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Tetris Warns It Takes Copyright Seriously After Trump Unveils Arcade Game

The Tetris Company has distanced itself from a new Trump White House online arcade game that appears to…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #Arcade #Copyright #copyrightlaw #DonaldTrump #Politics #Sega #Tetris #UnitedStates #Us #USA #videogames #WhiteHouse #whitehousearcade
https://www.newsbeep.com/719560/

Supreme Court rules ISPs aren't liable for subscribers' music piracy

https://www.engadget.com/entertainment/streaming/supreme-court-rules-isps-arent-liable-for-subscribers-music-piracy-163412791.html

#HackerNews #SupremeCourt #ISPs #MusicPiracy #CopyrightLaw #DigitalRights #StreamingJustice

I was busy switching firms. The courts were busy issuing copyright rulings. Here's everything I missed over the past 3 weeks—Rule 11 sanctions, AI lawsuits, disco flashbacks, and more—all tidied up in one place before I sweep them behind the couch.

https://copyrightlately.com/whats-up-spring-cleaning-edition/

#copyright #copyrightlaw #IPlaw #law #copyrightlately

Authors are humans.
Machines are tools.

‘In a landmark opinion over the copyrightability of works created by artificial intelligence, a (US) D.C. Circuit panel ruled on Tuesday that human authorship is required for copyright protection.’

https://www.courthousenews.com/dc-circuit-rules-ai-generated-work-ineligible-for-copyright/

#ai #copyright #ip #iplaw #copyrightlaw #ruling #authorship

"#JacquelineCharlesworth is the former general counsel of the U.S. #CopyrightOffice, so I think it’s reasonable to assume she’s familiar with US #copyrightlaw:

"The #fairuse case for #generativeAI rests in part on an inaccurate portrayal of AI systems. Contrary to the suggestion that the works on which AI systems are trained are set aside after the training process, in fact they have been algorithmically incorporated into and continue to be exploited by the model."

https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2024/an-interesting-analysis-of-generative-model-fair-use/

Internet Archive forced to remove 500,000 books after publishers’ court win - Enlarge (credit: Tim Macpherson | Image Source)

As a result of... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=2032890 #controlleddigitallending #internatarchive #uncategorized #copyrightlaw #openlibrary #fairuse #policy

A potentially important case for testing whether fonts-as-software can protect a type designer’s work. (via @DunwichType): https://slate.com/technology/2023/01/zazzle-copyright-font-blooming-elegant.html #FontIndustry #CopyrightLaw #FontLicensing #Typography