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Can Copyright Law Prevent Cheating on Exams?

The IP Law Blog

When standard approaches failed, a business professor recently turned to copyright law, hoping for a solution. The Course Hero website is an education-focused website for document sharing. He further alleged that Defendants knew or should have known that their acts constituted copyright infringement.

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Software Downloads Netflix & Disney+ Videos to Make DRM-Free Copies

TorrentFreak

Long before the advent of legitimate online video streaming services, torrent sites and similar platforms allowed users to download and keep copies of movies and TV shows. Is it permissible to download and keep copies of movies and TV shows if you’ve paid for a legal subscription? Copyright Law and DRM.

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Can Copyright Law Prevent Cheating on Exams?

LexBlog IP

When standard approaches failed, a business professor recently turned to copyright law, hoping for a solution. The Course Hero website is an education-focused website for document sharing. He further alleged that Defendants knew or should have known that their acts constituted copyright infringement.

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Court Rules Lego Creation Based on Religious Texts is Eligible for Copyright Protection

The IP Law Blog

Thus, here, given that the plaintiff has Copyright Registrations, the burden shifts to Defendants to come forward with “evidence that the work[s] [were] copied from the public domain.” As a result, Defendants contend that Plaintiff’s Second Holy Temple Product can be copied and used in derivative works.

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Bungie & Destiny 2 Cheat Creator Agree $13.5m Copyright Damages Judgment

TorrentFreak

Bungie’s claims were underpinned by alleged breaches of copyright law, including the DMCA’s anti-circumvention provisions. ” The defendants argued that during the development of the cheating software, no copies of Destiny 2 were made or distributed, and no derivative works were created.

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NFTs: promisingly transformational, yet fraught with IP pitfalls – Part I

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Caveat Emptor The common notion that acquiring ownership of an NFT representing a work in which copyright subsists equates to owning the copyright to the underlying work is clearly false. UK copyright law mandates that an assignment of copyright be ‘in writing signed by or on behalf of the assignor’.

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The Evolution of Copyright and Translation Terms in India: Part III- A Different Term for Translations

SpicyIP

An Overview of the Debate Some argued that translations should be granted independent copyright protection, separate from the original work, to recognize the creative effort and skill involved in translating. Once the author removed all copies of the work from circulation, no more licenses were to be granted.