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Audi and the Challenge of Cross-Media Plagiarism Detection

Plagiarism Today

Mange, who has nearly 4 million followers, pointed out the copying in a video comparing the two works. This kicked off a firestorm of controversy in China, with Audi, M&C and Lau all apologizing for the copying. All these systems are remarkable feats of technology and have helped shape our understanding of copying.

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Whose Serve is it Anyway? Assessing the Sun Pharma v. Dabur Finding on the Applicants’ Obligation to Serve Counter-Statements

SpicyIP

Dabur Finding on the Applicants’ Obligation to Serve Counter-Statements By Anurathna Mathivanan and Nivrati Gupta Does an Applicant, while filing the Counter-Statement at the Trade Marks Registry, also need to serve a copy on its Opponent? 1959 Rules, 2002 Rules and 2017 Rules – Mending Invisible Gaps?

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Gazing Substantive vs Procedural Rights in the Light of SAP Se vs Swiss Auto Products and Anr

SpicyIP

The case revolved around SAP Se (Appellant) trying to furnish new evidence according to the Trademark Rules, 2002. Instead the court assessed whether the Registrar should have applied the 2002 Rules or the 2017 Rules, while passing the impugned order, as the impugned order was passed in 2019.

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Full Scope Written Description

Patently-O

The case does not go into this, but the original application here is a copy of the nature biotechnology article published by the inventors in January 2002 along with 1-page of text all filed in May 2002. Sadelain’s testimony about post-priority date developments, therefore, is irrelevant to the inquiry before us.”

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Does Failure to Submit Copies to Copyright Office Put an End to Copyright?

Dear Rich IP Blog

Questions: (1) As I understand it, the publisher would have had to submit 2 copies of the magazine to the Library of Congress to complete the registration process. How can I find out if the publisher actually sent copies of the magazine to the LoC to complete the process? (2) So, who owns the magazine copyright? We don't know.

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Supreme Court of Canada on Copyright: “Copyright Law Does Not Exist Solely for the Benefit of Authors”

Michael Geist

The Supreme Court rejected the request, concluding that an additional payment for downloads would violate the principle of technological neutrality, famously stating: In our view, there is no practical difference between buying a durable copy of the work in a store, receiving a copy in the mail, or downloading an identical copy using the Internet.

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Plagiarism and PMLA: Taking a look at the ED’s involvement in the Shankar- Tamilnandan “Enthiran” Copyright Saga

SpicyIP

crore under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), 2002. Since we are on the topic of PMLA and copyright infringement, the legislative intent behind the PMLA was to be used to combat serious criminal offence like drug trafficking, large-scale financial frauds, and organised crime when it came into effect in 2002.