Copyright Lately

DECEMBER 29, 2024

Many rulings missed the mark, but these five went the extra mile to secure their spots as the year’s worst copyright disasters. Hello and welcome to Copyright Latelys fifth annual countdown of the years biggest copyright misfires from coast to coast. Only one way to find out. On with the countdown! Netflix, Inc.

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 24, 2022

If you are new to copyright, there are many great guides on the internet, including this one here. However, for someone coming in with almost no understanding of how copyright works, it may not be the best place to begin. If your interest in copyright is more broad, you need to be aware of the copyright circulars published by the U.S.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 14, 2021

So, if a horse has a seemingly insurmountable lead on-screen and someone places a bet, that information is already out of date for everyone watching. As things stand, copyright law protects creative works and similar creations, including films, sound recordings and broadcasts, such as horse racing events.

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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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The IPKat

MAY 7, 2024

Kat (re-)unification Should the EU unify the copyright laws of its Member States and introduce, over thirty years after the start of the harmonization process, a unitary copyright title? A Dietz, ‘The protection of intellectual property in the information age - the draft E.U. The short answer is: yes.

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SpicyIP

OCTOBER 9, 2024

She graduated from National Law University, Delhi in 2023 & enjoys reading and writing on copyright laws. Image from here Hachette Book Group v Internet Archive: Archiving Access to Information or Strengthening Copyright Laws? Tanishka is an advocate at the High Court of MP.

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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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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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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

McDermott kept the copyright to those photo and granted NY Post a license. McDermott, represented by the Sanders Law Group, sued KMC for copyright infringement. McDermott argued that KMC was sophisticated about copyright law because the person who attached the photo to the bio had a journalism background.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

years after the implementation deadline, Poland still had to implement the provisions of the 2019 Copyright in the Digital Single Market Directive into national law. This must have been the key insight at the Polish Culture and National Heritage Ministry when the new administration took over and discovered that more than 2.5

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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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IP and Legal Filings

JULY 29, 2024

At the same time, this shift also raises various questions relating to copyrights and the safety of educational content and the authors’ rights. Another lesser-known problem of the authors of the schools providing educational services through the Internet is the question of the control of the distribution of copies of copyrighted works.

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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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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 19, 2024

The company has a process in place to disclose hosting information with eligible rightsholders, for example, and will also share details of allegedly pirating customers in response to DMCA subpoenas. As far as we know, Cloudflare has not terminated any customers solely based on copyright holder complaints.

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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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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 1, 2023

The members of the European Copyright Society (ECS ) have recently sent a letter to Mr. Thierry Breton ( Commissioner for Internal Market , European Commission ) outlining their view of what should be the priorities for a f uture agenda in the field of copyright law.

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Intepat

DECEMBER 25, 2024

These industries heavily rely on database to store, manage, and analyse vast amounts of information. While the raw data within a database may not be eligible for copyright protection, the originality involved in selecting, organizing, or arranging the data can bring a database under the scope of copyright law.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

But if you really want Kiwi Farms gone, have you considered using copyright law for its censorial power? Greer sued Moon and Kiwi Farms for contributory copyright infringement and other claims. Greer’s “private contact information.” CloudFlare’s block ). The appellate court revives the claim. Direct Infringement.

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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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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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Velocity of Content

APRIL 16, 2025

In hospitals, everyone appreciates the urgent need to share information quickly and efficiently. Unfortunately, fast-paced information sharing is not always consistent with federal copyright laws. Even the most routine content exchanges may place your organization at risk of copyright infringement. In the U.S.,

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TorrentFreak

MAY 6, 2024

4 Other anti-piracy work reported for the period includes legal action against pirate site operators and translation groups, civil/criminal action through local subsidiaries and overseas affiliates, establishing response strategies in accordance with local copyright laws, and overseas administrative actions.

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Velocity of Content

DECEMBER 11, 2024

In todays data-driven world, the financial services industry relies on a steady flow of high-quality information to make informed decisions, manage risk, and create value for clients. Much of this material is protected by copyright. How Do Different Departments Use the Annual Copyright License?

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Velocity of Content

OCTOBER 30, 2024

As these technologies continue to gain traction, pending lawsuits and legal uncertainty around the globe highlight the need to respect copyright law while leveraging the power of AI. Generative AI systems are strengthened by reliance on high quality, responsibly sourced training materials, including copyrighted works.

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IIPRD

JANUARY 22, 2025

One such legal issues is what is referred to as “fair use,” which becomes particularly problematic in the context of the copyright law. Such databases may include work that is copyrighted. Most often, AI systems utilize huge databases to train their algorithms and yield some forms of creative or functional outputs.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 30, 2025

In late 2023, Anna’s Archive expanded its offering by making information from OCLC’s proprietary WorldCat database available online. The contract Terms and Conditions might also be preempted by copyright law, as is true for other claims, including the claim for unjust enrichment.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

In order to train their technologies, should AI companies be allowed to use works under copyright protection without consent? Such uses, they argue, constitute copyright infringement. As in the present context, the initial concern of copyright holders was that their consent had not been acquired by Google prior to scanning their works.

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IIPRD

MARCH 5, 2025

Both artistic and technical information have been transforming lately about how to create in all industries. However, this gives a grand legal question: who has the right to copyright AI-created works? This has to do with the application of copyright to works made through AI. Copyright Office.

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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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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 9, 2023

TLDR Generative AI is one of the hot topics in copyright law today. In the EU, a crucial legal issue is whether using in-copyright works to train generative AI models is copyright infringement or falls under existing text and data mining (TDM) exceptions in the Copyright in Digital Single Market (CDSM) Directive.

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Velocity of Content

DECEMBER 4, 2024

The following is an excerpt from the article “The Heart of the Matter: Copyright, AI Training, and LLMs,” authored by Daniel Gervais (Milton R. The full article can be read in the Journal of the Copyright Society. As discussed below, there could be a separate violation if rights management information is removed.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Image by Peter Mello via Flickr The interests of research are not necessarily heard or represented when decisions are being made about copyright laws that affect them. Part one of this two-part blog introduces the issues and looks at the composition of formal copyright councils around Europe, where these exist.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 29, 2025

We Might Know Soon The 3rd issue framed by the Court will deal with the question of fair use, wherein the question is whether using the plaintiff’s data or copyrighted content constitutes fair use under Section 52 of the Copyright Act. How Does a Model Learn from its Training Data?

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Concerns over copyright-skirting generative AI and its potential effect on the future market for music, is perhaps the most obvious example. In what appears to be action designed to send a deterrent message, RIAJ members requested information held by a local ISP on subscribers identified by the labels as prolific uploaders of pirated music.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 19, 2021

However, now Mary Bono and the Bono estate are attempting to terminate that divorce agreement, using the copyright termination clause that allows creators and their heirs to reclaim transferred rights after 35 years. Next up today, Bill Donahue at Billboard reports that the rapper Snoop Dogg is facing a copyright infringement lawsuit.

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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?

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