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

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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Michael Geist

DECEMBER 3, 2024

It has already entered into licensing agreements with several content creators, including other news media organizations.” Instead, they point to how much they have produced or licensed with the assumption that it is all scraped by OpenAI. The data was cut off in 2017, well within the range of the lawsuit.

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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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Michael Geist

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The truth is that Canadian universities spend millions of dollars on licensing copyright materials. In fact, over the past decade, the emergence of site licenses that provide access to millions of works – books, journal articles, newspapers, and more – has led to huge increases in expenditures for access.

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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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SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Kirloskar Press, the Bombay High Court (BHC) began proceedings on what may become the first instance of a literary work being compulsory licensed in India. As such, the petitioner approached the court under Section 32 of the Copyright Act for a compulsory license. Recently, in the matter of Anil G Karkhanis v.

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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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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

The brands (hereafter Bellies) were licensed to Every Bite Counts Pty Ltd ("EBC"), including a range of Puffs products. EBC licensed the nine bright and colourful artistic works and used them on various food products including biscuits, puffs and fiddlesticks. baby, young, and fully-grown) to allude to natural progression.

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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. Victor Elias specializes in hotel and resort photography.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Marsh was under the impression that the payment for the stock image library meant that all photos were properly licensed. Late December 2017, a few months after the blog post was published, Mr. Bell wrote in demanding the immediate takedown of the photo as well as a settlement payment of $5,000. Lucrative Settlements.

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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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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. Kat Von D did not request authorization or a license to reproduce the image. On May 16, 2017, Kat Von D posted the final image of the tattoo on her personal Instagram account. Background.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 30, 2023

Operating from 2016 until 2018, the Flawless IPTV service copied subscription TV broadcasts from official (and unofficial) sources and then restreamed that content to tens of thousands of customers, at a dramatically cut down price. In common with licensed services, pirate IPTV providers have broadly two options for reaching the market.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Recording a license agreement concerning an EU trade mark is not mandatory but has several benefits (see the EUIPO’s trade mark Guidelines ): The license has effects vis-à-vis third parties ( Art. Background Brandavid Oy (‘Brandavid’) owned three EU trade marks, which it licensed exclusively to Oy Shaman Spirits Ltd.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MARCH 16, 2022

The consultation sought views on the prospects for facilitating patent and copyright protections for “inventions and creative works which are made by AI”, and for making easier the use of copyright-protected material by AI in innovation and research, through alternative approaches to licensing and text and data mining (TDM) exceptions.

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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. We have not previously considered what is required for a copy to persist for more than a transitory period. in February 2017. 2017 WL 11665339 (SDNY Feb. * Hebenstreit v. 26, 2021). UMG Recordings, Inc.,

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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. The defense further notes that YouTube allows creators to publish content under a Creative Commons license , which specifically allows others to reuse the content.

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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. Amazon.com, Inc.

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SpicyIP

AUGUST 13, 2024

Lastly, I contrast the outcome of the judgement with MHC’s decision in Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC , wherein the Court had granted the patent without looking into the question of enablement, independent of the 3(k) inquiry. Do the 2017 guidelines include the same? The 2017 guidelines do not even mention ‘technical effect.’

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IPilogue

AUGUST 23, 2021

On July 30, the Supreme Court of Canada released their much-anticipated judgement in York University v Canadian Copyright Licensing Agency (Access Copyright) [ York University ]. In this case, but for the students, there would be no copying. Background. per full-time student and $0.10

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MARCH 13, 2024

The purpose of copyright, at its very basic level, finds its normative implementation in the interplay between access to protected works and the protection of the moral and material interest of creators (see Geiger, 2017 ). licenses for specific uses). 6(1), and even exclude certain institutions from the remuneration requirement (art.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Does 1-10 are described as the infringing IPTV service’s operators, who knowingly and unlawfully transmit, and publicly perform in the United States, TV channels for which DISH holds or held an exclusive license. ” The complaint is available here (pdf) From: TF , for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

In letters sent to around 20 companies, TTVK warned that without proper licensing, these services were illegal and must be shut down. TVkaista said that since its service was similar to a VCR or a DVR, that would be legal under Finnish law since private copying is permitted for personal use.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 1, 2023

By Guest Blogger Tyler Ochoa Recently, the Ninth Circuit reaffirmed what has become known as the “server test”: in order to be held directly liable for violating the public display right, the alleged infringer must have a fixed “copy” of the work stored on a server in its possession or control. Instagram, LLC , 2023 WL 4554649 (9th Cir.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 12, 2023

. “While the commercially viable recordings will have been restored or remastered onto LP’s or CD, there is still research value in the artifacts and usage evidence in the often rare 78rpm discs and recordings,” IA wrote following the launch of the project in 2017.

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IPilogue

OCTOBER 28, 2021

In Canada, under section 64(2) of the Copyright Act , it is not an infringement of copyright to reproduce the design of a “useful article”, so long as more than 50 copies are made. Outside of masks and jewellery, a 2017 U.S. Scary Issues with Licensing and Trademarks. There are notable exceptions. It appears in the U.S.,

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Michael Geist

AUGUST 3, 2021

Access Copyright launched the lawsuit against York over copying it said took place from 2011 to 2013, seeking to enforce a Copyright Board approved tariff. York argued that it was not bound by the tariff because it had not agreed to its terms and counter-claimed that any copying at issue was in any event covered by fair dealing.

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JIPL Online

MARCH 15, 2021

3] The suit alleged that Sherlock Holmes’ character traits of warmth and empathy were copied and not yet in the public domain, as these traits only developed in later works that are still protected by copyright. [4] 14] Before lawyers got involved, pressure from the photographer resulted in the granting of a licensing fee. [15]

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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. obtained without express due permission from the license holder). Magic Mantra Vision. [ii] xiii] Recently in Tips Industries Ltd.

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BYU Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The Complaint alleges that Dave Poltrock ("Poltrock"), an employee of MPS, shared the WIN Passage (in the form of a photograph of a crumpled print-out of the passage) on his Twitter account in 2015 and again in 2017. In the Complaint, Bell notes that he offers licensing of the Book and the WIN Passage at reasonable rates.

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The IP Law Blog

MAY 25, 2023

However, the majority rejected this argument, stating that the new expression alone did not determine the purpose or character of the copying use. Justice Sotomayor, in response to the dissent, accused it of creating a false equivalence between the Warhol Foundation’s commercial licensing and Warhol’s original creation.

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The IP Law Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2021

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. Bell, however, sued Wilmott for copyright infringement claiming that it continued to display a copy of the image on its server at a different pinpoint address than before.

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43(B)log

MARCH 1, 2022

Bell allegedly offers licenses for its use. That’s what Chisholm Trail High School’s softball team and color guard did in 2017, on Twitter, to under 1000 followers, crediting Bell. If that were all, copying the WIN Passage would be qualitatively significant. NXIVM Corp. Ross Institute, 364 F.3d 3d 471 (2d Cir.

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IP and Legal Filings

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Such offer can be made only on marketplaces/platforms for digital asset exchanges that are licensed by the SEC. However, the SEC has not yet permitted the trading of any category of NFTs on the licensed digital asset exchanges SEC Notification concerning Rules, Conditions and Procedures for Operating Digital Asset Business. Conclusion.

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Patently-O

MAY 15, 2024

Although Dick/Edison had patented the machine, they were an early adopter of the subscription model and wanted to also be the exclusive seller of copying supplies. Henry’s ink had been specially designed for use with the machine — undermining any arguments that the license restricted use of commodity goods.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 26, 2021

The Parliament highlights the need to guarantee fair, appropriate and proportionate remuneration for authors and performers and in the context of territorial licenses points out that, before taking any follow-up measures, there is a need to consider the voices of rightsholders. We reported on this here.

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