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3 Count: Royalty Raise

Plagiarism Today

headline rate for the 2018-2022 period. The rate was originally decided in 2018 but all the major streamers, barring Apple, appealed it saying that the increase was too great. The 3 Count Logo was created by Justin Goff and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License. The number had leapt from 11.4%

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Company ‘Hijacks’ Blender’s CC BY-Licensed Film, YouTube Strikes User

TorrentFreak

The team at Blender Studio drive Blender development by providing help and training courses to Blender users in an open environment, sharing everything in public and making all content available under free licenses. In this case, at least, a Creative Commons license appears to have carried no weight. No Rights to Post Video on YouTube.

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3 Count: Database Audit

Plagiarism Today

First off today, Blake Brittain at Reuters reports that Oracle American has filed a lawsuit against NEC Corp alleging that NEC is using Oracle software, namely its biometric identification system, in a way that exceeds the terms of their license. The lawsuit is the direct result of an audit performed by Oracle of NEC ins 2019.

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3 Count: Somewhat Less Lit

Plagiarism Today

The lawsuit was filed by rapper Anthony Campbell, who claimed that the 2018 song Everyday We Lit by YFN Lucci was an infringement of Campbell’s 2016 song Everything Be Lit. Campbell filed the lawsuit in 2018 and the lawsuit quickly ended as none of the defendants participated in the case, resulting in a default judgment.

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3 Count: Plagiarism Again

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million settlement in 2018. The lawsuit was filed by Malibu Media in 2018 against a defendant identified as Mr. However, Malibu Media’s boss, Colette Pelissier, was not happy about the transfer, saying that it was part of Mullins’ attempt to extort the company. That lawsuit resulted in a $2.9

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

Michael Geist

The truth is that Canadian universities spend millions of dollars on licensing copyright materials. In fact, over the past decade, the emergence of site licenses that provide access to millions of works – books, journal articles, newspapers, and more – has led to huge increases in expenditures for access.

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3 Count: Wolfgang Disappointment

Plagiarism Today

In 2015, the National Music Publishers Association (NMPA) filed a lawsuit against Wolfgang’s Vault, alleging that the service did not have a license for the underlying compositions of the songs it streamed. In 2018, a judge agreed with that and ruled that Wolfgang’s Vault was infringing, but left the issue of damages up to a jury.

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