The Verge

MAY 15, 2020

Club Penguin Online, one of the largest Club Penguin fan servers, shut down Friday after The Walt Disney Company issued a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) takedown notice earlier this week. According to BBC , a London man involved with the server was arrested on suspicion of child pornography. In all honestly, it isn’t worth it”.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

There are all sorts of obstacles that are thrown up in front of artists’ Matt Buchholz’s artwork is usually a hit during the holidays. To spread their fake goods on platforms like Facebook and Amazon, counterfeiters take advantage of a legal provision that protects those companies from user-generated copyright infringement.

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Byte Technology

AUGUST 24, 2015

So it’s little surprise that the massive proliferation of online resources has spawned a major problem: protecting website content from copyright infringement in the form of plagiarism or outright theft. Thankfully, there are preventative measures you can take to protect your web content copyrights.

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The Verge

APRIL 24, 2021

Model and actress Emily Ratajkowski is selling a link representing a composite image that features a photograph of herself in front of a print by another artist that contains a photo (of herself) taken by (presumably) yet another artist. The Richard Prince painting is itself a copyright nightmare. Please help me. It’s messy!)

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

But Disney’s attorneys argue that Marvel had sole creative control over the characters and comic books in question, saying it paid writers and artists on a work-for-hire basis that precluded any rights to the resulting books. This case thus involves an invalid attempt, by means of termination notices.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

The spoof websites appear to have been taken down as of this writing, but the account’s header remains suspended “in response to a report from the copyright holder.”. Hello, with copyright harassment going on for the past 24hrs (4 strikes), I've decided to go private for the next few days – soon!

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Technology in the Arts recently released an excellent report on copyright law. PICT was in an uncomfortable middle ground: the company used union artists and performed copyrighted works, but lacked the Met's clout.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Spotify has reversed course on a decision to exit the Uruguayan market, after gaining assurances from the government that copyright law changes it’s introducing won’t result in Spotify incurring extra costs. For those not following all the goings-ons in Uruguay’s music-streaming scene, the saga unfolded something like this.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Projekt Melody briefly disappeared from Twitch due to a copyright dispute over her body Projekt Melody swears her body belongs to her — the purple hair, the cat-eared bow, and all the barely there clothing that strategically covers her up. She commissioned it from an artist for $5,000 and even kept the receipts as proof.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 20, 2020

First, Twitch is telling streamers that some of their content has been identified as violating copyright and that instead of letting streamers file counterclaims, it’s deleting the content; second, the company is telling streamers it’s giving them warnings, as opposed to outright copyright strikes.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2021

The system, which is designed to navigate the complexities of copyright claims while also fairly compensating artists, offers an alternative to existing free music platforms, including YouTube’s own Audio Library and Creative Commons’ legal music for videos, for example. Image Credits: Uppbeat.

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TechSpot

MARCH 25, 2025

The file sharing service made it trivially easy for the average Joe to share and download copyrighted music with others online, threatening the livelihood of artists and record labels. Napster's claim to fame came near the turn of the century. Legal issues proved to be Napster's undoing, with the service. Read Entire Article

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2007

Icommons Artist-in-Residency program is seeking artists who create work both in the physical and digital world and who engage with copyright in some way - either by using Creative Commons licenced content as their inspiration, or by licencing their work under CC; or artists who simply challenge the boundaries of copyright law.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 30, 2021

But Yuga Labs owns the copyright on its ape images, and PAYC and PHAYC have were booted from OpenSea apparently for violating its rules against copyright infringement. But there’s very little legal precedent surrounding NFTs at all, let alone their copyright implications specifically.

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The Verge

APRIL 8, 2021

The last thing I want is to guilt trip someone into buying the NFT and copyright to pay for my medical expenses but I would like the auction winner to know that their money would be going to a good cause.”. DeHaas says he plans to transfer copyright and ownership rights for the NFT to the auction winner.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

The NMPA sued Roblox in June for letting users upload copyrighted songs into its shared library of game-building assets. The platform has hosted concerts by artists like Lil Nas X, and last week, it launched “listening parties” where artists premiere an album by streaming it across a variety of individual Roblox worlds.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

The issue that Soundtrack is solving is pretty simple: if music is copyrighted, you can’t use it while you’re streaming unless you have the rights to those songs. If you do happen to use copyrighted music during a broadcast, there’s not a whole lot Twitch can necessarily do because it’s being played live.

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The Verge

APRIL 29, 2021

And as is the case with many NFT sales, the Roths also retain the copyright to the image and will make 10 percent off any future sales of the NFT. Roth tells The New York Times that she’ll use the money to pay off her student loans and to donate to charity.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 23, 2022

First, they represent the intrinsic value of copyright ownership, and second, the emotional value of owning something scarce that’s associated with your favorite artist. The copyright of a song is what’s scarce, not the audio itself, which can be streamed by any user, Blau explained.

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TechCrunch

JULY 28, 2022

Federal copyright and trademark laws were not written with NFTs in mind, which means that it’s up to the courts to adjudicate disputes pursuant to existing laws until revised federal statutes are enacted. Trademark infringement and NFTs as artistic expression. Constitution — like Andy Warhol’s use of Campbell Soup labels in his art.

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The Verge

AUGUST 31, 2020

Google is rolling out an update to Google Images designed to make it easier to license photographs or pictures that are covered by copyright. The change could help publishers, photographers, and artists get in front of their audience, while also helping users find images that they have a right to use.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

With contributions from artists including Kate Bush, Annie Lennox, Cat Stevens, and Damon Albarn, the album was released Tuesday to protest proposed British changes to artificial intelligence laws that artists fear will erode their creative control. Elton John and Paul McCartney are among those who have spoken out against the plan.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2013

It is important to respect copyright laws. Morgue File – This collection of photographs were freely contributed by many artists to be used in creative projects. Here’s a round up of resources and advice. It isn’t a good idea to just grab an image from Internet, tweak it, and call it your own.

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The Verge

JANUARY 17, 2022

The whole scheme might help illustrate why art can’t be reduced to a neat series of copyright licenses — rather than simply showing that “crypto bros aren’t sure how rights work.”. Buying Dune’s script doesn’t give you the copyright — but it earns you lots of publicity. That said, a lot of them probably aren’t.

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The Verge

JUNE 10, 2021

The National Music Publishers’ Association (NMPA) has sued Roblox for letting users upload music from Ariana Grande, Imagine Dragons, deadmau5, and other artists without paying a licensing fee. But searching for partial terms like “Sheeran” or “Ariana” will pull up tracks labeled with popular songs from both artists. Image: Roblox.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2022

First launched in January 2021, Uppbeat helps to eliminate the headaches that come with copyright claims on music used within creator content. Uppbeat artists, meanwhile, keep total ownership of their music and are paid on a rev share basis.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2023

According to Creator Feed Podcast , we will likely see many more creator apps and more and more creators adopt these tools.They also predict an increase in regulations and policies aimed at addressing ethical concerns – specifically around copyright and commercial use.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2023

But companies including OpenAI , Midjourney and Stability AI are currently embroiled in lawsuits over their generative AI technologies, which some accuse of replicating the works of artists without fairly compensating them. They’re largely low-paid, independent contractors to large companies who look to cost-cut, Keyes notes.

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The Verge

JULY 6, 2021

The deal extends an existing collaboration that included a 2020 Lil Nas X concert inside Roblox as well as a 2021 virtual dance party with Swedish artist Zara Larsson. Roblox’s popularity has earned it positive and negative attention from the music industry.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2023

The legal spats between artists and the companies training AI on their artwork show no sign of abating. In an effort to grant artists more control over how — and where — their art’s used, Jordan Meyer and Mathew Dryhurst co-founded the startup Spawning AI. By late April, that figure had eclipsed 1 billion.

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See3

JANUARY 25, 2007

It was designed by a New York artist named Cindy Workman. Here are the details : art… Artist Cindy Workman has a new show called “Les Demoiselles&# that features arresting, composite images of women fashioned from disparate sources including magazines, online images, even sewing pattern envelopes. We love our See3 logo.

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TechNode

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Details: The collapse of the deal would likely remove the pop songs that myriad TikTok videos use as background music, affecting tracks by Universal artists including Taylor Swift and Billie Eilish, as well as Chinese language singers Stefanie Sun and Eason Chan.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2023

No doubt eager to avoiding wading into the copyright controversy around generative AI, Nvidia says that it’s collaborating with another party, Getty Images, to train “responsible” generative text-to-image and text-to-video models.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 12, 2006

Update: Here's an email response I received from Amalyah who is an IP for museums expert: Munch's works are still protected by copyright, the term of which runs not. from the date of the painting but for the life of the artist + 70 years after. Munch died in 1944, so he is "in copyright" until 2014. Google must.

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The Verge

APRIL 13, 2021

You can search through playlists based on their tags (which could include artists, genre, or “mood”), but you can’t see the list of songs ahead of time. The forced discovery helped me find songs and artists I never would have listened to. a month, but that feels reasonable given the vast number of artists featured in the service.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2023

Stability AI is in the crosshairs of a legal case that alleges the company infringed on the rights of millions of artists by developing its tools using web-scraped, copyrighted images.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

A lot of NFT controversies involve copyright infringement allegations — typically, a crypto project minting tokens based on an artist’s work without permission. Sometimes, an artist and publisher also fight over who has the relevant rights to a work, like a lawsuit over Quentin Tarantino’s NFTs based on Pulp Fiction.

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