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Michael Grecco v. University of Southern California

BYU Copyright Blog

University of Southern California November 04, 09:23 AM November 04, 09:23 AM In 2004, a photographer named Michael Grecco (Grecco or Plaintiff) created and registered several photos with the U.S. Copyright Office. He also alleges that USC utilized his photograph to promote the sale of goods and services within an educational context.

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The Pirate Bay’s Oldest Torrent is Now 20 Years Old

TorrentFreak

BitTorrent requires at least one person to share a full file copy, which is hard to keep up for decades. The file was originally uploaded on March 25, 2004, and several people continue to share it today. Surprisingly, however, several torrents have managed to stand the test of time and remain available today.

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Google Addresses Scraped and Spun Content

Plagiarism Today

In a similar question at 17:05 in the same video, another user asked, “Why Google is not taking action on copy or spun web stories? This combination, as we discussed in this retrospective, has been around since at least 2004 , spearheaded by the then-popular Article Bot software. Can you check on Discover?”.

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When the Editor is the Plagiarist

Plagiarism Today

All totaled, Haake discovered that McCrory had copied some 560 words of his, making up just over half of McCrory’s letter. iThenticate, the service most frequently used by journals, just launched in 2004. Haake said that he reported the incident to Physics World, but nothing came of it. It could be as simple as the timing.

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“90% of All Pirated Films are Recorded in Movie Theaters”

TorrentFreak

2023, 2020, 2016, 2012, 2008, 2004… The 90% figure didn’t suddenly appear in 2016 either. Back in 2004, the Motion Picture Association’s Regional Director, Dara MacGreevy, reportedly said that 90% of online films come from camcorder copies. That press release didn’t mention a source either.

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Ninth Circuit Concludes Direct Copying Can Be Evidence of “Secondary Meaning” for Trade Dress Infringement 

LexBlog IP

. (“JSC”) against Trendily Furniture, LLC, Trendily Home Collection, and Raul Malhotra (collectively, “Trendily”) finding Trendily liable for trade dress infringement for willfully copying, manufacturing, and selling identical JSC furniture pieces.

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Sony vs. Datel: Game Cheat Copyright Questions Referred to EU’s Top Court

TorrentFreak

Sony Sends in the Lawyers When Sony released the PSP in 2004, the race to run ‘homebrew’ software on the PSP also began. The PSP was discontinued in 2014, but after more than a decade, Sony’s lawsuit is still alive and inching toward a conclusion – one way or another. Does a revision exist within the meaning of Art.

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