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 Diab , a law professor at Thompson Rivers University, raised similar thoughts in his own piece on the lawsuit. Updates on the podcast on Twitter at @Lawbytespod.

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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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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? By way of brief overview of data protection law, under the UK GDPR personal data means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person.

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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. 1:20-cv-613), another significant case law development has occurred regarding remedies in GenAI-related litigation.

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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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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 19, 2022

1: Government Pauses Plans to Rewrite UK Copyright Laws After Authors Protest. The rule, entitled copyright exhaustion, places limits on the import of international editions of books. The IPO has said that it will continue evaluating potential changes to copyright law but did not set a timetable.

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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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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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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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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

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

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. Your Obligations Under the Law. Copyright Office.

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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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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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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Although copyright infringement wasn’t cited as a reason for the arrest, Telegram has attracted criticism from rightsholders in the past. Earlier this year, a Spanish court ordered Internet providers to block the service in its entirety due to copyright issues. law enforcement, who are trying to make the site inaccessible.

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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 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

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. German law had to be applied by virtue of Art.

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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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SpicyIP

MARCH 30, 2025

Shivam is an LLM candidate at NUS Law specializing in IP and Tech Laws and a Research Assistant at the Lumens Machine Learning Project. 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.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

The web is riddled with copyright infringing content, ranging from full-length blockbuster films, through small music samples, to reposted celebrity photos on social media. While these clips may not directly hurt revenues, copyrights also have moral rights which include the right to integrity, which could come into play 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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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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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

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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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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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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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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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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SpicyIP

MARCH 29, 2025

We are very happy to announce the results of the 2024 Shamnad Basheer Essay Competition on Intellectual Property Law! In doing so, the essay highlights the paradoxical stance of companies on training other ML systems using the output generated by their own ML systems and discusses the copyrightability of ML system-generated output, if any.

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IP and Legal Filings

MARCH 19, 2025

The defense concluded that the case was without merits, thus not violating copyright laws. RULES APPLICABLE IN THE DISPUTE This case involves invoking Section 52 of the Copyright Act of 1957. ’ Herein, the court is bound to consider factors, including the extent and context of the copyrighted work.

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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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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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IP Watchdog

OCTOBER 25, 2024

This week in Other Barks & Bites: the USPTO is changing its approach to auditing trademark applications; the production company behind Blade Runner 2049 sues Tesla for AI-aided copyright infringement;a former OpenAI staffer publishes an essay accusing his former employer of breaking copyright law; and Microsoft’s CEO asks countries to change their (..)

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 2, 2022

Make the book public (to the extent permitted by law) 2. 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. Copyright Office. Finding a Use.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 22, 2025

. “While this approach aims to protect intellectual property and reduce online piracy, it relies on IP address and domain name system (DNS)-level blocking, making it a potentially extremely blunt instrument to address online copyright infringement,” CCIA writes.

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