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Utilizing the Annual Copyright License Across Your Organization

Velocity of Content

After all, many kinds of published literature, including news, blogs, books, journals, and standards — including the organizations’ own materials — are protected by copyright laws that place limits on how content can be used by others without the rightsholder’s permission. How Do Different Departments Use the Annual Copyright License?

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Missing Revenue in the Global Flip: Getting the Open Access Math Right

Velocity of Content

While the US policy differs from Plan S in that it purports to be “agnostic” toward business models, the end result, the flipping of hybrid/subscription journals to fully-OA, may be the same. The thinking is that if we can somehow manage to flip the institutional subscription revenues to OA models, the market will sustain itself.

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Plagiarism Police come for Winston & Strawn

Patently-O

2024) A recent copyright infringement lawsuit filed by small Boston intellectual property boutique Hsuanyeh Law Group PC (HLG) against international giant Winston & Strawn LLP focuses a dividing line that can highlight when copying the work of another firm is permissible. Winston & Strawn , 23-cv-11193 (S.D.N.Y. Cannon , 789 N.W.2d

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Fourth Circuit Issues a Bummer Fair Use Ruling–Philpot v. IJR

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

In 2013, Philpot uploaded the photo to Wikimedia Commons, which is governed by the standard Creative Commons license requiring attribution. Philpot claims his standard photo licensing fee is $3,500, but reuses of the photo from Wikipedia Commons didn’t require any payment (just attribution). ” Market Effect.

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When is it Fair Use to Use a Photo to “Illustrate” an Article?

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

” Factor four : The court acknowledges that a market exists for plaintiff’s photos, but the transformative nature of defendant’s use “mutes” the degree of market substitution. Factor three : The entirety of the work was copied. McGucken is appealing the ruling against him. He has a reasonable chance of success on appeal.

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EU copyright law round up – third trimester of 2023

Kluwer Copyright Blog

CJEU judgments and AG Opinions Ocilion, CJEU, C-426/21 In July, the CJEU delivered its judgment in the Ocilion case, which related to the right of communication to the public and the private copying exception. Seven.One, AG Opinion, C-260/22 This is yet another preliminary reference on the private copying exception and broadcastling.

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UK Law and Artificial Intelligence

Velocity of Content

By way of background, the EU, as part of its Digital Single Market Copyright Directive , looked at the then-extant UK copyright exception for the making of copies of copyrightable works to perform text and data mining (TDM) in a non-commercial context. I am loath to declare all news content buyers “winners” here, however.

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