The IPKat

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Heres what they write: The UKs AI and copyright consultation will data protection law render any commercial TDM exception ineffective? Such rights reservations are often informally described as opt outs. This can include information such as the name, address or the IP address of a person, their appearance or voice.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

APRIL 12, 2023

Copyright Office (“Office”) has published guidance on its policy and practices for examining and registering works that contain material generated by the use of artificial intelligence technology. If not, they should take steps to correct their information so that the registration remains effective.

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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. Copyright Office. Your Obligations Under the Law.

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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

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

Shadow libraries already clash with the law, but copyright holders want to make sure that governments don’t make exceptions for AI training. “If the West wants to stay ahead in the race of LLMs, and ultimately, AGI, it needs to reconsider its position on copyright, and soon,” it reads. . While some U.S.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 4, 2022

The case pits Sheeran against Structured Asset Sales, a company that owns a one-third stake in the copyrights of Ed Townsend. Sheeran’s attorneys argued the elements that were allegedly copied, namely a chord progression and the harmonic rhythm, were both commonplace in music and not protectable by copyright. The Battle of the Bots.

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Plagiarism Today

APRIL 7, 2022

1: Copyright Office Launches New Copyright Claims Board Website. Copyright Office announces that the Copyright Claims Board (CCB) has launched its new website, ccb.gov. government passed the Copyright Alternative in Small-Claims Enforcement Act of 2020 (CASE Act). Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday.

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 3, 2023

Typically, when I do these year-end reviews, I cover a wide variety of stories that happened and separate out the copyright and plagiarism. Simply put, copyright and plagiarism are two different things. Copyright and AI. Ownership of AI Works: Can work created by an artificial intelligence be protected by copyright?

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Copyright Lately

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

Just days before the festival, Tintinimaginatios in-house counsel sent an email to Duke Laws Center for the Study of the Public Domain , disputing the Center’s conclusion that the earliest Tintin comics are now free of copyright protection in the United States. copyright law, the Tintin rightsholders’ argument is just plain wrong.

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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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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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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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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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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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JD Supra Law

MARCH 28, 2025

Copyright Office released a report titled Identifying the Economic Implications of Artificial Intelligence for Copyright Policy. In February 2025, the U.S. By: Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 16, 2025

‘Copyright Infringing Scam Apps’ According to Mob Entertainment, this is precisely what happened on Google Play. The unauthorized games versions were advertised as “Poppy Playtime: Chapter 3” and “Poppy Playtime: Chapter 4” and allegedly contain many works protected by Mob Entertainment’s copyright.

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Plagiarism Today

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

The Copyright Claims Board (CCB) is the new small claims court for copyright disputes in the United States. Passed as part of the Copyright Alternative in Small-Claims Enforcement Act (CASE Act) in December 2020, it threw open its doors in June of this year. The post Why Are Cases Being Dismissed at the Copyright Claims Board?

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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. ” Deterrence.

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SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

In an interesting development, the CIC recently rejected an RTI application concerning information on IPRS’ compliance with the Copyright Act, upholding privacy for private organizations and confidentiality of inquiry reports that have not been tabled in front of the Parliament. Do Copyright Societies Fall Under the RTI Act?

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

As we’ve discussed recently, the Copyright Claims Board (CCB) is the new copyright small claims court that was introduced as part of the Copyright Alternative in Small-Claims Enforcement Act (CASE Act) of 2020. Bronner quickly discovered that much of the information about EssayZoo was false, including their stated address.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Even when that is achieved, filing copyright lawsuits and then winning those cases could take years rather than months to complete. Japan-based publishing giant Shueisha often utilizes courts in the United States to obtain information on mostly anonymous pirate site operators.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 15, 2024

law, rightsholders have an option to identify alleged copyright infringers, without directly having to file a lawsuit. ” After the parties got together, an agreement was reached to confidentially disclose basic subscriber information related to 64 Discord User IDs. Instead, they can request a DMCA subpoena.

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Plagiarism Today

JUNE 2, 2022

Earlier this week, Mike Hiestand at the Student Press Law Center (SPLC) shared the story of an unnamed school newspaper that is facing a legal threat from a “copyright troll” over the use of an image on their site. . When looking at this case, there are many unknowns. However, there are a few things that we do know. It is worth remembering.

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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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SpicyIP

MARCH 30, 2025

Continuing from his earlier post, where he explained the technical workings of Large Language Models vis-a-vis where different copyright questions arise, in this post Shivam Kaushik argues that LLMS are in effect interacting with non-expressive parts of the works in question. But is all use of the text protected by copyright?

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 24, 2024

The company tried to obtain a DMCA subpoena requiring Cloudflare to hand over all identifying information it has on the site’s operators. DMCA subpoenas have proven to be an effective legal tool to gather information. In this case, however, nHentai’s operators decided to intervene, asking the court to quash the subpoena.

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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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Plagiarism Today

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Shopify, for its part, has issued a statement saying that it takes intellectual property violations very seriously and has processed over 90% of its copyright and trademark reports within one business day. All totaled, the plaintiffs are seeking up to $150,000 for each infringed copyright and $2 million for each infringed trademark.

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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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Intepat

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

In today’s world, copyright laws are essential for protecting creative works like books. For business owners, publishers, and sellers, understanding copyright can prevent legal issues and ensure fair use of content. Copyright grants the author or creator exclusive rights to use, distribute, and sell their work.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 11, 2025

In the race to build the most capable LLM models, several tech companies sourced copyrighted content for use as training data, without obtaining permission from content owners. At the same time, however, the company denied the copyright infringement allegations, noting that it would rely on a fair use defense, at least in part.

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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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IP and Legal Filings

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

Complete Guide to Copyright Registration in India Online : Protect Your Creative Work In todays digital era, copyright protection has become essential for creators across the world. In India, the Copyright Act, 1957 governs the registration and protection of creative works. What is Copyright?

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 3, 2025

because the manga publisher requests information from third-party intermediaries such as Cloudflare, PayPal, Visa, and Google. Not much later, these domains also showed up in a separate request in a California federal court, where Google, Visa, and PayPal were asked to provide information on the alleged operators. net website.

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Velocity of Content

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

provider of must-have intelligence to data, information, and analytics businesses worldwide, to conduct independent research and analysis into content consumption in the workplace by professionals across industries. The number of people that middle managers report sharing information with increased by 48.5% respectively.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

information portal went offline too, leaving many users in the dark. Due to the copyright, we cannot run the sites anymore. Responses Recent Legal Troubles The shutdown message doesn’t provide any detail on the “copyright” issues, but there have been a few recent developments that likely played a role.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 9, 2024

The company’s approach to copyright complaints differs based on the role it plays. Cloudflare Copyright Takedowns on the Rise Historically, Cloudflare hasn’t hosted much content. Through these notices, the group asks Cloudflare to inform the website owner and the hosting company to shut these sites down.

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