Hugh Stephens Blog
FEBRUARY 8, 2022
On January 1, 2022, a new law entered into force in the state of Maryland requiring that authors and publishers holding the rights to an e-book title must offer unlimited copies of that title to public libraries in the state at an undetermined “reasonable price” if and when the title is offered to individual consumers.
Plagiarism Today
APRIL 7, 2022
That question is whether the descriptions were “published” or “unpublished” according to the law when they were put on FDN’s website. However, applying terms like “published” and “unpublished” to a website is complicated. That seems to be a pretty clear indication that these pages were not published, as no distribution was intended.
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Plagiarism Today
JUNE 21, 2022
On June 9th, Anna Katharine Verney at the Guardian Australia published a lengthy analysis of the John Hughes book The Dogs. 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.
TorrentFreak
SEPTEMBER 15, 2023
Majors Publishers File Copyright Complaint Against Libgen According to a copyright lawsuit filed in the U.S. At least 20,000 of those files were published by plaintiffs Cengage Learning, Inc., Bedford, Freeman & Worth Publishing Group, LLC (d/b/a Macmillan Learning, McGraw Hill LLC, and Pearson Education, Inc.)
TorrentFreak
MARCH 21, 2023
In 2020, publishers Hachette, HarperCollins, John Wiley and Penguin Random House sued the Internet Archive (IA) for copyright infringement, equating its ‘Open Library’ to a pirate site. Staying true to the centuries-old library concept, only one patron at a time can get a copy. Mass Copyright Infringement or Fair Use?
TorrentFreak
NOVEMBER 22, 2023
When cassette recorders, VCRs and similar devices hit the mainstream, entertainment companies with business models reliant on customers buying copies faced uncertainty. Private Copying Levy Valenti’s statement in 1982 reached a broad audience but its essence wasn’t new.
TorrentFreak
AUGUST 4, 2024
Faced with the growing popularity of ‘pirate’ libraries such as Z-Library and Anna’s Archive , book publishers have ramped up their anti-piracy efforts. This year alone, Google has processed hundreds of millions of takedown requests on behalf of publishers, at a frequency we have never seen before. In total, Plagiat.pl
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