TorrentFreak

MARCH 15, 2022

A few years ago, Advanced TV Network (ATN) was a dominant player in the Swedish IPTV market. 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. The reasons for the reversal are rather unique.

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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. ” Market Effect. Newman appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. Monsarrat admitted.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 8, 2024

We usually get ours at the local farmers market.] CV H-17-1068, 2017 WL 2957912, at *8 (S.D. July 11, 2017) (holding that “the mere purchase of AdWords alone, without directing a consumer to a potentially confusing web page, is not sufficient for a claim of trademark infringement,” citing Mary Kay, 601 F. ” Say what?

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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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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Russia began cracking down on VPNs in 2017 to help deter copyright infringement. “This is an obvious trade barrier and real threat to the free market,” ACT writes in its letter to the USTR. — 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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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

MARCH 25, 2025

Hoping to fill in the gaps, TorrentFreak requested a copy of the court order. The supply of CCCAM servers focused on Sky broadcasts may have laid the groundwork for its entry into the IPTV market towards 2014/2015. Similar claims featured in subsequent submissions to the EC and the USTR’s Notorious Markets Report.

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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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The IP Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

It apparently conducted market research and discovered that P&P was one of the most successful sellers on Amazon in this category. It further alleged that Johnson Enterprises intended to “deceive the public as to the source or origin” of its game to benefit from “P&P’s goodwill and reputation in the four in a row market.”.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 6, 2022

” With respect to whether Babybus’ baby character infringed Moonbug’s baby, Babybus claimed that the alleged copying related to generic features found in nature. . Day to Day Imports. * Satirical Depiction in YouTube Video Gets Rough Treatment in Court. * 512(f) Preempts Tortious Interference Claim–Copy Me That v.

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Plagiarism Today

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Nearly all the marketing focuses on using the new service rather than what it means for existing artists. The most prominent one was the “ they’re selling your images ” one from 2017, where users were afraid that the site’s terms of service made it possible for their artwork to appear on t-shirts for sale without their explicit permission.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 23, 2023

“I added basic file management and a web browser to Downloader in February 2017 because users complained that it was too tedious to enter long URLs using a remote control and the on-screen keyboard,” Saba informs TorrentFreak. A copy of the injunction isn’t available because the domain itself is completely broken.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

“[T]he illegal market on the Internet is constantly and rapidly developing, which is why it has been necessary to carry out a slight revision of the CoC agreement,” Rights Alliance explains. In 2017, Danish ISPs were blocking around 100 pirate sites , a figure that jumped to 478 in 2020. How Will The System Work?

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IPilogue

JULY 21, 2021

The case started on March 17, 2017, when Motorola Solutions alleged that Hytera Communications, a Chinese radio manufacturer rival, leveraged its exposed trade secrets in creating Hytera’s DMR products. copyright laws by copying their source code, it also complained that Hytera infringed the federal Defend Trade Secrets Act.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 1, 2024

Copying or reproduction remains relevant, as does the concept of distribution. According to the indictment, Valverde marketed Fenix and attracted subscribers through a network of resellers, each of whom sold monthly subscriptions via so-called reseller credits. Between 2017 and July 2021, Valverde sold reseller credits to ‘J.R.D’,

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Over the course of a decade, Google copied large volumes of books and made them available online, both through excerpts, known as “snippets”, and as entire publications. Instead, Google Books was found to support the marketing of books by giving them increased public exposure.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 15, 2023

“For example, Defendants Rays IPTV LLC and Daud market the Infringing Service to the public by promising ‘No More Expensive Cable Bills,’ and targeting consumers ‘tired of paying too many bills for too little channels.’” a company doing business at an address in Jackson Heights, New York. .

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

The blog post in question was written by Rebecca Marsh, the bank’s Vice President of Marketing & Communications. 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.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

The complaint states that Boomer is the author of the massively popular Roblox games Weight Lifting Simulator (released in 2017/18) and a game with a similar theme called Muscles Legends (2019). The same gameplay mechanics also appear in Get Muscles Simulator but the complaint alleges that copying goes well beyond that.

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IP and Legal Filings

JULY 28, 2022

Government of India enacted the Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Act 2016 and the act came into force with effect from May 1, 2017. As a result, the Maharashtra government also issued the following regulations: Maharashtra Real Estate Regulatory Authority, Officers and Employees (Appointment and Service Conditions) Rules, 2017.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 8, 2021

” Market Effect. “Because Defendant does not dispute that it copied the entire Emmy Statuette to create the Crony Graphic, the Court finds a presumption of bad faith to be appropriate here.” Prior Posts on Section 512(f): * 512(f) Preempts Tortious Interference Claim–Copy Me That v. .” Amount Taken.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

WCT’s principal testified that he continued developing a new version of the Bike+ app from 2017 until 2020, writing “over 2.4 All of Peloton’s marketing materials that mention the term ‘Bike+’ are also branded with the [Peloton] mark.” Actual confusion: none, despite market coexistence since September 2020; favored Peloton.

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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. In general, any clothing, including costumes, is not protected by copyright laws. There are notable exceptions.

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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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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

OCTOBER 2, 2022

The plaintiff, NOC, is a teenager who has copyrighted designs in hand-drawn dots that Target allegedly copied in the clothing line. However, Target’s allegedly infringing works apparently were designed no later than December 2017. Reposted to Instagram in 2017 and got 168 likes and 4 comments. –Cooley v. Target Corp.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 30, 2022

The software’s creators always distanced themselves from illegal activity but third-party sellers beyond their control marketed “fully loaded” Kodi boxes as ideal tools for piracy. A few years ago, Kodi found itself at the center of this add-on controversy. This is a working paper that hasn’t yet been peer-reviewed.

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43(B)log

DECEMBER 16, 2022

I spent years teaching fitness and developing The Sculpt Society method before launching in 2017.” Claims that a defendant invented a product to fill a gap in the market, and the resulting implications regarding the innovativeness of a defendant’s product, constitute puffery rather than an assertion of fact.”

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 26, 2021

This seems to have pushed EU Member States towards compliance – the latest examples here are the Irish European Union (Copyright and Related Rights in the Digital Single Market) Regulations 2021 (19 November), the Italian Decree (published on 27 November), and the Estonian Act implementing the Directive (8 December). We reported on this here.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Furthermore, it’s alleged that DataCamp was sent copies of lawsuits and judgments relating to pirate IPTV services but the company’s responses were completely lacking. It alleges that DataCamp markets its CDN as specializing in “live stream processing” while assisting customers with IPTV/OTT delivery.

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43(B)log

MARCH 1, 2022

Bell continues to market his 1982 72-page book, and also sells merchandise, “including t-shirts and posters that display the passage that was quoted in the tweets.” That’s what Chisholm Trail High School’s softball team and color guard did in 2017, on Twitter, to under 1000 followers, crediting Bell. NXIVM Corp. Ross Institute, 364 F.3d

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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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IP and Legal Filings

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

According to a report by Markets and Markets, the cryptocurrency market is expected to grow from USD 1.6 In a broad sense, blockchain technology can be defined as an open ledger of information that is used to keep a digital record of the transactions that occur in the crypto market. billion in 2021 to USD 2.2

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Given the ongoing shift in the TV market away from terrestrial and satellite delivery in favor of IP-based services, cloud recording services are no longer the big deal they once were. 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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IP and Legal Filings

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Forms of digital media or virtual artworks are traded among NFT traders in the current NFT market practice, frequently for astronomically high prices. 2560 (2017) and Section 140 of the Civil and Commercial Code of Thailand, which are further expanded upon in other provisions.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 15, 2022

Day to Day Imports. * Satirical Depiction in YouTube Video Gets Rough Treatment in Court. * 512(f) Preempts Tortious Interference Claim–Copy Me That v. Benjamin. * How Have Section 512(f) Cases Fared Since 2017? Chen appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. . * A 512(f) Plaintiff Wins at Trial!

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

The recent signing of the Digital Markets Act and the ongoing negotiations on the proposal for a Data Act present excellent opportunities to expand on the novel phenomenon. Careful readers as yourself will note that the 2017 Regulation on Cross-Border Portability of Online Content Services was omitted from the list above. Why is that?

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