TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Authors Sue, OpenAI Responds In a lawsuit filed last June , authors Paul Tremblay and Mona Awad accused OpenAI of direct and vicarious copyright infringement, among other things. The only claim that should be able to survive is direct copyright infringement, but OpenAI said it expects to defeat that at a later stage.

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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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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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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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TorrentFreak

APRIL 10, 2023

DMCA Notices and Takedowns Increase The number is significant, especially when taking into account that it doesn’t include copyright-related complaints. Reddit’s responses to DMCA takedown notices and the site’s handling of excessive copyright infringement are listed separately in the “legal removals” section.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 15, 2024

law, rightsholders have an option to identify alleged copyright infringers, without directly having to file a lawsuit. Specifically, they allow rightsholders to obtain the personal details of anonymous alleged infringers through third-party service providers. Nexon says that it needs this information to protect its 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? Such rights reservations are often informally described as opt outs. This can include information such as the name, address or the IP address of a person, their appearance or voice.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 1, 2024

In this case, eight major news publications are suing OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement. In addition, ChatGPT can recall large parts of their copyright-protected articles, which effectively bypasses their paywalls. The plaintiffs show that ChatGPT can reproduce content from copyrighted news articles when prompted.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 1, 2024

In this case, eight major news publications are suing OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement. In addition, ChatGPT can recall large parts of their copyright-protected articles, which effectively bypasses their paywalls. The plaintiffs show that ChatGPT can reproduce content from copyrighted news articles when prompted.

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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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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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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). . Note: Though there are 100 cases, only 98 have enough information for analysis.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Majors Publishers File Copyright Complaint Against Libgen According to a copyright lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York late Thursday, Libgen’s collection of infringing works now consists of over six million files. . “[T]he Sites undermine the very purpose of U.S.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 11, 2025

In the race to build the most capable LLM models, several tech companies sourced copyrighted content for use as training data, without obtaining permission from content owners. At the same time, however, the company denied the copyright infringement allegations, noting that it would rely on a fair use defense, at least in part.

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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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The IPKat

JUNE 17, 2023

Would you say that Cattelan’s work (realized for an exhibition in Miami in 2019) is an unauthorized reproduction of the 2001 work below, titled Banana and Orange , and thus an infringement of the copyright vesting in it? Let’s see more in detail how the judge reasoned.

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Plagiarism Today

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Shopify, for its part, has issued a statement saying that it takes intellectual property violations very seriously and has processed over 90% of its copyright and trademark reports within one business day. All totaled, the plaintiffs are seeking up to $150,000 for each infringed copyright and $2 million for each infringed trademark.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Even when that is achieved, filing copyright lawsuits and then winning those cases could take years rather than months to complete. Japan-based publishing giant Shueisha often utilizes courts in the United States to obtain information on mostly anonymous pirate site operators.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 2, 2022

However, those familiar with copyright law, immediately began to point out flaws in the plan. However, for artists, rightsholders and those familiar with copyright, it was completely predictable. A rethinking of blockchain and crypto’s role in copyright, and an examination of both if and how it might actually help.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Today’s social media users see copyright conflicts on a regular basis, but probably due to the way copyright is enforced, tend to view images and text as faiir game when compared to movies and music. ” From: TF , for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more. .

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Aldi was sued for copyright infringement of an artwork that appeared on the packaging of childrens snacks under the BABY BELLIES, LITTLE BELLIES and MIGHTY BELLIES brands, each aimed at different age groups. The reproduced elements did not constitute a substantial part and therefore did not amount to copyright infringement.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 25, 2025

Most of these cases allege that AI developers used copyrighted works to train LLMs without first obtaining authorization. Meta is among a long list of companies now being sued for this allegedly-infringing activity, including a class action lawsuit filed by authors Richard Kadrey, Sarah Silverman, and Christopher Golden.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

copyright law, Internet providers must terminate the accounts of repeat infringers “in appropriate circumstances”. This legal requirement remained largely unenforced for nearly two decades but a series of copyright infringement liability lawsuits, with hundreds of millions of dollars at stake, have shaken up the industry.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

McDermott kept the copyright to those photo and granted NY Post a license. The defendant published a bio on Sewell and included one of McDermott’s photos–apparently sourced from an unrelated Instagram account (possibly another infringer, or perhaps that account has a fair use defense?). The New York Post story.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Popular Internet infrastructure service Cloudflare has come under pressure from copyright holders in recent years. Instead of taking any direct action, Cloudflare said that it would inform its customers about the allegations. copyright law provides. These pirate sites have proven to be quite a headache for Cloudflare.

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Plagiarism Today

JUNE 28, 2022

1: BET Must Face Copyright Claim Over ‘House Party’ Web Show. First off today, Blake Brittain at Reuters reports that Black Entertainment Television (BET) will have to face a copyright infringement lawsuit by Walkie Check Productions over BET’s Instagram Live show House Party.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

As we’ve discussed recently, the Copyright Claims Board (CCB) is the new copyright small claims court that was introduced as part of the Copyright Alternative in Small-Claims Enforcement Act (CASE Act) of 2020. Bronner quickly discovered that much of the information about EssayZoo was false, including their stated address.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 31, 2025

copyright protection standards. Various groups stressed the importance of copyright protection when it comes to new AI technologies. They argued that foreign governments should be mindful of potential copyright infringements. Not just for copyright holders, but also for American tech giants. In the U.S.,

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Plagiarism Today

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

First off today, Andy Maxwell at Torrentfreak writes that Watch Tower, is pushing ahead with a copyright infringement lawsuit against YouTuber “Kevin McFree” (not his real name) in hopes of revealing the YouTuber’s real name. 3: Google Drive Users Stung by macOS ‘ DS_Store’ Copyright Infringement Issue.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 26, 2021

1: Arizona Beats Back Copyright Challenge to Car-Dealer Data Law. First off today, Blake Brittain at Reuters reports that the State of Arizona has beat back a copyright challenge to a new car dealer data law as the 9th Circuit has rejected an appeal from software developers. Have any suggestions for the 3 Count?

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 24, 2024

The company tried to obtain a DMCA subpoena requiring Cloudflare to hand over all identifying information it has on the site’s operators. DMCA subpoenas have proven to be an effective legal tool to gather information. In this case, however, nHentai’s operators decided to intervene, asking the court to quash the subpoena.

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 26, 2022

1: Music Archive Wolfgang’s Vault Resolves Copyright Fight Over Concert Recordings. 2: Google Drive Flags Text Files Containing ‘1’ as a Copyright Infringement. The alert informed her that a file named “output24.txt” Have any suggestions for the 3 Count?

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SpicyIP

MARCH 30, 2025

Continuing from his earlier post, where he explained the technical workings of Large Language Models vis-a-vis where different copyright questions arise, in this post Shivam Kaushik argues that LLMS are in effect interacting with non-expressive parts of the works in question. But is all use of the text protected by copyright?

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Plagiarism Today

APRIL 27, 2022

On April 13, Ben Dickson at The Next Web received an email from a lawyer with the name Nicole Palmer with the subject “DMCA Copyright Infringement Notice”. 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.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 24, 2025

The police further mentioned that the defendant had 134 terabytes of copyrighted material in his possession, strongly suggesting he was not a minor player. These are the first unconditional prison sentences of their kind; both for copyright infringement but without motivation to profit.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 3, 2025

because the manga publisher requests information from third-party intermediaries such as Cloudflare, PayPal, Visa, and Google. Not much later, these domains also showed up in a separate request in a California federal court, where Google, Visa, and PayPal were asked to provide information on the alleged operators. net website.

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Plagiarism Today

JULY 13, 2021

1: Google Fined €500m by France’s Antitrust Watchdog Over Copyright. 2: Man Sentenced to 12 Months Prison For Copyright Infringement & Tax Evasion. The investigation began almost 8 years ago when PayPal sent information to the alleged infringing sites to Homeland Security. million to the IRS.

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