TorrentFreak
SEPTEMBER 15, 2023
Majors Publishers File Copyright Complaint Against Libgen According to a copyright lawsuit filed in the U.S. Bedford, Freeman & Worth Publishing Group, LLC (d/b/a Macmillan Learning, McGraw Hill LLC, and Pearson Education, Inc.) At least 20,000 of those files were published by plaintiffs Cengage Learning, Inc.,
Michael Geist
FEBRUARY 24, 2023
Canadian copyright lobby groups effort to persuade the government to restrict fair dealing has often focused on a particular use case: the course pack. The course packs were copied and typically sold as an alternative to course textbooks. The course packs were copied and typically sold as an alternative to course textbooks.
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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. Copyright ensures certain minimum rights and it has never been an absolute right. Evolution afterward.
TorrentFreak
APRIL 29, 2023
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.”
Kluwer Copyright Blog
FEBRUARY 13, 2022
In 2015, the Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property (PIJIP) set out to conduct empirical research on the impact of copyright exceptions. We soon realized that information about the changes to copyright law over time – which would be especially useful for empirical studies – was lacking.
Michael Geist
FEBRUARY 21, 2023
Canadian copyright lobby groups have relentlessly lobbied the government to overturn decades of Supreme Court of Canada jurisprudence, seeking unprecedented restrictions on fair dealing that include eliminating it for educational institutions if a licence is available. These claims are grounded in multiple inaccuracies.
TorrentFreak
JANUARY 6, 2023
Last year, a student survey found that nearly half of all students who use digital textbooks get their copies through illegal means. “Unfortunately, we see an unhealthy culture in higher education, where every other student has acquired study books illegally.
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