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Copyright Office Artificial Intelligence Initiative and Resource Guide

Intellectual Property Law Blog

To facilitate a better understanding of the relevant issues and some of the Copyright Office’s history with AI, I have prepared the Copyright Office Artificial Intelligence Initiative Resource Guide. A summary of this guidance is here.

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The Bizarre Copyright Battle Over Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

Plagiarism Today

The word and the song that it titles has remained a part of our lexicon for nearly sixty years and, despite being a famous tongue-twister (so much so, it was featured in a recent Mental Floss episode on the topic ), has been on the tongues of generations. However, in 1965, there was a very different conversation about the song.

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EUIPO BoA IP Case Law Conference Report #5 : “Copyright in flux: What does the future have in store?”

The IPKat

The session started with the highly disputed topic of copyright unification with Prof. For readers of IPKat, this topic shouldn't come as a surprise, given the prior buzz surrounding EUIPO’s Executive Director João Negrão's expressed intention for EUIPO to potentially oversee an EU copyright title if it were to be established.

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The Not-Quite-So Legal Future for Web Scraping

Plagiarism Today

The truth is that web scraping has always been controversial, but equally fraught legally. However, despite the broad headlines proclaiming that web scraping is now legal, it’s far from it. The Divisive History of Web Scraping. The Divisive History of Web Scraping. Where Does This Leave Us.

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Film Companies Seek ‘Torrenting History’ Related to Redditor

TorrentFreak

Early last year, a group of filmmakers obtained a subpoena which required Reddit to reveal the identities of users who commented on piracy-related topics. Reddit Shared IP Address Recent legal activity shows that Reddit doesn’t intend to automatically comply with all user information requests.

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IP Scholarship, Citations, and Knowledge Governance: Some Insights from the History of IP Teaching in India

SpicyIP

India: To understand the history of IP teaching in India, one needs to know the development stages of Indian legal education as a whole. The approach to legal education appears to have shifted, however. the larger legal consciousness that made people see IP litigations unworthy of much attention? Anything else?)

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Book Review and Reader Discount: Copyright and Cartography

The IPKat

This is a review of Copyright and Cartography : History, Law, and the Circulation of Geographical Knowledge, by Professor Isabella Alexander , University of Technology Sydney, Australia. Kat Maps Some people are gifted with the ability to make any topic interesting (there are also those who have the opposite skill, of course!)