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Can I Use Publicly Available Data for Research or Projects Without the Risk of Copyright Infringement?

Velocity of Content

There are several factors that should be taken into consideration even when using public data: Nature of the Data Publicly available data can include a wide range of information, such as government datasets, publicly shared research data, research published under open access (OA) licenses, and datasets that fall within the public domain.

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Smells Like Copyright Infringement

IPilogue

Relying on Twin Books Corporation v Walt Disney Company ( Twin Books ), Bundy argued, “a foreign publication of a foreign work, before January 1, 1978, without notice of United States copyright, did not put the foreign work into the public domain in the U.S.”. Copyright Act of 1909. The Outcome.

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The Copyright Legacy of Martin Luther King

Copyright Lately

and 20th Century-Fox Records argued that, because King had distributed advance copies of the speech to the press without restricting them from reproducing or distributing it further (and without the copyright notice required under copyright law at the time), the speech was in the public domain.

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The United States Copyright Office Notice of Inquiry on AI: A Quick Take

Velocity of Content

Significant amounts of content are also available through the public domain. Under what circumstances would the unauthorized use of copyrighted works to train AI models constitute fair use? law has no specific rules governing the use of copyrighted materials to train AI.

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IP Reveries: Class 1 – IPR: A Tantalising Term or Troubling Terminology?

SpicyIP

Nya: Wait, irrespective of whether IPR is only about copyright, patent, or it is some way of governing knowledge (as Slato Says), what we (as a society) are ultimately trying to get through them is the question that should decide what IPR should be. They didn’t need permission to borrow from the public corpus or public domain.

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Copyright Office Technical Measures Consultations

43(B)log

GitHub, Rose Coogan: More than 73 million creators—students, developers, startups, NGOs, governments using GitHub to collaborate on open source. Designed to be freely available licensed or public domain; we occasionally use fair use images where no free image is available, such as when a famous work has been destroyed.

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A Look Back at India’s Top IP Developments of 2021

SpicyIP

The Vidya Drolia case laid down certain conditions for non-arbitrability of disputes and stated that grant and issue of patents and registration of trademarks were exclusive sovereign or government functions, thus making them non-arbitrable. Olympic medalists and the right to publicity. Hero Electric Vehicles Private Ltd v.

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