Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Night of the Living Dead is possibly one of the most famous public domain movies of all time. However, at least one copy made it to the United States, where the original book was already in public domain. The book Frankenstein , written by Mary Shelley in 1818, has long lapsed into the public domain.

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The IPKat

JANUARY 30, 2024

On 1st January every year we celebrate the array of works entering the public domain, as their copyright term expires. This year, entering the public domain [generally speaking] are copyright protected works created by people who died in 1953, for countries with a copyright term of life plus 70 years (e.g.,

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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. Finally today, The Associated Press reports that, with the new year, several prominent works are lapsing into the public domain including the Ernest Hemingway novel The Sun Also Rises and A.A.

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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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Dear Rich IP Blog

AUGUST 21, 2021

One of the founders wrote and published a book in 1899 (in the USA and in France). A few years ago, we found out a publishing company had republished the book as part of their classics series. Or would we need to get permission from the publisher that republished the book as part of their classics series? Public domain.

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IP Close Up

JANUARY 3, 2023

What do Virginia Woolf’s ‘To The Lighthouse” and the final Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, the German science-fiction film ‘Metropolis’ and Alfred Hitchcock’s Continue reading.

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The IPKat

OCTOBER 12, 2022

A salient case in point are book titles and the potential confusion that they can engender, thanks to an apparent lacuna in the law. There, one can find metal shelves at each end, enabling one either to leave a book otherwise to be discarded, or to inspect such abandoned books in search of an unread gem. So, there it is.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 14, 2023

For example, according to the Guidelines, a university press has to pay the Public Sector (Ministry of Culture or public museum) for the reproduction, in a book, of images of public cultural property. In particular, under EU law the Italian public cultural property seems to be inconsistent with art.

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The IPKat

MAY 17, 2023

In the introduction, Stamatoudi explains that the aim of the book is to explore the intersection between intellectual property rights and cultural heritage from a variety of angles and perspectives. The book is presented in three main parts. Where a state classifies a public domain work as a national treasure there would be no issue.

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Intepat

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

In today’s world, copyright laws are essential for protecting creative works like books. What is Copyright in Books? Copyright in books gives the author control over how their work is used, reproduced, and distributed. Distribute or lend the book. Adapt the book (like creating a movie or translation). Make copies.

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Dear Rich IP Blog

JUNE 19, 2021

Speaking of the public domain, the Public Domain Review has an informative essay (“ The Mark of the Beast ”) about the first anti-vaxxers Dear Rich: I wish to reproduce photographs from a website. I want to use them in a book I've written. The site itself is being deliberately obtuse about answering questions.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 31, 2024

Because copyright protection has a set term, copyrights in certain works necessarily expire each year and enter the public domain. Once a work has entered the public domain, it no longer retains copyright protection and cannot stop use of the work by others based on its prior copyright rights.

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Dear Rich IP Blog

AUGUST 18, 2020

I have used public domain quotes within the novel (from Aristotle, Lincoln, etc.), but because the world of the novel is not Earth, I claim the quotes are from some nonexistent book that fits in the novel's world. Dear Rich: I have just finished writing a fantasy novel. Is this hinky? Your suggested use is not hinky.

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Plagiarism Today

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

See Also: Why You Can’t Copy a Recipe Book. 4: What the ICE Domain Seizures Mean for You. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) seized some 82 domains that it claimed where trafficking in either counterfeit or trademark infringing goods. 5: 5 Public Domain Christmas Songs (And 5 That Aren’t).

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Dear Rich IP Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Grant - Virginia, June 1864 Dear Rich: I am writing a book about the Civil War. I have two cases where they were published in book form in the 1990s, but those letters were copied from university libraries where apparently the originals are on display. According to your book, "publication" includes "offering for public display."

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Dear Rich IP Blog

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

I'm in the process of publishing a book that will contain lots of images, mostly of artworks by one artist in particular. If I, the British author, am getting images from European suppliers, for my American-published book, do I have to pay for copyright clearance? for 95 years from publication. But in the U.S.,

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 23, 2023

As a plant intellectual property nerd , this Kat was delighted to get her hands on the new book Intellectual Property and the Design of Nature (Oxford University Press, 2023), edited by Jose Bellido and Brad Sherman. Concluding Thoughts This review could not do justice to all thirteen of the contributions in the book.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 17, 2022

On January 1, 2022, copyrighted works from 1926 will enter the US public domain. That means that anyone can copy, share, and build upon that work , but it doesn’t mean the public can do the same for things that are already derived from the original. Well, the first Winnie-the-Pooh book from A. More into music?

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Dear Rich IP Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2020

These photos are in the public domain and free for anyone to copy. You can't register your report with the Copyright Office unless you declare whether your book contains pre-existing works. You can't claim copyright in photos published before 1925 or in unpublished photos taken by photographers who died before 1950.

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The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

This is a book review of “ Harmonizing Intellectual Property Law for a Trans-Atlantic Knowledge Economy ”, edited by Péter Mezei, Hannibal Travis, and Anett Pogácsás. This model addresses the legal public domain status of both physical and intangible AI creations and inventions. A meow-velous cover!

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Copyright Lately

APRIL 30, 2021

version of the book credited Scott-Giles for the maps and diagrams he specially drew for the edition, but didn’t contain a copyright notice. The 1949 English-language publication of Dante’s “Inferno” was first published in the U.K. While the version of Sayers’ book published in the U.K. version did.

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Corsearch

MARCH 13, 2023

Copyright © Walt Disney Animation Studios A background on copyright protections in the US All works that were published in the US prior to 1923 are now in the public domain, as is any work created by individuals in an official capacity for the federal government. Oswald the Lucky Rabbit.

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The IPKat

JULY 22, 2021

The title of this book clearly sets out its premise: trademark protection has encroached into what used to be solely copyright’s domain, resulting in an undesirable over-protection of works which impoverishes the public domain and restricts others’ creative endeavours. Figure 1: Get your paws on this new book y'all!

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IP Close Up

DECEMBER 20, 2022

He is also on a mission to keep the content he and others create out of the public domain. Mark Helprin is a successful novelist. Continue reading.

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The IPKat

APRIL 8, 2022

Nosferatu was a 1922 adaption (just how much was the subject of the copyright challenge to the movie) of the wildly popular 1897 book by Bram Stoker — Dracula. But the Stoker book did not emerge from a creative tabula rasa. The first modern vampire book — The Vampyre , was written by John Polidori in 1819. blood) of the living.

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IP Close Up

AUGUST 20, 2024

and other power brands will be entering the public domain at an alarming rate between Continue reading Iconic characters from Disney, Marvel and DC Comics (Warner Bros.)

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

They accuse OpenAI of using books as training data, without permission, relying on datasets that were sourced from pirate sites. These accusations and claims largely rely on the suspicion that OpenAI used hundreds of thousands of copyrighted books as training material.

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IP Law 360

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

A musical production of the 1908 children's classic "Anne of Green Gables" on Tuesday urged a New York federal court to shut down another production's trademark claims, saying that, since the book is in the public domain, it would be equivalent to claiming ownership of Shakespeare's works.

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IP Close Up

JANUARY 9, 2024

The most anticipated entry to the public domain, “Steamboat Willie,” an animated short featuring and early incarnation of Mickey Mouse, became available royalty-free to all Continue reading

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IPilogue

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

After the release of “Black Mirror: Bandersnatch” in 2018, Netflix was sued by Chooseco , a children’s book publisher known for their ‘game books’ titled Choose Your Own Adventure. Netflix eventually settled with Chooseco in late 2020 after unsuccessfully arguing on grounds related to trademark law and fair use allowances. .

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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.

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Dear Rich IP Blog

JUNE 20, 2023

Despite the publication date, I can't tell if this book is in the US public domain. I have a recent UK copy of the book, and it has no copyright notice. But the book is also not in Google Books or Gutenberg, which leads me to believe it's still under US copyright.

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The IPKat

JULY 30, 2023

Now in its second edition, the book offers a primer on copyright-related challenges that artificial intelligence (AI) presents. As advanced in the book’s title, this monograph is composed of 25 short chapters, distributed in six parts. To address this question, Fernández explains the fundamentals of AI works of art in Part II.

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Copyright Lately

OCTOBER 25, 2021

You can always get drunk and order random stuff on Amazon curl up with a scary book or Halloween-themed movie, game or music video that’s found its way into copyright history. In 1917, author Mark Twain had already been dead for seven years, but that didn’t stop him from writing a new book—allegedly. Skully Curly.

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Velocity of Content

APRIL 21, 2022

“World Book and Copyright Day is a celebration to promote the enjoyment of books and reading. Each year, on 23 April, celebrations take place all over the world to recognize the scope of books – a link between the past and the future, a bridge between generations and across cultures.”. of American Literature.

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The IPKat

AUGUST 23, 2022

Perhaps the most difficult aspect of the move was dealing with his book collection. And, as long as it does, the library owner will face the challenge of dealing with the stark reality that while copyright may protect book contents at the incorporeal level, books only have personal meaning in their three-dimensional, physical context.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 30, 2023

Z-Library has become the go-to site for many readers in recent years by providing access to millions of books, for free. law enforcement seized over 200 domain names connected to the site. “[A]lmost all public domains of the library were blocked in November 2022 by order of the US Secret Service.

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