copyright
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They were focused on audience growth, and copyright infringement was simply a cost of doing business.
From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026
The latest episodes add to existing lawsuits AI companies face alleging chatbot harm and copyright violations when models are trained.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
If someone makes the Sailor Slippers, you can talk to them about how the original creator filed a copyright takedown against a designer who adapted the pattern for crochet.
From Slate ● Oct. 11, 2026
So far the EU has sent over 30 requests for information -- a preliminary step that can lead to investigations -- to companies on issues from copyright to cybersecurity and safety.
From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 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
And celebrities with valuable intellectual property rights, such as copyrights from the Reiners’ many film and television properties, tend to establish trusts.
From Salon ● Dec. 25, 2025
Alphabet’s Google is the biggest tech company to draw Disney’s ire for allegedly using copyright material to train its AI systems and allowing its tools to output material that violates copyrights.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 12, 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
The Times' lawsuit partly hinges on the limited "fair use" exception, which permits copyrighted work to be used without the rights holders' consent.
From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026
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 agreement comes as some studios have expressed concerns about AI models training on their copyrighted material without permission or compensation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026
It was copyrighted 1972 by the Esso company.
From "Paper Towns" by John Green
She said she had been running her own copyrighting business, but found herself struggling while devoting thousands of hours getting ready for her legal fight.
From BBC ● May 10, 2023
On the other hand, that can also be an advantage, said a 30-year-old pilot who goes by the name Makarena and worked in copyrighting before the war.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 14, 2023
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
The process of copyrighting a photograph is not an involved one.
From Making Your Camera Pay by Frederick C. Davis
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