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Despite 155 Piracy Incidents in Cinemas, Pirates Suffer Worst Year Since 2012

TorrentFreak

FCPA offers no additional detail, but we understand that the extremely high-quality CAM copies of the movies leaked online were directly linked to the defendant’s skills and the career he hoped to pursue somewhere in the film or TV industry. A mere conviction probably ended that dream, regardless of the scale of the punishment.

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Protecting Semiconductor Chip Design under the Semiconductor Chip Protection Act of 1984 (SCPA) – Part I (Registration and Inspection)

Intellectual Property Law Blog

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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3 Count: Swimsuit Edition

Plagiarism Today

The three worked with a company named Construction Technologies and, as part of their work, they would activate unlicensed copies of software for customers by using either cracking programs or key generators to remove license restrictions. Since then, Swift has been re-recording and re-releasing her previous content.

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Google Answers Question About Plagiarized Content, Kind Of

Plagiarism Today

However, despite those efforts, a study in 2012 found that Google only identified the original content 57% of the time , often ranking duplicates higher than source material. This has made copied content something of a sore spot with many Google watchers. Why SEO Practitioners Cares About Copied Content.

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Protecting Semiconductor Chip Design under the Semiconductor Chip Protection Act of 1984 (SCPA) – Part I (Registration and Inspection)

Intellectual Property Law Blog

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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Canadian Copyright, Fair Dealing and Education, Part Two: The Massive Shift to Electronic Licensing

Michael Geist

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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Romania’s Continued Struggles with Academic Integrity

Plagiarism Today

The report begins and ends with a man named Mihai Costache (not his real name), who remembers widespread cheating and copying in his high school classrooms. This includes blatant copying from the internet without any repercussions. Before that, sitting Prime Minister Victor Ponta faced similar allegations in 2012.