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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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

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. . Copyright Infringement (17 U.S.C. § 101 et seq.)

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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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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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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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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 26, 2022

. “[RIAA’s] arguments are a mix of factually wrong information, a misunderstanding of how these AI services work, and minor allegations regarding potential trademark infringement (corrected since) which are not piracy or counterfeiting,” the rebuttal reads ( pdf ). ” Links and References Removed.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Gaming giant sony responded with a copyright infringement lawsuit targeting two companies and a director connected to the Datel products. “The translation, adaptation, arrangement and other adaptation of a computer program” require permission from the copyright holder, the relevant section reads.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 19, 2025

Europol is no stranger to piracy and online copyright infringement. Piracy Decline (2022 report) This report is still not the original source, as another citation identifies an EUIPO copyright infringement report from 2021 as the basis for the conclusion that piracy is declining. Piracy is Actually Rising?

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The IPKat

MARCH 11, 2025

In a recent decision , the German Supreme Court denied copyright protection for two Birkenstock sandal designs. Since copyright is not freely transferrable under German law, he granted exclusive rights of use to the company Birkenstock. The judges also recalled that designs do not necessarily qualify for copyright protection.

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Copyright Lately

OCTOBER 20, 2024

million in copyright damages against Skiplagged—but the website’s business model remains largely unaffected. Yes, there was a copyright infringement claim in the mix, based on Skiplagged’s use of American’s “flight symbol” logo. Jury awards American Airlines $9.4 Talk about a case of the tail wagging the dog.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JANUARY 23, 2024

It does seem like the topic of AI and copyright was everywhere in the copyright world last year. While some digital topics have been known to cause a great commotion in copyright circles only to later sink practically without a trace, unless I am mistaken, the issue of the copyright implications of AI is different.

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Plagiarism Today

JUNE 28, 2022

Earlier this month, the Copyright Claims Board (CCB) began accepting cases. The long sought after copyright small claims court , the CCB can hear cases where the damages are less than $15,000 per work or $30,000 in total. The cases represent a wide variety of copyright-related issues. The company can not.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

This week, EUIPO released another in-depth piracy report titled “Online Copyright Infringement in the European Union.” These percentages are hard to interpret without a historical reference. From: TF , for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

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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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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 30, 2025

It’s been a busy two weeks for copyright and AI cases. March 18, 2025) This case involved the completely AI-generated work, “A Recent Entrance to Paradise”: The copyright applicant, Thaler, disclaimed any human involvement in the work’s creation. The district court ruled it wasn’t copyrightable.

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Traverse Legal Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Somewhat related to a claim of copyright infringement (and often preempted by such a claim – more on that later), is the claim for Right of Publicity. International Variations: Similar rights exist in other countries, often referred to as “personality rights” or “rights of persona.”

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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”. First, the subject of DMCA Copyright Infringement Notice is strange. The fake lawyer identifies herself as a trademark attorney, but is handling a copyright issue.

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SpicyIP

MARCH 11, 2025

On February 20, the ED released a press statement on its move to attach the directors asset in light of the 15 year old copyright dispute between the director and writer Aarur Tamilnadan. In this post, we will examine the foreseeable consequences of applying a money laundering law to a copyright dispute.

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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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TorrentFreak

MARCH 24, 2025

The Scene refers to the top of the so-called ‘piracy pyramid’ where content is meant to be shared privately. The police further mentioned that the defendant had 134 terabytes of copyrighted material in his possession, strongly suggesting he was not a minor player. Whether any of these related to The Scene is unknown.

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JD Supra Law

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

A federal jury in California found on January 26, 2024, that TV-famous tattoo artist Katherine Von Drachenberg (Kat Von D) did not infringe plaintiff Jeffrey Sedlik’s copyrighted photo of jazz artist Miles Davis. Kat Von D did not dispute that she used Sedlik’s photo as a reference for a tattoo she performed on a friend.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 29, 2025

As perhaps all readers are aware by now, the GenAI Copyright litigations have made their presence known in India. As discussed earlier , ANI had filed a copyright lawsuit against Open AI in the Delhi High Court. With that said, as Lee et al point out, Copyright issues can arise at every stage of the supply chain.

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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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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Copyright and design rights are often invoked in parallel, particularly in relation to works of applied art [ e.g. IPKat here ]. This time, this Kat has found a recent decision issued by the Tribunal Judiciaire of Paris in a dispute concerning both copyright and trade mark infringement.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 23, 2025

File-hosting platform 1fichier.com appeared around 2009 and since then has seen no shortage of copyright complaints. 1fichier The French ban followed an alert by Mastercard and complaints from Zee Entertainment, which alleged that hundreds of links to copyrighted works were being shared on the site. Monitoring Obligation?

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

YouTube’s copyright takedown policy poses one of the biggest threats to the platform’s content creators. YouTubers who receive three copyright infringement strikes can easily lose their channels, which for some equates to their livelihood. Unique Copyright Abuse Termination? Targeting Takedown Abuse.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Specifically, the record labels argued that the ISP should also be held liable for vicarious copyright infringement. Are ISPs liable for copyright infringement if they don’t disconnect subscribers accused of copyright infringement? Both petitions essentially boil down to questions on liability.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 17, 2024

is one of the most interesting cases in history to rely on a fair use defense, arguing that the alleged infringement qualifies as a parody. Acuff-Rose sued members of hip hop group 2 Live Crew, claiming that their track “Pretty Woman” infringed the label’s copyright in the Roy Orbison song, “Oh, Pretty Woman.”

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Plagiarism Today

MARCH 28, 2022

1: Supreme Court to Hear Copyright Dispute Over Andy Warhol’s Images of Musician Prince. She licensed the photo to Vanity Fair magazine for use as an artist reference. Million Copyright Lawsuit Over Red Rat’s Song. 3: Renowned Saint Luke’s Cardiologist Sues Epic Systems Over Copyright.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Over the past several years we’ve covered dozens of copyright troll cases against tens of thousands of alleged copyright infringers. The definition of the term ‘copyright troll’ is fluid. The definition of the term ‘copyright troll’ is fluid. They intervened in the Warner Chappell Music v.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

The new technology also brings up novel copyright issues. According to the tech company, there are no viable claims for vicarious copyright infringement, DMCA violation, unfair competition, and unjust enrichment. copyright law. In that case, the court rejected the fair use argument and referred the matter to trial.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 8, 2023

On December 14, 2022, a group of music rightsholders including BMG, UMG, and Capitol filed a complaint at a Texas district court, accusing Altice, the parent company of ISP Optimum, of facilitating massive copyright infringement. By now the base allegations are very familiar.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Academic integrity and plagiarism issues in this context ultimately also lead us to copyright law. Or do students expose themselves to liability for copyright infringement when using GenAI output? I. GenAI at odds with copyright law? As a result, these works may be reproduced by AI applications ( Figure 1 ).

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 11, 2022

Over the past several years a wave of copyright infringement lawsuits have been filed against alleged cheaters or cheat makers. In a complaint filed at a Seattle federal court last June, Bungie accused AimJunkies.com of copyright and trademark infringement, among other things. Copyright Questions.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 4, 2024

That basically allows one party to request evidence from the other, to properly support or refute the copyright infringement claims that form the basis of the lawsuit. OpenAI Seeks NYT ‘Source’ Material In its quest for evidence, OpenAI is particularly interested in the copyrights of the New York Times’ works.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

ID Tech believed that Bayam copies too much of its copyrighted website content and pursued a whirlwind of enforcement activity, including filing two lawsuits against Bayam and sending numerous DMCA takedown demands to Shopify. Bayam and ID Tech run rival online jewelry businesses. Both use Shopify as a service provider.

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