Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 18, 2021

A Long History of Copying. Epic Games first released Fortnite in July 2017 as an early access game. However, it wasn’t the end of Epic Games’ issues with copying. When Fortnite famously copied PUBG , it was largely copying mechanics only, and it was doing so from a competitor that, at the time, was seen as an equal.

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Plagiarism Today

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

According to LDC, Sheraton copied the design of the rooms at their five-start hotel, Palais de Chine. The lawsuit was filed by members of the band Artikal Sound System, which accused Lipa of using elements from their 2017 song Live Your Life in the song. The case was brought by LDC Hotels & Resorts against Sheraton Taitung Hotel.

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Plagiarism Today

MAY 11, 2022

Next up today, Eva Martinello at Dot Esports reports that Riot Games has filed a lawsuit against Shanghai-based Moonton Games alleging that Moonton has copied assets from them when making the game Mobile Legends: Bang Bang. This is actually the second lawsuit between the two, as Riot sued Moonton over similar allegations in 2017.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Though it’s impossible to know where the source actually is, Ghanaian rapper M.anifest posted the image on Twitter two weeks prior, and it’s likely that too was a copy from somewhere else. All in all, only four of the posts appeared to be original with the others being lifted from Reddit, Twitter, Quora and other sites.

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Plagiarism Today

JUNE 8, 2022

At the beginning of this term, she was making $120,000 per year, an amount that had grown to $220,000 in 2016 and 2017. However, according to an investigation by The Mercury News , roughly one-fifth of the book was copied from a variety of online sources. In 2014 she was offered a five-year extension on that deal.

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Plagiarism Today

MARCH 22, 2022

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. The lawsuit was filed by Anastas “Pupa Nas-T” Hackett, who claims that the defendants willfully copied his song Work without a license or attribution.

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Plagiarism Today

MARCH 28, 2022

million lawsuit filed against them over the 2017 song Privacy. However, he claims that Epic has been copying and distributing at least one of those questionnaires without his permission, despite his attempt to get them to license it. 2: Chris Brown, Sony Respond To Greensleeves’ US$1.5 Million Copyright Lawsuit Over Red Rat’s Song.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

The original lawsuit was filed in September 2017 and was initially dismissed by the court the next year. Morantz claims that he provided a digital copy of his book to aid in research, but that no deal to use it was struck before the episode was released. 2: Robert Downey Jr.

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Plagiarism Today

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

As part of their series The Facebook Files , which is an examination of leaked internal documents from the company, the paper published a scathing review of the company’s practices surrounding copied content. Facebook also implemented filters for video content following the “freebooting” controversies of 2015 and 2017. Bottom Line.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

JANUARY 11, 2023

The SCPA legally protects layouts of integrated circuits upon registration, making them illegal to copy without permission. The deposit can be either a physical copy of the mask work or a digital copy in a format specified by the Office. It is authorized by the federal Semiconductor Chip Protection Act of 1984 (SCPA).

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Plagiarism Today

DECEMBER 8, 2022

The lawsuit was filed by Jingna Zhang, who alleged that Dieschurg copied a photo she took in 2017 when creating a painting. Finally today, Chandler Treon at NextShark reports that, in Luxembourg, a court has ruled that artist Jeff Dieschburg did not infringe the work of a Singaporean photographer.

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SpicyIP

MAY 6, 2024

Dabur Finding on the Applicants’ Obligation to Serve Counter-Statements By Anurathna Mathivanan and Nivrati Gupta Does an Applicant, while filing the Counter-Statement at the Trade Marks Registry, also need to serve a copy on its Opponent? 1959 Rules, 2002 Rules and 2017 Rules – Mending Invisible Gaps?

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Plagiarism Today

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

The report begins and ends with a man named Mihai Costache (not his real name), who remembers widespread cheating and copying in his high school classrooms. This includes blatant copying from the internet without any repercussions. They have repeatedly been thrust into the international stage.

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IP Watchdog

APRIL 8, 2022

On April 6, the UK High Court issued a judgment of non-infringement in favor of artist Ed Sheeran over his 2017 song, “Shape of You.” The court held that Sheeran did not copy a part of Defendant Sami Chokri’s 2015 song called “Oh Why.” Alternatively, the Defendants contended that he did so subconsciously.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

However, there are those who have made cottage industries out of the sale of illegal copies at significantly lower prices. One such individual, a 28-year-old man from Denmark, was spotted by Rights Alliance selling copies of textbooks via DBA, Denmark’s most popular online marketplace.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 19, 2021

On August 10 of the same year, she sent out a back to school letter to parents that contained content plagiarized from a similar letter sent in 2017 by the superintendent of the Shoreham-Wading River Central School District in New York. What makes the story even more unusual is the way that Trujillo was caught.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Sheeran’s attorneys argued the elements that were allegedly copied, namely a chord progression and the harmonic rhythm, were both commonplace in music and not protectable by copyright. That case was dismissed in 2017. The ruling surprised many, who didn’t expect the case to make it to trial.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

JANUARY 11, 2023

The SCPA legally protects layouts of integrated circuits upon registration, making them illegal to copy without permission. The deposit can be either a physical copy of the mask work or a digital copy in a format specified by the Office. It is authorized by the federal Semiconductor Chip Protection Act of 1984 (SCPA).

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

” The research is part of a recurring series which has tracked European piracy rates since 2017. — A copy of the “Online Copyright Infringement in the European union title-level study: Film, Music, Publications, Software and TV (2017-2023)” report, is available here (pdf).

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IPilogue

OCTOBER 1, 2022

In March 2017 , Kat Von D inked a tattoo of Sedlik’s Davis photograph on the arm of lighting technician Blake Farmer (“Farmer”) for free. On March 18, 2017, Kat Von D posted an image on her personal Instagram of herself using the Davis image as a reference while inking the tattoo. On May 31, 2022, Judge Dale S. Background.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 10, 2023

But with streaming, no significant uploading takes place and, just as importantly, no copies of movies or TV shows are made on users’ machines. He pre-installed Kodi and a selection of addons on the devices which enabled customers to access pirated copies of movies, TV shows, and live TV.

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 3, 2022

This came to a head in 2017 when the filmmaker Rick Allen sued the State of North Carolina over alleged illegal copying of footage he shot of Blackbeard’s sunken ship. However, because of state sovereign immunity, it’s technically not possible to sue a state government or any of their components in a federal court.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

1, 2017 to the present. 1, 2017 to present. 1, 2017 to the present. — A copy of the movie companies’ motion to compel, submitted at the U.S. S, who is not necessarily the Redditor: 1. All written communications with RCN concerning piracy from Oct. Payment records to RCN from Oct.

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IPilogue

MAY 6, 2022

Claimants have the best chance of success if they can prove direct copying of their work, but considering the different lyrics and disparate sounds, these artists are unlikely to plead direct copying. Members of the reggae band Artikal Sound System allege that the song is substantially similar to its 2017 song “Live Your Life”.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 24, 2024

He claims that the government failed to prove that he downloaded a copy, much less distributed it to the public. He states that none of the government’s witnesses viewed these reference copies but viewed “authorized copies” instead. and $16.97 Was the Retail Value of Infringement More Than $2,500?

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TorrentFreak

JULY 17, 2022

The researchers examine the effect of software piracy on poverty in developing and Latin American economies between 2003 and 2017. It’s not hard to imagine that people living far below the poverty line aren’t particularly concerned with downloading copies of Photoshop.

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JIPEL Copyright Blog

APRIL 26, 2021

million followers on Instagram, was allegedly making “ seven figures ” as of 2017, and has a book on the New York Times bestseller list (Tik Tok commenters would remind you, however, that her listing had a dagger next to it). Nordstrom removed the pieces at issue, and everything seemed to be fine on the copying front—until 2020 hit.

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Velocity of Content

JANUARY 29, 2024

Kim Ji-young, Born 1982 by Cho Nam-Joo, a fictionalized memoir with factual footnotes, ignited a feminist groundswell in South Korea and has sold over 1 million copies worldwide since its publication in 2016. From 2017 to 2021, sales of Korean literature published rose 10 percent year over year, according to Lin.

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SpicyIP

AUGUST 10, 2023

Relevant Provisions Under Consideration: The Conflict Between the 2002 and the 2017 Rules Even though the tiff between the parties revolved around whether Rule 51 of the Trademark Rules , 2002, ( dealing with the filing of evidence ), was mandatory or directory in nature, t he court did not dive deep into a discussion of the same.

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The IPKat

AUGUST 30, 2023

Three US cases were brought claiming that the song Thinking Out Loud performed by Ed Sheeran, copied Let’s Get It On performed by Marvin Gaye. This case was brought by Kathryn Townsend Griffin, Ed Townsend’s sister, Helen Mcdonald, and The Estate of Townsend’s wife Cherrigale Townsend in July 2017 , against Ed Sheeran and Amy Wadge.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 11, 2022

Peak ruling and embrace the Cablevision ruling that there is a class of unfixed electronic works: embodiment alone does not result in the creation of a copy; the embodiment must also persist for a period of more than transitory duration. in February 2017. 2017 WL 11665339 (SDNY Feb. UMG Recordings, Inc., Dish Network LLC v.

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Copyright Lately

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Hanagami first sued Epic in March 2022 over the Fortnite emote “ It’s Complicated ,” which Hanagami claims is an unauthorized copy of the choreography he published for the 2017 song “ How Long” by Charlie Puth. In the meantime, here’s a copy of the full Ninth Circuit opinion in Haganami v.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 6, 2021

They previously sued YouTube-MP3, the world’s largest ripping site at the time, which resulted in the site shutting down in 2017. — A copy of the request for damages and a permanent injunction is available here (pdf). The RIAA and several of its members have taken legal action to curb this threat.

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IPilogue

MAY 19, 2022

As Meena Alnajar noted in her article about the lawsuits against Dua Lipa , to prove copyright infringement, claimants must show that either their song was directly copied (which is often difficult to do ), or that the alleged infringer had access to the infringed work and there is substantial similarity between the two songs.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 8, 2022

Their complaint, which cites an earlier case from 2017 , alleges that youtube-dl aids copyright infringement by circumventing YouTube’s technical protection measures. This would be impossible without downloading a copy off the platform first. No Circumvention. There could be more to this lawsuit than meets the eye.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 26, 2022

In a 2017 blog post, Schneider described YouTube as a Wood Chipper on Steroids , complaining that when MP3s are uploaded to YouTube, they are converted into a different format and in the process, all metadata – Copyright Management Information – is lost. One is of particular interest. Photographer’s CMI Erased.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 11, 2022

In 2017, LiveJournal changed its policies. In response, Newman, the community moderator, copied all of the community’s posts and uploaded them to Dreamwidth–an action we used to call “mirroring” in the old days. I previously blogged this case last year. Monsarrat had posted to the LiveJournal community and objected to the transfer.

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