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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.) Some allegdly-infringed works (full list below) “Without Court intervention, Defendants will continue operating the Libgen Sites, causing still further harm to copyright holders, including Plaintiffs.

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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. Civil penalties for Federal Copyright infringement range from $750 per song to $150,000 in damages for each willful act.”

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Clash of Colleagues: The Battle for Academic Attribution

BYU Copyright Blog

Wilder alleged that Hoiland had used course materials created by Wilder for a faculty development program, Numeracy Infusion Course for Higher Education (NICHE), in five slides of a presentation Hoiland gave at the Community College Conference on Learning Assessment (CCCLA). The Court granted summary judgment in favor of Hoiland.

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Copyright-A Bane For The Students Or A Boon For Copyright Owners?

IP and Legal Filings

The users of infringed copyrighted work are not even aware that they are causing monetary losses to the person and publication associated with it. The secondary copyright infringement or contributory infringement has not got much attention. Evolution afterward. The number suggests its misery. Way Forward.

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Canadian Copyright, Fair Dealing and Education, Part One: Setting the Record Straight

Michael Geist

This week is Fair Dealing Week , which provides an opportunity to set the record straight on Canadian copyright and education, backed by actual data on what takes place on university campuses across the country.

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SpicyIP Weekly Review (July 17- July 23)

SpicyIP

Sudhakar Pai and Ors vs M/S Manipal Academy of Higher Education on 17 July, 2023 (Karnataka High Court) The appellants, employees, and office bearers in the same company, filed the present appeal contesting the compensation and the civil imprisonment ordered by the Commercial court for wilfully disobeying the court’s earlier injunction order.

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HathiTrust Decision Summary

Copycense

More than three-quarters of the books that Google scanned as part of the Books project remain subject to copyright protection. In June 2011, Michigan announced it would share with the public "orphan works" -- works to presumed to be subject to copyright protection, but for whom a copyright owner cannot be found.