TorrentFreak

JANUARY 18, 2025

A new study published by data scientists Kristofer Erickson and Felix Rodriguez Perez, in collaboration with the CREATe Centre at the University of Glasgow, considers the effect of Technological Protection Measures (TPM) on video game preservation. . He indicates that circumvention required work by several individuals over a span of years.”

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Plagiarism Today

MAY 18, 2022

These articles come from a variety of sources including publishing blogs , sites that help those that run churches and even sites that help photographers enforce their images. A variety of services work to find copied images , and many engage in speculative invoicing and litigation as part of their strategy.

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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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Copyright Lately

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

A court win against the Internet Archive has publishers celebrating, but what does it mean for the future of public libraries and digital access? It’s a clear win for publishers, but for public libraries—and the millions who rely on them for access to digital books—the ruling may signal more troubling times ahead.

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Dear Rich IP Blog

JUNE 19, 2021

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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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Onge published a video to his YouTube Channel Art of Engineering explaining the inner workings of the Disney’s Tower of Terror thrill ride. 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.

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Dear Rich IP Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

The question is, when were they first published? I have two cases where they were published in book form in the 1990s, but those letters were copied from university libraries where apparently the originals are on display. According to your book, "publication" includes "offering for public display."

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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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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 24, 2022

If your interest in copyright is more broad, you need to be aware of the copyright circulars published by the U.S. 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.

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Velocity of Content

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

This article originally appeared in the Scholarly Kitchen Back in March of 2023, when there were only a handful of cases alleging copyright infringement for training purposes by AI companies, I predicted that we would soon have some guidance from the court in Thomson Reuters Enterprise Center GMBH and West Publishing Corp. a copy shop).

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Dear Rich IP Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2020

You can't claim copyright in photos published before 1925 or in unpublished photos taken by photographers who died before 1950. These photos are in the public domain and free for anyone to copy. Should I let the Copyright Office switch my registration to merely text and lose all ability to include photographs?

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Last month, a study published by The Galaxy examined the top 25 most valuable NFT projects and found that, despite many understanding that NFTs transferred either the copyright or the license in the original work, only 1 in 25 of those projects even attempted to do as such. The original creator retains no exploitation rights.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

The paper, originally published in 2013, brought Newmaster to prominence in the field of botany and led to massive amounts of not just academic success, but also entrepreneurial success. Perhaps the most damming evidence came out in a February 2022 feature published by Science Magazine. A Long, Complicated History.

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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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Copyright Lately

APRIL 30, 2021

Scott-Giles’ “Upper Hell” illustration was first published in a 1949 U.K. ” The complaint, filed in federal court in Los Angeles, claims that Nirvana infringed an illustration first published in a 1949 English language translation of Dante’s “Inferno.” copyright law. on November 16, 1949. and abroad for years.

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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. The publisher asked Cloudflare to “immediately disable access” to that content but whether that actually happened is unknown.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 17, 2024

Meanwhile, anti-piracy companies helped publishers to take the alleged rogue libraries offline to prevent further damage. 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 authors clearly have a different take.

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Intepat

APRIL 18, 2022

As the name suggests, copyright means the right to copy. You have to register your work within five years of publishing it. Hence, creators should be well aware to document their work before going into the public domain. He can also get monetary benefits by distributing, publishing, and claiming damages for infringement.

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IP and Legal Filings

MAY 3, 2024

Copyright Law Copy Right is a legal concept that gives creators exclusive rights over their original works and allows them to control the use and distribution of those works. These rights generally include the rights to reproduce, distribute, perform, publish and create derivative works.

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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. published in Grur. 2022, 618ff. by Alexander Puutio. €

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 22, 2021

It foresaw both registration of the work at the Copyright Office, deposit of copies, attachment of a copyright claim (© [year of first publication] by [name of owner of rights]), and, in certain cases, manufacture of the copies within the country.

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Dear Rich IP Blog

JUNE 20, 2023

Despite the publication date, I can't tell if this book is in the US public domain. It appears to have been only published in the UK, and I've seen evidence the copyright was renewed in the 30's. I have a recent UK copy of the book, and it has no copyright notice.

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Velocity of Content

OCTOBER 19, 2021

For example, Section 108, which grants certain privileges to libraries and archives “open to the public” to copy and share materials, was also new to the 1976 Act. Another example: The 1976 Act revised the schedule for when US works pass into the public domain; this schedule has been revised several times since.

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Copyright Lately

OCTOBER 25, 2021

As the story goes, they provided him with a copy of a few scenes from “Ghostbusters” in which the theme would appear. Concerned about the effect the book would have on Twain’s reputation, publisher Harper & Brothers and his daughter Clara Clemens filed a lawsuit to stop further publication of “Jap Herron.”

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The IPKat

APRIL 8, 2022

A movie version of a published literary work might require permission from the author, depending on how close the move came to the book. So, if a copy of the movie could be found, the movie could be safely screened there. That is what happened, with one copy discovered in the 1940's and another in the 1950's.

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IPilogue

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

The real-life tax company “Liberty Tax” claims that the show copied its logo and style, including the Statue of Liberty, which is a frequent identifier of the company. The fictitious business is run by Betsy and Craig Kettleman, who embezzle money by taking advantage of their clients who do not understand the tax system.

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The IP Law Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2021

In Johannsongs-Publishing, Ltd. Johannsongs-Publishing claimed that it owned the rights to a 1977 song, Soknodur, except as to the rights for that song’s lyrics. Johannsongs-Publishing claimed that it owned the rights to a 1977 song, Soknodur, except as to the rights for that song’s lyrics.

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Copyright Lately

APRIL 3, 2023

book publishers, rejecting the Internet Archive’s argument that its practice of scanning and lending digital copies of books qualifies as fair use under the Copyright Act. When the electronic version is “checked out,” the physical copy is taken out of circulation. ” What is Controlled Digital Lending?

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 26, 2022

Copies of his images also appeared on other websites, again without the metadata. Jackson believes the nature of the platform where the content was published could also provide guidance. The conversion from one format to another meant that metadata was sometimes lost. Copyright Lawsuit, Violations of DMCA.

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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. The defendants, Mister Maestro, Inc.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 4, 2022

The notice claimed that Bruno had infringed ZO’R TV’s copyrights by reproducing content (6:21 to 8:26) from this YouTube video published in 2018. The video published by ZO’R TV appeared on YouTube in March 2018 and since then has amassed 324 views. “The process is totally asymmetric,” he concludes.

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Velocity of Content

DECEMBER 6, 2023

AI generated materials may both advance text publishing and hinder it. In sectors such as science, news, and book publishing, poor quality AI materials can generate bad science, promote misinformation, and lead to harmful results. Significant amounts of content are also available through the public domain. 529 F.Supp.3d

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SpicyIP

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

He is also the co-author of two books- “Create, Copy, Disrupt: India’s Intellectual Property Dilemmas” (OUP, 2017) and “The Truth Pill: The Myth of Drug Regulation in India” (Simon and Schuster India, 2022). Prashant is an advocate and one of our most prolific bloggers (His posts can be accessed here ).

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Platforms that copy online data and use it to create AI have a strong fair use argument under copyright laws. Copyright law forbids duplication, public performance, and so on, unless the person wishing to copy or perform the work gets permission; silence means a ban on copying. Harper & Row Publishers, Inc.

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Intepat

APRIL 18, 2022

As the name suggests, copyright means the right to copy, which signifies that only the creator of the work has the right to use it. You must register your work within five years of publishing it, which will act as proof of validity in case of infringement. Proof of validity. Can all original works be copyrighted?

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IP and Legal Filings

APRIL 20, 2023

Introduction Any literally or artistic work that is original and creative i.e.; not copied from anywhere by the owner is protected under Copyright Act, 1957. Making AI as a separate legal entity may prompt to copyright infringement to those who provide the said data or information in public domain. 1996) 38 DRJ 81 (India). [2]

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 18, 2023

Genius planted tiny mistakes in some of the lyrics it posted, and once those appeared in Google’s information boxes, it argued that Google copied lyrics from Genius. Genius’s “browsewrap,” however, prohibits copying for commercial use, and Genius sued Google for breach of contract.

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