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

NOVEMBER 23, 2009

Accessibility is a huge asset of open content materials, which are frequently released under the Creative Commons licenses and are freely distributable. We've been big fans of OERs and CC licensing, and it seems like the field is on the brink of really going to scale. We also can (and do) make them freely available on our website.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

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. We now use Creative Commons licenses everywhere!

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Many, if not most, generative AI tech vendors argue that fair use entitles them to train AI models on copyrighted material scraped from the internet — even if they don’t get permission from the rightsholders.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Amazon received a “blistering” letter last Thursday about copyright infringement and Twitch’s nonexistent licensing deals with major music rights holders, Variety reports. The document accuses Twitch of allowing streamers to play copyrighted music without getting the proper licensing to do so.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 12, 2025

The model was trained exclusively on video content either owned or fairly licensed by Moonvalley, avoiding the copyright gray zones that make much generative content legally fraught. What sets Marey apartand has caught the attention of risk-averse studiosis its training data.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 16, 2011

Statement of Benetech to the 22nd Session of the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights at the World Intellectual Property Organization June 15, 2011, Geneva, Switzerland • Greetings from California’s Silicon Valley! Now, more than 30,000 current copyrighted books are available globally on Bookshare to thousands of users. •

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2023

The AI in question is trained on “authorized” datasets containing content that Bria licenses from partners, including individual photographers and artists, as well as media companies and stock image repositories, which receive a portion of the startup’s revenue. Adato doesn’t see it that way.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2010

with print disabilities, with more than 70,000 copyrighted works in our library, the majority of which have been created under the US copyright exception by volunteers, mainly people with disabilities themselves, helping each other. • We now have global permissions for around 8,000 copyrighted books out of our 70,000. •

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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. Crucially, the project circumvents the typical licensing restrictions used by conventional libraries.

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NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2014

Copyright laws can be confusing and so mired in legalese that they're almost incomprehensible. Creative Commons has tried to make copyright law easier to understand and allow content creators to share what they've created, and to allow other people to use the content they've created for their own purposes.

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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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Mashable Tech

APRIL 18, 2025

This has included copyrighted works, a contentious issue with artists. Authors, artists, and musicians are arguing in court that this training violates copyright law when it's done without credit, compensation, or consent. To compete against rivals, AI companies have a seemingly insatiable appetite for data.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Founder and CEO Rasty Turek told me that while the product has evolved from what he described as “a Google-like search engine for rightsholders to find copyright infringement” into a broader platform, the vision of creating a better system of managing copyright and payments online has remained the same. Pex CEO Rasty Turek.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2007

Interesting article over at the icommons.org site called CC Licensing Practice Reviewed Alek Tarkowski, ccPoland It mentions an experiment in a dutch town where they removed the traffic signs or the rules. It goes to point to some alternative viewpoints on cc licensing: A similar argument is made by Niva Elkin-Koren in ???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

Note, however, that if you reprint a work and if the copyright is called into question, the burden will fall on you to prove that you "believed and had reasonable grounds for believing that [your] use of the copyrighted work was a fair use," according to the U.S. Copyright Office. The nature of the copyrighted work.

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The Verge

JANUARY 1, 2022

The works are now “free for all to copy, share, and build upon,” according to Duke’s Center for the Study of the Public Domain , which tracks which copyrighted materials will become public each year. A recent law, the 2018 Music Modernization Act, standardized how early sound recordings are handled under federal copyright law.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2013

It is important to respect copyright laws. Some images are in the public domain and some of licensed through creative commons which can be used as long as you give proper attribution. Wylio – This is a searchable archive of public domain or creative commons licensed photos that bloggers can use.

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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. That deal was similarly open-ended, but it included an explicit change to how Twitch handles copyright violations, something Roblox and the NMPA’s announcement doesn’t mention. Music is a major element of Roblox.

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TechSpot

MARCH 17, 2025

Flash's ability to remove watermarks from licensed work, a practice that is deemed illegal by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Social media is abuzz with Gemini 2.0 Such images litter stock photography services although in many cases, an identifying logo, text, or pattern is used to discourage unauthorized use.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Section 121 of the Copyright Act, also known as the Chafee Amendment (17 U.S.C. Tags: copyright blind Bookshare Chafee. Section 121) , defines a special class of organizations known as authorized entities.

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NTEN

MARCH 24, 2011

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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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. Illustration by William Joel / The Verge. Melody was banned from Twitch. million followers.

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The Verge

JUNE 5, 2020

This includes ensuring they have a license to share this content, if a license is required by law.”. Ars Technica reported yesterday that Instagram’s policies “require third parties to have the necessary rights from applicable rights holders,” according to a company spokesperson.

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The Verge

JULY 17, 2020

It’s not clear whether Epic and Harmon struck some type of licensing deal, but it’s a possibility considering the developer’s rocky legal history with dance emotes. The Twitter account for Fortnite openly cites Harmon, writing , “Go, go, go, go, let’s go and bust out some [fire] moves by @jalaiah.”.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

We’re operating at the forefront of copyright limitations and exceptions, both in the United States and globally. We’re deep believers in the benefits of openness, which means we publish open source software and create open content under Creative Commons licenses. We serve human rights activists in more than 100 countries.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

That's why Creative Commons offers a handy standardized list of licenses for creative works. These licenses allow you to give permission for others to share your work, and also to define how your work can be shared. In fact, that's exactly the kind of license TechSoup uses for most of our content! Your Questions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2006

The original photo was published as "all rights reserved" because that's the flickr default and in 2005, I was pretty clueless about Creative Commons and copyright issues. of the power of the "by" license and had just turned my default to it. I've now become convinced. Isn't this ironic!!

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2023

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. That includes insecure code.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2022

based co-founders of another music-licensing company, Music Vine. First launched in January 2021, Uppbeat helps to eliminate the headaches that come with copyright claims on music used within creator content. Now with over 500,000 users on board, the startup is announcing the close of its £4.6 million GBP ($6.15

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InfoWorld

JANUARY 18, 2024

So, we certify AI companies that don’t use any copyrighted work without a license,” the company, dubbed Fairly Trained, said on its homepage. We believe consumers deserve to know which companies think creator consent is important and which don’t. To read this article in full, please click here

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The Verge

MARCH 11, 2022

Genius sued Google in 2019, arguing that Google was scraping lyrics from its website in violation of Genius’ copyright. Canadian lyrics licensing site LyricFind, also a defendant in the Genius lawsuit, licenses its lyric transcriptions to Google.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Sciglimpaglia said TikTok would license Standing’s voice as part of the agreement, but it’s up to TikTok whether or not to use it. One assumes TikTok checked the copyright on it. A lawyer for Standing said the settlement was still being finalized and details around payment could not be disclosed.

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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. The lawsuit seeks $200 million in damages and a court order that will make Roblox crack down on piracy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 5, 2012

” He says that copyright infringement is not theft. So, given that the presentation was published under a creative commons license, I decided to remix it and remove the troublesome words. Guillaume DeCugis, founder of Scoop.It , took issue with the chart because of using the words “theft.”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2021

Flexible licensing with both Standard Commercial and Extended Licenses. 25,000 copyright protection per asset. Full details on the Yay Images’ Partner Perk: Unlimited downloads across a collection of over 12 million images, 1.5 million vectors and 250,000 HD/4K Videos. Unlimited team members with the Growth Plan.

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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.

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