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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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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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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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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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A Novel Dataset Measuring Change in Copyright Exceptions

Kluwer Copyright Blog

We soon realized that information about the changes to copyright law over time – which would be especially useful for empirical studies – was lacking. There have been many studies describing differences in copyright exceptions between countries, such as those by Seng , Crews , Hilty & Nérisson , and the WIPO Secretariat.

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

IP and Legal Filings

Copyright ensures certain minimum rights and it has never been an absolute right. If copyright protection is applied rigidly, it will hamper progress of the society. The most universal limitations to the rights of the owner are the right to copy insubstantial parts and the right of fair dealing or use. The number suggests its misery.