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South Africa Rejects Copyright Lobby Critique, Defends Broad ‘Fair Use’ Exceptions

TorrentFreak

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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Fair Use: Yes or No?

Dear Rich IP Blog

From everything I've researched, all the images in the book should come under fair use. Polar interrogatives work well in psychology tests , congressional hearings , and wedding vows , but they're not suitable for analyzing fair use. That said, we think you are likely to prevail in a fair use dispute.

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Reddit Reports Surge in Copyright-Related User Bans

TorrentFreak

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. That said, the company does signal a significant increase in copyright-related user bans.

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Reddit Reports Surge in Copyright Takedown Notices and User Bans

TorrentFreak

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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(Un)fair Use? Copyrighted Works as AI Training Data — AI: The Washington Report

JD Supra Law

Welcome to this week’s issue of AI: The Washington Report, a joint undertaking of Mintz and its government affairs affiliate, ML Strategies.

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NVIDIA: Copyrighted Books Are Just Statistical Correlations to Our AI Models

TorrentFreak

When AI hit the mainstream, it became apparent that rightsholders are not always pleased that their works were used to train AI. This applies to photographers, artists, music companies, journalists, and authors, some of whom formed groups to file copyright infringement lawsuits to protect their rights. Trial in Two years…?

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Let’s Go Hazy: Making Sense of Fair Use After Warhol

Copyright Lately

Five things to know about the Supreme Court’s new purpose-driven fair use opinion in Andy Warhol Foundation v. Goldsmith (“ Warhol “) is that relatively rare fair use case in which both the original and follow-on works were more or less directly competing in the same market. Andy Warhol Foundation v.