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Publishers’ Lawsuit Accuses Libgen of “Staggering” Copyright Infringement

TorrentFreak

Bedford, Freeman & Worth Publishing Group, LLC (d/b/a Macmillan Learning, McGraw Hill LLC, and Pearson Education, Inc.) By offering content for free, Libgen reportedly devalues the textbook market and according to the publishers, may even cause certain works to cease being published. Copyright Infringement (17 U.S.C. §

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University Websites Are Being Flooded with Online Piracy Scams

TorrentFreak

In the United States, however, higher education institutions were forced to put the brakes on piracy due to the passing of the Higher Education Opportunity Act ( HEOA ) in 2008. Civil penalties for Federal Copyright infringement range from $750 per song to $150,000 in damages for each willful act.”

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Copyright-A Bane For The Students Or A Boon For Copyright Owners?

IP and Legal Filings

The price that a copyright owner may deem to be “fair” is not always one that users of the work are willing or able to pay. These are the works for which the education sector is the only effective market and copying such work will make them uneconomic for the copyright owner. Evolution afterward. Way Forward.

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Clash of Colleagues: The Battle for Academic Attribution

BYU Copyright Blog

Wilder alleged that Hoiland had used course materials created by Wilder for a faculty development program, Numeracy Infusion Course for Higher Education (NICHE), in five slides of a presentation Hoiland gave at the Community College Conference on Learning Assessment (CCCLA). The purpose was educational and non-commercial.

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SpicyIP Weekly Review (July 17- July 23)

SpicyIP

Sudhakar Pai and Ors vs M/S Manipal Academy of Higher Education on 17 July, 2023 (Karnataka High Court) The appellants, employees, and office bearers in the same company, filed the present appeal contesting the compensation and the civil imprisonment ordered by the Commercial court for wilfully disobeying the court’s earlier injunction order.

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Enhance Curriculum with Copyrighted Content

Velocity of Content

In a 2016 report, Marci Goldberg of K-12 Market Advisors reported that “teachers spend an average of five hours per week creating materials and seven hours per week searching for materials.” While uncommon, publishers have sued school districts for copyright infringement. I am not alone. million dollars.