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Earlier this month, Pagan author Mat Auryn took to Twitter to highlight what he said was a very clear case of verbatim plagiarism of his work. I discovered that this book has completely plagiarized Psychic Witch in almost its entirety. The plagiarism, to put it modestly, was both flagrant and obvious.
Over the weekend, the German carmaker Audi became the center of a massive plagiarism controversy as a new video campaign was accused of ripping off content from a prominent Chinese video blogger. Audi, for its part, blamed the plagiarism on a “lack of supervision and lax review.” The Challenge of Cross-Media Plagiarism Detection.
Back in September , I reported on Facebook’s Widely Viewed Content Report and how Casey Newton, a reporter at The Verge, noticed that nearly all the top posts on Facebook for the quarter were plagiarized. . However, Newton’s report comes as the Wall Street Journal is also examining Facebook’s efforts to block plagiarized and pirated content.
However, Casey Newton at The Verge noticed something else askew with the top posts: Nearly all of them were plagiarized. Then are those 15 posts actually plagiarism or just people using Facebook how they’re expected to use it? When it comes to plagiarism, we often tend to think of it in terms of a plagiarist and a victim.
However, this led Joe Vitagliano at American Songwriter to ask a simple question: Is Retroactive Credit The New Way To Get Away With Plagiarism? However, Vitagliano argues that Rodrigo is a unique case as she has only released one album and has already faced allegations of plagiarism both in two of her songs and her album’s cover.
The case pits Sheeran against Structured Asset Sales, a company that owns a one-third stake in the copyrights of Ed Townsend. 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. The Battle of the Bots.
This prompted Alexander to file a lawsuit against Take-Two, claiming copyright infringement of her work. He called an earlier decision in the case one of the 5 worst copyright decisions in 2020 and, with the jury verdict, called it a loss for bodily autonomy and free speech. In March 2015, a jury awarded the estate of Marvin Gay $7.4
1: Dua Lipa Hit With Another Copyright Lawsuit Over ‘Levitating’. First off today, Bill Donahue at Billboard reports that pop musician Dua Lipa has been hit with a second lawsuit over her hit song Levitating , as a pair of different accusers have accused her of copyright infringement. Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday.
1: BET Must Face Copyright Claim Over ‘House Party’ Web Show. 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. Have any suggestions for the 3 Count?
1: Dan + Shay, Justin Bieber Sued for ‘10,000 Hours’ Copyright Infringement. First off today, Mathew Lemkuehler at The Tennessean reports that a new lawsuit claims the song 10,000 Hours , performed by Dan + Shay and Justin Bieber, is a copyright infringement of an earlier work. Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday.
1: Top EU Court Rejects Polish Complaint Over Copyright Law. First off today, John Silk at Deutsche Welle reports that the highest court in the European Union, the European Court of Justice (ECJ), has rejected a Polish challenge to the latest EU copyright directive. Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday.
Now, a year later, Kurd has filed a libel lawsuit against Davies , accusing him of falsely accusing him of plagiarism. That protection takes a multitude of forms including simple badmouthing, to refusing to work with an alleged plagiarism and even threats of physical violence. Is it possible Kurd plagiarized Davies? Bottom Line.
1: Apple Defeats Copyright Lawsuit Over Racially Diverse Emoji. The judge did grant Parrott an opportunity to refile the case, but expressed skepticism since he made it clear the “idea” of diverse emoji cannot be protected by copyright. BeIN Media, pledged and estimated $500 million per year in 2015.
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Zahedi claimed that he was still the copyright holder in the image as he argued he never signed away the exclusive rights to it. 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. Years For Fraud & Copyright Offenses.
1: Ninth Circuit Affirms Validity of Unicolors’ Copyright Registration on Remand, But H&M Scores Big on Remittitur Calculations. 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.
Since those pages qualify for copyright protection, the modification was essentially creating a derivative (ad-free) work and was an infringement. Calling the lawsuit “without merit”, the court said, “here is no unauthorized duplication and/or reworking of copyrighted computer programs,” under German copyright law.
Bloodborne , an action role-playing game made by FromSoftware, has achieved tremendous success since being published in 2015. This trailer has resulted in a heated discussion online about the line between inspiration and plagiarism. For example, the idea to make a video game that mimics basketball is not extended copyright protection.
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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.
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. Despite the sale, he claims he retained all copyrights in the work.
If you follow copyright news, you likely have been seeing countless stories of popular musicians being sued for alleged copyright infringement in their work. . That says nothing about the myriad of cases over the past few months or years that have been grabbing headlines, both inside and outside copyright circles.
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. 3: Ed Sheeran sings Nina Simone during Shape of You copyright case.
This movie initially began with patents and business software, but has been reportedly expanded to include all types of copyright-protected content. This is especially true with copyright. 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.
It deals with whether Amazon and/or CCA infringed FDN’s copyrights by scraping descriptions from their website for use as part of Amazon’s product listings. It’s a confusing question with no easy answer, but it’s an issue that puts the copyright registration of every website at risk. In the United States, a registration with the U.S.
1: US Appeal Court Upholds Wolfgang’s Vault Copyright Ruling, Including the Disappointing Damages. 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.
They alleged that Sam Smith’s 2019 hit Dancing With a Stranger was an infringement of their 2015 song with the same name. However, Smith has hit back, noting that song titles are not protectable under copyright and that even the plaintiff’s own expert witness report admits that there are differences between the songs.
1: Twitch Streamers Hit with DMCA Copyright Bans for Streaming Near Olympics. However, some of t hose streamers have reported having their streams cut and their channels receiving copyright strikes even though they were mere livestreaming from public places near the games. Have any suggestions for the 3 Count?
Looking back, his career trajectory has been laced with a healthy amount of plagiarism allegations by other artists. Three of the most prominent accusations of plagiarism are with regard to his songs “Photograph”, “Thinking Out Loud”, and “Shape of You”. For twelve continuous weeks, it topped the Billboard 100 chart in the USA.
1: Cox Settles Dispute with BMG, Rightscorp Over Copyright Notices. First off today, Blake Brittain at Reuters reports that Cox Communications has settled its dispute with BMG and Rightscorp over allegedly false Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) filed by Rightscorp on BMG’s behalf. Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday.
1: Copyright Case Over ‘Billions’ Gets 2nd Circuit Flush. However, a lower court dismissed the case, claiming that the similarities were not distinct enough to qualify for copyright protection, that the works did not strongly resemble each other and that there were many consultants that do similar work to Shull.
However, the most important thing to remember is that, for every song you stream on Spotify or Pandora, there are two separate copyrights at play: The composition and the recording. The post Why Spotify Removed So Many Comedy Albums appeared first on Plagiarism Today. Music licensing, to put it mildly, is extremely complicated.
1: Ed Sheeran and Co-writers Awarded £900,000 in Costs Over Copyright Case. First off today, PA Media at The Guardian reports that Ed Sheeran and his co-authors has been warded more than £900,000 ($1,100,000) in court costs and fees over a failed copyright claim that targeted the song Shape of You. Copyright Damages Judgment.
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. The lawsuit alleged that LiquidVPN either directly or indirectly referenced copyright infringement in its marketing material.
Remembering another lousy year with a countdown of the most ill-considered, unsatisfying and wrongly-decided copyright rulings of 2022. So what better way to commemorate 2022 than with a look at the worst copyright decisions from coast to coast? Remember: the smaller the numbers, the bigger the misses. Randy Orton / WWE 2K.
Copyright Office published a Notice of inquiry (“NOI”) and request for comments, Artificial Intelligence and Copyright, Docket No. We, who have been writing and teaching about copyright law and how it has responded to challenges posed by new technologies for decades, were among those who submitted comments, see [link].
Soon after, an entity called Bayside asserted copyright ownership of the photos and sent 512(c)(3) takedown notices to Twitter followed by a 512(h) subpoena to unmask CallMeMoneyBags. ” Second, Bayside said that copyright already accommodates First Amendment considerations via the fair use defense (citing the Reddit case ).
A banana taped to a wall may qualify as art, but as a copyright infringement lawsuit it should have been left to rot. Plaintiff Joe Morford claims that the copyright in his artwork (L) has been infringed by defendant Maurizio Cattelan. Plagiarism much?” A Tale of Two Bananas. The Complaint.
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. Copyright Office. In order to prove copyright infringement , Ms. 19-cv-10203-IT), Ms. In T-Peg Inc.
The story starts when the first Mashelkar report (which was later retracted) was alleged of plagiarizing a part of a commissioned study by Prof. However, the allegation of plagiarism by a Governmental committee from an academic’s commissioned report caused an uproar insinuating the influence of industry on the reports.
Over the years, we’ve seen several high-profile copyright infringement lawsuits that have impacted not only the artists involved but also the broader music industry. When the Stones’ management claimed copyright infringement, The Verve had to relinquish all royalties and songwriting credits to Mick Jagger and Keith Richards.
Cattelan moved to dismiss Morford’s infringement and plagiarism claims on three grounds: [7]. copyright law does not protect “elements of expression that nature displays for all observers,” [8] which, according to Cattelan, excludes the main components of Morford’s artwork. Cattelan’s Motion to Dismiss.
Yesterday, we looked at the myriad of ways that copyright and trademark impact Halloween costumes. 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. Copyright and Halloween.
Copyright laws, for instance, vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. What constitutes copyright infringement in one country may not be in another. The mere fact that the respondent operates in India and has servers in India empowers Indian courts to deal with copyright disputes to address this matter. “ eBay Inc. [1]
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