Michael Geist

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The truth is that Canadian universities spend millions of dollars on licensing copyright materials. In fact, over the past decade, the emergence of site licenses that provide access to millions of works – books, journal articles, newspapers, and more – has led to huge increases in expenditures for access.

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Plagiarism Today

MARCH 8, 2022

1: Russia Mulls Making Software Piracy Legal and Patent Licensing Compulsory. The issue is that many of those papers have been published in various academic journals, which own the rights to them. The 3 Count Logo was created by Justin Goff and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License.

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 13, 2022

Next up today, Demi Lawrence at Portland Business Journal reports that the outdoor apparel brand Poler is facing a lawsuit from Land Art & Design, alleging that many of the designs that founded the company were not properly licensed, especially since the company has new owners.

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Plagiarism Today

MAY 5, 2022

As such, he is suing for copyright infringement, noting that the sample was not licensed. Finally today, Kristal Kuykendall at THE Journal reports that a federal judge has approved a judgment against PresenceLearning, ordering it to pay some $3.25 Neither Kanye nor the plaintiff had any comment on the lawsuit.

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Velocity of Content

AUGUST 23, 2022

CCC has contracted with the Chinese Medical Association Publishing House (CMAPH) to offer document delivery and licensing solutions for all CMAPH journals. CMA titles are now included in the Republication License Service on CCC Marketplace and Document Delivery with RightFind.

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Plagiarism Today

MARCH 23, 2022

Finally today, Matt Reynolds at ABA Journal reports that, following their defeat at the Supreme Court, the state of Georgia has released its annotated legal code for free. The 3 Count Logo was created by Justin Goff and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License.

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Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

APRIL 19, 2022

When a patentee enters into an agreement with a third party that does not expressly include a pat­ent license ( e.g. , a covenant not to sue between a non-practicing patentee and a third-party prac­ticing entity), does that agreement render the third party’s products a “patented article” that requires marking?

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Finally today, Anne Steele at the Wall Street Journal reports that music publishers and streaming services are once again heading to the Copyright Royalty Board in a bid to try and establish favorable royalty rates for the next few years. 3: Music Publishers Propose Higher Streaming Payments.

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Velocity of Content

MARCH 3, 2025

Licensing offers rightsholders an immediate and impactful way to safeguard rights, generate revenue, and maintain influence over how their content is managed and used not just in traditional markets but in emerging AI-driven applications. His experience in scholarly communications and publishing is broad and multinational.

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Plagiarism Today

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Finally today, Nick Hytrek at the Sioux City Journal reports that former United States Representative Steve King is facing a trial over his use of a popular meme during a reelection campaign. The 3 Count Logo was created by Justin Goff and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License. The post 3 Count: Top Gun 2.5

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 27, 2022

Sci-Hub is a site that provides access to academic journals and articles for free. The 3 Count Logo was created by Justin Goff and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License. However, it also represents the first time that the site’s operator, Alexandra Elbakyan, has been defended in court.

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Journalism Plagiarism Licensing Copyright 246

Velocity of Content

DECEMBER 14, 2023

After all, many kinds of published literature, including news, blogs, books, journals, and standards — including the organizations’ own materials — are protected by copyright laws that place limits on how content can be used by others without the rightsholder’s permission. How Do Different Departments Use the Annual Copyright License?

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Velocity of Content

JANUARY 31, 2023

I have had people tell me with doctrinal certainty that Creative Commons licenses allow text and data mining, and insofar as license terms are observed, I agree. Full disclosure: CCC offers RightFind XML, a service that supports licensed commercial access to full-text articles for TDM with value-added capabilities.) GitHub Inc.,

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

McDermott kept the copyright to those photo and granted NY Post a license. McDermott argued that KMC was sophisticated about copyright law because the person who attached the photo to the bio had a journalism background. McDermott had not actually licensed the photo to anyone else to set a baseline license fee.

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Velocity of Content

JANUARY 7, 2025

The full article can be read in the Journal of the Copyright Society. The answer to this conundrum may simply lie in the time-tested solution that has proven successful during earlier periods of technological advancement: licensing. Various licensing models could play a crucial role in this progress.

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LexBlog IP

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Recently published by The Licensing Journal, the article at the link below breaks out five key issues to keep in mind when considering a major software purchase. READ THE ARTICLE IN THE LICENSING JOURNAL HERE. READ THE ORIGINAL POST HERE.

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SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Kirloskar Press, the Bombay High Court (BHC) began proceedings on what may become the first instance of a literary work being compulsory licensed in India. As such, the petitioner approached the court under Section 32 of the Copyright Act for a compulsory license. Recently, in the matter of Anil G Karkhanis v.

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Licensing Publishing Copyright Journalism 98

Velocity of Content

OCTOBER 4, 2022

While the US policy differs from Plan S in that it purports to be “agnostic” toward business models, the end result, the flipping of hybrid/subscription journals to fully-OA, may be the same. cOAlition S also mandates that articles apply a CC BY license to be considered fully Open Access in keeping with the Berlin and related declarations.

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Art Law Journal

APRIL 29, 2021

Art licensing today is a lucrative industry and a great way to supplement your art income. Find out how to approach buyers that may want to license your art or whether it is better for you to just hire a licensing agent to do it for you. The post How to License Your Art Successfully appeared first on Art Business Journal.

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JD Supra Law

JANUARY 26, 2023

This month, partners Richard Goldstucker shares his takeaway from Farah Cook's and Michelle Tyde's 'The Licensing Journal' article on patent licensing. * Once a month, we cover an interesting topic in 60 seconds. This video is for general information purposes and is not intended to be and should not be taken as legal advice.

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Velocity of Content

AUGUST 11, 2022

With the addition of the JAMA Network and The New England Journal of Medicine, subscribers can get immediate access to up to 7.9 million+ articles from respected peer-reviewed journals by ordering annual subscriptions through RightFind Enterprise. How it Works.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 22, 2024

If you are looking for some last-minute Christmas gifts, we have some ideas for you: Call for papers The Indian Journal of Intellectual Property Law, a student-run journal of NALSAR University of Law in Hyderabad, calls for papers for its 15th volume. The picture is by Jessica Lewis and used under the licensing terms of Pexels.com.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 31, 2021

Factor four : The fourth factor also weighs against fair use: Unrestricted and widespread conduct of the sort Defendant engaged in would destroy the market for licensing Plaintiff’s work. Independent Journal Review : Philpot is suing the Independent Journal Review over a Ted Nugent photo taken by Philpot. Aug 18, 2021).

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Michael Geist

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

As a result of amendments at the Canadian Heritage committee , the definition of eligible news businesses was expanded to include hundreds of community, campus or indigenous broadcasters licensed by the CRTC. In other words, the bill would require payments to hundreds of broadcasters without any actual journalism or original news content.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2022

ALLEA, therefore, welcomes recent studies showing that OA publication in scientific journals is on the rise. [2] While the downstream costs of journal subscriptions are gradually falling, the upstream costs of publication, made up of the APCs, have risen sharply.

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IP Watchdog

OCTOBER 6, 2021

The lead story in last weekend’s Wall Street Journal made an exciting announcement: “Merck Covid-19 Pill Cuts Risks of Hospitalizations and Death”: "Merck & Co. Manufacturers in low-income countries don’t need special expertise and supervision to produce the pills, unlike with Covid vaccines.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 31, 2025

The Centre for Intellectual Property Research and Advocacy [CIPRA] of Symbiosis Law School, Hyderabad is organizing its first blog writing competition in collaboration with us on the theme of Literature, Journalism and IP. Analysing the complexities of licensing deals for film and television adaptations.

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Velocity of Content

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

From Large Language Models (LLMs) to other research-based applications, AI technologies rely on millions of books, scholarly journals, and other curated publications. The post AI, Licensing, and The Path Forward appeared first on Copyright Clearance Center.

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IPilogue

JANUARY 11, 2023

On my very first day, my supervisor (thankfully) lent me a copy of The Tech Contracts Handbook: Cloud Computing Agreements, Software Licenses, and Other IT Contracts for Lawyers and Businesspeople by David Tollen to start familiarizing myself with these themes.

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Art Law Journal

MARCH 18, 2021

The post Tips on Contracts and Licensing for Artists appeared first on Art Business Journal. If a contract is supposed […].

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Patently-O

APRIL 17, 2024

Ana Santos Rutschman, From Myriad to Moderna: The Modern Pharmaceutical Company , Texas A&M University Journal of Property Law (2024) (forthcoming). John Howells, Ron D Katznelson, Freedom to Operate analysis as competitive necessity—the Selden automobile patent case revisited , Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice (2024).

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Velocity of Content

JANUARY 9, 2024

Ignoring Copyright is Risky Business Research in the life sciences depends in part on the ability to acquire and share scientific information, particularly journal articles, in a timely manner. It’s important to know, however, there are many types of open-access licenses. Why does it matter, and what can you do?

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IPilogue

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

I will summarize here two published views on existing solutions to this IP problem: in a May 2022 article in The Journal of World Intellectual Property, Muhammad Z. examined two existing ways to tackle the problem: compulsory licensing and voluntary licensing. Ballardini et al.

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Velocity of Content

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

During the session, the panelists will discuss the current state of agreement reporting and review the specific industry reporting templates and guidelines they currently follow.

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SpicyIP

OCTOBER 27, 2024

Call for Papers: NLU Jodhpur’s Journal of Intellectual Property Studies Volume IX, Issue I [Submit by January 10, 2025] National Law University, Jodhpur’s Journal of Intellectual Property Studies is inviting original, unpublished manuscripts for its upcoming issue (Volume IX, Issue I).

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Velocity of Content

MAY 11, 2023

Copyright protects original works of authorship of any kind, including journal articles, books, email, social media posts, content you post online, images (including illustrations and photographs), technical drawings, figures, and infographics. If a journal article is published as Open Access, can I reuse it?

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Michael Geist

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

This week’s Law Bytes podcast features Western librarian Stephen Spong on fair dealing and prior posts in the series endeavoured to set the record straight and discussed site licensing , transactional licensing , and the disappearance of course packs. I’ve often written about the importance of open access publishing.

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