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Publishers’ Lawsuit Accuses Libgen of “Staggering” Copyright Infringement

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Bedford, Freeman & Worth Publishing Group, LLC (d/b/a Macmillan Learning, McGraw Hill LLC, and Pearson Education, Inc.) Defendants operate one of the largest, most notorious, and far-reaching infringement operations in the world. At least 20,000 of those files were published by plaintiffs Cengage Learning, Inc.,

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University Websites Are Being Flooded with Online Piracy Scams

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In the United States, however, higher education institutions were forced to put the brakes on piracy due to the passing of the Higher Education Opportunity Act ( HEOA ) in 2008. Civil penalties for Federal Copyright infringement range from $750 per song to $150,000 in damages for each willful act.”

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Copyright-A Bane For The Students Or A Boon For Copyright Owners?

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Among the other solutions, the most easy and feasible way to come out of the problem of unavailability and unaffordability was to start copying the books, study materials, and video lectures with the help of different mechanisms. The secondary copyright infringement or contributory infringement has not got much attention.