Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 4, 2023

Back in 2018, that resulted in the European Commission handing down a 4.1-billion-euro According to Google, there were at least 50 instances of copying, some of which were “word-for-word”. Copy and Paste Roundup. Google, like many tech companies, is facing increased scrutiny from international regulators. billion-euro ($4.3

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Plagiarism Today

JULY 28, 2021

The lawsuit was filed by Kids’ Town, a child day care and education center, and claims that the City of Rexburg, when creating its Kidsburg child care center, copied various elements including a barn, painted scenery and other elements. However, Rexburg denied any infringement though they did change the logo for Kidsburg.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Nearly all copies of the film were destroyed, but an American copy survived, as Dracula was already public domain in the United States. A Story of Missed Attribution and Missed Opportunity : Finally, this September 2018 article tells the story of the musician Aurelio Voltaire and how his potential big break became something of a bust.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

JANUARY 11, 2023

The SCPA legally protects layouts of integrated circuits upon registration, making them illegal to copy without permission. The deposit can be either a physical copy of the mask work or a digital copy in a format specified by the Office. It is authorized by the federal Semiconductor Chip Protection Act of 1984 (SCPA).

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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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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 24, 2022

A few hours later, he dug into another one of Porter’s books and found that whole paragraphs of it were taken from an article written by two other authors 2018. All it has to do is use readily available plagiarism detection tools to detect works that contain a large volume of clearly copied text.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

The three worked with a company named Construction Technologies and, as part of their work, they would activate unlicensed copies of software for customers by using either cracking programs or key generators to remove license restrictions.

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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. Their pages contained a pair of copyright notices that read, “Nothing on this page may be copied or reproduced without explicit permission.”

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The IPKat

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

You may not love Asian carp, but you will hopefully love copi (and will give the fish a try at your favorite restaurant, thereby preventing ecological disaster). This recasting was done by a Chicago marketing company, Span Studio , which came up with a new name for the fish—"copi". There may be a lot to this change of name.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 21, 2021

They allege that American Skin copies elements from their 2017 screenplay, A Routine Stop. 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.

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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.” Oppenheimer said he discovered his aerial photograph of the Ronald V. Dellums Federal Building and U.S.

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Plagiarism Today

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Though he clarified that they were not “direct copies”, he claimed there were similarities in style, color choices and techniques used that were overwhelming to him. In a 2018 interview, he openly admitted that “All my ideas are stolen anyway,” which many of his fellow artists saw as an open confession to plagiarism.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JANUARY 5, 2023

It is a common practice to make copies of deteriorating or far away cultural heritage. As of 2022, it is not even a new idea to use digital methods to copy heritage, considering that the mass digitisation of cultural heritage, especially books, started more than two decades ago. Photo by awsloley via Pixabay.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

However, there are those who have made cottage industries out of the sale of illegal copies at significantly lower prices. One such individual, a 28-year-old man from Denmark, was spotted by Rights Alliance selling copies of textbooks via DBA, Denmark’s most popular online marketplace.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 7, 2021

However, as the case went along, LAMCO failed to produce any evidence of copying and even admitted that they didn’t own the tracks at issue. The story began in August 2018 when the Saudi government blocked access to beIN sports as part of a larger dispute with Qatar.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

According to the Danish anti-piracy group, the woman had been selling pirated copies of eBooks on a number of online platforms without obtaining permission from copyright holders. “In short, copying e-books is illegal if you do not own the rights to them. A relationship that may matter to her for many years to come.

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 19, 2022

Without this rule, many authors fear the UK market would be flooded with cheaper international copies. However, that was defeated by the German Supreme Court in 2018. According to authors, this enables authors and publishers to sell books at different prices for different countries.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 20, 2022

In 2018, the game companies filed a lawsuit in Australia , targeting several people believed to be linked to the popular “Infamous” cheating mod. With the orders in hand, a search party was permitted to enter several buildings and search, copy, or remove evidence including any computers and documents that were linked to the alleged offenses.

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43(B)log

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Boston Suburban allegedly continued to use the “Logan Car Service” mark in online keyword advertising and in metatags, and continued to copy customer reviews from Boston Carriage’s website and publish them on online review platforms. The actionable alleged misrepresentation is that defendant performed the relevant services.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 7, 2024

He assembled various collages of the images and sent copies by postal mail to Doe and “his ex-wife, his adult child, several of his neighbors, and his place of business.” In our 2018 study, we found seven cases involving male victims. Spencer, the husband, came into possession of these materials via unspecified means.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 24, 2022

” This worked out initially but soon after GitHub took action, copies started to appear. This included one shared by the user “jsemu3”, which Nintendo took down in 2018. As history has shown, new copies are bound to pop up. Again, it was uploaded by a user with a familiar-sounding name; jsemu2.

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43(B)log

AUGUST 11, 2021

It allegedly sold or gave away unauthorized copies of the I-Codes and Custom Codes to both customers and prospective customers. Meanwhile, UpCodes is a for-profit that provides access to materials and tools of particular importance to building professionals, such as the state and local building codes that govern their projects.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 30, 2022

Handling citation after one has finished writing a piece opens the door to serious mistakes, including passages that were copied but not quoted, missing citations and forgotten sources. Turnitin launched such a tool in 2018 and Unicheck has a similar service for their product. However, that is not the case.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

JANUARY 11, 2023

The SCPA legally protects layouts of integrated circuits upon registration, making them illegal to copy without permission. The deposit can be either a physical copy of the mask work or a digital copy in a format specified by the Office. It is authorized by the federal Semiconductor Chip Protection Act of 1984 (SCPA).

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 5, 2023

While no digital content is ever entirely immune from being copied and distributed illegally, photographs and other images are especially vulnerable. Tools enabling users to download, copy, share, and then ultimately mass distribute images exist in, or are accessible from, most phones, tablets, and computers.

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Plagiarism Today

MARCH 15, 2022

Though the name originates from an August 2021 article by Reeves Wiedeman and Lila Shapiro in Vulture , many reporters had written about the story well before that, including an October 2018 article in Publishers Weekly and a December 2020 article by the New York Times. No pirated copies were ever leaked. No ransoms were demanded.

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Patently-O

JANUARY 4, 2024

2024) A recent copyright infringement lawsuit filed by small Boston intellectual property boutique Hsuanyeh Law Group PC (HLG) against international giant Winston & Strawn LLP focuses a dividing line that can highlight when copying the work of another firm is permissible. Winston & Strawn , 23-cv-11193 (S.D.N.Y. Cannon , 789 N.W.2d

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

At these locations, content supplied by the TV providers had its copy protection stripped before being transmitted, stored, and then retransmitted to Gears subscribers using servers and other hardware controlled by Carrasquillo and his co-defendants. 506(a)(1)(A) and 18 U.S.C. §§ 2319(b)(3) and 2 (Counts 4, 13, and 18) 5. Meanwhile, the U.S.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 4, 2024

The majority failed to appreciate the importance of framing and intent and, as predicted in 2018 , YouTube’s 2021 response was inevitable. Specifically, the reported repositories provide to users unauthorized copies of cryptographic keys (prod.keys) extracted from the Nintendo Switch firmware,” Nintendo writes.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 31, 2023

Sony doesn’t mention any in its application either but expects rogue copies to appear on known pirate sites in the near future. Many of these already share copies of the 2018 film “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” and are allegedly “in the process” of pirating the sequel too. f2movies.to

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Indiana Intellectual Property Law

MARCH 11, 2024

.” Valcrum claims to have begun establishing trademark and trade dress rights for this design as early as late 2018.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 10, 2024

That release sold millions of copies reaching the Billboard chart’s top ten. In response, he filed a lawsuit against Warner Chappell in 2018, demanding compensation for the alleged copyright infringements, dating back to 2008. — A copy of the Supreme Court Decision, written by Justice Elena Kagan, is available here (pdf).

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2021

This is the initial copying design (without of the background graphics in the precedent work): The copyright registrant alleged this copying design constituted copyright infringement. The wranglings caused the registrant’s sticker to be removed from Amazon for a total of 44 days in 2018 across several different incidents.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 18, 2024

In April 2018, in the wake of a government announcement that detailed emergency website blocking against sites including Mangamura, the site suddenly disappeared and was never seen again. According to the publishers’ complaint, around 8,200 pirated copies of manga and magazines (73,000 volumes) were offered on Mangamura.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 7, 2021

This stance is not appreciated by all rightsholders and in 2018 the service was taken to court over the issue. With regard to Cloudflare’s CDN service, where the company cached infringing material on its servers, Judge Chhabria concludes that mere copying is not sufficient to prove material contribution. Repeat Infringer Lawsuit.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Sheeran’s attorneys argued the elements that were allegedly copied, namely a chord progression and the harmonic rhythm, were both commonplace in music and not protectable by copyright. This one, filed in 2018 by Structured Asset Sales, however, appears to have survived those hurdles. That case was dismissed in 2017.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 16, 2022

Services such as Turnitin and Unicheck have made it much more difficult to get away with copy and paste plagiarism. For example, Turnitin began offering an AI-powered tool to detect authorship in 2018 and Unicheck began work on their system the year before. As such, a variety of different approaches have taken shape.

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