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Taking Pirated Copies Offline Can Benefit Book Sales, Research Finds

TorrentFreak

found pirated copies on 53 sites and continually issued takedown notices for a full year. Takedowns Were Effective, Sales Trend Up After the research was completed, three assistants were asked to conduct online searches to confirm whether it was harder to find pirated copies ‘protected’ books online. In total, Plagiat.pl

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Pirating “The Pirate Bay” TV Series is Ironically Difficult

TorrentFreak

Founded by the Piratbyrån group, The Pirate Bay and its founders embraced the power of the new BitTorrent technology: to copy culture en masse. Pirating ‘The Pirate Bay’ Series Soon after the first two episodes of The Pirate Bay series came out, scene release copies started circulating online. As one would expect.

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Navigating User Lawfulness in European Copyright Law: From Lawful Use to Lawful Access

Kluwer Copyright Blog

In ACI Adam , the CJEU introduced lawfulness as a prerequisite for the enjoyment of the private copy exception, when affirming that the benefit of the private copy exception concerns only reproductions made from a lawful source. So, here we have three alternative definitions of lawful access.

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Open Source AI – definition and selected legal challenges

Kluwer Copyright Blog

It covers some of the basics on open source AI focusing on its definition and legal challenges. The exact definition of what constitutes open source AI is still subject to discussion. Finally, the Open Source Initiative (OSI) is currently working on a definition for open source AI. Its “ Open Source AI Definition – draft v.

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Mysterious “Theater” Rips Cause Excitement in Piracy Circles

TorrentFreak

When films are released on streaming platforms, they are copied and shared online almost immediately. Since the early 2000s, leaked copies of Oscar ‘screeners’ would circulate on pirate sites at the end of the year. There’s one type of piracy that’s particularly concerning, however. The problem isn’t new.

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Lawyer Sanctioned for Plagiarizing Opposing Counsel

Plagiarism Today

On one hand, unattributed copying is rampant, widely accepted and even necessary. Much of what lawyers write have only one or two ways that they can correctly be written, thus it’s common to copy the works of others, especially from one’s own firm or their past work. While cases like this one are rare, they do happen.

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Understanding the Pearson v. Chegg Copyright Infringement Lawsuit

Plagiarism Today

In the lawsuit, Pearson alleges that Chegg, through the use of thousands of freelancers, provides answers to questions found in textbooks it publishes and, in doing so, often copies the question verbatim or with slight paraphrasing. As a result, Pearson is suing Chegg alleging copyright infringement.