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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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 19, 2022

Without this rule, many authors fear the UK market would be flooded with cheaper international copies. The law, which took effect January 1, requires publishers that distribute e-books to offer a license to libraries on “reasonable” terms. However, that was defeated by the German Supreme Court in 2018.

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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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Michael Geist

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The truth is that Canadian universities spend millions of dollars on licensing copyright materials. In fact, over the past decade, the emergence of site licenses that provide access to millions of works – books, journal articles, newspapers, and more – has led to huge increases in expenditures for access.

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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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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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TorrentFreak

MAY 10, 2024

While Nealy was doing time, his former partner licensed the Music Specialist catalog to Warner Chappell. 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.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 17, 2023

Also, ignoring copyright licenses is at least arguably copyright infringement, and your fair use claim probably won’t get you out of the lawsuit at the motion to dismiss stage. The court also held that the coders did not have standing to seek damages, but they did have standing to pursue injunctive relief. Complaint at 2.

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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 second comer/licensee assigned the exclusive license to a successor licensee, the defendant in this case. per sticker set. 512(f) Analysis.

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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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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. For many UK football fans, Flawless granted access to the sport they love, at a price they could afford.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 21, 2021

This is also true for Greece, where the first domains were targeted in 2018. Several of these are for proxies or copies of the popular torrent site RARBG, such as rarbgto.org, proxyrarbg.or, rarbgget.org, rarbgmirror.com, and rarbgmirror.org. Site operators can either acquire a license or file an official appeal.

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IPilogue

AUGUST 4, 2021

This is because Copilot would copy small snippets of commonly used code which are unlikely to amount to substantial reproduction or meet the threshold of originality necessary to be protected under copyright. Some licensing agreements contain “copyleft” obligations. What About Copyleft? What Comes Next?

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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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43(B)log

AUGUST 11, 2021

“[I]ts primary funding source is the sale and licensing of publications containing its copyrighted works.” It allegedly sold or gave away unauthorized copies of the I-Codes and Custom Codes to both customers and prospective customers. Where these are not provided, UpCodes has integrated the local amendments.”

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Plagiarism Today

JULY 8, 2021

The most vocal critics were in the open-source programming community , who were upset that GitHub trained their AI on significant amounts of open-source code and can even reproduce that code verbatim in some circumstances, but does not follow the respective open-source licenses. This has led to a massive debate about the legality of Copilot.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 15, 2023

“Twitter fuels its business with countless infringing copies of musical compositions, violating Publishers’ and others’ exclusive rights under copyright law,” the complaint reads. — A copy of the music publishers’ complaint against Twitter, filed at the U.S. This hasn’t changed since Elon Musk took over.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 8, 2023

Adjusted for inflation, imported Japanese N64s changed hands for the equivalent of $1,400 in today’s money; a copy of Super Mario 64? Jumping through these hoops to play a genuine cartridge on a genuine console not only felt ridiculous but probably amounted to a breach of license/copyright. A snip at $165.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 13, 2023

While the industry group’s definition is broad enough to encompass all streaming services offering licensed content, a more specific description for the lion’s share of related piracy is carried out by people using YouTube-ripping tools. It is now the most prevalent form of online music copyright infringement.

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Copyright Lately

AUGUST 2, 2021

The test is premised upon the technical difference between a website that displays a copy of an image hosted on the site’s own server and a site that uses HTML instructions to direct a user’s browser to another server that stores the image. Therefore, there’s no direct infringement. Breitbart News Network.

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Velocity of Content

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Significant amounts of content are available through licenses, including open licenses such as CC BY and CC BY-NC. To what extent are copyrighted works licensed from copyright owners for use as training materials? To your knowledge, what licensing models are currently being offered and used? ROSS Intelligence Inc.,

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IP Tech Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Breitbart News Network, LLC , in 2018, and more recently, in 2021, Nicklen v. Judge Breyer saw no basis to limit the rationale of Perfect 10 to its facts (i.e., embedded images in Google’s search engine’s image results), finding that the ruling relied on the plain language of the statute.

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IPilogue

AUGUST 3, 2021

Copies of the game along with a gamer’s guide packaged in special extra-large cardboard boxes sat unsold on shelves for months. Due to low sales ( under 150,000 copies sold in North America), the game remained a hidden gem for years until Earthbound ’s main character Ness appeared in the popular 1999 fighting game Super Smash Bros.

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JIPL Online

MARCH 15, 2021

3] The suit alleged that Sherlock Holmes’ character traits of warmth and empathy were copied and not yet in the public domain, as these traits only developed in later works that are still protected by copyright. [4] 14] Before lawyers got involved, pressure from the photographer resulted in the granting of a licensing fee. [15]

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SpicyIP

JULY 1, 2021

Printed copies, adaptations or publications with new material would only widen the dissemination of these works. If local publishers are not charged hefty royalties or licensing fees, they can make these books available at cheaper prices and reduce their distribution costs. vii), Balbharati Copyright Policy].

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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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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 30, 2022

Remember the Fifth Circuit case from 2018 holding that a real restaurant’s name could infringe trademark rights in the name of a fictional restaurant from the TV show SpongeBob SquarePants, the Krusty Krab? It confirms both ownership of valid copyrights and copying by the defendants of original constituent elements of the works.

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LexBlog IP

OCTOBER 29, 2021

The Pennsylvania Senate announced on October 26, 2021 that it has passed Senate Bill 705 , and a copy of the Senate Press Release can be found at [link]. A previous telemedicine bill was passed in Pennsylvania in July of 2018, when the Pennsylvania Senate approved Bill 780, which was discussed in my MedLaw Blog article of July 30, 2018.

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BYU Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Bell states that he "provided notice to the MPS [ ] in 2018 and 2019 demanding the infringing activities of copying and distribution cease immediately[,]" but the posts were not taken down. In the Complaint, Bell notes that he offers licensing of the Book and the WIN Passage at reasonable rates.

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The IP Law Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2021

In essence, the Ninth Circuit explained that de minimis goes to the amount of copying of a copyrighted work as opposed to any de minimis use or display of any such a work. Bell, however, sued Wilmott for copyright infringement claiming that it continued to display a copy of the image on its server at a different pinpoint address than before.

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IP and Legal Filings

DECEMBER 17, 2023

ii] This unreported judgement helped bring the grievances on the table for the others to see that copyright law has deficiencies in terms of music sharing and copying along with royalty issues. obtained without express due permission from the license holder). Magic Mantra Vision. [ii] xiii] Recently in Tips Industries Ltd.

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Velocity of Content

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

It may well substitute for a traditional bibliographic record , which is an interesting thing to think about; YouTube is also, since 2018, an ISNI provider, which means it can create a unique identifier for creator/contributors – a very helpful thing to have in the metadata world.). YouTube is no different in that respect.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

” (For a comment, see here ) The DABUS team (the Artificial Inventor Project ) starting testing copyright law back in 2018, seeking to register with the US Copyright Office (USCO) A Recent Entrance to Paradise , an image created by DABUS. Registration was refused in August 2019, in line with previous US case law and guidance.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 20, 2023

Similarly, when an artist lawfully creates a derivative work based on a photograph, and copies of that derivative work are reproduced and distributed to the public, ordinarily the owner of copyright in the photograph and the owner of copyright in the derivative work are entitled to royalties. . Figure 1, Slip op.

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IP Intelligence

JUNE 7, 2023

Sy Damle, (2016-2018 General Counsel) testified that “the training of AI models will generally fall within the established bounds of fair use.” (S. At the time Goldsmith was also licensing her original photograph to several magazines that were also writing articles about Prince’s life and music. Damle introductory statement, Tr.

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Copyright Lately

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Despite a number of solid affirmative defenses—including implied license, de minimis use and waiver—the jury was only asked to determine whether defendants had proven that their conduct qualified as a fair use under the Copyright Act. What Happened. That $3,750 works out to a measly $71 for each month the case has been pending.

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