Plagiarism Today

JUNE 27, 2022

According to an article published on Reason , roughly six sentences of his 2000 dissertation at Cornell University contained text that was either copied directly or near-verbatim from outside sources that were not cited in the paper. . Kruse (@KevinMKruse) May 24, 2017. However, Kruse is not innocent here. — Kevin M.

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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

JANUARY 4, 2023

According to Google, there were at least 50 instances of copying, some of which were “word-for-word”. Copy and Paste Roundup. In 2017, partially based upon that report, the European Union voted to renew the license for glyphosate. At this time, neither the CCI nor the European Commission has released any comment.

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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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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 11, 2023

The most modern instalment of this long history comes in the form of another kind ‘copy’, less richly decorated, yet more relevant and politically sensitive for a country that has established a long-term foreign investment “partnership” with the tech and communication industry: the transposition of Directive 2019/790 into Irish law.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

247TVStream $7 Million in Subscription Fees The authorities say that the service had been in operation since May 2017 and caused more than $100 million in damages to copyright holders. The pirate service itself also generated substantial revenues during this time; over $7 million in subscriber fees according to the indictment.

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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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Michael Geist

DECEMBER 3, 2024

The filing literally says “ the full particulars of when, from where, and exactly how, the Works were accessed, scraped, and/or copied is within the knowledge of OpenAI and not the News Media Companies.” The data was cut off in 2017, well within the range of the lawsuit. This isn’t me speculating.

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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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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 2, 2025

The law of copyright regulates the activities of copying and disseminating the words of someone who has copyright over something online without that person’s consent. 2017) 236 DLT 478 (DB). [1] 2017) 236 DLT 478 (DB). Super Cassettes Industries Ltd. Vs Myspace Inc & Anr. 7] Super Cassettes Industries Ltd.

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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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SpicyIP

JANUARY 20, 2025

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.

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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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SpicyIP

APRIL 18, 2025

However, enforcing such a copyright gets tricky you could stop someone from copying the drawing itself , but could you stop them from making the functional object shown in the drawing? Some courts (and scholars) have suggested that making the object could infringe if its an indirect copy of the drawing, but this remains a nuanced debate.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 14, 2022

In their complaint, Sony Entertainment, Warner Music Group and Universal Music broadly maintain the framework outlined in their earlier cease-and-desist notice ( pdf , via NetzPolitik), which referenced the decision handed down by the Hamburg Regional Court via a preliminary injunction in another case in 2017.

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Copyright Lately

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

Now, on Tuesday, a Los Angeles federal courtroom will host another major copyright trial as plaintiff Buck Woodall tries to convince a jury that Moana was copied from his unproduced project, Bucky the Surfer Boy. The case now focuses exclusively on the post-2017 home video distribution of Moana on DVD and Blu-ray. What’s Next?

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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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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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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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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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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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LexBlog IP

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Further, according to article 8(2) of Law 4481/2017, a CMO may exist under the form of a public limited company (SA), but all of its shares must be mandatorily registered. Legal forms of CMOs. In practice, most CMOs in Greece have chosen the form of limited liability civil cooperatives. to be organised on a non-profit basis.

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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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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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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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