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Publishers’ Lawsuit Accuses Libgen of “Staggering” Copyright Infringement

TorrentFreak

Bedford, Freeman & Worth Publishing Group, LLC (d/b/a Macmillan Learning, McGraw Hill LLC, and Pearson Education, Inc.) Defendants have absolutely no legal justification for what they do and operate in complete and knowing defiance of the rule of law,” the complaint adds. . and distributed by Libgen without authorization.

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

IP and Legal Filings

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. If copyright protection is applied rigidly, it will hamper progress of the society. Way Forward.

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A Novel Dataset Measuring Change in Copyright Exceptions

Kluwer Copyright Blog

We soon realized that information about the changes to copyright law over time – which would be especially useful for empirical studies – was lacking. There have been many studies describing differences in copyright exceptions between countries, such as those by Seng , Crews , Hilty & Nérisson , and the WIPO Secretariat.

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Canadian Copyright, Fair Dealing and Education, Part One: Setting the Record Straight

Michael Geist

In doing so, they have relied on a steady diet of misleading claims about the state of the law, the licensing practices of Canadian educational institutions, the importance (or lack thereof) of copying of materials in course packs, and the effects of fair dealing. The addition of “education” was hardly an overhaul.

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The EU DSM Copyright Directive: Implementation in Germany 2021 – Part I

Kluwer Copyright Blog

17 DSMD, was implemented into a separate legislative act, the German Copyright Service Provider Act, called in German “UrhDaG” (see III. All German copyright laws affected by the reform are available in an official English translation here (UrhG, UrhDaG, VGG.). Extensive changes to the German Copyright Act.

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A (More!) Problematic Plagiarism: Thinking About The Allegations Against UGC

SpicyIP

In the context of plagiarism, UGC has publicly problematized both ‘regular’ plagiarism ( through its 2018 Regulations for the ‘ Promotion of Academic Integrity and Prevention of Plagiarism in Higher Educational Institutions’ ) as well as ‘self-plagiarism’ (through a public Notice in 2020). liability, if any, under copyright law, 2.)

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A research-friendly copyright system is a flexible copyright system

Kluwer Copyright Blog

It has been a year since the German Social Democrats, Greens and Liberals formed the German government and published their coalition agreement, which promises to make Germany’s copyright law more research friendly. The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed many shortcomings of existing European copyright exceptions for research and education.