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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IP and Legal Filings

MARCH 19, 2025

6] This was visible in the comedy group AIB’s 2015 video, “Every Bollywood Party Song’ which was a parody of Yo Yo Honey Singh’s “Party All Night.” He claimed to own the copyright to ‘LIC’ (Life is colourful), which he registered in 2015 and renewed every year for six years.

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Plagiarism Today

JULY 29, 2021

BMG won a $25 million jury verdict in 2015 over its claims, but that was vacated by the Appeals Court over issues with jury instructions. Cox filed counterclaims alleging that Rightscorp, a rights management company employed by BMG, was knowingly filing false takedown notices.

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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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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

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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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

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

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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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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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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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

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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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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Likelihood of Confusion

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Originally posted 2015-07-20 14:36:07. Republished by Blog Post PromoterI’ve written so much, for so long, about the branding and trademark adventures — overwhelmingly unhappy ones — of Starbucks that I’ve pretty much run out of ways of starting blog posts such as this one. (See See what I did there? — Ed.)

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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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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

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

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Phan Thanh Cong and Nguyen Tuan Anh will be prosecuted for infringement of copyright and related rights under Clause 2, Section 225, Penal Code 2015. The Investigation Police Agency at Hanoi City Police says it has issued a decision to prosecute the case. Commercial Scale Offending?

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IIPRD

JANUARY 22, 2025

2015) [1] is one of the most cited cases in this context. 2015) [2] Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. History has shown that US courts have a very liberal and dynamic approach to fair use, whether the use is transformative or ends up harming the market for the original work. Image Sources: Shutterstock] Authors Guild v.

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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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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 23, 2024

2 of A Corua has now determined the amount of compensation to be paid to Mediapro, for infringement carried out a decade ago during the 2014/2015 football season. Spain’s Supreme Court ruled that Puerto 80 Projects SL, and company owner/Rojadirecta operator Igor Seoane, could be held jointly liable. Commercial Court No.

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Likelihood of Confusion

NOVEMBER 23, 2024

Originally posted 2015-07-10 13:45:07. Republished by Blog Post PromoterNeil Melliship, Larry Munn and Karen Monteith of the IP department at Clark Wilson LLP, which is the finest in British Columbia that I am aware of, has unveiled its new Canadian Trademark Blog. It has an excellent blogroll, I’ll tell you that.

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JD Supra Law

AUGUST 20, 2024

In 2023, the number of federal corporate prosecutions remained far below the 25-year average after two consecutive years of increases.The DOJ’s Fraud Section secured just $690 million in penalties across eight corporate resolutions in 2023, marking the first time total fines dipped below $1 billion since at least 2015. By: Benesch

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Likelihood of Confusion

DECEMBER 22, 2024

Originally posted 2015-01-26 15:03:05. Republished by Blog Post PromoterThis was first posted on March 31, 2009. One of the first posts on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION was about Gibson Guitar Corp. Paul Reed Smith Guitars, LP, 70 UPSQ2d 1911 (M.D.

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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 and Legal Filings

DECEMBER 16, 2024

2015): [7] Tiffany sued Costco for selling rings with a label that included the words “Tiffany” and were not related to Tiffany. 7] Tiffany & Co v Costco Wholesale Corp (2015) US District Court for the Southern District of New York. [8] Tiffany & Co. Costco Wholesale Corp.

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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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Likelihood of Confusion

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Originally posted 2015-04-03 14:28:25. Republished by Blog Post PromoterLooks like somebody’s going to be ponying up: here’s the latest in the saga between the (old) rich (the U.S.

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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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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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The IPKat

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

This Protocol was made under the framework of the African Regional Intellectual Property Organization (ARIPO) and was adopted in Arusha, Tanzania, on the 6th of July 2015.

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Likelihood of Confusion

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Originally posted 2015-08-13 21:27:15. Republished by Blog Post PromoterOriginally posted 2008-07-29 12:12:10. Republished by Blog Post Promoter Liability insurers gotta deny coverage: As the Trademark Blog reports, American Guarantee & Liability Insurance Co. obtained against Payless Shoesource, Inc., earlier this year.

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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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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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JD Supra Law

MARCH 13, 2025

In a precedential opinion issued on March 6, the Federal Circuit affirmed the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia that the claims in ImmunoGens US patent application 14/509,809 (the 809 application, published on May 14, 2015, as US 2015/0132323) were obvious. By: ArentFox Schiff

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