the high-stakes world of copyright in the age of artificial intelligence.

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Plagiarism Today

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Facebook and Instagram have become rife with copyright infringement notice scams. The post How to Avoid Facebook/Instagram Copyright Scams appeared first on Plagiarism Today. Here's how they work and how to avoid them.

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JD Supra Law

MARCH 27, 2025

Since a February 11, 2025 decision by Judge Stephanos Bibas finding in favor of Plaintiff Thomson Reuters on copyright infringement during the model training process in Thomson Reuters Enterprise Centre GmbH et al. ROSS Intelligence Inc.

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Barry Sookman

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

11, 2025) examined three essential questions, 1) were the Westlaw headnotes and key number system taxonomy protected by copyright, 2) did Rosss copying of the headnotes to create legal memos used to train Rosss AI system infringe copyright, subject to the defense of fair use, and 3) was Ross copying fair use.…

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Plagiarism Today

JUNE 22, 2022

In December 2020, the United States government passed the Copyright Alternative in Small-Claims Enforcement Act (CASE Act). The act, to put it simply, created the Copyright Small Claims Board (CCB), a “small claims court” to hear copyright infringement disputes. Copyright Office has been working to launch the board.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

APRIL 7, 2025

The plaintiff Robinson made a recording of it ( here is one such version ) that is copyrighted. Direct Copyright Infringement. Thus, the court says the question is whether the moderation team’s approval of Binello’s upload was a but-for cause of the alleged infringement of Robinson’s copyright.

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Plagiarism Today

MARCH 21, 2022

Senators Thom Tillis (R-NC) and Patrick Leahy (D-VT) introduced the “Strengthening Measures to Advance Rights Technologies Copyright Act of 2022 , better known as the SMART Copyright Act. However, critics have also lined up against the bill, including Re:Create , a tech-backed organization that calls for “balanced copyright”.

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 2, 2025

ABSTRACT Technology advancements are linked to copyright, which gives authors of original works of literature, music, drama, or art, as well as audio recordings and cinematic films, a legal claim over their creations. Every day, there are several ways that someone’s copyright is violated on social networking sites.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 2, 2025

In the race to build the most capable LLMs, several tech companies have sourced copyrighted content for use as training data, without obtaining permission from content owners. Many of those companies are now being sued for alleged copyright infringement. Meta’s motion relied heavily on a fair use defense.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

A famous AI-generated piece of art has been rejected by the US Copyright Office. The post Another AI Copyright Registration Rejected appeared first on Plagiarism Today. Here's why the decision matters and what it means.

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The Illusion of More

JANUARY 3, 2025

Copyright infringement should have been decided by the district court as a matter of law, not […] The post Sedlik v. Kat Von D Appeal Prompts Copyright Critics to Weigh In appeared first on The Illusion of More.

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Michael Geist

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Canadas largest media companies came together recently to file a copyright infringement lawsuit against OpenAI, the owners of ChatGPT. Robert joins the Law Bytes podcast to discuss the case and its implications for copyright and AI in Canada. The podcast can be downloaded here , accessed on YouTube , and is embedded below.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 17, 2024

A battle over the practice of skiplagging has created a bizarre copyright verdict that could impact the use of logos online. The post Skiplagged, American Airlines and a Bizarre Copyright Verdict appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

on text data mining and its interpretation as an exception to allegations of copyright infringement, SpicyIP Fellowship applicant Tanishka Goswami highlights the key findings of the Court and explores the probable lessons for Indian policymakers in harmonizing copyright with AI and innovation. LAION logo.

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IP Watchdog

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Sheeran affirming the Southern District of New York’s dismissal of copyright infringement claims filed against British singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran over his 2014 single “Thinking Out Loud.” Late last week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit issued a ruling in Structured Asset Sales, LLC v.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

White created “beats” and got copyright registrations for them. White now claims that DistroKid infringed his copyrights to the beats, both directly and indirectly (the court dismissed the indirect claims last year). First, oral copyright licenses are a recipe for trouble. Ugh, so much going wrong here.

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Indiana Intellectual Property Law

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Bell (Plaintiff), has filed another copyright infringement suit in Indiana ( see past suit ), this time against Bartholomew Consolidated School Corporation (Bartholomew) and Timothy Bless (Bless), again claiming infringement of his intellectual property. Copyright Office. Author, Dr. Keith F.

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Plagiarism Today

MARCH 4, 2024

but it also raises some serious copyright and trademark issues. The post Copyright, Trademark and Willy’s Chocolate Experience appeared first on Plagiarism Today. The recent "Glasgow Willy Wonka Event" may have launched a thousand memes.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

The IPKat has received and is pleased to host the following guest contribution by Katfriend Seun Lari-Williams (University of Antwerp) on the ongoing legal battle between Chief Afe Babalola and Dele Farotimi, which raises the question whether it might be appropriate to seek copyright royalties as a remedy for defamation.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

The Copyright Claims Board (CCB) is the new copyright small claims court in the United States. Passed into law in 2020 and opening its doors in June 2022, it promises a simple and affordable way to address copyright claims. . The Copyright Claims Board Fees. To that end, the CCB upholds many of its promises.

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Michael Geist

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Canada’s largest media companies, including the Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, Postmedia, CBC, and Canadian Press, came together last week to file a copyright infringement lawsuit against OpenAI, the owners of ChatGPT. Doubts About the Copyright Claims The copyright claims themselves will face a stiff challenge.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 29, 2025

This lingering remnant of the SOPA debacle drove copyright holders to focus on the introduction of blocking efforts in other countries instead, mostly successfully. The bill would amend existing copyright law to focus specifically on ‘foreign websites’ that are ‘primarily designed’ for copyright infringement.

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Indiana Intellectual Property Law

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

operating as Fortner Pest Control , for alleged copyright infringement. Over the years, he has filed multiple copyright infringement claims against various parties for unauthorized use of his work (See previous blog posts about these suits here , here , here , and here.). Copyright Office in December 2022.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 27, 2024

In addition, the site successfully fought off copyright holders in court. In addition, it stressed that users were required to tick a box, indicating that submitted streams were not infringing any copyrights. Are Live-Streams Copyrighted? In addition, the court confirmed that Rojadirecta infringed these copyrights.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

1A few weeks ago, we took a look at the first 100 cases filed with the Copyright Claims Board (CCB), the recently launched copyright small claims court in the United States. The majority of cases were self-represented, a plurality of them involved photographic/visual works, and most dealt with infringements that were ongoing.

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Plagiarism Today

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

The fallout seems to have even impacted Twitter’s copyright filtering tools. But, while Mastodon does have a slew of important and well-understood differences between it and a centralized platform, like Twitter, there’s a very important one that’s easy to overlook: Copyright. Copyright Office. Your Obligations Under the Law.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 15, 2025

According to the publisher, Nhentai shares copyrighted material without obtaining permission. The anonymous operators said there were several grounds for the court to end the lawsuit prematurely, including insufficient copyright registrations.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 20, 2025

When AI hit the mainstream, it became apparent that many rightsholders had concerns over the unauthorized use of their copyright works. Creatives including photographers, artists, musicians, journalists, and authors, responded by filed copyright infringement lawsuits to protect their rights.

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Plagiarism Today

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Here's what copyright and trademark law say about what is next. The post Copyright, Trademark and the Future of Zero Punctuation appeared first on Plagiarism Today. The long-running YouTube series Zero Punctuation has come to an abrupt end.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 18, 2022

The Copyright Claims Board (CCB), better known as the “copyright small claims court”, became a part of U.S. copyright law in December 2020 with the signing of the Copyright Alternative in Small-Claims Enforcement Act (CASE Act). . Who is Filing with the Copyright Claims Board. Copyright Office.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 29, 2024

With Halloween coming up, we are taking a look at five copyright battles fought over masks, in particular Halloween masks. The post 5 Copyright Battles Over Halloween Masks appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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The IPKat

APRIL 7, 2025

Background The plaintiff produces clothing and owns the copyright to photographs of such clothing. The plaintiff sued the defendant before the District Court of Hamburg arguing that the display of its photographs on Google constituted copyright infringement. It did not concern the assessment of copyright infringement.

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SpicyIP

MARCH 30, 2025

Part I- Applying Natural Intelligence (NI) to Artificial Intelligence (AI): Understanding why training ChatGPT transcends the contours of copyright Shivam Kaushik The hearing in the ANI v. Post the breakdown of pre-training, I argue this understanding lends itself to seeing the pre-training process as one that does not violate copyright.

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Indiana Intellectual Property Law

MARCH 10, 2025

Plaintiff Morgan Howarth , through his legal counsel, filed a complaint against Defendant Premier Aquascapes LTD for copyright infringement under the Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. copyright laws. Court documents claim the Photograph was registered with the United States Copyright Office (USCO) on January 19, 2017.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The post Copyright and The Bizarre World of Obituary Piracy appeared first on Plagiarism Today. Obituary piracy sites have long been a thing, but now YouTube channels are getting on the act. What is obituary piracy, and how can stop it?

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 4, 2024

A law firm has filed a lawsuit against a competitor alleging copyright infringement over a copied brief, testing both ethical and legal norms. The post Law Firm Sues Competitor Over Copied Brief appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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JD Supra Law

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

A federal district court in Delaware has issued the first AI copyright fair use decision on the merits, granting partial summary judgment for copyright owner Thomson Reuters on copyright infringement and rejecting defendant Ross Intelligences fair use defense.

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