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When is a derivative work original and thus protectable by copyright? Classicist’s critical edition makes its way to Luxembourg in fresh Romanian CJEU referral

The IPKat

Unlike the Swedish and German referrals, the Romanian one has not been made in the context of a dispute concerning works of applied art (which is refreshing), but rather in relation to the protectability of a critical edition of a work. Translated into copyright language: a critical edition is an example of derivative work.

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When a vampire not called Dracula bested the copyright system, and what it tells us about derivative works

The IPKat

The tale of Nosferatu shows the sometimes-uneasy relationship between copyright protection and the making of derivative works. Some also refer to claimed structural similarities with the novel by Wilkie Collins , The Woman in White. So, if a copy of the movie could be found, the movie could be safely screened there.

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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. To that end, most have adopted an “author pays” system, where the author(s) pay for an article processing charge (APC), commonly referred to as a publication fee.

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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. For works published before 1978, that is 95 years after publication meaning that works from 1926 expired into the public domain at the start of the year. They are free of copyright.

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RIAA Flags ‘Artificial Intelligence’ Music Mixer as Emerging Copyright Threat

TorrentFreak

In some cases, it refers to little more than advanced algorithms, but complex self-learning computer systems with human-like traits are actively being developed as well. The algorithm masters your track with the same RMS, FR, peak amplitude and stereo width as the reference song you choose,” Songmastr explains. Songmastr. .

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Was Batman a Plagiarism?

Plagiarism Today

Gibson, the creator of The Shadow, referred to Batman as a “clowned-up version of The Shadow.”. Through our modern lens, this kind of copying can seem insane. Ethically, this type of copying would be seen as plagiarism and the creators would be treated accordingly, especially given that some of the images were traced.

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Generative AI: admissibility and infringement in the two US class actions against Meta’s LLaMA

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Rather than being programmed in the traditional way, a large language model is “trained” by copying massive amounts of text and extracting information from it. Books3 is a dataset of books derived from a copy of the contents of the “ Bibliotik private tracker ”. This body of text is called the training dataset.