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A TikToker sues Roblox for using her viral Charli XCX dance without permission

Fast Company Tech

In a lawsuit filed last week in Los Angeles, Kelley Heyerthe creator of the dance set to Charli XCXs hit songalleges that Roblox used her choreography in the update before finalizing negotiations to officially license the dance, as first reported by Polygon.

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Major publishers sue AI startup Cohere over copyright infringement

Engadget

Major publishers, including Politico and Vox , and their parent companies are suing the AI startup Cohere for copyright and trademark infringement, according to the Wall Street Journal. The suit also wants to reduce the access that Cohere has to copyrighted works.

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Enabling a Participatory Culture using Creative Commons Licenses

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Subsequently, I invited Gautam John who works with Pratham Books to write a guest post about their social publishing strategy where he briefly touched upon their use of Creative Commons licenses. Enabling a Participatory Culture using Creative Commons Licenses by Gautam John. Creative Commons to the rescue.

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The Challenges of Protecting Intellectual Property on Social Networks

NTEN

Specifically, the surrendering of licenses to use nonprofits' content as each network sees fit. you grant us a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, worldwide license to use any IP content that you post on or in connection with Facebook ("IP License").

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Replit, the web-based IDE developing a GitHub Copilot competitor, raises $100M

TechCrunch

Microsoft, GitHub and OpenAI are being sued in a class action lawsuit that accuses them of violating copyright law by allowing Copilot to regurgitate sections of licensed code without providing credit. It’s unclear whether Ghostwriter, too, was trained on licensed or copyrighted code.

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Code-generating platform Magic challenges GitHub’s Copilot with $23M in VC backing

TechCrunch

Like most AI-powered code-generating systems, Magic was trained on publicly available code, some of which is copyrighted. Microsoft, GitHub and OpenAI are being sued in a class action lawsuit that accuses them of violating copyright law by allowing Copilot to regurgitate sections of licensed code without providing credit.

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PUBG’s developer is suing Apple, Google, and the developer of lucrative PUBG lookalike Free Fire

The Verge

Krafton even accuses Google of hosting YouTube videos with gameplay of the two games in question, as well as “numerous posts containing a feature-length Chinese film that is nothing more than a blatantly infringing live-action dramatization of Battlegrounds.”. Both are available for free with in-app purchases. Image: Krafton.

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