The IP Law Blog

AUGUST 25, 2022

District Court can exercise personal jurisdiction over a foreign defendant with regard to a copyright infringement suit. Lang Van is a California corporation that produces and distributes Vietnamese music and entertainment, owning the copyrights to thousands of songs and programs. District Court in California.

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SpicyIP

MARCH 11, 2025

On February 20, the ED released a press statement on its move to attach the directors asset in light of the 15 year old copyright dispute between the director and writer Aarur Tamilnadan. In this post, we will examine the foreseeable consequences of applying a money laundering law to a copyright dispute.

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IPilogue

AUGUST 16, 2022

On April 5 th 2022, the Federal Court released its decision for August Image LLC v AirG Inc , a copyright infringement action concerning images of singer-actress, Jennifer Lopez. However, the Court ultimately dismissed August’s case because they failed to prove all the necessary elements of copyright infringement.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

1: Cox Wants to See Evidence in Majors V Charter Copyright Case in Ongoing Bid to Overturn Billion Dollar Judgement. Specifically, Cox alleges the metadata on the evidence indicates that they are files from 2016 though the case only deals with 2012-2014. Have any suggestions for the 3 Count? Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 23, 2025

File-hosting platform 1fichier.com appeared around 2009 and since then has seen no shortage of copyright complaints. The shutdown of Megaupload in 2012 put a spotlight on the cyberlocker industry and, urged by rightsholders, major payment companies started to intervene. Most recently, it was highlighted by the U.S.

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IP and Legal Filings

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

The availability of a large variety of information has also increased the risk of Copyright Infringement due to its easy accessibility and dissemination. This has led to varying degrees of copyright infringements in this digital era.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JANUARY 18, 2022

Image by European Copyright Society. To achieve these aims, the DSA sets out numerous due diligence obligations of intermediaries concerning any type of illegal information, including copyright infringing content. 17 of the Copyright in the Digital Single Market Directive (CDSMD). EXECUTIVE SUMMARY.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Government shut down Megaupload in 2012, similar platforms were presented with a practical example of what could happen to their businesses too. Founded in 2005 and acquired by Switzerland-based Cyando AG in 2012, file-hosting platform Uploaded wasted no time attracting new customers and the wrong type of attention. When the U.S.

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Michael Geist

JULY 20, 2022

For much of the past two decades, copyright groups have steadfastly sought to deny what the Supreme Court of Canada has repeatedly endorsed, namely that the purpose of Canadian copyright law is to serve the public interest by balancing users’ and authors’ rights. In the 2012 ESA v.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 29, 2022

Mass copyright infringement, failure to suspend repeat infringers, and breaches of the DMCA are all featured in a case that seems to have one key goal – Content ID access for all artists no matter how popular, so they can defend their work from pirates on YouTube. It’s Not Infringement if You Have Permission.

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Michael Geist

AUGUST 5, 2021

Last week’s Supreme Court of Canada copyright decision in Access Copyright v. York University has unsurprisingly been applauded by the education community, which having faced years of litigation launched by the copyright collective, now finds its position vindicated. The same was true after the Access Copyright v.

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JIPL Online

APRIL 9, 2021

Such uses are often methods of social commentary regarding the user’s own life, or more broadly, current events; they also often utilize copyrightable material. [i] ii] Existing copyright law is ineffective in its application to new forms of digital media. i] Memes are also a form of communication that distinguishes generations.

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

(This post has been co-authored with SpicyIP Intern Aditi Agrawal and Bharathwaj Ramakrishnan) Here is our recap of last weeks top IP developments including summary of the posts on taking stock of ANI vs OpenAI copyright litigation (Part I and II), and Machine Unlearning and the ANI vs OpenAI case. Anything we are missing out on?

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SpicyIP

AUGUST 13, 2024

In light of the ongoing copyright dispute between legendary composer Ilaiyaraaja and makers of the hit Malayalam movie “Manjummel Boys” we are pleased to bring to you this tidbit by SpicyIP intern Tejas Misra. 17 of the Copyright Act to decide who owns the right over a musical composition played in a movie.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

In both cases, the ISPs are accused of failing to disconnect subscribers who were repeatedly flagged as copyright infringers. The copyright infringement notices are key evidence in both cases. The allegedly infringing files were central to prove direct copyright infringement. Recreated Evidence?

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IP and Legal Filings

MARCH 19, 2025

The defense concluded that the case was without merits, thus not violating copyright laws. ISSUES ARISING OUT OF DISPUTE The legal validity of the agreements signed by Nayanthara or Vignesh, including an assignment of copyright of any videos, photos, or other works created on the set of Naanum Rowdy Dhaan, is under scrutiny by the court.

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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 January 2012, the Hamburg Regional Court found largely in Sony’s favor. Datel’s product achieved this by manipulating code stored in the PSP console’s main memory.

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Plagiarism Today

JUNE 29, 2022

However, prosecutors began to build a copyright infringement case against Ciuc?. In 2012, Prime Minister Victor Ponta and several of his ministers faced allegations that they had committed plagiarism in their academic work. for his part, denied the plagiarism and said that his dissertation was legitimate.

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Michael Geist

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Last month, the Canadian Federation of Library Associations released a much-needed statement that sought to counter the ongoing misinformation campaign from copyright lobby groups regarding the state of Canadian copyright and the extensive licensing by libraries and educational institutions. York University ruling.

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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. He is being investigated for copyright infringement offenses and is said to have generated revenue from advertising.

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Michael Geist

AUGUST 3, 2021

” The decision removes any doubt that the Supreme Court remains strongly supportive of user’s rights in copyright and vindicates years of educational policy in shifting away from Access Copyright toward alternative means of ensuring compliance with copyright law.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 25, 2023

In 2012, the FBI arrested Shah for extortion, which sparked news coverage. After he was released from jail, he got copyright registrations for the photos and sued (pro se) the media entities for copyright infringement, 1202 violations, and more. As a result, the court dismisses the copyright claim.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 27, 2022

In reality they are massively simplified and carry nothing like the maximum sentences available for the offenses listed in the US superseding criminal indictment dated January 16, 2012. Together with Kim Dotcom, the trio reportedly noticed how much money Rapidshare was making from large-scale copyright infringement and set out to mimic it.

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 13, 2023

Copyright infringement and De Minimis are often replaced to complement each other. However, de minimis is sometimes used as a defence in a copyright lawsuit. More often than not, the lawsuits filed for copyright infringement are cases of de minimis and thereto, get dismissed on the anvil of frivolity. INTRODUCTION.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 30, 2022

“Copyright violations on the internet are almost as old as the internet itself,” the company writes on its homepage. 2012 War on Cyberlockers. Wupload and Fileserve disabled all public sharing functionality in April of 2012. From: TF , for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

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SpicyIP

MAY 23, 2022

We’re pleased to bring you a guest post on a recent Supreme Court order where certain offences under the Copyright Act were held to be cognizable and non-bailable. The Supreme Court’s Unsettling Attempt at Settling the Debate on Section 63 of the Copyright Act. The post is co-authored by Akshat Agrawal and Sangita Sharma.

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IPilogue

AUGUST 23, 2021

On July 30, the Supreme Court of Canada released their much-anticipated judgement in York University v Canadian Copyright Licensing Agency (Access Copyright) [ York University ]. This was a drastic increase from the fees stipulated in the 1994 to 2010 licence agreement between Access Copyright and post-secondary institutions.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 30, 2024

Trade Wings Hotels Limited , the Single Bench (SB) held that organizations such as Phonographic Performance Ltd (PPL) and Novex Communications can grant licenses for the musical works owned by them, even if they are not officially registered as copyright societies under Section 33(1) of the Copyright Act, 1957.

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IP and Legal Filings

JULY 21, 2022

The time is ripe to strike a balance between the copyright owner’s economic interests and the public’s right to have access to information and knowledge for growth and development of society before it turns out as blessings of talent over the curse of poverty. Copyright ensures certain minimum rights and it has never been an absolute right.

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The IP Law Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Wilmott Storage Services, LLC , decided September 9, 2021, the Ninth Circuit clarified the role that the de minimis concept plays in copyright infringement cases. 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.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 22, 2024

The rise in popularity of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) has attracted a great deal of attention from copyright practitioners and aficionados. Basically, because an NFT is an encoded digital metadata file of a copy of a work that can be copyright protected. And why is that? an exploitation that caused them no harm).

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

In early January 2012, many operators of successful, public file-hosting sites were looking forward to another productive year. Later in 2012, the RIAA submitted its regular report to the United States Trade Representative, requesting various sites to be branded notorious pirate markets. No Shortage of Copyright Complaints.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 14, 2022

The new information centers around the copyright infringement notices that were sent by MarkMonitor, the anti-piracy outfit that tracked files downloaded by BitTorrent pirates. To confirm that these files were indeed infringing, they were downloaded and verified by Audible Magic’s fingerprinting technology.

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 23, 2023

Copyrights safeguard the artists’ rights in the inventive and imaginative content that abounds in digital media. Image Sources : Gettyimages] One of the important issues in online is copyrights. One such area where copyright violations are common is the internet. These advantages can be made profitable for the owner.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 22, 2023

After being indicted along with the others in 2012, the Estonian was reported as living in the Netherlands. Julius Bencko, Graphic Designer In the United States government’s superseding indictment dated February 16, 2012, Julius Bencko is described as a citizen and resident of Slovakia.

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LexBlog IP

AUGUST 25, 2022

District Court can exercise personal jurisdiction over a foreign defendant with regard to a copyright infringement suit. Lang Van is a California corporation that produces and distributes Vietnamese music and entertainment, owning the copyrights to thousands of songs and programs. District Court in California.

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Michael Geist

DECEMBER 9, 2021

The departments just released the submissions they received to one of three consultations on copyright, this one on intermediary liability issues. First, website blocking is a disproportionate, ineffective and undesirable response to copyright infringement.

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