Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 13, 2021

As such, new copies of Makan are now unavailable on major retailer websites. One quick look at the examples shows clearly that Haigh copied words from other sources and then attempted to rewrite the relevant passages. Judging from the examples, Haigh copied both recipes and backstory in her plagiarism.

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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. All it has to do is use readily available plagiarism detection tools to detect works that contain a large volume of clearly copied text. It’s an author acting in bad faith to sell a book that was copied wholesale from another author.

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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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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 16, 2021

As part of their series The Facebook Files , which is an examination of leaked internal documents from the company, the paper published a scathing review of the company’s practices surrounding copied content. Facebook also implemented filters for video content following the “freebooting” controversies of 2015 and 2017. Bottom Line.

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Plagiarism Today

APRIL 25, 2022

According to the lawsuit, the musicians and their songwriters copied elements from the earlier track, including the chorus, verse and hook from the song. The lawsuit was filed by Louis Kohus, who claims to have designed some eight drafts of the badge for the department in 2015.

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IP Watchdog

APRIL 8, 2022

The court held that Sheeran did not copy a part of Defendant Sami Chokri’s 2015 song called “Oh Why.”

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Though it’s impossible to know where the source actually is, Ghanaian rapper M.anifest posted the image on Twitter two weeks prior, and it’s likely that too was a copy from somewhere else. All in all, only four of the posts appeared to be original with the others being lifted from Reddit, Twitter, Quora and other sites.

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Plagiarism Today

JUNE 27, 2022

According to an article published on Reason , roughly six sentences of his 2000 dissertation at Cornell University contained text that was either copied directly or near-verbatim from outside sources that were not cited in the paper. . Clark, for the record, was accused of copying text without quotation marks while still including footnotes.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Screeners are advance copies of recent movies that are generally sent out to critics and awards voters for review. These copies have regularly ended up in the hands of pirates after which they’re widely circulated online. In 2015, for example, a a spree of high-profile screeners were released by the Hive-CM8 group.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 8, 2024

Last month, the CJEU had an opportunity to tackle once again the direct effect of the InfoSoc Directive in the different context of reprography and private copying under Article 5(2)(a)-(b). However, this cannot serve as the basis for an interpretation of national law contra legem.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 24, 2022

In 2015, the Japanese gaming giant already asked GitHub to remove a Game Boy Advance repository, hosted by the user “jsemu.” ” This worked out initially but soon after GitHub took action, copies started to appear. As history has shown, new copies are bound to pop up. Nintendo’s Emulator Crackdown.

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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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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

The groups sent a copy of the UK High Court order to Google, requesting removal of the listed domains. And lawful uses abound, from saving a copy of a family member’s home video to downloading clips from a TV show as raw material for a critical commentary,” EFF wrote. In 2015, it told the U.S. Google Removes YouTube Rippers.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 15, 2022

New copies were uploaded constantly and banned users reportedly returned using new names. “Plaintiff, through its representative Carlos Vasallo, was offered YouTube’s copyright management tools in 2015, including Content ID, but Plaintiff refused them. Vasallo refused these terms and chose to send standard DMCA notices instead.

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 19, 2022

She further alleges that, in addition to copy and paste plagiarism, that Ciuc? Ponta held onto the position for three more years but resigned in 2015 following a deadly nightclub fire that sparked protests against government corruption. also used other techniques to mask the plagiarism. Opposition politician Dacian Ciolo?

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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

MAY 10, 2024

Nealy’s personal life was no major success either, as he spent time in prison from 1989 to 2008, and again from 2012 to 2015. That release sold millions of copies reaching the Billboard chart’s top ten. — A copy of the Supreme Court Decision, written by Justice Elena Kagan, is available here (pdf).

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Part 1 of this post (originally published in “Auteurs & Media”) summarising case law of the German Bundesgerichtshof from 2015 to 2019 is available here , and parts 3 and 4 will be published on the blog over the coming days. . A decision in 2015 concerned the definition of “public” in the act of communication.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

‘Library Genesis,’ or ‘Libgen’ for short, is a group of pirate websites through which a vast array of written material is illegally copied and distributed online without any authorization, and with no remuneration to copyright holders.” while runner-up India accounts for 7.9%. .” 101 et seq.)

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 19, 2021

By the end of 2015, it had completed the transformation from a ‘pirate site’ into a licensed publisher, which is a laudable achievement. That post was removed from Google’s search results, but a copy under another URL is still indexed. That worked well as the platform kept growing.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Sheeran’s attorneys argued the elements that were allegedly copied, namely a chord progression and the harmonic rhythm, were both commonplace in music and not protectable by copyright. Much of the uptick began after the March 2015 Blurred Lines ruling , where the estate of Marvin Gaye won a $7.3 Songwriting and Litigation.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 5, 2022

The original developers were quick to throw in the towel but the open source code was widely copied with Popcorn-Time.to “Piracy continues to be one of our biggest competitors,” Netflix CEO Reed Hastings commented in 2015, specifically mentioning Popcorn Time’s growing popularity. emerging as one of the leading forks.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Parts 1 and 2 of this post (originally published in “Auteurs & Media”) summarising case law of the German Bundesgerichtshof from 2015 to 2019 are available here and here , and part 4 will be published on the blog shortly. In another decision in 2015 , the BGH further specified the provisions of the UsedSoft case law.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Alleged FMovies ‘Accomplice’ Nguyen Tuan Anh (Credit: police video) It’s claimed he was responsible for illegally copying around 50,000 films and posting them to FMovies and its ‘sister’ websites. In many cases, this violated MPA members’ rights. Commercial Scale Offending?

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

However, after Kurd’s set on TV, Davies became very convinced that Kurd had copied his routine, perhaps unknowingly. In July 2015 Conan host Conan O’Brien was sued by a comedian Robert Alexander Kaesberg over the alleged use of five jokes lifted from his Twitter. He reached out to Kurd again, but was rebuked a second time.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Nearly all copies of the film were destroyed, but an American copy survived, as Dracula was already public domain in the United States. At the time, it was facing accusations that it was as plagiarism of a 2015 short student film. In short, the estate of Bram Stoker sued the filmmakers behind Nosferatu and won.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 4, 2022

However, the important thing to know is that there was no doubt that Take-Two did copy the tattoos in question and there was no question of Alexander’s ownership of them. Alexander had sought $2 for every copy of WWE 2K sold, an amount that would have equaled roughly $20 million. Instead, she only won actual damages totaling $3,750.

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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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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 platform eventually shut down in 2015, but the bankruptcy estate had no funds available to pay the compensation owed. domain and later through a.com variant.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 14, 2021

This streaming platform is currently offering all of the latest movies and TV shows, including copies of No Time To Die , which received its theatrical debut just a couple of weeks ago. With TheWatchSeries branding, gowatchseries.online is a similar operation.

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JIPEL Copyright Blog

APRIL 26, 2021

However, an equally long list of controversies accompanies this list of accomplishments, the majority of which involve alleged copying. This pattern begins as far back as May of 2018, when Bernstein was accused of copying pieces from several smaller jewelry lines for a collaboration she did with Nordstrom.

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The IPKat

AUGUST 30, 2023

Three US cases were brought claiming that the song Thinking Out Loud performed by Ed Sheeran, copied Let’s Get It On performed by Marvin Gaye. Background Thinking Out Loud was co-written by Ed Sheeran and Amy Wadge in 2015. These cases have been on-going for approximately 35 cat-years or five human years.

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Plagiarism Today

JUNE 22, 2022

The latter had claimed that Shape of You as an infringement of a 2015 song they wrote, but the court ruled, after an 11-day trial, that no infringement took place and that Sheeran “neither deliberately nor subconsciously” copied anything from the song.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The plaintiffs claim that Call Out My Name copies their 2015 song Vibeking and claim that they sent the song to the Weeknd’s engineer shortly after recording it and heard back from the musician directly just a few days later.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 27, 2023

Government booked an early result in 2015 when programmer Andrus Nomm was handed a one-year prison sentence following a plea deal. — Copies of the orders to stay the civil cases are available here ( MPA / RIAA ). When the need arises, he will likely turn his attention to the Megaupload battle again.

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Copyright Lately

OCTOBER 6, 2024

A new lawsuit over Broadway’s Stereophonic tests copyright’s limits, as Fleetwood Mac’s former sound engineer claims the hit play copies his real-life story about working on the Rumours album. David Adjmi was previously sued over his Three’s Company parody 3C , but in 2015 the court found the play protected by fair use.

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