Plagiarism Today
SEPTEMBER 12, 2023
Barstool Sports is again facing allegations of content laundering, this time with proof of at least 40 burner Twitter accounts. The post Barstool Sports Accused of Content Laundering appeared first on Plagiarism Today.
Intellectual Property Law Blog
SEPTEMBER 13, 2023
The use of artificial intelligence (AI) is booming. Investors and companies are pouring cash into the space, and particularly into generative AI (GAI), to seize their share of the market which McKinsey reports could add up to $4.4 trillion annually to the global economy. Some companies are investing tens or hundreds of millions of dollars or more into GAI.
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Erik K Pelton
SEPTEMBER 14, 2023
The following is an edited transcript of my video Practicing What We Preach. Here at Erik M. Pelton & Associates, we really believe in practicing what we preach. As a small business law firm, we have taken our own advice and we have more than a dozen trademark registrations in our name (17 registrations as of fall 2022). One of our recent registrations is for Trademarkive® , the name of our online collection featuring some of our most valuable content on key trademark topics.
Michael Geist
SEPTEMBER 12, 2023
The Federal Court has approved a consent order requiring Environment and Climate Change Minister Steven Guilbeault to unblock Rebel News publisher Ezra Levant on Twitter. The order stems from a 2021 lawsuit filed by Levant which argued that blocking “violated the Applicants’ constitutional rights under section 2(b) of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms in blocking access to official governmental Twitter accounts, and thereby limiting the Applicants’ ability to, inter alia, access and co
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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?
Plagiarism Today
SEPTEMBER 14, 2023
A report by Futurism points out plagiarism by A.V. Club's AI reporter. Here's why it matters, even if the company doesn't seem to care. The post A.V. Club’s AI Reporter Plagiarized IMDb appeared first on Plagiarism Today.
TorrentFreak
SEPTEMBER 15, 2023
With two alleged operators of Z-Library currently defending a criminal lawsuit filed by the U.S. government, another of the world’s most recognized book piracy platforms has fresh legal problems of its own. Library Genesis was founded in Russia around 2008, mostly offering local language scientific textbooks. After reportedly adding around 500,000 predominantly English-language books courtesy of Library.nu, ‘Libgen’ archives received another huge boost with the addition of cont
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IP Watchdog
SEPTEMBER 11, 2023
On September 7, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit issued a precedential decision on trademark functionality doctrine in PIM Brands Inc. v. Haribo of America Inc. In affirming the district court’s grant of summary judgment, the Third Circuit found that PIM’s federally registered trademark to a wedge-shaped candy with green, white and red stripes should be canceled because the mark as a whole identifies the candy’s flavor.
Plagiarism Today
SEPTEMBER 11, 2023
Judge dismisses WAP lawsuit, Japanese gamer jailed over let's play videos and Rockstar cracked their own games, creating problems for buyers. The post 3 Count: Cracked and Broken appeared first on Plagiarism Today.
TorrentFreak
SEPTEMBER 10, 2023
Anyone who uses the internet today should already be aware that privacy is all but non-existent. The quid pro quo for using any major online service, social networks in particular, is the surrender of extraordinary amounts of personal data. Even regular websites can deploy dozens of trackers and trying to surface those don’t, using a search engine perhaps, makes everything several times worse.
Erik K Pelton
SEPTEMBER 12, 2023
The following is an edited transcript of my video 5 Free Ways to Strengthen Your Brand. Here are five free things that any business can do to strengthen their brand. No matter how long your brand has been around, whether you have a hundred customers or a million customers, you can do these things. Use the proper symbol for your trademark. If you have a registration, use the ® prominently with your brand.
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The IPKat
SEPTEMBER 12, 2023
Yesterday, the European Parliament adopted the Regulation on geographical indication (GI) protection for craft and industrial products, also known as non-agri GIs. This will create a new, EU-wide system of sui generis GI protection for products such as ceramics or knives. The adopted text is available here. Up until now, only wine, spirit drinks and agricultural products could benefit from EU-wide GI protection.
Plagiarism Today
SEPTEMBER 11, 2023
Games Workshop, best known for the Warhammer games and miniatures, has filed a dozen cases with the Copyright Claims Board. The post Games Workshop Files 12 Cases with the Copyright Claims Board appeared first on Plagiarism Today.
TorrentFreak
SEPTEMBER 11, 2023
With more than 14 million digital books in its archive, Z-Library is one of the largest shadow libraries on the Internet. What stands out even more is that the site continues to thrive; even though two of its alleged operators were arrested as part of a criminal crackdown by the United States. These two defendants, both Russians, are currently fighting a heated extradition battle.
U.S. Department of Commerce
SEPTEMBER 11, 2023
United in Memory: The Effects of September 11 Still Reverberate Today September 11, 2023 KCPullen@doc.gov Mon, 09/11/2023 - 09:35 First responder network By Joe Wassel, Executive Director and CEO, First Responder Network Authority September 11 irrevocably altered the lives of Americans. Today, on the anniversary, we solemnly reflect on that fateful day and its impact on our nation.
IP Watchdog
SEPTEMBER 14, 2023
On September 13, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Global Innovation Policy Center (GIPC) announced that it had joined with 30 other signatories to publish a framework of intellectual property principles designed to maintain America’s global lead in innovation. Supported by a coalition of well-recognized individuals and trade organizations long supporting greater certainty in patent rights, the framework of IP principles is intended to serve as a guidebook for policymakers who want to address genui
Plagiarism Today
SEPTEMBER 13, 2023
Authors file lawsuit against Meta over AI training, ACE targets Zoro successor, and Grammy CEO clarifies position on AI. The post 3 Count: LLaMA Too appeared first on Plagiarism Today.
TorrentFreak
SEPTEMBER 15, 2023
Plex is a multifunctional media software and service that allows users to easily access all their entertainment in one place. Whether it’s movies, music, TV-shows, or photos, Plex can organize and index, making the content ready to stream on a wide variety of supported devices. The technology itself is content-neutral and can be used for good, such as curating home videos or enriching purchased media with metadata.
Velocity of Content
SEPTEMBER 13, 2023
Copyrighted material is fuel for AI systems. Voluntary collective licensing is an effective solution enabling the use of copyrighted material as society realizes the benefits promised by AI systems. I invite our Velocity of Content blog readers to check out CCC’s “ Intersection of AI & Copyright ” page. It features a memo by IP and AI law expert Professor Daniel Gervais of the Vanderbilt Intellectual Property Program, where he addresses key copyright questions posed by AI technologies.
IP Watchdog
SEPTEMBER 12, 2023
A Pulitzer Prize-winning author and a number of Tony, Grammy and Peabody award winners are the latest to sue OpenAI for copyright infringement based on the way it trains its popular chatbot, ChatGPT. In July, comedian Sarah Silverman and authors Christopher Golden and Richard Kadrey brought a similar suit against OpenAI.
Plagiarism Today
SEPTEMBER 12, 2023
Second group of authors sue OpenAI, Internet Archive files appeal in controlled digital lending case and Uncle Roger dodges copyright notice. The post 3 Count: Round 2 appeared first on Plagiarism Today.
TorrentFreak
SEPTEMBER 9, 2023
Automattic , the company behind the popular blogging platform WordPress, receives thousands of takedown requests from copyright holders. For several years the volume of notices continued to increase , with a peak in 2018, after which the trend slowly went in the other direction. This week, the company published its latest WordPress.com transparency report , revealing that it processed 2,412 takedown notices during the first six months of the year.
JD Supra Law
SEPTEMBER 15, 2023
The increasing sophistication of generative artificial intelligence (AI) has had widespread effects on fields ranging from art and film to law and healthcare. The implications for copyright law principles, such as authorship, infringement, and fair use, are significant, raising many complicated questions: Does the generative AI training or fine-tuning process infringe copyrights in other works?
IP Watchdog
SEPTEMBER 11, 2023
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) today issued two precedential opinions vacating and remanding decisions of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB). In the first, the court said the PTAB abused its discretion in finding that Netflix, Inc. failed to articulate a field of endeavor to establish analogous art, vacating the Board’s decision in part.
Plagiarism Today
SEPTEMBER 14, 2023
Appeals Court rules in favor of sharing private standards that become legal code, Gagosian gallery wins key decision and more. The post 3 Count: Public Access appeared first on Plagiarism Today.
TorrentFreak
SEPTEMBER 13, 2023
Over the past several years, a wave of copyright infringement lawsuits has targeted alleged cheaters and cheat makers. Game companies have emerged as relatively swift victors in most of these cases, but that’s not a given. The legal dispute between American video game developer Bungie and AimJunkies.com has turned into a drawn-out battle. Two years ago, Bungie filed a complaint at a federal court in Seattle, accusing AimJunkies of copyright and trademark infringement, among other things.
The IP Law Blog
SEPTEMBER 14, 2023
Last year, Jason M. Allen won first place at the Colorado State Fair (the “Competition”) for the two-dimensional artwork entitled Théâtre D’opéra Spatial (the “Work”), which he produced with the aid of Artificial Intelligence (“AI”). Despite receiving this accolade and Allen’s arguments that he contributed significant creative elements to the AI-generated Work, his attempts to copyright the work have been unsuccessful.
The IPKat
SEPTEMBER 10, 2023
The minutes of oral proceedings have been published from the referring Board of Appeal case behind G 2/21 ( T 0116/18 ). The minutes are brief but confirm the Board of Appeal's decision to acknowledge the inventive step of the claimed invention and to dismiss the appeal. The inventive step of the claimed invention was acknowledged based on the post-published data submitted by the Patentee.
Plagiarism Today
SEPTEMBER 13, 2023
The Philadelphia Inquirer has fired a sports editor over allegations of plagiarism. However, the story hints at deeper problems at the paper. The post Philadelphia Inquirer Fires Sports Editor Over Plagiarism appeared first on Plagiarism Today.
TorrentFreak
SEPTEMBER 12, 2023
There’s no denying the many victories of the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment ( ACE ) over the past few years. The anti-piracy group, which represents the major Hollywood studios and other prominent rightsholders such as Apple, BBC, and Netflix, systematically hunts down key piracy players. A few weeks ago, ACE claimed one of the most significant successes this year by shutting down 2Embed following negotiations with its Hanoi, Vietnam-based operator. 2Embed was one of the key services
JD Supra Law
SEPTEMBER 15, 2023
Last year, Jason M. Allen won first place at the Colorado State Fair (the “Competition”) for the two-dimensional artwork entitled Théâtre D’opéra Spatial (the “Work”), which he produced with the aid of Artificial Intelligence (“AI”). Despite receiving this accolade and Allen’s arguments that he contributed significant creative elements to the AI-generated Work, his attempts to copyright the work have been unsuccessful.
Velocity of Content
SEPTEMBER 15, 2023
Yet another set of authors has filed a set of class action lawsuits claiming unauthorized use of copyrighted works to train AI systems by OpenAI and Meta. In the suit brought by Michael Chabon, David Henry Hwang, Matthew Klam, Rachel Louise Snyder, and Ayelet Waldman, the claims are pretty much identical to those made in previous suits, according to Andrew Albanese , Publishers Weekly executive editor.
SpicyIP
SEPTEMBER 9, 2023
Image from here. Théâtre D’opéra Spatial. On September 5, 2023, as explained here , the US Copyright Office (USCO) issued an interesting decision in a copyright registration matter that involved AI-generated work. Previously, in the Thaler case , the US Copyright Office had refused to register an AI-generated work since the application named the AI-system as the author.
TorrentFreak
SEPTEMBER 14, 2023
Last fall, the U.S. Government temporarily took down Z-Library, one of the largest book piracy operations in the world. The feds seized the site’s main domain names and arrested two alleged Russian operators of the site, who now find themselves at the center of a criminal investigation. This enforcement action came as a shock to millions of Z-Library users but the shadow library eventually recovered and remains online today.
JD Supra Law
SEPTEMBER 13, 2023
On September 5, 2023, the U.S. Copyright Office Review Board affirmed the Copyright Office’s refusal to register a digital artwork created with the Midjourney text-to-image GenAI tool. The Review Board held that text prompts alone did not constitute sufficient human authorship, despite the claim that the work was the result of 624 iterative prompts.
Kluwer Copyright Blog
SEPTEMBER 11, 2023
Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay The intersection of Artificial intelligence and Intellectual Property is complex. It involves several IP rights, some of which overlap in some cases: copyright, trademarks, patents, trade secrets/confidential information, and the right of publicity (and similar rights with different names). The situation has increased in complexity now that not only the input but also the output of Large Language Models (or LLMs) has allowed AI machines to produce potentially p
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