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Ed Sheeran must face plagiarism claim: judge
A U.S. judge on Tuesday rejected English singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran’s bid to dismiss one of three lawsuits accusing him of lifting his 2014 smash “Thinking Out Loud” from Marvin Gaye’s 1973 classic “Let’s Get It On.”
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YouTube can now warn creators about copyright issues before videos are posted
YouTube’s Checks should help creators deal with copyright problems before hitting publish
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Humans throw away TOO MUCH CRAP IT HAS TO STOP
If you bought it, it’s yours and you should be able to get someone to mend it whether it is a tractor, a phone or a trebuchet
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Twitter shuts down account of Sci-Hub, the pirated-papers website
Move comes as publishers sue in India to block public access
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Party Like It's 1925 On Public Domain Day (Gatsby And Dalloway Are In)
Every year on January 1, the copyright on thousands of books, songs, films and other creative works expires. Law professor Jennifer Jenkins says 2021 is "a bumper crop."
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Judge: Sci-Hub Blocking Case "Important" For Science, Community Representations Will Be Heard
A High Court judge says that nineteen scientists and three scientific and medical organizations will have their intervention applications heard before any decision is handed down in the ongoing Sci-Hub blocking case. Filed by several publishers, the lawsuit seeks ISP blocking of the platform in India. Justice JR Midha notes that the case addresses an "issue of public importance."
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Copyright Law Is Bricking Your Game Console. Time to Fix That
There aren't enough game consoles in the world for our upcoming locked-down holiday. Good luck finding a PS5 for Christmas. As Nintendo similarly struggles to keep up with demand, the number of people searching iFixit for Switch repair guides has more than tripled since last year. Traffic to our Joy-Con controller repair page started growing dramatically on March 14—the day after President Trump declared a national emergency.
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George Orwell is out of copyright. What happens now?
Much of the author’s work may have fallen into public ownership in the UK, but there are more restrictions on its use remaining than you might expect, explains his biographer
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Elsevier Wants To Stop Indian Medics, Students And Academics Accessing Knowledge The Only Way Most Of Them Can Afford: Via Sci-Hub And Libgen
Last month Techdirt wrote about some ridiculous scaremongering from Elsevier against Sci-Hub, which the publisher claimed was a "security risk". Sci-Hub, with its 85 million academic papers, is an example of what are sometimes termed...
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The COVID-19 Stimulus Bill Would Make Illegal Streaming a Felony
Providing relief via direct assistance and loans to struggling individuals and businesses hit hard by COVID-19 has been a priority for federal lawmakers this past month. But a gigantic spending bill has also become the opportunity to smuggle in some other line items, including those of special interest to the entertainment community.
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Sweeping new copyright measures poised to pass in spending bill
The contentious measures could be approved Monday.
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YouTube Class Action: Same IP Address Used to Upload 'Pirate' Movies & File DMCA Notices
The same IP address used to upload 'pirate' movies to YouTube also sent DMCA notices targeting the same batch of content.
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Copyright Trolling/SEO Scam, Changing The Photo Credits On Wikimedia Commons
Want to know yet another reason why the CASE Act is so dangerous? It will inspire ever more new attempts at fraud in the copyright trolling space. Giving people the ability to shake down others leads to... lots of attempts to shake down or scam...
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‘The Great Gatsby’ will enter public domain as copyright ends in 2021
The novel’s copyright is set to expire at the end of 2020, meaning that anyone will be allowed to publish the book, adapt it to a movie, make it into an opera or stage a Broadway musical.
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Standing up for developers: youtube-dl is back
Today we reinstated youtube-dl, a popular project on GitHub, after we received additional information about the project that enabled us to reverse a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) takedown.
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Kim Dotcom Predicts NZ Supreme Court Will Rule in Favor of Extradition * TorrentFreak
Kim Dotcom is predicting that the New Zealand Supreme Court will decide in favor of extraditing him to the United States. The Megaupload founder says that he has faith in at least one judge on the panel, claiming that she knows the "U.S. govt is a rogue operator" and "knows what her fellow Judges are doing and why."
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Internet Archives Fires Back in Lawsuit Over Covid-19 Emergency Library
In a brief filed in a New York district court on Tuesday night, the Internet Archive fired back in response to a lawsuit brought against it by five of the world’s largest publishers. The lawsuit seeks to shut down an online National Emergency Library started by the Internet Archive during the Covid-19 pandemic and levy millions of dollars in fines against the organization.
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Twitter disables video retweeted by Donald Trump over copyright complaint
Twitter has disabled a campaign-style video retweeted by Donald Trump, citing a copyright complaint. The video, which included music from the group Linkin Park, disappeared from the president’s Twitter feed late Saturday with the notification: “This media has been disabled in response to a report by the copyright owner.”
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California Police Are Using Copyright to Hide Surveillance Documents
California police are refusing to release documents about the surveillance technology it uses, despite a new law that requires their release.
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Blackballed by PayPal, Scientific-Paper Pirate Takes Bitcoin Donations
Bitcoin as a censorship-free money has been used by outlaws of all sorts, but this time the outlaw is a young scientist from Kazakhstan breaking through the paywalls of academic journals. Alexandra Elbakyan, a 31-year-old freelance coder, neurobiologist and phylologist, is running a database of over 80 million articles from academic journals that are normally available only through subscriptions.
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