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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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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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A research-friendly copyright system is a flexible copyright system

Kluwer Copyright Blog

It has been a year since the German Social Democrats, Greens and Liberals formed the German government and published their coalition agreement, which promises to make Germany’s copyright law more research friendly. The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed many shortcomings of existing European copyright exceptions for research and education.

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Guest Book Review: Teaching Intellectual Property Law

The IPKat

“IP education needs to be brought to life so that its impact can be readily understood.” All of those can enrich how we engage our audiences on their IP journeys. IP may have centred on rights of individuals, but its ownership and teaching is likely to become ever more collaborative and collective.

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Changed, changed utterly - or not? Germany's new coalition states its intentions regarding digitalisation and innovation

The IPKat

They also advocate a ‘ more science-friendly copyright law ’ and the development of the National Research Data Infrastructure and European Research Data Space, alongside enabling data sharing of fully anonymised and non-personal data for research in the public interest.