TorrentFreak

APRIL 5, 2022

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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Plagiarism Today

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

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.

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Plagiarism Today

JUNE 8, 2022

According to The Mercury News , In 2009, she was awarded a no-bid contract to be the sole grant writer for the county. However, it was in 2018 that she was offered an additional contract. This has led to Supervisor Otto Lee calling for an inquiry into the book and the various contracts that were awarded McCorquodale.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 21, 2021

2: Kairosoft, the Beloved Mobile Tycoon Game Developer, Openly Accuses its Chinese Publisher of Copyright Infringement and Contract Violation. The two companies signed an agreement in 2017 that gave Beijing Shi Jun publishing rights for Kairosoft games in China. 3: Facebook Signs Copyright Agreement with Some French Publishers.

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The IPKat

JULY 4, 2022

In 2019, the EU legislature introduced an EU-wide related right (Article 15 of the DSM Directive , on which see Katposts here ) for EU-based press publishers in relation to online uses of their press publications by information society service providers, including news aggregation services, social media, and search engines.

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Plagiarism Today

DECEMBER 6, 2021

1: Major Publishers Sue Shopify, Alleging Copyright Violations. First off today, Suzanne Smalley at Inside Higher Ed reports that five major textbook publishers have teamed up to file a lawsuit against Shopify over allegations that the ecommerce platform is enabling rampant piracy. Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday.

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Plagiarism Today

APRIL 19, 2022

This trend is also being seen in research, with a recently published study by a group of Saudi Arabian researchers that looked at using AI to look not just at text, but the images in a published paper. Simply put, plagiarism detection is changing, with multiple groups seeking to make it smarter and useful in a larger number of cases.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Early this week news broke that major manga publishers Shueisha, Kodansha, Shogakukan and Kadokawa were about to sue Cloudflare in Japan. The lawsuit filed Tuesday at the Tokyo District Court is yet to be made public but in a joint statement, the publishers now lay out their grievances against the US company.

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Plagiarism Today

MAY 25, 2022

However, HP argues that many of the servers involved predate Oracle’s current contract system, making the patches legal. 3: Marvel Confirms Conan the Barbarian is Leaving the Publisher. Finally today, Adam Barnhardt at Comicbook.com reports that Marvel Comics is losing the publishing rights to the character Conan the Barbarian.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

APRIL 16, 2022

The court confirms that to ensure enforceability, consumers should (1) check the box and (2) be advised that checking the box will indicate assent to contract terms. These basic principles “apply with equal force to contracts formed online.” Forming online contracts is not rocket science. Freedom Financial Network, LLC.

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Plagiarism Today

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Nonetheless, Mirimax claims to hold all the copyrights and trademarks related to the film, prompting them to file a lawsuit for breach of contract, copyright infringement, trademark infringement and unfair competition. 2: John Lewis Sued by Self-Published Children’s Author Over Christmas Ad. 3: $31m piracy penalty for ChitramTV.

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The IPKat

JULY 11, 2022

The EPO Board of Appeal has published its full decision on the question of whether a machine can be an inventor ( J 8/20 ). The Board of Appeal had previously announced its decision to refuse two European patent applications naming an algorithm ("DABUS") as the sole inventor at the end of last year ( IPKat ).

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Specifically, the two companies created and produced work related to various testing needs and targeted state contracts. However, when WIN won a lucrative contract with the state of South Carolina, ACT sued allegiging that their skill definitoins and other elements were “virtually identical” to their own.

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Velocity of Content

AUGUST 23, 2022

CCC has contracted with the Chinese Medical Association Publishing House (CMAPH) to offer document delivery and licensing solutions for all CMAPH journals. CMAPH is the leading publisher of medical journals in China, including the prestigious Chinese Medical Journal and National Medical Journal of China.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MARCH 11, 2025

The users access to the work is safeguarded as long as the service is offered, and the user often does not have a right to enjoy the work after the subscription contract is terminated. Indeed, intellectual access to works in the public domain, their enjoyment and their use presuppose prior material access to these works.

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JD Supra Law

JULY 5, 2024

This post summarizes a newly published regulation (the “Amended Regulation”) amending the Québec Charter of the French Language (“Charter”) and the Regulation respecting the language of commerce and business in key areas such as commercial contract drafting and the use of English-language trademarks.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2022

The resulting state court lawsuit has reinforced the Prager Effect, producing another published opinion thoroughly rejecting every argument advanced by Prager and expanding services’ legal protections for their moderation decisions. Prager tried a variety of contract-based workarounds to Section 230.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 13, 2023

After the first DSM Directive-related referral from Belgium on the provisions concerning contracts of authors and performers [IPKat here ] , it is now the turn of Article 15 (the related right for press publishers) as implemented into Italian law. All this would serve to ‘foster the availability of reliable information’.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 2, 2024

Photo by Jonathan Kemper on Unsplash On 7 May 2024, Open AI published its approach to data and AI (ADAI). This statement sets out OpenAI’s vison for a ‘social contract for content in AI’. It speaks of benefits it strives to create for ‘all of humanity’ including ‘creators and publishers’.

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SpicyIP

JUNE 14, 2023

Harper Collins Publishers, we’re now very happy to bring further perspective on this case, with our former blogger Rahul Bajaj discussing the significant implications that this order brings with it. Harper Collins Publishers Rahul Bajaj In a significant judgment delivered on 23 rd May, 2023 [ RDB v.

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JD Supra Law

JANUARY 15, 2024

This post summarizes a newly published draft regulation (“Draft Regulation”) that, if passed, will amend the Québec Charter of the French Language (“Charter”) and the Regulation respecting the language of commerce and business in certain key areas, such as commercial contract drafting and the use of English-language trademarks.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

AUGUST 22, 2023

contracts) may play a decisive role in the final allocation of rights and obligations. We selected the Scientific Publishing industry to better understand how the obligations under art. There are numerous commercial Scientific Publishers and Stock Images providers. In this fragmented landscape, self-regulation (e.g.,

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Plagiarism Today

MAY 31, 2022

However, it will be forbidden from digitizing any books already released by publishers in a digital format. This prompted Village Roadshow to allege branch of contract. Lawmakers also passed an amendment to the Copyright Act that would enable the national Central Library to create digital editions of its books. However, Warner Bros.

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 24, 2022

In addition to the breach of contract and alleged violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, the lawsuit accuses The Points Guy of violating both their copyrights and trademarks for the use of the American Airlines logo as part of the app.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Based on input from industry groups including the MPA, BPI/IFPI, FACT, and the Publishers Association, operators of pirate sites are engaged directly by officers from PIPCU. The contract was eventually awarded to Bristol-based Calvium Limited, which according to its website already works with the NHS and the Department of Transport.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

The lawsuit includes claims for breach of contract, violation of Section 230, IIED, NIED, breach of implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing, and conversion. Breach of Contract/Implied Covenant of Good Faith and Fair Dealing. Attempts to resurrect it were unsuccessful. The negligence claims fail for lack of alleged duty.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

The term encompasses a variety of special regimes empowering (or obliging) authors to retain some of the usage rights over their publicly funded works vis-à-vis scientific publishers in order to facilitate open access to scientific literature. The provision also did not provide for an embargo period.

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Plagiarism Today

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

As we reported earlier this month , Gleeson’s downfall began in late October when he published a piece entitled Power and Palaszczuk in the Courier-Mail The piece was an unflattering 12-page “special investigation” into the government of Queensland premier, Annastacia Palaszczuk, and her government.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 12, 2022

In 2015, the National Music Publishers Association (NMPA) filed a lawsuit against Wolfgang’s Vault, alleging that the service did not have a license for the underlying compositions of the songs it streamed. However, despite the termination of the contract, the shops continued to show Sis broadcasts, despite multiple warnings to stop.

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SpicyIP

JULY 13, 2021

As a practice, artists enter into contracts with publishers which grant them ownership of the work to commercially exploit it and collect the royalties it earns. Then these earnings are split between the publishers and artists based on the terms of the contract between them. Can these Models Make their Way to India?

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IPilogue

MARCH 24, 2022

With that said, contracts should be clearly written, without legal jargon, to avoid litigation. I can certainly see myself working in a similar role, in the future, maybe at another media or publishing company.

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Plagiarism Today

APRIL 4, 2022

In April 2021, researcher Jess L Gregory published an article entitled “ Plagiarism as a Social Contract, a New Way to Approach Plagiarism ”.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 2, 2021

Universal, Disney, Netflix, Amazon, Paramount, Sony are among the group that have teamed up to sue Tusa for both copyright infringement and breach of contract. In addition to Owen, the plaintiffs also list all of his publishers and all the songwriters as defendants. .” As such, Warner Bros.,

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 17, 2024

If the issue lies in loopholes within the ToS, the solution seems straightforward: draft tighter contracts and perhaps incorporate a browsewrap on your platforms to catch those who don’t hold accounts. X’s breach of contract cases against CCDH for violating its ToS by scraping also didn’t fare well. In 2022, in ML Genius v.

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 13, 2022

” The lawsuit comes more than a year after an article Barrett published in The Atlantic came under fire for alleged fabrications and factual errors. For the next 20 years, Barrett did very little in the field of journalism, but The Atlantic invited her to publish a lengthy article in the November 2020 edition of the publication.

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The IPKat

OCTOBER 28, 2024

The International Publishers Association (IPA) will hold the 34th International Publishers Congress from 3 to 6 December 2024 in Guadalajara, Mexico. More information is available here. 34th IPA Congress. More volumes will continue to be added in due course. Consult the archive here. Image by RociH from Pixabay.

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JD Supra Law

DECEMBER 14, 2023

In response to the rapidly growing ubiquity of influencer-driven marketing, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has published numerous guidelines for influencers and advertisers alike. Influencing has grown to a $21 billion industry.

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