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Company ‘Hijacks’ Blender’s CC BY-Licensed Film, YouTube Strikes User

TorrentFreak

The team at Blender Studio drive Blender development by providing help and training courses to Blender users in an open environment, sharing everything in public and making all content available under free licenses. In this case, at least, a Creative Commons license appears to have carried no weight. It didn’t go well.

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Navigating Copyright in the Age of Generative AI: Responsible AI Starts with Licensing

Velocity of Content

Let’s explore why responsible AI use starts with proper licensing and implications for businesses like yours when navigating these waters. In fact, there’s a clear path forward for businesses that understand the importance of leveraging AI responsibly: licensing.

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[Guest post] The UK’s AI and copyright consultation – will data protection law render any commercial TDM exception ineffective?

The IPKat

Such rights reservations are often informally described as opt outs. By way of brief overview of data protection law, under the UK GDPR personal data means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person.

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nHentai Fights Back in Piracy Lawsuit: ‘Rightsholder Gave Permission’

TorrentFreak

The company tried to obtain a DMCA subpoena requiring Cloudflare to hand over all identifying information it has on the site’s operators. DMCA subpoenas have proven to be an effective legal tool to gather information. In this case, however, nHentai’s operators decided to intervene, asking the court to quash the subpoena.

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Analysing Dipak Ranjan Mukherjee vs. Ministry of Commerce & Industry in Context of Transparency, Privacy and the RTI Act

SpicyIP

In an interesting development, the CIC recently rejected an RTI application concerning information on IPRS’ compliance with the Copyright Act, upholding privacy for private organizations and confidentiality of inquiry reports that have not been tabled in front of the Parliament. Do Copyright Societies Fall Under the RTI Act?

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‘Copyright Troll’ Threatens Student Paper Over Creative Commons Image

Plagiarism Today

To that end, they found a generic photo of a syringe that was licensed under a Creative Commons license. Since the license only required attribution, the paper added the photo and included the photographer’s name in the caption. Unfortunately, Creative Commons Licenses are more complex than that.

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Trademark protection for cannabis brands

Erik K Pelton

If the answer to the prior question is No, is USPTO registration available for auxiliary products or services that arent affected by the CSA, such as providing information via a website, or apparel? Are trademarks, copyrights, and intellectual property covered in agreements, licenses, and contracts?

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