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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. Finally today, The Associated Press reports that, with the new year, several prominent works are lapsing into the public domain including the Ernest Hemingway novel The Sun Also Rises and A.A. Milne’s book Winnie the Pooh.

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Disney ‘Cracks Down’ on Mickey Mouse ‘Steamboat Silly’ Pirates

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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. The episode is littered with easter eggs including references to the 1929 The Skeleton Dance and Dumbo’s debut in 1941.

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The Best Starting Place for People New to Copyright

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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. What it Leaves Out.

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[Guest post] Can the owner of an artistic work convert it into an NFT for its use in the Metaverse?

The IPKat

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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YouTube Copyright ID Claims Reach a New High

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A TV company claimed the public domain footage as their own. “In Content ID the impact is multiplied due to its automated nature; one bad reference file can impact hundreds or even thousands of videos across the site. Since there are 200 times more automated claims, these still account for the bulk of all disputes.

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The Basics of Open Access

Plagiarism Today

This means that a majority of published research is hidden behind paywalls and not available to those that don’t or can’t pay for access to it outside of pirated copies. To that end, most have adopted an “author pays” system, where the author(s) pay for an article processing charge (APC), commonly referred to as a publication fee.

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Bombay HC Clarifies the Contours of Copyright Infringement and Confidentiality Law

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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.