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University Websites Are Being Flooded with Online Piracy Scams

TorrentFreak

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. These include a PDF file that advertises a free copy of “Avatar: The Way of Water”, as shown below.

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Canadian Copyright, Fair Dealing and Education, Part Four: The Disappearance of Course Packs

Michael Geist

The course packs were copied and typically sold as an alternative to course textbooks. Copyright lobby groups and their supporters have long claimed that the practice relies on fair dealing and that universities are profiting from copying without compensation. of the pages assigned to students.

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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.) “This collection consists of over 6 million files that include illegal copies of works from a diverse cross-section of the publishing industry. and distributed by Libgen without authorization. 101 et seq.)

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Anti-Piracy Group Warns of a Problematic Textbook Piracy Culture Among Students

TorrentFreak

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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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. Lack of good libraries even within an institution is the most common problem seen across our country. Way Forward.

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By Whom and How Are Our Patent Examiners Being Recruited? Digging Past the Recent Re-Notification of the Exams

SpicyIP

A cropped version of a scanned copy of a US newspaper named ‘The Examiner’ (image from here ) This post is co-authored with Swaraj. One of the objectives of the organization is to “ conduct efficient, transparent and international standards tests in order to assess the competency of candidates for admission, and recruitment purposes.”

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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.