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Publishers’ Lawsuit Accuses Libgen of “Staggering” Copyright Infringement

TorrentFreak

Bedford, Freeman & Worth Publishing Group, LLC (d/b/a Macmillan Learning, McGraw Hill LLC, and Pearson Education, Inc.) copyright law to ‘promote the progress of science and the useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors. At least 20,000 of those files were published by plaintiffs Cengage Learning, Inc.,

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SpicyIP Weekly Review (July 17- July 23)

SpicyIP

Sudhakar Pai and Ors vs M/S Manipal Academy of Higher Education on 17 July, 2023 (Karnataka High Court) The appellants, employees, and office bearers in the same company, filed the present appeal contesting the compensation and the civil imprisonment ordered by the Commercial court for wilfully disobeying the court’s earlier injunction order.

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Introducing a zero-embargo Secondary Publication Right in Bulgaria

Kluwer Copyright Blog

It is thus very much in line with the spirit of Title IV, arts. A new para 2 to art. In order for the mechanism to be applicable, art. Finally, the amendment includes, in para 4 of art.60, In Bulgarian law, the ‘works for hire’ regime is set out in arts. On the other hand, art. of the Directive.

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The New Greek Teaching Limitation after the Implementation of the DSM Directive: A New Era for Teachers, Students and Educational Establishments?

Kluwer Copyright Blog

In particular, only 5% of the total extent of a work, an article lawfully published in a newspaper or a periodical, a poem or a work of visual arts, including photographic works, is permitted to be used within the allowed ambit of this limitation. The licenses may cover all the same uses covered by the limitation.

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National Intellectual Property Rights Conference 2023 – Day 1

Intepat

The session also acknowledged the pivotal role played by a robust IP regime in India’s expansion and innovation, facilitated by legislative reforms and escalated investments in higher education. Raman Mittal Prof.

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The EU DSM Copyright Directive: Implementation in Germany 2021 – Part I

Kluwer Copyright Blog

The liability of OCSSPs for uploads of platform users, as outlined in Art. Secondly, the legislature felt obliged, in response to certain CJEU case law, to make deep structural changes to the right of adaptation in the German Copyright Act.

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A (More!) Problematic Plagiarism: Thinking About The Allegations Against UGC

SpicyIP

In the context of plagiarism, UGC has publicly problematized both ‘regular’ plagiarism ( through its 2018 Regulations for the ‘ Promotion of Academic Integrity and Prevention of Plagiarism in Higher Educational Institutions’ ) as well as ‘self-plagiarism’ (through a public Notice in 2020). of the UGC Draft).