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Police Photo: Public Domain or Fair Use?

Dear Rich IP Blog

May I use it? Is it public domain or fair use? Public domain? Other states like Virginia, New York, and Massachusetts (called "open copyright" states) have a policy that makes state documents presumptively public domain. BTW, photos by federal law enforcement are public domain.

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‘Meta Torrented over 81 TB of Data Through Anna’s Archive, Despite Few Seeders’

TorrentFreak

Many of the details were previously sealed, but unsealed copies added to the docket yesterday reveal new information. These comments and references were already known to the plaintiffs, but now enter the public domain. Nonetheless, the rightsholders still managed to obtain torrent-related evidence during discovery.

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45 Years Ago Today, a New US Copyright Act Became the Law of the Land

Velocity of Content

wrote into the statute) the well-known four fair use factors which provide guidance for assessing whether, in cases of alleged infringement, an unauthorized use ought to be considered a fair use. One section of the new law, Section 107, codified (i.e.,

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Deepfakes and Personality Rights: The Need for codifying Personality Rights.

IP and Legal Filings

In contrast to conventional disinformation, deepfake information is imbued with heightened realism, persuasiveness, plausibility and dissemination intent. [1] Tackling Deep Fakes: Fair Use or Infringement of Personality Rights (Mondaq, 7 November 2023) <[link] accessed 17 January 2025. 10] Ibid. [11] 11] Ibid. [12]

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ACE Shuts US-Based Pirate IPTV Services, Poor Security Costs $2m

TorrentFreak

The realm of content protection may yet have an AI savior waiting in the wings, but until a model can accurately determine fair use and conduct complex, error-free investigations, humans retain the upper hand. domains and prefer options such as.to, where the opposite is true. In this case, public WHOIS records for anytimetv.us

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Clarifying Copyright Fair Use in Commercialized and Licensed Visual Arts: Insights from Warhol v. Goldsmith

LexBlog IP

Clarifying Copyright Fair Use in Commercialized and Licensed Visual Arts: Insights from Warhol v. Goldsmith by Jaime Chandra Clarifying Fair Use in Commercialized & Licensed Visual Arts: Insights from the Warhol v. We’re talking about Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts, Inc. Let’s dive in!

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Anthropomorphizing AI: Why Human-Like Is Not Human

Velocity of Content

As noted in the paper, Generative AI’s Illusory Case for Fair Use , The use of anthropomorphic language to describe the development and functioning of AI models is distorting because it suggests that once trained, the model operates independently of the content of the works on which it has trained.”