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It would take another 50 years, however, before foreign authors like Dickens enjoyed similar protections under U.S. copyright law.
From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2026
A federal judge ruled last year that the material in books bought by Anthropic and destroyed was fair use under copyright law.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026
Copies of clips are being quickly removed due to copyright claims, and multiple accounts claiming to belong to the group behind the hacks have also disappeared.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
Shein has also faced legal obstacles over alleged illegal products, copyright worries and data privacy.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 21, 2026
At one point she’d decided she needed to get a safe deposit box for her mother’s Bible and hair; later she asked if she needed to copyright Henrietta’s signature so no one would steal it.
From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot
Trademarks, unlike copyrights or patents, are intellectual property that are not premised on creating value for whoever registers them; they’re about protecting consumers.
From Salon ● Jul. 7, 2026
Now they sell AI-created images with the guarantee that these don’t infringe copyrights.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 15, 2025
The deal comes amid reports Disney lawyers sent Google a cease-and-desist letter on Wednesday accusing the tech firm of infringing its copyrights "on a massive scale".
From BBC ● Dec. 11, 2025
They alleged that Cox’s subscribers infringed their copyrights in sound recordings and musical compositions by copying and distributing them via BitTorrent and other networks.
From Slate ● Nov. 28, 2025
The answer may lie in the long struggle to get the copyrights back from Fabyan.
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
BBC Newsbeat has obtained the filings, first reported by video game website Kotaku, external, demanding Microsoft-owned site GitHub and chat app Discord turn over the user details of accounts thought to be sharing "copyrighted material".
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
The fact that AI-generated text can’t be copyrighted has made it one of the hard lines the industry has been able to enforce.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
The debate will continue in the courts, which are also looking at other copyrighted works such as news articles and movies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
But critics have raised concerns about whether AI systems are trained on copyrighted works without permission or payment to artists.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2026
It was copyrighted 1972 by the Esso company.
From "Paper Towns" by John Green
The nonprofit recently trademarked its name and is in the process of copyrighting its livestream.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 2, 2026
Its widespread use has been facilitated by Kruger’s disinterest in copyrighting her work.
From New York Times ● Jul. 14, 2022
This idea of thin copyright, and the idea that you might be copyrighting the curation of all of these different elements together.
From The Verge ● Sep. 15, 2021
Senior manager of LHI Sonia Mora said the county is in the process of copyrighting Abuelina and her family members to ensure they are not used for commercial purposes.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 8, 2021
This I prevented by copyrighting the two remaining thirds in England!
From Memoirs by Charles Godfrey Leland
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