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Patent, Trademark, and Copyright: Definitions and Distinctions

Erik K Pelton

The following is an edited transcript of my video Patent, Trademark, and Copyright Definitions and Differences. The following is an edited transcript of my video Patent, Trademark, and Copyright Definitions and Differences. A copyright generally lasts the life of the author plus 70 years.

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Google Addresses Scraped and Spun Content

Plagiarism Today

While the answers are definitely thin, Google has a long history of ducking these complicated issues. This was in stark contrast to what Mueller said in June 2021, when he openly admitted that, on occasion, Google can accidentally rank copied content over original works and encouraged people to file copyright notices.

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3 Count: Not Very Private

Plagiarism Today

The move is not directly copyright-related and actually is meant to better empower the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) to deal with cybersecurity and to unmask criminals. However, since VPNs are commonly used as a way to ensure privacy while engaging in pirate activities, it could definitely have impacts there.

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Reddit Banned 5,853 Users for Excessive Copyright Infringement Last Year

TorrentFreak

. “In 2022, we saw a 43% increase over the previous year in the total number of copyright notices received, a 126% increase in the amount of content reported for removal, and a 97% increase in the amount of content removed,” Reddit reports. Compared to other content removals, copyright actions are relatively modest.

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Indie Record Label Leads Crackdown on YouTube Downloaders

TorrentFreak

Instead of the usual DMCA copyright notices, the music group asked the search engine to remove various URLs for alleged violations of the DMCA’s anti-circumvention provision. An exact figure is more difficult to establish as the number of URLs varies per notice, but the efforts are definitely having an impact.

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Foreign Works, US Rights: The 7th Circle of Copyright Hell?

Copyright Lately

The new lawsuit raises a host of complicated legal issues that, while exciting for copyright nerds like me, are often a nightmare to litigate. Key among them is the extent to which pre-1978 works first published abroad without proper copyright notice are still protected under U.S. copyright law. Copyright Office.

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How Can AI Models Legally Obtain Training Data?–Doe 1 v. GitHub (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

documents, or other files”, a definition that necessarily comprises source code, and hence the Licensed Materials. (As Plaintiffs argued that with the popularity of Copilot, it is a near certainty that their code will be used with copyright notices removed or in violation of their open-source licenses. Not all was lost, however.

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