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Question about ownership of a language model trained on copyrighted data
If a program verbatim outputs a protected text, that fact can be entered as evidence of infringement. However, it does not rise to the level of proof of infringement. Inspection of the code would ...
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Is it legal to share digital copies of copyrighted material by allowing access to my cloud drive?
In your question, (3) asserts that you "legally purchase a paper", which might lead to a first sale doctrine that you have the right to sell, display or otherwise dispose of that particular ...
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Is it legal to share digital copies of copyrighted material by allowing access to my cloud drive?
The principle that you can do what you want with what you buy is the "first sale doctrine." In the United States, this is codified at 17 U.S.C. § 109(a):
the owner of a particular copy or ...
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Is Wikipedia in violation of GNU Free Documentation License?
Interpreted strictly, yes, this is a violation of the GFDL. That's also the reason why this license (with few exceptions) is no longer acceptable on Wikipedia/Commons for images and many older images ...
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Is this a derivative/copyright violation?
Clearly not derived from your photo. They got someone to mount some hardware and took a photo of it. Probably never seen your photo.
Even in the most extreme case - someone took your photo, studied it ...
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Permissions of photos that you take
If you have the copyright on a photo, that means nobody else has the right to copy it without your permission. But apart from that, nobody, including you, is allowed to copy the photo if there is some ...
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Is this a derivative/copyright violation?
There must be substantial similarity between two works in order for there to be infringement. It is quite clear that such similarity is lacking in these images. All similarity that exists can be ...
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What duty does the grantee of a license have to ascertain that granter holds the copyright or appropriate license?
You have strict liability for infringement of copyright whether you knew that the work was infringing or not (although due diligence could avoid punitive damages for willful infringement, or criminal ...
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Do we need to track all changes for a second edition?
Two other answers have already said as much, but perhaps it bears a simpler restatement:
No. When you register copyright for a second edition, you must deposit a complete copy of the second edition ...
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Can one define custom penalties for copyright violations as the copyright holder?
I don't think you can actually define a custom penalty in the sense that law enforcement will go out and collect it for you of their own accord.
But you could absolutely sue for copyright infringement ...
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Do we need to track all changes for a second edition?
In case you have given party Q permission to copy edition 1 but not edition 2, you might want to sue Q for copyright infringement of the second edition. To succeed in that suit, you would have to ...
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Permissions of photos that you take
You don't mention where you're thinking of registering copyright. There might be some country where there is an exception, but in general the copyright office doesn't go into details such as this. ...
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Do we need to track all changes for a second edition?
You don't need to apply for copyright. You write it, you have the copyright. Or you write it as an employee for your company, your company owns the copyright. You can then apply to register the ...
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How would a finding of copyright breach affect third parties using data derived from the breach?
You assert the following relevant premises:
the only breach of copyright was the copying that occurred during the training process;
the ultimate output is non-infringing (you mention "a ...
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What should be done if one or more, but not all, of the contributors to a Wikipedia article require removal of attribution?
Bob has the right to grant permission to copy his joint works. Copyright requires permission to copy, not the lack of prohibition, so Eve does not have veto power over Bob's copyright. CC BY-SA 4.0 is ...
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Copyright registration needed to publish?
As gnasher729 says, you are not required to register your copyright in order to publish, but that's not the end of the story. In many jurisdictions, you are required to submit a few copies of your ...
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Copyright registration needed to publish?
You are the copyright holder if you are the author, or your company is the copyright holder if you wrote the book as an employee. That is completely unrelated to registration. You can even create a ...
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Can a public copyright license take effect upon the author's death?
In the United States, one may hold a copy right for the lifetime of the author plus 70 years after their death OR 95 years from date of publication to 120 years from date of creation, whichever is ...
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Burden of proof in intellectual property disputes involving generative media
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There are several procedural pathways for a party to ask a court to hold that particular entity 'A' has no copyright interest in a work. I can think of four:
a party 'B' seeking a declaration ...
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Can AI images be copyrighted by the person who creates them?
There is no copyright in AI generated art
Copyright requires an author and authors have to be human. See Who if anyone owns copyright of algorithmically produced works?
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You can, of course,...
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What is the copyright status of this piece of code from 1976?
Strangely enough, I recently had the very same question about the very same code. My understanding from reading Volume 1 up to this point was that, at least in these early days of DDJ, the published ...
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