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A $500,000 Plagiarism Scandal

Plagiarism Today

According to The Mercury News , In 2009, she was awarded a no-bid contract to be the sole grant writer for the county. At the beginning of this term, she was making $120,000 per year, an amount that had grown to $220,000 in 2016 and 2017. However, it was in 2018 that she was offered an additional contract.

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3 Count: Less Than Routine

Plagiarism Today

They allege that American Skin copies elements from their 2017 screenplay, A Routine Stop. The Shaws claim that they entered their screenplay in the 2017 TV One Screenplay competition. 2: Kairosoft, the Beloved Mobile Tycoon Game Developer, Openly Accuses its Chinese Publisher of Copyright Infringement and Contract Violation.

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3 Count: Pulp NFT

Plagiarism Today

They are a way to sell “unique” copies of digital works but do not transfer any rights. Nonetheless, Mirimax claims to hold all the copyrights and trademarks related to the film, prompting them to file a lawsuit for breach of contract, copyright infringement, trademark infringement and unfair competition.

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3 Count: Sunshine Place

Plagiarism Today

The original lawsuit was filed in September 2017 and was initially dismissed by the court the next year. Morantz claims that he provided a digital copy of his book to aid in research, but that no deal to use it was struck before the episode was released. 2: Robert Downey Jr.

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‘Copying into Copyright Law’: Ireland’s minimalist transposition of Directive 2019/790

Kluwer Copyright Blog

The most modern instalment of this long history comes in the form of another kind ‘copy’, less richly decorated, yet more relevant and politically sensitive for a country that has established a long-term foreign investment “partnership” with the tech and communication industry: the transposition of Directive 2019/790 into Irish law.

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Canadian Media Companies Target OpenAI in Copyright Lawsuit But Weak Claims Suggest Settlement the Real Goal

Michael Geist

The filing literally says “ the full particulars of when, from where, and exactly how, the Works were accessed, scraped, and/or copied is within the knowledge of OpenAI and not the News Media Companies.” The data was cut off in 2017, well within the range of the lawsuit. This isn’t me speculating.

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SpicyIP Weekly Review (January 13 – January 19)

SpicyIP

Can a Claim for Breach of Confidence and Breach of Contract be made together? The Court clarified that the appellants mark was declared well-known in 2017, and the well known status of a trademark is prospective and cannot retrospectively affect prior users. Deepak Gupta.