Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 25, 2022

Calling the lawsuit “without merit”, the court said, “here is no unauthorized duplication and/or reworking of copyrighted computer programs,” under German copyright law. Ad Blocking as Piracy and Copyright Infringement.

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 18, 2022

1: Support Specialist Rimini Street Found in Contempt of Court for Continued Oracle Copyright Infringements. The dispute goes back more than a decade as Oracle sued Rimini Street in 2010 alleging that the third-party support firm was violating the copyright of Oracle software as part of its service. Next up today, Tara C.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 10, 2022

1: Music Producer Challenges Copyright Infringement Claims Over Hit Rap Song. According to Campbell, Everyday We Lit is an infringement of his 2015 song Everything Be Lit. 3: Jeff Koons Sued for Copyright Infringement in ‘Made in Heaven’ Series. Have any suggestions for the 3 Count?

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IPilogue

DECEMBER 7, 2021

In 2015, Dorland decided to donate one of her kidneys to a stranger. There is no copyright in facts and historical events; however, writers can claim copyright in their letters if they are sufficiently original. ” so refreshing. Published by the New York Times on October 5 th , 2021, “Who is the Bad Art Friend?”

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Plagiarism Today

MARCH 8, 2022

If you follow copyright news, you likely have been seeing countless stories of popular musicians being sued for alleged copyright infringement in their work. . The answer can easily be traced back to 2015 and a singular case. Back in March 2015 a jury handed down a $7.4 Blurred Times Still Remain.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

However, in 2022, the Sheeran found himself engaged in another copyright infringement litigation over the said song. This time around, the singer was accused of infringing a 2015 song named “Oh Why” sung by Sami Chokri. The post Ed Sheeran’s Copyright Infringement Battles appeared first on Biswajit Sarkar Blog.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 15, 2023

This time, the dispute notably concerns both the originality of photographs and their use for a period exceeding that stipulated in the copyright assignment contract. A Kat while using à L'Oréal shampoo Facts Between 2013 and 2015, L'Oréal asked Ms Y to take photographs of products in its KERASTASTE brand ranges.

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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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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Parts 1 to 3 of this post (originally published in “Auteurs & Media”) summarising case law of the German Bundesgerichtshof from 2015 to 2019 are available here , here and here. Copyright contract law (Sections 31 et seqq. Claims under copyright law. Right of remuneration (Sections 32 et seqq. a) Perpetrators and accessories.

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IPilogue

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Is there such a thing as “inducing” copyright infringement? So, if we take the Supreme Court literally, since the Act defines copyright infringement as doing “anything that by this Act only the copyright owner has the right to do” (s. Lieberman, Christopher G.

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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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Plagiarism Today

APRIL 27, 2022

3: Immersive Experiences and Copyright: TeamLab Sues MODS for ‘Copying their Artwork’ Finally today, Jonny Walfisz at Euronews reports that the Tokyo-based art collective teamLab has filed a lawsuit against the Los Angeles-based museum, the Museum of Dream Space (MODS) alleging copyright infringement.

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Plagiarism Today

MARCH 9, 2022

Back in 2019, a jury verdict found that Cox was not doing enough on its network to deter piracy and, as such, awarded a group of some 53 music publishers a $1 billion judgment for some 10,000 instances of copyright infringement by Cox customers. Cox immediately appealed the verdict, but it was then upheld by a separate court.

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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. Simply put, the system was built in a very different time.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 23, 2025

Socit Gnrale terminated its contract with 1fichier in 2015 due to concerns over piracy. 1fichier The French ban followed an alert by Mastercard and complaints from Zee Entertainment, which alleged that hundreds of links to copyrighted works were being shared on the site. .” 1fichier is disappointed with the outcome.

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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

JANUARY 27, 2022

However, Miramax claimed that he reasonably should have been aware of the alleged dispute by at least 2015. Since the statute of limitations on copyright infringement is just three years, he had until 2018 to file a lawsuit and chose not to. The court has agreed and dismiss the case.

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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. 2: Bookie Operators Sued Over Alleged Sports Broadcast 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

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

This was in part because the company feared running afoul of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). That’s because many people who reported copyright infringing content to Facebook were turned away by a DMCA takedown system that threw nothing but obstacles. A Long-Running Problem. That certainly would be understandable.

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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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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 and Legal Filings

MARCH 19, 2025

The Copyright Act of 1957 protects transformative work, which states that an artist can take existing material and crucially modify, reinterpret, or build upon it to create something fresh and distinct. [6] ” This did not amount to infringement as it was inspired work. 1] Llaiyaraja v. Lifestyle International (P) Ltd.,

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

But while 2017 was the year that the term freebooting came into our collective consciousness (thanks to YouTuber Destin Sandlin), the practice actually began to fist get attention in early 2015 , when Facebook’s video offering was still fairly new. Facebook has always prioritized engagement over originality. Bottom Line.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 14, 2024

The Australian government has released the 2023 edition of its Consumer Survey on Online Copyright Infringement. ” Online Music and Movie Consumption The slides below the show the fortunes of music and movies since 2015. Unofficial reports indicated that 1.4

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Beginning with what YouTube described as fraudulent behavior by one of the plaintiffs through to demands to identify every single user on the platform that had received a takedown notice since 2015, the case has certainly lived up to the billing. Now, the Google-owned platform has had enough. YouTube Wants The Entire Lawsuit Dismissed.

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Plagiarism Today

MAY 23, 2022

There’s not much doubt that plagiarism and copyright infringement detection has improved by leaps and bounds over the past 20 years or so. In July 2015, we looked at the case of The Dollop , which was accused of plagiarizing from the website Damn Interesting for its podcasts. The Challenge of Cross-Media Plagiarism Detection.

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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. In March 2015, a jury awarded the estate of Marvin Gay $7.4 million in damages over allegations of copyright infringement in the song Blurred Lines. It was easily the biggest copyright news story of the year.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 22, 2022

The court says the Dubtown video wasn’t copyright infringing because of fair use: Purpose/Character of Use. ” Without any copyright infringement, the court quashes the subpoena. This ruling ought to make the infringement lawsuit untenable). Q2 2015 Quick Links, Part 1 (IP, Marketing and More).

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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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Greenspoon Marder LLP

MARCH 27, 2018

It should be noted that street artists are not guaranteed to have successful copyright infringement challenges and are not assured to receive settlements. Renowned muralist Maya Hayuk sued Starbucks in 2015 for the coffee giant’s alleged misuse of Hayuk’s murals of geometric patterns in an advertising campaign.

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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. Have any suggestions for the 3 Count? Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 5, 2025

Reportedly(see here and here ), a suit has been filed by actor Dhanushs production house Wunderbar Films (the plaintiff) against the Lady Superstar Nayanthara, Actor-Director Vignesh Shivan, and streaming platform Netflix (respondents/ defendants) for copyright infringement. Finally, the post will also discuss the De-Minimis Defence.

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IP and Legal Filings

DECEMBER 23, 2024

2015), also known as the Google Books Case. [2] 2] [3] NATURE OF COPYRIGHTED WORK FULFILLS SECOND FACTOR REQUIREMENT As a corollary of the general rule of Protection of Expression over Protection of ideas per-se, the second factor prioritizes unpublished works over published works in granting a narrow approach to the Fair Use Doctrine.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 11, 2022

In 2013, Afdah.com entered the already crowded market and quickly attracted millions of users tempted by a comprehensive library of copyright-infringing movies. But of course, along with a rise in Afdah’s popularity came increased interest from copyright holders determined to shut down or disrupt the site.

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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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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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