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RIAA Flags ‘Artificial Intelligence’ Music Mixer as Emerging Copyright Threat

TorrentFreak

Responding to a request from the Office of the US Trade Representative (USTR), the music group highlighted several of these sites in its annual overview of ‘notorious’ piracy markets. Unauthorized Copies and Derivatives. While Songmastr’s service is a bit more advanced, the RIAA sees it as clearly infringing. mp3juices.cc.

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Religious Group Targets Parent With Copyright Lawsuit Over Kids’ Curriculum

TorrentFreak

The organization’s religious instruction program, marketed as LifeWise Academy, has a curriculum which outlines the religious instruction children receive. The allegation that licensing costs were avoided carries much more weight, however. According to the complaint, the LifeWise Curriculum is actually a derivative work, i.e

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Will the Court Find the Answers?

BYU Copyright Blog

Chegg presented several defenses, including fair use, copyright misuse, express license, and equitable estoppel. This included adequately identifying specific derivative works and their association with the alleged infringements, as well as demonstrating the effects of Chegg's actions on the value and market for these works.

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HIT NETFLIX CONTENT AND THE COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT THAT FOLLOWS

JIPL Online

7] Before the court could decide if the subtitled version, a type of derivative work, could still be protected even if the underlying film on its own was available to be used by all, both parties settled. [8]. 14] Before lawyers got involved, pressure from the photographer resulted in the granting of a licensing fee. [15]

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Prince, Prince, Prints: Will the Supreme Court Revisit Fair Use?

LexBlog IP

A few years later, in 1984, Goldsmith’s agency, which had retained the rights to those images, licensed one of them to Vanity Fair for use in an article called “Purple Fame.” That factor asks “whether, if the challenged use becomes widespread, it will adversely affect the potential market for the copyrighted work.” [20]

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Some Thoughts on Five Pending AI Litigations – Avoiding Squirrels and Other AI Distractions

Velocity of Content

As a person involved in copyright on a daily basis, I’ve observed a number of events and requests for comment over the last few years on the issue of whether artificial intelligence (AI) systems can be “authors” in the copyright sense (or inventors of patents). This article was originally published in The Scholarly Kitchen. v Stability A.I.

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Why Netflix’s “Bridgerton” Lawsuit is Good for Fan Fiction

Copyright Lately

performances of “The Unofficial Bridgerton Musical”) or other derivative works that might compete with Netflix’s own planned live events,” including the multi-city “ Bridgerton Experience.” . “Netflix would not authorize and did not want them to engage in any live performances (e.g.,

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