Ninth Circuit rules against DMCA claims against GitHub, Australia proposes new copyright regulations for AI and Denuvo sues alleged hacker.
www.plagiarismtoday.com/2026/09/17/3...
Sources: @courthousenews.bsky.social, @australia.theguardian.com

Ninth Circuit rules against DMCA claims against GitHub, Australia proposes new copyright regulations for AI and Denuvo sues alleged hacker.
www.plagiarismtoday.com/2026/09/17/3...
Sources: @courthousenews.bsky.social, @australia.theguardian.com
Allegation: Class plaintiffs say OpenAI employees torrented all of LibGen in 2019 and 2020
Allegation: Class plaintiffs say OpenAI employees torrented all of LibGen in 2019 and 2020
šØ BREAKING MUSIC INDUSTRY NEWS. UMG has filed a lawsuit against music distribution platform DistroKid.
www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/universal-mu...
ARTISTS, another timely reminder to take copyright seriously.
#Copyright #MusicCopyright #Music #UMG #DistroKid #MusicLicensing #AIandMusic
A #copyright was a type of intellectual property that gave its owner the exclusive legal right to copy, distribute, adapt, display, and perform a creative work, usually for a limited time. The creative work may have was in a literary, artistic, educational, or musical form.
Generative #AI is creating #copyright questions that no country can solve effectively in isolation. 3/4
Victory!
Appeals Court Rejects Expansive New #Copyright Claim
This totally got better⦠#ai #copyright #ownership #intellectualproperty #socialclass
RE: https://mastodon.social/@eff/117283333138532871
Hmm, I dunno about this one.
I haven't read the ruling but it sounds like the conclusion is that if an LLM spits out code that's similar to something in its training data but happens to omit the attribution and #copyright notice, that counts [ā¦]
Typically on Monday's I tell you to save $100 per week for your writing career.
One expenditure is for copyright registration.
If you are an active/working writer then you are sending works out for copyright registration all the time. Cha ching.
Fifth Circuit Says Websites Donāt āTransmitā Content They Direct Users to Fetch, Narrowing Directādisplay Liability
Court ruling: Ninth Circuit rejects DMCA claim over AI coding tools' output, and leaves the training-side question open
Court ruling: Ninth Circuit rejects DMCA claim over AI coding tools' output, and leaves the training-side question open
Publishers and OpenAI make final pleas before discovery ends, Saudi Arabia introduces new copyright law and Meta argues uploading is inevitable with BitTorrent.
www.plagiarismtoday.com/2026/09/16/3...
Sources: @cnet.com
Though this is Youtube specific, there are some very interesting perspectives herein on copyright infringement, IP, AI, deep fakes, etc.
#music #musicsky #copyright #intellectualproperty
www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8Hx...
In March, CCIA welcomed the Supreme Courtās unanimous Cox v. Sony ruling, which set clear limits on secondary #copyright liability. 1/2
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Will the Australian government go through with this and move to an opt out model?
Another reason to refocus on old skool communication and storage of memories perhaps?
How long have books (actual paper books) been adding this to their copyright page, I wonder?
āļø Hereās WTF happened this week:
ā”ļø Read the full round-up online: elliottbledsoe.wtf/wtf-now-52/
1ļøā£ Leaked government proposals for AI training on copyright material in Australia have resparked the copyright and AI debate.