Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

It is a law that was designed to let humans govern how other humans use content. Un)Fair Use and Other Questions. This hurts uses that, according to most people, would likely be considered a fair use and non-infringing. Even if that use is a probable fair use.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

In mid-2022, the UK Intellectual Property Office (IPO) announced that Government would consider broadening the scope for unlicensed TDM activities and introduce a new E&L that would allow TDM for any purpose (including commercial TDM), subject to a lawful access requirement to the relevant copyright works and other protected subject-matter.

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Dear Rich IP Blog

AUGUST 7, 2021

Dear Rich: Does the reproduction of copyrighted material in a grant proposal constitute fair use? Grant proposals are rarely published and are written on behalf of non-commercial entities (such as charities, schools, and local governments). The Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Academic and Research Libraries ).

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works: This international treaty ensures protection of artistic works, meaning AI developers using global music catalogs must adhere to international copyright standards. However, the extent to which AI training qualifies as fair use remains contentious.

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SpicyIP

MARCH 29, 2025

In doing so, the essay highlights the paradoxical stance of companies on training other ML systems using the output generated by their own ML systems and discusses the copyrightability of ML system-generated output, if any.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 31, 2025

They argued that foreign governments should be mindful of potential copyright infringements. The Chinese government is called out, for example, for considering the introduction of a text and data mining (TDM) exception for AI. The problem, however, is that copyright holders never gave permission to use it.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 25, 2021

De La Santos mentions these allegations in his response to the lawsuit, which also makes arguments of fair use and that he is an “innocent infringer,” an argument that could potentially lessen any damages against him. 3: Music Publishers Propose Higher Streaming Payments.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 25, 2024

Legal scholars, professors, and former government officials, also chimed in. Internet Archive’s theory of fair use represents a threat just as grave.” ” According to the amici, there is nothing fair about IA’s digital library; instead, they see it as “unambiguous copyright infringement.”

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Copyright Lately

OCTOBER 20, 2024

He dismissed American’s claims for breach of user agreement, conditions of carriage (the rules governing air travel), and tortious interference with contract, ruling they were barred by the statute of limitations. This left the copyright claim over the unauthorized use of American’s flight symbol logo.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 20, 2024

While there are various factors affecting the issue of knowledge governance, understanding when IP became an academic discipline in India can be a useful point of inquiry. See also here ). For this, I did some research and conversed with some senior and young Indian academics. Ganesan and Jayashree Watal.

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SpicyIP

APRIL 15, 2024

Discussing the implications of unauthorized use of materials for training Generative AI models, we are pleased to bring to you this guest post by Goutham Rajeev and Vedant Bharadwaj Singh. Training GenAI: Infringement or Fair Use? The authors are third year students at the Hidayatullah National Law University, Raipur.

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Copyright Alliance

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Recently, the Government of the United Kingdom closed the comment period for its Copyright and AI Consultation, during which it proposed an unwarranted AI copyright exception (yet again). The proposal […] The post Fair Use:A Uniquely American Concept That Should Not be Exported appeared first on Copyright Alliance.

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JD Supra Law

JANUARY 11, 2024

Welcome to this week’s issue of AI: The Washington Report, a joint undertaking of Mintz and its government affairs affiliate, ML Strategies.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MARCH 26, 2025

The commercial teaching kit use the artists works in their entirety and encouraged the students to create their own art based on them. Case date:18 September 2024 Case number:No. Toriqul Islam 135

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Opponents of filtering technology warn that fair use and First Amendment rights are at stake. As expected, many rightsholders are in favor of far-reaching, government-backed anti-piracy measures. Many copyright holders expressed their frustration with the current status quo and would like the Government to step in.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 30, 2023

Several rightsholders are worried that their work is being used to train AI without any form of compensation, for example. Governments around the world are taking different approaches, with U.S. government as markets for piracy and counterfeits were present in the data set,” the article added.

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IP Watchdog

MARCH 31, 2023

Solicitor General asks the Supreme Court to overturn an infringement ruling against Teva’s skinny label for carvedilol; the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board reverses a trademark examiner’s refusal to register several column titles for The New York Times; the UK High Court invalidates robotics warehousing patents owned by AutoStore and clears grocery (..)

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IP and Legal Filings

MARCH 5, 2025

This brings us to the discussion of their personality rights, which confer upon an individual the exclusive right to govern how their persona is depicted in the public domain, particularly for commercial purposes. 2] Rajat Sharma v M/s Independent News Service Pvt Ltd, Delhi High Court, [2024][link] 16 January 2025. [3] 10] Ibid. [11]

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Plagiarism Today

APRIL 4, 2022

The reason for this is simple: Plagiarism is governed by social norms. As gray area as the law can be, especially in areas like fair use and determining what is “substantially similar”, the law is codified, written down and has tomes of case law behind it. This has two key benefits.

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Intepat

DECEMBER 18, 2024

The licensee can use the work only within the scope specified in the agreement. Voluntary licensing , governed under Sections 30 and 31, allows the copyright owner to grant exclusive or non-exclusive rights to use the work. 1994), 2 Live Crews parody of Oh, Pretty Woman was deemed fair use due to its transformative nature.

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SpicyIP

MAY 17, 2022

In fact, recently Pinaki Mishra , a Member of Parliament from Puri constituency posed a somewhat similar question before the government on the sorry state of academic appointments to international organizations from India (see here ( pdf ) for the specific question posed by Mr. Mishra.) Keeping foregoing in mind, the appointment of Prof.

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IP Watchdog

MAY 25, 2023

In response to last week’s hearing of the House of Representatives’ Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property and the Internet about the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on copyright law, former Copyright Office General Counsel, Jon Baumgarten, submitted a letter this week to the Subcommittee expressing his concerns with the testimony of (..)

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Is training of GenAI models fair use? The Court concluded that the plaintiff was the prior user and stated that honest and concurrent use is not a defence available in an infringement suit, deciding the case in favour of the plaintiffs. Will Section 52(1)((iii) come in for OpenAI’s rescue?

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IP Law 360

OCTOBER 7, 2022

A trio of attorneys who have experience both in BigLaw and the federal government will be arguing before the U.S. Supreme Court in a copyright dispute over whether Andy Warhol's artwork made fair use of a photo of music legend Prince.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 20, 2023

Government. There are also grave concerns that the proposed “fair use” exception, which is modeled after legislation in the U.S., One of the key points of contention is the fair use proposal, which South Africa modeled after the U.S. They argue that protesting a fair use policy inspired by U.S.

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Patently-O

JANUARY 4, 2024

I believe that Winston & Strawn will eventually prevail based upon a fair use defense, but it is still an embarrassing situation for the firm and attorneys involved. The case thus raises questions about the extent to which legal pleadings and motions, as petitions to the government for redress, are protected speech.

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IP Watchdog

MARCH 5, 2023

Oppenheimer admitted that he copied and displayed the photograph without permission, but said his adult daughter actually found the photo and placed it on his site, and also argued fair use and unclean hands in defending his use of the work.

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Likelihood of Confusion

JULY 12, 2022

I kvetch a lot about the mania for dubious “IP enforcement” by government agencies such as New York’s Metropolitan Transit Authority, which really should both know better and which have. The post Sealed with a fist appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MARCH 10, 2025

Image via Pixabay We have so far seen a considerable (and increasing) discussion on AI and copyright infringement, especially in terms of how current exceptions such as TDM and fair use apply and whether new exceptions or remuneration models are needed. Australia). Toriqul Islam 135

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SpicyIP

JULY 29, 2021

The Report’s recommendations boil down to: Permitting photocopying (only) in Government-owned educational institutions and storing it in libraries for easy access to students. Firstly , education , which is not only a copyright exception but a fundamental right under Article 21A, is imparted outside of government-owned institutions as well.

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Copyright Lately

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Despite a number of solid affirmative defenses—including implied license, de minimis use and waiver—the jury was only asked to determine whether defendants had proven that their conduct qualified as a fair use under the Copyright Act. This left only the fair use defense remaining for the jury.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 24, 2022

When YouTube first got off the ground in 2005, most of its users would’ve been oblivious to how closely copyright law would govern their online activities moving forward. Seventeen years later, with billions of internet users now both consumers and creators of content, people are becoming more educated.

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Velocity of Content

MARCH 16, 2023

I speculated that this was an attempt to avoid a messy fair use dispute. As I also mentioned, Microsoft’s lawyers seem to think that fair use excuses copying for AI purposes everywhere, so I would expect Microsoft to try that defense here, given its lack of other arguments. is being used as code.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 18, 2023

It’s high on the agendas of governments around the world, which are poised to accommodate generative AI within copyright legislation. But what if someone uses millions of publicly accessible poems to create a new book? Or is it a case of fair use? lawmakers at the House Judiciary IP Subcommittee.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

APRIL 3, 2023

Professor Farley and I propose a trademark fair use defense that would apply to any informational or expressive use of language or designs claimed by another as a mark in connection with any goods or services. Grimaldi , and later adopted and expanded by the Ninth Circuit.

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SpicyIP

MAY 1, 2023

Some have argued in favour of fair use, at least in the US context. It has been contended that use of databases should generally be allowed for training, whether the contents of such database are copyrighted or not. It could be argued that such use is protected under Section 52(1)(b) of the Act (i.e.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

In 2022 the UK Government responded to a consultation over whether to alter the UK provisions for computer-generated works (CGWs) and determined to leave them alone, concluding “There is no evidence at present that protection for CGWs is harmful, and the use of AI is still in its early stages.

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