Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 29, 2022

Traditional publishing works on a business model that involves selling access to the articles they publish. This means that a majority of published research is hidden behind paywalls and not available to those that don’t or can’t pay for access to it outside of pirated copies. Typically, those licenses are Creative Commons Licenses.

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Plagiarism Today

MARCH 30, 2022

First off today, Austen Goslin at Polygon reports that choreographer Kyle Hanagami has filed a lawsuit against Epic Games alleging that the video game company copied his choreography for an emote in the game Fortnite. The 3 Count Logo was created by Justin Goff and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License.

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 3, 2022

Next up today, Murray Stassen at Music Business Worldwide reports that the performing rights organization SoundExchange has secured a victory in their lawsuit against Music Choice as a federal court has agreed to refer the case to the Copyright Royalty Board at SoundExchange’s request. They are free of copyright.

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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. . This, in turn, is why pirate NFTs became such big business.

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Traverse Legal Blog

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Misinterpreting Licenses: Incorrectly assuming permission to use copyrighted material. Preventing Accidental Infringement: Respect Copyright: Avoid copying others’ work without permission. What Is Accidental Copyright Infringement. Fair Use Misconception: Believing that a particular use falls under fair use guidelines.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 26, 2021

If the costume isn’t licensed, why is it not infringing regardless of the name change? This means, theoretically, that elements such as the Superman “S” can be protected by copyright because they are separate elements that are merely copied onto the clothing. Why did the company do this? The second limitation is masks.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Furthermore, they allege that Reelz has copied many elements from Live PD including the show’s format, the show’s hosts and the same catchphrase to name a few. Russell Brown and Sandy Linzer, who claim that Levitating is a copy of two of their songs, 1979s Wiggle and Giggle All Night and 1980s Don Diablo.

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Plagiarism Today

JULY 28, 2021

Next up today, Baek Byung-yeul at the Korea Times reports that a new bill in the South Korean National Assembly follows in the footsteps of other nations in trying to force Google to pay a license fee to local news organization for the use of their content in Google News.

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Plagiarism Today

APRIL 6, 2022

According to the judge, Sheeran did not “deliberately nor subconsiously” copy Chokri’s work and there was no evidence Sheeran had even heard Oh Why before writing Shape of You. The publisher wanted to depose Daniel Ek, but Spotify’s lawyers attempted to prevent it, saying that he is simply too busy.

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Velocity of Content

JULY 25, 2024

CCC has licensed this report from Outsell, Inc., Why This Topic As AI continues to revolutionize corporate operations, a new collective licensing solution from CCC ensures that both content creators and users can thrive. with the right to distribute it for marketing and market education purposes.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 3, 2021

The lawmakers don’t mention any incentives or repercussions in the letter but do stress that it would be best if Twitter enters into licensing agreements with copyright holders. A Piracy Business Model. — A copy of the letter sent by the U.S. This issue is high on the music industry’s wishlist too.

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Plagiarism Today

JULY 25, 2022

It accuses VNG Group of releasing the Zing MP3 app, which features music owned by Lang Van even though VNG, according to the lawsuit, do not have license to use. VNG group claimed that the court didn’t have jurisdiction over them, noting that they are located in Vietnam and the bulk of their business is there.

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 9, 2023

Since the year 2000, much of what makes up the core of Dungeons & Dragons has been easily licensed for others to use. That’s because the Wizards of the Coast (WotC), the rightsholders, licensed the System Resource Document under the Open Gaming License (OGL). Though WotC has dabbled with other open licenses, OGL 1.0

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IP and Legal Filings

JULY 24, 2023

Introduction Shutterstock is a global provider of licensed images, videos, audio and editing tools, that has revolutionized the way visual content can be accessed and used. Content creators contribute their work to the platform, making it available for licensing, while end users can easily browse, license and utilize them.

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IP and Legal Filings

MAY 15, 2024

Intellectual Property License is an agreement between the owner of the Intellectual Property and the party to whom the rights are being given in exchange for a fee or royalty. The present article looks into a comprehensive landscape of Limited License. The IP Owner and the third party are the licensor and the licensee respectively.

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 10, 2023

However, companies will only have three years to collect those royalties and, given that sanctions bar companies from doing business with Belarus, it’s unlikely that they will be able to do so. Discovery has filed a DMCA notice with the development platform GitHub over a leaked copy of the Mortal Kombat II source code.

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Erik K Pelton

OCTOBER 6, 2020

A trademark registration is a tangible asset that can be assigned, licensed, or used as collateral. In the sale of a business, a. taken away or copied by someone else. The post 9 reasons why a business should apply to register its trademarks appeared first on Erik M Pelton & Associates, PLLC. Just appearing in the.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 22, 2022

“YouTube removed the First RT Video nine days after it received Business Casual’s complaint; the Second RT Video twenty-three days after it received Business Casual’s complaint; and the Third RT Video three days after it received Business Casual’s complaint.” The plaintiff basically said “WTF?

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Business Casual v. The case involves ShutterStock, a photo licensing service. (We ShutterStock has a “contributor” program that allows anyone to upload photos into their licensing database in exchange for a fee if licensed. Getty’s employees also actively engaged in licensing the content at issue.”

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 11, 2023

The most modern instalment of this long history comes in the form of another kind ‘copy’, less richly decorated, yet more relevant and politically sensitive for a country that has established a long-term foreign investment “partnership” with the tech and communication industry: the transposition of Directive 2019/790 into Irish law.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 22, 2021

“RCN’s counterclaims are based on Rightscorp’s, the RIAA’s, and the Record Labels’ unlawful, unfair, and fraudulent business practices in generating and sending millions of unsupported emails accusing RCN’s customers of BitTorrent-based copyright infringement,” the ISP writes. No Private Investigator’s License.

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 24, 2022

A foreign company can set up a business in India under the Companies Act, 2013 as a Wholly Owned Subsidiary, Joint Venture or Associate Company or by setting up a Liaison Office, Project Office, or Branch Office of the foreign Company. INTRODUCTION. Resolution of the foreign company (duly apostille). as applicable.

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Velocity of Content

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Training involves copying and storing copyrighted material, typically in very large quantities. Inputs: Uploading copyrighted content into AI systems to perform specific tasks such as summarization, analysis, or translation also involves the production and use of copies. Responsible AI starts with licensing.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 10, 2023

Viral videos are big business. These companies typically take care of licensing and legal issues. When a video goes viral, thousands of copies are made without permission, even by mainstream news outlets, other licensing companies, and some of the world’s largest copyright businesses. Of Course not.

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Velocity of Content

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The Annual Copyright License (ACL) from CCC helps minimize an organization’s infringement risk by providing a consistent set of global reuse rights across millions of publications from thousands of rightsholders that complements existing publisher agreements, subscriptions, and other content purchases.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 31, 2025

If this continues, Musi will eventually be put out of business. Regardless, the company argued that the terms of the Apple Developer Program License Agreement (DPLA) allow the company to delist apps at any time, with or without cause. — A copy of Judge Eumi K.

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Velocity of Content

APRIL 23, 2025

Despite claims that machines simply process information without making copies, AI implementation requires the reproduction of content, and modern AI systems record the relationships between words in ways that can preserve and even reproduce the original work. The more unique the content, the more likely this reproduction becomes.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 21, 2023

Staying true to the centuries-old library concept, only one patron at a time can get a copy. Without any license or any payment to authors or publishers, IA scans print books, uploads these illegally scanned books to its servers, and distributes verbatim digital copies of the books in whole via public-facing websites,” their complaint reads.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 18, 2024

Patrons can also borrow books that are scanned and digitized in-house, with technical restrictions that prevent copying. Staying true to the centuries-old library concept, only one patron at a time can rent a digital copy of a physical book.

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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. The organization doesn’t license authorized digital copies from publishers; instead, its books are scanned and digitized in-house. IA has plenty of other archive projects too.

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Kashishipr

JUNE 9, 2021

With the onset of the trend wherein users are gradually switching to online streaming to meet their music needs and discarding traditional methods such as radio, television, and music CDs, compulsory licensing for the internet was recognized as a key policy issue by the music industry last year. Background. The Plaintiff, Tips Industries Ltd.,

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Velocity of Content

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Marketplace customers can also assemble academic course pack projects comprised of content, purchase single copies of articles and chapters, and request article Reprints/ePrints from thousands of publishers. Looking for Content?

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

The dispute centers around the use of copyrighted music to train AI models and the broader implications for the future of the music business. They argue that AI models trained on their catalog without permission amount to copyright infringement, much like streaming services before licensing agreements were established.

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IIPRD

MARCH 13, 2025

With so many IPs available trademarks, patents, copyrights, and more – how can you choose the right one for your work, product, or business? are intellectual properties owned by individuals and/or businesses. For example, if you write a novel, copyright protects it from being copied or sold by others without your permission.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 12, 2022

As a result, in some business and educational environments use of Microsoft software is effectively mandatory, leaving consumers with little room to consider alternatives or negotiate a discount. Background: Keys and Tokens Are Not Licenses. Device Peddlers Enabled Piracy.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 20, 2022

With the orders in hand, a search party was permitted to enter several buildings and search, copy, or remove evidence including any computers and documents that were linked to the alleged offenses. In addition, PayPal froze the developer’s funds, which presumably included profits from the cheating business.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 17, 2022

In recent years music publishers have repeatedly spoken out against online platforms that use their music without a proper license. The music industry association has already sent cease-and-desist letters to nearly 100 apps that use copyrighted music without proper licenses. Unlicensed Platforms and Apps. NMPA Sues Vinkle.

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