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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

TorrentFreak

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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YouTube Copyright ID Claims Reach a New High

TorrentFreak

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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[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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OpenAI Wants New York Times to Show How Original Its Copyrighted Articles Are

TorrentFreak

. “[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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Copyright Fair Use for Education

IP and Legal Filings

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. Once the period expires, the program enters the public domain and is free for all users. This situation brings new challenges to legal protection.

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Copyright implications of Augmented Reality for cultural goods – Part 1

Kluwer Copyright Blog

While creating AR experiences, so-called markers provide information on the real-world element of reference to be overlapped with digital images. The creation of AR experiences may involve acts of reproduction and communication to the public that have potential copyright implications. i) Public domain works.

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