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. Such conditions might include the use of the materials for criticism, comment, teaching, or research purposes.

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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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Plagiarism Today

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

The Copyright Claims Board has ruled in favor of two podcasters in a bitter battle over fair use and a TikTok video. The post Do We Know Them Podcasters Win Fair Use CCB Case appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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Plagiarism Today

MAY 18, 2023

Here's what it says and what it means for fair use moving forward. The post How the Warhol Ruling Could Change Fair Use appeared first on Plagiarism Today. The Supreme Court has handed down its decision in the Andy Warhol case.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

APRIL 12, 2023

Scanning books to create a searchable database of books constitutes fair use. Will scanning images (or other copyright-protected content) to create a generative AI model for use in creating images be deemed fair use? Scanning books to create eBooks does not. In Authors Guild v. Google, Inc., (the

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JD Supra Law

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

that the defendants unauthorized use of the plaintiffs copyrighted materials to train its legal research AI tool was not fair use. This ruling is the first reported case to address whether the use of copyrighted training data for AI training constitutes fair use. ROSS Intelligence Inc.

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Barry Sookman

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

11, 2025) examined three essential questions, 1) were the Westlaw headnotes and key number system taxonomy protected by copyright, 2) did Rosss copying of the headnotes to create legal memos used to train Rosss AI system infringe copyright, subject to the defense of fair use, and 3) was Ross copying fair use.…

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Plagiarism Today

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The Copyright Claims Board has handed three more determinations, including one fair use issue and two questions on damages. The post 3 New Copyright Claims Board Decisions appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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Copyright Lately

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Ross Intelligence will get plenty of second looks from courts deciding fair use in generative AI copyright cases. Those were some of the phrases legal commentators used to describe Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts v. Goldsmith in the days following the Supreme Courts 2023 landmark fair use decision.

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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. Fair Use Declawed. Only one way to find out. Netflix, Inc.

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IP and Legal Filings

DECEMBER 23, 2024

INTRODUCTION AND CONTEMPORARY RELEVANCE Ever since ANI filed a lawsuit against OpenAI for alleged infringement of its copyright, existing discrepancies in the legal framework surrounding its permissible bounds have cropped up, and policymakers all over hope to receive much-needed clarity on the issue through the medium of this verdict.

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Traverse Legal Blog

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

The infringer owes at a minimum a reasonable royalty to the copyright holder. Enrico Schaefer, Copyright & Litigation Attorney. What Is Accidental Copyright Infringement. 2024 Update) Accidental copyright infringement occurs when someone unknowingly violates copyright law.

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JD Supra Law

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

In one of the most closely-watched copyright cases this year, a Delaware court rejected defendant, ROSS Intelligences (ROSS), fair use and other defenses by vacating its previous stance and granting summary judgement in favor of plaintiff, Thomson Reuters (Reuters).

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 21, 2023

Court tosses USCO case over AI art, court to revisit fair use tattoo case and Lord of the Rings fan fiction author loses vs Amazon. The post 3 Count: Non-Copyrighted AI appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 27, 2024

The American copyright industry is one of the country’s primary exports, generating billions of dollars in annual revenue. To protect the interests of these businesses around the world, copyright holder groups can count on help from the U.S. to use it as a basis for sanctions. companies are among the global market leaders.

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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. Fair Use Precedent? As such, it was permissible under United States copyright law. copyright law.

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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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JD Supra Law

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

1:20-cv-613, potentially shaping how future courts will analyze transformative use and intermediate copying of copyrighted works used to train artificial intelligence models. The decisions generally favor the copyright holders but appear to spare generative AI defendants. ROSS Intelligence Inc.,

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

If you’ve had any issues with copyright over the past few years, whether you are on YouTube, Facebook or even operating your own website, it’s probable that your issue didn’t start with a human, but with a bot. According to YouTube, their automated Content ID system handles over 98% of copyright issues on the site.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 18, 2023

In 2020, publishers Hachette, HarperCollins, John Wiley and Penguin Random House sued the Internet Archive (IA) for copyright infringement, equating its ‘Open Library’ to a pirate site. Mass Copyright Infringement or Fair Use? The library argues that the court erred by rejecting its fair use defense.

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JD Supra Law

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

The first 24 hours of punditry on Judge Stephanos Bibass summary judgment of no fair use in Thomson Reuters v. has largely oscillated between predictions that the decision destroys fair use defenses in the pending generative AI copyright litigations, or that the decision is entirely irrelevant to those cases.

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JD Supra Law

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

a first-of-its-kind decision addressing whether fair use is. Its not common for a federal judge to make such an admission, but that is exactly what Judge Bibas of the United States District Court for the District of Delaware did in his recent opinion in Thomson Reuters Enterprise Centre GMBH v. Ross Intelligence Inc.,

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 10, 2022

For independent creators, every hour spent working on one’s copyright is an hour not spent on creating new work or running their business. As such, many creators either neglect their work’s copyright protection or pay someone else to handle it, often at great cost. Copyright Office. Copyright Office fees.

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Hugh Stephens Blog

JANUARY 31, 2024

Photo: Author A couple of recent cases in the US involving (mis)appropriation of copyrighted photographs indicate the tide may be changing with respect to the interpretation of what constitutes fair use, moving from a very liberal interpretation of “transformation” that has been used in recent years to justify unauthorized reproduction of copyrighted (..)

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JD Supra Law

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Fair use a critical defense in copyright law that allows limited use of copyrighted material without permission has emerged as a key battleground in the wave of artificial intelligence (AI) copyright litigation.

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The Illusion of More

JANUARY 15, 2024

Lately, we’ve seen several headlines and comments from tech giants say that AI ventures simply cannot succeed if they are forced to contend with the copyrights in the billions of works they have scraped for the purpose of machine learning (ML).

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The Illusion of More

JULY 11, 2024

In February 2023, I argued that using copyrighted works for the purpose of training generative artificial intelligence (GAI) products is not fair use.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Yesterday, news broke that Pearson Education, the largest publisher of textbooks in the world, has filed a lawsuit against the website Chegg alleging widespread copyright infringement of its content on the site. As a result, Pearson is suing Chegg alleging copyright infringement. Questions, Answers and Copyright.

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Copyright Alliance

MAY 19, 2023

Yesterday, the Supreme Court, in a 7-2 opinion written by Justice Sonia Sotomayor, found that the purpose and character of the Andy Warhol Foundation’s (AWF) use of Lynn Goldsmith’s photograph […] The post Landmark Warhol Decision Reins in Transformative Fair Use appeared first on Copyright Alliance.

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Copyright Alliance

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

District Court of Delaware issued an opinion in a long-running AI copyright infringement case, rejecting the defendants fair use defense and finding […] The post First of Its Kind Decision Finds AI Training Is Not Fair Use appeared first on Copyright Alliance. On February 11, a judge in the U.S.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 18, 2025

The plaintiff apparently owned the copyrights to both videos and sued XXL for copyrght infringement. Instead, XXL relied on a fair use defense, which works: Nature of use: “the video was the subject of the news story and because the article added new information and context about the contents of the video.”

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 20, 2025

When AI hit the mainstream, it became apparent that many rightsholders had concerns over the unauthorized use of their copyright works. Creatives including photographers, artists, musicians, journalists, and authors, responded by filed copyright infringement lawsuits to protect their rights.

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The Illusion of More

JANUARY 26, 2024

Yesterday, New York federal judge Sidney Stein ruled that Richard Prince, one of the most famous appropriation artists in the world, infringed the copyright rights of photographers Donald Graham and Eric McNatt by using their works in the controversial “New Portraits” series.

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The Illusion of More

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Goldsmith restored what many of us view as common sense to the fair use doctrine of transformativeness, the flurry of litigation against AI developers will test the same principle in a different light.

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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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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

When he refused to comply with LifeWise’s demands to take the content down, LifeWise responded with a potentially crushing copyright infringement lawsuit. These components unsurprisingly attracted the attention of the EFF, which is now defending Parrish against LifeWise’s copyright infringement allegations.

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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. In Japan, where the concept of fair use isn’t recognized, there’s arguably less cause for confusion.

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