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3 Count: Sealed with a Kiss

Plagiarism Today

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. Copyright Law, works lapse into the public domain on January First of the year their copyright expires.

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The Basics of Open Access

Plagiarism Today

This means that a majority of published research is hidden behind paywalls and not available to those that don’t or can’t pay for access to it outside of pirated copies. This is a requirement of all Creative Commons licenses other than CC0 , which is essentially a public domain dedication and rarely used in Open Access.

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Court Rules Lego Creation Based on Religious Texts is Eligible for Copyright Protection

The IP Law Blog

Thus, here, given that the plaintiff has Copyright Registrations, the burden shifts to Defendants to come forward with “evidence that the work[s] [were] copied from the public domain.” As a result, Defendants contend that Plaintiff’s Second Holy Temple Product can be copied and used in derivative works.

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HIT NETFLIX CONTENT AND THE COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT THAT FOLLOWS

JIPL Online

The Conan Doyle estate, heirs to the author of the works about the famed detective Sherlock Holmes, alleged that Netflix infringed on the character Sherlock Holmes in its portrayal of Sherlock Holmes in the 2020 movie “Enola Holmes.” [2] 18] Netflix admitted it had access to and copied the memoir. [19]

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Creative Commons and NFTs – is CC licensing compatible with the new technologies?

Kluwer Copyright Blog

With the exception of CC0, CC licences allow authors to keep their copyright whilst at the same time communicate which rights they reserve and which rights they waive for public benefit. By purchasing an NFT one only purchases an actual digital token that normally contains a link to or a copy of a digital artwork.

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

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Specifically, a group called Spice DAO purchased an NFT displaying a copy of filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky’s ‘Dune’ for $3 million, assuming it would grant them the ability to produce derivative works, such as an animated Dune series.

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Copyright implications of Augmented Reality for cultural goods – Part 1

Kluwer Copyright Blog

When the said sensor recognizes it is in front of the Ara Pacis, it gives the order to copy the colored reproductions of some parts of the Ara Pacis, stored in a cloud-based database, and display them on the screen of the goggles. i) Public domain works.

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