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Facebook Gaming will now allow partnered streamers to play copyrighted music

The Verge

Today, Facebook Gaming is set to allow its partnered streamers to play copyrighted, popular music in the background of their live stream s — which means they’ve seemingly solved the copyright problem that’s plagued live-streaming (and basically the entire internet) since the beginning.

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AI companies to music labels: scraping copyrighted tracks on the internet to train algorithms is "fair use"

TechSpot

Suno and Udio were hit with separate copyright infringement lawsuits from music labels Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group, and Sony Music Group on June 24. Read Entire Article

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Twitch apologizes to streamers for its mishandling of music copyright

The Verge

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? Emphasis Twitch’s.) “We

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BTS fan Twitter accounts say they’re being targeted by copyright trolls

The Verge

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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College student sues Proctorio after source code copyright claim

The Verge

After Johnson refused, Proctorio filed a copyright takedown notice, and three of the tweets were removed. Copyright holders should be held liable when they falsely accuse their critics of copyright infringement, especially when the goal is plainly to intimidate and undermine them,” said EFF Staff Attorney Cara Gagliano in a statement.

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Congressional Testimony Statement before the House Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

In my prepared statement, I explained why well-balanced intellectual property laws inspire technology innovation and social good, and described how our Bookshare initiative models the good that copyright exceptions can create. To make this possible, we must keep the balance in copyright.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Unicorn origins, red flags for investors, generative AI meets copyright law

TechCrunch

In his latest TC+ column, growth marketer Jonathan Martinez explains how to use Google Sheets to create a regression analysis spreadsheet to track and optimize weekly spending and customer acquisition costs. Generative AI and copyright law: What’s the future for intellectual property? Are you spending too much on paid acquisition?