TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

1, 2017 to the present. 1, 2017 to present. 1, 2017 to the present. All social media account usernames used including for Reddit, Twitter and Facebook January 1, 2016 to present. In addition, it seeks information on other social media profiles, where more relevant information might be found.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 19, 2024

Extradition For Convicted Pirate Between 2014 and 2017, Michael Hornung supplied around 2,700 set-top boxes that provided unauthorized access to subscription broadcasters’ content, notably that to which Sky owned the rights. As one might expect, pirates tend not to enjoy services being shut down.

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Patently-O

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

The phrase comes from Lizzo’s 2017 song Truth Hurts (remade in 2019) that has become a viral sleeper hit. Rather, Lizzo apparently saw a social media meme about being 100% that b h and then added it to her song. The original line in the song is “I just took a DNA test, turns out I’m 100% that b h.”

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 3, 2022

This came to a head in 2017 when the filmmaker Rick Allen sued the State of North Carolina over alleged illegal copying of footage he shot of Blackbeard’s sunken ship. So, if you haven’t done so yet, take a moment to either follow this site on social media or sign up for the newsletter using the links in the sidebar.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 6, 2022

From a few early steps in 2016/2017 and more recently in 2022 , services are being dynamically blocked and many individuals have been arrested for broadcasting or selling access to the league’s games without permission. LaLiga Strikes Again. Top-tier Spanish football league LaLiga is now tackling live streaming piracy on all fronts.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 10, 2022

Defendants also managed the social media presence of the “La Baguette” business, which primarily consisted of a Facebook page. Moore, Find Out Who Your Friends Are: A Framework for Determining Whether Employees’ Social Media Followers Follow Them to A New Job, 39 CAMPBELL L. 493 (2017); Courtney J.

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SpicyIP

JUNE 17, 2022

The New-York based cosmetics company reportedly struggled due to competition from other established brands as well as a host of small companies that use social media. Smaller / niche cosmetic brands have noticeably increased even in the Indian social media space. v Sarita Manufacturing Co., 1997 PTC 394.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 23, 2023

On Thursday, SCOTUS sided with Twitter on a content liability claim, ruling that Twitter was not culpable for the 2017 Istanbul shooting by connecting ISIS-affiliated accounts. Will the courts strike down those regulations? If not, the Internet is doomed. What were you expecting?

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IPilogue

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Sedlik claims that Kat Von D infringed the copyright protection of his iconic photograph of world-famous jazz musician Miles Davis (“Davis”) when she tattooed the image onto a client’s body without authorization and posted photos of the tattoo on social media. On May 31, 2022, Judge Dale S. Background.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 18, 2024

The term “link taxes” refer to the government compulsion of large Internet services, such as social media or search engines, to pay news media for indexing and publishing their headlines and links. 4) Social media “defective design” lawsuits go forward. #StopTheSADScheme. Does anyone care?

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 9, 2022

The protests were targeted at Vladimir Putin so, in return, Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) made requests to local social media giant vKontakte to begin blocking opposition groups on the basis they were trying to organize a revolution. A fight for control of the online narrative began.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 11, 2023

These contract law provisions, totally alien to the Irish legal tradition, are designed to apply in negotiations and contractual relationships between artists and commercial exploiters of their works, including social media platforms and streaming services.

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Copyright Lately

JUNE 2, 2022

When lighting technician Blake Farmer got a tattoo of Miles Davis from celebrity tattoo artist Kat Von D in 2017, he never could have imagined that the image on his right arm would one day become Exhibit A in a copyright infringement lawsuit. Kat Von D’s Instagram post. The court split on the second and third fair use factors. Odds and Ends.

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Copyright Lately

MARCH 16, 2025

Most of Woodalls claims were dismissed on statute of limitations grounds at summary judgment , leaving just his allegations related to the post-2017 home video distribution of Moana on DVD and Blu-ray. Let me know in the comments below or @copyrightlately on social media. Should courts take a more proactive approach to access?

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Development of Genshin Impact began in 2017 and when it launched in 2020 utilizing a free-to-play model, a development budget of $100 million was on the line. In recent comments on social media, Ubatcha revealed that Discord had issued a warning over leaks being posted on the Wangsheng Funeral Parlor channel.

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JIPEL Copyright Blog

APRIL 26, 2021

million followers on Instagram, was allegedly making “ seven figures ” as of 2017, and has a book on the New York Times bestseller list (Tik Tok commenters would remind you, however, that her listing had a dagger next to it). Danielle Bernstein is a 28-year-old New York City influencer and founder of the brand We Wore What (“WWW”).

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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. Court orders have led to LibGen being blocked in several countries, but completely eliminating the threat has been extremely difficult.

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The TTABlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Andrusiek's "actual" trademark use on comic books did not begin until 2017, but from 2006 he used the term as the name of a character, which the Board accepted as use analogous to trademark use, leading to the award of priority to Andrusiek. Andrusiek's identical mark, for which he claimed prior use for comic books.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 7, 2023

In 2017, the site removed ‘just’ 4,352 pieces of content in response to copyright holders’ complaints. One of the rejected notices was sent by someone who tried to have a post removed from a subreddit dedicated to “ snarking ” social media influencers.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 16, 2024

Given the sheer number of platforms ACE has shut down since 2017, running a pirate IPTV service so openly with the above as background, makes zero sense.

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Copyright Lately

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Hanagami first sued Epic in March 2022 over the Fortnite emote “ It’s Complicated ,” which Hanagami claims is an unauthorized copy of the choreography he published for the 2017 song “ How Long” by Charlie Puth. As always, let me know what you think in the comments below or @copyrightlately on social media.

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Copyright Lately

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

The case now focuses exclusively on the post-2017 home video distribution of Moana on DVD and Blu-ray. With the case now limited to post-2017 home video distribution, Woodall wont be able to claim a share of Moana s estimated $685 million box office haul. Let me know in the comments below or @copyrightlately on social media.

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43(B)log

MARCH 1, 2022

Anyway, Bell goes around suing unauthorized users of the passage, mostly public schools or nonprofits that publish the passage on social media. That’s what Chisholm Trail High School’s softball team and color guard did in 2017, on Twitter, to under 1000 followers, crediting Bell. But that’s not plausible.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 30, 2023

Flawless decided to cover both angles by selling direct from its own website and social medias, and also indirectly via a network of resellers. Charity Received Complaints Crimestoppers, a UK charity famous for its anonymous tip lines, is said to have received complaints about Flawless in the summer of 2017.

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The IPKat

JULY 12, 2024

Brat green: from the streets of NYC to the domination of social media and then to the catwalks (?) This state of pandemonium across social media platforms swiftly led fashion brands and luxury retailers to capitalize on this frenzy by re-branding their green products as ‘brat’.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 24, 2023

For example, the most aggressive companies in pursuing web-scraping litigation are the social media companies. And while their terms of use provide the social media companies a license to use that user-generated content, it is their users who typically have a copyright interest in their content. LinkedIn Corp.

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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. Breitbart News Network LLC in which U.S.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Under handles including “Omi in a Hellcat” and “Targetin1080p” Carrasquillo publicized almost everything he did on social media, from selling pirate subscriptions and devices, to banking the mountains of cash he undoubtedly made from the service. From there, the situation only became worse.

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The IPKat

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Her description of the various ways in which Amazon is seeking to help brands battle counterfeits (via, for example, its 2017-launched Brand Registry) corroborated her expressed view that counterfeits are bad news for marketplaces too and it is in everyone’s best interests to be proactive. Largely, these are destroyed.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 4, 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. However, both shadow libraries remained online and continue to operate to this day. The request isn’t limited to IPFS gateways, of course.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 25, 2024

98, 107 (2017) for the passage that social media has become the “modern public square.” — Justice Alito writes that “research suggests that social media are having a devastating effect on many young people, leading to depression, isolation, bullying, and intense pressure to endorse the trend or cause of the day.” .

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IP and Legal Filings

MAY 28, 2024

The article talks about the provisions of the newly implemented Mental Healthcare Act, 2017, and attempts to analyze them critically. Thus, taking a holistic approach, the writers attempt to discuss how the Mental Healthcare Act, 2017 helped mentally ill persons. rose steadily. [vii] 07, 12: 1015 (2020). 14, 1917-32 (2021). [ix]

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The TTABlog

JANUARY 8, 2024

Andrusiek's "actual" trademark use on comic books did not begin until 2017, but from 2006 he used the term as the name of a character, which the Board accepted as use analogous to trademark use, leading to the award of priority to Andrusiek. Andrusiek's identical mark, for which he claimed prior use for comic books.

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The IPKat

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Image: Easy Life's Life's A Beach tour poster as included in documents submitted to the High Court Easy Life , the band, formed in 2017, three years before easyGroup filed its registration. Interestingly, the second, filed 10 September 2021, [UK00003692922] is currently opposed [OP000429904]. 7 on the UK Albums Chart a day after its release.

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SpicyIP

JUNE 27, 2022

the definitions) and Part II (dealing with intermediaries and social media intermediaries) of the IT Rules, 2021 and primarily impacts only the intermediaries in terms of their obligations under Rule 3. 2017) 240 DLT 3] and in Amway India Enterprises Pvt. What are the proposed amendments? Broadly, the proposed amendments are: 1.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 1, 2023

In our brave new world where millions of ordinary people are copyright holders of snaps they publish to social media or videos they upload to YouTube, awareness of copyright law is at an all-time high. The Klein’s emerged victorious from a lawsuit in 2017 after mounting a successful fair use defense.

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LexBlog IP

AUGUST 17, 2021

We all have our gripes about social media, but the biggest one for creators who rely upon the platforms to distribute their content is that they’re helping those companies more than they’re benefiting themselves. But creators are left with little recourse if they want access to the wider audience that social media provides.

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