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Navigating User Lawfulness in European Copyright Law: From Lawful Use to Lawful Access

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Image created by AI The concept of lawfulness in relation to user status or user acts has been gradually established in EU digital copyright law as a condition for the enjoyment of certain copyright exceptions. In the Copydan judgment, the CJEU was more explicit regarding the conditions governing the lawful source.

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Copyright and Education in Canada: Have We Learned Nothing in the Past Two Centuries? (From the “Encouragement of Learning to the “Great Education Free Ride”)

Hugh Stephens Blog

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!), drawing on a recent book by copyright scholar Dr. Myra Tawfik, “For the Encouragement of Learning: The Origins of Canadian Copyright Law”.

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Amazon Owns Your E-Books and Wants More

SpicyIP

Arnav is a 3rd Year Law student from Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law, Punjab. He’s interested in Narratives and the Law, along with supporting local independent bookstores. Virginia Woolf, How Should One Read a Book?, Kindle users will still be able to download and transfer purchased books via Wi-Fi.

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[Guest post] The Afe Babalola-Dele Farotimi saga: Copyright royalties for defamation?

The IPKat

by Seun Lari-Williams The recent legal battle between Chief Afe Babalola , a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) and Dele Farotimi , a lawyer, author, and activist over Farotimis book Nigeria and Its Criminal Justice System has ignited multifaceted debates.

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

SpicyIP

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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‘Meta Torrented over 81 TB of Data Through Anna’s Archive, Despite Few Seeders’

TorrentFreak

Last weekend, shadow library Anna’s Archive argued that, for AI companies, access to ‘pirated’ books may be a matter of national security. “Meta downloaded millions of pirated books from LibGen through the bit torrent protocol using a platform called LibTorrent. copyright law.

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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.