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Crypto Group Buys Dune Book, Confuses it for Buying the Rights

Plagiarism Today

million ($3 million) acquiring a physical copy of the book Jodorowsky’s Dune. The book, which details the effort by Chilean filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky to make a Dune film in the 1970s, is indeed a rare and valuable book. Make the book public (to the extent permitted by law) 2. Last year, the group spent €2.66

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Internet Archive’s Copyright Battle with Book Publishers Nears Climax

TorrentFreak

In 2020, publishers Hachette, HarperCollins, John Wiley and Penguin Random House sued the Internet Archive (IA) for copyright infringement, equating its ‘Open Library’ to a pirate site. IA’s library is a non-profit organization that scans physical books, which can then be lent out to patrons in an ebook format.

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Authors Sue NVIDIA for Training AI on Pirated Books

TorrentFreak

The list of complainants includes record labels, book authors, visual artists, even the New York Times. “Books3” Many of the lawsuits filed by book authors come with a clear piracy angle. After pushback from rightsholders and anti-piracy outfits, Books3 was taken offline over copyright concerns.

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K-Books Are Coming

Velocity of Content

Korean books, especially novels by women authors, are also finding enthusiastic readers far beyond native audiences. The post K-Books Are Coming appeared first on Copyright Clearance Center. From Squid Game to Parasite , BTS to Blackpink , Korean popular culture has ascended to the summit of global attention.

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Meta Admits Use of ‘Pirated’ Book Dataset to Train AI

TorrentFreak

Several of the lawsuits filed by book authors include a piracy component as well. This book archive was publicly hosted by digital archiving collective ‘ The Eye ‘ at the time, alongside various other data sources. For example, the authors alleged that Meta trained its AI on copyrighted works without permission.

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IPKat Book of the Year Awards 2023

The IPKat

It is time to vote for your favourite intellectual property law books of 2023 in the annual IPKat Book of the Year Awards! The IPKat team continues to read and review as many brilliant IP books as possible, of which there are many, for the Kat community. Rules of Voting Only ONE vote per person.

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Book review: Walled Culture

The IPKat

Glyn Moody says about the book: “Ed Sheeran and Dua Lipa get sued for alleged plagiarism and the majority of creators see pennies for their work, while the revenues of the record labels are exploding. The book aims to answer the following key questions: • What are the problems with copyright in the digital age?

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