Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 9, 2021

1: Major Record Labels Sue Charter Communications Again for Alleged Copyright Infringement. The lawsuit is the second the group has filed against Charter, with one being filed in 2019 that looked at Charter’s alleged activities between March 24, 2013 and May 17, 2016. Have any suggestions for the 3 Count?

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

1: ‘ Sports Illustrated’ Model Sues Twitter for $10 million, Accusing its Algorithm of Contributing to Copyright infringement. 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.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

1: After Settling with Justin Bieber and Ariana Grande, Photographer Sues Miley Cyrus for Copyright Infringement. 2: China to Crack Down on Copyright Infringement Through NFTs. The 3 Count Logo was created by Justin Goff and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License.

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Plagiarism Today

MARCH 28, 2022

She licensed the photo to Vanity Fair magazine for use as an artist reference. 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.

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Plagiarism Today

DECEMBER 7, 2022

1: Roddy Ricch Sued For Copyright Infringement Over Monster Hit ‘The Box’. First off today, Nancy Dillon at Rolling Stone reports that rapper Roddy Ricch has been hit with a copyright infringement lawsuit over his hit song The Box. Have any suggestions for the 3 Count? Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

1: XXXTentacion and Lil Peep Sued for Copyright Infringement Over ‘Falling Down’ First off today, Trent Fitzgerald at XXL reports that musicians XXXTentacion and Lil Peep are being sued by a singer-songwriter named Jaden Hoff, for alleged copyright infringement in the duo’s posthumous song Falling Down.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 10, 2022

1: Music Producer Challenges Copyright Infringement Claims Over Hit Rap Song. First off today, Megan Butler at Courthouse News Service reports that the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals heard arguments in a lawsuit over the 2016 hit rap song Everyday We Lit. 3: Jeff Koons Sued for Copyright Infringement in ‘Made in Heaven’ Series.

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The IP Law Blog

MARCH 23, 2023

The Ninth Circuit recently addressed the issue of whether parties can contractually agree to shorten the statute of limitations period for bringing a copyright infringement claim. Evox Productions creates and licenses images of cars. In 2003, it licensed its images to Chrome Data Solutions, LP, for a five-year period.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Specifically, Cox alleges the metadata on the evidence indicates that they are files from 2016 though the case only deals with 2012-2014. 3: China Commits to Crack Down on Copyright Infringement to Protect Intellectual Property for Beijing 2022 Winter Games. As for Sachkov, he denies any and all wrongdoing.

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Plagiarism Today

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Next up today, Ernesto Van der Sar at Torrentfreak writes that the Spanish Supreme Court has ruled that the operator of the Rojadirect piracy website is personally liable for the infringement, giving rightsholders a new target to collect damages from. The case was filed by local rightsholders Mediapro back in 2016.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

The lawsuit was filed by rapper Anthony Campbell, who claimed that the 2018 song Everyday We Lit by YFN Lucci was an infringement of Campbell’s 2016 song Everything Be Lit. 2: Sam Smith, Normani Ask Judge to Dismiss ‘Nonsensical’ Claims in Amended Copyright Infringement Lawsuit.

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Plagiarism Today

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

1: Miramax Hits Tarantino With Copyright Suit on ‘Pulp Fiction’ NFTs. First off today, Samantha Handler at Bloomberg Law reports that the film studio Mirimax has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against director Quentin Tarantino over Tarantino’s plans to release of Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) related to the film Pulp Fiction.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 18, 2023

In common with content created in other fields, photographs generally enjoy protection under copyright law, allowing photographers to determine who can duplicate and/or distribute their work. Photographers Alexis Hunley and Matthew Brauer posted several of their copyrighted works on Instagram.

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IPilogue

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

On March 26, 2021, the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals in New York found that the famed artist Andy Warhol violated photographer Lynn Goldsmith’s copyright by using her photo of the singer Prince to create his “Prince Series.” The series was originally commissioned by Vanity Fair after it bought the license of the photo portrait from Goldsmith.

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Plagiarism Today

MARCH 16, 2022

However, it was raided in 2016 and two men, the owner and his son, were arrested. The two men were given prison sentences for copyright infringement and ordered to pay 209 million Swedish kroner ($21 million) in damages. This may open the door for other intellectual property violations, including of both copyright and trademark.

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The IP Law Blog

AUGUST 25, 2022

District Court can exercise personal jurisdiction over a foreign defendant with regard to a copyright infringement suit. Lang Van is a California corporation that produces and distributes Vietnamese music and entertainment, owning the copyrights to thousands of songs and programs. law and, at the very least, affect U.S.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 11, 2022

In 1981, Goldsmith licensed a photo that she took of the musician Prince to Vanity Fair magazine, with the intent that the magazine would have Warhol create a painting based on it. However, Warhol created over a dozen other paintings based on the image and those paintings resurfaces in 2016 following the musician’s death.

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Kashishipr

JUNE 9, 2021

With the onset of the trend wherein users are gradually switching to online streaming to meet their music needs and discarding traditional methods such as radio, television, and music CDs, compulsory licensing for the internet was recognized as a key policy issue by the music industry last year. Background. The Plaintiff, Tips Industries Ltd.,

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

JUNE 5, 2023

3] The Court found that the Warhol Foundation’s licensing of the Orange Prince to Conde Nast did not have a sufficiently different purpose as the Goldsmith photograph because both were “portraits of Prince used in magazines to illustrate stories about Prince.” [4] 13] AWF’s use was commercial because AWF licensed the artwork for a fee. [14]

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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.

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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 goal was to establish what the Navy would have paid for the software licenses if an agreement had been reached. The damages figure is based on 635 unique users and a license fee of $200.

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Plagiarism Today

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

VHT licenses real estate photos for marketing purposes and many of its photos appear on Zillow. This prompted ZHT to file the lawsuit and decided that Zillow’s infringement was innocent until July 10, 2014, when ZHT sent a cease and desist letter to the company. million in damages and interest for the infringements.

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Indiana Intellectual Property Law

APRIL 20, 2022

Fishers, Indiana – Plaintiff Lisa Corson creates photos, which she licenses for various uses including online and print publications. Corson claims she took a picture of a bocce ball court (the “Photograph”) and registered with the United States Copyright Office on September 18, 2016. 501 et seq.

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The IP Law Blog

MARCH 24, 2022

The plaintiffs, in that case, are two photojournalists who captured images of the George Floyd protests and the 2016 election and posted them to Instagram. The photos, therefore, appeared on websites without any license from the original photographers. Therefore, Instagram cannot be liable for secondary copyright infringement.

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Olartemoure Blog

JANUARY 18, 2023

In 1984, Vanity Fair licensed one of her black-and-white studio portraits for $400 and commissioned Warhol to create a piece for a feature of Prince. There was no image copyright credit or compensation to Lynn Goldsmith. The photographer threatened to sue the Foundation alleging copyright infringement.

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BYU Copyright Blog

JANUARY 24, 2022

Pearson, a large textbook and education company, accused Chegg of copyright infringement as Chegg publishes answers online to the questions found in Pearson’s textbooks. Last year we reported on a lawsuit between Chegg, Inc. Chegg”) and Pearson Education (“Pearson”).

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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.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 17, 2024

Acuff-Rose sued members of hip hop group 2 Live Crew, claiming that their track “Pretty Woman” infringed the label’s copyright in the Roy Orbison song, “Oh, Pretty Woman.” When he copied and then rebroadcast the news report, that was copyright infringement.

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The IP Law Blog

AUGUST 4, 2022

The named plaintiffs are two photojournalists whose photographs of the George Floyd protests and the 2016 election were featured on websites of various traditional media outlets without those outlets having obtained any license from the plaintiffs because those media companies used Instagram’s proprietary embedding tools.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

In a recent case before the district court of Amsterdam, the question was brought whether the unauthorized publication of manuscripts of Anne Frank’s diary would result in copyright infringement. The AFF was founded by Otto Frank, who appointed it to be the sole owner of the copyrights on Anne Frank’s works. Generic License.

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 23, 2023

The Ninth Circuit recently addressed the issue of whether parties can contractually agree to shorten the statute of limitations period for bringing a copyright infringement claim. Evox Productions creates and licenses images of cars. In 2003, it licensed its images to Chrome Data Solutions, LP, for a five-year period.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

For well over a decade, copyright holders have been obtaining injunctions around the world to have copyright-infringing sites blocked by Internet service providers. The belief is that when users are presented with this roadblock, they will be more likely to turn to licensed services instead.

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LexBlog IP

AUGUST 25, 2022

District Court can exercise personal jurisdiction over a foreign defendant with regard to a copyright infringement suit. Lang Van is a California corporation that produces and distributes Vietnamese music and entertainment, owning the copyrights to thousands of songs and programs. law and, at the very least, affect U.S.

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IP and Legal Filings

AUGUST 14, 2023

2] [image Sources: Shutterstock] When it comes to disagreements over IPR that occur across international borders, this type of dispute is treated the same way as contractual disagreements over the transfer and licensing of these rights are treated: as a tort that falls under general jurisdictional guidelines. [3] Garimella and S. Jolly (eds.)2017)

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 3, 2023

” However, Wallshoppe does not allege Defendant knew of the specific acts of infringement at issue here—Sienna Lewis selling products featuring the Palm Design on Defendant’s website. * UMG Recordings, Inc. Jury awards nearly $50M in damages against Internet access provider for user-caused copyright infringement.

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IP Watchdog

AUGUST 18, 2022

(DDI) acted with willful blindness in submitting a fifth Takedown Notice to Amazon asking that auto stickers it alleged infringed its licensed artwork be removed from the site. began selling a sticker that DDI alleged infringed the licensed copyright. In 2018, Alper Automotive, Inc.

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IP Intelligence

JUNE 7, 2023

Sy Damle, (2016-2018 General Counsel) testified that “the training of AI models will generally fall within the established bounds of fair use.” (S. At the time Goldsmith was also licensing her original photograph to several magazines that were also writing articles about Prince’s life and music. Damle introductory statement, Tr.

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