Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 17, 2021

Next up today, the BBC reports that Eurovision 2021 contestant James Newman has secured a major court victory against Kelly-Marie Smith, who claimed that a song Newman co-wrote in 2013 was an infringement of a 2006 track she wrote. The 3 Count Logo was created by Justin Goff and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License.

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Patently-O

JANUARY 4, 2024

2024) A recent copyright infringement lawsuit filed by small Boston intellectual property boutique Hsuanyeh Law Group PC (HLG) against international giant Winston & Strawn LLP focuses a dividing line that can highlight when copying the work of another firm is permissible. Winston & Strawn , 23-cv-11193 (S.D.N.Y. Cannon , 789 N.W.2d

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Plagiarism Today

JULY 8, 2021

The most vocal critics were in the open-source programming community , who were upset that GitHub trained their AI on significant amounts of open-source code and can even reproduce that code verbatim in some circumstances, but does not follow the respective open-source licenses. This has led to a massive debate about the legality of Copilot.

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SpicyIP

AUGUST 13, 2024

In this post, apart from discussing the background and arguments raised in the case, I will discuss how the court, relying upon the now scrapped draft 2013 guidelines , applied the technical effect test to decide the patentability of the invention. demonstrate technical effect. demonstrate technical effect.

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IP and Legal Filings

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Marrakesh Treaty Marrakesh Treaty was adopted on June 27, 2013, to facilitate access to published works for people who are Blind Persons, Visually Impaired Persons, or Print Disabled (hereinafter beneficiary) who refrains from indulging in any printed form of copyrighted work. [iii]

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 26, 2022

Between 2013 and 2017, Elias took photographs of hotels and licensed their owning companies to use them in promotional activities. The owners of the hotels later made the licensed images available to another company, Ice Portal, to facilitate their appearance on travel agents’ websites for promotional purposes.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 2, 2021

In pirate streaming, in part due to the way sites tend to copy each other’s branding, obvious long-standing players are less easy to identify. Back in 2013 we published an interview with a person who at the time supplied movie and TV shows to sites including PrimeWire. is taken into account. .

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Velocity of Content

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Professor Paul Goldstein, for example, has argued that, in light of the enumeration, the statutory text is intended primarily to protect certain licensing markets. 785, 851 (2013) (“By copying a master’s work, the ‘pupil’ might at least get a glimpse of the great author’s mind, which would seem like a normatively desirable process.

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The IP Law Blog

AUGUST 4, 2022

Embedding” means the process of copying unique HTML code assigned to the location of a digital copy of the photo or video published to the Internet, and the insertion of that code into a target webpage or social media post so that photo or video is linked for display within the target post. Alexis Hunley et al v. Amazon.com, Inc.

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

A Case of ‘Smart Copying’: ‘Peace Maker’ Restrained from Imitating ‘Officer’s Choice’ Do you enjoy your whiskey? A bit of factual background before we move ahead to the legal analysis: Allied Blenders, a liquor manufacturer, has held a registered trademark for ‘OFFICER’S CHOICE PRESTIGE WHISKY’ label since 2013.

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IPilogue

AUGUST 3, 2021

Copies of the game along with a gamer’s guide packaged in special extra-large cardboard boxes sat unsold on shelves for months. Due to low sales ( under 150,000 copies sold in North America), the game remained a hidden gem for years until Earthbound ’s main character Ness appeared in the popular 1999 fighting game Super Smash Bros.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

In 2013, Philpot uploaded the photo to Wikimedia Commons, which is governed by the standard Creative Commons license requiring attribution. Philpot claims his standard photo licensing fee is $3,500, but reuses of the photo from Wikipedia Commons didn’t require any payment (just attribution). Nature of the Work.

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Copyright Lately

OCTOBER 25, 2021

As the story goes, they provided him with a copy of a few scenes from “Ghostbusters” in which the theme would appear. You can judge for yourself by downloading a copy of “Jap Herron” here. In 1999, Cinema Secrets licensed the right to sell a Michael Myers Halloween mask from the film’s copyright owner.

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 24, 2022

A foreign company can set up a business in India under the Companies Act, 2013 as a Wholly Owned Subsidiary, Joint Venture or Associate Company or by setting up a Liaison Office, Project Office, or Branch Office of the foreign Company. INTRODUCTION. Image Source: gettyimages]. WHAT IS A WHOLLY-OWNED SUBSIDIARY COMPANY? as applicable.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MARCH 13, 2024

The social contract of copyright, which main purpose is to realize a broader collective concern, the access of citizens to science and culture ( Geiger, 2013 ), lies in the approximation of the interests of rightholders and users. licenses for specific uses). 7(1) and art. 17(7) CDSM Directive.

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Copyright Lately

MAY 22, 2023

In a 7-2 decision , the Court ruled that the commercial licensing of Andy Warhol’s “Orange Prince” to Condé Nast to illustrate a story about the late musician shared “substantially the same purpose” as the original Lynn Goldsmith photo from which Warhol’s silkscreen was derived, and therefore weighed against fair use. Goldsmith.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

On the other hand, the debate around TDM has not developed in a context devoid of licensing practices, at least in Europe. It should be noted at the outset that, on the one hand, some commentators hold the view that TDM would not even be covered by copyright law.

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Michael Geist

AUGUST 3, 2021

Access Copyright launched the lawsuit against York over copying it said took place from 2011 to 2013, seeking to enforce a Copyright Board approved tariff. York argued that it was not bound by the tariff because it had not agreed to its terms and counter-claimed that any copying at issue was in any event covered by fair dealing.

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Copyright Lately

MAY 27, 2021

The complaint (read here) seeks to represent the interests of pretty much any Instagram user who’s had one of their photos embedded by any third party without their express permission since 2013. The version on the right has been copied and stored separately on the WordPress server for Copyright Lately: View this post on Instagram.

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

A few years later, in 1984, Goldsmith’s agency, which had retained the rights to those images, licensed one of them to Vanity Fair for use in an article called “Purple Fame.” 9] In reaching that determination, the court relied chiefly on the Second Circuit’s 2013 decision in Cariou v. He did just that.

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Copyright Lately

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Despite a number of solid affirmative defenses—including implied license, de minimis use and waiver—the jury was only asked to determine whether defendants had proven that their conduct qualified as a fair use under the Copyright Act. What Happened. The first one to go was the de minimis defense, which the court rejected before trial.

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JIPL Online

APRIL 9, 2021

Although the user derives some benefit from the meme without purchasing or licensing the underlying content, the creator of the content also uniquely benefits from the increased exposure to individuals who may not otherwise interact with their content. 29, 2013), [link]. [ii] The Ultimate Meme FAQ) , Quality Logo Products (Mar.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Platforms that copy online data and use it to create AI have a strong fair use argument under copyright laws. Copyright law forbids duplication, public performance, and so on, unless the person wishing to copy or perform the work gets permission; silence means a ban on copying. Three courts of appeals have answered “no.”

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Patently-O

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Yet, as happens frequently, what if in negotiating a settlement, license, or other matter, opposing counsel CC’s her client: does opposing counsel’s “cc” imply consent to reply-to-all? 25, 2013) stated: The fact that Lawyer B copies her own client… standing alone, does not permit Lawyer A to ‘reply all.’

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The IP Law Blog

AUGUST 26, 2021

In a lawsuit that was originally filed in 2013 titled, Flo & Eddie, Inc. It was not until 2013 that Flo & Eddie first demanded SiriusXM to pay it royalties for playing Turtle songs from before 1972 on its satellite radio stations. In doing so, the Ninth Circuit reviewed nearly 200 years of copyright law to reach its conclusion.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 25, 2022

In 2013 and 2015, it granted exclusive licenses to stream those works to Starz, a premium subscription channel. The time periods for each license were separate, and some licenses were renewed multiple times, resulting in more than 1,000 separate license periods. 204(a) ).

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Patently-O

AUGUST 3, 2023

The lawsuit centers around two key components of Moderna’s mRNA platform that it claims Pfizer copied – the use of modified nucleosides like 1-methylpseudouridine and the encoding of a full-length coronavirus spike protein. United States Patent Nos. 10,898,574, 10,702,600, and 10,933,127.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 30, 2021

This litigation was a residual action (commenced in 2013) that concerned public performances that occurred before the Classics Protection and Access Act was enacted. 1, 2013, they filed a class-action lawsuit in Los Angeles Superior Court under California Civil Code section 980(a)(2). One year later, on Sept.

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Indiana Intellectual Property Law

MARCH 30, 2023

Defendant, Lynn Boolman Auto Sales is a used car dealership located in Portland, Indiana created in 2013, per the Indiana Secretary of State. As Stross did not license the right to use the Photograph to the Defendants, he seeks a judgment for direct copyright infringement in violation of 17 U.S.C. § He received his B.S. Gotsch, Sr.

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LexBlog IP

AUGUST 4, 2022

“Embedding” means the process of copying unique HTML code assigned to the location of a digital copy of the photo or video published to the Internet, and the insertion of that code into a target webpage or social media post so that photo or video is linked for display within the target post. Amazon.com, Inc.

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43(B)log

DECEMBER 20, 2022

The 2001 Documentary “sold 50,000 copies in two weeks and revolutionized the Baltimore dirt-bike culture,” inspiring a sequel and plans to make a third film. Defendants' 2013 documentary Both parties’ works are “docu-fiction” set in Baltimore. Nathan, F.Supp.3d 3d -, 2022 WL 4591905, No. 18-CV-5930 (MKB) (E.D.N.Y.

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The IPKat

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Merpel wonders where we are headed on the FRAND licensing level debate, and who is in the driver's seat? SEP Litigation Demonstrates Licensing Component Suppliers Would Increase Efficiency Some SEP owners have argued against licensing component suppliers under the pretext that it is more efficient to license end users.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 1, 2024

In 2013, the movie Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa launched Alan onto the international stage, picking up another BAFTA on the way. The only way LLMs can possibly ‘know’ all of this detail is by copying ‘Alan data’ found online; scripts, books, transcripts, most if not all of it copyrighted.

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LexBlog IP

JUNE 27, 2023

3] Goldsmith received a small licensing fee for this use and was co-credited with Warhol in the magazine. The case turned on the issue of licensing, and focused on the purpose of the use being something commercial. Between 1984 and his death in 1987, Warhol created a total of 16 variations in his Prince series. [4] Prince , 714 F.3d

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SpicyIP

MAY 23, 2022

of NCT of Delhi v Naresh Kumar Garg, 2013. Moreover, Section 64 of the Copyright Act shows that on an action of seizure, the police officer can “seize copies of infringing works without a warrant.” Cognizable and Non-Bailable. Sureshkumar S/o Kumaran v the Sub Inspector of Police, 2007. Cognizable and Non-Bailable. State Govt.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 30, 2022

An important but relatively neglected flaw is its silence on the features of the licensing mechanism that Member States may and shall adopt for the management of the press publishers’ right. The licensing scheme adopted by the Italian implementation of Article 15 represents a perfect case in point.

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Garrigues Blog

JULY 27, 2021

Together with that of 2013, this growth rate is the lowest yearly increase in filings since 2005. Copies sold : The US heads the ranking, reporting the largest number of copies sold, amounting to 2,629.6 million copies, followed by Japan (677.7 The trade sector accounted for more than 80% of total copies sold in the U.S.

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