Plagiarism Today

MAY 11, 2022

To support their claims, Riot included images of similar characters and elements between the two games, making the argument that Moonton crossed the line into copyright infringement. This is actually the second lawsuit between the two, as Riot sued Moonton over similar allegations in 2017. million settlement in 2018.

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Plagiarism Today

DECEMBER 8, 2022

1: Trio Of Radio Groups Sued By GMR Challenge Copyright Infringement Claims. GMR has reached similar settlements with other radio groups, including one with the Radio Music License Committee. The lawsuit was filed by Jingna Zhang, who alleged that Dieschurg copied a photo she took in 2017 when creating a painting.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 25, 2022

In 2017, BREIN booked a prominent victory at the European Court of Justice, which ruled that it’s illegal to sell devices that are pre-configured to access copyright-infringing content. Operator Located, Settlement Reached. This settlement figure is relatively modest compared to what we have seen elsewhere.

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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! However, the plaintiffs rejected this proposition.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 28, 2021

This damages figure was reduced in a settlement agreement but, soon after, the Internet provider was hit with a $1 billion jury verdict in a similar case, which is still under appeal. In 2017, DMCA notices were separated from other abuse complaints. From: TF , for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

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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

JULY 11, 2024

Catching IPTV Pirates In 2017, BREIN booked a prominent victory at the European Court of Justice, which ruled that it’s illegal to sell devices that are pre-configured to access copyright-infringing content. The man also agreed to pay an undisclosed settlement fee and 7,500 euros per day if any future infringements occur.

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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. Minc Law (Sept.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 27, 2022

These lawsuits can be a lucrative business, especially when targeted defendants opt for quick settlements of a few thousand dollars. The money comes on top of the deterrent factor, which is often cited by copyright holders as one of the main reasons to take action. Edge Cases.

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Plagiarism Today

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

The service disappeared from the internet in June 2017 as the result of a lawsuit and an injunction filed in Canada against Lackman. 3: Nykaa Settles Copyright Infringement Litigation With L’Oreal, Stocks Rally Post News. 3: Nykaa Settles Copyright Infringement Litigation With L’Oreal, Stocks Rally Post News.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 10, 2023

BREIN Has Targeted 370 IPTV sellers since ‘Filmspeler’ In a roundup published this week, BREIN reveals that in 2022 alone, it tracked down and identified 19 suppliers of pirate IPTV subscriptions, before dealing with them under civil copyright law. He agreed to pay a relatively small settlement of 500 euros.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 31, 2022

The Digital Economy Act 2017 was the government’s attempt at creating a better, safer internet for citizens in the UK. As detailed in our previous reporting , Voltage Holdings is a member of FACT Administration LLP , a UK corporate structure behind the latest settlement scheme. FACT Administration LLP. Good luck with that too.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 27, 2023

The money comes on top of the deterrent factor, which is often cited by copyright holders as one of the main reasons to take action. On the whole, however, the copyright infringement problem is rather persistent, which is exemplified by Strike 3’s track record.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 3, 2023

Filed in February 2022, a DISH Network copyright infringement lawsuit demanded $32.5m The complaint alleged that DataCamp failed to take appropriate action against 11 pirate IPTV services flagged by DISH as repeat infringers, through the sending of more than 400 DMCA notices to DataCamp.

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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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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. To support this claim, the movie companies turn to evidence handed to them as part of a settlement deal with the operator of the YTS torrent site.

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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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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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IP and Legal Filings

DECEMBER 17, 2023

[viii] Spotify, Pandora and other companies also follow the principle of settlement rather than compliance in their regimes. ix] It is essentially a cheap get out of jail free card for companies like Spotify who use copyright litigation and time as a weapon to cede the music label into bowing down. [x] 297 (2017). INT’l L.

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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. Mitrakos, 22-CCB-0035 , February 15, 2023, and Oppenheimer v. Prutton, 22-CCB-0045 , February 28, 2023.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 3, 2022

The WIN Passage is subject to a separate copyright registration and he offers licenses for its use. In December 2017, Chisholm Trail High School’s softball team and color guar posted the WIN Passage to their Twitter accounts. He offers merchandise, including t-shirts and posters, that display the WIN Passage.

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SpicyIP

AUGUST 14, 2023

We also had guest posts by Rahul Bajaj on Delhi High Court’s pragmatic approach while granting an interim injunction in the Modern Foods case, and by Varsha Sharma on Delhi High Court’s order regarding retrospective interpretation of TM 2017 Rules. Bhutanese musical artists call for strict implementation of copyright laws.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

But that is the basis of Lidl’s trade mark infringement, passing off and copyright infringement claim against Tesco. Where there has been a long period of settlement discussions, for example, or where a case goes to an appeal – five years can creep up all too quickly. The images below show the marks and sign at issue.

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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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TorrentFreak

JULY 23, 2023

That includes copyright infringement. Primarily, we stress that our service is not intended to be used for illegal activities and copyright infringements and we request our users to comply with this when accepting our Terms of Use. If we receive any type of DMCA requests or Copyright Infringement Notices – we ignore them.

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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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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 20, 2023

Thus, if an artist creates a derivative work based on a photograph unlawfully , and copies of that derivative work are reproduced and distributed to the public, the owner of copyright in the photograph is entitled to sue for copyright infringement and to recover remedies for the unlawful use of their photograph.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 14, 2023

In 2017, BREIN booked a prominent victory at the European Court of Justice, which ruled that it’s illegal to sell devices that are pre-configured to access copyright-infringing content. In addition, the operator faced a fine of €25,000 per day should the service be restored, plus a €10,000 fine for each future infringement.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 6, 2022

However, non-infringing uploads by users should expressly not be subject to preventive filtering and blocking, and Article 17(7) list specific uses covered by copyright exceptions and limitation which must be available to users of such platforms, including uses for the purposes of quotation, criticism and review and caricature, parody or pastiche.

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Copyright Lately

DECEMBER 12, 2022

In 1994, allegations of copyright infringement, not obscenity, landed 2 Live Crew at the steps of the U.S. ” The Court held that 2 Live Crew’s version qualified as a non-infringing fair use because it was a parody that sufficiently transformed the Orbison original. “Clean,” “Pretty” and Fair.

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Lodha TM battle Following disagreements over how a family settlement agreement is to be interpreted, the Lodha brothers are tangling over the Lodha trademark. Key questions as to who owns the copyright arose as Saregama India argued that a films producer is the first owner of the copyright of all its musical works.

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 31, 2024

The Rules are aimed at amending the Trade Marks Rules, 2017. The Multitude of AI and IP developments In addition to the news of the first Indian copyright dispute on infringement via a Large Language Model, Artificial Intelligences interplay with IP was also under the spotlight in the Parliament.

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