#copyrightinfringement — Public Fediverse posts

Metallica Finally Track Down and Sue the Bootlegger Who Sold Beavis His Shirt

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://thehardtimes.net/music/metal/metallica-finally-track-down-and-sue-the-bootlegger-who-sold-beavis-his-shirt/

Dua Lipa Sues Samsung for $15 Million For Using Her Copyrighted Photo on TV Boxes https://petapixel.com/2026/05/11/dua-lipa-sues-samsung-for-15-million-for-using-her-copyrighted-photo-on-tv-boxes/ #copyrightinfringement #copyrightlawsuit #samsungtv #dualipa #lawsuit #samsung #News #Law

https://winbuzzer.com/2026/02/08/nvidia-dismisses-copyright-suit-ai-training-pirated-books-xcxwbn/

Nvidia Fights Copyright Suit Over AI Training Data

#AI #NVIDIA #Semiconductors #AITraining #FairUse #AIModels #CopyrightInfringement #FairUseDoctrine #BigTech #ShadowLibraries #Copyright #Piracy #AnnasArchive

Don't miss today's #DiSCourseSeminar with Vaarun Vijairaghavan from the University of Calgary, Canada, at 12:00 (CET). You can join onsite at the DiSC, Innrain 15, 6020 Innsbruck or remotely via Big Blue Button: https://webconference.uibk.ac.at/b/car-aab-cxf-o81

Topic: Fair Play for Fair Pay: Fighting Digital Piracy through Revenue Sharing

#InformationSystems
#ResearchTalk
#DigitalPiracy
#CopyrightInfringement
#Modeling
#Econometrics

Join us on Friday, 12:00 (CET) for another #DiSCourseSeminar.
Topic: Fair Play for Fair Pay: Fighting Digital Piracy through Revenue Sharing
Speaker: Vaarun Vijairaghavan, University of Calgaray
Location: Onsite at DiSC or online on Big Blue Button.
More: https://www.uibk.ac.at/en/disc/events/discourse-vijairaghavan/

#InformationSystems #research #academia #DigitalPiracy #CopyrightInfringement #antipiracy

We're looking forward to having Vaarun Vijairaghavan, Assistant Professor of Business Technology Management at the University of Calgary, as a guest speaker at our next #DiSCourseSeminar.

Join us on February, 6th (CET) for his talk on Fair Play for Fair Pay: Fighting Digital Piracy through Revenue Sharing!
More info: https://www.uibk.ac.at/en/disc/events/discourse-vijairaghavan/

#InformationSystems #research #DigitalPiracy #CopyrightInfringement #antipiracy

Don't the major book publishers realize that each court injunction and seizure incentivizes book pirates to distribute books using more sophisticated file sharing technologies that are resistant to censorship and surveillance?
#books #piracy #copyright #bookpublishers #copyrightinfringement #shadowlibraries #bookpiracy #filesharing #bookdownloads #writers #bittorrent #annasarchive #libgen #zlibrary #tor #i2p #privacy #censorship #surveillance

Photographer Accuses Metal Band of Using Her Image on Merch Without Permission https://petapixel.com/2025/12/22/photographer-accuses-metal-band-of-using-her-image-on-merch-without-permission/ #copyrightinfringement #concertphotographer #concertphoto #News #Law

So Anna's Archive is trying to cut a deal with LLM companies for scraping.

I then saw someone complaining about how "copyright stealing LLM companies" are beating up on "poor little" sites like Anna's by stealing their content. Um, wtf?

Square that fucking circle for me. Is it only copyright infringement when the LLMs do it?

LOL

#copyright #llms #shadowlibraries #annasarchive #copyrightinfringement

Judge rejects most ChatGPT copyright claims from book authors - Enlarge (credit: Johner Images | Johner Images Royalty-Free)

A... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=2003126 #digitalmillenniumcopyrightact #directcopyrightinfringement #copyrightinfringement #vicariousinfringement #unfaircompetitionlaw #unjustenrichment #sarahsilverman #copyrightlaw #chatgpt #policy #openai #dmca #ai

Jezebel: Sex. Celebrity. Politics. With Teeth: Copyright https://jezebel.com/copyright-1851059551 #Jezebel #onlinecopyrightinfringementliabilitylimitationact #digitalmillenniumcopyrightact #copyrightlawoftheunitedstates #unitedstatescopyrightlaw #perfect10incvccbillllc #copyrightinfringement #noticeandtakedown #copyrightnotice #organizedcrime #colbertdrive #copyright

Publishers beat Internet Archive as judge rules e-book lending violates copyright - Enlarge (credit: nicolamargaret | E+)

On Friday, a US district... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1927024 #copyrightinfringement #internetarchive #bookpublishers #digitallending #copyright #fairuse #policy #ebooks