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The John Hughes Plagiarism Scandal

Plagiarism Today

The similarities included both scenes and ideas that were rewritten, as well as lengthy passages of text that were copied either verbatim or near-verbatim. Hughes, for his part, apologized for the copying. He claimed that it didn’t matter if he copied, it mattered if he did something new and meaningful with it.

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The Problem with Consensual Plagiarism

Plagiarism Today

Earlier today, video game critic and prominent YouTuber James Stephanie Sterling posted a video calling out a marketing firm working for Activision Blizzard in the run-up to the release of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. . They are expected to validate the claims, inspect the presented facts and draw an independent conclusion.

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From Headnotes to Head-scratchers: The Functional Fallacies in Thomson Reuters v. Ross Intelligence

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Thomson Reuters argued that Legal Ease’s questions, incorporated by Ross in machine-readable form, essentially copied its creative headnotes. The copying was purely instrumental, aimed at training an AI system to recognize and retrieve relevant legal information efficiently.

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Prof. David Vaver Presents “Mr. Justice Laddie and his Intellectual Property Cases: Of Millefeuilles and a Fish Called Elvis”

IPilogue

David Vaver presenting the 14th Annual Sir Hugh Laddie Lecture ( Screenshot from UCL Recording on YouTube channel ). Moreover, in an effort to determine what was actually copied in a work, he considered whether the work as a whole or its individual components should have their own copyrights.

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BBC, Premier League & Sky Seek Tougher UK Regs to Deter Google Search Piracy

TorrentFreak

In January, the UK’s digital markets competition regime went into effect. This procedure allows the Government’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) to regulate dominant tech firms, ensuring fair competition and consumer protection. They say that Google’s current demotion policy has only a limited effect.

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SpicyIP Weekly Review (October 28-November 3)

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Anil Kumar, Proprietor M/S Singla Food … vs Deepak Kumar @ Deepak Manocha on 25 October, 2024 (Delhi District Court) The plaintiff sought permanent injunction restraining the defendants from infringing on its trademark and passing off goods in South Delhi markets. Koninklijke Philips N.V

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[Guest post] Archival Authenticity or Iconic Copies? Some IP Thoughts on Dolce & Gabbana’s SS23 Collection Curated by Kim

The IPKat

Here’s what Felicia writes: Archival Authenticity or Iconic Copies? It also suggests that copying might have some effect on our understanding of what is and is not iconic. Assuredly, Dolce & Gabbana may not be able to prevent copies on the U.S. In this negative space of copyright law in the U.S., see this chapter.)

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