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Is Your Website Published or Unpublished?

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That question is whether the descriptions were “published” or “unpublished” according to the law when they were put on FDN’s website. Also in 2018, FDN filed the original complaint, targeting both Amazon and CCA, alleging that they both breached contracts and committed copyright infringement. According to the U.S. Bottom Line.

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5 Takeaways from the Slate’s Contract Cheating Piece

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Last week, Slate published an anonymous article from an author who, according to their story, served as an essay mill ghostwriter for several months during the pandemic. However, this means that we can’t dismiss the role of parents and family in contract cheating and that this may be an area calling for greater outreach.

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Anna’s Archive Scraping: Court Defers Key Questions to State Supreme Court

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terabytes of data and published roughly 700 million unique records online, for free. This ‘metadata’ heist was a massive breakthrough in the site’s quest to archive as much published content as possible. The site’s operators took more than a year to scrape 2.2

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3 Count: Ford’s Tough

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First off today, Tim Ingham at Music Business Worldwide reports that the Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) has accepted a settlement between organizations representing songwriters and publishers and those representing digital streaming services on a new royalty rate for the next five years. The new deal covers the years of 2023 through 2027.

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Sci-Hub Founder’s High Court Creativity Fails to Dismiss Publishers’ Lawsuit

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From a cold, legal perspective, a 2020 blocking application filed by publishers Elsevier, Wiley, and American Chemical Society should’ve been straightforward. Supported by millions of students, academics and scientists, when Elbakyan takes on the ‘greedy’ publishers, a win for her is seen as a win for all.

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Sci-Hub Only Option For Academics In Russia After Major Publishers Pull Out

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Major Academic Publishers End Sales in Russia. In line with other Western entities choosing to boycott Russia, 15 major companies with a virtual monopoly on scientific publishing decided that enough is enough. The publishers put their ban in place before it could renew its licenses. Even that is sugar-coating the reality.

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Why it is Never the Right Time to Tackle Plagiarism

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Yesterday, Alice Nuttall published a piece on Book Riot that asks a simple question: Why is publishing plagiarism still possible? She believes that publishing is so vast, that there would be no way to house a database with all the needed info. Furthermore, the private libraries of publishers aren’t a huge obstacle either.