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17 Copyright and/or Plagiarism Stories for Halloween

Plagiarism Today

Also, many have design errors due to their age. Copyright Challenges in Creating Garbage Horror : Back in October 2011, my partner and I were running a small YouTube channel named Garbage Horror, where we reviewed various low-budget horror movies. I’m working to fix those, but it will take time.

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A Cautionary Tale on Including an Expiration Date in NDAs

LexBlog IP

In August 2011, the plaintiff, an English data center design company, drafted an NDA in connection with negotiations over its potential sale to a competitor. The recent decision in Bladeroom demonstrates what can happen when the drafter of an NDA tries to have it both ways. Ninth Circuit’s Decision in Bladeroom.

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Evolution of Tests of Creativity in Copyrights

IP and Legal Filings

Originality is the quality that distinguishes produced or invented works from copies, clones, forgeries, or derivative works by being new or novel. The Copyright , Designs and Patents Act of 1988 in the United Kingdom specifies in Section (1)(1)(a) that copyright exists in “original literary, dramatic, musical, or artistic works.”

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13 Spooky Copyright Cases, Just in Time for Halloween

Copyright Lately

As the story goes, they provided him with a copy of a few scenes from “Ghostbusters” in which the theme would appear. You can judge for yourself by downloading a copy of “Jap Herron” here. This prompted a lawsuit by Don Post Studios, which asserted that the Cinema Secrets mask was a copy of its own mask.

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Cal. retains over $300 million in civil penalties against J&J on appeal

43(B)log

Nor was there any conflict with the injunctive relief ruling: there were many rational reasons to find that Ethicon’s marketing was likely to deceive doctors during the statutory liability period that ended in 2018, but that there was sufficient current information in the public domain to warrant the denial of injunctive relief in June 2020.

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A Preliminary Analysis of Trump’s Copyright Lawsuit Over Interview Recordings (Trump v. Simon & Schuster) (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

If the work was published without proper copyright notice, the work entered the public domain. Effective January 1, 1978, the date of federal copyright protection was moved back from the date of first publication to the date the work was “fixed in a tangible medium of expression,” or permanently recorded in some form. .

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