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Copyfraud

Index Copyfraud

A copyfraud is a false copyright claim by an individual or institution with respect to content that is in the public domain. [1]

Table of Contents

  1. 93 relations: Alamy, America the Beautiful, American Antiquarian Society, Anti-circumvention, Ars Technica, Arthur Conan Doyle, Artstor, Ashley Madison, Baidu, BENlabs, Billboard (magazine), Black hole, Boing Boing, Breach of contract, Bridgeman Art Library, Bridgeman Art Library v. Corel Corp., Camille Pissarro, Carol M. Highsmith, Censorship by copyright, Copyright, Copyright law of Australia, Copyright misuse, Copyright notice, Cory Doctorow, Court of Appeal (England and Wales), Digital Millennium Copyright Act, Digital rights management, Donkey Kong (1981 video game), Dorothea Lange, Event Horizon Telescope, Fair use, Federal preemption, Fenimore Art Museum, Flag of China, Fox News, Fraud Act 2006, Free license, Freedom of speech, GEMA (German organization), Getty Images, Gordon Quinn, Hannity & Colmes, Happy Birthday to You, Independent film, Kartemquin Films, King Kong, Legal advice, Lenz v. Universal Music Corp., Leslie S. Klinger, Library of Congress, ... Expand index (43 more) »

Alamy

Alamy Limited (d/b/a alamy) is a British privately owned stock photography agency launched in September 1999.

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America the Beautiful

"America the Beautiful" is a patriotic American song.

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American Antiquarian Society

The American Antiquarian Society (AAS), located in Worcester, Massachusetts, is both a learned society and a national research library of pre-twentieth-century American history and culture.

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Anti-circumvention

Anti-circumvention refers to laws which prohibit the circumvention of technological barriers for using a digital good in certain ways which the rightsholders do not wish to allow. Copyfraud and Anti-circumvention are copyright law.

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Ars Technica

Ars Technica is a website covering news and opinions in technology, science, politics, and society, created by Ken Fisher and Jon Stokes in 1998.

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Arthur Conan Doyle

Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a British writer and physician.

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Artstor

Artstor is a nonprofit organization that builds and distributes the Digital Library, an online resource of more than 2.5 million images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and sciences, and Shared Shelf, a Web-based cataloging and image management software service that allows institutions to catalog, edit, store, and share local collections.

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Ashley Madison

Ashley Madison, or The Ashley Madison Agency, is a Canadian online dating service and social networking service.

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Baidu

Baidu, Inc. is a Chinese multinational technology company specializing in Internet services and artificial intelligence.

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BENlabs

BENlabs, formerly BEN Group Inc, is a Los Angeles–based product placement, influencer marketing and licensing company.

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Billboard (magazine)

Billboard (stylized in lowercase since 2013) is an American music and entertainment magazine published weekly by Penske Media Corporation.

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Black hole

A black hole is a region of spacetime where gravity is so strong that nothing, not even light and other electromagnetic waves, is capable of possessing enough energy to escape it.

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Boing Boing

Boing Boing is a website, first established as a zine in 1988, later becoming a group blog.

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Breach of contract

Breach of contract is a legal cause of action and a type of civil wrong, in which a binding agreement or bargained-for exchange is not honored by one or more of the parties to the contract by non-performance or interference with the other party's performance.

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Bridgeman Art Library

The Bridgeman Art Library, based in New York, London, Paris and Berlin, provides one of the largest archives for reproductions of works of art in the world.

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Bridgeman Art Library v. Corel Corp.

Bridgeman Art Library v. Corel Corp., 36 F. Supp.

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Camille Pissarro

Jacob Abraham Camille Pissarro (10 July 1830 – 13 November 1903) was a Danish-French Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist painter born on the island of St Thomas (now in the US Virgin Islands, but then in the Danish West Indies).

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Carol M. Highsmith

Carol McKinney Highsmith (born Carol Louise McKinney on May 18, 1946) is an American photographer, author, and publisher who has photographed in all the states of the United States as well as the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico.

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Copyright can be used to enact censorship. Copyfraud and censorship by copyright are copyright law.

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A copyright is a type of intellectual property that gives its owner the exclusive legal right to copy, distribute, adapt, display, and perform a creative work, usually for a limited time. Copyfraud and copyright are copyright law.

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The copyright law of Australia defines the legally enforceable rights of creators of creative and artistic works under Australian law.

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Copyright misuse is an equitable defence to copyright infringement in the United States based upon the doctrine of unclean hands. Copyfraud and copyright misuse are copyright law.

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In the United States copyright law, a copyright notice is a notice of statutorily prescribed form that informs users of the underlying claim to copyright ownership in a published work.

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Cory Doctorow

Cory Efram Doctorow (born 17 July 1971) is a Canadian-British blogger, journalist, and science fiction author who served as co-editor of the blog Boing Boing.

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Court of Appeal (England and Wales)

The Court of Appeal (formally "His Majesty's Court of Appeal in England", commonly cited as "CA", "EWCA" or "CoA") is the highest court within the Senior Courts of England and Wales, and second in the legal system of England and Wales only to the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom.

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The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) is a 1998 United States copyright law that implements two 1996 treaties of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).

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Digital rights management

Digital rights management (DRM) is the management of legal access to digital content. Copyfraud and digital rights management are copyright law.

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Donkey Kong (1981 video game)

is a 1981 arcade video game developed and published by Nintendo.

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Dorothea Lange

Dorothea Lange (born Dorothea Margaretta Nutzhorn; May 26, 1895 – October 11, 1965) was an American documentary photographer and photojournalist, best known for her Depression-era work for the Farm Security Administration (FSA).

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Event Horizon Telescope

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) is a telescope array consisting of a global network of radio telescopes.

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Fair use

Fair use is a doctrine in United States law that permits limited use of copyrighted material without having to first acquire permission from the copyright holder. Copyfraud and Fair use are copyright law.

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Federal preemption

In the law of the United States, federal preemption is the invalidation of a U.S. state law that conflicts with federal law.

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Fenimore Art Museum

The Fenimore Art Museum (formerly known as New York State Historical Association) is a museum located in Cooperstown, New York on the west side of Otsego Lake.

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Flag of China

The national flag of the People's Republic of China, also known as the Five-star Red Flag, is a Chinese red field with five golden stars charged at the canton.

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Fox News

The Fox News Channel (FNC), commonly known as Fox News, is an American multinational conservative news and political commentary television channel and website based in New York City.

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Fraud Act 2006

The Fraud Act 2006 (c 35) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which affects England and Wales and Northern Ireland.

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Free license

A free license or open license is a license that allows copyrighted work to be reused, modified, and redistributed.

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Freedom of speech

Freedom of speech is a principle that supports the freedom of an individual or a community to articulate their opinions and ideas without fear of retaliation, censorship, or legal sanction.

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GEMA (German organization)

The Gesellschaft für musikalische Aufführungs- und mechanische Vervielfältigungsrechte (GEMA; "Society for musical performing and mechanical reproduction rights") is a government-mandated collecting society and performance rights organization based in Germany, with administrative offices in Berlin and Munich.

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Getty Images

Getty Images Holdings, Inc. is a visual media company and supplier of stock images, editorial photography, video, and music for business and consumers, with a library of over 477 million assets.

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Gordon Quinn

Gordon Quinn is artistic director and founding member of Kartemquin Films and a 2007 recipient of the MacArthur Award for Creative and Effective Institutions.

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Hannity & Colmes

Hannity & Colmes was a live television show on Fox News in the United States, hosted by Sean Hannity and Alan Colmes, who respectively presented a conservative and liberal perspective.

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Happy Birthday to You

"Happy Birthday to You", or simply "Happy Birthday", is a song traditionally sung to celebrate a person's birthday.

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Independent film

An independent film, independent movie, indie film, or indie movie is a feature film or short film that is produced outside the major film studio system in addition to being produced and distributed by independent entertainment companies (or, in some cases, distributed by major companies).

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Kartemquin Films

Kartemquin Films is a four-time Oscar-nominated 501(c)3 non-profit production company located in Chicago, Illinois, that produces a wide range of documentary films.

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King Kong

King Kong, also referred to simply as Kong, is a fictional giant monster, or kaiju, resembling a gorilla, who has appeared in various media since 1933.

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Legal advice is the giving of a professional or formal opinion regarding the substance or procedure of the law in relation to a particular factual situation.

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Lenz v. Universal Music Corp.

Lenz v. Universal Music Corp., 801 F.3d 1126 (9th Cir. 2015), is a decision by the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, holding that copyright owners must consider fair use defenses and good faith activities by alleged copyright infringers before issuing takedown notices for content posted on the Internet.

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Leslie S. Klinger

Leslie S. Klinger is an American attorney and writer.

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Library of Congress

The Library of Congress (LOC) is a research library in Washington, D.C. that serves as the library and research service of the U.S. Congress and the de facto national library of the United States.

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A logo (abbreviation of logotype) is a graphic mark, emblem, or symbol used to aid and promote public identification and recognition.

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Los Angeles Times

The Los Angeles Times is a regional American daily newspaper that began publishing in Los Angeles, California in 1881.

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Matt Dunne

Matt Dunne (born November 20, 1969) is an American politician and businessman from the U.S. state of Vermont.

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Misrepresentation

In common law jurisdictions, a misrepresentation is a false or misleadingR v Kylsant statement of fact made during negotiations by one party to another, the statement then inducing that other party to enter into a contract.

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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

The Museum of Fine Arts (often abbreviated as MFA Boston or MFA) is an art museum in Boston, Massachusetts.

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In July 2009, lawyers representing the National Portrait Gallery of London (NPG) sent an email letter warning of possible legal action for alleged copyright infringement to Derrick Coetzee, an editor/administrator of the free content multimedia repository Wikimedia Commons, hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation.

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Nefertiti Bust

The Nefertiti Bust is a painted stucco-coated limestone bust of Nefertiti, the Great Royal Wife of Egyptian pharaoh Akhenaten.

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Neues Museum

The Neues Museum (New Museum) is a listed building on the Museum Island in the historic centre of Berlin, Germany.

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The Online Copyright Infringement Liability Limitation Act (OCILLA) is United States federal law that creates a conditional 'safe harbor' for online service providers (OSP), a group which includes Internet service providers (ISP) and other Internet intermediaries, by shielding them for their own acts of direct copyright infringement (when they make unauthorized copies) as well as shielding them from potential secondary liability for the infringing acts of others.

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Online Policy Group v. Diebold, Inc.

Online Policy Group v. Diebold, Inc., 337 F. Supp. 2d 1195 (N.D. Cal. 2004), was a lawsuit involving an archive of Diebold's (now Premier Election Solutions) internal company e-mails and Diebold's contested copyright claims over them.

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Patent troll

In international law and business, patent trolling or patent hoarding is a categorical or pejorative term applied to a person or company that attempts to enforce patent rights against accused infringers far beyond the patent's actual value or contribution to the prior art, often through hardball legal tactics (frivolous litigation, vexatious litigation, strategic lawsuits against public participation (SLAPP), chilling effects, etc.) Patent trolls often do not manufacture products or supply services based upon the patents in question.

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Paul J. Heald

Paul J. Heald (born April 19, 1959) is an American novelist and law professor, best known for his murder mysteries and his empirical studies of the public domain in copyright law.

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Peter Suber

Peter Dain Suber (born November 8, 1951) is an American philosopher specializing in the philosophy of law and open access to knowledge.

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ProCD, Inc. v. Zeidenberg

ProCD, Inc.

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Public domain

The public domain (PD) consists of all the creative work to which no exclusive intellectual property rights apply. Copyfraud and public domain are copyright law.

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Richard Arnold (judge)

Sir Richard David Arnold (born 23 June 1961) styled the Rt Hon Lord Justice Arnold is a Judge of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales.

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Rijksmuseum

The Rijksmuseum is the national museum of the Netherlands dedicated to Dutch arts and history and is located in Amsterdam.

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RKO General

RKO General Inc. (previously General Teleradio Inc. and RKO Teleradio Pictures Inc.) was an American broadcasting company that, from 1952 through 1991, served as the main holding company for the noncore businesses of the General Tire and Rubber Company and later on GenCorp.

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Rumblefish Inc.

Rumblefish Inc. is a music licensing company specializing in all forms of synchronization licensing with a focus on 'micro-licensing' and online network monetization such as with YouTube's Content ID.

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SCO Group, Inc. v. Novell, Inc.

SCO v. Novell was a United States lawsuit in which the software company The SCO Group (SCO), claimed ownership of the source code for the Unix operating system.

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Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective created by British author Arthur Conan Doyle.

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Society of American Archivists

The Society of American Archivists is the oldest and largest archivist association in North America, serving the educational and informational needs of more than 5,000 individual archivist and institutional members.

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Sony Music

Sony Music Entertainment (SME), commonly known as Sony Music, is an American multinational music company owned by Sony Entertainment and managed by the American umbrella division of multinational conglomerate Sony Group Corporation.

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Stock photography

Stock photography is the supply of photographs that are often licensed for specific uses.

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Summary judgment

In law, a summary judgment, also referred to as judgment as a matter of law or summary disposition, is a judgment entered by a court for one party and against another party summarily, i.e., without a full trial.

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Sweat of the brow

Sweat of the brow is a copyright law doctrine. Copyfraud and Sweat of the brow are copyright law.

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Techdirt

Techdirt is an American Internet blog that reports on technology's legal challenges and related business and economic policy issues, in context of the digital revolution.

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The Boston Globe

The Boston Globe, also known locally as the Globe, is an American daily newspaper founded and based in Boston, Massachusetts.

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The Journal of Media Law

The Journal of Media Law is a biannual peer-reviewed academic journal published by Hart Publishing.

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The Merry Widow

The Merry Widow (Die lustige Witwe) is an operetta by the Austro-Hungarian composer Franz Lehár.

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The Orchard (company)

The Orchard Enterprises NY, Inc., doing business as The Orchard (also known as The Orchard Music), is an American music and entertainment company, specializing in media distribution.

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The Times

The Times is a British daily national newspaper based in London.

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United States Navy Band

The United States Navy Band, based at the Washington Navy Yard in Washington, D.C., has served as the official musical organization of the U.S. Navy since 1925.

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Universal City Studios, Inc. v. Nintendo Co., Ltd.

Universal City Studios, Inc.

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University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC, U of I, Illinois, or University of Illinois) is a public land-grant research university in the Champaign–Urbana metropolitan area, Illinois, United States.

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Visual China Group

Visual China Group (VCG) is a Chinese photo and media agency.

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Walker Evans

Walker Evans (November 3, 1903 – April 10, 1975) was an American photographer and photojournalist best known for his work for the Resettlement Administration and the Farm Security Administration (FSA) documenting the effects of the Great Depression.

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Warner Chappell Music

Warner Chappell Music, Inc. is an American music publishing company and a subsidiary of the Warner Music Group.

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Warren Commission

The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy, known unofficially as the Warren Commission, was established by President Lyndon B. Johnson through on November 29, 1963, to investigate the assassination of United States President John F. Kennedy that had taken place on November 22, 1963.

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Wikimedia Commons

Wikimedia Commons, or simply Commons, is a wiki-based media repository of free-to-use images, sounds, videos and other media.

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Wikimedia Foundation

The Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., abbreviated WMF, is an American 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization headquartered in San Francisco, California, and registered there as a charitable foundation.

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YouTube

YouTube is an American online video sharing platform owned by Google.

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YouTube copyright issues relate to how the Google-owned site implements its protection methods. Copyfraud and YouTube copyright issues are copyright law.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyfraud

Also known as Copyright commandeering, Copyright fraud, Copytheft, Copywrong, False Copyright, Jason Mazzone.

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