Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 24, 2022

In 2012, Amazon had a major scandal as fake authors were exploiting their Direct Publishing platform to publish plagiarized erotica. All it has to do is use readily available plagiarism detection tools to detect works that contain a large volume of clearly copied text. To that end, they are the perfect company to do it.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

JANUARY 11, 2023

The SCPA legally protects layouts of integrated circuits upon registration, making them illegal to copy without permission. The deposit can be either a physical copy of the mask work or a digital copy in a format specified by the Office. It is authorized by the federal Semiconductor Chip Protection Act of 1984 (SCPA).

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Plagiarism Today

APRIL 4, 2022

In some types of programming, especially when there’s only one correct way to do something, copying code isn’t just a shortcut, it’s the norm. Many lawyers also copy and paste heavily in the legal documents in a bid to meet the criteria there. However, this issue is not limited to the classroom.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 30, 2022

2012 War on Cyberlockers. Wupload and Fileserve disabled all public sharing functionality in April of 2012. For example, the following notice identifies links to copyright-infringing copies of the Australian film “Beneath Hill 60” on Megaupload, Wupload, Filesonic, and Fileserve. Old Names in New Takedown Notices.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

During the Cox trial, the music companies presented a hard drive that contained the files, suggesting that those were the original songs that were pirated between 2012 and 2014. — A copy of Cox’s motion to intervene in the Charter cases is available here (pdf). Vacate the $1 Billion Verdict.

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SpicyIP

MARCH 1, 2025

Similar to owning physical copies of a book they can do whatever they wish with their copies under the fair use doctrine but the relationship of consumers and Kindle is not one of buyer and seller, but licensee and licenser. In 2009 , users woke up to find their purchased copy of 1984 had disappeared from their library.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

JANUARY 11, 2023

The SCPA legally protects layouts of integrated circuits upon registration, making them illegal to copy without permission. The deposit can be either a physical copy of the mask work or a digital copy in a format specified by the Office. It is authorized by the federal Semiconductor Chip Protection Act of 1984 (SCPA).

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TorrentFreak

MAY 10, 2024

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. That release sold millions of copies reaching the Billboard chart’s top ten. — A copy of the Supreme Court Decision, written by Justice Elena Kagan, is available here (pdf).

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Michael Geist

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

In the 1990s, a university would both purchase a book and pay for the right to copy a portion of it to distribute to students as course materials. increase from 2012/2013), and 158,274 new e-book titles in 2021/2022 (a 53.7% This means that overall, MacEwan spends an average of $1.8 million annually on digital content.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 31, 2021

Four years later, The Pirate Bay joined in when the site renamed itself the “ Olympic Bay ,” providing users with a direct link to newly uploaded torrents for the London 2012 games. In 2008, the opening ceremony of the 2008 summer Olympics in Beijing was downloaded millions of times through torrent sites, for example.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

In January 2012, the Hamburg Regional Court found largely in Sony’s favor. An example in the lawsuit describes how restrictions on “turbo” availability in racing game Motorstorm Arctic Edge were bypassed. Datel’s product achieved this by manipulating code stored in the PSP console’s main memory.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 13, 2022

While uploading copyrighted content was already illegal, in 2012 Japan criminalized unlicensed movie and TV show downloading, punishable by fines and up to two years in prison. At some point later, however, the site began linking to copies of pirated movies that had been uploaded to overseas file-hosting platforms.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

OCTOBER 2, 2022

The plaintiff, NOC, is a teenager who has copyrighted designs in hand-drawn dots that Target allegedly copied in the clothing line. None of the following works supported the access inference: Work #3: posted in 2012 to Facebook and got 10 likes, 2 comments, and 2 shares. Reposted to Instagram in 2016 and got 103 likes and 5 comments.

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IP and Legal Filings

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

In India particularly, the Copyrights Act, 1957 was enacted to prevent copyright infringement and recently the amendment act of 2012 was introduced to combat the changing needs of copyright law. It is after these treaties that India amended its act of 1957 several times and brought the Amendment act in 2012. Kim cartoon and Ors. ,

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SpicyIP

JUNE 28, 2023

For example, one of us asked for copies of some of the funding agreements for COVID related vaccines. crores for CSIR (2012-22); Rs. of Ayush (2012-22); Rs 10,209.2 crores for ICMR (2012-21); Rs. 689 crores for TDB (2012-22); Rs. 7,295 crores for SERB (2012-22); Rs. of Health Research (2012-22); Rs.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 14, 2022

During the jury trial, the music companies presented a hard drive that contained the files, suggesting that they were the original songs that were pirated between 2012 and 2014. — A copy of Cox’s motion for relief from the judgment is available here (pdf). This evidence was central to prove direct copyright infringement.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 20, 2022

The readable parts suggest that evidence related to the reliability and accuracy of notices that were sent out between 2012-2015 is no longer available. — A copy of Bright House’s motion for sanctions and curative measures is available here (pdf). From: TF , for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

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SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

Image from here Understanding IPO’s Rejection of UPL’s Patent Application for Mancozeb and Ortho Silicic Acid Combination in Light of the Patent Bargain and Sufficiency of Disclosure By Deepali Vashist Thanks to Sandeep Kanak Rathod for mentioning this development on his LinkedIn profile and sharing the copy of the order with us.

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The IP Law Blog

MARCH 14, 2024

The plaintiffs alleged that OpenAI copied their published books, which are protected by copyright law, and used them in a training dataset for its LLM. To allege a valid copyright infringement claim, a plaintiff must show that: (1) that he or she owns a valid copyright; and (2) that the defendant “copied aspects of his [or her] work.”

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 6, 2024

Specifically, the music files that were used as the basis of copyright infringement notices between 2012 and 2014 were initially deleted. “Because these 2016 files match the infringing files by ‘hash value,’ they are not just copies of those earlier files; they are those files.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 28, 2022

During the trial, the music companies presented a hard drive that contained copies of ‘verified’ music files that were allegedly pirated by Cox subscribers, suggesting that those were the original songs that were pirated between 2012 and 2014. — A copy of U.S. Recreated Evidence?

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The IP Law Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2021

In essence, the Ninth Circuit explained that de minimis goes to the amount of copying of a copyrighted work as opposed to any de minimis use or display of any such a work. In 2012, Wilmott Storage purchased the visitUSA.com website and two years later hired another company to update the website. Citing, Perfect 10, Inc. Giganews, Inc.,

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 22, 2021

It foresaw both registration of the work at the Copyright Office, deposit of copies, attachment of a copyright claim (© [year of first publication] by [name of owner of rights]), and, in certain cases, manufacture of the copies within the country. Both Conventions contain provisions that regulate their relation to each other.

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SpicyIP

JUNE 26, 2024

On a broad reading, there seems to be an obvious conflict of two areas of law, where the RPwD Act mandates fundamental access to all content but the Copyright Act grants the author the right to control how their works are copied. It is necessary to note that the original work that is converted into an accessible copy must be acquired legally.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 12, 2021

As far back as 2012, Adobe was planning for the eventual demise of its iconic Flash Player. The problem, however, is obtaining a working copy of Flash outside China that is also secured by frequent updates and isn’t a risk to users’ machines. Well, sort of. Clean Flash Installer.

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Copyright Lately

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

Even the staunchest copyright maximalist would be hard-pressed not to feel for Wilmott based on the facts of the case: The company bought the website VisitUSA.com in 2012 from a third party. But in 2018, Bell ran a Google reverse image search in an effort to locate unauthorized copies of his photo. Bell is a retired attorney.

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IP and Legal Filings

JULY 21, 2022

Among the other solutions, the most easy and feasible way to come out of the problem of unavailability and unaffordability was to start copying the books, study materials, and video lectures with the help of different mechanisms. Lack of good libraries even within an institution is the most common problem seen across our country.

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Patently-O

AUGUST 23, 2021

Copying of the design by a third party. On appeal, the Federal Circuit rejected these considerations — finding a lack of nexus between the scope of the claims and the commercial success, praise, and copying. However, nexus can be presumed when the patent is commensurate in scope with the product being sold/praised/copied.

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SpicyIP

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

He is also the co-author of two books- “Create, Copy, Disrupt: India’s Intellectual Property Dilemmas” (OUP, 2017) and “The Truth Pill: The Myth of Drug Regulation in India” (Simon and Schuster India, 2022). In May, 2018 I filed a RTI application with the CDSCO asking for a copy of the report of the inquiry committee under Dr. Mohapatra.

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IPilogue

OCTOBER 18, 2022

After a test copy of New Genesis was leaked online, WOTC took issue with development company TSR LLC’s use of their IP rights in the game. For its part, WOTC claims that it retains common law interest in these marks, on the basis that it has continued to use the marks since at least 2012.

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SpicyIP

MARCH 27, 2023

But IP nerds will specifically remember that eleven years ago, in March 2012, India’s first compulsory license was granted by the Indian Patent Office against Bayer’s Nexavar. He specifically stated that he does not intend to publish more than 1000 paperback copies and considering that the prevailing rate of maximum royalty is 7.5%

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 23, 2023

2023, 2020, 2016, 2012, 2008, 2004… The 90% figure didn’t suddenly appear in 2016 either. Back in 2004, the Motion Picture Association’s Regional Director, Dara MacGreevy, reportedly said that 90% of online films come from camcorder copies. That press release didn’t mention a source either.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 28, 2024

During the Cox trial, the music companies presented a hard drive that contained the files, suggesting that those were the original songs that were pirated between 2012 and 2014. Evidence pertaining to these allegedly pirated files was central to proving direct copyright infringement.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

TVkaista said that since its service was similar to a VCR or a DVR, that would be legal under Finnish law since private copying is permitted for personal use. The TV companies whose content was being recorded and fed back to subscribers of TVkaista disagreed, arguing that no permission was granted for this type of use.

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SpicyIP

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Hons) LLB from NALSAR, Hyderabad in 2011 and MSc from Oxford, UK in 2012. The similarity/copying should be slavish and of a high degree between the product of the plaintiff and the product of the defendant. His predominant areas of practise are Arbitration, Commercial and Intellectual Property Laws. He completed his B.A.

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Velocity of Content

OCTOBER 4, 2022

As far back as 2012, David Crotty raised some of these issues — especially with respect to reprints — in “ The Financial Burdens of the CC-BY License for Scholarly Literature ”. As noted in David’s 2012 post, using licenses such as CC BY-NC and CC BY-ND would at least protect some of the revenues and alleviate some of the concerns.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 22, 2024

Basically, because an NFT is an encoded digital metadata file of a copy of a work that can be copyright protected. That is, in an NFT there can be an underlying copy of a work of art –typically an image, photograph, piece of music, video or certain audiovisual content– that may be subject to copyright. And why is that?

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