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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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Accessibility Excitement in Geneva

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

So, this is an in-depth report on the two days I just spent at the end of last week in Geneva. The ABC would wrap together efforts such as TIGAR as a sharing portal, capacity building efforts for countries trying to create accessible book services and looking at issues like licensing. I had a sinking feeling in my stomach.

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The music industry has taken another step toward a legal fight with Twitch

The Verge

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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This startup wants to train art-generating AI strictly on licensed images

TechCrunch

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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Tencent backs digital rights startup Pex in $57M round

TechCrunch

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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The Great YouTube Copyright Debate

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In general, it may be considered fair use if you are reproducing a work for the purposes of criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, or research. Copyright Office. The nature of the copyrighted work. The amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole.

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Daily Crunch: Stripe responds to report that it seeks to raise $2B with a terse ‘no comment’

TechCrunch

The search engine giant created an artificial intelligence system that can generate music from text descriptions, but he reports that “fearing the risks, has no immediate plans to release it.” of copying one of its products and infringing on its intellectual property, Paul reports. trillion — with a T — last year , Tim reported.

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