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The EU imperative to a free public domain: The case of Italian cultural heritage

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Image via Staatliche Museen, Berlin, Gemäldegalerie / Christoph Schmidt Public Domain Mark 1.0 In this context of international and EU legal obligations to protect cultural rights, the EU has set a legal imperative to protect the public domain.

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Safeguarding Access to Culture in the Digital Era in European Copyright law

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Traditionally, the purchase of the tangible copy of a work afforded the buyer or every lawful acquirer of the tangible copy the possibility to enjoy the work as long as the physical object incorporating the work exists. However, the shift from a market of goods to a market of services has changed this paradigm.

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5 Copyright Stories to Watch in 2022

Plagiarism Today

However, because of state sovereign immunity, it’s technically not possible to sue a state government or any of their components in a federal court. This came to a head in 2017 when the filmmaker Rick Allen sued the State of North Carolina over alleged illegal copying of footage he shot of Blackbeard’s sunken ship.

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AI Training, Fair Use, and the Burdens of Being First

Copyright Lately

Lawyers on both sides will rely on Ross some to argue that AI training constitutes infringement even when models don’t output copied material, others to distinguish generative LLMs trained on billions of works from Rosss narrow, headnote-specific dataset. And independent creation simply means you created it yourself, without copying.

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The Best Starting Place for People New to Copyright

Plagiarism Today

Copyright Office, which is part of the federal government, the work itself is in the public domain. This means that it can be freely copied, printed, shared, distributed without any permission from the U.S. Best of all, since it was produced by the U.S. Copyright Office.

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The Basics of Open Access

Plagiarism Today

The largest is that it locks important research behind a paywall, meaning that other researchers, members of the public and even government agencies may not be able to access the work they need. Though it is legal to copy and distribute the original work, it must be complete, and no derivative works can be made based upon it.

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Dispute on Copyright and Creativity

Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA): This law protects against unauthorized digital copying and distribution. AI-Specific Regulations: Some governments are drafting new AI laws to address the ownership and accountability of AI-generated content, recognizing the legal gray areas surrounding AI music creation.