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3 Count: Swimsuit Edition

Plagiarism Today

First off today, Kevin Shalvey at Business Insider reports that “Sports Illustrated” swimsuit model Genevieve Morton has filed a lawsuit against Twitter alleging that the site was slow to remove infringing material and that an AI photo editing tool created unlawful derivative works.

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Book Release: Second Edition of “Imperfect Recollections: The Indian Supreme Court on Trade Mark Law” by Eashan Ghosh

SpicyIP

The second edition of Eashan Ghosh’s 2020 book “Imperfect Recollections: The Indian Supreme Court on Trade Mark Law” is out now! Eashan shares a short extract from the book’s Preface, highlighting the stimuli for the second edition. A part-wise summary of the first edition is here.

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When is a derivative work original and thus protectable by copyright? Classicist’s critical edition makes its way to Luxembourg in fresh Romanian CJEU referral

The IPKat

Unlike the Swedish and German referrals, the Romanian one has not been made in the context of a dispute concerning works of applied art (which is refreshing), but rather in relation to the protectability of a critical edition of a work. Translated into copyright language: a critical edition is an example of derivative work.

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Why You Can’t Make Someone Else’s Words Your Own

Plagiarism Today

Simply put, you cannot take someone else’s writing and, through editing, make it your own. When copying and pasting heavily into a new work, it can be easy to forget not only what came from where, but what is original versus what needs to be edited. 2: It’s Nearly Impossible to Completely Edit Copied Text. You’re editing.

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Announcing the Seventh Edition of Advertising & Marketing Law Casebook by Tushnet & Goldman

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

Rebecca Tushnet and I are pleased to announce the seventh edition of our casebook, Advertising & Marketing Law: Cases & Materials. Paperback buyers can get a free PDF file by emailing me a copy of their receipt showing which edition they bought. We didn’t make many major changes in this edition.

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How to ACTUALLY Avoid Plagiarism

Plagiarism Today

They typically do either or both of these things: Copy Text Into a Work to “Edit”: This stems from a misunderstanding of paraphrasing. Instead, they attempt to add it in the editing process, when they are editing for grammar, spelling and other errors. Cite your work as you write, not as part of the editing process later.

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TorrentFreak Turns 18 Today (Hospital Edition)

TorrentFreak

On November 12, 2005, I started a ‘blog’ to share news snippets and information about emerging file-sharing technology. At the time it would’ve been unthinkable that it would still draw visitors in 2023. But here we are. Running a site like this on your own is impossible, so luckily Andy joined TF in 2006.

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