Examples of copyright in a Sentence
Pranshu Verma, Washington Post, 23 Nov. 2023
Those examples test the application of the fair use doctrine in copyright law, which allows creators to play with existing copyrights.
—Tom Roland, Billboard, 22 Nov. 2023
Even many copyright and intellectual property scholars see it as a long shot.
—Kate Knibbs, WIRED, 22 Nov. 2023
Under copyright law, a test of substantial similarity is used to assess the degree of similarity to determine whether infringement has occurred.
—Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Nov. 2023
YouTube’s new feature, by contrast, is a direct collaboration with some of the industry’s largest copyright holders.
—Ethan Millman, Rolling Stone, 17 Nov. 2023
That suit, also filed in the Northern District of California, claims that two individuals have created at least 65 Google accounts to submit thousands of fraudulent notices of copyright infringement against more than 117,000 websites.
—TIME, 13 Nov. 2023
This trend underscores the growing emphasis on developing and safeguarding intellectual property assets such as patents, trademarks and copyrights.
—Joseph K. Hopkins, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2023
There is considerable ambiguity as to how copyright law applies to data used for training AI, and different countries are likely to reach different conclusions.
—IEEE Spectrum, 8 Nov. 2023
Wes Davis, The Verge, 4 Nov. 2023
Tech companies have grown increasingly secretive about the contents of these data sets, partially because the text and images included often contain copyrighted, inaccurate or even obscene material.
—Szu Yu Chen, Washington Post, 1 Nov. 2023
Courtesy of United States Copyright Office An award-winning piece of AI art cannot be copyrighted, the US Copyright Office has ruled.
—Kate Knibbs, WIRED, 6 Sep. 2023
The complication of the recent court ruling that artworks generated entirely by artificial intelligence cannot be copyrighted is easily overcome.
—Stephen R. Greenwald, Fortune, 4 Sep. 2023
For example, writers want to be able to use this technology as part of their creative process, without changing how credits are determined, which is complicated given AI material can’t be copyrighted.
—David Ingram, NBC News, 23 Aug. 2023
The artists’ suit revolves around the argument that the practice of feeding these systems copyrighted works constitutes intellectual property theft.
—Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Aug. 2023
Meanwhile, a judge ruled last week that AI art can’t be copyrighted.
—Bethy Squires, Vulture, 21 Aug. 2023
He was advised to copyright the term, but decided not to, so other providers could more easily adopt it.
—Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 12 July 2023
Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 15 Sep. 2023
Humans of Bombay has filed a claim against People of India, a similar photography platform, for copyright infringement in Delhi’s High Court.
—Niha Masih, Washington Post, 26 Sep. 2023
While many popular characters already exist in the public domain, there isn't much precedent for the impending wave of copyright expirations of iconic 20th-century cartoons, superheroes and literary heroes.
—Theara Coleman, The Week, 13 July 2023
In particular, the caucus will look at copyright issues, piracy, artificial intelligence and labor in these spheres.
—Aaron Couch, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 July 2023
The company insists it’s remained tight-lipped about data sources to prevent its work from being copied by rivals, but if forced to disclose such information, OpenAI and other large tech companies could become the subject of copyright lawsuits.
—Jess Weatherbed, The Verge, 20 June 2023
Even major releases, like De La Soul’s Three Feet High and Rising, can get caught in the copyright weeds.
—Angela Watercutter, WIRED, 10 Aug. 2023
Up until the 1970s, copyright terms in the United States lasted for only 56 years.
—Theara Coleman, The Week, 13 July 2023
Getty Images sued Stability AI for copyright infringement in February, alleging that the company copied 12 million images to train its A.I. model without a legal basis for using them.
—Andrea Guzman, Fortune, 27 June 2023
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copyright
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copyright
2 of 2 verb
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copyright
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Note: Copyrights are governed by the Copyright Act of 1976 contained in title 17 of the U.S. Code. The Act protects published or unpublished works that are fixed in a tangible medium of expression from which they can be perceived. The Act does not protect matters such as an idea, process, system, or discovery. Protection under the Act extends for the life of the creator of the work plus seventy years after his or her death. For works created before January 1, 1978, but not copyrighted or in the public domain, the copyright starts on January 1, 1978, and extends for the same period as for other works, but in any case will not expire before December 31, 2002. If a work is published on or before December 31, 2002, the copyright will not expire before December 31, 2047. The Act abolishes protection under common law, as well as any rights available under state statute, in favor of the rights available under the provisions of the Act, with certain exceptions.
copyright
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