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Is Your Website Published or Unpublished?

Plagiarism Today

In February 2010, FDN entered into an agreement with CCA where FDN would build and host a website for CCA for the purpose of selling CCA-manufactured furniture. Also in 2018, FDN filed the original complaint, targeting both Amazon and CCA, alleging that they both breached contracts and committed copyright infringement.

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Record Labels Urge Court to Uphold $47 Million Piracy Liability Verdict

TorrentFreak

Specifically, they alleged that the company failed to terminate repeat infringers. A Texas federal jury found Grande guilty of willful contributory copyright infringement, and the ISP was ordered to pay $47 million in damages to the record labels. $47 This went against the requirements under U.S. law, the music companies say.

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SpicyIP Weekly Review (January 27 – February 2)

SpicyIP

Prabha Sridevan, Judge, MHC (2000-2010) and Chairperson, IPAB (2011-2013) was recently interviewed by SpicyIP Doctoral Fellow Malobika Sen as part of her doctoral research. The defendants were accused of illegally uploading copyrighted works online on social media and other online private groups.

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Battle of Storytellers

Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

The ‘Humans of’ platforms that have arisen subsequent to the ‘Humans of New York’ (HoNY) platform, which was introduced by Brandon Stanton in 2010, include the HoB. Over time, it developed into a multiplatform storytelling platform that is now available on all primary social media networks.

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A Blue Christmas is Coming in Mariah Carey Copyright Case

Copyright Lately

It’s not, although that hypothetical lawsuit wouldn’t have been as frivolous as the copyright infringement complaint that was actually filed on Friday. On June 3, Vince Vance, also known as Andy Stone, filed a copyright infringement complaint (read here) against Mariah Carey, co-writer Walter Afanasieff and Sony Music.

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Copyright and Artificial Intelligence in Music Creation

IP and Legal Filings

This includes thousands of books the complete Wikipedia and nearly a trillion words extracted from blogs social media and various online platforms. The initial aim was to create General AI but the first significant breakthrough in the field came in 2010 focusing on narrow or specialized AI. 8] Infopaq International A/S.

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John Doe Order Issued Against “Taarak Mehta” Infringers: Revisiting the Rights Vested in Fictional Characters

SpicyIP

However, its specific emphasis on protecting certain elements of the whole scheme of copyrighted content, such as fictional characters and the distinctive personas they embody, has been a focal point, contributing substantially to the discourse surrounding the ever-expanding ambit of copyrightability as well as personality rights.