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3 Count: Spare Time

Plagiarism Today

At issue is pirate sites that, according to publishers, use the Shopify platform to sell pirate ebook copies of textbooks. Finally today, Garth Corfield at The Register reports that a UK developer has lost his appeal to try and claim ownership of software he created while employed for the company MD5.

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Can We Reexamine the Role of Blockchain in Copyright Now?

Plagiarism Today

Back in January, the crypto group Spice DAO (decentralized autonomous organization) made headlines for spending approximately $3 million to acquire a physical copy of the book Jodorowsky’s Dune , a bible for a planned Dune move that would have been made in the 1970s. . appeared first on Plagiarism Today. The payment beyond excessive.

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What every Freelance Writer & Copywriter Needs to Know about Copyright

CopyrightsWorld

The second one is to get ownership of their copyright, know their rights under the copyright laws and how to protect them. Every writer is aware of the practises out there to plagiarize or citate content from other authors, either because they’ve done it, or because they have seen it done to them, or both. What is original work?

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NFTs Were Never About Copyright

Plagiarism Today

According to the study, only one in 25 even attempts to transfer copyright ownership with the purchase of the NFT and even that may be ineffective. The “vast majority” of NFT projects did not attempt to convey any ownership of intellectual property rights. The post NFTs Were Never About Copyright appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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IPSC breakout session 2: Int'l IP. TM, Antitrust

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Easiest way to make money was to make a film likely to succeed, and copying a successful foreign plot was a good way to do so. Around 2010, some studios started enforcing, e.g., Twentieth Century Fox sued over copying of plot of Phone Booth and was successful. In this case, certain gags had been copied from Knock on Wood.

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IPSC Opening Plenary Session

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Non expressive uses: reverse engineering, anti-plagiarism, search plus text data mining, snippets. Are the outputs copies of the training data? Copying takes place prior to training; converted into tokens and training is a process of adjusting weights in the model, not copying tokens. But is generative AI really the same?