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Digital Trails: How Bungie Identified a Mass Sender of Fake DMCA Notices

TorrentFreak

Using the DMCA’s takedown process as a weapon, persons unknown sent copyright notices to YouTube, claiming that the targeted videos should be taken down for infringing Bungie’s rights. As part of its investigation, Bungie accessed data made public following the 2016 breach of hacking and cheating site Nulled.io.

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The Copyright Clash Of Shark Tank India : Balancing Startup Promotions And IP Protection

Intepat

Courts have often considered economic impact on the copyright holder and other factors like the purpose and character of the use, the nature of the copyrighted work, the quantity or substantiality of the portion used and the effect of such a use on the targeted market of the work to assess if the usage was fair or not.

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Copyright Owner Prevails in Lawsuit Over Form Contracts–Equine Legal v. Fireline Farms

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

In 2016, the defendant licensed the plaintiff’s Equine Boarding Forms Package, consisting of form releases for adults and minors. Calling all cyberlaw nerds: here is a bona fide “ Law of the Horse ” case. The plaintiff is an Oregon law firm practicing equine law. The defendant runs a Florida horse ranch.

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Nintendo’s ‘Mario Movie’ Leaks: DMCA Used To Suppress Spoiler Discussion

TorrentFreak

.” The important thing here is to find out who sent the notice and on what grounds. We contacted Reddit PR and the site’s legal team but neither wanted to make any further comment, despite appearing to be aware of the notice.

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A Preliminary Analysis of Trump’s Copyright Lawsuit Over Interview Recordings (Trump v. Simon & Schuster) (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

The lawsuit involves sound recordings of 19 interviews that then-President Trump voluntarily gave to Woodward between December 2019 and August 2020, plus one interview from 2016 (when Trump was still a candidate). If the work was published with proper copyright notice, it received a federal statutory copyright.

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