Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 24, 2022

In 2012, Amazon had a major scandal as fake authors were exploiting their Direct Publishing platform to publish plagiarized erotica. All it has to do is use readily available plagiarism detection tools to detect works that contain a large volume of clearly copied text. To that end, they are the perfect company to do it.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

JANUARY 11, 2023

The SCPA legally protects layouts of integrated circuits upon registration, making them illegal to copy without permission. The deposit can be either a physical copy of the mask work or a digital copy in a format specified by the Office. It is authorized by the federal Semiconductor Chip Protection Act of 1984 (SCPA).

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Plagiarism Today

APRIL 4, 2022

In some types of programming, especially when there’s only one correct way to do something, copying code isn’t just a shortcut, it’s the norm. Many lawyers also copy and paste heavily in the legal documents in a bid to meet the criteria there. However, this issue is not limited to the classroom.

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Michael Geist

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Since the Canadian copyright law reforms in 2012, education and libraries have increased spending on licensing and a non-partisan House of Commons study found no need to create new restriction on education and library copying rights.

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Michael Geist

JULY 20, 2022

In the 2012 ESA v. The Internet is simply a technological taxi that delivers a durable copy of the same work to the end user. To illustrate, consider a retailer that allows customers to purchase a digital or physical copy of an album. 3(1) is engaged because the user receives a durable copy of the work: ESA, at para.

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Intepat

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

This doctrine is mainly pertinent to the physical copies of copyrighted works, such as books, CDs, and DVDs. Digital content can easily be copied which raises the question of whether this doctrine ought to apply to digital works as well. However, the applicability of this doctrine in the digital era is still a matter of contention.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 30, 2022

2012 War on Cyberlockers. Wupload and Fileserve disabled all public sharing functionality in April of 2012. For example, the following notice identifies links to copyright-infringing copies of the Australian film “Beneath Hill 60” on Megaupload, Wupload, Filesonic, and Fileserve. Old Names in New Takedown Notices.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

During the Cox trial, the music companies presented a hard drive that contained the files, suggesting that those were the original songs that were pirated between 2012 and 2014. — A copy of Cox’s motion to intervene in the Charter cases is available here (pdf). Vacate the $1 Billion Verdict.

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 19, 2022

She further alleges that, in addition to copy and paste plagiarism, that Ciuc? Back in 2012, we covered another Romanian Prime Minister, Victor Ponta, who faced similar allegations of plagiarism in his dissertation. also used other techniques to mask the plagiarism. Opposition politician Dacian Ciolo?

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

JANUARY 11, 2023

The SCPA legally protects layouts of integrated circuits upon registration, making them illegal to copy without permission. The deposit can be either a physical copy of the mask work or a digital copy in a format specified by the Office. It is authorized by the federal Semiconductor Chip Protection Act of 1984 (SCPA).

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 23, 2025

The shutdown of Megaupload in 2012 put a spotlight on the cyberlocker industry and, urged by rightsholders, major payment companies started to intervene. Nintendo previously sued the file hosting company and won, both in first instance and on appeal. But even if the EU takes the case on, it will likely take years before a decision is reached.

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IPilogue

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Photocopying classroom materials in a K-12 public school system may have seemed harmless and benign before the 2012 Supreme Court of Canada case, Alberta v Canadian Copyright Licensing Agency (Access Copyright). Despite its benefits, copying materials can present consequences for the content’s owners, artists, and publishers.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 10, 2024

Nealy’s personal life was no major success either, as he spent time in prison from 1989 to 2008, and again from 2012 to 2015. That release sold millions of copies reaching the Billboard chart’s top ten. — A copy of the Supreme Court Decision, written by Justice Elena Kagan, is available here (pdf).

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Michael Geist

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

In the 1990s, a university would both purchase a book and pay for the right to copy a portion of it to distribute to students as course materials. increase from 2012/2013), and 158,274 new e-book titles in 2021/2022 (a 53.7% This means that overall, MacEwan spends an average of $1.8 million annually on digital content.

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Velocity of Content

DECEMBER 4, 2024

14 It can be argued that the massive copying of protected works to train and fine-tune LLMs constitutes a significant market for licensing, a matter to which the article returns below. Annemarie Bridy, Coding Creativity: Copyright and the Artificially Intelligent Author , 2012 Stan. 5, 12 (2012). & Tech. 70, 74 (1984).

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Michael Geist

AUGUST 5, 2021

The ruling was clear that there is a difference between fair dealing and copying for other purposes and we will continue to ensure that rightsholders are compensated when their works are used for the latter.”. Alberta Supreme Court of Canada decision in 2012. The same was true after the Access Copyright v.

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SpicyIP

MARCH 1, 2025

Similar to owning physical copies of a book they can do whatever they wish with their copies under the fair use doctrine but the relationship of consumers and Kindle is not one of buyer and seller, but licensee and licenser. In 2009 , users woke up to find their purchased copy of 1984 had disappeared from their library.

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Michael Geist

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Lobby groups have for years tried to convince the government that 2012 copyright reforms are to blame for the diminished value of the Access Copyright licence that led Canadian educational institutions to seek other alternatives, most notably better licensing options that offer greater flexibility, access to materials, and usage rights.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 31, 2021

Four years later, The Pirate Bay joined in when the site renamed itself the “ Olympic Bay ,” providing users with a direct link to newly uploaded torrents for the London 2012 games. In 2008, the opening ceremony of the 2008 summer Olympics in Beijing was downloaded millions of times through torrent sites, for example.

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IPilogue

JULY 12, 2021

She wrote reasons for several landmark copyright decisions, even delivering judgements in four out of the five 2012 “ Copyright Pentalogy ” cases. These were introduced during the 2012 amendments to the Act and have yet to be interpreted by the Supreme Court. v Teranet Inc.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

In January 2012, the Hamburg Regional Court found largely in Sony’s favor. An example in the lawsuit describes how restrictions on “turbo” availability in racing game Motorstorm Arctic Edge were bypassed. Datel’s product achieved this by manipulating code stored in the PSP console’s main memory.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 13, 2022

While uploading copyrighted content was already illegal, in 2012 Japan criminalized unlicensed movie and TV show downloading, punishable by fines and up to two years in prison. At some point later, however, the site began linking to copies of pirated movies that had been uploaded to overseas file-hosting platforms.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

OCTOBER 2, 2022

The plaintiff, NOC, is a teenager who has copyrighted designs in hand-drawn dots that Target allegedly copied in the clothing line. None of the following works supported the access inference: Work #3: posted in 2012 to Facebook and got 10 likes, 2 comments, and 2 shares. Reposted to Instagram in 2016 and got 103 likes and 5 comments.

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IPilogue

AUGUST 23, 2021

Perhaps one of the most important copyright decisions since the 2012 ‘ pentalogy ’ cases, York University reflects the Supreme Court’s intention to develop Canadian copyright law in a way that maintains a balance between users’ and creators’ rights. In this case, but for the students, there would be no copying. Background.

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IP and Legal Filings

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

In India particularly, the Copyrights Act, 1957 was enacted to prevent copyright infringement and recently the amendment act of 2012 was introduced to combat the changing needs of copyright law. It is after these treaties that India amended its act of 1957 several times and brought the Amendment act in 2012. Kim cartoon and Ors. ,

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Michael Geist

AUGUST 3, 2021

Access Copyright launched the lawsuit against York over copying it said took place from 2011 to 2013, seeking to enforce a Copyright Board approved tariff. York argued that it was not bound by the tariff because it had not agreed to its terms and counter-claimed that any copying at issue was in any event covered by fair dealing.

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SpicyIP

JUNE 28, 2023

For example, one of us asked for copies of some of the funding agreements for COVID related vaccines. crores for CSIR (2012-22); Rs. of Ayush (2012-22); Rs 10,209.2 crores for ICMR (2012-21); Rs. 689 crores for TDB (2012-22); Rs. 7,295 crores for SERB (2012-22); Rs. of Health Research (2012-22); Rs.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 14, 2022

During the jury trial, the music companies presented a hard drive that contained the files, suggesting that they were the original songs that were pirated between 2012 and 2014. — A copy of Cox’s motion for relief from the judgment is available here (pdf). This evidence was central to prove direct copyright infringement.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 20, 2022

The readable parts suggest that evidence related to the reliability and accuracy of notices that were sent out between 2012-2015 is no longer available. — A copy of Bright House’s motion for sanctions and curative measures is available here (pdf). From: TF , for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

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IPilogue

MAY 4, 2022

You may remember the big music copyright infringement case of 2012 , where Robin Thicke was sued by Marvin Gaye over claims that Thicke’s hit song “Blurred Lines” infringed on Gaye’s “Got to Give It Up”. It used to be that occasionally we would hear in the news that some artist is suing some other artist for infringing their song.

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SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

Image from here Understanding IPO’s Rejection of UPL’s Patent Application for Mancozeb and Ortho Silicic Acid Combination in Light of the Patent Bargain and Sufficiency of Disclosure By Deepali Vashist Thanks to Sandeep Kanak Rathod for mentioning this development on his LinkedIn profile and sharing the copy of the order with us.

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The IP Law Blog

MARCH 14, 2024

The plaintiffs alleged that OpenAI copied their published books, which are protected by copyright law, and used them in a training dataset for its LLM. To allege a valid copyright infringement claim, a plaintiff must show that: (1) that he or she owns a valid copyright; and (2) that the defendant “copied aspects of his [or her] work.”

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 6, 2024

Specifically, the music files that were used as the basis of copyright infringement notices between 2012 and 2014 were initially deleted. “Because these 2016 files match the infringing files by ‘hash value,’ they are not just copies of those earlier files; they are those files.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 28, 2022

During the trial, the music companies presented a hard drive that contained copies of ‘verified’ music files that were allegedly pirated by Cox subscribers, suggesting that those were the original songs that were pirated between 2012 and 2014. — A copy of U.S. Recreated Evidence?

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The IP Law Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2021

In essence, the Ninth Circuit explained that de minimis goes to the amount of copying of a copyrighted work as opposed to any de minimis use or display of any such a work. In 2012, Wilmott Storage purchased the visitUSA.com website and two years later hired another company to update the website. Citing, Perfect 10, Inc. Giganews, Inc.,

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 22, 2021

It foresaw both registration of the work at the Copyright Office, deposit of copies, attachment of a copyright claim (© [year of first publication] by [name of owner of rights]), and, in certain cases, manufacture of the copies within the country. Both Conventions contain provisions that regulate their relation to each other.

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SpicyIP

JUNE 26, 2024

On a broad reading, there seems to be an obvious conflict of two areas of law, where the RPwD Act mandates fundamental access to all content but the Copyright Act grants the author the right to control how their works are copied. It is necessary to note that the original work that is converted into an accessible copy must be acquired legally.

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