Michael Geist

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The truth is that Canadian universities spend millions of dollars on licensing copyright materials. In fact, over the past decade, the emergence of site licenses that provide access to millions of works – books, journal articles, newspapers, and more – has led to huge increases in expenditures for access.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 9, 2021

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. According to Fioranelli, he licensed the footage to CBS for use in their news coverage, but then CBS inappropriately sublicensed that footage out to others.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 23, 2021

has reached a settlement with musician Andre Sims over the 2016 hit song Focus. The 3 Count Logo was created by Justin Goff and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License. Furie is also getting into NFTs for himself, and has recently auctioned off an early cartoon for around $1 million.

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Plagiarism Today

APRIL 28, 2022

The lawsuit was filed by a pair of songwriters that claimed the 2019 track was an infringement of their earlier song 2016 song I Love Your Dress. The 3 Count Logo was created by Justin Goff and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License. The post 3 Count: Bottom Start appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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Plagiarism Today

APRIL 25, 2022

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. The 3 Count Logo was created by Justin Goff and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License. Now Kohus is suing both the police department and the chief of police.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

The case was originally filed by Brandon Cooper and Timothy Valentine, who accused Brown and Drake of basing their hit song No Guidance on their 2016 song I Love Your Dress. The 3 Count Logo was created by Justin Goff and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License.

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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. The 3 Count Logo was created by Justin Goff and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License.

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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. The 3 Count Logo was created by Justin Goff and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License. 2: CEO of Major Anti-Piracy Company Arrested in Russia For High Treason.

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Plagiarism Today

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

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. The 3 Count Logo was created by Justin Goff and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License. 3: $31m piracy penalty for ChitramTV.

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Plagiarism Today

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The case was filed by local rightsholders Mediapro back in 2016. The 3 Count Logo was created by Justin Goff and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License. However, the case has made it all the way to a trial, where Laney is seeking at least $75,000 in addition to punitive damages. The post 3 Count: Top Gun 2.5

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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 3 Count Logo was created by Justin Goff and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License. The case was initiated by the Qatari company beIN and targeted the Advanced TV Network (ATN).

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IP Watchdog

AUGUST 31, 2021

The case stems from HTC’s refusal of a 2016 licensing deal in which Ericsson proposed a rate of $2.50 per 4G device to license its standard essential patents for mobile devices. Although HTC had previously paid Ericsson about $2.50 per device in 2017, which was based on the “smallest salable patent-practicing unit.”

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Plagiarism Today

APRIL 4, 2022

According to the lawsuit, which was filed by Muddy Water Pictures, Dash was hired to co-direct the film in 2016 but was fired some two years later. The 3 Count Logo was created by Justin Goff and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License. The post 3 Count: Dear Frank appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 10, 2022

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. The 3 Count Logo was created by Justin Goff and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License. Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

According to the lawsuit, A&E presented the program Live PD between 2016 and 2020. The 3 Count Logo was created by Justin Goff and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License. Further, they add that blanket availability on streaming services does not prove access to the works.

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Patently-O

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Back in 2016, Deckers learned that Australian Leather had imported 12 pairs boots labelled “ugg boots” into the USA and sued for trademark infringement. The original name “ugh” came from 1970s surfer Shane Stedman who has been quoted as saying “We called them Ughs because they were ugly.”

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 13, 2024

” FACT’s report notes that on June 4, 2024, Cormac McGuckin pled guilty to charges including participating in a fraudulent business between January 1, 2016 and June 18, 2020. Conclusion That the IPTV-related offenses took place while on still on license following another conviction for fraud, is clearly problematic.

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Patently-O

MARCH 18, 2024

The Federal Circuit has issued an interesting nonprecedential order in In re VLSI Technology LLC , denying VLSI’s petition for a writ of mandamus that sought to reverse a district court order allowing Intel to amend its answer to assert a declaratory judgment counterclaim regarding a patent license defense.

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Velocity of Content

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Several copyright and licensing stories of interest have captured our attention during recent months. Work that started back in 2016 with a public consultation exercise appears to have reached its close with the news that the Parliament approved amendments on September 13 th that are expected to be enacted into law this November.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Wtf is a juice demon pic.twitter.com/OxYMWEuoCq — Eli Matthewson (@EliMatthewson) October 1, 2016. If the costume isn’t licensed, why is it not infringing regardless of the name change? In short, Juice Demon is Juice Demon because he can’t be Beetlejuice, not without a license. Why did the company do this?

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Mediapro Delivers a Significant Blow In 2016, Puerto 80 Projects SL – the Spanish company behind Rojadirecta – was found liable for violating the intellectual property rights of broadcaster Mediapro. million euros (US$33m), with Puerto 80 and Seoane jointly liable for 15.6 million euros (US$16.3m) of the total award.

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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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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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SpicyIP

AUGUST 22, 2024

Image from here The Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) yesterday i.e. 21 st August 2024 issued an Office Memorandum (OM), notifying the withdrawal of OM dated 5 th September 2016, which extended the scope of Section 31D of the Copyright Act to Internet Transmissions.

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IPilogue

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

This includes at least eight US design patents filed by Adidas in 2016 that claim the ornamental design of the Yeezy sneakers. A licensing agreement between Mascotte and Adidas exists for the “Yeezy” trademarks. How can businesses protect their public perception in co-branding partnerships?

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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. Between that date and 2016, when Zillow removed the images, the court ruled the infringement was not innocent and that amounted to 2,312 images. As such, the judge has ordered Zillow to pay a total of $1.93

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Patently-O

OCTOBER 3, 2021

TBL Licensing, LLC v Hirshfeld , Docket No. Lee , 1:15CV405(JCC/IDD), 2016 WL 880367, at *2 (E.D. 8, 2016) (“The parties have agreed that. by Dennis Crouch. 1:21-cv-00681 (E.D. Jun 04, 2021). Crouch, Iconic Timberland Boots–Trade Dress Worthy? ”); Seacret Spa Intl. ”); Autodesk, Inc.

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SpicyIP

JULY 25, 2023

In both disputes, Justice Vibhu Bakhru of the Delhi High Court (DHC) had ordered that the Competition Commission of India (CCI) can intervene in patent licensing disputes under Sections 3 and 4 of the Competition Act – first in 2016 ( Ericsson v. CCI ) and then again in 2020 ( Monsanto v.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Recording a license agreement concerning an EU trade mark is not mandatory but has several benefits (see the EUIPO’s trade mark Guidelines ): The license has effects vis-à-vis third parties ( Art. Background Brandavid Oy (‘Brandavid’) owned three EU trade marks, which it licensed exclusively to Oy Shaman Spirits Ltd.

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IIPRD

MAY 9, 2024

Hence, the concept of cross licensing agreement has originated with the intent to help various organizations in sharing patent licenses along with their rights and liabilities leading to their easier access to masses and reduction of monopolistic market tendencies. Cross-licensing agreements can both restrain and advance competition.

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SpicyIP

MARCH 7, 2023

SpicyIP intern Sukarm Sharma discusses this ongoing dispute, in light of the CRI 2016 guidelines and the Ferid Allani order. These have subsequently undergone several revisions, a succinct timeline of these changes till 2016 is linked here. The 2016 guidelines were far more restrictive in granting software patents. Microsoft v.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 23, 2021

In the last year alone, BREIN conducted 479 investigations which resulted in the shutdown of 466 illegal sites and services, including torrent and streaming sites, IPTV providers, and platforms that distribute music without an appropriate license. The service was fairly comprehensive.

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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 goal was to establish what the Navy would have paid for the software licenses if an agreement had been reached.

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BYU Copyright Blog

JANUARY 24, 2022

It claims that, “as of approximately 2010, Pearson was aware of Chegg’s practice of displaying on its website original solutions to end-of-chapter questions from Pearson’s textbooks” and that between April 26, 2016, until May 31, 2021, the parties had a licensing agreement whereby "Pearson granted Chegg a license to display the question text from Pearson (..)

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Plagiarism Today

MARCH 17, 2022

.” The case was filed by Braindon Cooper, who claimed in a filing last month that it was “egotistical and without any legal basis whatsoever” for brown to claim that they hadn’t heard of his 2016 song I Love Your Dress , which he says they infringed.

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JD Supra Law

MAY 23, 2023

The Court found that the Andy Warhol Foundation violated photographer Lynn Goldsmith's copyright in her 1981 photograph of Prince when the Foundation licensed its silkscreen variation of the photo (dubbed "Orange Prince") to Condé Nast in 2016 for use in the magazine's tribute. By: Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg LLP

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SpicyIP

OCTOBER 1, 2024

It is a prescription drug for treating HIV in adults, available in tablet and injectable forms, and is used in combination with other HIV medicines, currently licensed for treatment, not prevention, due to its high prices. The looming threat is the pending patent applications by Gilead in India.

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