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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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

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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Plagiarism Today

JUNE 8, 2022

At the beginning of this term, she was making $120,000 per year, an amount that had grown to $220,000 in 2016 and 2017. However, according to an investigation by The Mercury News , roughly one-fifth of the book was copied from a variety of online sources. In 2014 she was offered a five-year extension on that deal.

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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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Plagiarism Today

MARCH 28, 2022

However, Warhol went beyond the single licensed work and created 15 additional works known as the Prince Series , which became public after the musician’s death in 2016. Warhol, in turn, was that artist. In the lawsuit, he is seeking all profits Epic made from the infringement, as well as punitive damages and attorneys’ fees.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 11, 2023

The most modern instalment of this long history comes in the form of another kind ‘copy’, less richly decorated, yet more relevant and politically sensitive for a country that has established a long-term foreign investment “partnership” with the tech and communication industry: the transposition of Directive 2019/790 into Irish law.

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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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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

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

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

An investigation cited in the indictment concluded that since August 2016, Phan Thanh Cong received a total of ~US$400,000. No drama – Cong just failed to pay the server bill – potentially the first time since 2016. Case Headed in the Wrong Direction? Why that’s of any importance is unclear.

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Likelihood of Confusion

JULY 8, 2023

Via fashionista-lawyer-to-the-fashionista-stars Olivera Medenica, it’s time to roll up for the Federal Bar Association‘s 2016 Fashion Law Conference at the Parson’s School of Design! Look, here’s the text I copied. The post Fashion Law at the Federal Bar Association appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™.

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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

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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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

JULY 24, 2024

He claims that the government failed to prove that he downloaded a copy, much less distributed it to the public. Noting that the episode in question was published on December 16, 2016, Dallmann claims that a list of TV shows seized during a raid on his home showed no releases beyond December 15, 2016.

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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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LexBlog IP

JUNE 26, 2023

. (“JSC”) against Trendily Furniture, LLC, Trendily Home Collection, and Raul Malhotra (collectively, “Trendily”) finding Trendily liable for trade dress infringement for willfully copying, manufacturing, and selling identical JSC furniture pieces.

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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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Intepat

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

For example, if a small local coffee shop called “Brew Bliss” has been around for years, but a big international coffee chain suddenly launches a product line with the same name, people might think the local shop is copying the big brandeven though the opposite is true. India Allianz Aktiengesellschaft Holding v.

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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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Velocity of Content

JANUARY 29, 2024

Kim Ji-young, Born 1982 by Cho Nam-Joo, a fictionalized memoir with factual footnotes, ignited a feminist groundswell in South Korea and has sold over 1 million copies worldwide since its publication in 2016. The Vegetarian by Han Kang received the 2016 Man Booker International Prize and has been translated into two dozen languages.

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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. That expectation was understandable as, in 2016, members of the Townsend estate filed a similar lawsuit comparing the two songs.

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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

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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IP and Legal Filings

DECEMBER 16, 2024

In fact, if a competitor merely copies a distinctive design like Louis Vuitton’s handbag pattern to make consumers believe that a particular product is coming from them, this gives a potential for confusion. This leaves trade dress protection focused only on visual uniqueness rather than the practical features.

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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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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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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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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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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

AUGUST 6, 2024

In 2016, the music files were redownloaded based on the original hashes. According to the plaintiffs, it is irrelevant whether the music tracks are originals or copies, since hashes are “more unique than DNA” This means that the redownloaded files are the same as the deleted originals.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 23, 2023

For example, UK anti-piracy group FACT mentioned it in a news release in 2016. 2023, 2020, 2016, 2012, 2008, 2004… The 90% figure didn’t suddenly appear in 2016 either. Luckily we didn’t have to look far to find relevant references as the “90%” statistic is regularly cited by rightsholders.

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IP and Legal Filings

DECEMBER 23, 2024

This principle means that as long as the copy of the copyrighted content is within its fair use, it is classified as an exception and meets legal standards. 1] This article aims to prove how the alleged copying fits within Fair Use by assessing these four factors to render OpenAIs challenge devoid of merit.

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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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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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