Plagiarism Today

APRIL 27, 2022

3: Immersive Experiences and Copyright: TeamLab Sues MODS for ‘Copying their Artwork’ Finally today, Jonny Walfisz at Euronews reports that the Tokyo-based art collective teamLab has filed a lawsuit against the Los Angeles-based museum, the Museum of Dream Space (MODS) alleging copyright infringement.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

The lawsuit was filed by songwriters Sean Hall and Nathan Butler, who claim that Swift’s Shake it Off is a copyright infringement of their 2001 song, Playas Gon’ Play , which was written for the R&B group 3LW. The original lawsuit was filed in September 2017 and was initially dismissed by the court the next year.

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 2, 2025

It also discusses national and international viewpoints on the subject before going into the Indian judiciary’s stance on copyright violations in the social media era. Copyright law is in charge of controlling how literary, artistic, and theatrical works, among others, are used. 2017) 236 DLT 478 (DB). [1] 1 (2022). [5]

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

However, in 2017, claims of plagiarism arose with regard to said song against Sheeran by X-Factor winner, singer Matt Cardle and his fellow songwriters Thomas Leonard and Martin Harrington. 2018 saw the continuation of Sheeran’s struggles with infringement allegations. THINKING OUT LOUD” IN COURT?:

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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

AUGUST 18, 2021

A Long History of Copying. Epic Games first released Fortnite in July 2017 as an early access game. Most notably, that included the PUBG Corporation, which filed a lawsuit against Epic Games in May 2018 for alleged copyright infringement. However, it wasn’t the end of Epic Games’ issues with copying.

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IPilogue

MAY 26, 2022

Moten, a Texas pastor, filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against rapper Kanye West for incorporating a sample recording of his religious sermon into one of his songs. A grant of permission may accompany a written agreement to compensate the copyright holder through either a flat fee or royalty payments.

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JIPL Online

MARCH 15, 2021

With more content comes the increased possibility that Netflix is engaging in copyright infringement and on the receiving end of copyright infringement claims. [1] 1] This blog will briefly summarize a few of the notable copyright infringement cases Netflix has defended against in the United States.

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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. This was in part because the company feared running afoul of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). Bottom Line.

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Michael Geist

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Canada’s largest media companies, including the Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, Postmedia, CBC, and Canadian Press, came together last week to file a copyright infringement lawsuit against OpenAI, the owners of ChatGPT. The data was cut off in 2017, well within the range of the lawsuit. This isn’t me speculating.

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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

DECEMBER 8, 2022

1: Trio Of Radio Groups Sued By GMR Challenge Copyright Infringement Claims. 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. Have any suggestions for the 3 Count?

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IPilogue

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Typically, tattoo aftercare instructions include strictly hygienic recommendations, but tattoo artist Kat Von D might have a unique suggestion: prepare to be an exhibit in a copyright infringement lawsuit. for copyright infringement under the Copyright Act of 1976. Sedlik (“Sedlik”) filed a complaint in the U.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 20, 2025

Enforcing Criminal Remedies Against IP Infringement in India: A Long Road to Justice? In a recent order, a Mumbai Magistrate Court acquitted an accused in a copyright infringement case after 37 years! Read this post by Aditi Agrawal discussing these issues!

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TorrentFreak

JULY 24, 2024

All five men were convicted of conspiracy to commit criminal copyright infringement. Dallmann was further convicted of two counts of money laundering by concealment and three counts of misdemeanor criminal copyright infringement. One of Dallmann’s objections relates to an episode of the TV show Paradise. and $16.97

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IPilogue

MAY 6, 2022

Dua Lipa’s 2020 pop hit “Levitating” is facing copyright infringement lawsuits as of March 2022. Copyright infringement proceedings are the best course of action for instances of song stealing, but are often expensive and difficult to win, as a complainant must demonstrate more than ‘alike sounds’ or ‘similar vibes’.

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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. The sites’ Russian owner Tofig Kurbanov was taken to court in the United States in 2018, accused of facilitating mass copyright infringement. This recommendation was taken over by U.S.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 20, 2021

They previously sued YouTube-MP3, the world’s largest ripping site at the time, which resulted in the site shutting down in 2017. The sites’ Russian owner Tofig Kurbanov was taken to court in the United States in 2018, accused of facilitating mass copyright infringement. The copyright infringement complaints were not new either.

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JIPL Online

APRIL 9, 2021

In particular, it explores why copyright of a meme’s underlying content does not matter in a normative sense. In this blog I argue that copyright protection of the content underlying memes does not matter because of the relative weakness of enforcement mechanisms for copyright infringement of this scale. 511, 523 (2012).

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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

MAY 4, 2023

In 2017, the company was sued by several RIAA-backed labels, including Sony, Warner, and UMG, which accused the company of massive copyright infringement. The music companies requested rulings to establish that Spinrilla is liable for direct copyright infringement and that the DMCA safe harbor doesn’t apply.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 10, 2023

Most people understood the risks associated with uploading copyrighted content, not least since the word ‘distribution’ is clearly defined in law. But with streaming, no significant uploading takes place and, just as importantly, no copies of movies or TV shows are made on users’ machines.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 15, 2022

Two years later, the Stockholm Patent and Market Court found several people connected to the company guilty of copyright infringement and the unauthorized decoding of broadcast signals. Qatar only became a member in 2017, a year after ATN was raided by the police. The reasons for the reversal are rather unique.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

1, 2017 to the present. 1, 2017 to present. 1, 2017 to the present. Direct Infringement The movie companies argue that the requested information is relevant and proportional to the needs of the case. For example, Bittorrent activity will help to show direct copyright infringement by an RCN subscriber.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 26, 2022

A class action lawsuit filed by musician Maria Schneider against YouTube contains many copyright infringement allegations, including claims relating to CMI. Between 2013 and 2017, Elias took photographs of hotels and licensed their owning companies to use them in promotional activities. Copyright Management Information.

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The IPKat

MAY 12, 2023

When one hears the claims of copyright infringement, confidential information and employment claims one can readily assume that this is an employer/ex-employee dispute. The software was rewritten in C# and became InSPC v2 in 2017/2018. The issues (1) are the copyright and confidential information in ProSPC owned by PQ? (2)

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 11, 2022

Apparently the “de minimis” defense to copyright infringement doesn’t exist at all in the 9th Circuit. The court adds: “Apple was not willfully infringing merely because it did not exhaustively background check the hundreds of thousands of uploaders on its store.”]. in February 2017.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Russia began cracking down on VPNs in 2017 to help deter copyright infringement. Unlike in Russia, China’s anti-VPN stance has little to do with copyright infringement. — A copy of ACT’s trade barrier submission for the US Trade Representative’s 2023 NTE report is available here (pdf).

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 7, 2023

A few years ago copyright holders paid little attention to these discussions. In 2017, the site removed ‘just’ 4,352 pieces of content in response to copyright holders’ complaints. User access requests, which allow users to ask for a copy of their account information, skyrocketed in the first half of 2023.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

In 2017, Elsevier won a court case against LibGen and Sci-Hub in a New York federal court, which awarded the publisher $15 million in damages. LibGen Hoping for a better outcome, textbook publishers Cengage, Bedford, Macmillan Learning, McGraw Hill, and Pearson Education filed a similar copyright infringement lawsuit against LibGen last year.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 1, 2024

Copyright law crafted decades ago to prevent infringement in an analog world has in many cases held up remarkably well in the digital age. Copying or reproduction remains relevant, as does the concept of distribution. In the United States, the existence of a loophole in copyright law had been an open secret for some time.

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The IP Law Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Wilmott Storage Services, LLC , decided September 9, 2021, the Ninth Circuit clarified the role that the de minimis concept plays in copyright infringement cases. In essence, the Ninth Circuit explained that de minimis goes to the amount of copying of a copyrighted work as opposed to any de minimis use or display of any such a work.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 16, 2021

In 2017 the RIAA sued Grande Communications for failing to take meaningful action against customers who allegedly carried out more than a million BitTorrent-based infringements. allegedly distributed multiple copies of the movies After, Hellboy and Angel Has Fallen. The Grande subscriber behind 66.196.3.46

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 15, 2023

The same service was also promoted on Dauditl.com Warnings Ignored In August 2017, a DISH investigator is said to have visited Massive Wireless’s retail store to confirm sales of other infringing services carrying DISH content. Three further infringement notices were ignored in July and August 2023, and sales continued in September.

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The IP Law Blog

AUGUST 4, 2022

Embedding” means the process of copying unique HTML code assigned to the location of a digital copy of the photo or video published to the Internet, and the insertion of that code into a target webpage or social media post so that photo or video is linked for display within the target post. Alexis Hunley et al v. In September, U.S.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 1, 2023

” and “Is it copyright if nobody knows I copied a song and changed it so it sounds nothing like the original?” Who hasn’t seen copies of well-known tracks uploaded in full and protected by the statement: “I do not own this song. Full credits go to the copyright owner.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 12, 2023

As the Internet Archive continues to deal with an adverse ruling in a copyright infringement lawsuit filed by the world’s largest publishing companies, late Friday some of the world’s largest record labels launched similar legal action in the United States. named as defendants. .

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