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Book review: Performing Copyright: Law, Theatre and Authorship

The IPKat

this Kat was delighted to review Performing Copyright: Law, Theatre and Authorship by Dr Luke McDonagh (Assistant Professor of Law at LSE Law School). This is the first academic monograph that solely considers the relationship between UK copyright law and historical and contemporary theatre.

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Hachette Book Group v Internet Archive: Archiving Access to Information or Strengthening Copyright Laws?

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Discussing the decision of the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in Hachette Book Group v. She graduated from National Law University, Delhi in 2023 & enjoys reading and writing on 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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What Winnie-the-Pooh Lapsing into the Public Domain Really Means

Plagiarism Today

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. What Actually Happened.

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Using that classic piece of art on a book cover: Grr…

The IPKat

Beyond the obvious attempt to draw a connection between the artwork and the book based a shared sense of the "classical", the artwork also seeks to evoke a more specific connection with the contents of the book. You can't judge a book from its cover". True, except when a book and its cover are involved. But of course.

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The Elizabeth Haigh Cookbook Plagiarism Scandal

Plagiarism Today

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. copyright law, one typically cannot copyright a recipe itself.

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3 Count: Copyright Exhaustion

Plagiarism Today

1: Government Pauses Plans to Rewrite UK Copyright Laws After Authors Protest. 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.

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Lawmakers: Fix Copyright Law to Stop Gamblers “Beating the Bookies”

TorrentFreak

As a result, bookmakers are often portrayed as preying on victims, trying every trick in the book to part people from their money. Importantly, however, none of this is illegal in the UK so, in what appears to be an overreaction with significant potential for overreach, lawmakers want changes to copyright law to retip the balance of power.