TorrentFreak

JANUARY 10, 2024

Vietnam’s approach to the protection of intellectual property rights has long been criticized by the United States, earning the country prominent placement in successive USTR Special 301 Reports. Alleged Leader Arrested Reports that authorities had made three arrests first appeared on Tuesday.

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 19, 2022

First off today, Alison Flood at The Guardian reports that, in the United Kingdom, the Intellectual Property Office (IPO) has announced that they are pausing any changes to their copyright laws after authors expressed concern the change could drastically hurt their income. That campaign was successful as it has, for now at least.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 17, 2024

Without obtaining permission, Lokka made a copy of the report, added his own subtitles, and then retransmitted the new version to the public via Twitter. When he copied and then rebroadcast the news report, that was copyright infringement. Subtitle Defense 2.0: ” Freedom of Speech vs. .

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Plagiarism Today

MAY 9, 2022

I put it on the back burner, but eventually sought out a cached copy of the article to read, even if I couldn’t write about it or link to it. Looking at the comparisons, it’s pretty obvious that she copied my words and then rewrote them to fit her style and message. Here’s Why.” However, when I clicked it, I went to an error page.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 13, 2023

In this edition, we report on an AG Opinion that came out late in 2022 and update you on what has happened in the first trimester of 2023 in EU copyright law. For the a comment on the most recent Court judgment on private copying and the cloud (Case C-433/20), also coming from Austria, see here.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 16, 2021

As one delves deeper into the allegations, it becomes clear that it isn’t just a case of a writer with a heavy hand for copy and paste, but a broader ethical breakdown that represents a years-long failing on Mikkelson’s part. To make matters even worse, Mikkelson’s bad behavior isn’t just connected to plagiarism.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 21, 2022

That would usually mean a decision not to report on these matters, but due to the novelty of the Board we decided to take a closer look. “My own photos of my design were used in image edits and displayed on 11:11 Digital / Paris Hilton’s social media accounts without my permission. ” Jarman previously noted.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 12, 2021

Ling Zhao of the MARQUES China team reports here. COPYRIGHT YouTube has released the first edition of its copyright transparency report. The report, which covers copyright enforcement on the platform from January to June 2021, provides insights into how the platform's copyright management systems are working.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The suspects’ “entire IT infrastructure” was dismantled, police report. By any standard, the scale of the losses reported by police this morning are considerable. As things standard, the truth can only be found buried away in an invisible edit. this morning saw the text as it appears in the image below.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 3, 2023

When people use search engines to find pirate sites or pirated content, the results they receive today represent a massively edited subset of what is actually out there. As previously reported , these injunctions can now be presented to Google for recognition. Just over a year ago, everything changed.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

The company demanded damages under copyright law claiming that the team “willfully and maliciously” copied, adapted and distributed its source code and other content without permission. “Any complained of copying of copyright protected material that did occur, if any, was not undertaken for profit or commercial purposes.

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SpicyIP

JULY 29, 2021

As most readers must be aware by now, the Parliamentary Standing Committee Report on India’s IP regime has revealed a problematic, maximalist approach to IP protection, showing no more than a tokenistic appreciation of public interest considerations. Limitations on storage of copied works in digital formats. Bench decision).

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JANUARY 4, 2024

In this edition, we update you on what has happened in the last three months of 2024 in EU copyright law. CJEU judgments Seven.One, CJEU, C-260/22 Coming from Germany, this preliminary reference concerned broadcasting organisations and their entitlement to fair compensation as a result of private copying.

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 13, 2022

According to a 1999 report by Washington City Paper , she first found herself dealing with accusations of plagiarism, something she blamed on copy and paste errors. Throughout the lawsuit, Barrett compares herself to other reporters at The Atlantic that she claims got better treatment than her for similar or worse issues.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

For the purpose of this report, however, we’ll home in on the copyright issues faced by Reddit during the last year and how the site responded to them. We removed 665,898 pieces of content in response to these takedown notices,” the company reveals in the latest edition of its transparency report. Copyright Removals.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

First off today, Kevin Shalvey at Business Insider reports that “Sports Illustrated” swimsuit model Genevieve Morton has filed a lawsuit against Twitter alleging that the site was slow to remove infringing material and that an AI photo editing tool created unlawful derivative works.

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 5, 2023

For example, The Washington Post has used an AI reporter for over half a decade. Whether it keeps pace with it or not is impossible to say, but in my limited testing, it does a good job of detecting works that are written by AI, even if a human edits and rewrites it. Advantages: Current tools are free and easy to use.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 17, 2023

In 2000, D&D introduced the Open Game Licence (OGL) to permit the use of portions of the game’s third edition. This GNU/Creative Commons-esque licence permitted users and third parties to modify, copy, and distribute certain game content from the various worlds of D&D.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 13, 2022

As reported last summer, several YouTubers were arrested in Japan for uploading short movie edits to YouTube. These so-called “fast movies” are regular films edited to around 10 minutes in length and aimed at those unwilling to dedicate a couple of hours to find out what a movie is all about.

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Kashishipr

MAY 25, 2021

It may not always prevent unauthorized copying; however, it may serve as a public notice by securing a public record in one’s favor. Such a license would enable using the resources held by owners of the CC Licenses to the extent of editing, remixing, copying, and distributing the work without circumventing the copyright law.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

Per Batzel, “the mere existence of the hard copy yearbooks does not indicate that the publishers ‘provided’ the yearbooks for publication on the internet.” But if a yearbook database vendor gets a hard copy of a yearbook, what does the supplier think is going to happen with it? .” Public affairs.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

AI-generated works have won awards: The Crow , an “AI-made” film won the Jury Award at the Cannes Short Film Festival and the story of an AI artwork winning the Colorado State Fair’s annual art competition was reported in The New York Times. AI-generated art was used for magazine covers, including Cosmopolitan and The Economist.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 24, 2023

Photo by Artur Shamsutdinov on Unsplash This is a two-part post summarising the authors’ findings from the report on Copyright Infringement in the Video Game Industry , which was prepared by the authors for the World Intellectual Property Organization.

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

Our family home always had the latest edition. I would read an article or book passage, take notes, write what I’d learned in my own words and voila my homework, research, or report was complete. Copying was tedious. Copying took effort. If not in the encyclopedia, the local public library was my next stop.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

This personal intellectual creation is lacking if the photographs in question are “mere reproductions of other photographs” in which an original has been merely reproduced (copied) as closely as possible. If a copy of a computer program is published in the territory of the EU/EEA with the consent of the rightholder, Section 69 No.

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JIPL Online

MARCH 15, 2021

3] The suit alleged that Sherlock Holmes’ character traits of warmth and empathy were copied and not yet in the public domain, as these traits only developed in later works that are still protected by copyright. [4] 18] Netflix admitted it had access to and copied the memoir. [19] 5] Netflix and the estate quickly settled. [6].

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TorrentFreak

JULY 13, 2023

Pirate site brands, including 123movies, Putlocker, Kisscartoon, 123movieshub, and GoMovies, were suddenly recognized all over the world, despite in many cases having been copied from ‘pirate’ brands already in existence. With over 205 million monthly visits, ACE had a clear goal in mind for the giant pirate site.

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Velocity of Content

JANUARY 18, 2023

If the data is used to generate reports for compliance-related or financial needs, those rise to the top. According to the second edition of the DAMA International’s “Data Management Body of Knowledge” (DMBOK2), an asset is “an economic resource, that can be owned or controlled, and that holds or produces value.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 19, 2023

Specifically, a group called Spice DAO purchased an NFT displaying a copy of filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky’s ‘Dune’ for $3 million, assuming it would grant them the ability to produce derivative works, such as an animated Dune series. TSPs are natural or legal persons responsible for the validation and security of digital signatures.

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Copyright Lately

MARCH 13, 2024

in 1987 and has since been the subject of several reboots and dozens of international editions. At a Loss for Wordles In recent days, numerous developers targeted by the Times’s DMCA notice have taken to social media to report that their own Reactle-built games have been shut down. .” The New York Times Co.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 27, 2021

The book sold approximately 6,000 copies upon its initial publication in 1843. But Dickens was unable to prevent the publication of all pirated editions (on both sides of the Pond). According to the podcast, Dickens is reported to have personally attended at least one of them, to his great pleasure.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 19, 2022

President Ford couldn’t prevent others from copying bare historical facts. Feist cites INS for proposition that the “news element” is not the creation of the writer but the report of the history of the day which is public property. Eventually they start creating annual reports w/statistics. She doesn’t think those are the same.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 13, 2024

Editions Ltd. As I wrote back in December, scraping claims are almost always about unwanted copying and distribution of data. However, scraping generally means “extracting data from a website and copying it into a structured format, allowing for data manipulation or analysis.” 3d 754, 760 (9th Cir. 2015) (emphasis added).

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Velocity of Content

JUNE 15, 2022

Fox News had been launched two years earlier; and the Wall Street Journal had begun charging $50 per year for subscription access to its online edition. The most common example of a market-available STM at the time the DMCA was passed was Macrovision , a mechanical means of impeding VHS-to-VHS (videotape) copying.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The background of the relevant decision, Kastellaun , was a collective municipality (in German, a “Verbandsgemeinde”) named Kastellaun that posted to its website a report produced by a private planning consultancy for a party seeking planning permission for the purposes of that planning procedure.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 25, 2023

Photo by Artur Shamsutdinov on Unsplash This is a two-part post summarising the authors’ findings from the report on Copyright Infringement in the Video Game Industry which was prepared by the authors for the World Intellectual Property Organization.

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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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