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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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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.

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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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Marketplace: A Year of Innovation to Meet Evolving Customer Needs

Velocity of Content

Marketplace has had a flurry of exciting new enhancements over the past year based on market needs and feedback from both publishers and customers. Earlier this year, Marketplace introduced the ability to purchase a single copy of an article or book chapter and get immediate access, if the content is available.

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The EU DSM Copyright Directive: Implementation in Germany 2021 – Part I

Kluwer Copyright Blog

In any case, any copies of the works concerned must be deleted as soon as they are no longer required for the analytic processes (Section 44b(2) second sentence UrhG). Under Section 44b(3) second sentence UrhG, any reservation of rights of use in the case of works available online is only valid where it is in machine-readable form.

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A (More!) Problematic Plagiarism: Thinking About The Allegations Against UGC

SpicyIP

In the context of plagiarism, UGC has publicly problematized both ‘regular’ plagiarism ( through its 2018 Regulations for the ‘ Promotion of Academic Integrity and Prevention of Plagiarism in Higher Educational Institutions’ ) as well as ‘self-plagiarism’ (through a public Notice in 2020). Context is Important!

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A research-friendly copyright system is a flexible copyright system

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Since then, in-depth assessments into the copyright law for research and education conducted by the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Education and Research have concluded that recent simplifications of those provisions, which were heavily criticised by publishers at the time, were justified and have largely stood the test of time.