SpicyIP

MARCH 29, 2025

Shamnad Basheer 1976-2019; taken at NUJS, Kolkata circa 2009. In doing so, the essay highlights the paradoxical stance of companies on training other ML systems using the output generated by their own ML systems and discusses the copyrightability of ML system-generated output, if any. Basheers 48th birth anniversary.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 27, 2023

In 2009, anti-piracy group BREIN took News-Service Europe (NSE) – one of Europe’s largest Usenet providers at the time – to court. Representing the movie and music industries, BREIN argued that NSE must delete all infringing content from its servers, and in 2011 the Court of Amsterdam sided with the anti-piracy group.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

The music companies accused the company of failing to take action against subscribers who were accused of repeat copyright infringements. i]dentify all persons who participated in Plaintiffs’ decision in or around 2009 to remove Digital Rights Management (‘DRM’) from sound recordings sold through the iTunes Store,” the request reads.

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Greenspoon Marder LLP

FEBRUARY 24, 2013

The Pirate Bay (TPB), a file-sharing site based in Sweden known for its piracy of movies, video games and music, is threatening to sue an antipiracy site for copyright infringement. We feel that we must make a statement and therefore we will sue them for copyright infringement” if the site is not taken down.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Gaming giant sony responded with a copyright infringement lawsuit targeting two companies and a director connected to the Datel products. In parallel, Datel saw opportunities to ‘enhance’ the PSP with software that changed how games were supposed to be played. The questions are as follows: (translated from German) 1.

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Indiana Intellectual Property Law

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

I Love This Bar, written by Scott Emerick and Toby Keith, registered on October 16, 2008 and March 11, 2009 by Sony/ATV Songs LLC d/b/a Sony/ATV Tree Publishing, Round Hill Music LP d/b/a Round Hill Works, and Toby Keith Covel, an individual d/b/a Tokeco Tunes. Section 502. Section 505. The case was assigned to District Judge James R.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 9, 2022

RCN focuses heavily on the piracy tracking evidence from Rightscorp but has also brought up another topic; the decision by major record labels to remove DRM from the iTunes music store in 2009. This decision was made two years before the timeframe covered in the piracy liability suit. Nonetheless, RCN believes that it is relevant.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 21, 2022

Faced with the prospect of copyright strikes, Content ID claims and potential account loss, thousands of YouTubers, TikTok users, and other content creators use music provided by Epidemic Sound. Founded in 2009 and based in Sweden, Epidemic Sound has a library of more than 35,000 music soundtracks and 90,000 sound effects.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 17, 2022

This is because, in 2009, the ISPA was recognized by the Minister of Communications as an Industry Representative Body , which gives their members “special recognition and limited liability for Internet content.”. These types of questions aren’t necessary on a form for just reporting copyright infringement.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 28, 2023

Movie and TV show companies, including Village Roadshow, Universal, Warner, Paramount, Sony, 20th Century Fox, and Disney, sent copyright infringement notices to internet service provider iiNet, demanding action against its pirating subscribers. Authorization, Liability, Safe Harbor Citing various grounds, iiNet refused.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 22, 2022

After finding the man guilty of copyright infringement the matter of damages payable to the four large TV companies behind the action remained. A financial investigation revealed that the 58-year-old had sold IPTV boxes and subscriptions on at least 119 occasions during the previous year, earning him up to SEK 300,000 (US$ 32,900).

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Intepat

APRIL 23, 2021

Java owned by Sun Microsystems was later acquired by Oracle in 2009. Oracle first filed a copyright infringement case in the year 2010 saying that Google violated the copyright of the API and the 11,500 lines of code. The post Copyright Infringement Case: Google LLC v. Oracle America Inc.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 4, 2024

The company was founded in 2009 and today boasts more than 25 million users globally, making Plex a serious player in the streaming market. Plex Takes Down “Plex-reshare” Repo This week, Plex took another step to deter potential copyright infringement. The Swiss company, which is headquartered in the U.S.,

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 7, 2023

At the European Elections of 2009, Swedish Pirates won over 7% of the vote. ” After establishing that the albums had been available for download from October 2013 until November 2022, police charged the man with criminal copyright infringement offenses. The operators of movie download sites Tipnafilm.cz

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 18, 2023

Ever since its launch in 2009, rightsholders have complained that file-hosting platform 1fichier.com fails to take intellectual property rights seriously. 1fichier allows user content to be accessed via links posted elsewhere, meaning that when users upload infringing content, links render that content available to the public. .”

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

TVkaista Faces Legal Action In advance of TTVK’s letters being sent out, TVkaista’s CEO, technical director, and legal advisor, faced legal action for criminal copyright infringement and aggravated fraud.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 9, 2023

Founded in 2009, the file-sharing and hosting platform grew out to become one of the country’s most-visited websites. This didn’t go unnoticed by copyright holders, including the RIAA, who repeatedly complained about widespread piracy on the platform.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Both were found guilty of criminal copyright infringement and sentenced to serve 36 months in prison. million following an unsuccessful appeal of their 2009 convictions. From: TF , for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more. Then came the award for damages.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 24, 2022

.” According to Fred von Lohmann, Google’s Senior Copyright Counsel at the time, DMCA notices were skyrocketing. “These days it’s not unusual for us to receive more than 250,000 requests each week, which is more than what copyright owners asked us to remove in all of 2009,” Van Lohman wrote at the time.

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IP and Legal Filings

JUNE 12, 2023

In addition to the 3-condition test, an essential element involved, in relation to parody, is the ‘Intent’ It has been clearly established that making parodies of original work with a motive or intent to exploit it commercially or ride on its goodwill to derive profits shall constitute copyright infringement.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 27, 2024

In the summer of 2009, hackers from all over the world gathered at an outdoor conference near Vierhouten in the Netherlands. “The best [achievement] is the CJEU ruling that The Pirate Bay is a copyright-infringing service. This includes emerging technologies including artificial intelligence. And that, in turn.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Launched around 2009, Hellspy and Hellshare had successfully weathered the Megaupload storm. From: TF , for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more. KickassTorrents, Torrentz and ExtraTorrent were among those nominated but while none of those sites are alive today, two lesser-known sites bucked the trend.

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The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 4, 2022

Background Mr Safarov is the author of a book that was published in 2009. In sum: nothing in domestic law would shield the defendant NGO from liability for copyright infringement. Preventing the peaceful enjoyment of one's own bed is among Kats' top missions in life. Let’s see more in detail what happened.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

South Korea’s efforts to seriously reduce piracy were evident in 2009 when a revision of the Korean Copyright Act introduced a “three strikes” administrative program to disconnect repeat infringers from the internet. Not that the government or rightsholders have simply allowed that to happen, of course.

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SpicyIP

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Mashelkar, Patents, Industry Funding, and Bias : In August of 2009, Prashant wrote about the Government of India’s acceptance of the conclusions of the Mashelkar Committee Report. Life of IP and Counterfeit Goods: In this month, 2009, Prof. Here we go: 1. Basheer penned a post Rigging Data: IPRs and the IMPACT of Counterfeits.

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IPilogue

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

These events point to two prevalent issues within the current legal framework: First, that current intellectual property laws do not properly acknowledge collective ownership over shared culture within Indigenous communities and second, whether tattoo designs have the potential to be protected through copyright laws.

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IP.com

MARCH 12, 2024

With the leap in technological accessibility since smartphones hit the market in 2008/2009, it opened up an entirely new market revenue channel for the gaming industry. Before this, games were limited to consoles or PCs, but now the mobile and internet age has opened up a consumer-fueled demand for ever-increasing novelty.

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IPilogue

JULY 6, 2021

While exceptional circumstances may warrant a site-blocking order, like those noted by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission in 2009 as furthering the telecommunications policy objectives, internet and e-commerce law professor Michael Geist found site-blocking was not used here as a measure of last resort.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Over the years, rightsholders have reported many thousands of apps, often for copyright infringement. The music group told TorrentFreak that infringing apps have been on its radar for a while now. RIAA has been enforcing against apps that engage in the infringement of our members recordings since 2009.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 15, 2023

Faced with extradition to the United States to face copyright infringement, racketeering, and money laundering charges, last year Mathias Ortmann and Bram van der Kolk made a big decision. One month later, the men pleaded guilty to a raft of crimes, safe in the knowledge that any sentence would be served in New Zealand, not in a U.S.

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Greenspoon Marder LLP

MAY 12, 2013

Two individuals in the music industry, Devin Copeland, and Mareio Overton, have filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Usher and Bieber alleging they, not Bieber and Usher, came up with the song “Somebody to Love.” and seventeen other defendants in their $10 million copyright infringement lawsuit.

Copyright 52

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SpicyIP

MARCH 1, 2025

Thus the higher evidentiary standard of intention to infringe upon copyright must also be proved (p 588). Only when it is proved that there has been circumvention and intention to commit copyright infringement, such as through piracy, is Section 65A applicable. Thus, disincentivising readers to leave the Kindle ecosystem.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 29, 2023

The judge observed that “ [n]ot all file formats are equal ” and noted that some file formats contain sufficient content (and not just structure) to sustain a claim to literary copyright. On that basis, the judge felt that the Bitcoin File Format could not be protected because it did not satisfy the fixation requirement.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 13, 2024

The information within each block must be recorded in a specific format and so the Claimants claimed that copyright existed in the format of those digital files, the BFF. The Claimants argued that the BFF had been “fixed” for copyright purposes when the first block in the Bitcoin blockchain was written on 3 January 2009.

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IP and Legal Filings

MARCH 12, 2024

In India, the Copyright Act of 1957 grants certain rights to creators. Section 55 of the Copyright Act of 1957 [ii] provides civil remedies for copyright infringement. It explains that the copyright owner can claim an injunction as a remedy where copyright in any work has been infringed.

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The IPKat

MAY 18, 2024

To celebrate the start of this event, this Kat has found a recent judgment issued by the Tribunal judiciaire (TJ) of Lyon [ the birthplace of cinema ] concerning a case of copyright infringement relating to the still of a short film. Facts Mr T trained as an editor at a film and audiovisual school run by ECAR CAMPUS from 2009 to 2011.

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Patently-O

DECEMBER 11, 2023

45, to bring enforcement actions aimed at activities, including those involving the training and use of AI, that might involve copyright infringement—although we would note that the copyright consequences of AI are, as yet, undefined. That is far too hasty. Under governing law, that is a judicial function. Accolade, Inc.,

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