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Is it Dangerous to Use Free Stock Photo Websites?

Plagiarism Today

A variety of services work to find copied images , and many engage in speculative invoicing and litigation as part of their strategy. As such, the risk of copying images is only rising, and it may be a good time to seek out alternatives. To that end, there are ongoing campaigns to find and detect infringing images online.

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A Movie Falls Into the Public Domain.

Dear Rich IP Blog

Dear Rich: If a movie falls into the public domain, are all of the individual images in it also public domain? Yes, you are free to copy the individual frames or images from a public domain movie without permission. What if the image is of a movie star? What about movie stars?

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When Collective Works Are Made From the Public Domain

Dear Rich IP Blog

Speaking of the public domain, the Public Domain Review has an informative essay (“ The Mark of the Beast ”) about the first anti-vaxxers Dear Rich: I wish to reproduce photographs from a website. If the photos are in the public domain and the website hasn’t substantially modified them, you are free to copy them.

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The Best Starting Place for People New to Copyright

Plagiarism Today

The guide is an amazingly thorough overview of copyright, written in a way to be understood by lay people and it includes nearly all of the important information one needs to know in just 10 pages and 4,000 words. Copyright Office, which is part of the federal government, the work itself is in the public domain.

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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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Contractual Control over Information Goods after ML Genius v. Google (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

Moritz College of Law The copyright – contract tension Stewart Brand famously said that information wants to be free. We know, however, that many laws limit free access and use of information goods, most prominently copyright law (and IP law generally). Guy Rub , The Ohio State University Michael E.

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Bombay HC Clarifies the Contours of Copyright Infringement and Confidentiality Law

SpicyIP

The judgment notes that the plaintiff did not, in fact, claim that the defendant had copied his screenplay and did not claim originality in any one element or that there was a shot-by-shot reproduction. However, the plaintiff also did not argue that his arrangement of the plot was substantially copied by the defendant.