Copyrights

“Grumpy Cat” is Long Gone But Her Copyright Lives On in Court — Ernesto Van der Sar reports at Torrentfreak, “Grumpy Cat is no longer with us. Tardar Sauce passed away in 2019 but the humans she shared a house with are keeping her memory alive. They do this in ... Read More

Image from here The issue of IP protection of jewellery has hardly been discussed or adjudicated upon in India. Generally, it is understood that the sketch of the jewellery design can be protected as artistic work under copyright law, while the actual appearance of the ... Read More

  Image from here On 15th February, the Department of Science and Technology released a new set of guidelines liberalising India’s Mapping and Geospatial Data regime by removing the existing multi-layered licensing procedures applicable on private entities. In light of these guidelines, I will discuss how maps and ... Read More

To Americans, the Eurovision song contest is a truly bizarre concept. It is a massive, song contest that pits some thirty nations against one another in a battle of song and dance that more closely resembles the Olympics than American Idol. Eurovision is not limited to Europe (especially with ... Read More

Have any suggestions for the 3 Count? Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday. 1: Movie Companies Sue VPN Provider for ‘Encouraging’ and ‘Facilitating’ Piracy First off today, Ernesto Van der Sar at Torrentfreak writes that Voltage Pictures and Millennium Finding have filed a pair of lawsuits against the suspected owners of ... Read More

SoundCloud launches a user centric opt in service along ethical pool principles. Continue reading → ... Read More

So the Boy Scouts of America, "faced with tens of thousands of sex-abuse claims," is planning to sell 60 works by Norman Rockwell to "help raise money for a settlement fund of at least $300 million for sexual abuse victims."I don't think even the Deaccession Police will have a problem ... Read More

Bestselling Korean author Shin Kyung-sook released a new novel today. Entitled I’ve Gone to Father, the book seems to be a spiritual follow up to her best-selling 2008 novel Please Look After Mom, as both books deal with the struggles of adult children with aging parents. However, if you ... Read More

Have any suggestions for the 3 Count? Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday. 1: U.S. Navy is Liable for Mass Software Piracy, Appeals Court Rules First off today, Ernesto Van der Sar at Torrentfreak writes that the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has ruled against the United States Navy ... Read More

  As the absurd and inexcusably short deadline of March 12, 2021to comment on the Government of Canada’s  very disappointing consultation documenton how to implement the CUSMA term extension obligation looms, interested parties may wish to note the following. Maria Pallante is the former Register of Copyright in the US ... Read More

On February 28, Tom Redman, an engineer which an extensive history in the tech field, tweeted about a new project that he and two of his friends had just launched.

Some personal news! Two friends and I created a new thing to fix online recipes https://t.co/3ZNkSV82Y5 – ... Read More

Have any suggestions for the 3 Count? Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday. 1: ‘The Sinking City’ Dev Alleges Publisher Hacked and Illegally Uploaded Game to Steam First off today, Patrick Klepek at Vice reports that the video game developer Frogwares is claiming that a version of their latest game, The ... Read More

Creative people need a quick, efficient and inexpensive way to recover damages for copyright infringement. They need a place to submit their charge of infringement and collect damages. Until recently, their only option was to bring a lawsuit in a federal district court; a process that is complicated, expensive and ... Read More

TikTok rival Triller has found itself has a wild few months when it comes to both legal and public controversies. Back in October, Triller was sued by TikTok’s parent company over alleged patent infringement. The company has faced repeated questions about how many users it actually has and ... Read More

Have any suggestions for the 3 Count? Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday. 1: Court Dismisses Wixen’s Triller Lawsuit – but on Legal Technicalities First off today, Chriss Cooke at Complete Music Update reports that a California court has dismissed a lawsuit filed by music publisher Wixen against the video sharing ... Read More

For years, Canada resisted extending the term of copyright beyond the international standard of life of the author plus 50 years. That appears to have come to an end with the USMCA, which requires an extension. The Canadian government has just launched a public consultation on the issue, identifying several ... Read More

Thematic Highlight A Draft “Open” IP Syllabus In this post, Swaraj shared the first draft version of an ‘Open’ IP Syllabus that he along with a small team of researchers has worked on in the last few months. The syllabus is aimed to contain materials that are legally and publicly ... Read More

Another interesting deaccession-related interview today.I loved this bit:"The debates have a kind of theological tint to them. There's a great deal of passion and conviction and categorical statements around issues which by their nature are highly complex. I think they also reflect a certain lack of faith in institutions to ... Read More

The Baltimore Museum of Art announced three gifts to help fund the diversity and equity initiatives it initially had planned to support through deaccessioning but changed course in the face of a storm of criticism.Brian Boucher's artnet story describing the gifts also includes a fascinating interview with BMA director Christopher ... Read More

Like-Minded IP Teachers’ Working Group on Intellectual Property and Public Interest   Social Dimensions of Copyright Infringement and Enforcement: A Quick Reflection in the context of Sci-Hub Litigation☨   Jointly prepared by:   Prof. (Dr) N. S. Gopalakrishnan[i] Dr Arul George Scaria[ii] Dr M. Sakthivel[iii] Ms Anjana Girish[iv] Dr Vishnu ... Read More

A recent case in the Southern District of New York calls into serious question the ubiquitous practice of embedding photographs on a content creator’s website. An embedded photo is one that is not hosted on the website’s own server, but instead is linked to a third-party server like a social ... Read More

Texas Justices Weigh Novel ‘Takings’ Copyright Fight — “The Texas Supreme Court questioned during oral arguments on Thursday whether a photographer can proceed with allegations that the University of Houston unconstitutionally ‘took’ his copyrighted image without permission. Photographer Jim Olive claims that because the university is part of the public ... Read More

The government held a one-hour online discussion about its consultation paper on Consultation paper on how to implement an extended general term of copyright protection in Canada. Responses are due on March 12, 2021. That’s not a misprint. There were lots of questions but very few if any specific answers. ... Read More

Butch Hartman is well-known for the cartoons he created including shows such as Fairly Odd Parents, Danny Phantom and T.U.F.F. Puppy. However, in February 2018 he announced that he had left Nickelodeon and has since been working as an independent artist. Part of that life as an independent artist has ... Read More

On Tuesday, February 23, the United States Copyright Office issued a final rule that creates a new “group” registration option for albums of music and works related to that music. The new option, or  Group Registration for Works on an Album of Music (GRAM) allows applicants to register either a ... Read More

Have any suggestions for the 3 Count? Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday. 1: Jeff Koons, Centre Pompidou Lose Appeal on French Fashion Ad Plagiarism Suit First off today, Alex Greenberger at ARTnews reports that, in France, artist Jeff Koons has lost an appeal in a case filed by photographer Franck ... Read More

Despite the plethora of materials online, any student, researcher or professor would know that access to scholarly information is a lot more difficult than what it should be. Most of the time, if you’re serious about research, the ‘research’ journey is more about how many paywalls you can climb (legally ... Read More

On February 16, the Mechanical Licensing Collective (MLC) – a nonprofit organization designated by the U.S. Copyright Office to administer blanket mechanical licenses to eligible streaming and download services in the United States –announced that it had received a total of $424.4 million in unmatched royalties accrued by 20 digital ... Read More

Have any suggestions for the 3 Count? Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday. 1: YouTube Says Rights Management Firm That Sued over Content ID Access Doesn’t Really Exist First off today, Chris Cooke at Complete Music Update reports that YouTube has hit back at a lawsuit against them by Pirate Monitor ... Read More

Dr. Padma Murthi. Photo by Monath University Yesterday, Rachael Exter at The Age reported that the Elsevier journal Biochimica et Biophysica Acta has retracted an article published by Dr Padma Murthi following an investigation into allegations of plagiarism. Murthi, who is a senior research fellow at Monash University in Australia, ... Read More