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17 Copyright and/or Plagiarism Stories for Halloween

Plagiarism Today

Also, many have design errors due to their age. How a Copyright Mistake Created the Modern Zombie : The second in the Creepy Copyright Mondays series was an explainer on how Night of the Living Dead , one of the most iconic zombie films, fell into the public domain. I’m working to fix those, but it will take time.

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Patentability of Food Recipes and the Section 3(e) Challenge

IIPRD

Recently, the office of Controller General of Patents, Designs & Trade Marks granted a patent to a ragi walnut soup mix prepared by the 52-year old woman, Shubhangi Patil. After the Patent Amendment Act 2005, patent protection for food, pharma and chemical inventions is possible but this concept not very popular in India.

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The Modern Copyright Dilemma: Digital Content Ownership and Access

IP and Legal Filings

Introduction The Intellectual property laws are designed in such a way that not only reward the creator of his intellectual creation thereby incentivising other creators for further innovation, while balancing the rights of the creator with the right of the society to access information or knowledge.

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Maybe Duct Tape Can’t Fix Everything: Slippery Standards As Copyright Goes Bananas

LexBlog IP

For a court, that process means “’dissect[ing] the allegedly copied [work’s] structure and isolate each level of abstraction contained within it.’” .’” Id. at 9 ( quoting Compulife Software Inc. Newman , 959 F.3d 3d 1288 , 1303 (11th Cir. ’” Id. at 10 ( quoting Computer Assocs. Altai, Inc.,