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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.

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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. No educational institution applied for any licenses till now. The number suggests its misery. 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. 133 for the annual report stating this). But the Patent Office still relied on UPSC along with Educational Consultants India Ltd. (a

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Connecticut’s Privacy Law Signed by Governor

LexBlog IP

It: sets responsibilities and privacy protection standards for data controllers; gives consumers the right to access, correct, delete, and obtain a copy of personal data and to opt out of the processing or personal data for certain purposes (e.g., The CPDPA is designed to establish a framework for controlling and processing personal data.

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Privacy and Security Roundup: New consumer privacy laws, big developments in ransomware attacks and the FBI’s Operation Trojan Shield

LexBlog IP

Obtain a portable copy of the data. OPPA would not apply to GLBA-governed data, HIPAA-covered entities or business associates, higher education institutions and business-to-business transactions, among other carve outs. were configured to “blind copy” all messages to an FBI-controlled platform. persons.

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