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Public Domain of The Living Dead

IPilogue

Source: Screenshot of Night of the Living Dead (1968) opening credit / Public Domain. The film curiously entered the public domain due to a slight error, allowing widespread accessibility and reproduction. Due to the oversight, anyone could copy and distribute the film for free. Imagine that!

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3 Count: Sealed with a Kiss

Plagiarism Today

The lawsuit claimed that the site was offering illegal downloads of their books and specifically targeted two Ukrainian nationals as the operators. The lawsuit was filed by SoundExchange after an audit alleged that Music Choice, which relies on a statutory license for the music it uses, had underpaid the royalties it owes.

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3 Count: Plagiarism Again

Plagiarism Today

This would put all of Disney’s work from roughly 1995 (or 1967) forward into the public domain. Next up today, Eva Martinello at Dot Esports reports that Riot Games has filed a lawsuit against Shanghai-based Moonton Games alleging that Moonton has copied assets from them when making the game Mobile Legends: Bang Bang.

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Metadata Ruling Gives YouTube a Timely Boost in Content ID Lawsuit

TorrentFreak

Between 2013 and 2017, Elias took photographs of hotels and licensed their owning companies to use them in promotional activities. The owners of the hotels later made the licensed images available to another company, Ice Portal, to facilitate their appearance on travel agents’ websites for promotional purposes.

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The United States Copyright Office Notice of Inquiry on AI: A Quick Take

Velocity of Content

Significant amounts of content are available through licenses, including open licenses such as CC BY and CC BY-NC. Significant amounts of content are also available through the public domain. To what extent are copyrighted works licensed from copyright owners for use as training materials? ROSS Intelligence Inc.,

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Enhance Curriculum with Copyrighted Content

Velocity of Content

Exceptions include materials in the public domain such as documents and materials the U.S. An understanding of what materials have fallen into the public domain and the potential complexity in making a determination regarding any specific item. Unfortunately, this can be a difficult task. million dollars.

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Internet Archive Loses Lending Lawsuit: What Happened, and What’s Next?

Copyright Lately

book publishers, rejecting the Internet Archive’s argument that its practice of scanning and lending digital copies of books qualifies as fair use under the Copyright Act. When the electronic version is “checked out,” the physical copy is taken out of circulation. ” What is Controlled Digital Lending?