The IPKat

MAY 7, 2024

Kat (re-)unification Should the EU unify the copyright laws of its Member States and introduce, over thirty years after the start of the harmonization process, a unitary copyright title? In 2015, the European Commission itself called unification of copyright laws “ a long-term target ”. The short answer is: yes.

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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. Not all publishers are happy with IA’s approach, resulting in a major legal battle two years ago.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

In this particular case, the government claims that the delay allowed it to properly consider the impact of generative AI on copyright and come to the conclusion that training generative AI systems on copyrighted works does not in fact fall within the scope of the text and data mining exceptions contained in the directive.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

From a cold, legal perspective, a 2020 blocking application filed by publishers Elsevier, Wiley, and American Chemical Society should’ve been straightforward. On one hand, unauthorized mass copying and distribution of movies, TV shows, and music is widely recognized as copyright infringement. Today, most run relatively smoothly.

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 19, 2022

1: Government Pauses Plans to Rewrite UK Copyright Laws After Authors Protest. The rule, entitled copyright exhaustion, places limits on the import of international editions of books. According to authors, this enables authors and publishers to sell books at different prices for different countries.

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IP and Legal Filings

JULY 29, 2024

These works are covered by the legal concept of copyright, which gives the author a set of enforceable rights over the use of his/her work. This protection enables the author or owner to determine who has the right to produce, publish, or exhibit the work in order to get the deserved credit and income.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 6, 2021

According to a judgment published by the Federal Court of Australia this week, the International Wushu Federation (IWUF) – the world governing body for kung fu – is attempting to identify the person who posted allegedly copyright-infringing videos to YouTube. .” Case Before the Federal Court in Australia.

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SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

She graduated from National Law University, Delhi in 2023 & enjoys reading and writing on copyright laws. Readers may note that the EU AI Act and emerging global practices place the onus of reserving their rights on copyright holders. Two , how can copyright law further AI and innovation alongside protecting authors?

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Plagiarism Today

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

3: IPA and Kenyan Publishers Blast ‘Unacceptable’ Copyright Bill. Finally today, Porter Anderson from Publishing Perspectives reports that the International Publishers Association is joining a chorus of Kenyan-based publishers in decrying proposed changes to the nation’s copyright law.

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SpicyIP

OCTOBER 9, 2024

She graduated from National Law University, Delhi in 2023 & enjoys reading and writing on copyright laws. Image from here Hachette Book Group v Internet Archive: Archiving Access to Information or Strengthening Copyright Laws? Tanishka is an advocate at the High Court of MP.

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 5, 2022

On January 1, 2022, works that were first published in the year 1926 lapsed into the public domain. copyright law, works of corporate or pseudonymous authorship lapse into the public domain after either 95 years from first publication or 120 years after creation, whichever ends first.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Copyright law was never meant to work this way. It is a law that was designed to let humans govern how other humans use content. Bots are much more than a copyright problem. However, they are an especially difficult one for copyright. Is using a clip of X seconds allowed under the law? Fixing the Issue.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

But if you really want Kiwi Farms gone, have you considered using copyright law for its censorial power? He self-published a book about the experience (“ Why I Sued Taylor Swift and How I Became Falsely Known as Frivolous, Litigious and Crazy “). Copyright Law Might Disagree–Greer v.

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The IPKat

JULY 12, 2024

Recital 107 indicates that “ In order to increase transparency on the data that is used in the pre-training and training of general-purpose AI models, including text and data protected by copyright law, it is adequate that providers of such models draw up and make publicly available a sufficiently detailed summary of the content used for training the (..)

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Plagiarism Today

JUNE 21, 2022

First off today, Hillel Italie at the Associated Press reports that a judge in Maryland has shot down a law that would have required publishers to make e-books available on “reasonable terms” to libraries in the state. The publishers pressed on, seeking a permanent injunction to bar the law from ever taking effect.

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Plagiarism Today

MARCH 27, 2023

On Friday, a judge ruled in favor of the publishers against the Internet Archive. Here's why the Internet Archive lost that case. The post Why the Internet Archive Lost appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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Copyright Lately

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

A court win against the Internet Archive has publishers celebrating, but what does it mean for the future of public libraries and digital access? It’s a clear win for publishers, but for public libraries—and the millions who rely on them for access to digital books—the ruling may signal more troubling times ahead. Hachette v.

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Plagiarism Today

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

A new study published in the Harvard Business Review examines the impact of AI systems on human creators. The answers are not encouraging. The post Does AI Replace Human Creators? appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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JD Supra Law

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

The Second Circuit Court of Appeals delivered a resounding victory to the publishing industry on Wednesday, September 4, 2024, in Hachette Books v. Internet Archive, holding that the Internet Archive's "controlled digital lending" program violated copyright law.

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 25, 2022

Last week, the Hamburg District Court issued a ruling in favor of Eyeo, the company behind prominent ad blocker Adblock Plus, in their long-running battle against German publisher Axel Springer. Since those pages qualify for copyright protection, the modification was essentially creating a derivative (ad-free) work and was an infringement.

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Plagiarism Today

JUNE 5, 2023

Cookbook author Joanne Lee Molinaro highlighted a copycat cookbook that has raised new questions about imitation in publishing. The post The Case of the Knock-Off Cookbook appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 2, 2021

District Court Judge Jed Rakoff has issued a controversial ruling denying the “server test” of copyright law and ruling that embedding images can be an infringement of copyright law. In addition to Owen, the plaintiffs also list all of his publishers and all the songwriters as defendants.

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Plagiarism Today

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Composers and publishers owed nearly $400 million, Japanese publishers to sue Cloudflare and Sony settles copyright termination case. The post 3 Count: Underpaid Royalties appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 13, 2021

As part of that rise to stardom, Haigh published a book in the summer of 2021 entitled Makan. Shortly after the initial allegations, the Makam’s publisher, Bloomsbury, released a one-line statement that simply read , “This title has been withdrawn due to rights issues.” copyright law, one typically cannot copyright a recipe itself.

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 3, 2022

First off today, Andrew Albanese at Publishers Weekly Reports that a collection of publishers and authors have secured a default judgement against a piracy service named KISS Library, this one awarding them $7.8 Copyright Law, works lapse into the public domain on January First of the year their copyright expires.

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Copyright Alliance

OCTOBER 17, 2024

In celebration of National Book Month 2024, Copyright Alliance member, the Independent Book Publishers Association, offers its perspectives of why strong copyright protections are important to their ability to create […] The post National Book Month 2024: IBPA’s View of Copyright Law appeared first on Copyright Alliance.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Yesterday, news broke that Pearson Education, the largest publisher of textbooks in the world, has filed a lawsuit against the website Chegg alleging widespread copyright infringement of its content on the site. As a result, Pearson is suing Chegg alleging copyright infringement. Chegg’s Potential Defenses.

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Plagiarism Today

MARCH 16, 2023

US Copyright Office clarifies AI registrations, ACE shuts down a pirate streaming site and publishing groups form a new coalition. The post 3 Count: Shuttered Streamzz appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash Now that the summer is formally over it is time for the third trimester of the 2024 roundup of EU copyright law. The Chairs for each of the four WGs of the Plenary, including WG1 on transparency and copyright-related rules are listed here. 310 O 227/23 ).

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Publishers vs. Internet Archive The self-scanning service is different from the licensing deals other libraries enter into. Not all publishers are happy with IA’s approach which triggered a massive legal battle two years ago. The publishers didn’t listen to these concerns.

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IP Watchdog

OCTOBER 25, 2024

This week in Other Barks & Bites: the USPTO is changing its approach to auditing trademark applications; the production company behind Blade Runner 2049 sues Tesla for AI-aided copyright infringement;a former OpenAI staffer publishes an essay accusing his former employer of breaking copyright law; and Microsoft’s CEO asks countries to change their (..)

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 18, 2022

It’s able to drastically reduce the volume of advertising seen by its users but that didn’t sit well with publishing giant Axel Springer. The publisher, which owns Bild and Die Welt, among others, claimed that AdBlock Plus and its users interfere with its business model so in response took legal action to bring that to an end.

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IP Watchdog

MARCH 15, 2023

Copyright Office (USCO) has announced a new statement of policy on “Works Containing Material Generated by Artificial Intelligence” that will be published in the Federal Register tomorrow, March 16.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 9, 2021

It’s a fairly unique story in plagiarism and highlights the complexities of dealing with plagiarism when the intersection with copyright law is less-than-seamless. There have been many cases where a story published in one fandom was copied and converted into a very similar story in a different one.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 10, 2022

Users simply upload their work to RighsClick with all the relevant information about them, including the title of the work, the date it was created, whether it is published or unpublished and who the author is. . For example, if you publish a collection of photographs at once you only have to input one change for all the works.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

AUGUST 22, 2023

Under EU Law, the most significant developments were introduced by articles 3 and 4 CDSMD, and its national implementations. We selected the Scientific Publishing industry to better understand how the obligations under art. There are numerous commercial Scientific Publishers and Stock Images providers.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 29, 2024

Easy to install, the AdBlock browser extension grew in popularity along with its rivals, leading to publishers of all kinds questioning their business models and whether ‘free’ even had a future. Eyeo dismissed the claim as “almost absurd” and Springer carried on regardless.

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