Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 10, 2022

RightsClick also makes it easy to bulk edit a large number of works. The Assess Tool also provides a basic fair use analysis and helps to make sure that the use isn’t covered under any other exceptions to copyright law. The next phase, ideally, is to register the work with the U.S. The first is sending a cease and desist letter.

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Intepat

OCTOBER 23, 2024

This article delves into the intricate relationship between copyright and moral rights, highlighting their significance in protecting creators’ integrity, especially in the digital age. Copyright law primarily focuses on the economic rights of creators, granting them exclusive control over the use and distribution of their works.

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Erik K Pelton

JULY 14, 2022

The following is an edited transcript of my video Copyright Concerns When Using Others to Create Content. And that is a specific, important phrase in copyright law. And it will be for several thousand dollars or more, because copyright statutes provide for significant damages when there’s infringement.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 11, 2023

In doing so, Sections 18-24 of the Regulations consciously minimise the operational framework of this infrastructure while remaining open to pan-European industry-led developments regarding new licensing and data-sharing practices in the social media industry.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JANUARY 4, 2024

Welcome to the fourth (and last) round up of EU copyright law for 2023! In this edition, we update you on what has happened in the last three months of 2024 in EU copyright law. You can read a first take on the copyright relevant provisions here. Stay tuned!

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

She graduated from National Law University, Delhi in 2023 & enjoys reading and writing on copyright laws. Hence, through their operational frameworks, the platforms complained of were alleged to infringe the copyright, and broadcasting rights held by Star India. [This post is authored by Tanishka Goswami.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash Welcome to the third trimester of the 2023 round up of EU copyright law! In this edition, we update you on what has happened between July and September 2023 in EU copyright law. The autumn has started with full speed – the courts and the policy makes have been very active.

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SpicyIP

MARCH 1, 2025

What Kindle sells, instead of books, is licenses. Kindle Content is licensed, not sold, to you by the Content Provider. When purchasing e-books on the Kindle app for Desktop or for the E-reader, books are not sold in the EPUB format, instead these licenses are downloaded in their own proprietary formats: AZW3 and KFX.

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Velocity of Content

DECEMBER 4, 2024

This has been a long-standing question in copyright law. Professor Paul Goldstein, for example, has argued that, in light of the enumeration, the statutory text is intended primarily to protect certain licensing markets. An amendment to the copyright statute is only one of them. Copyright Soc’y U.S.A. 17 U.S.C. §

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The IPKat

JANUARY 22, 2023

Contreras Tritton on Intellectual Property in Europe, edited by Richard Davis, Thomas St Quintin and Guy Tritton And the Winner is: Intellectual Property Objectives in International Investment Agreements by Pratyush Nath Upreti Congratulations to all those nominated and this year's winners!

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Often such audience, who can easily access any photograph, use these photographs after making certain modifications to them through photo-editing software like Photoshop, Adobe and many other photo modification tools. This act is often done without the prior consent or permission of the copyright holder or the photographer of the picture.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 23, 2024

The organization doesn’t license authorized digital copies from publishers; instead, its books are scanned and digitized in-house. Among other things, IA argued that its lending activity causes no financial harm is substantially different from the ebook licensing market.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 17, 2024

In the complicated landscape of genAI and copyright law, several different themes have emerged as particularly thorny and triggering the interests of different stakeholders. The Institute is actively exploring the impact of genAI on copyright law via a dedicated series of events, roundtables, lectures and publications.

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SpicyIP

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Image from here Book Review: Modern Law of Copyright in Singapore By Prashant Reddy T. Earlier this year, the Singapore Academy of Law published a treatise on Singapore’s new copyright law enacted in 2021. Llewelyn resides in Singapore and is a Professor at the School of Law, Singapore Management University (SMU).

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 17, 2024

Acuff-Rose sued members of hip hop group 2 Live Crew, claiming that their track “Pretty Woman” infringed the label’s copyright in the Roy Orbison song, “Oh, Pretty Woman.” New law that came into force in April 2023 allows the free use of copyright works for parody, pastiche, and caricature.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 31, 2025

Analysing the intersection of journalistic privilege and copyright law. The role of IP law in combating the spread of misinformation and disinformation. Analysing the complexities of licensing deals for film and television adaptations. Examining the legality of meme usage by Indian news platforms under copyright law.

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The IPKat

AUGUST 24, 2021

Here is what Alexander has to say: It was a delight to learn last year that Simon Stokes, copyright solicitor at Blake Morgan in London, was working on a third edition of his eminently useful Art and Copyright. Much has changed in the world of copyright since the last edition was published in 2012.

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Traverse Legal Blog

JANUARY 26, 2022

Today, we will be talking about NFT non-fungible token licensing. There was a recent story that is an instructive lesson in copyright law that has application to the NFT market. The article titled “Cryptobros spent $3 million on Dune book, believing it gave them copyright. How to Create an NFT License Agreement.

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IIPRD

MARCH 5, 2025

Blog sought to study global moves or court cases that have taken place regarding uses of copyright in made-always-with-an-AI creation and provide discussion over possible solutions to the future of intellectual property laws. Copyright Act regulates the works which are created by humans only.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Unless these rights are contractually assigned or licensed, it is for the authors, and the institutions that employ them, to determine the conditions under which their works are to be published, reproduced, and otherwise used (including by way of OA) – not for the publishers.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 19, 2023

Caveat Emptor The common notion that acquiring ownership of an NFT representing a work in which copyright subsists equates to owning the copyright to the underlying work is clearly false. One might express concerns relating to the confluence between CC0 licenses and NFTs, as NFTs are intended to foster digital scarcity and ownership.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 24, 2024

Last year saw the introduction of Law 4996/2022, which brought significant changes to IP legislation in Greece, amending several provisions of the existing Copyright Law 2121/1993 as well as Law 4481/2017 on Collective Management. Law 4996/2022 was implemented into the Greek legislation EU Directive 2019/789.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Voices emerged questioning whether current EU copyright laws should be amended in light of the many AI-generated works that have come about. One important question has been whether copyright law should be extended in order to protect such works. Importantly, copyright law is equally about culture.

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Copyright Lately

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

The theory behind CDL is that by maintaining a consistent “owned-to-loaned” ratio between physical books and digital copies, libraries can meet the digital needs of twenty-first-century patrons without violating existing copyright law. At least, that was the idea.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 12, 2022

Published in late 2021, Dr R.V.Vaidyanatha Ayyar’s 421 paged “ Present at Creation: The Making of Internet Treaties 1996 ” is perhaps the first book that focuses on the negotiating history of the two 1996 Internet Treaties – the WIPO Copyright Treaty (WCT) and the WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty (WPPT).

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MARCH 16, 2022

The consultation sought views on the prospects for facilitating patent and copyright protections for “inventions and creative works which are made by AI”, and for making easier the use of copyright-protected material by AI in innovation and research, through alternative approaches to licensing and text and data mining (TDM) exceptions.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

The company demanded damages under copyright law claiming that the team “willfully and maliciously” copied, adapted and distributed its source code and other content without permission. Extraterritorial Application of US Law. As such, US copyright law lacks reach, the defendants say. on Metacritic.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 3, 2022

We welcome contributions that address the following topics in an EU and comparative perspective: copyright exceptions and limitations. copyright internal limits. copyright and the public domain. copyright and fundamental/human rights. extended and mandatory collective licensing schemes. by Christopher Heath. €

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Earlier this year, Creative Commons announced that four working groups of the Creative Commons Copyright Platform would examine policy issues affecting the open ecosystem from a global perspective: (1) artificial intelligence and open content; (2) platform liability; (3) copyright exceptions and limitations; and (4) the ethics of open sharing.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

The reference, which is poised to result in one of the most significant CJEU judgments in the copyright law field, concerns the validity of a number of provisions of the Law of 19 June 2022 , which transposed the 2019 Copyright in the Digital Single Market Directive (CDSMD) in Belgium.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Massive Copyright Infringement The language used in the complaint makes it extremely clear that the MPA views playlists as a threat and illegal under copyright law. at [former repo location],” the notice reads (minor edits for clarity). at [former repo location],” the notice reads (minor edits for clarity).

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SpicyIP

JULY 29, 2021

Section 51 deals with infringement, not exceptions, and Sub-section 51(1) does not even exist – showing how carelessly the Report has been drafted and edited.]. Another major issue is that it only superficially touches upon issues relevant to copyright law. Embracing internet broadcasts within Section 31D. Concluding thoughts.

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IPilogue

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Photocopying classroom materials in a K-12 public school system may have seemed harmless and benign before the 2012 Supreme Court of Canada case, Alberta v Canadian Copyright Licensing Agency (Access Copyright). The decision reframes traditional teaching pedagogies by considering the artist and owner rights under copyright law.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 25, 2024

Publishers vs. Internet Archive The self-scanning service offered by the Internet Archive (IA) differs from the licensing agreements entered into by other libraries. ” According to the amici, there is nothing fair about IA’s digital library; instead, they see it as “unambiguous copyright infringement.”

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SpicyIP

JULY 29, 2021

This post only deals with copyrightability of fonts from artistic work perspective and does not explore the copyrightability of fonts as code or literary works. Debunking the ‘no copyright for fonts’ Argument. This is perhaps why fonts cannot be copyrighted in the US.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 13, 2024

. — For the claims related to illegal selling of scraped data, the court dismissed those because they were preempted by copyright. I did a deep dive on this topic in December , but the general gist of it is that copyright law preempts state law claims if the state-law claims come within the general scope of copyright.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MARCH 6, 2023

A series of recent amendments to copyright law, including in the EU Copyright and the Digital Single Market Directive (Art. 3 and 4) and in Singapore’s new Copyright Act (Art. 243, 244), seek to protect the ability of text and data mining researchers to use copyrighted content in their work. million abstracts.

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