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Copyright, Education, and Generative AI: Getting with the programme?

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Generative AI (GenAI) is promising to revolutionise higher education. Academic integrity and plagiarism issues in this context ultimately also lead us to copyright law. Or do students expose themselves to liability for copyright infringement when using GenAI output? I. GenAI at odds with copyright law?

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Publishers’ Lawsuit Accuses Libgen of “Staggering” Copyright Infringement

TorrentFreak

Majors Publishers File Copyright Complaint Against Libgen According to a copyright lawsuit filed in the U.S. Bedford, Freeman & Worth Publishing Group, LLC (d/b/a Macmillan Learning, McGraw Hill LLC, and Pearson Education, Inc.) At least 20,000 of those files were published by plaintiffs Cengage Learning, Inc.,

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Copyright-A Bane For The Students Or A Boon For Copyright Owners?

IP and Legal Filings

Among the other solutions, the most easy and feasible way to come out of the problem of unavailability and unaffordability was to start copying the books, study materials, and video lectures with the help of different mechanisms. Copyright ensures certain minimum rights and it has never been an absolute right. Evolution afterward.

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University Websites Are Being Flooded with Online Piracy Scams

TorrentFreak

In the United States, however, higher education institutions were forced to put the brakes on piracy due to the passing of the Higher Education Opportunity Act ( HEOA ) in 2008. Civil penalties for Federal Copyright infringement range from $750 per song to $150,000 in damages for each willful act.”

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Marketplace: A Year of Innovation to Meet Evolving Customer Needs

Velocity of Content

Let’s dive into what’s new and improved in the user-friendly ecommerce tool that makes it easy to get copyright permission, order content and article reprints, and manage all transactional purchases in one place. Stay tuned for even more features and additions to Marketplace in the coming year. Check out Marketplace today!

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Enhance Curriculum with Copyrighted Content

Velocity of Content

However, adopting a more systematic program of creating or adapting curriculum materials for an entire district or school highlights some important questions about schools’ and school districts’ rights and obligations under copyright law. While uncommon, publishers have sued school districts for copyright infringement. million dollars.

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Anti-Piracy Group Warns of a Problematic Textbook Piracy Culture Among Students

TorrentFreak

Last year, a student survey found that nearly half of all students who use digital textbooks get their copies through illegal means. “Unfortunately, we see an unhealthy culture in higher education, where every other student has acquired study books illegally.