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Z-Library Helps Students to Overcome Academic Poverty, Study Finds

TorrentFreak

It looks at the ‘piracy’ motivations of Redditors and students in higher education, specifically when it comes to Z-Library. While the students are aware of copyright law, they believe that the need to access knowledge outweighs rightsholders’ concerns. as it is difficult (77% agree). .

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Google's Inclusive Copyright Thesis Award

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This contest grants an award to the best master thesis written in English in the field of Copyright Law. The thesis must have been submitted to an institution of higher education in 2022, in the framework of a Master’s degree program. The deadline for submission is January 31, 2023.

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Copyright, Education, and Generative AI: Getting with the programme?

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Generative AI (GenAI) is promising to revolutionise higher education. Academic integrity and plagiarism issues in this context ultimately also lead us to copyright law. Or do students expose themselves to liability for copyright infringement when using GenAI output? I. GenAI at odds with copyright law?

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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.) The publishers dismiss this as “just a ruse” to account for a “massive piracy effort” that runs counter to the stated aim of copyright law. and distributed by Libgen without authorization.

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Friday Fantasies

The IPKat

Google Inclusive Copyright Thesis Award Google will award the best master thesis submitted to an institution of higher education in 2021 in the field of copyright law. The call for papers will be available to check here.

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Introducing a zero-embargo Secondary Publication Right in Bulgaria

Kluwer Copyright Blog

The latest jurisdiction to introduce a SPR is Bulgaria, in the context of the amendment law of 1 st December 2023 to transpose the CDSM Directive , introducing a non-overridable zero-embargo SPR. Pre-existing Bulgarian provision The SPR is not an entirely novel concept to Bulgarian copyright law. On the other hand, art.

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Enhance Curriculum with Copyrighted Content

Velocity of Content

However, adopting a more systematic program of creating or adapting curriculum materials for an entire district or school highlights some important questions about schools’ and school districts’ rights and obligations under copyright law.