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Copyright issues when journal is defunct
Factual assumptions
ohwilleke's answer is entirely correct. However, it makes factual assumptions based on the standard meaning of "journal" and "author", which I believe to be ...
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What is plagiarism legally?
Plagiarism is an academic category about the thoughts from another scholar/author. Copyright is a legal category about the words of another writer.
When a student or a degree candidate present a ...
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Can patents be featured/explained in a youtube video i.e. are patent descriptions/images in public domain?
The government's position is that material in the patent documents is generally in the public domain
See Public Domain Copyright Trademark & Patent Information Schedule:
As part of the terms of ...
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Are designs explained in academic publications considered to be in public domain if there isn't yet a patent application about it?
Designs in publications are prior art
If a party publishes a design in any way to the public, no other party can patent it and the publishing party only has a narrow window to file for a patent if the ...
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Copyright issues when journal is defunct
united-states
The unavailability of the journal that published an article or the author is not a defense to copyright infringement. U.S. law does not recognize an "orphan works" exception to ...
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Are designs explained in academic publications considered to be in public domain if there isn't yet a patent application about it?
Is an academic journal publication considered a public display of
information or isn't considered so depending on the publication being
an open-access one or not? (Is there any difference whether the
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What is plagiarism legally?
Plagiarism is not a legal concept
Copyright violation is. Patent infringement is. Plagiarism is not.
Plagiarism is academic misconduct - it has no legal definition. It is a matter for the academy in ...
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What is plagiarism legally?
Plagiarism is assuming your authorship of what you did not write/create.
who should I give credit for so I am not blamed for Plagiarism
You don't have to give credit to anyone. Just don't give it to ...
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Is it safe to talk about ideas that I have not patented yet over public email?
With respect to the first question, discussing an idea in a non-encrypted email is not a publication that forfeits the right to patent an idea, even though it is not 100% secure.
In the same way, ...
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Copyright issues when journal is defunct
If you're in the US, try searching the article in question in the catalog of US Copyright Office.
Works which are registered with the copyright office have a stronger protection against infringement: ...
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Copyright issues when journal is defunct
I am aware of analogous problems in my own field, which arose from legally-sloppy practices. The fundamental question is what license the author gave to the publisher. Some academic publishers are ...
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What IP law would apply to trained weights of an AI model?
there might be patents to the methodology used to get the AI to learn
A methodology can be patented, and thus limited in who may use this particular way.
The base code is copyrighted
The base code of ...
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What is plagiarism legally?
Plagiarism is an academic concept, which in some cases is formalized in a rule or contract that has some legal force. The penalty is normally to allow the school to take some action on its own, ...
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Can I screenshot a world map from Microsoft Bing and use it for Youtube videos?
I think this would be covered under the Bing Maps Broadcast Terms.
Subject to the terms of this Broadcast TOU, you may use the Imagery in the Services with television programming and the Road Maps in ...
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Can I screenshot a world map from Microsoft Bing and use it for Youtube videos?
I don't think so. It's copyright protected, and the license is not a free one as far as I can tell. If you use openstreetmap alone it has a permissible license, and if you provide a copyright text the ...
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When a game's EULA specifies that all user generated content is the property of the game's publisher, which party is responsible for IP infringement?
Both the modder and the games company
The modder for making the infringing content and the games company for distributing it. The game company will own the copyright in the derivative elements but won’...
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