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Meta Hit With Massive Piracy Lawsuit Over Epidemic Sound Royalty-Free Music

TorrentFreak

Founded in 2009 and based in Sweden, Epidemic Sound has a library of more than 35,000 music soundtracks and 90,000 sound effects. Meta acknowledges that this unlimited copying, sharing, synchronization and distribution of music, licensed or not, is the intention behind the Original Audio feature.”

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Tattoo Artist Copyright Win Will Create Uncertainty Over Celebrities with Tattoos

The IP Law Blog

At trial, Alexander testified in 2009, that she contacted WWE’s legal department to negotiate a license for a possible faux tattoo sleeve product depicting her tattoo works. Alexander testified that she declined the offer and advised WWE that she did not grant it any permission to copy, duplicate, or otherwise reproduce any of her designs.

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You Can't Claw Back an Expired Claim

BYU Copyright Blog

Price argues that in 2009, he created an artistic graphic design to print on shorts for his two sons. The lawsuit centers on allegations of copyright infringement under chapters 1 and 12 of 17 U.S.C. marking a significant confrontation between an individual creator and an educational institution.

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How to Avoid Pitfalls on the Way to Decentralized Disney

Copyright Lately

The first thing that’s important to understand is that buying a copy of a creative work, even if it happens to the only copy in existence, doesn’t give you any copyright interest in the work. So, if you buy a copy of “Dune,” you can read it. Buying Objects ? Buying Copyrights. And a quick review of U.S.

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The “Excitable Edgar” Dragon Copyright Case

Kluwer Copyright Blog

The judgment also offers an insight into how the courts will view a party’s efforts to attract media attention by publicising their proceedings, as John Lewis said was the case here. Since 2009, these advertisements have been created by leading agency, adam&eve. It said this showed it had not copied the book.

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What Are The Various Copyright Law Issues With Apps Like Spotify In The Modern Tussle Between Artists And Corporate Giants?

IP and Legal Filings

ii] This unreported judgement helped bring the grievances on the table for the others to see that copyright law has deficiencies in terms of music sharing and copying along with royalty issues. SLATE (Oct 22, 2009, 6:16 PM), [link] [v] Copyright Amendment Act, 1957, §51(1) , No. Magic Mantra Vision. [ii] 1743/2005 (Delhi H.C.),

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Models' false endorsement claims fail for want of recognition, bad survey

43(B)log

Facts in the light most favorable to the plaintiffs: Each of the plaintiffs has a significant number of followers on various social media platforms, ranging from greater than ten thousand to several million, and most are “considered social media influencers.” Plaintiffs didn’t show sufficient evidence of recognition.