Plagiarism Today

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Whether it’s a movie becoming a holiday classic due to it being (briefly) in the public domain, holiday songs still very much under copyright, multiple legal questions around a children’s classic or some long-running myths that have changed the way people view some of the season’s most important characters, copyright has been a factor.

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Dear Rich IP Blog

JANUARY 9, 2023

Dear Rich: I want to use a police plane crash accident photo in my book. Is it public domain or fair use? Public domain? Other states like Virginia, New York, and Massachusetts (called "open copyright" states) have a policy that makes state documents presumptively public domain. May I use it?

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

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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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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Plagiarism Today

DECEMBER 24, 2024

As old as Christmas traditions often feel, it's surprises many so few are in the public domain. However, there's a simple reason for that. The post Why So Much of Christmas is Protected by Copyright appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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IPilogue

JULY 27, 2022

According to an interesting study on “ The effect of copyright term length on South African book markets ,” a book entering the public domain generates 26.5 additional editions on average after it enters the public domain. The concerns are loud and clear.

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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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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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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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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

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

MAY 29, 2023

Now in its second edition, the book offers a perspective on how one can address the overlap between intellectual property (IP) rights, either to reconcile them in whole or in part, or to pre-empt one over the other. The book closes with Chapter 21 by Susy Frankel, focusing on the interactions between IP and traditional knowledge (TK).

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

Prominent AI companies including DeepSeek have used its library of books and articles to train their AI models. A reduced copyright term wouldn’t legalize Anna’s Archive, but it would elevate many more works to the public domain. Annas Archive is not just a passive observer in the artificial intelligence arena.

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IPilogue

JANUARY 17, 2022

While many were observing the new year, intellectual property scholars and the artistic community were celebrating Public Domain Day. The previously copyrighted works enter the public domain, free to use and copy. public domain. January 1 st marks the expiration of most jurisdictions’ copyright terms.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

This is a book review of the Research Handbook on Intellectual Property and Moral Rights , curated by Ysolde Gendreau (Université de Montréal, Canada), provided by Francesca Mazzi , Lecturer in AI, Innovation and Law at Brunel University London. Such gestures couldn't be overlooked in a book on moral rights.

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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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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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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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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

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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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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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

The Information Law Series , established in 1991, is the worlds first and foremost academic book series in the field of information law and policy. Publications in the series are aimed not only at scholars and advanced students, but also at practitioners and policy makers who are active in this rapidly expanding field.

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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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IPilogue

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Relying on Twin Books Corporation v Walt Disney Company ( Twin Books ), Bundy argued, “a foreign publication of a foreign work, before January 1, 1978, without notice of United States copyright, did not put the foreign work into the public domain in the U.S.”. They brought evidence of U.S. Copyright Act of 1909.

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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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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 and Legal Filings

JANUARY 16, 2024

Introduction Controlled Digital Lending (“ CDL ”) in context of book lending became a buzzword during the pandemic period when the physical access of libraries was not possible. This rule covers lending digital copies of copyrighted works, while works in the public domain can be freely digitized.

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Intellectual Property Office Blog

MARCH 6, 2025

Ive always been a big fan of World Book Day. As an avid reader, I have many fond memories of heading into school dressed as my favourite characters, and while I'm not donning a costume this year, I am thinking about the IP in some of my favourite children's books

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