Plagiarism Today

MAY 19, 2022

claimed that they held 50% ownership in the work, given to them by a producer named Greg Mathieson who worked on the album. Atkinson sued Netflix and Dark Horse Comics, alleging that Umbrella Academy copies characters and elements from a 1996 comic book he created for Rogue Satellite Comics.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JANUARY 5, 2023

It is a common practice to make copies of deteriorating or far away cultural heritage. As of 2022, it is not even a new idea to use digital methods to copy heritage, considering that the mass digitisation of cultural heritage, especially books, started more than two decades ago. Photo by awsloley via Pixabay.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

He orally licensed the beats to Rivers for a 50% royalty and a promise to keep booking live performances for White. White alleges that Rivers stopped booking live performances and thereby abrogated the beats license. Second, how is DistroKid supposed to sort through the ownership and license rights here?

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The IPKat

MARCH 5, 2024

This is a book review provided by former PermaKat, Neil Wilkof. To paraphrase Jane Austen, it is a truth universally acknowledged that a book about authors, drama, or publishing before the modern era will likely have been written by a scholar of literature and culture rather than by a legal researcher. Read, learn, and enjoy.

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Traverse Legal Blog

JANUARY 26, 2022

The article titled “Cryptobros spent $3 million on Dune book, believing it gave them copyright. The token goes onto the blockchain, indicating ownership rights and potentially royalty rights for future transfers of the NFT, but not the underlying digital asset. nThe book and the copyright ownership are two distinct things.

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The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

This book review of Intellectual Property Law in Nigeria: Emerging Trends, Theories And Practice by Desmond Oriakhogba (University of the Western Cape, South Africa) and Ifeoluwa Olubiyi (Afe Babaloloa University, Ado-Ekiti, Nigeria) is kindly provided by Kasim Waziri , Professor of Law at the University of Abuja, Nigeria.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 22, 2023

In addition to archiving the web, IA also operates a library that offers a broad collection of digital media, including books. Staying true to the centuries-old library concept, IA patrons can also borrow books that are scanned and digitized in-house. All benefit from making their work available to a broad public.

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Copyright Lately

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

Again, NFTs are just an ownership record and a link to content. ” Based on his reserved screenplay publication rights, there’s no question that Tarantino is permitted to sell copies of the “Pulp Fiction” screenplay. .” NFTs Are Not Copyrightable. You can buy one right now on Amazon. (A

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Erik K Pelton

APRIL 10, 2023

Having a registration makes a much stronger claim, a much stronger threat or letter when you’re trying to get someone who might be copying it to stop and to take it down. EMP&A recently and proudly became the owners of copyright registration for the Building A Bold Brand book.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

On one hand, unauthorized mass copying and distribution of movies, TV shows, and music is widely recognized as copyright infringement. Based on the assertion that the assignment agreements relied upon by the publishers do not confer ownership of copyrights relating to the allegedly infringed works, Elbakyan declared them void.

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IP and Legal Filings

DECEMBER 25, 2022

The next phase of blockchain technology is focussed on bringing such scarcity and uniqueness to the internet, allowing for the ownership and collection of unique digital assets. The concepts of ownership and licensing are relevant in this context. Licensing and ownership: What’s the catch? Image Sources : Gettyimages].

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TorrentFreak

MAY 26, 2023

The lawsuit in question was filed by Applause Entertainment, the Indian company behind the TV-series “Scam 1992” The series covers the 1992 Indian stock market scam, adapted from Debashis Basu’s book The Scam. The TV production is licensed to Sony LIV and was a huge success.

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The IPKat

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

He found 17 entries related to a range of products from books to wine, chocolates, suntan products, clothing, and soft drinks. There were 18 registered copyrighted works related to the Ogopogo, including books, posters, artwork, videos (in some cases, supposedly of the creature itself) and dramatic works.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 20, 2023

The first sale doctrine restricts the rights holder’s exclusive right to distribute a copyrighted work to the public, where the distribution right to control secondary sales is ‘exhausted’ upon completion of the first lawful sale of a copy of the work by the rights holder or with their consent.

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 2, 2025

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. Protecting the rights of copyright holders has been simpler when it comes to books, plays, theatres, and movies.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

The Safarov case In 2009, Safarov authors a book. The arguments were that the NGO had removed the book from its website and that the exceptions for personal use and for reprographic reproduction for the preservation of cultural heritage applied. An NGO makes his entire work available for download.

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Velocity of Content

MARCH 16, 2023

After all, while we are pondering the weighty issue of future ownership, we are not focusing on the fundamental issue of wholesale copying of works to train AI in a wide variety of situations. One core concept in AI-relevant cases that both find for, and against, fair use ( Google Books and Fox v. is being used as code.

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IIPRD

MARCH 13, 2025

These rights include exclusive ownership benefits and rights against any misuse, alteration, modification etc. Copyright Copyright refers to the exclusive rights granted to the authors or performers for their original work or performance like book, film, paintings, compute programmes, etc. of their work for a fixed period.

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SpicyIP

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Other Posts Hachette Book Group v Internet Archive: Archiving Access to Information or Strengthening Copyright Laws? Discussing the US decision in Hachette Book Group v. The defendant did not claim ownership of the “Levi’s” trademark and only denied selling such goods.

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IPilogue

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

However, I recall certain books had the answers in them. Although Pearson does not provide these answers nor retain ownership of the solutions, Pearson alleges that Chegg provides its clients with “ textbook questions often copied nearly verbatim or with just slight changes.” The complaint, made under title 17 of the U.S.

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IP and Legal Filings

JULY 24, 2023

It removes the restrictions on budget and print reproductions, enabling web distribution, copy printing and packaging, and out-of-home advertising impressions. This license is useful for news articles, non-fiction books and documentaries. Sometimes, a client may specifically request content for their exclusive use in a project.

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 22, 2024

Before the digital era, copyright protected tangible art or works, allowing authors to easily regulate usage, copies, and earnings. The first codified statute dealing with copyright protection of printed books dates back to 1710, known as British Statute of Anne.

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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 discussion raises questions of personal agency and asks how an artist can have ownership over their client’s body, even though it’s how their work is physically fixed.

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IP and Legal Filings

MAY 13, 2024

[Image Sources: Shutterstock] Basic understanding of Copyright Copyright is a legal theory that provides artists complete ownership over their creative works, preventing unauthorised use and copying. There will be serious consequences for assigning other than human ownership to AI-generated creations.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 10, 2024

Pirate Site Promoter, Piracy Profiteer The opening salvo in the publishers’ lawsuit, which majors on violations of the Copyright Act, the Lanham Act, and New York’s General Business Law, details Google’s ‘systemic and pervasive advertising’ of infringing copies of their textbooks and other educational works.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

It provides free access to a vast collection of millions of books and academic papers that typically require payment. — A copy of the default judgment including the injunctive relief, as signed by U.S. Library Genesis, often shortened to LibGen , is one of the longest-running shadow libraries online. court orders, for example.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

While at this stage the particulars of Getty’s claim are unavailable, their press release states that Stability AI “unlawfully copied and processed millions of images protected by copyright and the associated metadata owned or represented by Getty Images”. temporary copy which is; 2. transient or incidental; 3.

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IPilogue

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Dorland to prevent publication of The Kindest at a book festival, and an onslaught of plagiarism allegations. Dorland will need to show: (1) ownership of a valid copyright, and (2) copying of constituent elements of the work that are original. Dorland registered her donor letter with the U.S. Copyright Office.

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SpicyIP

JULY 29, 2021

Restricting this photocopying to 10% of the total pages of a book. Limitations on storage of copied works in digital formats. Historically, the exceptions for teaching, education and research have never been qualified by the nature of ownership of the institution where the use of the work is carried out. Bench decision).

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IPilogue

AUGUST 16, 2022

For example, the official August website allows users to purchase photos from categories like “beauty look book” or select photos from a specific photographer. Federal Court Dismisses Copyright Claim Due to Plaintiff’s Failure to Establish Ownership: [link]. The Federal Court also dismissed this case. Further Reading.

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IIPRD

JANUARY 5, 2023

Copy right and Indian cinema. In contrast to book authoring, the process of making a movie involves a lot of collaboration. A precise elucidation about the ownership of cinematographic films has been provided by Section 17 of The Copyright Act, 1957 Act. Who Owns What and Why.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 30, 2022

While common law trademark rights can and often do support federal infringement claims, an infringement plaintiff must show ownership of a valid mark as a threshold requirement for the cause of action. It confirms both ownership of valid copyrights and copying by the defendants of original constituent elements of the works.

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Copyright Lately

MAY 6, 2022

The first thing that’s important to understand is that buying a copy of a creative work, even if it happens to the only copy in existence, doesn’t give you any copyright interest in the work. So, if you buy a copy of “Dune,” you can read it. That is one expensive book. You Own the NFT.

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The IPKat

MARCH 12, 2024

Antonios Baris reviewed the book, Propriété intellectuelle et développement durable / Intellectual Property & Sustainable Development , edited by Prof. The book can be purchased here with a special discount until 7 April 2024. Jacques de Werra.

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The IPKat

JANUARY 23, 2022

The requirements for copyright joint authorship and co-ownership were the main topic of a new lawsuit in the U.S., Kirkman, involving the popular comic book and animated series " Invincible ". The figures provide interesting data and the Kluwer Copyright Blog provides its commentary. Crabtree v. Do you like Alejandro Jodorowsky?

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Dear Rich IP Blog

MAY 12, 2022

That's because when an artwork is sold, the buyer only acquires ownership of the physical work, for example, the framed painting. As the Seventh Circuit held , “a copyright is not transferred automatically with the transfer of the copyrighted good [thus] when you buy a book, you don’t obtain the right to make and sell copies of it.”

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43(B)log

AUGUST 4, 2021

Congress amended the statute to ensure that retransmissions of cable would be public performance; then the issues shifted to copying. Netcom raised the problem of volition for copying for online servers. What distinguishes that from a copy shop?] For Aereo, only the tech entity is responsible for the public performance.

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