Plagiarism Today

JUNE 10, 2024

Maris Kreizman at Literary Hub has a simple idea: Add credit pages to books. The post Why We Should Add Credit Pages to Books appeared first on Plagiarism Today. Here's why it's an idea whose time has come.

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The IPKat

JANUARY 23, 2024

Thank you to readers who voted for the IPKat book of the year awards 2023! Here are the nominees and winners: Best Patent Law Book The nominations, in no particular order, were: • Der patentrechtliche Schutz von Daten und seine Grenzen; Landscheidt, by Fabian Landscheidt. We look forward to reading and reviewing more IP books in 2024!

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SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

The second edition of Eashan Ghosh’s 2020 book “Imperfect Recollections: The Indian Supreme Court on Trade Mark Law” is out now! Eashan shares a short extract from the book’s Preface, highlighting the stimuli for the second edition. It is also linked on the IP Books section of this blog.

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Erik K Pelton

JULY 1, 2024

The quick and short answer to “How can I protect a book title?” A book title cannot technically be protected under trademark law, unless it is the title for a series of multiple books. For more, visit How to Protect a Book Title The post Can a book title be a registered trademark? is that you can’t.

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 5, 2022

Disney acquired the rights to the book and its characters in 1961 and, since then, has released a steady stream of movies, TV shows and products featuring the book’s cast of characters. What this means is that the Milne’s original Winnie-the-Pooh book is now free of copyright.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 4, 2024

Faced with the growing popularity of ‘pirate’ libraries such as Z-Library and Anna’s Archive , book publishers have ramped up their anti-piracy efforts. They reached out to several major publishers and partnered with an anti-piracy outfit, to test whether takedown efforts have a measurable effect on legitimate book sales.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Yesterday, the Internet Archive lost its appeal in its case against book publishers. Here's what you need to know. The post 5 Takeaways from the Internet Archive Ruling appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 11, 2024

The list of complainants includes record labels, book authors, visual artists, even the New York Times. “Books3” Many of the lawsuits filed by book authors come with a clear piracy angle. Starting last year, various rightsholders have filed lawsuits against companies that develop AI models.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 11, 2024

Several of the lawsuits filed by book authors include a piracy component as well. This book archive was publicly hosted by digital archiving collective ‘ The Eye ‘ at the time, alongside various other data sources. The Books3 dataset has a clear piracy angle.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 17, 2024

Book authors, in particular, complained about the use of pirated books as training material. They allege that NVIDIA willingly copied an archive of pirated books to train its commercial AI model, and are demanding damages for direct copyright infringement. Second, whether making copies of the books is fair use.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 3, 2023

A few years ago, book piracy was considered a fringe activity that rarely made the news, but times have changed. Anna’s Archive Expands Anna’s Archive is a meta-search engine for book piracy sources and shadow libraries. “We think this release marks a major milestone in mapping out all the books in the world.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 24, 2022

According to his tweets and provided images, the book Awakening Your Witchy Intuition & Psychic Abilities , penned by an author using the name Glinda Porter, lifted whole paragraphs from his book, Psychic Witch. I discovered that this book has completely plagiarized Psychic Witch in almost its entirety.

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Plagiarism Today

JUNE 21, 2022

On June 9th, Anna Katharine Verney at the Guardian Australia published a lengthy analysis of the John Hughes book The Dogs. The book was on the longlist for the Miles Franklin prize, widely considered to be the highest literary prize in Australia. However, he never presented this book as such. Bottom Line.

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Plagiarism Today

JUNE 8, 2022

This was to write a book about the history of the county and its government. Despite the payments, work on the book fell behind. Either way, a 580-page draft of the book was submitted in January of this year. So, even if she did replace every single copied word, she would still have plagiarism issues in the book.

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Plagiarism Today

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Amazon/Tolkien estate win fan fiction lawsuit, the EU declines to geofence film content, and the Internet Archive files an appeal in book case. The post 3 Count: Did Not Pass appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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Copyright Alliance

OCTOBER 8, 2024

The 2024 theme, Pioneers of Change: Shaping the Future Together, provides a fitting backdrop to explore […] The post The Pioneering Impact of Latinx Comic Book Creators & Characters appeared first on Copyright Alliance. National Hispanic Heritage Month is celebrated each year from September 15 to October 15.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

APRIL 12, 2023

Scanning books to create a searchable database of books constitutes fair use. Scanning books to create eBooks does not. In that case, Google did not output new books, but rather just snippets of the book as part of the search results. The court distinguished the Google Books case and Authors Guild, Inc.

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Hugh Stephens Blog

JULY 17, 2024

drawing on a recent book by copyright scholar Dr. Myra Tawfik, “For the Encouragement of Learning: The Origins of Canadian Copyright Law”. Image: Shutterstock (AI Assisted) Last month I wrote about the 200 year history of copyright in Canada, (Two Hundred Years of Copyright History in Canada: What a Journey!),

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IP Law 360

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Statistical analysis shows that marching in on Orange Book drug patent holders to require additional licensees would have a relatively minimal impact on drug prices, and should be weighed against the harms it could have on pharmaceutical innovation, say researchers at Competition Dynamics.

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SpicyIP

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Discussing the decision of the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in Hachette Book Group v. Image from here Hachette Book Group v Internet Archive: Archiving Access to Information or Strengthening Copyright Laws? Several users could borrow a scanned book at once. Tanishka is an advocate at the High Court of MP.

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JD Supra Law

DECEMBER 20, 2024

The listing of patents in the Orange Book has an important role in intellectual property protection for pharmaceuticals. Patents listed in the Orange Book can include, without question, patents covering compositions or methods of use for pharmaceuticals.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 13, 2021

As part of that rise to stardom, Haigh published a book in the summer of 2021 entitled Makan. Part cookbook and part memoir, the book explored her Singaporean heritage, both culinary and personal. However, it turns out that much of the book was anything but. It first started with converting her handwritten recipe measurements.

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Plagiarism Today

MAY 9, 2022

Until February 2022, Bello was a hotly anticipated new author that was preparing to publish her first book, The Leaving, in July of this year. However, that book was abruptly cancelled by her publisher , Riverhead, and neither Bello nor the publisher explained why. While this meant the loss of her book, it protected her reputation.

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Plagiarism Today

MARCH 1, 2023

Authors have been reporting that Amazon has been pulling their books because of pirated copies that allegedly breaking an exclusivity clause. The post How Amazon is Punishing Victims of Piracy appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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Erik K Pelton

AUGUST 19, 2021

A “brand” is the sum total of a number of things that go to the heart of a business’ relationship with its customers and within the marketplace of competitors: For more about Building a Bold Brand , see my book ! The post What is a brand made of? appeared first on Erik M Pelton & Associates, PLLC.

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The IPKat

OCTOBER 20, 2024

The book is currently available in hardback and ebook formats. The book provides substantial international context that helps explain some of the changes to EU GI laws over time. In terms of the substance of the laws, this book takes a slightly different approach to many other IP textbooks.

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Plagiarism Today

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Catholic Priest Father Jim Sichko has had his recent book pulled following allegations of plagiarism. Here's the warning signs he missed. The post The Strange Case of Father Jim Sichko appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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Erik K Pelton

APRIL 22, 2022

You can read more details about all of these in the Building a Bold Brand book at Amazon. See my new visual below to lean about the meaning tricks, sound tricks, and combination tricks to help make bold brands. The post Introducing: the Building a Bold Bold Brand Wheel appeared first on Erik M Pelton & Associates, PLLC.

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Plagiarism Today

MARCH 20, 2023

As more allegations of plagiarism in Dr. David Agus' books come out, attention is shifting to the person who actually wrote them. The post If You Use a Ghostwriter, You Need to Check for Plagiarism appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 3, 2022

Katz took to Twitter to call out the Chilluminati Podcast for allegedly plagiarizing from his book, Gangsters of Capitalism. At issue was a July 23 episode of the podcast entitled The Mysterious Smedley Butler with Butler being the subject of Katz’ book. This wasn’t reading your book online.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 19, 2024

The IPKat is thrilled to announce the launch of the 2024 Book of the Year Awards, continuing its cherished end-of-year tradition! Only books published in 2024 are eligible for the award. Please remember that, just as in previous years, only one vote per person is allowed.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 2, 2022

Back in January, the crypto group Spice DAO (decentralized autonomous organization) made headlines for spending approximately $3 million to acquire a physical copy of the book Jodorowsky’s Dune , a bible for a planned Dune move that would have been made in the 1970s. . After winning the book, the group announced their plans.

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Plagiarism Today

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Yesterday, Alice Nuttall published a piece on Book Riot that asks a simple question: Why is publishing plagiarism still possible? Massive book digitization efforts already exist, both within publishers and outside them. Simply put, book publishers are well behind the major academic publishers in this space. A Vicious Cycle.

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Hugh Stephens Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Despite the welcome news that the National Library of New Zealand is reconsidering its badly flawed decision to donate 600,000 surplus books, including many still under copyright, to the controversial US-based Internet Archive for digitization, the National Library of New Zealand and the country’s librarians through the Library and Information Association (..)

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 26, 2023

However, her latest book has been embroiled in a plagiarism scandal. Rachel Reeves is the current Shadow Chancellor in the UK Parliament. The post Understanding the Rachel Reeve Plagiarism Scandal appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 19, 2022

The rule, entitled copyright exhaustion, places limits on the import of international editions of books. According to authors, this enables authors and publishers to sell books at different prices for different countries. When the IPO announced it was looking to change this rule, authors launched a Save Our Books campaign.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Book publishers get a big win on appeal; an author sued over Gemini Man, and an adult anime website sued over ignored copyright notices. The post 3 Count: Gemini Man Lawsuit appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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