TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Gaming giant sony responded with a copyright infringement lawsuit targeting two companies and a director connected to the Datel products. “The translation, adaptation, arrangement and other adaptation of a computer program” require permission from the copyright holder, the relevant section reads.

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Indiana Intellectual Property Law

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Plainfield, Indiana – Allen Lee Asher-Butler has filed a copyright infringement suit against Amazon KDP and Jeff Bezos , claiming they are committing copyright infringement regarding four books that he designed and illustrated the covers for.

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The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 4, 2022

Background Mr Safarov is the author of a book that was published in 2009. He claimed that that country’s failure to ensure the peaceful enjoyment of his possessions, that is: his copyright due to the unauthorized reproduction and online publication of his work, breached his human right to the peaceful enjoyment of his IP.

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IP and Legal Filings

JUNE 12, 2023

Image Sources : Shutterstock] It is a general principle that no copyright lies in ideas, subject-matter, themes, movie plots till the expression of the same are different. If presentation of subject-matter or an idea is similar to the original work, then it amounts to copyright violation. Vipul Amrutlal Shah (2009) and MRF Limited v.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 30, 2024

However, copyright protection may unexpectedly clash with this sustainable practice, as certain upcycled items could include copyrighted prints, ornaments, or design patterns from the original materials, such as new clothing items made out of old bed sheets, curtains, or tablecloths , or jewellery made from broken porcelain.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 13, 2024

overturned the High Court decision in which Mr Justice Mellor found that the Bitcoin File Format (the “BFF” ) was not a protectable work in a copyright sense as it did not satisfy the fixation requirement under s.3(2) 3(2) of the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 (the “ Act ”). The judge disagreed.

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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. From: TF , for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

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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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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

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

The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) is easily the best-known law when it comes to notice and takedown. . Find the Host’s Designated Agent: Hosts designate an agent to receive copyright notices on their behalf. These types of questions aren’t necessary on a form for just reporting copyright infringement.

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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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Indiana Intellectual Property Law

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

d/b/a Spirit of Nashville One have allegedly contacted Thirty Six Saloon, LLC d/b/a Thirty Six Saloon and Mark Vanderheyden over 35 times since April 2019 to discuss their obligations under the Copyright Act without success. (“BMI”), Cotillion Music, Inc., Terry Stafford Music Co., House of Cash, Inc., Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp.,

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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

This type of arrangement allows lower-level individuals to sell subscriptions to their own customer bases while also helping to shield providers from unwanted attention from copyright holders and authorities. He was sentenced for aiding and abetting violations of the Copyright Act and was considered for a four-month prison sentence.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 29, 2023

Summary In the case of Wright & Ors v BTC Core & Ors [2023] EWHC 222 the High Court was faced with a technical copyright question about whether literary copyright can subsist in the file format used for the Bitcoin System (the “ Bitcoin File Format ”). 3(2) Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 (the “ Act ”).

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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. But this case establishes that API instructions are copyrightable. Oracle America Inc.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 7, 2023

At the European Elections of 2009, Swedish Pirates won over 7% of the vote. When Felix Reda of the German Pirate Party was elected vice-president of the Greens/EFA group in the European Parliament in 2014, and was given the job of copyright reform rapporteur , that was a moment for the archives. It wouldn’t be the last.

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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. From: TF , for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more. Nonetheless, RCN believes that it is relevant.

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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. From: TF , for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

At the time, similar services were also being offered by several of Finland’s internet service providers but for the members of the Copyright Information and Anti-Piracy Center (CIAPC, also known as TTVK), this was a serious breach of copyright law.

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Patently-O

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Copyright Office published a Notice of inquiry (“NOI”) and request for comments, Artificial Intelligence and Copyright, Docket No. We, who have been writing and teaching about copyright law and how it has responded to challenges posed by new technologies for decades, were among those who submitted comments, see [link].

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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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SpicyIP

MAY 2, 2022

We’re pleased to bring you a guest post from Akshat Agrawal on a recent order that raised questions on the extent / limitations of the exemptions and limitations to Indian copyright law. New(s) Questions and Fair Use: Using Copyright to Curtail Expression? You can see his previous posts for us here. Akshat Agrawal. In Ashdown v.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Launched around 2009, Hellspy and Hellshare had successfully weathered the Megaupload storm. No Shortage of Copyright Complaints. According to Google’s Transparency Report, all three domains are regularly reported for carrying infringing content. and Hellspy.sk. Founded in 2017 by the Nova, Prima and Ó?ko

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TorrentFreak

MAY 24, 2022

For the first time, outsiders were able to see what URLs copyrights holders targeted and in what quantity. ” According to Fred von Lohmann, Google’s Senior Copyright Counsel at the time, DMCA notices were skyrocketing. billion URLs that allegedly link to copyright-infringing content.

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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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IP and Legal Filings

MAY 3, 2023

Introduction Originality in copyright works is the sine qua non of all the copyright regimes of the world. The Copyright , Designs and Patents Act of 1988 in the United Kingdom specifies in Section (1)(1)(a) that copyright exists in “original literary, dramatic, musical, or artistic works.”

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SpicyIP

MARCH 1, 2025

These techniques of access control are all part of Digital Rights Management (DRM) and more specifically these are Technological Protection Measures (TPMs) introduced to protect the rights of the copyright holder. Thus the higher evidentiary standard of intention to infringe upon copyright must also be proved (p 588).

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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. Of note, in DRG Inc.

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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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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.

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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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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Photo by Udo Pohlmann via Pixabay Over the last decades, European lawyers got used to the – at times remarkable and even forceful – interventions of the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) in copyright law. The Safarov case In 2009, Safarov authors a book. He sues for copyright infringement and claims damages.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2023

by guest blogger Kieran McCarthy Many characterize the law of copyright preemption of contracts as a circuit split. But that undersells the level of inconsistency in courts’ interpretations of the law of copyright preemption. With that, any state or common law claim that is equivalent to copyright must therefore be preempted.

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IP and Legal Filings

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Historical lookback The amendment to the existing copyright law act of 1957 was carried out owing to the sensitization of issue of copyright management and revenue sharing structure that is fair and reasonable to all owners and writers of filmed and recorded works. [i] from the copyright holder) licencing or compulsory licencing (i.e.,

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 3, 2024

Discussing the Mahatma’s take on copyright and the interplay between the 1955 Copyright Bill and the Berne Convention, we are pleased to bring to you this post by Shivam Kaushik. However, Article 372 of the newly enacted Constitution allowed for the continuation of the British made laws including Copyright Act of 1914.

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