Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 3, 2022

One of the more confusing areas of copyright law in the United States is how it impacts states. Under the current law, all copyright matters are federal. 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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Plagiarism Today

MAY 11, 2022

First off today, Gene Maddaus at Variety reports that Senator Josh Hawley has introduced a bill that aims to drastically rewrite copyright law in the United States, rolling back the term of copyright to just 28 years with the option for renewal for another 28. According to Sen.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

APRIL 7, 2025

Joplin’s song is in the public domain now. Roblox argued that it lacked volition over the copying. The court credits Robinsons allegations that Roblox employees reviewed and approved Binello’s upload of Robinson’s copyrighted work, created a copy of that work, and stored that copy on the Roblox server.

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Dear Rich IP Blog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

How do you tell if materials are public domain or fit under fair use? The PowerPoint slides may be available, viewable, and even downloadable, but that does not give you the right to copy and republish them. There's a difference between authorized end-user activity and unauthorized copying.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 12, 2022

Saregama India Ltd & Anr deliberated upon the intersection of copyright infringement and confidentiality law and held that ideas cannot be copyrighted but can be protected through the application of confidentiality law. Merely showing certain elements were copied does not pass the threshold for copyright infringement.

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 24, 2022

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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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

All this raises a simple question: Did the series copy St Onge’s work? Onge and others who spotted the similarities, someone who worked on the series closely copied or even traced St. And despite copying my video, the episode still contains several errors, like saying the Orlando version has 2 ride systems while showing 4.

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Copyright Lately

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

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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Indiana Intellectual Property Law

OCTOBER 16, 2023

However, January 1 st of each year marks the expiration of another year of historical copyrights, and 2023 ushered works from the year 1927 into the public domain , making them eligible for extensive use without pe rmission or royalties.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 28, 2024

public domain would spark headlines worldwide. Free Mickey On January 1, many people celebrated the public domain event by uploading “Steamboat Willie” to YouTube and elsewhere. From a copyright angle, a public domain Mickey Mouse is highly intriguing, but it seems that pirates can’t be bothered by it.

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The IP Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

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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IPilogue

JULY 12, 2021

Sabrina Macklai is an IPilogue Senior Editor and a 2L JD Candidate at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law. . During her 17 years on the highest court in Canada, Justice Abella was instrumental in advancing users’ rights in Canadian copyright law, particularly helping develop Canada’s fair dealing jurisprudence. v Teranet Inc.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2022

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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Velocity of Content

OCTOBER 19, 2021

The Copyright Act of 1976 became Public Law number 94-553 on October 19, 1976 and went into effect (as scheduled) as Title 17 of the United States Code on January 1, 1978. The new Copyright Act was the fourth general revision of copyright law since the original Act of 1790. Today is the 45th anniversary of that event.

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JD Supra Law

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Furniture manufacturer admits intentionally copying designs, asks Supreme Court, What does copying really say about trademark status of design? While offering a new design for sale without obtaining a patent often means the design is now in the public domain, copyright and trademark laws could mean otherwise.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Legal Background and Relevant Laws The legal framework surrounding AI-generated music draws from multiple intellectual property laws and regulations, including: Copyright Act (U.S.): Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA): This law protects against unauthorized digital copying and distribution. Under the U.S.

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Intepat

DECEMBER 18, 2024

This article explores the essentials of copyright licensing in podcasting, debunks common myths, examines relevant case laws, and provides actionable steps to ensure compliance while maintaining creative freedom. Additionally, take advantage of public domain resources to use free, unrestricted materials whenever possible.

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SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

Deepali is a third-year law student at NLSIU Bangalore. This disclosure guarantees that at the expiration of the patent, the invention will enter the public domain, facilitating its utilization and technological progress. Her passion lies in understanding the intersections of AI regulation and intellectual property rights.

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 16, 2024

With CDL, libraries maintain a balanced ratio of owned copies to loaned copies (owned to loaned ratio), preventing unauthorized sharing and copying of the digital content. This rule covers lending digital copies of copyrighted works, while works in the public domain can be freely digitized.

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Velocity of Content

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Nonetheless, on February 11, the Ross case did in fact become the first US decision on the merits to directly address copying to train AI. The case arose out of the surreptitious copying of the entire Westlaw database (after having been denied a license) by a company that wanted to create an arguably competing product. a copy shop).

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The IPKat

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

On the occasion of the opening of a new store in NY, the well-known clothing brand created a collection of NFTs based on digital copies of works of famous artists such as Miró, Tàpies and Barceló, incorporating various outfits of the collection available at the store, to be displayed in the Decentraland Metaverse, at the coordinates 16.78

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Patently-O

AUGUST 22, 2022

For our patent law course today, the students read the Justice O’Connor unanimous opinion in Bonito Boats, Inc. Bonito Boats centers on a Florida statute prohibiting copying of unpatented boat hulls via direct molding. The Florida courts had refused to enforce the law because it conflicted with Federal Patent Law.

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IPilogue

MAY 6, 2022

Meena Alnajar is an IPilogue Writer, IP Innovation Clinic Fellow, and a 2L JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. Claimants have the best chance of success if they can prove direct copying of their work, but considering the different lyrics and disparate sounds, these artists are unlikely to plead direct copying. Next Steps.

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JIPL Online

MARCH 15, 2021

2] While most Sherlock Holmes stories are now in the public domain, the estate alleged that some works and character elements regarding Sherlock Holmes are still protected by copyright. [3] 18] Netflix admitted it had access to and copied the memoir. [19] 5] Netflix and the estate quickly settled. [6].

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JD Supra Law

MARCH 4, 2024

January 1, 2024, brought numerous hangovers along with an unprecedented amount of media attention to intellectual property law. Freed from the shackles of copyright, Walt Disney’s iconic rodent was now in the public domain and, therefore, available for everyone to copy. But not so fast. By: Dickinson Wright

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 17, 2024

They allege that NVIDIA willingly copied an archive of pirated books to train its commercial AI model, and are demanding damages for direct copyright infringement. The argument may seem surprising at first; the authors own copyrights and as far they’re concerned, use of pirated copies leads to liability as a direct infringer.

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The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

This is a book review of “ Harmonizing Intellectual Property Law for a Trans-Atlantic Knowledge Economy ”, edited by Péter Mezei, Hannibal Travis, and Anett Pogácsás. Laura Ford examines the historical and philosophical underpinnings of harmonization, urging a reexamination of its foundational ideals in contemporary law reform.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 4, 2024

. “[T]he Times cannot pursue a claim for infringement over any part of a copyrighted work that is not original to the Times, as would be the case if the Times copied another’s work or elements in the public domain,” OpenAI writes. The expressive nature of a work is determined by reference to the work itself.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Last week we reported that a San Francisco law firm acting for Japanese publisher Shueisha had filed an ex parte application at a California district court. A declaration filed with the court by Shueisha ( pdf ) contains a copy of Cloudflare’s response to the DMCA subpoena filed earlier this year.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JANUARY 9, 2025

Our societys welfare will probably be better served by leaving AIGW in the public domain. Creating the first copy of an original work is often a costly endeavour. And so I think we are probably better off leaving those works in the public domain. This causes a problem for the producer.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2022

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. Internet Law: A Concise Guide to Regulation Around the World.

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IP and Legal Filings

MAY 3, 2023

Originality is the quality that distinguishes produced or invented works from copies, clones, forgeries, or derivative works by being new or novel. In law, the quality of an idea’s expression is given more weight. Because they were created by the authors, the exam questions are unique in the sense of copyright laws.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 19, 2023

These questions will be addressed by applying UK law and the EU copyright acquis to NFTs, as illustrated by relevant Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) case law and global contemporary examples. For instance, CrypToadz is a prominent CC0 NFT project wherein the artwork related to the NFT is in the public domain.

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IIPRD

MARCH 5, 2025

Control of origin laws mediated by authors has traditionally attempted a simpler approach that did not anticipate complexities associated with human creativity. Traditional Copyright Framework and Its Limitations Copyright law is fundamentally based on three principles: Authorship : The creator of a work owns the copyright.

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Copyright Lately

JANUARY 13, 2023

Shortly after his “I Have a Dream” speech was delivered in August 1963, King moved for a preliminary injunction preventing record companies from selling copies of the speech. CBS brought a summary judgment motion to establish that the speech was in the public domain. Under current law, it’ll be protected until 2058.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Most of the top publications are monetized by major publishers, which means that they are locked behind a paywall. To make their work easier to access, many researchers place copies of their work on their personal profiles, often hosted by their university. The publishers will have the law on their site in most cases.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 22, 2021

The IPKat has received the following comment from Katfriend Jørgen Blomqvist (Centre for Information and Innovation Law, Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen) on the recent announcement relating to the accession of Cambodia to the Berne Convention.

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