TechSpot

DECEMBER 30, 2020

On Tuesday, a US District Court in Fort Lauderdale shot down Apple's copyright claim against security software startup Corellium. The Cupertino tech giant took on the smaller company last year, filing a lawsuit alleging that it violated copyright law in creating an iOS virtualization system used to find security bugs.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 12, 2014

HathiTrust, a unanimous three-judge panel concluded that digitizing books in order to enhance research and provide access to individuals with print disabilities is lawful on the grounds of fair use —that is, a limitation and exception to the exclusive rights granted by copyright law to the author of a creative work ( Section 107 of the U.S.

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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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TechSpot

DECEMBER 8, 2023

One of the groups at the forefront of this fight is the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), which has filed an amicus brief in the US Supreme Court providing an overview of the copyright trolling problem. The filing is part of the Warner Chappell Music v. Nealy case, which does not. Read Entire Article

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TechSpot

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The two new cases – Raw Story and AlterNet have the same owner, which filed a single suit – mirror the New York Times' arguments against OpenAI: that the company used copyrighted material to train ChatGPT. Read Entire Article

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The Verge

JUNE 8, 2020

Over the last few days, a furor has been brewing on Twitch: out of the blue, streamers started seeing copyright takedown notices appear in their inboxes. Twitch doesn’t have the tools yet to let creators bulk delete clips, let alone sift through hundreds at a time that may or may not contain copyright infringing content.

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TechSpot

JUNE 8, 2021

According to a lawsuit filed last week with a Connecticut federal court, Capcom allegedly used numerous copyrighted images in several Resident Evil and Devil May Cry games. Plaintiff Judy Juracek claims that the game publisher took the pictures from her 1996 artistic reference book called "Surfaces: Visual Research for Artists,

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The Verge

AUGUST 7, 2021

Several record labels are suing an ISP for copyright infringement | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. A group of major record labels has filed a new lawsuit against Charter Communications alleging that the company has failed to address its subscribers’ copyright infringement of musical works.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 18, 2025

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. We remain willing and open to settle and hope to come to a peaceful agreement.

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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

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Twitch published a blog post today with the relatively anodyne title “Music-Related Copyright Claims and Twitch.” Twitch was unprepared for a sudden onslaught of copyright takedown notices from the music industry that started back in May. What was in it, however, was anything but. The bottom line?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

There was also an associated effort called the Trusted Intermediary Global Accessible Resources (TIGAR) project, to ease the exchange of accessible book files between libraries for the blind and print disabled. But, the Treaty does lean much more in the direction of a copyright exception without a commercial exemption.

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The Verge

APRIL 22, 2021

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has filed a lawsuit against the remote testing company Proctorio on behalf of Miami University student Erik Johnson. After Johnson refused, Proctorio filed a copyright takedown notice, and three of the tweets were removed. Photo by Marcus Brandt/picture alliance via Getty Images.

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TechSpot

MARCH 12, 2025

In January 2024, a group of writers filed a lawsuit in California against Meta for using their works to train various versions of the Llama large language model. Meta openly admitted to using the Book3 dataset, a well-known 37GB compilation of 195,000 copyrighted books used by developers to train LLMs. Read Entire Article

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

The lawsuits, covered earlier today by The Hollywood Reporter , were filed in New York and California against the heirs of Steve Ditko , Don Rico , Don Heck , and Gene Colan , as well as Stan Lee’s brother and Marvel collaborator Lawrence Lieber.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

To wit, one common theme that came from our recent profiles of Expensify and NS1 is the centrality of file sharing (or, illegal file sharing if you are on that side of the fence) and internet infrastructure in the origin stories of the two companies. That’s peculiar, because the duo honestly couldn’t be more different.

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TechSpot

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

In its complaint, filed in Delaware federal court, Boston Dynamics claims Ghost Robotics' Vision 60 and Spirit 40, which dog-like robots, infringe on the Hyundai-owned company's patents.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 27, 2023

The New York Times is suing OpenAI and its close collaborator (and investor), Microsoft, for allegedly violating copyright law by training generative AI models on Times’ content.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 24, 2010

and similar copyright exceptions as a starting point. And, if a copyright holder doubts that your organization meets the requirement in making an accessible copy, they are welcome to file a legal complaint of copyright infringement and make the case. that has ever been filed on this point. In the U.S. And, the U.S.

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TechSpot

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

The case, filed in 2020, accused Ross Intelligence of reproducing materials from Thomson Reuters' Westlaw legal research database to build a competing AI-powered legal platform. Judge Bibas rejected Ross Intelligence's fair use defense, a key argument used by AI companies in copyright disputes. Read Entire Article

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

From there, the company could choose to let the images stay up, issue a takedown, which removes the infringing post entirely, or use a territorial block, meaning the post stays live but isn’t viewable in territories where the company’s copyright applies. “We The system defaults ownership to whoever filed first.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

We take their files and convert them to the DAISY format which is a digital format designed specifically to create accessible materials for people with print disabilities. The big advantage of DAISY over typical scanned files is that DAISY includes much more extensive navigation (chapters, sections, page numbers, etc.).

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Robert Weiner

JANUARY 2, 2012

Create rich, polished PDF files from any application that prints. Encrypt and share PDF files more securely. - Copyright 2012 Adobe Systems Incorporated. Since the Holidays are in full swing and the New Year is approaching, we've decided to unveil our Acrobat Reader/Writer 2012. Ensure visual fidelity. All rights reserved.

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Ars Technica

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Cond Nast and several other media companies sued the AI startup Cohere today, alleging that it engaged in "systematic copyright and trademark infringement" by using news articles to train its large language model.

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TechSpot

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Six months later, Nintendo filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Bowser, asking for $2,500 for each SX Pro sold and $150,000 for every copyright violation. In October 2020, federal authorities arrested Team Xecuter ring leaders Gary Bowser and Max Louarn on 11 felony counts of piracy.

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TechSpot

JUNE 2, 2021

It was back in 2019 when Nintendo filed a lawsuit against RomUniverse. The Japanese gaming giant was seeking millions of dollars for copyright and trademark infringement from a site that was reportedly offering memberships for $30 per year, which allowed users to download an unlimited number of ROMs with higher.

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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

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Monday night, Congress approved an over $2 trillion government spending and coronavirus relief package that included a handful of controversial copyright and trademark measures. However, this bill is narrowly tailored and avoids criminalizing users, who may do nothing more than click on a link, or upload a file. Copyright is messy.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 29, 2011

The legal framework for Bookshare is the Section 121 copyright exception in federal copyright law: all Bookshare users must have a disability that qualifies under that section. Students do not have to be blind to qualify under the copyright exception. What is the school signup process for Bookshare? More than half of U.S.

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TechSpot

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

In its suit filed in US federal court, Nintendo alleges that Yuzu violates the anti-circumvention and anti-trafficking provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). The company adds that the emulator turns general computing devices into tools for massive IP infringement, not just of Nintendo's work but also that of.

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TechSpot

JULY 7, 2022

The game publisher recently filed a copyright claim with Patreon demanding that Ross remove content related to. A modder named Luke Ross (pseudonym), who has been making a decent living by creating mods that allow regular games to run through VR, has received a cease and desist from Take-Two Interactive.

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TechSpot

JANUARY 13, 2024

A group of authors filed a lawsuit against Meta, alleging the unlawful use of copyrighted material in developing its Llama 1 and Llama 2 large language models. In response, Facebook addressed writer and comedian Sarah Silverman, author Richard Kadrey, and other rights holders spearheading the legal action, acknowledging that its.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about what I want to do to get my novels out in the world, and have been greatly influenced by Cory Doctorow in terms of copyright (or, more accurately, copyleft ). You can either upload a.doc or.docx file, or a mobipocket format file. that are standard for eBooks.

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TechSpot

APRIL 19, 2021

As reported by Polygon, a court filing shows that Nintendo of America has launched a lawsuit against Gary Bowser, the alleged leader of hacking group Xecuter, over two trafficking counts and one copyright violation.

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The Verge

JUNE 1, 2020

Four major book publishers have filed suit against the Internet Archive for copyright violations relating to the Open Library project , setting the stage for a major legal fight over one of the internet’s longest-running ebook archives. It’s a long-standing complaint from publishers and authors’ groups.

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The Verge

JANUARY 21, 2021

It’s a process that has angered Apple enough to file lawsuits against Corellium. Apple lost an early challenge against Corellium late last year, after initially filing a lawsuit against the company on copyright grounds back in August 2019. A ruling on the separate DMCA allegations has been deferred.

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TechSpot

AUGUST 15, 2021

Matthew Storman, the owner and former operator of RomUniverse, was sued by Nintendo of America in 2019 for more than $150,000 per copyright infringement and $2 million per trademark infringement. million based on filed trademark infringement claims. In May 2021, a judge ruled in Nintendo’s favor, awarding the company $2.1

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