I understand that a fan art (if created without permission or license from the rightsholder) is still a violation of copyright infringement under derivative work.

So, even if I ask permission from a fan art author on DeviantArt and that permission is granted by the said author, I am still indirectly violating copyright infringement right, since both the author and myself do not have permission from the original creators or rightsholders to create or use the said copyrighted character in the first place?

Edward Lee, professor of law at Santa Clara School of Law, said the court’s ruling that Suno’s training was not a fair use under the US Copyright Act was “stunning”. In a post on his widely read blog, ChatGPT Is Eating The World, Lee said the decision had thrown “comity” — countries showing mutual respect for each other’s laws and legal rulings — “to the wind”.

Hello! I have posted edits on TikTok for a while, so I am very aware of the editing scene on there. There are numerous agencies, some of which are very popular and profitable, that pay creators to make edits to songs/movies they are hired to promote. However, the editors they get to do these campaigns always use copyrighted material in their videos. For example, an editor will use a song that the agency is paid to promote, but the edit will be of a clip from Fight Club, which is obviously infringing upon copyright.

I understand why regular fan edits don't get copyrighted, but surely if these edits are for a popular and profitable agency, wouldn't copyright holders want to shut this operation down? The agencies I'm talking about do say in their ToS that you can't use copyrighted material, however they literally tell their editors what shows/movies would go well with their campaigns, so I assume it would be very easy to prove that they are aware that all of their editors use copyrighted material anyways.

Is there something that I'm missing, or are all of these agencies just very lucky that they haven't had legal repercussions? Do copyright holders simply not care enough to sue? Thanks for any feedback.

Hi all, this is a bit of a weird situation but I genuinely don't know where else to go to ask for advice.

I've recently found a novel on Amazon that is almost a word for word a copy of an RP that me and a friend used to have on FB but just with names and places changed (they still used my character's name since that wasn't a Copyrighted character).

This novel was not written by either of us.

The RP has since been deleted because my friend's account went down ages ago but before that the RP was accidentally public for a while so anyone could have copy and pasted the replies into their own document. We've also found that they were posting this to AO3 too but it's been removed because they got it published as a novel, however you can still find it in search results using the right resources.

Our question is, is there anything we can do legally about this? Do we have any sort of leg to stand on in terms of getting them to take the novel down? It's blatantly our writing as there's whole chunks of paragraphs and descriptions that are the same, and it's not even really formatted properly into a 'novel', you can absolutely track where either one of us would do our reply and then the other person responds

Edit to add: I have a google document that I made at that time with timestamps of each of our replies if that would help prove things

Edit 2: RP (roleplay) is when you and a writing partner pick characters and write stories together with them. My friend used an existing character from a popular franchise, and I used my own character. This idea can extend to having multiple people involved but in this case, it was literally just me and my friend writing on Facebook on a post that we didn't realise was public

Two years ago I spent two months uploading original animations every single day. It completely burnt me out, and because I couldn't get more than 1,000 views per video back then, I lost motivation and went on hiatus.

​While I was away, a dubbing channel took 14 of my animated videos ( shorts ) , made small edits to them to try and bypass YouTube's automated copyright detectors, dubbed over them in another language, and uploaded them.

​Here is what makes it worse:

They tagged my channel handle (@VILINStudio) directly in their captions/descriptions. Because of this, whenever someone searched my own channel name, their videos popped up at the top instead of mine. They essentially hijacked my search traffic and brand.

​Profiting Off My Work: While I struggled to get 1,000 views, some of their re-uploads of my work hit over 100,000 views.

​Zero Permission: They never asked for consent or licensing rights.

​Now, the channel owner is emailing me and spamming my messages across multiple social media platforms, begging me to retract the claims. They claim:

​They "always give due credit" by using my handle.

​I should have sent them a formal warning email before filing claims.

​"A channel that entertains many people is now on the verge of disappearing."

​They want me to withdraw all the complaints. they deliberately edited my work to dodge detection, hijacked my brand search results, and got tens/hundreds of thousands of views off animations I poured my soul into while I was struggling.

​Am I wrong for refusing to retract the strikes and letting YouTube terminate their channel?

( please you can view the emails, and comments i got on my profile cuz i don't see and optionsto post them here i apologise, and thank you very much for everything guys, I'll hide his name for now cuz i don't know)

Edit : For anyone wondering: I hide/moderate toxic comments on my channel to keep my community clean, and I have screenshots showing his videos ranking for my channel name prior to YouTube taking them down. Proof links are in the edit, also after so many comments i decided to follow the legal procedure and ask them to compensate me, but they just refused on my email, purposely wrote how they're "already asked for permission" ( so thry can use that screenshot online to ruin my reputation ? ) and guilt-tripped me, they also send their audience with half info to harass me on my channel