Plagiarism Today

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Would-be plaintiffs feeling emboldened after the Blurred Lines verdict in 2015 and new technology that makes detecting both samples and similarities easier have been pointed at and likely have contributed. Tons of reasons are cited for this rise. However, it’s important to remember that these kinds of cases have always been with us.

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Likelihood of Confusion

AUGUST 1, 2024

Originally posted 2015-01-30 12:02:44. Republished by Blog Post PromoterThis item came across the ether yesterday: RT @adage: Edible 3-D food printing becomes a reality at Hershey [link] pic.twitter.com/LVWDV2ioe2 — Likelihood TM Blog (@likely2confuse) January 29, 2015 Adorable.

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Plagiarism Today

MARCH 8, 2022

The answer can easily be traced back to 2015 and a singular case. Back in March 2015 a jury handed down a $7.4 But all of this begs a question: What is going on? Why is there a sudden increase in the number of lawsuits over popular music? Blurred Times Still Remain. million judgment in the Blurred Lines case.

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Plagiarism Today

APRIL 7, 2022

In 2015, FDN filed a DMCA takedown notice, but Amazon did not take down the work in question. FDN filed for that registration in September 2015 under the title “Automated Database of Furniture Catalogs and Collections (Photographs and Text)”. However, in spite of this, Amazon scraped those descriptions and used them in Amazon listings.

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Patently-O

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

In 2015, the US linked its design patent system with Hague — this gives U.S. by Dennis Crouch. WIPO administers the WIPO-administered Hague System for the International Registration of Industrial Designs. designers easier access to global design rights; and non-U.S. applicants easier access to the U.S.

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Plagiarism Today

APRIL 25, 2022

The lawsuit was filed by Louis Kohus, who claims to have designed some eight drafts of the badge for the department in 2015. Finally today, Jennifer Edwards Baker at Fox19 reports that, in Ohio, the Goshen Township police have been hit with a copyright infringement lawsuit over the design of their police badge.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 14, 2024

.” Online Music and Movie Consumption The slides below the show the fortunes of music and movies since 2015. For music, the 37% reported in 2015 reduced to 24% in 2023, with 76% of all consumers exclusively utilizing lawful sources. Unofficial reports indicated that 1.4

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IP Watchdog

JANUARY 29, 2024

On Thursday, final judgments were issued in a pair of copyright infringement cases that arose from a now infamous 2014/2015 project New Portraits, where appropriations artist Richard Prince displayed Instagram photos and user comments as a purported commentary on social media and art.

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Plagiarism Today

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

BeIN Media, pledged and estimated $500 million per year in 2015. Broadcasters, however, claim that widespread piracy in the country is to blame for the low offers, with one report saying that for every one legitimate viewer, there are two pirates. That amount dropped to just $200 million due to fluctuations in the Turkish currency.

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Plagiarism Today

APRIL 27, 2022

However, the group argues that MODS copied at least two of their exhibitions, Boundaries from 2017 and Crystal from 2015. One of their exhibits is part of the permanent collection at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art.

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IP Watchdog

JUNE 7, 2022

Hirshfeld became Commissioner for Patents with the USPTO in 2015. United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Acting Deputy Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Acting Deputy Director Drew Hirshfeld will step down from a nearly 30-year career with the Office on June 21, the USPTO announced today.

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Plagiarism Today

MARCH 23, 2022

The case was filed in the UK by Sami Chokri, who accuses Sheenan and his co-writers or infringing his 2015 song Oh Why. First off today, The Associated Press reports that Ed Sheeran’s 11-day trial over the song Shape of You has concluded, and both sides are currently awaiting the ruling.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 26, 2023

It carefully highlights how good industry advice and wise decisions by the Australian government led to positive reforms, not least the “highly effective” no-fault site blocking regime introduced in 2015. Citing government research demonstrating the efficacy of these interventions, successes are clear.

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Plagiarism Today

JUNE 28, 2022

According to the lawsuit, Walkie Check CEO Joshua Lebowitz pitched the idea for House Party back in 2015. First off today, Blake Brittain at Reuters reports that Black Entertainment Television (BET) will have to face a copyright infringement lawsuit by Walkie Check Productions over BET’s Instagram Live show House Party.

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Plagiarism Today

MARCH 9, 2022

The lawsuit was filed by musician Sami Chokri, who claims that Shape of You is an infringement of his 2015 song Oh Why. As part of his testimony, he sang for jurors and performed portions of Nina Simone’s Feeling Good and Blackstreet’s No Diggity to illustrate how common a melody is in popular music.

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 18, 2022

In 2015, the case went to trial with Oracle scoring a major win, securing $50 million in damages and another $125 million in attorneys fees, costs and interest. Oracle also won a permanent injunction, an injunction that Rimini Street has been accused of violating.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

In 2015, The Publishers Association, a UK organization supporting members producing digital and print books, research journals and educational resources, broke new ground by becoming the first entity in the UK to use Section 97A of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 to obtain blocking measures.

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Plagiarism Today

DECEMBER 1, 2021

In a 2015 Instagram post, Zahedi acknowledged that Miramax was claiming ownership over the image, but did not file a lawsuit in the three years following it. Zahedi claimed that he was still the copyright holder in the image as he argued he never signed away the exclusive rights to it. 2: Pirate TV Software Dev Jailed For 2.5

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Plagiarism Today

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The lawsuit was filed by Unicolors, which accused H&M of infringing a 2011 design that they created as part of a 2015 one H&M sold in their stores and online. Unicolors won at the district court, but that was overturned over issues with the copyright registration.

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Plagiarism Today

MARCH 31, 2022

New laws that took effect in 2015 made it easier for rightsholders to order sites within the country to shut down for repeated copyright violations. Even if little changes within Russia with regard to how Russians access copyright-protected works, it could change the piracy landscape in other ways.

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The IPKat

MARCH 25, 2024

If you knew how to complete this phrase in 2015, you are part of the few percent of consumers who heard of the city of Compton and knew about its connection with hip-hop and rap music. Background On 8 September 2015, BIW Invest AG (‘BIW’) applied for registration of EU trade mark no.

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 27, 2022

However, Miramax claimed that he reasonably should have been aware of the alleged dispute by at least 2015. He claimed that he only ever gave the rights to the image to be used on the poster, but Miramax went on to use the image in a variety of other merchandise without his permission or granting him any royalties.

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Plagiarism Today

JULY 27, 2022

They alleged that Sam Smith’s 2019 hit Dancing With a Stranger was an infringement of their 2015 song with the same name. The artists were sued by artist Jordan Vincent and producer Christopher Miranda.

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Patently-O

MARCH 12, 2022

patents and asks what percentage received a rejection prior to issuance (blue) and what percentage received a Section 101 rejection prior to issuance (issued patents 2015-2020). The following chart looks at the file histories of U.S. Overall, 83% of the patents received some sort of rejection prior to issuance.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 24, 2022

In 2015, an author at the Hustle plagiarized a 2008 book , and it became a bestseller on Amazon. Back in 2009, Amazon launched a Kindle service for blogs that made it easy for anyone to sell any blog’s content. . In 2016, The Atlantic did their own expose on widespread plagiarism on Amazon’s self-publishing service.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 11, 2022

In 2015, Demonii was the largest torrent tracker around. When YIFY was shut down in 2015, he noticed that the Demonii.com domain remained in the hands of the original owner. Trackers are a crucial part of the BitTorrent infrastructure, making it easier for downloaders and uploaders to connect to each other. Demonii Tracker.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 10, 2022

According to Campbell, Everyday We Lit is an infringement of his 2015 song Everything Be Lit. The case was filed by rapper Anthony Campbell against Rayshawn Lamar Bennett, Rakin Hasheem Allen, who performed on the track, as well as their record label, Think It’s a Game Records, and the song’s producer, June James.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 11, 2022

In 2015 it found itself among the top 250 most popular pirate sites in the world meaning that it would remain on Hollywood’s hit list. With Afdah increasing in popularity, in 2015 the Motion Picture Association obtained a High Court injunction compelling the UK’s leading ISPs to block Afdah.com.

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Likelihood of Confusion

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Orwell Estate Sends Copyright Takedown Over the Number “1984” – TorrentFreak [link] — TrademarkBlog (@TrademarkBlog) October 27, 2015 It’s like something out of 1984! Where to start? Where to begin? The post We’ve got a bigger problem now appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 16, 2022

The company says that following an earlier appeal, on August 3, 2021, the Court of Appeals of Naples found there was no evidence to show that Xtream Codes Ltd acted illegally at any time between 2015 and its closure in 2019.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

In July 2015, Chutter again petitioned for cancellation of the ’764 Mark, this time based on the attorney’s declaration containing false statements. Patent and Trademark Office or in the courts.” In this proceeding, the Board held that the Section 15 declaration was fraudulent and cancelled the ’764 Mark.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Similar comments were made in 2015 when the Smart-TV exemption was discussed, and the Copyright Office sees no reason to change its position. .” Copyright holder fears that the exemption will open the door to piracy apps is ungrounded.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 26, 2021

In March 2015, a jury famously handed down a $7.4 The answer is likely a bit more complicated than that. Note: I am not a musicologist and will offer no commentary on the plagiarism allegations themselves, instead, this article intends to focus on the legal and cultural environment that has set up these disputes.).

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 12, 2022

In 2015, the National Music Publishers Association (NMPA) filed a lawsuit against Wolfgang’s Vault, alleging that the service did not have a license for the underlying compositions of the songs it streamed.

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SpicyIP

JULY 14, 2022

It appears that pleadings – notice of opposition, patentee’s reply/evidence and opponents’ response/evidence, were completed largely within prescribed timelines, around March 2015. Despite this, the patentee continued to file further evidence (of two more experts) up to the end of August 2015.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 31, 2021

In 2015, the EPO's Economic and Scientific Advisory Board ( ESAB, 2012-2015 ) carried out an economic analysis of the benefits of introducing a grace period. The issue of grace periods was also considered in the Tegernsee Process (2011-2015) ( IPKat ).

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IP Watchdog

JANUARY 15, 2023

She comes in as the first full Commissioner for Patents since the retirement of Drew Hirshfeld, who served with the agency for two decades before he was first appointed to Commissioner in 2015.

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