TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

These accounts were previously targeted in copyright notices sent by the RIAA or a third party. The music labels could use this information to gather further evidence to support their allegations. Several of the music company plaintiffs have obtained information concerning alleged pirate subscribers in similar lawsuits.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 3, 2022

In addition to rising visitor numbers, copyright enforcement complaints have skyrocketed to previously unimaginable levels. That includes the volume of incoming DMCA takedown notices. 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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JD Supra Law

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Suppose you have uncovered a copyrighted work from another that contains copyright management information such as a copyright notice. However, you want to remove or alter this copyright management information. Should you remove or alter any copyright management information from the copyrighted work?

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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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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 17, 2022

The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) is easily the best-known law when it comes to notice and takedown. . The European Union, for example, has a notice-and-takedown system as part of its Electronic Commerce Directive , which was adopted in 2000. Submit the Notice: Submit the notice to the agent.

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Plagiarism Today

APRIL 7, 2022

It deals with whether Amazon and/or CCA infringed FDN’s copyrights by scraping descriptions from their website for use as part of Amazon’s product listings. It’s a confusing question with no easy answer, but it’s an issue that puts the copyright registration of every website at risk. The Registration Wrinkle.

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Plagiarism Today

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Reddit, like any other large site that hosts content uploaded by users, received a massive number of Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) notices. . In fact, according to their most recent transparency report , that includes some 176,959 notices covering some 738,010 pieces of content in just the first six months of 2022.

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Plagiarism Today

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

This was in part because the company feared running afoul of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). That’s because many people who reported copyright infringing content to Facebook were turned away by a DMCA takedown system that threw nothing but obstacles. The issue was straightforward. That certainly would be understandable.

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Velocity of Content

MARCH 20, 2024

There are several factors that should be taken into consideration even when using public data: Nature of the Data Publicly available data can include a wide range of information, such as government datasets, publicly shared research data, research published under open access (OA) licenses, and datasets that fall within the public domain.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

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, including a billion-dollar damages award against Cox, have shaken up the industry.

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SpicyIP

OCTOBER 11, 2021

In a new low for Indian media, Aaj Tak (owned by the media conglomerate Living Media) has allegedly taken to using copyright claims to prevent criticism of its reportage by media watchdog Newslaundry. Section 52(1)(a)(ii) of the Copyright Act exempts from infringement ‘fair dealing’ with any work for the purpose of criticism or review.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 17, 2023

What does all that mean for companies looking to develop generative AI, and the online sources of their training data that might be looking to stop them? ¯_(ツ)_/¯ We can infer from this opinion that treatment of Copyright Management Information (“CMI”) will be tricky for generative AI developers. Emphasis in original).

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TorrentFreak

JULY 14, 2024

Just before the weekend, dozens of record labels including UMG, Warner, and Sony, filed a massive copyright infringement lawsuit against Verizon at a New York federal court. ’ advertising campaign, it has intentionally chosen not to listen to complaints from copyright owners. Verizon Services Corp.,

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TorrentFreak

JULY 7, 2023

Last year, governments and law enforcement sent more than 1,000 information requests to Reddit, seeking user details. Reddit complies with most of these information requests, but not all. The Redditors in question discussed issues such as RCN’s handling of copyright infringement emails. According to U.S.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 30, 2021

Over the past years, we have seen copyright holders take several ISPs to court, accusing them of failing to disconnect repeat copyright infringers. In their complaint, the filmmakers accuse Surfshark, VPN Unlimited, Zenmate and ExpressVPN of being involved in widespread copyright infringement. Bypassing Netflix Restrictions.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JANUARY 16, 2024

Image via Pixabay The two US class actions against Meta We have previously analysed US class actions against Open AI ( here ) and Google ( here ) for unauthorized use of copyright works in the training of generative AI tools, respectively ChatGPT, Google Bard and Gemini. This body of text is called the training dataset.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Instead of the usual DMCA copyright notices, the music group asked the search engine to remove various URLs for alleged violations of the DMCA’s anti-circumvention provision. To put this number into perspective, the RIAA sent just over 100 anti-circumvention notices this year, while the BPI is stuck at roughly 180.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

The plaintiffs alleged that by failing to terminate subscribers that had been accused of copyright infringement multiple times, Cox failed to meet its obligations under the DMCA. Lawsuit Accuses Comcast of Copyright Infringement. The movie companies say they notified Comcast of these infringements in more than 250,000 DMCA notices.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 31, 2022

Since YouTube content creators are also copyright holders, this can lead to a new perspective on the purpose of copyright law. To keep things running smoothly, content creators also need to respect any copyrights held by others. Not doing so could lead to copyright complaints from third parties.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 21, 2022

Under US copyright law, Internet providers must terminate the accounts of repeat infringers “in appropriate circumstances.”. ‘Copyright Claims Should be Dismissed’ Bright House requests the court to dismiss the only remaining copyright infringement claim. ” Piracy Notices Never Came Through. .

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IP Law 360

MARCH 10, 2025

violated the Digital Millennium Copyright Act claim with its large language model product, ruling that they've adequately alleged that Meta intentionally removed copyright notice information to conceal infringement. A California federal judge has refused to throw out group of authors' claim that Meta Platforms Inc.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 7, 2022

Supreme Court held 6-3 that the Ninth Circuit erred in invalidating a copyright registration for failure to comply with the Copyright Office’s “single unit of publication” regulation, where the copyright owner had knowledge of the facts but arguably misunderstood the legal standard. Factual and Procedural Background. 3d at 1198.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 20, 2024

The filmmakers accused the ISP of failing to terminate the accounts of subscribers who were repeatedly flagged for sharing copyrighted material. WOW vs. ‘Trolls’ The ISP described the film companies and their anti-piracy partner MaverickEye as “copyright trolls”.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 9, 2022

Russian authorities later expanded their mission to include copyrighted material and in 2017, after the government concluded that circumvention tools were undermining efforts to control what is said and ultimately thought in the country, Russia introduced a new law to crack down on VPNs, Tor, anonymizers, proxies, allowing them to be blocked too.

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SpicyIP

OCTOBER 3, 2021

We informed our readers that the Microsoft IPR Chair and the DPIIT IPR Chair at Gujarat National Law University (GNLU), Gandhinagar are jointly organising a webinar on ‘Traditional Knowledge as Intellectual Property: Opportunities and Challenges at the International Level’ on 13th October, 2021. For details, please read the announcement.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 23, 2022

Using the DMCA’s takedown process as a weapon, persons unknown sent copyright notices to YouTube, claiming that the targeted videos should be taken down for infringing Bungie’s rights. Bungie’s early attempts to obtain information from Google/YouTube ran into trouble. On March 16, Minor tweeted again.

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Canadian Intellectual Property Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2020

With the ever-increasing presence of social media, including websites like YouTube where content can generate income, copyright infringement is escalating at alarming rates. Unfortunately, it is no secret that the cost of enforcing copyright through the courts is expensive.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 29, 2023

Eight months after filing, the first two Copyright Claims Board (CCB) Final Determinations have been handed down. Flores sent a DMCA 512(g) counter-notice on June 27, 2022, and filed with the CCB the next day. Flores selected the “smaller claims” track, which is more streamlined, with only one presiding Copyright Claims Officer.

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Indiana Intellectual Property Law

AUGUST 20, 2021

Copyright Office as Group Reg. Further, Haehl claims she posted a copyright notice alongside each photograph posted on her Facebook page. Therefore, Haehl is seeking damages for direct copyright infringement in violation of 17 U.S.C. § According to the Complaint, she registered a series of those images with the U.S.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 13, 2023

Matthew Slatoff, Marvel’s Vice President, Global Security & Content Protection, informed the Court that his responsibilities include monitoring and addressing infringement of MVL Film Finance’s rights. Marvel supplied a docs.google.com/document/ URL as the location for the allegedly infringing content.

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Velocity of Content

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Ever since the passage of the EUs Digital Single Market copyright directive in 2019, I have been especially intrigued by the rights reservation provisions relating to the commercial text and data mining (TDM) exception in Article 4. An Interview with Haralambos Babis Marmanis This piece originally appeared in The Scholarly Kitchen.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 13, 2023

In Iraq, for example, tackling copyright infringement isn’t seen as a priority or a new phenomenon. As a result, “copyright notices” were sent to US bases and United States Central Command was put on high alert. That’s a concern for copyright holders. At the end of 2021, the U.S.

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TraskBritt Intellectual Property

MARCH 18, 2021

Intellectual property law includes patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets and is an important consideration for any new business. This article will address trademarks and copyrights, but the law firm of TraskBritt can assist with any intellectual property law needs. Trademarks and copyrights offer different protections.

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

The class of plaintiff authors seeking to hold OpenAI liable for copyright infringement has faced yet another setback. The lawsuits claim that because the defendants copied their original works of authorship to use as training material for the LLMs, the AI companies are liable under the federal Copyright Act and various state tort laws.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 4, 2023

CMS and PML CMS (the ‘prior agent’) is a reference to Copyright Management Services Ltd, a company that has appeared in many lawsuits targeting alleged BitTorrent pirates in a number of jurisdictions on behalf of many copyright holders. It contains the following paragraphs: Some clarifications are in order before moving on.

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Copyright Lately

JUNE 2, 2022

When lighting technician Blake Farmer got a tattoo of Miles Davis from celebrity tattoo artist Kat Von D in 2017, he never could have imagined that the image on his right arm would one day become Exhibit A in a copyright infringement lawsuit. The Nature of the Copyrighted Work and the Amount and Substantiality of the Portion Used.

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Velocity of Content

JANUARY 31, 2023

In the TDM context, this raises interesting questions: Does the attribution requirement mean that the author’s information may not be removed as a data element from the content, even if inclusion might frustrate the TDM exercise or introduce noise into the system? Does the attribution need to be included in the data set at every stage?

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