Plagiarism Today

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

1: ‘GTA’ Reverse-Engineer Modders Defend Projects as Under “Fair Use”. First off today, Will Nelson at NME reports that video game modders are fighting back against a lawsuit filed by Rockstar Games claiming that their fan-created mods are a fair use, not a copyright infringement.

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SpicyIP

MAY 2, 2022

You can see his previous posts for us here. New(s) Questions and Fair Use: Using Copyright to Curtail Expression? In response the Defendant claimed, “ fair use” and “ de minimis” use. The same, in its submission did not intend to impinge on the market of the Plaintiff. Akshat Agrawal.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 19, 2022

First off today, Ernesto Van der Sar at Torrentfreak writes that the RIAA has submitted its recommendations to the United States Trade Representative (USTR) regarding international notorious markets for piracy. The Notorious Markets report is an annual report by the USTR that identifies international markets that enable piracy.

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Copyright Lately

MAY 22, 2023

Five things to know about the Supreme Court’s new purpose-driven fair use opinion in Andy Warhol Foundation v. Goldsmith (“ Warhol “) is that relatively rare fair use case in which both the original and follow-on works were more or less directly competing in the same market.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

JUNE 5, 2023

s (AWF), [1] in a long-awaited decision impacting fair use under Section 107(1) of the Copyright Act. Goldsmith and, as a result, did not constitute fair use. [2] The amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work. The nature of the copyrighted work.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 17, 2024

Last month, the community-driven news and discussion platform went public and, with a market cap of more than $6 billion, immediately became one of the larger tech players. A few hours ago, the company released its latest transparency report detailing the actions it took in the second half of 2023.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 8, 2024

Several possible causes of overfitting have been reported in the literature : high complexity of the AI model, leading it to mould too closely to the training data; limited training data; and too much noisy data, affecting the model’s ability to distinguish relevant information – a signal – from the irrelevant – a noise.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 13, 2022

First off today, Blake Brittain at Reuters reports that yesterday the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a case pitting photographer Lynn Goldsmith against the estate of artist Andy Warhol. In 1984, Lynn licensed one of her photographs of the musician Prince to be converted into a painting by Warhol for Vanity Fair magazine.

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Copyright Lately

DECEMBER 29, 2024

In a January 2024 report and recommendation later adopted by the court , the magistrate judge found that the repost infringed the plaintiff’s display right simply because it shows a copy of the photo on Chicken Joes social media account. Fair Use Declawed. First prize is you get sued. Whyte Monkee Productions, LLC v.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 20, 2023

Supreme Court affirmed the Second Circuit’s ruling that the reproduction of Andy Warhol’s Orange Prince on the cover of a magazine tribute was not a fair use of Lynn Goldsmith’s photo of the singer-songwriter Prince, on which the Warhol portrait was based. This has important implications for the doctrine of fair use.

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Intepat

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

For business owners, publishers, and sellers, understanding copyright can prevent legal issues and ensure fair use of content. Copyright grants the author or creator exclusive rights to use, distribute, and sell their work. Document the agreement in writing, specifying use, payment, and duration. a classroom discussion).

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

I sent the following comments to a reporter.] 4) I disagree with the court’s application of the fair use transformative standard. Otherwise, what evidence could Ross use to disprove the future possibility of a market that doesn’t exist today?) We will only find out when the court unseals the appendix.

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Dear Rich IP Blog

APRIL 9, 2024

From everything I've researched, all the images in the book should come under fair use. Polar interrogatives work well in psychology tests , congressional hearings , and wedding vows , but they're not suitable for analyzing fair use. That said, we think you are likely to prevail in a fair use dispute.

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The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

After him, Carlo Scollo Lavizzari debated certain aspects of negotiating terms involving AI aspects and whether exceptions are introduced to address market failures. Review here my report on the first day of the conference. Images by Verónica Rodríguez Arguijo, taken during the event.

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43(B)log

AUGUST 9, 2024

Is this relevant to fair use? Satire involves using the same style to clothe different ideas; therefore it shouldn’t infringe (lack of substantial similarity as in the Greatest American Hero case; German case law; perhaps the jury’s reasoning in the Kat von D case). W/o fair use, these tools are far more limited.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

[I published this post initially on the Association of Research Libraries blog in celebration of Fair Use Week 2022. Fair use is supposed to protect research bloggers in these circumstances. Defendants have also won fair use-based motions to dismiss over republishing a partial screen shot ( Yang v.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 19, 2021

The Internet Archive (IA) sees things differently, noting that its ‘Controlled Digital Lending’ process operates for purposes including preservation, access and research, therefore meeting ‘fair use’ standards. In parallel, IA believes its liability is limited due to the safe harbor provisions of the DMCA.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

,” by Patricia Aufderheide and Aram Sinnreich, reporting on a survey of communications scholars about how they would respond to a CCB claim against them. Of these respondents, 39% would not accept any financial risk for an established fair use, and another 44.4% Among these scholars confident of fair-use, only 3.3%

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The IP Law Blog

JULY 22, 2021

For example, Vice reported on a Beverly Hills police officer breaking out his phone and playing over a minute of Sublime’s “Santeria” when the officer discovered that his interaction with a well-known LA-area activist was being live-streamed by the citizen via Instagram.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Case Citation : Digital Marketing Advisors v. Heldman. * Another 512(f) Claim Fails–Ningbo Mizhihe v Doe. * Video Excerpts Qualify as Fair Use (and Another 512(f) Claim Fails)–Hughes v. New Destiny Church. * ‘Reaction’ Video Protected By Fair Use–Hosseinzadeh v. McCandless Group, LLC, 2022 WL 17403067 (C.D.

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

The Court has granted summary judgment in respect of 2,830 headnotes belonging to Thomson Reuters and admittedly used by Ross Intelligence to train its Natural Language Processing and Artificial Enabled Legal Research tool, finding Direct Copyright Infringement and rejecting fair use. But, first, Some History!

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Larson & Larson

JUNE 21, 2021

The most common limitation where the exclusive rights of a copyright holder can be limited fall under the doctrine of fair use- a defense against copyright infringement. That being said, here is a brief elucidation of what constitutes fair use. What is Fair Use? Commentary and Criticism.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 11, 2022

Nevertheless, the registration is worthless because Newman qualifies for fair use. The court notes that a motion to dismiss “generally provides an unaccommodating vehicle for adjudicating fair use” because it’s an affirmative defense and often fact-dependent. ” Nature of Use. Implications.

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IP and Legal Filings

MARCH 19, 2025

[Image Sources: Shutterstock] In India, the ‘Fair Dealing’ concept enshrined under Section 52 is similar to the idea of ‘fair use.’ ’ [4] This allows the party to use copyrighted work without the copyright owner’s permission for research, news reporting, etc. [5]

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JANUARY 20, 2022

At the end of 2021, YouTube’s first Copyright Transparency Report 2021 (“Report”) was published. It is interesting to look at this Report against the background of the 2019 EU rules for the liability of platforms like YouTube through the famous Art. In 2012, US NASA’s robotic rover touched down on Mars.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 8, 2021

Copyright Infringement/Fair Use. The Crony graphic appeared as the video’s thumbnail image and in the video’s first 10 seconds, so it was not a de minimis use. The Crony graphic also doesn’t qualify for fair use: Nature of Use. ” Market Effect. ” Amount Taken.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2021

The Doctrine of Fair Use is a concept that originates from the case of Folsom vs. Marsh. Justice Story observed in his judgement, when the courts of law decide on cases like this, they must look to the nature and objects of the selection mode, the quantity and value of material used. Percentage of Original Material Used.

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Copyright Lately

JANUARY 20, 2025

Townsquare Media : Sublicensing, Fair Use, and De Minimis Use In Richardson v. The court addressed other uses as well, including a video of Michael Jordan intervening in a fight. Richardson v. Townsquare Media, Inc.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 24, 2024

Two Targets, Two Lawsuits The RIAA announced not one, but two copyright infringement lawsuits on Monday, filed against two of the most impressive services in the generative AI music market. Udio owner Unchartered Labs was sued in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York, while Suno, Inc.

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IPilogue

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The District Court held that the French decision infringed Wofsy’s freedom of speech and that Wofsy’s books are “ reference works intended for libraries…and such institutions find it an attractive reference due to its price point and that astreinte (monetary damages for copyright infringement) do not apply because of the US’s fair use doctrine.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

The IPKat was kindly invited and here is the report. She then moved on to considering the issues arising from “upcycling” and fair use. The programme featured several high-profile speakers. Calboli addressed the right of exhaustion of trade marks in the circular economy especially in the resale sectors.

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43(B)log

APRIL 26, 2023

The parties compete in the market for skid steer attachments and other products. The nature of the work didn’t disfavor fair use, since they were not particularly “creative or artistic” but were made to sell post drivers. The ads used the entire images. The “most important” factor was market effect, and there was none.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Triller said that the operators of the H3 Podcast “unlawfully uploaded, distributed, and publicly displayed” the fight in breach of its rights, causing damages in excess of $50,000,000 after the “unauthorized broadcast” was viewed a reported 1,000,000 times. Fair Use Defenses.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 19, 2023

On May 18, 2023, the Supreme Court found that artistic changes to a pre-existing work, alone, not necessarily sufficient to make a derivative work fair use. copyright law, the Supreme Court focused on the actual use made, i.e. what the user does with the original work. copyright law. Copyright law in the U.S.

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Traverse Legal Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Trademark infringement and copyright infringement are risks which you need to assess before you buy an NFT or use a linked digital asset. This post is going to discuss the defense of “Fair Use” to a copyright infringement lawsuit or threat letter. What is a Fair Use Defense to a Copyright Infringement Claim?

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Dear Rich IP Blog

AUGUST 3, 2022

But if you can't get permission, you may have a reasonable fair use argument. Reproducing the image without the copyright owner's permission is an infringement unless you can claim fair use. If you go with the photo.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 30, 2023

The Washington Post previously reported that the “C4 data set,” which Google and Facebook used to train their AI models, included Z-Library and various other pirate sites. government as markets for piracy and counterfeits were present in the data set,” the article added.

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