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3 Count: Sealed with a Kiss

Plagiarism Today

2: SoundExchange Royalties Dispute with Music Choice to be Referred to Copyright Royalty Board. 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. Milne’s book Winnie the Pooh.

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5 Spooky Articles About Copyright and Halloween

Plagiarism Today

Night of the Living Dead is possibly one of the most famous public domain movies of all time. This prompted Florence Stoker to sue, a case she won handily with an order that all copies of the film be destroyed. However, at least one copy made it to the United States, where the original book was already in public domain.

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Just Because It’s On the Internet Doesn’t Mean It’s In the Public Domain

JD Supra Law

Just Because it’s Published Doesn’t Mean it’s in the Public Domain - Some people think that if something is on the Internet, it’s in the public domain and is fair game to be copied. Giving the public access to an article, photo, music, video, or other art doesn’t put it in the public domain.

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5 Thanksgiving Copyright and/or Plagiarism Stories

Plagiarism Today

This has led authors to include large amounts of protectable material with their works (often leading to frustration from readers) and to a culture of protecting attribution and limiting copying of recipes through community action. See Also: Why You Can’t Copy a Recipe Book. 4: What the ICE Domain Seizures Mean for You.

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17 Copyright and/or Plagiarism Stories for Halloween

Plagiarism Today

Those include, music, movie characters, costumes, and stories. How a Copyright Mistake Created the Modern Zombie : The second in the Creepy Copyright Mondays series was an explainer on how Night of the Living Dead , one of the most iconic zombie films, fell into the public domain.

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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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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?