Hugh Stephens Blog

JUNE 2, 2022

That was the thought that flashed into my head when the University of Toronto (U of T) announced that it was suing Easy Group, a Toronto based tutorial service catering mainly to international students, for copyright infringement. U of T Sues Tutorial Service for Copyright Infringement After Ripping Off Authors for the Past Decade?"

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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 17, 2022

Life Music Inc, representing songwriters Gloria Parker and Barney Young, filed a lawsuit against Disney and others involved in the film alleging that the Disney version of Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious violated the copyright of their 1951 song Supercalafajalistickespeealadojus. However, the case didn’t make it very far.

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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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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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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Copyright holders are not happy with the unauthorized distribution of their content. Rightsholder Targets nHentai California company PCR Distributing is one of the affected copyright holders. Last October, attorneys for the alleged pirate site offered to confidentially settle all copyright infringement claims with PCR.

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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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Copyright Alliance

DECEMBER 12, 2024

There are now well over thirty lawsuits that have been filed by copyright owners in U.S. federal court against AI companies, accusing them of direct copyright infringement for using copyrighted […] The post Insights From Court Orders in AI Copyright Infringement Cases appeared first on Copyright Alliance.

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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

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

1: The US Copyright Office Says an AI Can’t Copyright its Art. Copyright Office has declined to register the copyright of an AI-created image that it says did not include an element of “human authorship.” Copyright Office on the work. The post 3 Count: AI Copyright appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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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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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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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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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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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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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

In a recent decision ( Case 1:20-cv-00613, ECF 770 ) on the use of copyrighted texts for AI (but not generative AI) training, the Delaware District Court (the Court) held that a fair use defence was unsuccessful on a summary judgment motion for copyright infringement. If so, was the copyright in such headnotes infringed by Ross?

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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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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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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

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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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Heres what they write: The UKs AI and copyright consultation will data protection law render any commercial TDM exception ineffective? For example, a vocal recording in a musical performance is likely to be protected under copyright law and constitute personal data. What does this mean for the AI and copyright consultation?

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 23, 2022

1: Ex-White House Photographer Sued for Copyright Over His Own Photo: ‘You Can’t Make This Up’. According to Souza, he received a threatening letter from the image infringement detection service Copytrack. According to the notice, the photo rights group WENN holds the rights to the image and accused Souza of infringing their copyright.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 23, 2022

An article by Adi Robertson at The Verge looks at a recent study by The Galaxy , which examines the top 25 most valuable NFT projects and examines what the buyer is obtaining in terms of copyright or other intellectual property rights. NFTs were never meant to address copyright issues, they had a different purpose altogether.

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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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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

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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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 24, 2022

But, before I go, I wanted to leave you with five tales of how copyright has shaped Halloween that I’ve written over the years. 1: How a Copyright Mistake Created the Modern Zombie. When the film was released, the print was missing a copyright notice. 2: Dracula vs. Nosferatu: A True Copyright Horror Story.

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Copyright Lately

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

Just days before the festival, Tintinimaginatios in-house counsel sent an email to Duke Laws Center for the Study of the Public Domain , disputing the Center’s conclusion that the earliest Tintin comics are now free of copyright protection in the United States. copyright law, the Tintin rightsholders’ argument is just plain wrong.

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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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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 3, 2023

As the copyright claims board moves forward, we have updates of five of the key cases that have been filed with it. The post Updates on 5 Key Copyright Claims Board Cases appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 26, 2024

The Copyright Claims Board has decided in favor of the respondent in a case it says never should have been filed in the first place. The post Copyright Claims Board Admonishes Filer in Dubious Case appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

A class-action lawsuit filed by authors including Richard Kadrey, Sarah Silverman, and Christopher Golden is one such copyright infringement case. “By downloading through the bit torrent protocol, Meta knew it was facilitating further copyright infringement by acting as a distribution point for other users of pirated books.”

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IP Watchdog

OCTOBER 23, 2024

On October 21, Los Angeles-based film production company Alcon Entertainment filed a lawsuit in the Central District of California alleging copyright infringement and false endorsement against automaker Tesla, its CEO Elon Musk and media conglomerate Warner Bros.

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Plagiarism Today

APRIL 11, 2024

X denies claims in copyright infringement lawsuit, controversial NFT site shutters and AEW files takedown against journalist. The post 3 Count: Not Functioning Today appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 4, 2022

This prompted Alexander to file a lawsuit against Take-Two, claiming copyright infringement of her work. He called an earlier decision in the case one of the 5 worst copyright decisions in 2020 and, with the jury verdict, called it a loss for bodily autonomy and free speech. Instead, she only won actual damages totaling $3,750.

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