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What Winnie-the-Pooh Lapsing into the Public Domain Really Means

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On January 1, 2022, works that were first published in the year 1926 lapsed into the public domain. Winnie-the-Pooh is likely the most culturally relevant character to enter the public domain since 2019, when works started entering the public domain again in the United States due to the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act.

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17 Copyright and/or Plagiarism Stories for Halloween

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However, that is just the latest in a decade-long history of discussing copyright, plagiarism and other authorship issues as they pertain to Halloween and horror. So, this year we’re going to take a look back at the various tales of copyright infringement and/or plagiarism that we’ve looked at over the years.

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Disney+ ‘Behind the Attraction’ Accused of Plagiarism

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Onge published a video to his YouTube Channel Art of Engineering explaining the inner workings of the Disney’s Tower of Terror thrill ride. They have a lengthy and aggressive history when it comes to protecting their rights , even as many of their stories are based on public domain tales. In July 2019, YouTuber James St.

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Infographic | Shakespeare and Intellectual Property

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In the Elizabethan time, plagiarism in theater and in literature wasn’t viewed as it is today. A clear example can be seen in “Romeo and Juliet,” where Shakespeare took a lot from Arthur Brooke’s poem, “The Tragical History of Romeus and Juliet,” published in 1562 , but enriched the story and characters.

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3 Count: Sealed with a Kiss

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First off today, Andrew Albanese at Publishers Weekly Reports that a collection of publishers and authors have secured a default judgement against a piracy service named KISS Library, this one awarding them $7.8 Copyright Law, works lapse into the public domain on January First of the year their copyright expires.

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5 Ways Copyright Has Shaped the Holidays

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Whether it’s a movie becoming a holiday classic due to it being (briefly) in the public domain, holiday songs still very much under copyright, multiple legal questions around a children’s classic or some long-running myths that have changed the way people view some of the season’s most important characters, copyright has been a factor.

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3 Count: Extrinsic vs. Intrinsic

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The case looked at whether You Raise Me Up was similar to a 1977 Icelandic song Söknuður , which is owned by Johannsongs-Publishing, Ltd. 3: ComicMix To Publish Lost Dr Seuss Stories, Out Of Copyright. The post 3 Count: Extrinsic vs. Intrinsic appeared first on Plagiarism Today.