Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 3, 2022

Katz distilled all of his observations into a lengthy article , which he published as part of his newsletter. The podcast did provide citations for the episode, including five articles, two Wikipedia entries and a government document. If I was working on a paper or writing an article sure, I'd dig deeper. Was it plagiarism?

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JANUARY 23, 2024

It does seem like the topic of AI and copyright was everywhere in the copyright world last year. While some digital topics have been known to cause a great commotion in copyright circles only to later sink practically without a trace, unless I am mistaken, the issue of the copyright implications of AI is different.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 24, 2022

But, before I go, I wanted to leave you with five tales of how copyright has shaped Halloween that I’ve written over the years. But, before I go, I wanted to leave you with five tales of how copyright has shaped Halloween that I’ve written over the years. 1: How a Copyright Mistake Created the Modern Zombie.

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Plagiarism Today

MAY 18, 2022

However, for every site that offers free stock photography, there are dozens of articles saying why you shouldn’t use them. These articles come from a variety of sources including publishing blogs , sites that help those that run churches and even sites that help photographers enforce their images. The Reasons Given.

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 18, 2022

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. Namely, that many people still do not understand what they are buying and often spend huge sums of money only to be left with very little at all.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 4, 2023

A Vespa LX Last week was an eventful one for Piaggio, the Tuscan ( ) company that has developed and owns the iconic (yes, you can say that: read on) Vespa. If it is an infringement of copyright in said product to realize and commercialize a product that is confusingly similar with it. Let’s see what the Supreme Court answered.

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The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

The IPKat has received and is pleased to host the following guest contribution by Katfriend Jakub Wyczik (University of Silesia in Katowice) on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the application of copyright subsistence criteria. Human author It is well known that copyright protects products of the human mind (see Feist v.

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Velocity of Content

JANUARY 9, 2024

One area that often gets overlooked in the outsourcing and collaboration process is how to manage copyright compliance and the associated risks of non-compliance. Collaboration at small to medium sized organizations is crucial for advancing knowledge and innovation and the right tools can make this collaboration less risky.

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IP and Legal Filings

MAY 13, 2024

The introduction and advancement of generative AI technology, which is capable of producing everything from research articles to realistic artworks, has brought a revolution in the field of creativity. This way of doing things with the help of generative AI technology carries numerous legal challenges of intellectual property violation.

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Velocity of Content

MAY 9, 2024

Alberts, a consultant with over 30 years of drug development experience, for a discussion on how smaller life science companies can improve the way their employees search for and utilize the scientific content that helps power their innovation. You can watch the full conversation here.

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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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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Can a work entirely created by a machine be protected by copyright? In 2019, the Copyright Office rejected the application, holding that human authorship is necessary to support a copyright claim. This conclusion is in line with what is expressly stated in the Compendium of Practices (p.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 19, 2024

OpenAI/Microsoft Late last year The Times sued OpenAI and Microsoft , alleging that its generative AI models were trained on copyrighted news articles. The news publication also suggested that, when prompted the right way, ChatGPT could recite content from these articles. The rest is history.

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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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The IPKat

JANUARY 5, 2023

legal battle over the character of Zorro, the Supreme Court has provided important guidance on the requirements and limits of parody under both copyright [see also here for a recent French case] and trade mark law. Let’s see what happened. Background Back in 2007, US company Zorro Productions sued CO.GE.DI.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

During international holidays, news in a tight niche like ours can completely dry up, so when an exciting headline suddenly appears after 14 hours at a desk, things aren’t so bad after all. Dramatic news articles in UK tabloids often plagiarized articles published by TorrentFreak. Creating clickbait “where can I watch X?”

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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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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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The IPKat

JULY 9, 2023

But can third-party freedom of expression be safeguarded through the way in which the infringement test, notably the test for trade marks with a reputation and the notion of "due cause" (Article 9(2)(c) EUTMR ; Article 10(6) and (2)(c) EUTMD ), is construed? IKEA's famous logo.

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IIPRD

APRIL 8, 2024

This article delves into the ongoing debate around the issue of right of ownership of copyright by AI generators for their novel artwork. This is a major point of contention in the realm IP laws today whether or not AI can be given the said rights and protections under law.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 1, 2024

Any content creator who sees their work being used by unauthorized third-parties can file DMCA notices against platforms communicating that content to the public. We very much appreciate that first line of defense; since we don’t have to commit resources towards countering wrongful complaints, we can concentrate on our reporting.

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The IPKat

APRIL 27, 2024

Analysis of these cases often raises questions about the conditions for protection under copyright and design law, and even about the concept of cumulative protection. On 26 November 2021, ROSAE PARIS brought an action against SEVEN AUGUST before the Paris Court, claiming infringement of its copyright and unregistered Community designs.

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The IPKat

JANUARY 30, 2024

This ruling was an opportunity for the court to reiterate that a garment can be protected by copyright and design law. On 15 June 2020, the French company brought an action against Gazelle before the Paris Court of First Instance claiming infringement of its copyright and unregistered Community designs. Opull’ence appealed.

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The IPKat

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

This Kat always eagerly awaits decisions from the French Cour de Cassation, so he was delighted to find out about an important recent decision on copyright (Cour de cassation, 1st Civil Chamber, 15 November 2023, n° 22-23.266). The judgment focuses on a procedural aspect, namely the limitation period for an action for copyright infringement.

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The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 4, 2022

Is a country’s failure to ensure the protection of IP rights a breach of human rights, more precisely the right to the peaceful enjoyment of one’s own possessions under Article 1 of Protocol No. This is what the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) had been asked to consider in Safarov v Azerbaijan (Application no.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 6, 2024

4 Other anti-piracy work reported for the period includes legal action against pirate site operators and translation groups, civil/criminal action through local subsidiaries and overseas affiliates, establishing response strategies in accordance with local copyright laws, and overseas administrative actions.

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Velocity of Content

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Where copyright protection begins and ends Employees consume and share copyrighted materials all day long. However, routine content exchanges such as sharing published reports, articles and other information found on the Web, have copyright implications, which can expose companies to a greater risk of infringement.

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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. § See Sohm v.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 9, 2024

In separate articles published in Italian media last weekend, a reason for the lack of participation is made clear; few articles published online offer credible information and most don’t focus on the right issues. “No pirate can sleep peacefully,” De Siervo told Corriere.it.

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Velocity of Content

APRIL 2, 2024

In addition to losing time that otherwise could be spent on more urgent work, other obstacles can present themselves when data science teams choose to gather their data without the help of external consultants. What are the biggest challenges data science teams encounter when creating their own datasets?

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 23, 2023

Both options are free; what’s the problem? ” is always popular, along with its self-focused twin sister, “Can I get caught downloading music from YouTube?” Unfortunately, the article is of no fundamental use, no matter what it says, since it speaks about U.S. copyright law.

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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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Patent Trademark Blog

JULY 13, 2023

Can you copyright product designs and shapes? In addition to patents and trademarks, copyright registrations can be valuable in protecting certain products. Trademark protection for product shapes can be particularly challenging. Need to copyright your product? Can you copyright 2-dimensional design?

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Velocity of Content

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

This article originally appeared in Publishing Perspectives , re-published with permission. This spring, Copyright Clearance Center (CCC) presented a special “OA Innovation Seminar Series.” Sybille Geisenheyner: You can imagine how negotiating on that scale was quite a journey. How many articles get published?

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Among these rules, which were one of the main areas of contention between Council and Parliament until the very end, the final compromise includes two provisions relevant to copyright. A newly introduced article on “Obligations for providers of general-purpose AI models” includes two distinct requirements related to copyright.

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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

MARCH 12, 2023

ChatGPT has captured the imagination of millions of people, offering a glimpse of what an AI-assisted future might look like. The new technology also brings up novel copyright questions. That’s what a recent DMCA takedown notice sent to Google tends to suggest. The notice isn’t just restricted to apps. Legitimate?

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