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3 Count: Grand Theft Mods

Plagiarism Today

1: β€˜GTA’ Reverse-Engineer Modders Defend Projects as Under β€œFair Use”. First off today, Will Nelson at NME reports that video game modders are fighting back against a lawsuit filed by Rockstar Games claiming that their fan-created mods are a fair use, not a copyright infringement.

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3 Count: Matrix Arbitration

Plagiarism Today

2: Amendment Passes to Grant Teachers Fair Use of Copyrighted Work Remotely. Next up today, Focus Taiwan reports that the Taiwan legislature has passed a new copyright law that would grant educators a fair use protection when using copyright-protected works via online classes.

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Clash of Colleagues: The Battle for Academic Attribution

BYU Copyright Blog

After a series of emails, Wilder filed a formal complaint with CUNY in March 2020, alleging academic misconduct and plagiarism on Hoilands part. As for the affirmative defense of fair use by Hoiland, the court analyzed the four factors. And, the use had limited to no effect on the market.

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Can Intellectual Property Rights Safeguard Your Blog?

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Such a license would enable using the resources held by owners of the CC Licenses to the extent of editing, remixing, copying, and distributing the work without circumventing the copyright law. Blogging and Fair Use. You may sign-up for a Creative Common License where the issue lies in seeking acknowledgment of the work.

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RightsClick Offers Simplified Copyright Management

Plagiarism Today

RightsClick also makes it easy to bulk edit a large number of works. The Assess Tool also provides a basic fair use analysis and helps to make sure that the use isn’t covered under any other exceptions to copyright law. The post RightsClick Offers Simplified Copyright Management appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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