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The Importance of Transparency in Research Integrity

Plagiarism Today

Earlier this week, the journal BMC Medicine announced that it will not retract a controversial 2013 paper authored by botanist Steven Newmaster. The paper, originally published in 2013, brought Newmaster to prominence in the field of botany and led to massive amounts of not just academic success, but also entrepreneurial success.

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Should Copyright Preemption Moot Anti-Scraping TOS Terms? (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

Platforms that copy online data and use it to create AI have a strong fair use argument under copyright laws. Copyright law forbids duplication, public performance, and so on, unless the person wishing to copy or perform the work gets permission; silence means a ban on copying. A copyright is a right against the world.

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Prince, Prince, Prints: Will the Supreme Court Revisit Fair Use?

LexBlog IP

9] In reaching that determination, the court relied chiefly on the Second Circuit’s 2013 decision in Cariou v. precisely replicat[ing] a copyrighted advertising logo to make a comment about consumerism’ (such as Warhol’s well-known depictions of Campbell’s soup cans), which ‘might. fall within the scope of fair use.’” Id.

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Time for the 12 O'Clock Boyz to go: court shuts down (c)/TM lawsuit against documentary & feature film about Baltimore bikers

43(B)log

The 2001 Documentary “sold 50,000 copies in two weeks and revolutionized the Baltimore dirt-bike culture,” inspiring a sequel and plans to make a third film. Defendants' 2013 documentary Both parties’ works are “docu-fiction” set in Baltimore. Nathan, F.Supp.3d 3d -, 2022 WL 4591905, No. 18-CV-5930 (MKB) (E.D.N.Y.

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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. Eventually, a publication featuring sixteen of the forty-two matriculation papers was released by the University Tutorial Publishing Limited. specialised in regional phone directories.

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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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