Examples of copyright in a Sentence
Chris Morris, Fortune, 8 Apr. 2024
OpenAI and Google reportedly used YouTube videos to help train their AI models, potentially violating the creators’ copyrights of those videos.
—Emily Price, PCMAG, 6 Apr. 2024
But many copyright holders have complained that the proliferation of AI tools is outpacing their efforts to protect their work.
—Brian Cheung, NBC News, 4 Apr. 2024
The estate sued, alleging that the special violated the estate’s copyrights and its publicity right to Carlin’s name, image and likeness.
—Gene Maddaus, Variety, 3 Apr. 2024
Those who wish to participate will be able to create and own their own digital likenesses, which the agency believes will help protect those clients against copyright infringement and allow talent to make more money.
—Wendy Lee, Los Angeles Times, 29 Mar. 2024
The ruling implicitly rejected Ravensburger’s argument that the law was incompatible with the EU directive on copyright, lawyers said.
—Colleen Barry, Quartz, 28 Mar. 2024
The copyright infringement claims turned on the degree of MOVA’s contribution to the movies.
—Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Mar. 2024
Further, the law empowers the MLC to initiate proceedings before the CRB to set its funding and before the Copyright Office in rulemaking and regulatory processes on behalf of copyright owners.
—Kristin Robinson, Billboard, 18 Mar. 2024
Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Apr. 2024
There also remain sticky questions about how OpenAI handles copyrighted work in its training data.
—Wendy Lee, Los Angeles Times, 29 Mar. 2024
The fake video of Janse led to a website copyrighted by an entity called Vigor Wellness Pulse.
—Pranshu Verma, Washington Post, 28 Mar. 2024
That brings us to a game’s color scheme, which some media companies have successfully copyrighted in the past.
—Wyatte Grantham-Philips, Fortune, 13 Mar. 2024
That brings us to a game's color scheme, which some media companies have successfully copyrighted in the past.
—Wyatte Grantham-Philips and Gaetane Lewis, Quartz, 12 Mar. 2024
Chief Critic Ian Crosby, the Times’ lead counsel, dismissed the allegations, noting OpenAI does not dispute the core complaint in the newspaper’s lawsuit—that copyrighted New York Times stories were used to build and train ChatGPT.
—Zachary Folk, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2024
If true, that’s some major chutzpah on TikTok’s part, given that AI creations can’t be copyrighted and, depending on the AI-training material, may in themselves violate copyright.
—David Meyer, Fortune, 31 Jan. 2024
Artists argue that the A.I. platforms are spitting out replicas of their existing work—much of which is copyrighted—rather than using it as inspiration to create something new.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Jan. 2024
Rachyl Jones, Fortune, 9 Apr. 2024
Copyright Office, which has so far opted not to give copyright protections to AIGC.
—Johanna Costigan, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2024
The Copyright Office has declined to offer copyright protection for AI creations, though works that are formed through a combination of human and artificial efforts complicate the rule.
—Tom Roland, Billboard, 22 Nov. 2023
Ultimately, this could mean the person creating the deepfake video may be the copyright holder of the abusive content.
—Matt Burgess, WIRED, 11 Mar. 2024
These critical rights were traditionally held by copyright owners.
—Kristin Robinson, Billboard, 18 Mar. 2024
Nintendo is asking for $2,500 for every violation of the anti-circumvention and anti-trafficking provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, as well as $150,000 for each copyright violation.
—Antonio Pequeño Iv, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2024
Stateside, the issue of inputs has become the subject of ongoing court cases: One notable example is The New York Times’ decision to sue OpenAI for copyright infringement on the basis that the AI company used the newspaper’s articles as training data.
—Johanna Costigan, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2024
OpenAI, Microsoft and other companies have said that their AI training is protected by the copyright doctrine of fair use and that the lawsuits threaten the burgeoning AI industry.
—Reuters, NBC News, 13 Feb. 2024
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copyright
1 of 2 noun
copyright
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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
2 of 2 transitive verb
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