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3 Count: Plagiarism Again

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Josh Hawley’s Move to Strip Disney’s Copyrights Called ‘Blatantly Unconstitutional’. He claims that it aims to revoke Disney’s “special” copyright protections though the law would rewrite copyright law for all creators. 2: Riot Games sues Mobile Legends: Bang Bang for Plagiarism—Again.

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Erotic Romance Author Accused of Plagiarism from Fan Fiction

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” The reason was that, the book in question, Paid to Kneel , was plagiarized from an earlier work by a user named Blue_King that was posted on a Supernatural fan fiction forum. After some digging, KokomRoilly found multiple lengthy passages of verbatim copying and posted highlighted passages on their Twitter account.

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3 Count: Dark Horse Dismissal

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copyright law. Genius filed the lawsuit in 2019 alleging that Google was unlawfully copying lyrics to songs that they had hosted. According to Genius, they had used watermarking techniques to prove that Google had copied from their database of lyrics. Neither side commented on the decision.

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3 Count: Copyright Exhaustion

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1: Government Pauses Plans to Rewrite UK Copyright Laws After Authors Protest. Without this rule, many authors fear the UK market would be flooded with cheaper international copies. The IPO has said that it will continue evaluating potential changes to copyright law but did not set a timetable.

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3 Count: Polish Rejection

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1: Top EU Court Rejects Polish Complaint Over Copyright Law. First off today, John Silk at Deutsche Welle reports that the highest court in the European Union, the European Court of Justice (ECJ), has rejected a Polish challenge to the latest EU copyright directive. Have any suggestions for the 3 Count?

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3 Count: Guitars, Cadillacs and Settlement

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Finally today, Porter Anderson from Publishing Perspectives reports that the International Publishers Association is joining a chorus of Kenyan-based publishers in decrying proposed changes to the nation’s copyright law. The 3 Count Logo was created by Justin Goff and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License.

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3 Count: Sealed with a Kiss

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Next up today, Murray Stassen at Music Business Worldwide reports that the performing rights organization SoundExchange has secured a victory in their lawsuit against Music Choice as a federal court has agreed to refer the case to the Copyright Royalty Board at SoundExchange’s request. They are free of copyright.