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The Growth of AI in Plagiarism Detection

Plagiarism Today

Though a relative upstart in this field, being founded in 2013, Copyleaks has been making steady progress both in their product and their business. They’ve been excellent at detecting copied and pasted text, even with some amount of rewriting. The Need for Smart Plagiarism Detection. Expanding the Usefulness. Bottom Line.

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3 Count: Dark Horse Dismissal

Plagiarism Today

First off today, Mark Savage at the BBC reports that Katy Perry has emerged victorious once again in the lawsuit over her 2013 song Dark Horse. Genius filed the lawsuit in 2019 alleging that Google was unlawfully copying lyrics to songs that they had hosted. Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday. million in damages.

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

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

by guest blogger Kieran McCarthy Many characterize the law of copyright preemption of contracts as a circuit split. It’s not that half of federal judges have adopted one clear stance on copyright preemption of contracts and the other half have adopted another clear stance. But fair use isn’t a defense to a breach of contract claim.

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Indian Copyright Act and Marrakesh Treaty : Decoding the Lacuna under Copyright Act.

IP and Legal Filings

Marrakesh Treaty Marrakesh Treaty was adopted on June 27, 2013, to facilitate access to published works for people who are Blind Persons, Visually Impaired Persons, or Print Disabled (hereinafter beneficiary) who refrains from indulging in any printed form of copyrighted work.

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Mr Justice Zacaroli finds manufacturing software copyright infringed and confidence breached in ex-employee fight

The IPKat

The defendant - Mr Aughton - had been developing software for over 50 years and was employed by PQ from 1989 as a software developer and was appointed a director in 2013. 2) was InSPC v1 copied from ProSPC, so as to infringe the copyright in ProSPC or misuse any confidential information in ProSPC? 296-297).

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Indian government denies access to Covid 19 vaccine collaboration agreements

SpicyIP

The United States and the United Kingdom that collaborated with private companies to develop COVID-19 vaccines have released copies of their research and collaboration agreements under their Freedom of Information (FOI) laws with redactions. In fact, public disclosure of COVID-19 vaccine agreements is the global norm.

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California District Court Rejects Infringement Claim Brought Over 2019 Film Ad Astra

LexBlog IP

1] The Court reasoned that the defendant companies could not have possibly copied the script in question, as they did not have access to the script until after Ad Astra was written. The makers of Ad Astra , on the other hand, submitted their script to CAA in November 2013, with an additional script in May 2015. et al , Case No.

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