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Erotic Romance Author Accused of Plagiarism from Fan Fiction

Plagiarism Today

” The reason was that, the book in question, Paid to Kneel , was plagiarized from an earlier work by a user named Blue_King that was posted on a Supernatural fan fiction forum. What I do despise is plagiarism. Fan Fiction, Professional Plagiarism. To that end, the fan fiction community is no stranger to plagiarism.

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YouTube Aims to Simplify Music Licensing

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However, perhaps the most significant change is happening on the copyright side of things. Specifically, YouTube is taking steps to make it easier for YouTubers to license popular music for their videos. Creator Music, in effect, expands the free audio library with a new library of options from various record labels and publishers.

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Plagiarism Police come for Winston & Strawn

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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. HLG ultimately filed suit for copyright infringement.

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Is Your Website Published or Unpublished?

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It deals with whether Amazon and/or CCA infringed FDN’s copyrights by scraping descriptions from their website for use as part of Amazon’s product listings. That question is whether the descriptions were “published” or “unpublished” according to the law when they were put on FDN’s website. The Registration Wrinkle.

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3 Count: Copyright Exhaustion

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1: Government Pauses Plans to Rewrite UK Copyright Laws After Authors Protest. The rule, entitled copyright exhaustion, places limits on the import of international editions of books. The rule, entitled copyright exhaustion, places limits on the import of international editions of books.

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My Concerns with the ‘Can’t Be Evil’ NFT Licenses

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Last month, a study published by The Galaxy examined the top 25 most valuable NFT projects and found that, despite many understanding that NFTs transferred either the copyright or the license in the original work, only 1 in 25 of those projects even attempted to do as such. Understanding the “Can’t Be Evil” Licenses.

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3 Count: Guitars, Cadillacs and Settlement

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1: Warner Music, Country Star Dwight Yoakam Settle Copyrights Dispute. First off today, Blake Brittain at Reuters reports that country music singer Dwight Yoakam has reached a settlement with Warner Music Group (WMG) that puts an end to their copyright termination battle. Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday.