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Anna’s Archive Scraping: Court Defers Key Questions to State Supreme Court

TorrentFreak

Annas Archive is a meta-search engine for shadow libraries that allows users to find pirated books and other related sources. The site launched in the fall of 2022 , just days after Z-Library was targeted in a U.S. criminal crackdown, to ensure continued availability of ‘free’ books and articles to the broader public. In late 2023, Anna’s Archive expanded its offering by making information from OCLC’s proprietary WorldCat database available online.

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Part I- Applying Natural Intelligence (NI) to Artificial Intelligence (AI): Understanding ‘Why’ Training ChatGPT Transcends the Contours of Copyright

SpicyIP

In a fantastic 2 part post teasing apart how Large Language Models actually work, Shivam Kaushik gets down and dirty with the technical details of the algorithmic training process and explains why there are copyright implications beyond the ‘obvious’ In this first part, Shivam explains each part of the “G” “P” T” in ChatGPT actually does, and then takes forward why this is relevant.

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AI Copyright Litigation: Recent Legal Developments

Barry Sookman

It was a busy week in AI copyright litigation in the United States with three new decisions released in litigation involving Anthropic, OpenAI, and Microsoft. One involved a failed attempt by music publishers to obtain an injunction against Anthropic from using lyrics to train its AI system, Claude. Two of the cases highlight pleading requirements in which certain claims of infringement were dismissed against OpenAI, Microsoft, and Anthropic.

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Part II- Applying Natural Intelligence (NI) to Artificial Intelligence (AI): Understanding ‘Why’ Training ChatGPT Transcends the Contours of Copyright

SpicyIP

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. Further, he questions whether even a Text Data Mining Exception is required in the Indian Copyright Act.

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Software Composition Analysis: The New Armor for Your Cybersecurity

Speaker: Blackberry, OSS Consultants, & Revenera

Software is complex, which makes threats to the software supply chain more real every day. 64% of organizations have been impacted by a software supply chain attack and 60% of data breaches are due to unpatched software vulnerabilities. In the U.S. alone, cyber losses totaled $10.3 billion in 2022. All of these stats beg the question, “Do you know what’s in your software?

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Rounding Up Recent Copyright and AI Rulings

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

It’s been a busy two weeks for copyright and AI cases. Thaler v. Perlmutter , No. 23-5233 (D.C. Cir. March 18, 2025) This case involved the completely AI-generated work, “A Recent Entrance to Paradise”: The copyright applicant, Thaler, disclaimed any human involvement in the work’s creation. The district court ruled it wasn’t copyrightable.

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SpicyIP Weekly Review (March 24 – March 30)

SpicyIP

Keep up with the ever-changing world of IP with SpicyIPs Weekly Review! Wrapping up March with a busy week, here is a quick glance at the 11 posts- that include posts declaring the winners of the 2024 Shamnad Basheer Essay Competition on IP Law, a two part post explaining how an LLM works, DHCs decision to refuse an injunction to Roche in the Risdipalm case,and another two part post on the BHCs decision in the Karan Johar personality rights case.

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Clever is as clever shifts fees

Likelihood of Confusion

Originally posted 2010-11-18 18:43:32. Republished by Blog Post PromoterRichard Bergovoy: The only thing worse for a licensor than losing money when its licensee files for bankruptcy is paying attorneys fees on top of that to stop the bleeding. Two of the most common bankruptcy proceedings that licensor creditors get involved in are: 1)hearings related to […] The post Clever is as clever shifts fees appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION.

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German Federal Supreme Court rejects copyright protection for Birkenstock sandals.

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Image by wowbee from Pixabay In a decision of 20 February 2025 the German Federal Supreme Court (BGH) denied copyright protection as a work of applied art for two sandal designs. The ruling clarifies the scope of protection under German and EU law for works of applied art. According to the BGH, works of applied art enjoy protection if they are original in the sense that they are an authors own intellectual creation, reflecting free and creative choices.

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Federal Court Partially Blocks Executive Order Targeting WilmerHale: USPTO Acting Director Among Named Defendants

Patently-O

by Dennis Crouch In a significant development affecting the legal profession and potentially patent practice, Judge Richard J. Leon of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia has partially granted WilmerHale's motion for a temporary restraining order against President Trump's recent executive order targeting the firm. Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP v.