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Internet Archive: Digital Lending is Fair Use, Not Copyright Infringement

TorrentFreak

In 2020, publishers Hachette, HarperCollins, John Wiley and Penguin Random House sued the Internet Archive (IA) for copyright infringement, equating its ‘Open Library’ to a pirate site. Mass Copyright Infringement or Fair Use? The Internet Archive has no license. threatens) the traditional ebook lending market.

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DMCA Subpoena to Unmask Twitter User Hits Fair Use & Constitutional Roadblock

TorrentFreak

Around October 2020 a Twitter user called ‘ MrMoneyBags ‘ began posting critical messages targeting billionaires. On October 29, 2020, a business entity called Bayside Advisory LLC contacted Twitter stating that since it owns the copyrights in the six photos, they should be taken down under the DMCA.

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3 Count: YouTube Battles

Plagiarism Today

According to a video he uploaded, his videos will remain available in countries with a broad fair use exemption, like the United States, but not in countries like Toei’s native Japan that have narrow exemptions. However, in the second half of 2020, the trend started to reverse, with 2021 marking a 2.8%

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New(s) Questions and Fair Use: Using Copyright to Curtail Expression?

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You can see his previous posts for us here. New(s) Questions and Fair Use: Using Copyright to Curtail Expression? It was however terminated at the instance of the Defendant with effect from 1 st August 2020. In response the Defendant claimed, “ fair use” and “ de minimis” use. Akshat Agrawal.

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3 Count: Levitating Lawsuit

Plagiarism Today

First off today, Murray Stassen at Music Business Worldwide reports that musician Dua Lipa has been hit with a copyright infringement lawsuit that claims her 2020 hit Levitating is an infringement of an earlier song. However, the lower court tossed the lawsuit, saying that the use was a fair use, and awarded the school some $10,266.37

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Tattoos and Copyright: A Potent Combination

Plagiarism Today

He called an earlier decision in the case one of the 5 worst copyright decisions in 2020 and, with the jury verdict, called it a loss for bodily autonomy and free speech. Fair Use – That the use of the tattoos was a fair use, meaning that the use was transformative enough to not be an infringement of the original work.

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Fourth Circuit Issues a Bummer Fair Use Ruling–Philpot v. IJR

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

In 2013, Philpot uploaded the photo to Wikimedia Commons, which is governed by the standard Creative Commons license requiring attribution. Philpot sued in 2020 over the 2016 IJR publication, i.e., after the 3 year statute of limitations that no one seems to care about post-Petrella. ” Market Effect.

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