3 Count: Olympic Takedowns

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1: Sarah Silverman Lawsuit Against OpenAI Suffers Setback As Judge Trims Case

First off today, Winson Cho at The Hollywood Reporter Esquire reports that an author lawsuit filed against OpenAI has been trimmed, though the core argument of the case remains.

The lawsuit is actually a combination of several lawsuits filed by authors against the company. The lawsuit claimed a variety of infractions, including direct copyright infringement, unfair competition and unjust enrichment. In February, most of the claims were tossed, save the unfair competition and direct copyright infringement claims.

Now, the unfair competition law claim has also been dismissed. According to the judge, the reason is that such state law claims are covered under the copyright claims and, thus, cannot be brought separately. While a defeat for the authors, most claim that the direct copyright infringement claim, which survived, is the core claim in the case.

2: IOC Sends Thousands of DMCA Notices to Deter ‘Olympics’ Piracy

Next up today, Ernesto Van der Sar at Torrentfreak writes that the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has asked Google to remove nearly 6,000 URLs related to pirated Olympic content.

The Olympic Games began in Paris this past week. However, as the games were beginning, the IOC was already ramping up to reduce piracy of the games. As part of that, they requested France block a variety of pirate websites, and they have also filed thousands of notices with Google to get such sites and pages removed from the search engine.

While such campaigns are common during the Olympics, others have noted how the focus has changed. Sixteen years ago, the focus was heavily on The Pirate Bay. However, now, BitTorrent piracy is barely seen as an issue at all, with the vast majority targeting streaming websites.

3: Garry’s Mod/Skibidi Toilet DMCA Claim Has Been ‘Resolved,’ Creator Garry Newman Says

Finally today, Alex Stedman IGN reports that Skibidi Toilet creator DaFuq!?Boom has denied sending a DMCA notice to Steam over the use of his assets in Garry’s Mod.

Garry’s Mod is a game based on Valve’s Source Engine. It allows players to create videos, assets and even whole games. However, the game became the subject of a DMCA takedown over various Skibidi Toilet assets that players of the game provided.

However, it now appears that DaFuq!?Boom did not send the notice. The notice was attributed to Invisible Narratives, a company supposedly working on a Skibidi Toilet film. According to a post from Garry’s Mod creator, Garry Newman, the matter has been resolved, though it is unclear exactly who or what was responsible for the original notice.

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