TorrentFreak

APRIL 10, 2023

In recent years, these have included the publication of a transparency report documenting how various legal policies affect the site’s content. DMCA Notices and Takedowns Increase The number is significant, especially when taking into account that it doesn’t include copyright-related complaints.

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IP Watchdog

JUNE 28, 2024

This week in Other Barks and Bites: WIPO releases a study that finds intangible investment is growing rapidly in part due to IP; the Center for Investigative Reporting files a copyright lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft; and the RIAA files a lawsuit against AI music-generating platforms for mass copyright infringement.

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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

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Majors Publishers File Copyright Complaint Against Libgen According to a copyright lawsuit filed in the U.S. . The publishers dismiss this as “just a ruse” to account for a “massive piracy effort” that runs counter to the stated aim of copyright law. “[T]he Sites undermine the very purpose of U.S.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 15, 2023

‘Breeding Mass Copyright Infringement’ Universal Music, Sony Music, EMI and others filed a complaint at a federal court in Nashville, Tennessee, accusing Twitter’s parent company X Corp of “breeding” mass copyright infringement. copyright law.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 17, 2024

A few hours ago, the company released its latest transparency report detailing the actions it took in the second half of 2023. 779,628 ‘Infringing’ Items Flagged At TorrentFreak, we are mostly interested in copyright-related actions. During the second half of the year, this upward trend reversed.

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The IPKat

AUGUST 30, 2023

Additional cases were filed over the same songs by Structured Asset Sales, a company owned by investment banker David Pullman that is a beneficial owner of one-third of the copyright in the Townsend catalogue. Both parties submitted expert musicologist reports. Are the songs substantially similar?

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2021

The European Intellectual Property Office ( EUIPO ) has recently published a report on Online Copyright Infringement in the European Union. The report examines the consumption of copyright-infringing content in the EU Member States and the UK between January 2017 and December 2020. 8 t imes per month.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 24, 2022

Copyright holders send out millions of takedown notices a day, hoping to remove pirated content or making it harder to find. The efficacy of the DMCA takedown process is open for debate but it certainly doesn’t help when companies flag their own websites as copyright infringing. Sony Targets Sony.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 3, 2022

In addition to rising visitor numbers, copyright enforcement complaints have skyrocketed to previously unimaginable levels. Reddit detailed these trends a few days ago in its latest transparency report. During the first months of the year, copyright holders asked Reddit to remove a record-setting 738,010 pieces of content.

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The Illusion of More

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Copyright Office published its report on copyright infringement by states and state actors in response to the present circumstance whereby states are immunized against litigation for unlicensed use of protected works. The post State Copyright Infringement Should Be About Justice appeared first on The Illusion of More.

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The IPKat

JUNE 7, 2022

Readers may have seen that the media have picked up on a claim made against Mariah Carey for copyright infringement by her infamous song " All I Want for Christmas is You ". However, as readers will know, there can be no copyright in a title (see also Compendium US Copyright Offices Practices, §313.4C ).

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Over the past several years, a wave of copyright infringement lawsuits has targeted alleged cheaters and cheat makers. Two years ago, Bungie filed a complaint at a federal court in Seattle, accusing AimJunkies of copyright and trademark infringement, among other things. Meanwhile, AimJunkies wasn’t sitting idly by.

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SpicyIP

AUGUST 20, 2023

Image from here A couple of weeks ago, I discussed a law student in Bengaluru filed a case, alleging copyright infringement, against two assistant professors. On the above allegations, the court took cognizance of the offense u/s 63 of the Copyright Act (copyright infringement) and Section 420 of the IPC (Cheating).

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 17, 2024

According to Sony, Datel’s software intervened in the ‘program flow’ of its games and, by changing the flow, Sony’s copyrighted game code was modified. However, these values are not elements of Sony’s copyrighted code, but code produced by a console while running Sony’s code.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 1, 2022

Twice a year Mega publishes a transparency report that reveals the volume of copyright complaints. The latest release shows that in the first quarter of 2022, copyright holders sent 1,187,646 takedown requests. Repeat Infringers. Mega has a repeat infringer policy when it comes to copyright infringement claims.

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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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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

JULY 7, 2024

Last Thursday, June 27, 2024, the Center for Investigative Reporting (CIR) filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and its largest shareholder, Microsoft, in the U.S. The lawsuit accuses the tech giants of using CIR’s copyrighted material without authorization. This free rider behaviour is not only unfair, it is a violation of copyright.

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IP Watchdog

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

This week in Other Barks & Bites: a World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) report finds global patent filings at a record high with China leading the way; Universal Music Group sues Believe Music for copyright infringement; and a New York district judge dismisses a copyright infringement lawsuit filed against OpenAI.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Photographs are under the subject matter of copyright which means that photographs are artistic works that attract copyright protection. In India, photographs enjoy copyright protection under Section 2 (c) i of the Copyright Act, 1957 , which mentions the certain types of artistic works granted copyright protection in India.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 22, 2023

This is a highly controversial topic in the music industry, with many insiders suggesting that commercial use of these models could breach copyright law. The letter to Discord simply states that AI Hub is dedicated to copyright infringement of its members’ works. Meanwhile, the AI Hub server remains online.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 2, 2023

The European Union recognizes that online piracy poses a serious threat to copyright holders and the public at large. This includes a requirement for large platforms to deter repeat copyright infringers. According to the EU, pirate sites lead to “high financial losses” for copyright holders. Scammers Exploit Europa.eu

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 25, 2022

It is no secret that Google uses automatic hash recognition to scan for copyright-infringing content. Still, Google determined that the file represented a copyright-related terms of service violation and prevented it from being publicly shared. From: TF , for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

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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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BYU Copyright Blog

JANUARY 10, 2022

In October, we reported that Post University, a for-profit university located in Waterbury, Connecticut, filed a complaint claiming copyright infringement, trademark infringement, violations of the DMCA, and related violations of law by online service provider Course Hero.

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BYU Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Charming Beats, claims to control the copyright in the registered musical work Lights Dim (U.S. Copyright Registration No. SR 713-284) (the "Song"). The company asserts that Wasatch Academy reproduced, synchronized, distributed, and publicly performed the Song in the Video. Wasatch Academy has yet to file an answer in either case.

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Plagiarism Today

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

1: The US Copyright Office Says an AI Can’t Copyright its Art. First off today, Adi Robertson at The Verge reports that the U.S. 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.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

With the NFT craze reaching new heights, Quentin Tarantino finds himself at the receiving end of a copyright infringement battle. Movie studio Miramax, which owns most of the rights to the film, sees it as a contract breach and copyright infringement. Through the lawsuit, Miramax hopes to stop the NFT sales.

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JD Supra Law

APRIL 18, 2023

Amazon’s Counterfeit Crimes Unit (CCU) has filed three lawsuits over false copyright infringement claims on the platform. As Amazon reported, “multiple bad actors” submitted thousands of false copyright infringement claims against Amazon sellers in an effort to have them and their products removed from the Amazon store.

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The IP Law Blog

MARCH 23, 2023

The Ninth Circuit recently addressed the issue of whether parties can contractually agree to shorten the statute of limitations period for bringing a copyright infringement claim. Normally, the statute of limitations for a copyright violation is three years. In an unpublished opinion in the case, Evox Productions, LLC v.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 4, 2024

org, has been identified as infringing rights holders’ copyrights more than six million separate times.” org, has been identified as infringing rights holders’ copyrights more than six million separate times.” im, cuevana[.]biz, biz, and The Pirate Bay, whose current domain, thepiratebay[.]org,

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

For the purpose of this report, however, we’ll home in on the copyright issues faced by Reddit during the last year and how the site responded to them. Copyright Removals. “In 2021, Reddit received 177,450 copyright notices reporting 920,672 pieces of content. Invalid Copyright Notices Are Rejected.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2024

Content creation on YouTube reportedly reached a new peak during the second half of 2023, meaning that the platform experienced a surge in infringing uploads on the one hand, and copyright actions by its users on the other. million in the first half of 2021.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

While internet intermediaries act as gatekeepers of content that is transmitted online, their services seem to attract a high number of copyright infringements. Article 17 of the Digital Copyright Directive. A telling example can be found in OCSSPs whose business model attracts both copyright and trade mark violations.

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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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JIPL Online

MARCH 15, 2021

With more content comes the increased possibility that Netflix is engaging in copyright infringement and on the receiving end of copyright infringement claims. [1] 1] This blog will briefly summarize a few of the notable copyright infringement cases Netflix has defended against in the United States.

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IP Law 360

MARCH 27, 2024

after a Washington federal judge ruled earlier this month that the gamer illegally posed as a company employee and reported Bungie fans' YouTube videos as copyright violations, according to a court order Wednesday. An online gamer has settled a lawsuit filed by video game developer Bungie Inc.

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