SpicyIP

AUGUST 20, 2023

Image from here A couple of weeks ago, I discussed a law student in Bengaluru filed a case, alleging copyright infringement, against two assistant professors. On the above allegations, the court took cognizance of the offense u/s 63 of the Copyright Act (copyright infringement) and Section 420 of the IPC (Cheating).

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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. law and, at the very least, affect U.S.

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IPilogue

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Is there such a thing as “inducing” copyright infringement? So, if we take the Supreme Court literally, since the Act defines copyright infringement as doing “anything that by this Act only the copyright owner has the right to do” (s. Lieberman, Christopher G.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 9, 2021

1: Major Record Labels Sue Charter Communications Again for Alleged Copyright Infringement. The lawsuit is the second the group has filed against Charter, with one being filed in 2019 that looked at Charter’s alleged activities between March 24, 2013 and May 17, 2016. Have any suggestions for the 3 Count?

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 1, 2022

Mega has a repeat infringer policy when it comes to copyright infringement claims. If a user’s content is targeted with three copyright takedown strikes within six months, their account will be terminated. Since the company’s launch in 2013, nearly 150,000 users have lost their accounts. .

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JIPL Online

APRIL 9, 2021

In particular, it explores why copyright of a meme’s underlying content does not matter in a normative sense. In this blog I argue that copyright protection of the content underlying memes does not matter because of the relative weakness of enforcement mechanisms for copyright infringement of this scale. 1, 2013), [link].

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Plagiarism Today

JUNE 29, 2022

s 38-page 2013 dissertation from the National Defense University in Bucharest were plagiarized from outside sources. However, prosecutors began to build a copyright infringement case against Ciuc?. ercan (link in Romanian), some 42 pages of Ciuc?’s

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SpicyIP

MARCH 30, 2025

Data, data everywhere, not a byte to bite This is the first contentious part from the copyright perspective. The data that goes into training the model and how training is done has an enormous implication on the copyright infringement question. 8 onwards). Made up 16% of the training dataset, 50 billion words) and Wikipedia.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

For well over a decade, copyright holders have been obtaining injunctions around the world to have copyright-infringing sites blocked by Internet service providers. The belief is that when users are presented with this roadblock, they will be more likely to turn to licensed services instead.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2022

This act is often done without the prior consent or permission of the copyright holder or the photographer of the picture. Thus, the question arises if such use attracts copyright infringement. If the photo taken without any prior consent is edited and used for a commercial benefit, then it might attract copyright infringement.

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Plagiarism Today

JULY 8, 2021

If @GitHub (Microsoft) truly believes copilot isn't infringing on anyone's work, I want to offer them a chance to prove it: I'll donate $50k to a charity of their choice (or @EFF if we can't agree) if they release a Copilot version trained solely on Windows kernel source.

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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. HLG ultimately filed suit for copyright infringement.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 17, 2021

1: 8th Circuit Revives Copyright Dispute Over House Floor Plans. First off today, Blake Brittain at Reuters reports that the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals has reinstated a copyright infringement lawsuit against the realtors Columbia House of Brokers Realty over the alleged infringement of floor plans.

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Indiana Intellectual Property Law

MARCH 30, 2023

for Copyright Infringement, Removal of Copyright Management Information and Addition of False Copyright Management Information. Defendant, Lynn Boolman Auto Sales is a used car dealership located in Portland, Indiana created in 2013, per the Indiana Secretary of State. He received his B.S. Gotsch, Sr.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 30, 2024

The Pirate Bay, for example, started accepting bitcoin donations in 2013. The site surprisingly shut down in the spring of 2013. As noted by Tarnkappe , a 40-year-old German and a 37-year-old Polish man remain under investigation for copyright infringement and money laundering.

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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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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

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 Madras HC dismissed Netflixs plea to reject the copyright infringement case filed by actor K Dhanush against actor Nayanthara Kurian over her documentary.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 25, 2023

Bulgaria was on the Watch List in 2015 when the USTR reported “incremental progress” in the country’s ability to tackle intellectual property infringement, albeit nowhere near enough to counter unsatisfactory prosecution rates. In the wake of that reprieve in 2020, local prosecutors filed just one copyright indictment.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Specifically, they argued that the ISP should also be held liable for vicarious copyright infringement. In this case, and similar ones filed against Bright House and Grande, courts previously rejected the vicarious infringement claims, holding that there is no causal link between the pirating activities and the financial benefits.

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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. users’ ability to access its websites.

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The IPKat

JUNE 30, 2024

This Kat has found a recent ruling issued by the Paris Court of Appeal concerning a copyright infringement dispute involving photographs. This judgment provides an opportunity to examine the concept of originality as applied to photographs, and also to understand what may constitute an infringement of moral rights.

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The IPKat

MAY 12, 2023

When one hears the claims of copyright infringement, confidential information and employment claims one can readily assume that this is an employer/ex-employee dispute. The functionality or ideas that lie behind the code is protected ( SAS Institute Inc v World Programming Ltd [2013] EWCA Civ 1482 at §20-§37).

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 21, 2022

According to the prosecution, the five sites offered access to copyright-infringing material and generated over a million euros in revenue between 2013 and 2018. The two eventually appeared on the radar of Spanish law enforcement.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 7, 2023

” After establishing that the albums had been available for download from October 2013 until November 2022, police charged the man with criminal copyright infringement offenses. As responsible politicians, do they now reject copyright infringement on any scale?

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 9, 2022

Some have accused Cloudflare of facilitating copyright infringement by continuing to provide access to these platforms. This includes multinationals, governments, but also some of the world’s leading pirate sites. Not all rightsholders are happy with the latter. Cloudflare sees things differently.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 29, 2022

Even after the US Government tore the service down in 2012, the trio worked hard to launch New Zealand file-hosting service Mega in 2013, aiming to emulate Megaupload’s success, minus the legal bills. During the summer of 2013, Dotcom declared he was done with Mega and was no longer a shareholder. Criticism of Mega Begins.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 19, 2024

The site’s reign ended with a surprise shut down in the spring of 2013. Early Arrests and Prison Sentences These initial arrests targeted one of the main operators, who received a one-year prison sentence for copyright infringement in 2023, as well as an eight-month sentence for money laundering, fraud, and tax evasion.

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IP and Legal Filings

AUGUST 14, 2023

SHOULD LEX LOCI PROTECTIONIS BE APPLIED BLANKETLY TO COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT? It has been established that lex loci protectionis is the rule that is applied to all the IPR infringement cases, barring a few exceptions. Today, most of the copyright infringement happen through the Internet. Garimella and S. Jolly (eds.)2017)

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Patently-O

AUGUST 31, 2021

GitHub, Inc.: “Vague allegations of nonliteral copyright infringement” lead to FUD — fear, uncertainty, and doubt. Pamela Samuelson, A Fresh Look at Tests for Nonliteral Copyright Infringement , 107 Nw. 1821 (2013). Briefs filed so far: Appellant SAS Opening Brief. Appellee WPL Responsive Brief.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 26, 2022

Code § 1202 prohibits the intentional removal of CMI without obtaining permission from the copyright owner, when it is known that will “induce, enable, facilitate, or conceal an infringement.” Between 2013 and 2017, Elias took photographs of hotels and licensed their owning companies to use them in promotional activities.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 22, 2023

With his former colleagues’ names rarely out of the media for long, Bencko spent much of 2012 and early 2013 retweeting news about the Megaupload case. “I miss my MEGA friends / colleagues,” he declared in a rare personal tweet in July 2013.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

As a registered company it was generating annual sales of around $7 million by 2013 and paid taxes to the state. A police raid in 2016 led to three of its operators being convicted two years later for criminal copyright infringement, among other offenses. However, the content ATN supplied to its customers had illegal origins.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 11, 2022

In 2013, Afdah.com entered the already crowded market and quickly attracted millions of users tempted by a comprehensive library of copyright-infringing movies. But of course, along with a rise in Afdah’s popularity came increased interest from copyright holders determined to shut down or disrupt the site.

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The IP Law Blog

AUGUST 4, 2022

Breyer dismissed the case, holding that the media companies are not liable for direct copyright infringement and that Instagram is not liable for secondary copyright infringement. The Court invited the plaintiffs to raise their issue with the Ninth Circuit if they believed the server test violated copyright law.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

In 2015, the RIAA bemoaned Uploaded’s 100 million monthly visits, its status as the “third biggest copyright infringer” based on Google data, and the existence of reward schemes. Uploaded’s parent company Cyando was sued by publisher Elsevier for distributing pirated books as far back as 2013.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Hollywood & Netflix File Copyright Infringement Lawsuit. “By their conduct, Defendants intentionally induce and knowingly contribute to the unauthorized reproductions, public performances, and display of the Copyrighted Works on a massive scale,” the complaint reads. Copyright Infringement Claims.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 1, 2023

In the United States, consumer ISPs have been handing over the identities of suspected BitTorrent pirates for years, mostly because a court has compelled them to as part of a copyright infringement lawsuit. It’s not particularly difficult for rightsholders to take this route, but it can be expensive.

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