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. This was in part because the company feared running afoul of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). Bottom Line.

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JIPL Online

MARCH 15, 2021

With more content comes the increased possibility that Netflix is engaging in copyright infringement and on the receiving end of copyright infringement claims. [1] 1] This blog will briefly summarize a few of the notable copyright infringement cases Netflix has defended against in the United States.

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Michael Geist

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Canada’s largest media companies, including the Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, Postmedia, CBC, and Canadian Press, came together last week to file a copyright infringement lawsuit against OpenAI, the owners of ChatGPT. First, the Canadian claims are much narrower than those found in other lawsuits such as the NY Times 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. Also in 2018, FDN filed the original complaint, targeting both Amazon and CCA, alleging that they both breached contracts and committed copyright infringement. According to the U.S. But this is where FDN introduces a new wrinkle.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

2018 saw the continuation of Sheeran’s struggles with infringement allegations. This time around he was accused of copying Marvin Gaye and Ed Townsend’s hit song “Let’s Get It On”. However, in 2022, the Sheeran found himself engaged in another copyright infringement litigation over the said song.

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IPilogue

AUGUST 16, 2022

On April 5 th 2022, the Federal Court released its decision for August Image LLC v AirG Inc , a copyright infringement action concerning images of singer-actress, Jennifer Lopez. However, the Court ultimately dismissed August’s case because they failed to prove all the necessary elements of copyright infringement.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

This includes information regarding a letter the RIAA sent to the company behind the uTorrent and BitTorrent clients in 2015. to block copyright infringing content. can use the information to deter further infringement of those files via its goods and services, RIAA wrote at the time. now Rainberry Inc.),

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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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Copyright Lately

OCTOBER 24, 2022

The letter claimed that the director, an ad agency, and a popular theme park had all committed copyright infringement because a panda appeared in the background of their TV commercial. But if they appear on film without permission, even fleetingly, they could prompt a copyright infringement lawsuit.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 27, 2021

However, that is just the latest in a decade-long history of discussing copyright, plagiarism and other authorship issues as they pertain to Halloween and horror. So, this year we’re going to take a look back at the various tales of copyright infringement and/or plagiarism that we’ve looked at over the years.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 4, 2022

This prompted Alexander to file a lawsuit against Take-Two, claiming copyright infringement of her work. 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. Instead, she only won actual damages totaling $3,750.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 15, 2022

New copies were uploaded constantly and banned users reportedly returned using new names. The movie tycoon also pointed out that YouTube’s repeat infringer policy resets copyright strikes after 90-days, after which the same users can upload copyright-infringing content again. Content ID is Not for Everyone.

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IP and Legal Filings

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Fair Use is one of the principles being mooted in defense of OpenAI to argue that the latters Use of the formers copyrighted content fits within Fair Use thresholds and is, thereby, justifiable. 2015), also known as the Google Books Case. [2] This reasoning aligns with the US decision of Authors Guild v. Google, Inc., 3d 202, 229 (2d.

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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. The Electonic Frontier Foundation (EFF), for example, wrote an amicus curiae brief in support of Flvto and 2Conv when they were sued for copyright infringement in the United States. In 2015, it told the U.S.

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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. In fact, Fakku suggests that our news article covering the legal action against Hentai.cafe is somehow copyright infringing. That worked well as the platform kept growing.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

1: The Weeknd Sued for Copyright Infringement Over ‘Call Out My Name’. First off today, Justin Curto at Vulture reports that The Weeknd has been hit with a copyright lawsuit over his song Call Out My Name. Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday. 2: Movie Companies Demand Over $10m in Piracy Damages from LiquidVPN.

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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. 8, 2015), [link].

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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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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

TVkaista Faces Legal Action In advance of TTVK’s letters being sent out, TVkaista’s CEO, technical director, and legal advisor, faced legal action for criminal copyright infringement and aggravated fraud. The platform eventually shut down in 2015, but the bankruptcy estate had no funds available to pay the compensation owed.

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Patently-O

AUGUST 31, 2021

In addition, SAS argues that the formatting of the reports is also copyrighted. There apparently is no claim of copying of any lines of software, but instead it is copying of the functionality and use of the particular coding language. Pamela Samuelson, A Fresh Look at Tests for Nonliteral Copyright Infringement , 107 Nw.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 20, 2022

The readable parts suggest that evidence related to the reliability and accuracy of notices that were sent out between 2012-2015 is no longer available. This information applies to MarkMonotor’s piracy tracking system as well as Audible Magic’s services, which are used to verify that shared files are indeed copyright infringing.

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Greenspoon Marder LLP

MARCH 27, 2018

The Moschino lawsuit involved the designer copying one of Rime’s murals onto a dress worn by pop star Katy Perry on the red carpet at the Met Gala. It should be noted that street artists are not guaranteed to have successful copyright infringement challenges and are not assured to receive settlements.

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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. He resigned in 2015. The issues (1) are the copyright and confidential information in ProSPC owned by PQ? (2)

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IPilogue

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

A literary controversy surrounding a copyright claim has taken over the North American online writing community, and it involves a kidney donation, a private Facebook group, and a short story.? . On June 24, 2015, Ms. In order to prove copyright infringement , Ms. 19-cv-10203-IT), Ms.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 16, 2023

By now, various courts around the world have concluded that The Pirate Bay is a copyright-infringing website. This GitHub subdomain is a copy of thepirateproxybay.com and appears to be operated by the same people, but it’s not blocked by UK ISPs. One domain managed to escape these blocking actions; proxybay.github.com.

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JIPEL Copyright Blog

APRIL 26, 2021

In this case, via alleged copyright infringement. However, an equally long list of controversies accompanies this list of accomplishments, the majority of which involve alleged copying. Nordstrom removed the pieces at issue, and everything seemed to be fine on the copying front—until 2020 hit. The account and its 2.6

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The IPKat

APRIL 21, 2022

From former Guest Kat Peter Ling comes an interesting report on that most rare of copyright cases, a criminal complaint based on infringement. Rapidshare was an online file hosting service that operated between 2002 and 2015. Creating a download link and providing it to the Uploader is not relevant under copyright law.

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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. Yet despite the striking parallels laid out in their complaint, Caillat and Stiefel face an uphill battle in proving their case.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 8, 2024

As with other platforms that host user-generated content, this massive code library occasionally runs into copyright infringement troubles. And there are also developers whose projects are seen as pirate tools or apps, which often leads to copyright holder complaints.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 21, 2024

Cox alleges that the copyright infringement damages should be covered by the policies, which relate to claims from its ‘media activities’ The Hiscox policy has a limit of $15 million and includes legal defense costs, with a $500,000 per claim retention. .” — A copy of the complaint, filed by Cox at the U.S.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 13, 2022

Copyright holders have tried a variety of measures to curb copyright infringement over the years, with varying levels of success. In March of 2021, BREIN sent Google a copy of a Dutch court order which compelled local ISPs to block these domains. Site blocking has emerged as one of the preferred solutions.

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BYU Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The Complaint alleges that Dave Poltrock ("Poltrock"), an employee of MPS, shared the WIN Passage (in the form of a photograph of a crumpled print-out of the passage) on his Twitter account in 2015 and again in 2017.

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

In what may be the first instance of stream ripping being prohibited in India, the Delhi High Court in the case of Sony Music Entertainment India Pvt Ltd and Ors vs Yt1s.Com and Ors has passed an order restricting the defendants from engaging in copyright infringement via use of rogue websites. Of these, 46.8

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SpicyIP

MARCH 2, 2025

The Court held that the Single judge failed to appreciate that the appellant has been using the mark since 2015 and nor did the respondent argue that irreparable harm will be caused if the injunction is not granted. They were charged under Section 63 of the Copyright Act. Adyar Gate Hotels Limited vs Itc Limited & Anr.

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Patently-O

DECEMBER 11, 2023

45, to bring enforcement actions aimed at activities, including those involving the training and use of AI, that might involve copyright infringement—although we would note that the copyright consequences of AI are, as yet, undefined. That is far too hasty. Under governing law, that is a judicial function.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 25, 2022

In so holding, the Ninth Circuit created (or widened) a circuit split with the Second Circuit, which previously held that even under the discovery rule, damages for copyright infringement are limited to “a three-year lookback period from the time a suit is filed.” Scholastic, Inc. , 3d 39, 52 (2d Cir. Scholastic, Inc. , 3d 39 (2d Cir.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 5, 2022

“Even if Bayside had made a prima facie showing of copyright infringement, the subpoena would still need to be quashed because the balance of equities tilts in MoneyBags’s favor.” ” Thus, “even if Bayside had made a prima facie showing of copyright infringement, the Court would quash the subpoena in a heartbeat.”

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