Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 18, 2022

But the much bigger problem was that the group seemed to misunderstand what they bought. But the much bigger problem was that the group seemed to misunderstand what they bought. Owning a copy of the book, regardless of how expensive, does not grant them the copyrights in it. Last year, the group spent €2.66

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Plagiarism Today

DECEMBER 8, 2021

So, what is going on? To answer that, we have to take a detour into the world of music licensing and see how comedy albums are both very similar and very different from music when it comes to licensing them for streaming. A Quick Dive into Music (and Comedy) Licensing. The Sleeping Giant Awakens.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 4, 2022

This prompted Alexander to file a lawsuit against Take-Two, claiming copyright infringement of her work. But, according to Alexander, the money amount wasn’t what was important in the case. Last week, Moss summarized the history of the case in an article that is well worth reading. From Three Defenses to One.

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Plagiarism Today

APRIL 19, 2022

The move comes at the behest of Disney, who claimed that the site was infringing their copyright by operating the unauthorized clone. 2: Newsweek Settles Copyright Fight Over Instagram Embedding. However, with the case being settled, it is unclear what, if any, impact that will have moving forward.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 18, 2024

Copyright: WIPO. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. Photo: Emmanuel Berrod. WIPO negotiators appear prepared to approve a draft Broadcast Treaty that is no longer “signal-based” or limited to “traditional” (non-Internet-based) broadcasting.

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Velocity of Content

MARCH 18, 2024

While they explore how AI can improve their business practices for the benefit of researchers and information professionals, many publishers are also proactively asserting their rights when generative AI solutions that create text, images, and other media use copyrighted material to develop and train large language models. We know that.

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43(B)log

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Abstract This useful article about the effects of music on YouTube on consumption of the same music elsewhere should be understood for what it is: An empirical investigation of YouTube’s effects. ePub ahead of print October 27, [link] ] has implications for what music companies should ask for in these negotiations.

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Velocity of Content

MAY 1, 2024

This article appears in the Information Today May 2024 print issue. Do the creators and users of large language models (LLMs) and as sociated generative AI applications infringe the copyrights of content creators? If so, what specific acts constitute infringement, and what should be done to remedy the problem?

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Velocity of Content

JANUARY 25, 2024

This article originally appeared in IPWatchdog and is re-published with permission. “Is Is offshoring the training of AI a credible and efficient response to minimize copyright compliance risks or is offshoring merely a theoretical argument designed to both influence lawmakers and for government relations purposes?”

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Traverse Legal Blog

JANUARY 26, 2022

Today, we will be talking about NFT non-fungible token licensing. There was a recent story that is an instructive lesson in copyright law that has application to the NFT market. The article titled “Cryptobros spent $3 million on Dune book, believing it gave them copyright. See article below). What Are NFTs?

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

It is thus clear that TDM does matter - but what should its relationship with copyright and related rights be? It should be noted at the outset that, on the one hand, some commentators hold the view that TDM would not even be covered by copyright law. Ready to mine.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 26, 2023

As readers may be aware, Articles 18-22 of the Directive (EU) 2019/790 (DSM Directive) [IPKat coverage here ] establish protective measures for authors and performers that license or transfer the exclusive economic rights over their works and performances to third parties for the purpose of exploitation.

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Plagiarism Today

APRIL 20, 2022

Web scraping has been one of the longest-running themes on this site, with the first articles about it going live as far back as 2006. . The truth is that web scraping has always been controversial, but equally fraught legally. A wide myriad of laws impact, or at least can impact, scraping activities online. .

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

We have recently published a white paper , authored by Julia Reda ( Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte ) and Paul Keller ( Open Future ) that proposes to build a public repository of Public Domain and openly licensed works. This provision was added later in the negotiations to address widespread criticism from civil society and academia.

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Velocity of Content

MARCH 14, 2023

Your employees and copyright awareness – sharing your policy may not be enough. shows that companies are discussing their copyright policies more frequently, leading to 74% of employees reporting awareness of those policies. Do Your Employees Understand Your Company’s Copyright Policies?

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Patently-O

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

By Dennis Crouch and Timothy Knight* The Supreme Court is set to hear oral arguments on February 21 in an important copyright case – Warner Chappell Music v. ” Copyright’s statute of limitations bars claims not “commenced within three years after the claim accrued.” ” 17 U.S.C. §

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IP Intelligence

JUNE 7, 2023

A detailed analysis of Goldsmith , however, yields little comfort to content owners when assessing the applicability of fair use to non-expressive uses of copyrightable content for use in AI learning models. See Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. See Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. Goldsmith , 598 S.

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Velocity of Content

MARCH 28, 2023

EDT/16:00 BST/17:00 CEST that will address the questions, “What is the evolving nature of originality and authenticity?” And “What place do human expertise and empathy have when machines provide information?” The post CCC to Host Virtual Town Hall on ChatGPT and Information Integrity appeared first on Copyright Clearance Center.

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The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

The IPKat has received and is pleased to host this guest contribution by Lokesh Vyas (upcoming doctoral candidate at Sciences Po, Paris), exploring the potential of Article 17 of the Berne Convention. Here’s what Lokesh writes: Interpreting Article 17 of the Berne Convention: An unexplored emergency provision in international copyright law?

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Velocity of Content

DECEMBER 1, 2022

It’s not surprising then that more and more content is being published under an open access license these days. But what is Open Access? Perhaps, millions of articles. “Open access has been described as everything from a business model to a movement.” At the beginning of 2021, Open access is growing.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

MARCH 25, 2021

This boom is creating great opportunities for IP owners who want to license their IP for use in NFTs. When IP licensing rights for use in digital art and other NFTs, it is important to be clear what is and what is not being licensed. The scope of the license should be limited to particular purposes.

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

In the context of certain questions that arose in the proceedings, Tanvi then brings up an interesting hypothetical i.e. what if the defendants had challenged the ownership of the copyright early on, instead of the attempt to amendment later on. She is intrigued by the field of Intellectual Property Law and wishes to explore the same.

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The IPKat

APRIL 21, 2023

Is it an act of communication to the public under Article 3 of the InfoSoc Directive to broadcast music on board of a train or a plane? And what about installing equipment allowing the subsequent broadcasting of music? Let’s see in greater detail what happened. It did so in joined cases C‑775/21 and C‑826/21, Blue Air and UPFR.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MARCH 14, 2024

Photo by Christian Wiediger from Unsplash This article continues the tradition of reporting on the copyright case law of the German Bundesgerichtshof, the highest German civil court for copyright matters (Federal Court of Justice – “BGH”). This article is divided into two parts. I. Copyright protection 1.

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Velocity of Content

APRIL 2, 2024

What are the biggest challenges data science teams encounter when creating their own datasets? This effort can be further impacted when factoring in any navigation of licensing necessary to use the data. Data licensing can sometimes be complex, and the terms of use can vary widely depending on the source.

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Velocity of Content

APRIL 20, 2023

With so many competing priorities and limited resources, many small to medium businesses (SMBs) may not be thinking about how their information assets are organized, how individual employees are accessing published articles, or the potential risk associated with whether they have the appropriate rights to do so.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 24, 2024

Last year saw the introduction of Law 4996/2022, which brought significant changes to IP legislation in Greece, amending several provisions of the existing Copyright Law 2121/1993 as well as Law 4481/2017 on Collective Management. To introduce a mechanism of extended copyright licensing. Audiovisual works are excluded.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 31, 2021

One of the practices that has generated a sizeable number of disputes and rulings is the use of photos to illustrate articles. There is no shortage of articles being generated online, and often those content producers simply canvass the web to find a suitable photo. The article contained several of plaintiff’s photographs.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

Dramatic news articles in UK tabloids often plagiarized articles published by TorrentFreak. Headlines containing phrases such as FREE STREAMING WARNING and NEW KODI THREAT appeared alongside JAILED and POLICE in almost unlimited quantities, regardless of what actually happened. Over time the trend went in a different direction.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2023

In the era of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Schumpeter’s ‘waves of creative destruction’ have become shorter and taken the shape of, what I call, ‘waves of creative ‘digital’ destruction’. And like every ‘wave of creative ‘digital’ destruction’, the latest wave of Generative AI, too first knocked on the gates of copyright.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 23, 2023

Both options are free; what’s the problem? Unfortunately, the article is of no fundamental use, no matter what it says, since it speaks about U.S. copyright law. With no copyright experts immediately available on TikTok or Facebook, we turned to the UK’s third pillar of wisdom to get answers the big questions.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 13, 2023

After the first DSM Directive-related referral from Belgium on the provisions concerning contracts of authors and performers [IPKat here ] , it is now the turn of Article 15 (the related right for press publishers) as implemented into Italian law. All this would serve to ‘foster the availability of reliable information’.

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The IPKat

APRIL 30, 2024

Should the EU unify copyright laws? The session started with the highly disputed topic of copyright unification with Prof.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2022

In August 2022, the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Research and Innovation published a study on EU copyright and related rights and access to and reuse of scientific publications, including open access. Current EU copyright framework. In this post, its author provides a brief outline.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2022

This article provides a brief overview of the use of Creative Commons licensing in relation to NFTs based on the Creative Commons’ FAQ page linked above. Creative Commons Licensing. In their blog post , CC have effectively warned readers that many people misunderstand what a CC licence actually means.

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Velocity of Content

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Here are the three primary challenges we hear when companies build a collection of articles (or “corpus”) for their text mining projects, with tips to overcome them.?. Incomplete Information in Article Abstracts. While data from abstracts provides some value, there are limitations as to what data can be found within an abstract.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Internet Archive The self-scanning service is different from the licensing deals other libraries enter into. Publishers Hachette, HarperCollins, John Wiley, and Penguin Random House filed a lawsuit, equating IA’s controlled digital lending (CDL) operation to copyright infringement. This includes the Authors Alliance.

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