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AI Training, Fair Use, and the Burdens of Being First

Copyright Lately

But that doesn’t mean you should have exclusive ownership over the result. I did a deep dive on intermediate copying several years ago when it arose in a copyright infringement lawsuit filed by Tracy Chapman over a Nicki Minaj demo track that interpolated Chapman’s song “Sorry.” ” In Chapman v.

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[Guest post] Dua Lipa and Warner Music sued for copyright infringement

The IPKat

If that still hasn't cleared it up, check out this video of Kante demoing the ElectroSpit. Without well-drafted written agreements signed pre-release which set out ownership and royalty splits as well as the mechanisms for determining future exploitation (e.g. All of these contributions provide musicians with different rights.

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Mr Justice Zacaroli finds manufacturing software copyright infringed and confidence breached in ex-employee fight

The IPKat

PQ became aware of InSPC v1 when it was promoted in demo form by CyberMetrics in the Summer 2017. The Judge stated: " It is a theme of Mr Aughton's evidence that he feels a strong sense of ownership of the software that he wrote for PQ. Over the next three years they worked together to develop the InSPC software.