Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 19, 2022

1: Government Pauses Plans to Rewrite UK Copyright Laws After Authors Protest. The rule, entitled copyright exhaustion, places limits on the import of international editions of books. According to authors, this enables authors and publishers to sell books at different prices for different countries.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 4, 2022

Despite a reported development and marketing budget in excess of $100m, Genshin Impact is free to play but is monetized via gacha game mechanics. This is the type of behavior that has attracted copyright infringement lawsuits in the past but in this case, the makers of Genshin XYZ are using copyright law to prevent piracy of their product.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Publishers vs. Internet Archive The self-scanning service is different from the licensing deals other libraries enter into. Not all publishers are happy with IA’s approach which triggered a massive legal battle two years ago. The publishers didn’t listen to these concerns.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Photo by Udo Pohlmann via Pixabay Over the last decades, European lawyers got used to the – at times remarkable and even forceful – interventions of the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) in copyright law. The Safarov case In 2009, Safarov authors a book. The Azerbaijani Supreme Court upholds this decision in 2011.

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Velocity of Content

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The culmination of a decades-long effort, and well before the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and Copyright Term Extension Act were passed in 1998, the 1976 Copyright Act ushered in a new era of copyright law in the United States. Nation Enterprises.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 30, 2024

Copyright exhaustion At first sight, the doctrine of copyright exhaustion would seem to provide an immediate shelter to such upcycling practices given their focus on repurposing of the old items that had previously been already placed on the market with the copyright holder’s consent, and not the creation of new, unauthorized items.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2021

The courts need to understand the degree to which such usage may harm the work or decrease the profits for the owner of the copyright. Today, this doctrine has become one of most popular doctrines in the realm of copyright law. It allows people a positive defense against the infringement of copyright. Definition.

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Velocity of Content

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Fast-paced organizations that rely on and invest heavily in R&D should not only regard published content as the heart of innovation, but also possess a deep appreciation of the system of copyright protecting this intellectual property.

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Plagiarism Today

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Though he clarified that they were not “direct copies”, he claimed there were similarities in style, color choices and techniques used that were overwhelming to him. In 2010, artist Charles Thomspon compiled a list of 15 separate plagiarism allegations against Hirst and published them in the art magazine Jackdaw.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 6, 2024

Any surviving services may need to be structured as marketing agencies that push all of the legal risk to the users and third-party vendors. If not, the print-on-demand industry may not be commercially viable under prevailing law. While Sunfrog won this battle, it lost the war because it’s exited the market.

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LexBlog IP

JULY 24, 2023

Silverman, Kadrey, and Golden allege that Meta and OpenAI used copies of the authors’ books without their permission by copying illegal online “shadow libraries” that contain the texts of thousands of books. One hurdle plaintiffs may struggle to overcome is the 2 nd Circuit Court’s decision in Authors Guild v.

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Velocity of Content

MARCH 16, 2023

This article was originally published in The Scholarly Kitchen. As a person involved in copyright on a daily basis, I’ve observed a number of events and requests for comment over the last few years on the issue of whether artificial intelligence (AI) systems can be “authors” in the copyright sense (or inventors of patents).

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IPilogue

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit reversed a 2019 federal district court’s ruling that held a French court’s ruling was unenforceable due to a conflict in copyright laws between the countries. In 1991, Wofsy, with permission from Picasso’s estate , published De Fontrbrune’s images in “The Picasso Project”.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2023

A newly introduced article on “Obligations for providers of general-purpose AI models” includes two distinct requirements related to copyright. Since its inclusion in the IMCO report in the summer, the requirement to publish “sufficiently detailed summary” had also been criticized by some observers for its unclear nature.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2023

1] From this perspective, it can be argued that the introduction of a limitation-based remuneration right will preserve the anthropocentric approach to copyright law, preventing an upside-down scenario where human creativity becomes instrumental to artificial intelligence. In the EU, Art. In particular, Art. Thouvenin, A. Peukert, T.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 18, 2023

Moritz College of Law The copyright – contract tension Stewart Brand famously said that information wants to be free. We know, however, that many laws limit free access and use of information goods, most prominently copyright law (and IP law generally). ML Genius v.

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The IPKat

JANUARY 25, 2022

The cover provides the requisite information—title, author, and publisher. As such, mechanical reproduction can never be authentic, nor can a copy ever be perfect, because it is detached from its aura. The copyright lawyer might well respond with a glazed look. But of course. But this is not the case for works of art.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 1, 2023

By Guest Blogger Tyler Ochoa Recently, the Ninth Circuit reaffirmed what has become known as the “server test”: in order to be held directly liable for violating the public display right, the alleged infringer must have a fixed “copy” of the work stored on a server in its possession or control. Instagram, LLC , 2023 WL 4554649 (9th Cir.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 2, 2022

Even so, the court’s almost-banal treatment of this super-interesting topic suggests that there may not be much tattoo exceptionalism in copyright law. It’s a creative photo, but it was published. “Von D presumably did not need to copy the pose from the Portrait in order express a sentiment of melancholy.”

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2023

At the district court level, the law of copyright preemption is a morass of ad hoc explanations of whether certain contracts are “equivalent” to the exclusive rights within the general scope of copyright law. Platforms that copy online data and use it to create AI have a strong fair use argument under copyright laws.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 1, 2024

Copyright law crafted decades ago to prevent infringement in an analog world has in many cases held up remarkably well in the digital age. Copying or reproduction remains relevant, as does the concept of distribution. In the United States, the existence of a loophole in copyright law had been an open secret for some time.

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BYU Copyright Blog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

In the educational market, Chegg, Inc. Part of their business model includes providing detailed answers to help students understand their homework that comes from various textbooks and materials from unaffiliated publishers. Chegg") exists as a paid service that assists students in their schoolwork.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 13, 2024

. — For the claims related to illegal selling of scraped data, the court dismissed those because they were preempted by copyright. I did a deep dive on this topic in December , but the general gist of it is that copyright law preempts state law claims if the state-law claims come within the general scope of copyright.

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IP and Legal Filings

JULY 21, 2022

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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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

For the past several years, Chinese-manufactured Ubox IPTV boxes have flooded the market in Taiwan. Taiwan made amendments to copyright law that outlawed piracy-configured devices. Unsurprisingly, that did little to stop the flow or prevent China-based manufacturer Unblock Tech carrying on regardless.

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IP Tech Blog

MAY 15, 2023

It appears that the beat and lyrics (sung with an AI trained on Drake) were original to Ghostwriter977, but the songwriter inadvertently left in a small snippet of copyrighted music belonging to UMG in the form of a “producer tag.” This is like a watermark that a producer can place in their song to detect copying.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

In 2020, Amazon teamed up with publisher Penguin Random House and authors including John Grisham, Scott Turow and Lee Child to sue several pirate ‘Kiss Library’ eBook sites operating out of Ukraine. As a result, authors and the publishing industry as a whole hemorrhage large amounts of revenue each year,” they write.

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Kashishipr

OCTOBER 27, 2021

It encourages them to make suitable programs that can work on their platforms by publishing documents and providing tools to help them adapt to their APIs. Copyright is the most obvious and preferred choice for protecting an API due to the basic reasons that it is permissible within the copyright laws of different nations.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2021

The application of this principle to this case is easy: the elements that Defendants allegedly copied from Coscarelli’s cookbooks are primarily lists of ingredients and directions for combining them. Whereas the latter may be entitled to copyright protection, the former plainly is not. ” Really? Esquared Hosp. ,

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash Welcome to the third trimester of the 2023 round up of EU copyright law! In this edition, we update you on what has happened between July and September 2023 in EU copyright law. The court held that geoblocking of Steam activation keys infringed EU competition law.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

The American copyright industry generates billions of dollars in annual revenue and is generally seen as one of the primary export products. Whether it’s movies, music, software or other goods, US companies are among the market leaders. These allow pirates to play copies of games on their consoles. ” Gaming Piracy.

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Larson & Larson

JUNE 21, 2021

Without a shred of doubt, copyright law envisages the protection of the copyright holder’s rights. The most common limitation where the exclusive rights of a copyright holder can be limited fall under the doctrine of fair use- a defense against copyright infringement. What is Fair Use?

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The IP Law Blog

AUGUST 17, 2023

Under this test, a digital image is considered to be “fixed” in a tangible medium of expression for purposes of the Copyright Act (the “Act”) when it is stored on a computer’s server. This ultimately means that when a copy of an image is not stored on a computer’s servers but merely “embedded” onto a website, search engine, etc.,

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 11, 2023

The most modern instalment of this long history comes in the form of another kind ‘copy’, less richly decorated, yet more relevant and politically sensitive for a country that has established a long-term foreign investment “partnership” with the tech and communication industry: the transposition of Directive 2019/790 into Irish law.

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 8, 2023

When someone violates a creator’s exclusive rights to a piece of work, they are engaging in copyright infringement. modification, and other forms of copying of the work fall under this category. Music as well as the movie industry are two common industries that face copyright issues on a day to day basis.

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CopyrightsWorld

MARCH 30, 2021

If you ask any professional working on digital marketing what is the most valuable online asset for a business, you’ll get pretty the same answer. The second one is to get ownership of their copyright, know their rights under the copyright laws and how to protect them. Which ones? What is original work? Obviously no.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

There is uncertainty over how much selection and refinement is needed to produce the best work (see examples of selection, refinement and reworking here and here ) and getting the right prompt is challenging enough to have created a market for effective prompts. We were not aware that the image may have been created by AI” 2.

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