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17 Copyright and/or Plagiarism Stories for Halloween

Plagiarism Today

However, that is just the latest in a decade-long history of discussing copyright, plagiarism and other authorship issues as they pertain to Halloween and horror. So, this year we’re going to take a look back at the various tales of copyright infringement and/or plagiarism that we’ve looked at over the years.

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Copyrightability Of Players’ Creation In The Gaming Regime

IP and Legal Filings

It is to be made sufficiently clear that the aforementioned creations ought to be original and independent, rather than a slightly altered version of the creation already in the public domain, to instill looking into the prospects of copyrightability. Re-Examining The Copyright Ownership Of Player Created Content, GNLU L.

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Dastar prevents misrepresentation of source of IP from being material

43(B)log

Restellini alleged copyright infringement and related claims in connection with WPI’s digitization of certain material about the artist Amodeo Modigliani. WPI counterclaimed against Restellini and third-party Institut Restellini SAS – Documentation Centre alleging copyright infringement and false advertising.

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The Modern Copyright Dilemma: Digital Content Ownership and Access

IP and Legal Filings

Later, in 1914, Copyright Act was amended which was highly influenced with the Copyright Act, 1911 of Britain, such as both the legislation shared resemblance in the duration of copyright protection, focused on the protection of literary works, and had similar provisions regarding the concept of public domain and exceptions.

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Modern monarchy and the media: Duchess of Sussex wins historic privacy case against the British tabloids

IP Whiteboard

4] The Court also granted partial summary judgment in respect of the copyright claim, [5] determining that the Mail Articles had indeed infringed upon the Duchess’ copyright. [6] 6] Despite this overall decision in respect of copyright infringement, the Court left one copyright issue to be fixed for determination at trial.

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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

Based solely on the complaint that was filed, there are six major issues raised by the case: First, were the recorded interviews a copyright-eligible “work of authorship”? Second, if so, who is the initial owner of the copyright(s)? Third, is Trump’s claim of ownership barred by 17 U.S.C. Merkin , 791 F.3d 3d 247 (2d Cir.

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