Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 18, 2021

Though originally released in 2018, Among Us became wildly popular during the pandemic, with streamers and gamers alike discovering it and enjoying both the cartoonish art style and the intrigue of trying to suss out who the imposters are. However, it wasn’t the end of Epic Games’ issues with copying.

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JULY 12, 2021

This represents approximately 20% of all mechanical rights royalties paid, or around $11 million in 2018. The MLC was created as part of the Music Modernization Act (MMA) and is responsible for collecting mechanical royalties where the rightsholder can not be identified and then attempt to distribute them.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

The lawsuit was filed by rapper Anthony Campbell, who claimed that the 2018 song Everyday We Lit by YFN Lucci was an infringement of Campbell’s 2016 song Everything Be Lit. Campbell filed the lawsuit in 2018 and the lawsuit quickly ended as none of the defendants participated in the case, resulting in a default judgment.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

In a case dating back to 2018, BREIN focused on a torrent site and eliminated both. The man and woman signed an abstention agreement back in 2018, just like the couple mentioned above. Pirate Couple Caught Uploading Although it probably wouldn’t shy away from the opportunity, BREIN tends not to chase down casual pirates.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

1348 (2018). . For petitioners, they will need to carefully decide when to file IPRs and fully consider all of the invalidity defenses that they will be estopped from bringing up later in the district courts. FOOTNOTES. [1] 2020-2222, F.2d 3d 1293 (Fed.

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Plagiarism Today

JULY 28, 2021

According to the complaint, Kidsburg opened on October 31, 2018 and Kids’ Town sent its first letter in December of that year. However, Rexburg denied any infringement though they did change the logo for Kidsburg. Kids’ Town is seeking $3,892 in damages for lost sales as well as an injunction barring further infringement.

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Plagiarism Today

DECEMBER 15, 2021

In 2018, the UK retailer John Lewis caused a bit of a stir when children’s book illustrator Chris Riddell accused them of plagiarizing his book as part of an ad campaign. This article not only explores the (relatively) recent phenomenon of the Christmas hit but also explains where the money is going. 4: 5 Christmas Copyright Myths.

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Erik K Pelton

JANUARY 31, 2022

See 2018: Beware of scam from WTMR – World Trademark Register. The services are worthless. The $980.00 The address listed in PO Box 22546 in Fort Lauderdale, FL 33335-2546. Their address has changed several times over the years. See 2021: Beware of latest trademark scam from WTMR, LLC.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 24, 2021

Next up today, Daniel Goldblatt at The Wrap reports that filmmaker Michael Moore is facing a lawsuit from Flint, Michigan resident Darick Lemons over footage that was used in Moore’s 2018 film Fahrenheit 11/9. According to Goldblatt, in 2016 he shot video of President Barack Obama visiting Flint and uploaded the footage to YouTube.

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Erik K Pelton

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Since 2018 Farm Bill law made many hemp and CBD products and services legal under Federal law, and could be eligible for USPTO trademark registration. Have you been counseled regarding potential state, Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and other regulations covering packaging and use of brand names and logos on certain products.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 19, 2021

In 2018, the government targeted it over a dispute dealing with encryption keys and the service was able to remain online. According to Eksmo-AST, the plaintiff in the case, Telegram is not doing enough to block this abuse of its network and, under Russian law, either needs to improve its practices or be blocked.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 9, 2021

This new one addresses the time period between July 26, 2018 to the present and accuses Charter of doing little in response to some 150,000 notices of infringement, including notices targeting “flagrant and serial infringers.”

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Plagiarism Today

APRIL 7, 2022

Though Amazon did remove some 2,000 descriptions in 2018, that came after Amazon asserted that they had proper authorization to use the descriptions and that there was nothing they could do. In 2015, FDN filed a DMCA takedown notice, but Amazon did not take down the work in question.

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Plagiarism Today

JULY 13, 2021

In November 2018, a judge granted a search warrant for White’s property and, a year later, he pleaded guilty to one count of criminal copyright infringement and one count of tax evasion. The investigation began almost 8 years ago when PayPal sent information to the alleged infringing sites to Homeland Security.

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Plagiarism Today

MARCH 7, 2022

The lawsuit was filed in 2018, and Sheeran attempted to get the lawsuit tossed without any luck. The lawsuit was filed by musicians Sami Chokri and Ross O’Donoghue, who claim that Shape of You infringes on their 2015 work Oh Why. Specifically, they claim that the song copies “particular lines and phrases” from their piece.

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Plagiarism Today

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

On Tuesday, accusations were leveled against Corden that he had retold a joke originally performed by Ricky Gervais in 2018. The problem, as many pointed out, was the Ricky Gervais told almost the same joke in 2018, including the comparison to a public square and a notice for guitar lessons. .

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Plagiarism Today

JUNE 8, 2022

However, it was in 2018 that she was offered an additional contract. For this, her payment jumped from $220,000 to $510,000 in 2018 and remained above $500,000 in 2019. At the beginning of this term, she was making $120,000 per year, an amount that had grown to $220,000 in 2016 and 2017.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 11, 2023

In April 2018, a person who identified themselves as ‘Bill’ opened a support ticket at Flawless. The Beginning of the End When arrests of those behind Flawless began in May 2018, information obtained from seized devices revealed the existence of ‘Bill’ and the information he’d supplied to Flawless.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 21, 2024

Classifying Countries by Piracy Volume and Growth The full report includes a rather insightful graph that ranks countries based on the number of visits to pirate sites per citizen, and how the rate has changed between 2018 and 2023. This allows for an intuitive comparison and highlights where piracy presents the biggest threat.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 16, 2022

The dispute reaching a boiling point in 2018 when Piaggio had several of Kumpan scooters confiscated at a tradeshow. Piaggio has long claimed that Kumpan’s electric scooter is both a copyright and a trademark infringement of their design.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 21, 2021

However, the relationship soured quickly and Kairosoft claims to have filed a termination notice in 2018 but Beijing Shi Jun has cut off communication and continued to sell both Kairosoft games and knock offs since. The two companies signed an agreement in 2017 that gave Beijing Shi Jun publishing rights for Kairosoft games in China.

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Plagiarism Today

MAY 4, 2022

The site launched in 2018 and, until recently, was receiving about 18 million visitors per month. Finally today, Andy Maxwell at Torrentfreak writes that the popular anime pirate site AnimeKisa.tv has shut its doors, saying that the unwillingness of their audience to pay made the site untenable.

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IP Law 360

MARCH 27, 2024

million patent infringement win against IBG LLC, in an opinion focusing on how to apply a 2018 U.S. The Federal Circuit on Wednesday rejected Trading Technologies' attempt to increase its $6.6 Supreme Court ruling on foreign damages.

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Erik K Pelton

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

In 2018, there were just 20 filings that referenced pickleball at the USPTO. Although it was invented a couple of decades ago, ever since the pandemic in 2020 its popularity has boomed. Some studies indicate that it’s the fastest-growing sport in the United States. In 2021, there were 80. In the span of 3 years, it grew fourfold.

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IP Watchdog

AUGUST 8, 2024

The motives behind the appellate stage guidelines can be traced back to around 2018, when the Brazilian Patent and Trademark Office (BPTO) began publishing new rules aimed at streamlining and expediting the examination and reducing the pendency time of patent applications, for example, of so called “preliminary office actions”.

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Plagiarism Today

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

However, in 2018, the EU passed new legislation that addressed this area and, while not requiring payments, required search engines to reach deals with local news organizations for the use of headlines, thumbnails and snippets. In response to this, Google pulled Google News from Spain.

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IP Watchdog

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Metz and Jump Rope Systems originally sued Rogue Fitness in 2018. Jump Rope Systems filed the brief in reply to Rogue Fitness’s brief in opposition, which was filed on January 19.

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Plagiarism Today

MARCH 21, 2022

Next up today, Bill Donahue at Billboard reports that the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a lower court decision that favored the electronic musician Marshmello over his 2018 hit song Happier. The law3suit was filed by a producer named Arty that claimed Happier was an infringement of his 2014 remix of OneRepublic’s I Lived.

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IP Watchdog

MARCH 5, 2023

Courthouse in Oakland, California on Prutton’s website in 2018, on a page titled “Where We Work.” District Court for the Northern District of California in April 2022, two months before the Board opened to receive claims. Oppenheimer said he discovered his aerial photograph of the Ronald V. Dellums Federal Building and U.S.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 7, 2021

The story began in August 2018 when the Saudi government blocked access to beIN sports as part of a larger dispute with Qatar. Finally today, Jamie Gardner at The Independent reports that a Saudi-backed bid to purchase the Newcastle United soccer team may finally be going forward after Saudi Arabia has agreed to lift its ban on beIN Sports.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 31, 2024

In Dotcom v Crown Law Office [2018] NZHRRT 7 ( pdf ) , the Human Rights Review Tribunal found that the Crown had indeed interfered with Kim Dotcom’s privacy by rejecting what was described as “multiple, near identical, Privacy Act requests made to all Ministers and nearly every government department for all personal information held about him.”

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Plagiarism Today

MAY 18, 2022

The Watch Tower filed a lawsuit against him in 2018 and has attempted to use DMCA subpoenas to unveil his identity. McFree is the creator of the Dubtown series, which is a stop-motion Lego project that takes place in a fake Jehovah’s Witness town and lampoons various elements of the church.

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 18, 2022

In 2018, a jury found in favor of the labels and ordered Cox to pay $1 billion in damages. Finally today, Ernesto Van der Sar at Torrentfreak writes that U.S. The lawsuit was filed against Cox by a group of major record labels and alleged that Cox was not taking adequate steps to combat piracy on its service.

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Plagiarism Today

APRIL 19, 2022

In 2018, Turnitin launched their Authorship Investigation tool , which aimed to help teachers detect when a paper was not written by the same person. Copyleaks is not alone in this effort. The goal there was to look at a particular student’s style and see if a new work matches previous known work by them. .

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APRIL 7, 2022

The program, which was founded in 2018, will provide guides for best practices for cloud providers. Finally today, Security Magazine reports that the Motion Picture Association (MPA) has launched a new initiative aimed at decreasing piracy through better cloud security. The new initiative is through the Trusted Partner Network (TPN).

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IP Law 360

JULY 8, 2024

The Federal Circuit issued its first en banc patent decision since 2018, a circuit judge's suspension was solidified and courts shed further light on foreign damages and skinny labels. Here's a look back at these rulings and other top patent decisions from the first half of 2024.

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 19, 2022

However, that was defeated by the German Supreme Court in 2018. The company first tried to argue that the company was anti-competitive by both blocking ads and simultaneously running an “Acceptable Ads” program.

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