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17 Copyright and/or Plagiarism Stories for Halloween

Plagiarism Today

Copyright Challenges in Creating Garbage Horror : Back in October 2011, my partner and I were running a small YouTube channel named Garbage Horror, where we reviewed various low-budget horror movies. Nearly all copies of the film were destroyed, but an American copy survived, as Dracula was already public domain in the United States.

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Should Copyright Preemption Moot Anti-Scraping TOS Terms? (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

Platforms that copy online data and use it to create AI have a strong fair use argument under copyright laws. Copyright law forbids duplication, public performance, and so on, unless the person wishing to copy or perform the work gets permission; silence means a ban on copying. A copyright is a right against the world.

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A Cautionary Tale on Including an Expiration Date in NDAs

LexBlog IP

In August 2011, the plaintiff, an English data center design company, drafted an NDA in connection with negotiations over its potential sale to a competitor. Thus, the guidance on whether to include an expiration date in a particular NDA can vary. Ninth Circuit’s Decision in Bladeroom.

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Evolution of Tests of Creativity in Copyrights

IP and Legal Filings

Originality is the quality that distinguishes produced or invented works from copies, clones, forgeries, or derivative works by being new or novel. Eventually, a publication featuring sixteen of the forty-two matriculation papers was released by the University Tutorial Publishing Limited. specialised in regional phone directories.

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13 Spooky Copyright Cases, Just in Time for Halloween

Copyright Lately

As the story goes, they provided him with a copy of a few scenes from “Ghostbusters” in which the theme would appear. You can judge for yourself by downloading a copy of “Jap Herron” here. This prompted a lawsuit by Don Post Studios, which asserted that the Cinema Secrets mask was a copy of its own mask.

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Lamenting the closure of Book Depository

The IPKat

Given their competitive position vis a vis Amazon, some eyebrows were raised when Amazon purchased Book Depository, reportedly on July 4, 2011 (in light of later events, the date portended Orwellian irony regarding the company's long-term freedom). The distribution of books was no less crucial than the means of copying and reproduction.

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Cal. retains over $300 million in civil penalties against J&J on appeal

43(B)log

Nor was there any conflict with the injunctive relief ruling: there were many rational reasons to find that Ethicon’s marketing was likely to deceive doctors during the statutory liability period that ended in 2018, but that there was sufficient current information in the public domain to warrant the denial of injunctive relief in June 2020.