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Supreme Court: There’s No ‘Time Limit’ on Copyright Infringement Claims

TorrentFreak

Nealy’s personal life was no major success either, as he spent time in prison from 1989 to 2008, and again from 2012 to 2015. While Nealy was doing time, his former partner licensed the Music Specialist catalog to Warner Chappell. That release sold millions of copies reaching the Billboard chart’s top ten.

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3 Count: Swimsuit Edition

Plagiarism Today

The three worked with a company named Construction Technologies and, as part of their work, they would activate unlicensed copies of software for customers by using either cracking programs or key generators to remove license restrictions. Since then, Swift has been re-recording and re-releasing her previous content.

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Supreme Court Finds Google’s Copying of Oracle’s APIs a Fair Use

LexBlog IP

The Java platform is available for free in certain circumstances under an open source license to be used to write and run programs that use the Java programming language, and it can run those programs across different types of hardware without having to rewrite the program for each different type. By 2008, Java included 166 API packages.

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Another API (c) case with false advertising and contract claims too

43(B)log

Defendants allegedly copied key components of Trackman’s copyrighted software and falsely suggested, in promotions and advertisements, that defendants were authorized to use the well-known courses in their game. And they allegedly copied golf courses created on Perfect Golf’s course design platform.

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Understanding Copyright, Trademark and Halloween Costumes

Plagiarism Today

If the costume isn’t licensed, why is it not infringing regardless of the name change? This means, theoretically, that elements such as the Superman “S” can be protected by copyright because they are separate elements that are merely copied onto the clothing. Why did the company do this? The second limitation is masks.

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Professional Photographer Files Copyright Infringement Suit Against Used Car Dealers

Indiana Intellectual Property Law

According to the Complaint, Stross created the photograph entitled Plenty of Trees (the “Photograph”) in 2008 and registered it with the United States Copyright Office. A Copyright Registration was issued on December 15, 2008 under Register Number VAu 989-644. 501 , damages pursuant to 17 U.S.C. § Gotsch, Sr.

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YouTube Wins Partial Summary Judgment in Maria Schneider Copyright Lawsuit

TorrentFreak

YouTube’s motion for summary judgment states that Schneider licensed her content to YouTube, presented no evidence of DMCA violations, and in some cases had filed untimely claims. YouTube’s Licensing Defense. The big questions now center on the nature of that license and whether YouTube can rely on it to fend off liability.

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