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

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

The latter is a photo editing company that was acquired by Twitter in 2016 and created the AI software that, according to Morton, creates unauthorized derivatives of her work. The lawsuit lists Twitter, Tweetdeck and Magic Pony Technology as defendants. 2: Three Plead Guilty to Criminal Copyright Infringement.

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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

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

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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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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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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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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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

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

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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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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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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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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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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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

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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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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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

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

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

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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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Alleged FMovies ‘Accomplice’ Nguyen Tuan Anh (Credit: police video) It’s claimed he was responsible for illegally copying around 50,000 films and posting them to FMovies and its ‘sister’ websites. In many cases, this violated MPA members’ rights. Commercial Scale Offending?

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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

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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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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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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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

AUGUST 18, 2021

In 2016, the company got involved by filing a proactive lawsuit against music rights group BMG, asking the court to declare that it is not responsible for pirating customers. — A copy of the movie companies’ complaint against RCN Telecom Services, filed at the US District Court for the District of New Jersey, is available here (pdf).

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JULY 19, 2023

In 2016, a French company specialising in typography created a font called ‘Spectral’ for Google, who used it as part of its free service Google Fonts , used by website creators and users of word processing software. But the court ruled that the font had not been copied Article L.122-4

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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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