IP Law 360

AUGUST 8, 2023

of ripping off his 2016 book, "The Tetris Effect," for its new film, "Tetris," which he said is "substantially similar in almost all material respects, including specific chapters and pages" that were copied from his book to the film. The editor-in-chief of tech news website Gizmodo has accused Apple Inc.

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SpicyIP

JUNE 26, 2024

Emphasizing the lack of a robust mechanism to ensure access to literary work by persons with disability, the authors highlight how the existing copyright framework comes in conflict with the rights enshrined under the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016. Views expressed here are those of the authors’ alone.

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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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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 24, 2021

The two sides actually settled the case for $25 million back in 2016, but Sirius agreed to pay an additional $5 million for each Appeals Court win. According to Goldblatt, in 2016 he shot video of President Barack Obama visiting Flint and uploaded the footage to YouTube. So far, the plaintiffs have lost in every court.

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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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SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Though the contempt proceedings were initiated against the defendants, the DB discharged them considering their unconditional apology stating that the contempt was not deliberate and it was because of the copy of the fake order provided to them by their advocate.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

AUGUST 25, 2023

John Lewis responded by providing evidence which it said showed that adam&eve had conceived of the idea a year prior to FFD’s publication (the “2016 outline”). It said this showed it had not copied the book. Did the defendants copy FFD? In the UK, copyright infringement can only occur if there is evidence of actual copying.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

According to the lawsuit, A&E presented the program Live PD between 2016 and 2020. Furthermore, they allege that Reelz has copied many elements from Live PD including the show’s format, the show’s hosts and the same catchphrase to name a few. The lawsuit was filed by songwriters L.

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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

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

From March 2016 through November 2019, Carrasquillo and his co-defendants opened fraudulent accounts with TV providers Charter Communications, Comcast, DirecTV, Frontier Corporation, and Verizon Fios. A wire fraud scheme against the victim cable companies from March 2016 through November 23, 2019, in violation of 18 U.S.C.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 4, 2024

Driven by views, likes, and in some cases, a reasonable level of fame, around 2016 emboldened YouTubers threw caution to the wind with their ‘content acquisition’ tutorials. ’ The decoded links take users to sites where they can access the prod.keys and unauthorized copies of Nintendo’s copyright-protected material.”

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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. That’s exactly what this October 2016 article does. In short, the estate of Bram Stoker sued the filmmakers behind Nosferatu and won. This includes simply enjoying them alone in the dark.

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Plagiarism Today

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

They are a way to sell “unique” copies of digital works but do not transfer any rights. John Lewis, however, denies any copying and claims to have provided time-stamped evidence that their campaign was first presented to them in early 2016, before her book was published. 3: $31m piracy penalty for ChitramTV.

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 16, 2024

With CDL, libraries maintain a balanced ratio of owned copies to loaned copies (owned to loaned ratio), preventing unauthorized sharing and copying of the digital content. This rule covers lending digital copies of copyrighted works, while works in the public domain can be freely digitized.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Vortex claims that they reached out in March 2016, but were strongly rebuffed, setting up this lawsuit. According to the lawsuit, Apple and other tech companies were selling and distributing unlicensed copies of their songs. 2: Apple Settles with Tin Pan Alley Heirs, Ending String of Tech Company Lawsuits.

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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. However, in April 2016, he says the police chief he was working with was replaced, and the new one implemented his design without paying for the work.

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Traverse Legal Blog

AUGUST 16, 2022

Slip Copy (2016) (District Court Opinion). Court Documents Of Interest. Drape Creative, Inc., Gordon-v-Drape-Creative-Inc-1 Download. Drape Creative, Inc., 3d 257 (2018). Gordon-v-Drape-Creative-Inc Download. Complaint Yuga Labs v Ryder Ripps. 031138067085 Download. Anti-SLAPP Motion Against Yuga Labs.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Filed Downloaded in 2016? The metadata showed that the drive itself was created in 2016, but witnesses suggested that the infringing files were original. — A copy of Cox’s motion to intervene in the Charter cases is available here (pdf). Rule 60 motions can be used in court to correct clear mistakes and omissions.

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Patently-O

MARCH 13, 2022

She argued, however, that the agreement is not binding because she was not provided a copy of the agreement to review and she does not recall ever actually signing the agreement. All these competing allegations and proofs create an issue of material fact and so the district court refused compel arbitration at this point.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

All social media account usernames used including for Reddit, Twitter and Facebook January 1, 2016 to present. 1, 2016 to the present 6. — A copy of the movie companies’ motion to compel, submitted at the U.S. All personal computing records pertaining to usage of BitTorrent from Oct. 1, 2017 to the present.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 24, 2022

In 2016, The Atlantic did their own expose on widespread plagiarism on Amazon’s self-publishing service. All it has to do is use readily available plagiarism detection tools to detect works that contain a large volume of clearly copied text. However, as I pointed out in 2019 , Amazon could solve this problem quickly and easily.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Needless to say, there has been plenty of interest in both the emulator and the pirated copies of Donda 2 that appeared online. At the time of writing, Donda 2 is the most shared album on sites such as 1337x and The Pirate Bay, where many thousands of people have grabbed a copy. Not Kanye’s First Piracy Controversy.

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IPilogue

DECEMBER 9, 2022

The court opined that the dispute to copying does not arise as the defendants had admitted to copying the tattoo. 2016) it stated that the burden is on the Defendant to prove the copying was authorised. Citing Muhammad-Ali v. Final Call, Inc., 3d 755, 761 (7th Cir. Would Alexander Have Won this Case in Canada?

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

APRIL 26, 2023

At issue are two versions of the TOS from 2016 and 2019. The named plaintiff, Jackson, agreed to the 2016 TOS. The 2016 TOS provided an opt-out for the arbitration provision, but Jackson didn’t exercise it. She agrees the 2016 TOS applies. The Ninth Circuit disagrees. It required arbitration for any related claim.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

OCTOBER 2, 2022

The plaintiff, NOC, is a teenager who has copyrighted designs in hand-drawn dots that Target allegedly copied in the clothing line. Work #2: This work was published in 2016 in a video that “had over 100,000 views within the first 7-10 days and currently has about 125,000 views.”

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

In a complaint filed at the United States Court of Federal Claims in 2016, the German company accused the US Navy of mass copyright infringement and demanded damages totaling hundreds of millions of dollars. The court also had to decide how many copies the Navy should pay compensation for. Bitmanagement Wins Appeal.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 5, 2021

The initial case only covered copyright infringements up to 2016, while the new complaint covers repeat infringements from 2018 onwards. The music companies explain that they formally warned Charter about the first batch of infringement claims in March and April 2016.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 11, 2023

Between August 2016 and July 2021, Bernardini used his insider knowledge as a rights coordinator to execute an audacious plan that would see him obtain more than a thousand pre-release manuscripts of novels and other unreleased books. According to a federal indictment unsealed early 2022, that was certainly not the case.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Wtf is a juice demon pic.twitter.com/OxYMWEuoCq — Eli Matthewson (@EliMatthewson) October 1, 2016. This means, theoretically, that elements such as the Superman “S” can be protected by copyright because they are separate elements that are merely copied onto the clothing. The second limitation is masks.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 17, 2024

In 2022, Lokka faced Finland’s Supreme Court over videos of a 2016 protest published to his YouTube channel, to which Lokka added subtitles in various languages. Without obtaining permission, Lokka made a copy of the report, added his own subtitles, and then retransmitted the new version to the public via Twitter.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 14, 2022

. ‘Created After the Fact’ Cox points out that the new revelations show that MarkMonitor compiled the hard drive of the allegedly “infringing” files in 2016, two years after the claim period. These files were allegedly downloaded and verified in 2016, after which the evidence was destroyed.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 24, 2023

The Court countered that while relevant to whether a copying use has a sufficiently distinct purpose or character, it is not, without more, dispositive. As portraits of Prince used to depict Prince in magazine stories about Prince, the original photograph and AWF’s copying use of it share substantially the same commercial purpose.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 8, 2023

In 2016, Congress passed the Defend Trade Secrets Act (the “DTSA”). President Obama signed it on May 11, 2016. The vote was unanimous in the Senate and 410 to 2 in the House. Codified at 18 U.S.C. §1836, et seq. ,

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TorrentFreak

JULY 18, 2023

In January 2016, Time published an article titled ‘These Photographers Are Covering the Presidential Campaign on Instagram.’ To be found liable, an alleged infringer must display a copy of a copyrighted work; in this case, the photographs were embedded and were always stored on Instagram’s servers.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 28, 2022

During the trial, the music companies presented a hard drive that contained copies of ‘verified’ music files that were allegedly pirated by Cox subscribers, suggesting that those were the original songs that were pirated between 2012 and 2014. — A copy of U.S. ” Cox Already had Its Chance. .

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 6, 2022

The indictment, unsealed Wednesday in Manhattan federal court, alleges that beginning in August 2016, Bernardini – who was based in London and worked in publishing for Simon & Schuster – began impersonating agents, editors and other individuals in the industry to obtain pre-release literary manuscripts from his targets.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Christopher Buccafusco (& Rebecca Tushnet), Base Rate Neglect in Copying-in-Fact Comes out of an excellent Buccafusco paper about the failures of copying in fact, which led me to think about base rate neglect in cases where plaintiff’s expert claims that it’s not possible that these similarities arose in the absence of copying.

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