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3 Count: Sealed with a Kiss

Plagiarism Today

2: SoundExchange Royalties Dispute with Music Choice to be Referred to Copyright Royalty Board. 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. They are free of copyright.

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Performer’s Rights under Copyright Law

Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

Section 2(qq) of the Copyright Act, 1957 has provided meaning to the term performer stating that the term would include acrobat, singer, musician., Subsequently, performance can be referred to as the representation of any visual or acoustic presentation which has been performed by one or more performers.

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Controlled Digital Lending: A Copyright Analysis

IP and Legal Filings

The libraries use this concept of CDL justify the mass digitalization of copyright works digital versions of their legally obtained items and lending them to patrons in a controlled manner. This rule covers lending digital copies of copyrighted works, while works in the public domain can be freely digitized.

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OpenAI Wants New York Times to Show How Original Its Copyrighted Articles Are

TorrentFreak

. “[T]he Times cannot pursue a claim for infringement over any part of a copyrighted work that is not original to the Times, as would be the case if the Times copied another’s work or elements in the public domain,” OpenAI writes. The expressive nature of a work is determined by reference to the work itself.

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Free Mickey? (Don’t Be Goofy)

LexBlog IP

Freed from the shackles of copyright, Walt Disney’s iconic rodent was now in the public domain and, therefore, available for everyone to copy. It is no surprise that the legalities of the public domain are more complicated than the headlines suggest. But not so fast.

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NFTs: promisingly transformational, yet fraught with IP pitfalls – Part I

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Caveat Emptor The common notion that acquiring ownership of an NFT representing a work in which copyright subsists equates to owning the copyright to the underlying work is clearly false. For instance, CrypToadz is a prominent CC0 NFT project wherein the artwork related to the NFT is in the public domain.

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The Best Starting Place for People New to Copyright

Plagiarism Today

The guide is an amazingly thorough overview of copyright, written in a way to be understood by lay people and it includes nearly all of the important information one needs to know in just 10 pages and 4,000 words. Copyright Office, which is part of the federal government, the work itself is in the public domain.

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