Plagiarism Today

APRIL 25, 2022

A record studio owned by Melomega released a version of the song in 2014. According to the lawsuit, the musicians and their songwriters copied elements from the earlier track, including the chorus, verse and hook from the song. Neither Dan + Shay or Justin Bieber had any comment on the lawsuit.

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Plagiarism Today

DECEMBER 14, 2021

First off today, Reuters reports that a lawsuit accusing Taylor Swift of copyright infringement in her 2014 hit single Shake it Off has been allowed to move ahead, setting the stage for a possible trial. According to the duo, they wrote the song Playas Gon’ Play , elements of which they allege were copied by Swift for her song.

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IP Watchdog

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Sheeran affirming the Southern District of New York’s dismissal of copyright infringement claims filed against British singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran over his 2014 single “Thinking Out Loud.”

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Plagiarism Today

MAY 3, 2022

Specifically, the note said that the reporter in question had copied passages that were “not central to the stories” and instead represented background or supplemental material. The editor’s note is similar for each article, the only change being to highlight the specific elements that were copied.

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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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Plagiarism Today

APRIL 7, 2022

However, in 2014 CCN began working with Amazon and Amazon was dissatisfied with the quality of descriptions that CCA created for themselves. Copyright Office, “Online content is considered published if the copyright owner authorizes the end user to retain copies of the content or further distribute the content.”. According to the U.S.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 7, 2023

Since most tweets relating to the initial dispute have since been deleted or disabled, here we rely on archived and cached copies for evidence. Copies of these communications have not been made public, so their nature remains unknown. “I was hit by DMCA tens of times since 2014 and I was suspended once for 3 weeks.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 27, 2023

This bi-annual postponement cycle began in 2014 and continued earlier this month. — Copies of the orders to stay the civil cases are available here ( MPA / RIAA ). MPA and RIAA Cases Postponed Again Over the past several years, Megaupload has repeatedly asked the court to delay these lawsuits.

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IPilogue

MAY 19, 2022

Music distribution company The Orchard , a subsidiary of Sony , released First Time in 2014, and the original written song had been submitted to the US Copyright Office by Melomega in 1980. First Time was initially released in 2014, followed by re-releases in 2017 and 2019 by The Orchard, which has distribution channels in 45 countries.

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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

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Hollywood believes that these ‘cam’ copies cause significant damage to the cinema industry, an opinion shared by the UK’s Film Distributors’ Association. Sources confirm that the copies were traced back to two multi-screen cinemas, both of them in Liverpool, the location mentioned by PIPCU.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

In the early days that involved copying cassettes and floppy disks and today most unauthorized copying takes place over the Internet. CODEX was founded in 2014, which makes it a relatively young group. From the day the first computer and video games were published, people have been able to pirate them. CODEX Enters The Scene.

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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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Dear Rich IP Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

Questions: (1) As I understand it, the publisher would have had to submit 2 copies of the magazine to the Library of Congress to complete the registration process. How can I find out if the publisher actually sent copies of the magazine to the LoC to complete the process? (2)

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The IP Law Blog

JULY 1, 2021

In 2014, in Alice Corp. 208, 216, 219 (2014), the Supreme Court established a two-part test to determine whether an invention is patent-eligible. Since 2014, the federal courts have invalidated hundreds of patents on the grounds that they are directed to patent-ineligible subject matter under Alice.

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Plagiarism Today

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

However, shortly after publication, another UK journalist, Josh Bavas, noticed that several paragraphs of one of the articles were copied verbatim from his earlier work without any citation. ABC’s Media Watch also investigated and found sill more copying in the piece, including large sections taken from a different journalist.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 18, 2022

This process has been ongoing since 2014 but aside from the replacement of a judge , there haven’t been any significant breakthroughs. — Copies of Megaupload’s requests to stay the civil cases are available here ( 1 , 2 ). The order was requested by Megaupload Ltd with consent from the rightsholders.

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Copyright Lately

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

In a decision issued Friday, the court ruled that Ed Sheeran’s 2014 song “Thinking Out Loud ” didn’t infringe the copyright in “Let’s Get It On.” The “deposit copy rule” is a holdover from the 1909 Copyright Act, which still applies to works registered before 1978.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

The PSP was discontinued in 2014, but after more than a decade, Sony’s lawsuit is still alive and inching toward a conclusion – one way or another. One of those lawsuits saw Sony Computer and Entertainment sue Datel in Germany over cheat software produced for the Playstation Portable (PSP) console.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 20, 2024

Production took place in Stockholm, Sweden, but also ventured to other countries, including Chile and Thailand, where Fredrik Neij was arrested and paraded in front of the press in 2014. Pirating The Pirate Bay? This shouldn’t come as a surprise to the makers and rightsholders, of course.

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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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The IPKat

JANUARY 27, 2022

The international registration of the given trademark is valid as of 1980; the Lithuanian designation was made in early 2014. Interestingly, unlike in Lithuania, protection for this trademark was granted successfully in other jurisdictions, such as Latvia and Poland, in which the request on designation was also submitted in 2014.)

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

It’s perhaps fitting that sites that relied heavily on copying are being copied themselves; the original operators can hardly complain about that. The owners eventually decided to let go of the name and in 2014 rebranded as Firedrive. 102,499 Auction.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

It is that functionality, and not the copying, to which Apple truly objects. Importantly, there is no Apple code in CORSEC itself, and there is also no infringement when someone downloads a copy of iOS from Apple’s site. 8, and the first copyright law was “an act for the encouragement of learning,” Cambridge University Press v.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

In 2014, rightsholders and ISPs solved these problems by signing a Code of Conduct which ensures that when one ISP is ordered to block, others follow voluntarily. Part of the problem is that to have pirate domains blocked, rightsholders need to have authorization from the court. How Will The System 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 10, 2024

When pirated copies of “Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas” came out nearly two decades ago, The Pirate Bay changed its front page logo. The production took place in Stockholm, Sweden, but also ventured to other countries including Chile and Thailand, where Fredrik Neij was arrested and paraded in front of the press in 2014.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

In 2013 and 2014, Cox terminated over 600,000 residential and 20,000 business customers for nonpayment — over 800 terminations a day. — A copy of Cox’s reply brief is available here (pdf) and the reply brief from the music companies can be found here (pdf). “And terminate Cox did — just not for copyright violations.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 16, 2021

In 2019, Artem Stoliarov, a Russian DJ whose stage name is Arty, filed a lawsuit before the US District Court for the Central District of California, alleging that Marshmello’s song ‘ Happier ’ copied the synthesizer melody from his 2014 remix of OneRepublic’s ‘I Lived’ (OneRepublic is an American pop rock band).

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TorrentFreak

MAY 21, 2024

At the end of 2014, a novel type of lawsuit appeared on the docket of a Virginia federal court. — A copy of the complaint, filed by Cox at the U.S. BMG Rights Management and Round Hill Music sued Internet provider Cox Communications for failing to terminate the accounts of pirating subscribers.

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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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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 23, 2023

“Megaup hosts hundreds of unauthorized copies of copyright protected video game titles and only has a 33% response rate to ESA’s takedown notices despite receiving numerous removal notices,” ESA writes. Interestingly, the game companies write that 1337x was launched in 2014, which is seven years after its actual founding date.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Further to the UK departure from the EU and the obvious fact that the UK did not transpose the DSM Directive into its own law, a debate emerged as to whether the scope of the 2014 E&L should be broadened. The introduction of a specific E&L for TDM has also featured in Hong Kong copyright reform discourse [see IPKat here ].

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SpicyIP

JUNE 26, 2024

Data published by the World Blind Union in 2014 indicated that less than 10% of published material was available in accessible format for persons with visual impairment, and most such material was only available in English, thereby leading to a ‘book famine’.

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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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JD Supra Law

AUGUST 29, 2023

In 2014, a Jimmy John’s employee leaked a copy of a noncompete agreement that the Sandwich of Sandwiches™ chain required employees at all levels (including store-level employees, such as sandwich makers and delivery drivers) to sign. By: Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP

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IP and Legal Filings

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

[iii] This treaty also directs for permission of use, without authorization of the copyright holder over such accessible formats of copyrighted copies, which should be non-commercial lending & may comprise of electronic communication. v] General Obligation on Limitation and Exception, Article 11, Marrakesh Treaty. [vi] 3d 87 (2d Cir.

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