Plagiarism Today

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Z-Library was recently targeted in complaints to the United States Trade Representative saying that it is “killing” efforts by publishers to monetize their books as their products would often appear on the site within hours of publication. 3: Apple’s Copyright Claims Ripped Down a Fan’s Archival WWDC YouTube channel.

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 24, 2022

Next up today, Rhiannon Bevan at TheGamer reports that Nintendo has filed a takedown notice against a video of a fan-created first-person shooter that was based on the Pokemon franchise. The video was uploaded by Twitter user @Dragon_GameDev2 who published it to both Twitter and Twitch as a way to announce the new project.

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Copyright Lately

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

OpenAI In the Raw Story Media case, two digital news organizations, Raw Story and AlterNet, claimed that OpenAI violated the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) by using their copyrighted articles—stripped of copyright management information (CMI), such as author names and copyright notices—to train ChatGPT.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

In common with the vast majority of large companies based in the US, Reddit has to follow the requirements of the DMCA which means that when it receives a valid copyright notice, it must comply by taking the identified content down. “In 2021, Reddit received 177,450 copyright notices reporting 920,672 pieces of content.

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JD Supra Law

AUGUST 12, 2021

Copyright protection is, generally speaking, formality-free in the US and other member states of the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works. By: Kidon IP

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Plagiarism Today

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Back in September , I reported on Facebook’s Widely Viewed Content Report and how Casey Newton, a reporter at The Verge, noticed that nearly all the top posts on Facebook for the quarter were plagiarized. . The findings, to put it mildly are not shocking. While we likely won’t know for certain, the answer likely is a combination of both.

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Copyright Lately

APRIL 30, 2021

Scott-Giles’ “Upper Hell” illustration was first published in a 1949 U.K. ” The complaint, filed in federal court in Los Angeles, claims that Nirvana infringed an illustration first published in a 1949 English language translation of Dante’s “Inferno.” copyright law. without a copyright notice.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

These accounts were previously targeted in copyright notices sent by the RIAA or a third party. While some trackers have banned ‘copyright infringing’ hashes , we have never seen evidence of torrent clients acting similarly. After the letter was published, the issue wasn’t raised in public again.

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SpicyIP

JULY 1, 2021

In this post, I look at the question of the government’s copyright ownership in State Board textbooks, and its implications on access to knowledge and education. Government’s Role as Publisher and Copyright Owner. The government’s role as a publisher can allow it to set affordable prices and distribute widely.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 5, 2024

On January 1, 2024, TorrentFreak published a review of the wrongful DMCA notices filed against us in 2023, either directly via email or at Google demanding deindexing of our articles. Our small request for 2024 was not unreasonable: stop sending us bogus copyright notices. ” Interesting.

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Velocity of Content

MARCH 20, 2024

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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Velocity of Content

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The 1976 Act brought in many aspects of copyright with which we are now familiar, including codifying fair use in Section 107 (it previously had been applied on a common law basis). Of course, The Nation published the juiciest details from the memoir: Ford’s reasons for pardoning his predecessor, Richard Nixon.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 17, 2023

The court found: [W]hile Plaintiffs identify several instances in which Copilot’s output matched licensed code written by a Github user, Compl. ¶¶ 56, 71, 74, 87-89, none of these instances involve licensed code published to GitHub by Plaintiffs. Not all was lost, however. Corelogic, Inc. , 3d 666, 671 (9th Cir.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 9, 2022

And, of course, their websites would be blocked too , ensuring that the overwhelming bulk of news published locally effectively became press releases for the Kremlin. It is normal for the Lumen Database to redact targeted URLs in copyright notices it makes generally available. Google Removes Links But Cannot Reveal Them.

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IP and Legal Filings

MAY 3, 2024

Copyright Law Copy Right is a legal concept that gives creators exclusive rights over their original works and allows them to control the use and distribution of those works. These rights generally include the rights to reproduce, distribute, perform, publish and create derivative works.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

The movie companies say they notified Comcast of these infringements in more than 250,000 DMCA notices. Despite receiving more than a quarter of a million copyright notices, Comcast failed to take action against its allegedly infringing customers, the lawsuit claims. Failure to Terminate Repeat Infringers.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 14, 2024

.” Knowledge of infringement, the labels say, was established at Verizon over a period of several years during which it received “hundreds of thousands” of copyright notices, referencing instances of infringement allegedly carried out by its subscribers.

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Dear Rich IP Blog

MARCH 15, 2023

corporation that were published in a popular U.S. The magazine itself was copyrighted, but the ads do not contain any copyright markings, so my understanding is that the ads would have entered into the public domain. But your advertisements (1918-1962) are subject to the 1909 Copyright Act, which had no rules for magazine ads.

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Dear Rich IP Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

From 1983 to 1989 a print magazine, Postcard Collector, published many articles which we would like to republish. Each issue of the print magazine had a copyright notice ("© Krause Publications, Inc.") How can I find out if the publisher actually sent copies of the magazine to the LoC to complete the process? (2)

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Velocity of Content

JANUARY 31, 2023

This article was originally published in The Scholarly Kitchen. But the issues it raises are significant, especially for authors who have published content under so-called “open licenses” with attribution requirements. A material breach of a copyright license can give rise to an infringement claim, so this is an interesting move.

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Dear Rich IP Blog

JUNE 20, 2023

It appears to have been only published in the UK, and I've seen evidence the copyright was renewed in the 30's. I have a recent UK copy of the book, and it has no copyright notice. But the book is also not in Google Books or Gutenberg, which leads me to believe it's still under US copyright.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 27, 2022

Over the years we’ve published thousands of articles on copyright law, from how it works in theory to its application in full-blown lawsuits. But other copyright disputes, where infringement isn’t so obvious, can trigger new complexity and polarized legal opinions. .”

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Copyright Lately

JANUARY 13, 2023

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. What’s the difference?

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SpicyIP

OCTOBER 3, 2021

A piece in the Indian Express examines the Sci-Hub copyright infringement case at length. Former Joint Secretary KL Sharma has published his book ‘Healing the Pharmacy of the World’, on drug regulation in India. News from around the World.

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The IPKat

APRIL 8, 2022

Assuming that even if Grau was not familiar with Stoker's book when he heard the stories from the farmers in Serbia, still his decision to focus on Dracula brought him directly into contact with the copyright universe. However, there was no longer copyright protection of the book in the U.S. The movie had entered cinema oblivion.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 23, 2022

Using the DMCA’s takedown process as a weapon, persons unknown sent copyright notices to YouTube, claiming that the targeted videos should be taken down for infringing Bungie’s rights. Earlier this year, Bungie and its enthusiastic Destiny fan community were plunged into chaos.

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BYU Copyright Blog

MAY 20, 2024

Not Past the Post Yet Commercial Educational Materials,University May 20, 10:08 AM May 20, 10:07 AM In October 2021, we first published a blog post on a case filed by Post University against Course Hero.

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Velocity of Content

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Does the increasing use or distribution of AI-generated material raise any unique issues for your sector or industry as compared to other copyright stakeholders? AI generated materials may both advance text publishing and hinder it. There is good reason that copyright is an “opt in” regime.

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Velocity of Content

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

In the quaint days of 2019, when the EU issued its Digital Single Market Copyright Directive (DSM) , much attention was focused on issues such as a news publishers’ right and the obligations of platforms to take down infringing materials. Is a copyright notice sufficient? What about the words “all rights reserved?”

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 29, 2023

Flores sent a DMCA 512(g) counter-notice on June 27, 2022, and filed with the CCB the next day. Section 504(c)(2) says: “in a court’s discretion where the infringer “sustains the burden of proving, and the court finds, that such infringer was not aware and had no reason to believe that his or her acts constituted an infringement of copyright.”

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 7, 2022

The Ninth Circuit also held that the 31 designs were not a “single unit of publication” as a matter of law, because they were not first published together as a “singular, bundled unit.” The Ninth Circuit acknowledged that “this court has never previously addressed what it means to publish multiple works as a ‘single unit.’”

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Dear Rich IP Blog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

law, a copyright owner does not need to include a copyright notice on published works, nor does the owner need to post notices barring the use of the work. You should presume works are protected by copyright unless proven otherwise. There is no statement forbidding copying. Citing the source.

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Dear Rich IP Blog

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Any published photos pre-dating 1925 are automatically public domain (although Brooks' career didn't begin until 1925). Publicity photos published after 1924 were rarely renewed (a requirement for works published before 1964) and they often did not include a copyright notice (a requirement for works published before March 1989).

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Copyright Lately

JANUARY 16, 2022

The Ninth Circuit, which follows the majority view on joint authorship, has published model jury instructions containing a useful checklist of factors that a jury may consider in deciding joint authorship issues. The 2003 copyright notice at the bottom of the title page is in the name of Kirkman and Walker. Invincible #1.

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Copyright Lately

JUNE 2, 2022

Examining the “nature of the copyrighted work,” the court found that while Sedlik’s image was a work of creative expression as opposed to a factual work, the fact that it had been published several decades ago weighed in favor of the defendants’ tattoo being a fair use.

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The IP Law Blog

MARCH 12, 2021

Brewer hired the infamous copyright troll Richard Liebowitz, who has been repeatedly sanctioned by the federal courts for filing frivolous litigation and who was recently suspended from practicing law in New York, pending a disciplinary investigation. Despite a significant request for damages, Vergara never responded to the complaint.

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TraskBritt Intellectual Property

MARCH 18, 2021

A copyright is created the moment you have developed your work to the point that it is in a fixed and tangible form. This means that once you have created text for your website or recorded a video, these works are automatically protected by copyright and you are entitled to use a copyright notice, ©.

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