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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. Scams Target Many Universities These PDFs are not clever guerilla marketing tactics by Robin Hood-inspired pirates.

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Making College (Textbooks) Affordable

Velocity of Content

Publishing industry analyst Bill Rosenblatt wrote for Publishers Weekly that higher education is the publishing segment undergoing the most disruptive changes today.

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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 purpose was educational and non-commercial.

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OM Weekly Digest 06/02/22

Olartemoure Blog

Exportation is performed within market conditions according to quantity and modality corresponding to the nature of the product. On 23 May 2022, a Merger Agreement was signed between the stock exchanges of Colombia, Chile and Peru to form the largest capital market in Latin America. 06/02/22 – Corporate.

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Friday Fantasies

The IPKat

Christmas markets are already here, the lights are bright and shining, but before November is over, this Kat brings you another bundle of joy in the form of IP events and opportunities. Submissions should be sent to admin@atrip.org no later than 1 February 2022. The call for papers will be available to check here.

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Four Fish & Richardson Principals Named 2021 “Women Worth Watching in STEM” by Profiles in Diversity Journal

Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

is a principal in Fish’s Austin office, where she helps progressive innovators survey, secure, and sustain their intellectual property assets in competitive markets. Profiles in Diversity Journal is dedicated to promoting and advancing diversity and inclusion in the corporate, government, nonprofit, higher education, and military sectors.

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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.) By offering content for free, Libgen reportedly devalues the textbook market and according to the publishers, may even cause certain works to cease being published.