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3 Count: Truth Settles

Plagiarism Today

First off today, Chris Cooke at Complete Music Update reports that Lizzo has reached a settlement with her former collaborators over her hit song Truth Hurts. According to the lawsuit, the trio collaborated with Lizzo in 2017 to create the song, which included an unreleased song entitled Healthy that they had created.

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[UPCKat] Access to confidential information by parties and the public in the UPC

The IPKat

The UPCKat trying to keep confidential information confidential in the UPC As part of our UPCKat reporting on the latest UPC developments, the IPKat brings readers a roundup of how the UPC is treating confidentiality and third party access to court documents.

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SpicyIP Weekly Review (January 13 – January 19)

SpicyIP

Deepak Gupta & Ors Do trade secrets/confidential information need to have economic or commercial value? The Court clarified that the appellants mark was declared well-known in 2017, and the well known status of a trademark is prospective and cannot retrospectively affect prior users. Drop a comment below to let us know.

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Spinrilla Will Shut Down and Pay $50m Piracy Damages to Music Labels

TorrentFreak

In 2017, the company was sued by several RIAA-backed labels, including Sony, Warner, and UMG, which accused the company of massive copyright infringement. Music fans love to share mixtapes and have done so for decades but sharing these ‘tapes’ over the Internet is not without risk.

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BREIN Shuts Down Pirate IPTV Service, Users Get a ‘Warning’

TorrentFreak

Catching IPTV Pirates In 2017, BREIN booked a prominent victory at the European Court of Justice, which ruled that it’s illegal to sell devices that are pre-configured to access copyright-infringing content. The man also agreed to pay an undisclosed settlement fee and 7,500 euros per day if any future infringements occur.

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ACE Shuts Down Pirate IPTV Providers as Unusual Potential Threat Looms

TorrentFreak

These examples represent just a handful of domains from a collection that has exploded since the 2017 launch of the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment. Considering that pirates represent obvious targets, a smart opening move in a hypothetical scenario would be to ensure no one else gets involved by insisting on confidentiality.

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TIL: “Texas Tamale” Is an Enforceable Trademark–Texas Tamale v. CPUSA2

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

CV H-17-1068, 2017 WL 2957912, at *8 (S.D. July 11, 2017) (holding that “the mere purchase of AdWords alone, without directing a consumer to a potentially confusing web page, is not sufficient for a claim of trademark infringement,” citing Mary Kay, 601 F. See Tempur-Pedic N. Mattress Firm, Inc. ,

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