Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Technology in the Arts recently released an excellent report on copyright law. The report is intended primarily for arts and performance organizations, but it has a lot of material that's useful to anyone who works with online media, including great summaries of what is and isn't covered under public domain and fair use.

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TechSpot

JANUARY 15, 2025

The case has merged lawsuits from three publishers: The New York Times, The New York Daily News, and the Center for Investigative Reporting. The publishers argue that OpenAI's practices amount to copyright infringement on a massive scale, potentially threatening the future of journalism. Read Entire Article

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TechSpot

AUGUST 21, 2023

Howell upheld the finding by the US Copyright Office that a piece of AI-generated art cannot be copyrighted, writes the Hollywood Reporter. United States District Court Judge Beryl A. The agency had refused to grant a patent to Stephen Thaler, who wanted an AI-generated image he produced with the Creativity.

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Futurism

MARCH 27, 2025

Despite the trend seemingly getting Altman's personal blessing, it appears that ChatGPT has started refusing requests to generate images in Ghibli's style, Business Insider reports. Studio Ghibli's art style is copyrighted, and I can't create images that explicitly mimic it. However, I can generate images inspired by similar themes."

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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.”. The group claiming to be behind these attacks calls themselves Team Copyright, and purports to be based in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 4, 2021

According to a report from Kotaku , Ahgren was playing other YouTube videos during his stream, when he landed on the infamously catchy Baby Shark song. His stream was shut down shortly thereafter, giving his viewers — and himself — the impression that he was banned for violating YouTube’s copyright policies.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

So, this is an in-depth report on the two days I just spent at the end of last week in Geneva. Getting some kind of licensing deal is critically important, because it will take many years for the Marrakesh Treaty to be fully implemented with its copyright exceptions. It remains an option under the Treaty, though.

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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.

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The Verge

APRIL 22, 2021

After Johnson refused, Proctorio filed a copyright takedown notice, and three of the tweets were removed. They were reinstated after TechCrunch reported on the controversy.). I’m doing this to stand up against student surveillance, as well as abuses of copyright law,” Johnson told The Verge.

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The Verge

APRIL 24, 2021

The New York Times reports that Ratajkowski will be selling the NFT at Christie’s, the storied auction house that sold Beeple’s NFT for $69 million in March. The NFT, also, is a copyright nightmare, much like many of the images that Ratajkowski described grappling with throughout her career. Is the font copyright protected, too?

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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. They’re an attempt to head off litigation that might follow from those notices.

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TechSpot

MARCH 18, 2025

Over 400 actors, musicians, filmmakers, writers, and more signed the letter sent to the White House, including Ben Stiller, Mark Ruffalo, Cate Blanchett, Paul McCartney, and Ron Howard, reports The Wrap. Read Entire Article

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TechSpot

MARCH 17, 2021

YouTube is reportedly taking additional steps to curb videos featuring copyrighted material from being uploaded to its platform.

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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. The news circulated all across the internet; in a poorly headlined Hollywood Reporter article, tweets, and YouTube videos. Copyright is messy.

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TechSpot

MARCH 31, 2022

Kotaku reports that the person suing Epic this time is Kyle Hanagami, a professional choreographer. He's worked with several massive names, including Jennifer Lopez, Justin Bieber, Britney Spears, and NSYNC. He also created dances for Netflix's animated movie Over the Moon.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s estate and the creators of Netflix movie Enola Holmes have agreed to dismiss a copyright lawsuit over Sherlock Holmes’ emotions. Copyright Lately reported on the outcome today, noting that the court didn’t rule on the merits of the case, possibly indicating that the parties settled.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 5, 2013

I’ve been actively advocating for an international copyright exception model that would greatly benefit people with disabilities, as anyone who has read my blog over the years can attest! copyright exception. I’m excited to report: they did just that. We help more than 250,000 people with print disabilities thanks to our U.S.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

with a legally qualifying print disability per the Chafee Amendment to the Copyright Act. Economically disadvantaged individuals are more likely to report having learning disabilities than the rest of the population. Benetech is working on a new program that will serve these students who are not qualified under the copyright exemption.

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TechSpot

JUNE 2, 2021

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. It was back in 2019 when Nintendo filed a lawsuit against RomUniverse.

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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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Music Industry Copyright License 116

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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The Verge

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

GitHub has reinstated an open-source tool for downloading YouTube videos, and it’s changed its policies to make similar copyright-related takedowns less likely. It alleged that the tool “was designed and is marketed” for illegally saving copyrighted music, violating Section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.

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TechSpot

JANUARY 29, 2025

TorrentFreak reports that when it came to new measures, site blocking was heavily pushed as an effective remedy that the US has been lacking. The symposium brought together prosecutors, industry representatives, and anti-piracy experts to discuss the latest piracy trends and potential solutions. Read Entire Article

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TechSpot

OCTOBER 30, 2023

The European Union Intellectual Property Office's most recent biannual report on copyright infringement in the UK and Europe makes for some interesting reading. Based on data from MUSO, a UK tracking firm, the years-long decline in piracy traffic has reversed since the start of 2021. Read Entire Article

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The Verge

DECEMBER 30, 2021

PHAYC charged people to mint its apes, and CoinDesk reports that it took in around 500 ETH (or around $1.8 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. million) in sales.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 13, 2007

Here’s a tidbit of a Infoworld report about the study: By one measure — “value added,&# which the report defines as “an industry’s gross output minus its purchased intermediate inputs&# — the fair use economy is greater than the copyright economy. economy by copyright industries amounts to $1.3

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The Verge

APRIL 8, 2021

But unlike the Fest itself, the tweeted photo of the limp cheese slice on wheat bread with some greens and a sad tomato in a styrofoam container isn’t a grift; as first reported by Axios , DeHaas is hoping to raise $80,000 which he plans to put toward his medical bills. million on March 22nd.

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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

MAY 26, 2020

The controversial film Planet of the Humans , produced by Michael Moore, was taken down from YouTube on Monday because of a copyright infringement claim. The complaint was filed by photographer Toby Smith, who was alarmed that his work was used in a film that he doesn’t support, The Guardian reports. “I org, wrote in Rolling Stone.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2023

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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The Verge

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

More copyright takedown requests might be coming to Facebook and Instagram. The company announced today that it’s going to allow all page admins around the world to submit images and videos for rights protection, expanding the reach of the feature outside of the limited group of partners who piloted the image copyright launch.

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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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TechSpot

AUGUST 8, 2023

Google provides a regularly updated transparency report regarding web content removal due to copyright violations. Law firms and other organizations can submit a DMCA notice to the company, detailing the infringing URLs. Google can then "delist" these URLs by removing them from its web search results. While the DMCA takedown.

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The Verge

JUNE 5, 2020

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. Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge. Instagram says its terms of service don’t grant websites a sublicense to embed other people’s posts.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 11, 2020

The effect is similar to what actual neurologists do to trigger seizures for diagnoses, according to Ruppert, who reported that she suffered an epileptic episode when she played the game. Despite Cyberpunk 2077’s many early issues, including reports of poor performance on older consoles , the game has been a huge financial success so far.

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Futurism

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

As Semafor reports , the New York Times recently informed employees that they now have a whole suite of AI tools at their disposal to write search headlines the version of headlines that appear on search engines like Google as well as code, social copy, quizzes, and more.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

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. Even people who should be experts in copyright matters can struggle to contend with takedown policies. And that’s just Facebook.

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