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D'You Think It's Infringement?

BYU Copyright Blog

On September 6, 2021, a group of six academics (collectively the "Professors") brought suit against their former employer, D'Youville College and its partners JBCN Education, Inc. These uses have purportedly included violations of rights of reproduction, distribution, display, and preparation of derivative works.

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Can Copyright Law Prevent Cheating on Exams?

The IP Law Blog

During the spring 2021 semester, he taught Business 215 to remote students. Berkovitz alleged that the Defendants infringed his exclusive right to reproduce, make copies, distribute, or create derivative works by publishing the midterm exam and final exam on the Course Hero Website without permission.

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[Guest post] Artificial Intelligence and (hopefully) the death of copyright

The IPKat

Just as when two painters, setting up their easels in the same place and painting the same landscape, create two independent works (p. They therefore introduced additional rights for derivative works, such as translations, film adaptations or musical arrangements (pp. 2021/41/N/HS5/02726. This is pure fiction.

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Bungie Expert: Destiny 2 Cheats Logged “Active Military” Patient Data

TorrentFreak

In August 2021, Bungie filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against a number of defendants involved in the development and supply of Destiny 2 cheating tool, Wallhax. and owner Robert James Duthie Nelson, admitted that their tool breached copyright by injecting new code into Bungie’s, thereby creating an unlicensed derivative work.

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Can Copyright Law Prevent Cheating on Exams?

LexBlog IP

During the spring 2021 semester, he taught Business 215 to remote students. Berkovitz alleged that the Defendants infringed his exclusive right to reproduce, make copies, distribute, or create derivative works by publishing the midterm exam and final exam on the Course Hero Website without permission.

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Taking the Mona Lisa Effect from Illusion to Reality: Enhancing the Museum Experience with Augmented and Virtual Reality

JIPEL Copyright Blog

addition of written or pictorial elements) of a work not in the public domain and/or where the creator is still alive. infringement of the creator’s exclusive right to reproduce and/or prepare a derivative work) or VARA/moral rights (i.e., For the most part, liability may be avoidable: museums could defend any copyright (e.g.,

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Court to Revisit Fair Use in Tattoo Infringement Case

Copyright Lately

Photographer Jeff Sedlik filed the lawsuit in February 2021 , claiming that Von D infringed the copyright in his photo of Miles Davis by tattooing a reproduction of the image on her friend Blake Farmer’s arm and by displaying images of the tattoo on her social media accounts. .”