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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IPilogue

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Goldsmith said she was not aware of Warhol’s work until Tribute magazine featured the image, without crediting her, when Prince passed away in 2016. If Goldsmith wins, the Warhol Foundation will probably face floods of litigations after years of diligent copying and printing by Warhol.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 24, 2024

All five men were convicted of conspiracy to commit criminal copyright infringement. Dallmann was further convicted of two counts of money laundering by concealment and three counts of misdemeanor criminal copyright infringement. One of Dallmann’s objections relates to an episode of the TV show Paradise.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 5, 2021

And they’re about to get even higher, as the music companies have just filed another copyright infringement lawsuit against Charter. The initial case only covered copyright infringements up to 2016, while the new complaint covers repeat infringements from 2018 onwards.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 18, 2021

Many copyright holders would like to see ISPs handle things differently, something which has led to a list of lawsuits that continues to expand every year. 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.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Six years ago, the US Navy was sued for mass copyright infringement and accused of causing hundreds of millions of dollars in damages. The court also had to decide how many copies the Navy should pay compensation for. The lawsuit was filed by German company Bitmanagement. Bitmanagement Wins Appeal.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 14, 2022

The new information centers around the copyright infringement notices that were sent by MarkMonitor, the anti-piracy outfit that tracked files downloaded by BitTorrent pirates. To confirm that these files were indeed infringing, they were downloaded and verified by Audible Magic’s fingerprinting technology.

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IP and Legal Filings

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Fair Use is one of the principles being mooted in defense of OpenAI to argue that the latters Use of the formers copyrighted content fits within Fair Use thresholds and is, thereby, justifiable. This impact can be caused by a loss in the target audience, downward revenue, and economic damage.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 15, 2022

Under US copyright law, Internet providers must terminate the accounts of repeat infringers “in appropriate circumstances.”. Many ISPs have been reluctant to take such drastic measures, which triggered a wave of copyright infringement lawsuits in recent years. Copyright Infringement Claims. DMCA Violations.

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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. 139 (2016). [ix]

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 6, 2024

Last month, several major record labels sued Internet provider Verizon over its subscribers’ alleged copyright infringements. The Court of Appeals confirmed that the ISP was liable for contributory infringement in respect of its subscribers’ piracy, but reversed the vicarious copyright infringement finding.

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Indiana Intellectual Property Law

MARCH 30, 2023

for Copyright Infringement, Removal of Copyright Management Information and Addition of False Copyright Management Information. Per the StrossStock website, Stross was nominated and accepted as a professional member of the American Society of Photographers in 2016. He received his B.S. Gotsch, Sr.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 17, 2024

Free Speech Has Limits A criminal copyright infringement trial that concluded in Finland this week also saw the defendant rely on a fair use-style parody defense. 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.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 15, 2022

However, that all changed in 2016, when local police raided its Malmo office. Two years later, the Stockholm Patent and Market Court found several people connected to the company guilty of copyright infringement and the unauthorized decoding of broadcast signals. Prison Sentences for IPTV Operators.

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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. Distribution of keys without the copyright owner’s authorization is a violation of Section 1201 of the DMCA.”

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IPilogue

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Alexander filed a complaint before the District Court of Southern District Of Illinois for copyright infringement under 17 U.S.C. § The court opined that the dispute to copying does not arise as the defendants had admitted to copying the tattoo. Citing Muhammad-Ali v. Final Call, Inc., 3d 755, 761 (7th Cir.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 28, 2024

The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals confirmed that the ISP was contributorily liable for pirating subscribers, but reversed the vicarious copyright infringement finding. Evidence pertaining to these allegedly pirated files was central to proving direct copyright infringement. Meanwhile, Cox has another angle to work at.

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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. Trade dress is not intrinsically protectable.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Specifically, they argued that the ISP should also be held liable for vicarious copyright infringement. In this case, and similar ones filed against Bright House and Grande, courts previously rejected the vicarious infringement claims, holding that there is no causal link between the pirating activities and the financial benefits.

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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. Direct Infringement The movie companies argue that the requested information is relevant and proportional to the needs of the case. 1, 2017 to the present.

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The IP Law Blog

AUGUST 4, 2022

Embedding” means the process of copying unique HTML code assigned to the location of a digital copy of the photo or video published to the Internet, and the insertion of that code into a target webpage or social media post so that photo or video is linked for display within the target post. Alexis Hunley et al v. In September, U.S.

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 16, 2024

The libraries use this concept of CDL justify the mass digitalization of copyright works digital versions of their legally obtained items and lending them to patrons in a controlled manner. This rule covers lending digital copies of copyrighted works, while works in the public domain can be freely digitized.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 28, 2022

The evidence in question pertains to the copyright infringement notices central to the case. According to the court, it doesn’t matter whether the infringing files were verified before or after the fact. — A copy of U.S. From: TF , for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 2, 2024

copyright law, Internet providers must terminate the accounts of repeat copyright infringers “in appropriate circumstances.” The company first launched a proactive lawsuit against music rights group BMG in 2016, which ended in a settlement. The movie distributor also requests a broad injunction.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 18, 2024

From a standing start in 2016, manga piracy site Mangamura (Manga Village) took just two years to become the largest site of its type and the single largest online piracy threat Japanese publishers had ever encountered. Copyright infringement cases are not limited to pirated sites targeting manga, but also include movies, anime, etc.,

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JIPEL Copyright Blog

APRIL 26, 2021

In this case, via alleged copyright infringement. However, an equally long list of controversies accompanies this list of accomplishments, the majority of which involve alleged copying. Nordstrom removed the pieces at issue, and everything seemed to be fine on the copying front—until 2020 hit. The account and its 2.6

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 15, 2024

In 2016, it added support for torrents and, five years later, it completely dropped its Gnutella base in favor of BitTorrent. Play Store Takes Down FrostWire At the end of November last year, Google informed the FrostWire team that its app had been suspended from Google Play due to alleged copyright infringement.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JULY 19, 2023

It is not the first time that the French courts have ruled that fonts may be protected by copyright (e.g. 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.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 21, 2021

All of the sites were served with copyright infringement notices before the application was filed but none of them responded. The Court also found that the operators of the sites carry out their business on a for-profit basis, putting them at odds with a 2016 ruling from the EU Court of Justice. The Domains to Be Blocked.

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IP and Legal Filings

AUGUST 14, 2023

SHOULD LEX LOCI PROTECTIONIS BE APPLIED BLANKETLY TO COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT? It has been established that lex loci protectionis is the rule that is applied to all the IPR infringement cases, barring a few exceptions. Today, most of the copyright infringement happen through the Internet. Which law to choose then?

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 12, 2024

The Road to Trial After pleading guilty to copyright infringement and money laundering, in 2021 a key defendant was sentenced to 57 months in prison and a $1m forfeiture order. In the same year, another pled guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit copyright infringement and was sentenced to one year and a day in prison.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

This limitation was not a part of the original proposal tabled in 2016, making its way to the final text of the Directive through European Commission and Parliament compromises. The question of whether platforms make user-uploaded content available has been occupying both copyright scholars and the Court of Justice for years.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

JUNE 5, 2023

2] The Court’s decision affirmed the ruling of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, which held that the Warhol work was derivative of the original, and noted that “the new expression may be relevant to whether a copying use has a sufficiently distinct purpose or character” but that factor was not dispositive by itself. [3]

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 28, 2024

Hollywood Lawsuit Against IPTV Operator The complaint, filed by Hollywood majors including Disney and Warner Bros, as well as streaming giants Amazon and Netflix, accuses the defendant of widespread copyright infringement. “Beginning in 2016 and continuing through 2019, Freemon sold illegally modified Fire TV Stick devices.

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IP and Legal Filings

APRIL 19, 2022

It was recently uncovered that numerous internet platforms are posting infringing content on their websites without the approval of the copyright owners. Copyright infringement cases on the internet have increased because the internet has become more widely available. Legal Framework governing take down notice.

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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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TorrentFreak

JUNE 23, 2022

In addition to damages relating to the fraudulent notices, the company piled on with additional claims for copyright infringement, false designation, business defamation, breach of contract, and violations of consumer protection law. Bungie’s early attempts to obtain information from Google/YouTube ran into trouble.

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