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Mariah Carey Sued For “All I Want For Christmas Is You” By Louisiana Country Songwriter
One of the most popular holiday songs of all time is being legally challenged by a country music songwriter who claims copyright infringement over “All I Want For Christmas Is You.”
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What Are Some Good Topics To Write Articles On?
Some popular topics to write articles on include:
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Why Are People Still Blaming Facebook For Australia’s Terrible News Linking Tax Law?
We’ve talked a fair bit about Australia’s ridiculous “News Bargaining Code,” which is literally nothing more than a tax on Facebook and Google for sending traffic to media organisations, paid to Murdoch.
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Copyright Is Indispensable For Artists, They Say; But For All Artists, Or Just Certain Kinds?
One of the central “justifications” for copyright is that it is indispensable if creativity is to be viable. Without it, we are assured, artists would starve. This ignores the fact that artists cre…
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Librarian's lament: Digital books are not fireproof
Publishers are using copyright law as a battering ram to assert corporate control over the public good.
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Australia Pays $20 Million To Buy The Copyright Of Aboriginal Flag, But It's Still Not Public Domain
Over a decade ago, we wrote about how Google had to edit out the Australian Aboriginal flag from a logo because of copyright concerns. An 11-year-old girl had won a contest to design a Google logo for Australia Day, and her logo included a simple...
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How the United Nations' new 'open science framework' could speed up the pace of discovery
Making scientific research free to read could bolster collaboration and research on solving problems such as pandemics, climate change and more. The UN has taken a step towards realising this goal.
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What Will Enter the Public Domain in 2022?
At the start of each year, on January 1st, a new crop of works enter the public domain. Find our highlights of what lies in store for 2022 here.
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The People Who Were Sued for Downloading Music... What Ever Happened?
Lawsuits against downloaders were meant to scare people into buying CDs again. However in the late 2000s a pair of cases went way too far, with even the judge calling the outcome "monstrous and shocking." Interestingly, the fight against digital music began as early as the 1980s. Enjoy the full history of the RIAA vs digital music!
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Is Protecting Copyright More Important Than Saving Lives During The COVID-19 Pandemic?
Although the COVID-19 pandemic has wreaked terrible suffering across the world, we are fortunate that we already have several vaccines that have been shown to be highly effective in reducing the number of deaths and hospitalization rates. Discovering...
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Giving the Authors a Voice in Litigation? An ACS v. ResearchGate Update
A ResearchGate motion asks the court to open the door for something big: communicating about the litigation with the actual authors of the articles posted to ResearchGate. Imagine that!
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US Copyright Office says you can fix a game console (but only the optical drive)
The librarian of Congress has provided a new exemption to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act that will let people repair optical drives on video game consoles. The new rule will also allow users to perform "diagnosis, maintenance, and repair" of other types of software-enabled devices marketed to consumers.
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An App Called Libby and the Surprisingly Big Business of Library E-books
Increasingly, books are something that libraries do not own but borrow from the corporations that do.
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U.S. Govt. Should Pay $155m in Piracy Damages, Software Company Argues
At the US Court of Federal Claims, software company Bitmanagement requests $155 million in copyright infringement damages from the US Govt.
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New Class Action Accuses Instagram of Mass Copyright Infringement - The Illusion of More
A class action suit alleges that Instagram is liable for fostering copyright infringement on a massive scale.
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Copyrights, Royalty Splits & More: 'Ruthless' NFT Market Sparks New Legal Debates
As music artists and executives are clamoring to strategize how best to approach the emerging market, so are their lawyers.
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Redditors Launch A 'Rescue Mission' For Embattled Sci-Hub, With The Ultimate Aim Of Building A Decentralized Version
You might think somebody helping scholars spread their work to a wider audience would be rewarded with prizes and grants, not pursued by the FBI and DOJ. But of course not, because, well, copyright.
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About Quoting Song Lyrics in Books - The Illusion of More
Book authors ask about quoting song lyrics all the time. The default should not necessarily be to avoid doing so out of fear of litigation.
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Childish Gambino sued for alleged This Is America copyright infringement
The artist, whose real name is Donald Glover, is being sued by rapper Kidd Wess who claims his song Made in America is ‘glaringly similar’
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Xinuos—owners of what used to be SCO—file suit against Red Hat and IBM
Suit alleges stolen intellectual property in IBM AIX, and collusion with RHEL.
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