TorrentFreak

JUNE 15, 2022

With ties to the shadowy piracy monitoring and settlement factory GuardaLey , Voltage is currently pursuing Virgin Media customers in the UK to retrieve cash while warning that something much worse could happen. ” Voltage’s Backup Plan – Billpayers ‘Authorized’ Infringement. Background.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The Lenz case got a lot of press, but it ended with a confidential settlement. The precedent work is “a set of replacement stickers for the dashboard climate controls for certain GM vehicles”: The Copyright Office registered this design. As a result, we’ve seen very, very few successful 512(f) enforcements.

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Plagiarism Today

MARCH 28, 2022

Million Copyright Lawsuit Over Red Rat’s Song. million lawsuit filed against them over the 2017 song Privacy. The lawsuit, which was filed by Greensleeves Publishing, claims that Privacy is an infringement of the 1997 song Tight Up Skirt by Red Rat. 3: Renowned Saint Luke’s Cardiologist Sues Epic Systems Over Copyright.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Ltd [2022] EWHC 1895 (Ch) (July 2022) In our last volume , we reported on Samsung being held directly liable as a platform for copied watch faces for Samsung smartwatches. But that is the basis of Lidl’s trade mark infringement, passing off and copyright infringement claim against Tesco. IPKat here.

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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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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 11, 2022

A photo of the Indianapolis nighttime skyline has generated $825 in license fees & $135k in settlements. After 3+ yrs of litigation, court awards Bell $200 in statutory damages–but actually $0 due to a related settlement. A lawsuit over allegedly infringing music files uploaded to the iTunes store. [The 26, 2021).

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

However, regarding the affidavit of user, the court noted that the application was filed before the 2017 Trademark Rules that prescribe for an affidavit of user, and thus the same cannot be subjected to the provision that was introduced during its pendency. Samsung to pay $150 mn to Nanoco Tech in QLED patent suit settlement.

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IP and Legal Filings

DECEMBER 17, 2023

ii] This unreported judgement helped bring the grievances on the table for the others to see that copyright law has deficiencies in terms of music sharing and copying along with royalty issues. iii] However, the act still comes short to address the issue of royalty and copyright claims in the digital streaming creative works.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 29, 2023

At an initial conference on January 23, 2023, the parties reached a settlement and asked to dismiss the claim. The picture at issue was taken in 2017, and was registered with the U.S. Copyright Office on July 29, 2017. Prutton admitted to copying and said that his adult daughter had helped him with his website. (A

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SpicyIP

MAY 20, 2024

Bentley Systems Inc & Anr vs Pnc Infratech Limited & Ors on 13 May, 2024 (Delhi High Court) The plaintiff instituted the present copyright infringement suit against the defendant for continuing to use the plaintiff’s software after the expiry of its license.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 20, 2023

For obvious reasons, the copyright in a photograph does not include the right to publicly perform the copyrighted work. 103(a) (“protection for a work employing preexisting material in which copyright subsists does not extend to any part of the work in which such material has been used unlawfully.”).

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 6, 2022

Therefore, a copy-paste implementation of the provision during the implementation process is simply not an option if no additional guidelines are provided on how the safeguards can be made operational in practice. One of the tasks of such DSCs is to certify out-of-court dispute settlement bodies.

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