COPYRIGHT MEANING
'Worst leak in streaming history': Hackers disrupt Netflix¡¯s biggest shows; Here's what it means for the future of streaming
Netflix is taking legal and technical steps to address a major content leak that impacted several blockbuster series, including Squid Game and Arcane. The breach, linked to post-production studio Iyuno, led to the release of unreleased episodes online. Netflix has secured a court order compelling Discord to share details about a user allegedly involved in the leak. Both Netflix and Iyuno are actively investigating the incident to prevent future breaches and protect intellectual property.
The push to develop generative artificial intelligence without all the lawsuits
While the largest tech companies like Google and OpenAI have been locked in a dizzying AI race, visual media marketplaces, content creators, and artists are pushing for licensing so that they can be paid for work that helps train AI models and influences the technology they worry could one day displace them.
Stand up to breaking news
AI summaries, including Google's feature, pose some key challenges for society and news publishers. For starters, they have issues with accuracy. Unlike Wikipedia, they don't have human oversight or verification, and can pick up unreliable or unverified information from articles as facts. A user who doesn't know better, or can't easily spot issues, may accept it as news.
HC offers relief to Pidilite in Dr Fixit dispute for now
Bombay High Court restrains Dubond Products India from selling waterproofing product with identical trademark of Dr Fixit, as per Pidilite Industries' complaint.
Bombay HC grants temporary relief to Pidilite in Dr Fixit trademark dispute
Mumbai-based Pidilite Industries, the maker of Fevicol and M-Seal adhesive brands, has approached the court to restrain Dubond Products from allegedly infringing its registered trademarks, copyright and passing off for its waterproofing brand Dr Fixit LW.
How AI-generated music is shaking up the industry and why artists are wary
The use of AI in music exploded with the entry of tech giants and powerful AI-first firms. One of the pioneers was OpenAI¡¯s Jukebox. Released in 2020, it generated raw audio that approximated the inputs you gave like a certain musician or a particular genre.
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Self-proclaimed bitcoin inventor's claim 'a brazen lie', London court told
An Australian computer scientist's claim to be the inventor of bitcoin is "a brazen lie", lawyers representing a Jack Dorsey-backed group told a London court on Monday as a legal battle over ownership of the cryptocurrency began.
View: With Disney¡¯s copyright ending, two films are taking the mickey out of the world¡¯s most lovable mouse
A YouTube trailer of the first, called Mickey's Mouse Trap, was released scant hours after the expiry of the copyright and showed a human in a Mickey mask terrorising a group of teenagers in an amusement arcade, while the accompanying onscreen text read: 'A place for fun. A place for friendship. A place for hunting. The Mouse is out.'
OpenAI says New York Times lawsuit against it is 'without merit'
The Times sued OpenAI and Microsoft on Dec. 27, accusing the companies of infringing on its copyrights by using millions of its articles to train AI technologies like the ChatGPT chatbot. Chatbots now compete with the Times as a source of reliable information, the lawsuit said.
Mickey Mouse stars in horror film as copyright comes to an end. Can you envision this?
Mickey Mouse embraces horror as copyright ends, starring in a chilling film. Steamboat Willie's expiry unleashes creative freedom. Gaming also dives into darkness. Disney's iconic character transforms, marking a significant shift in pop culture.
AI can make art that feels human. Whose fault is that?
Artists have been deploying AI technologies for a while, after all: Ed Atkins, Martine Syms, Ian Cheng and Agnieszka Kurant have made use of neural networks and large language models for years, and orchestras were playing AI-produced Bach variations back in the 1990s.
¡®NYT vs OpenAI, Microsoft¡¯ will set a precedent for copyright protection of creative work used for AI
How AI generates new content, and how that impacts copyright, are also at the heart of a lawsuit that The New York Times has filed against ChatGPT creator OpenAI, and Microsoft, which has funded and integrated many OpenAI tools into its products. The case will significantly inform how copyright and AI is dealt with in courts worldwide.
Thomson Reuters AI copyright dispute must go to trial, judge says
Thomson Reuters' 2020 lawsuit accused legal research company Ross Intelligence of copying Westlaw's "headnotes," which summarise points of law in court opinions. It accused Ross of misusing thousands of the headnotes to train its AI-based legal search engine.
The internet is about to get much worse
We are in a time of eroding trust, as people realise that their contributions to a public space may be taken, monetized and potentially used to compete with them. I worry that our digital public spaces might become even more polluted with untrustworthy content.
What Europe's AI regulation moment will mean for the world
A desire has emerged from powerful quarters to protect citizens from the potential harms of AI - issues that are known (discrimination, privacy violations, copyright theft) and those which are not. Yet.
PM Modi leads historic Yoga session at UN; describes yoga as 'truly universal' and free from copyrights
"Yoga comes from India and it is a very old tradition. Yoga is free from copyrights, patents and royalty payments. Yoga is adaptable to your age, gender and fitness level. Yoga is portable and is truly universal," PM Modi told the gathering.
Marvel agrees to end court battles with four artists in superhero copyright fight
Other superheroes the artists said they co-created include Thor, Black Widow, Hawkeye and Blade.
How Europe is at the forefront of building artificial intelligence guardrails
Efforts to regulate AI have taken on more urgency as the rapid advances of chatbots like ChatGPT highlight benefits the emerging technology can bring - and the new perils it poses.
Does ChatGPT plagiarize beyond 'copy-paste'?
Concerns about plagiarism are raised when language models, presumably including ChatGPT, paraphrase and reuse concepts from training data without citing the original source.
What is NFT under Income-tax Act and how they are taxed
The Government of India amended the Income-tax Act, 1961, to tax and regulated the incomes and profits under from various virtual digital assets. These digital assets have been defined in exhaustive manner i.e., crypto assets, NFTs or any other token of similar type. In June 2022, the government issued a notification clarifying what is considered as NFTs and what are not.
Madras HC admits maestro Ilayaraja's plea in copyright case of his musical work
The application arose out of a civil suit from the music maestro.
Copyright suit filed against Fortis Healthcare, others in US; seeks damages in excess of $6.5 billion
FHL, however, said the complaint has not yet been served on it under the Hague Convention on the Service Abroad of Judicial and Extrajudicial Documents in Civil or Commercial Matters (Hague Service Convention) -- a multilateral treaty that provides litigants the efficient means of serving documents on parties living, operating or based in another country.
Meghan Markle wins privacy case against Mail: How did it happen
The court also disagreed that the use of material from Markle's letter was in the public interest.
MNCs, Indian tech companies spar over copyright tax
¡°Indian companies that use imported software still want to continue withholding the tax at 10% but the latter claims that following the SC ruling on copyright, no withholding should apply. Many Indian companies don¡¯t want litigation and are asking the multinationals to get a nil certificate from tax authorities if they want to avail the benefit of SC ruling,¡± said Rohit Jain, partner with law firm ELP.
Multinationals and Indian companies spar over tax on copyright following Supreme Court ruling
The question is whether Indian companies that use, sell, or market software ¡ª directly or installed in cell phones, computers etc¡ª should deduct tax on royalty or copyright money they pay to multinationals.
Delhi High Court restrains individuals from circulating pirated copy of ¡®Radhe¡¯
Providing an interim relief after hearing on an instant suit filed by Zee Entertainment Enterprises (ZEE) seeking a permanent injunction, the court said that the plaintiff (ZEE) has established a case in its favour and an irreparable loss would be caused to the plaintiff, in case an ex-parte interim injunction is not granted.
Meghan Markle wins last court copyright claim over letter to father in UK tabloid lawsuit
Meghan's letter to her estranged father was written a few months after she married Prince Harry.
Govt notifies Copyright (Amendment) Rules, 2021
The compliance requirements for registration of software works have been reduced and the applicant can file the first 10 and last 10 pages of source code, or the entire source code if less than 20 pages, with no blocked out or redacted portions.
US Supreme Court backs Google over Oracle in major copyright dispute
Oracle and Google, two California-based technology giants with combined annual revenues of more than $175 billion, have been feuding since Oracle sued for copyright infringement in 2010 in San Francisco federal court.
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