The IPKat

JANUARY 25, 2022

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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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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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 31, 2025

“We cleaned 860K English and 180K Chinese e-books from Annas Archive,” a DeepSeek VL paper , published last March, states. The shadow library provided copies of several redacted emails where companies requested access. Is it fair for some countries to have a knowledge advantage due to differing copyright laws?

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 14, 2021

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.

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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. Department of Justice targeted popular shadow library Z-Library, accusing it of mass copyright infringement. Superior Goal The average user is probably not especially interested in downloading metadata; they want books.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

But if you really want Kiwi Farms gone, have you considered using copyright law for its censorial power? He self-published a book about the experience (“ Why I Sued Taylor Swift and How I Became Falsely Known as Frivolous, Litigious and Crazy “). ” Greer emailed Moon asking to remove the book. .

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IP and Legal Filings

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

This has led to varying degrees of copyright infringements in this digital era. Copyright And Copyright Law Copyright is one of the crucial parts of Intellectual Property Rights which helps the owner of any creative work to have a legal right over the possession of such work or art.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

In the lawsuit, Pearson alleges that Chegg, through the use of thousands of freelancers, provides answers to questions found in textbooks it publishes and, in doing so, often copies the question verbatim or with slight paraphrasing. As a result, Pearson is suing Chegg alleging copyright infringement. Chegg’s Potential Defenses.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 21, 2021

This review of Exceptions in EU Copyright Law: In Search of a Balance Between Flexibility and Legal Certainty by Tito Rendas, is brought to you by the Rt Hon Sir Richard Arnold, Judge of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales. In April 2020 and February 2021 two substantial new contributions to this debate were published.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 30, 2025

Annas Archive is a meta-search engine for shadow libraries that allows users to find pirated books and other related sources. criminal crackdown, to ensure continued availability of ‘free’ books and articles to the broader public. Finding no guidance in Ohio law, he asked several hypothetical questions in response.

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SpicyIP

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Pocket FM alleges that Kuku FM has violated its copyright by providing audio summaries of books to which Pocket FM has exclusive rights to create audiobooks. While pleadings are not uploaded online by the Delhi High Court, Entrackr has obtained copies of the pleadings and has discussed some of the key facts and arguments here.

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JD Supra Law

OCTOBER 1, 2024

A Federal appeals court has ruled that the nonprofit Internet Archive’s “controlled digital lending program” – which creates and lends fully digitized copies of books – does not meet the copyright law’s definition of a fair use. The September 4, 2024, decision in Hachette Books v.

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Thomson Reuters argued that Legal Ease’s questions, incorporated by Ross in machine-readable form, essentially copied its creative headnotes. Critical Analysis of the Court’s Reasoning This approach mirrors India’s “brain work” doctrine of originality from Eastern Book Company v. Modak [Para 41].

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 3, 2022

The lawsuit claimed that the site was offering illegal downloads of their books and specifically targeted two Ukrainian nationals as the operators. Milne’s book Winnie the Pooh. Copyright Law, works lapse into the public domain on January First of the year their copyright expires. They are free of copyright.

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The Illusion of More

AUGUST 13, 2021

On July 23, the District Court for the District of Columbia denied publisher Valancourt’s claims that the requirement to provide deposit copies of U.S. The post Rare Books Publisher Valancourt Versus The Deposit Requirement appeared first on The Illusion of More. Although many legal experts are likely to […].

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The IP Law Blog

MAY 5, 2022

When standard approaches failed, a business professor recently turned to copyright law, hoping for a solution. Berkovitz alleged that the Defendants infringed his exclusive right to reproduce, make copies, distribute, or create derivative works by publishing the midterm exam and final exam on the Course Hero Website without permission.

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IP and Legal Filings

JULY 29, 2024

Another lesser-known problem of the authors of the schools providing educational services through the Internet is the question of the control of the distribution of copies of copyrighted works. Informing the users of the copyright laws and the repercussions of violating them is the other measure of risk management.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 9, 2021

According to KokomRoily, the book felt familiar after reading the first chapter and, by the second they, “felt sure I could tell what was going to happen next.” After some digging, KokomRoilly found multiple lengthy passages of verbatim copying and posted highlighted passages on their Twitter account.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

JANUARY 11, 2023

In analogizing semiconductor chips to traditional areas of copyright law, the legislative history notes that, just as a plagiarist who copies only one chapter of a book may be held liable for infringement, a person may be liable for copying a part of a mask work if it is a qualitatively important portion that results in substantial similarity.

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Intepat

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Introduction The principle of the first sale doctrine is a basic precept of copyright law allowing the lawful possessor of a copyrighted work to resell, lend, or distribute that work without the permission of the copyright holder. 106, which grants copyright owners the exclusive right to reproduce their works.

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The Illusion of More

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

IA asks this Court to bless the large scale copying and distribution of copyrighted books without permission from or payment to the Publishers or authors.

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The IPKat

AUGUST 24, 2021

This book review of Art and Copyright by Simon Stokes (Partner at Blake Morgan) is kindly provided to you by Alexander Herman, Assistant Director, at the Institute of Art and Law and co-directs the Art, Business and Law LLM developed with the Centre for Commercial Law Studies at Queen Mary University of London.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

The Internet Archive is widely known for its Wayback Machine, which preserves copies of the web for future generations. The same could apply to IA’s other projects, including the digitization of old books and records. —- A copy of the record labels’ response to IA’s motion to dismiss is available here (pdf).

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 2, 2025

Copyright law is in charge of controlling how literary, artistic, and theatrical works, among others, are used. The law of copyright regulates the activities of copying and disseminating the words of someone who has copyright over something online without that person’s consent.

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Velocity of Content

APRIL 21, 2023

World Book and Copyright Day is celebrated each year on April 23. This year, UNESCO is leading observations of World Copyright Day with the theme, ‘Indigenous Languages.’ Hugh Stephens, a Canadian copyright blogger, wrote about this topic a few years ago: Can Copyright Law Protect Indigenous Culture?

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IIPRD

JANUARY 22, 2025

One such legal issues is what is referred to as “fair use,” which becomes particularly problematic in the context of the copyright law. Such databases may include work that is copyrighted. The Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 provides for the laws related to data privacy and some form of regulation.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 23, 2024

The organization literally archives key parts of the Internet, copying older versions of websites to preserve them for future generations. For example, it operates a library that offers a broad collection of digital media, including books, which patrons can borrow upon request. IA has plenty of other archive projects too.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Such uses, they argue, constitute copyright infringement. Google Books and Transformative Use The past two decades have seen a wealth of technological developments, but generative AI is qualitatively different from everything that has come before. As such, it was permissible under United States copyright law.

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SpicyIP

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

We are pleased to bring to you this book review of David Llewelyn, Gladys Tan, Estelle Moh Huixuan and Ng Hui Ming’s ‘Modern Law of Copyright in Singapore’, (SAL Academy Publishing, 2023) by Prashant Reddy T. Image from here Book Review: Modern Law of Copyright in Singapore By Prashant Reddy T.

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IP Watchdog

AUGUST 30, 2021

One of the latest controversies in copyright law concerns the practice of controlled digital lending (CDL) by libraries. The idea is simple: Libraries take the physical books on their shelves, digitize them, and then share the digital copies with members of the public.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

With often extortionate pricing and a requirement to obtain the latest but only slightly modified versions of books to complete their courses, some students believe that textbook publishers fail to act in their bests interests. During a hearing yesterday, the court in Aarhus convicted the former student for violating the Copyright Act.

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JD Supra Law

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

The Second Circuit Court of Appeals delivered a resounding victory to the publishing industry on Wednesday, September 4, 2024, in Hachette Books v. Internet Archive, holding that the Internet Archive's "controlled digital lending" program violated copyright law.

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IP and Legal Filings

APRIL 19, 2022

Temporary or incidental storage of work or performance to provide electronic links, access, or integration, where the owner has not expressly prohibited such links, access, or integration, falls under the ambit of fair use of copyright, according to Section 52(1)(c) of the Indian Copyright Act, 1957.

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The Illusion of More

JANUARY 27, 2022

copyright law, to scan physical copies of legally obtained books and […]. , Maria Bustillos stakes out a wide swath of moral high ground in defense of Controlled Digital Lending (CDL). CDL is a theory that libraries are allowed, within the boundaries of U.S. The post What Kind of Writer Indeed?

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IPilogue

MARCH 2, 2023

This is a far cry from the revenues earned on the WWE 2K games, which have sold hundreds of thousands of copies each. This development has led legal commentators to observe that, unfortunately, the copyright law surrounding celebrity tattoos remains unclear. Copyright protection over tattoos has been a hot topic for some time.

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Copyright Lately

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

In last week’s ruling in Hachette Book Group, Inc. Internet Archive (read the opinion here) , the court dealt a decisive blow to the Internet Archive, ruling that its practice of scanning and lending digital copies of books doesn’t qualify as fair use under the Copyright Act. At least, that was the idea.

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The Illusion of More

AUGUST 31, 2023

As discussed in an earlier post, Valancourt Books, a small, on-demand publisher, filed suit against the Copyright Office and the Department of Justice and argued that the Office’s demand for physical copies of published books is unconstitutional.

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