JIPL Online

MARCH 15, 2021

With more content comes the increased possibility that Netflix is engaging in copyright infringement and on the receiving end of copyright infringement claims. [1] 1] This blog will briefly summarize a few of the notable copyright infringement cases Netflix has defended against in the United States.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

2018 saw the continuation of Sheeran’s struggles with infringement allegations. However, in 2022, the Sheeran found himself engaged in another copyright infringement litigation over the said song. This time around, the singer was accused of infringing a 2015 song named “Oh Why” sung by Sami Chokri.

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Plagiarism Today

JULY 13, 2021

2: Man Sentenced to 12 Months Prison For Copyright Infringement & Tax Evasion. Next up today, Andy Maxwell at Torrentfreak writes that Talon White, the former operator of a pair of pirate websites, has been sentenced to 12 months in prison for criminal copyright infringement and tax evasion. million to the IRS.

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IPilogue

AUGUST 4, 2021

Is GitHub Copilot a Copyright Infringer? While Ziegler’s use of the word “mostly” may not reassure those fearing copyright infringement, his paper highlights two details that might. Photo by Christopher Gower ( Unsplash). Claire Wortsman is an IPilogue Writer and a 2L JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. .

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 21, 2021

1: Spike Lee, Nate Parker Sued by Indie Filmmakers Over Copyright Infringement. First off today, Diane Haithman at TheWrap reports that filmmakers Spike Lee and Nate Parker have been sued for copyright infringement over allegations that their 2019 Film American Skin is an infringement of an earlier screenplay.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 19, 2021

2: Tencent Video Sues Bytedance for Copyright Violation, Unfair Competition. Next up today, Zhanhang Ye at Technode reports that Tencent has filed yet another lawsuit against Bytedance’s short-video app Douyin, this time alleging copyright infringement of the TV show Crime Crackdown.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Subsequently, on 31 December 2019, Ms Y brought an action against L'Oréal Paris a for copyright infringement before the Paris Court of First Instance. In a judgement dated 6 July 2021, the Court dismissed the photographer's claim and declared several of her photos to be unprotectable under copyright law.

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 18, 2022

1: Support Specialist Rimini Street Found in Contempt of Court for Continued Oracle Copyright Infringements. 2: Chris Brown and Drake Argue Copyright Infringement Lawsuit Over “No Guidance” Is ‘Baseless’. In 2018, a jury found in favor of the labels and ordered Cox to pay $1 billion in damages.

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Plagiarism Today

MARCH 7, 2022

First off today, Bill Donahue at Billboard reports that pop musician Dua Lipa has been hit with a second lawsuit over her hit song Levitating , as a pair of different accusers have accused her of copyright infringement. The lawsuit was filed in 2018, and Sheeran attempted to get the lawsuit tossed without any luck.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 16, 2022

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

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

1: ‘ Sports Illustrated’ Model Sues Twitter for $10 million, Accusing its Algorithm of Contributing to Copyright infringement. 2: Three Plead Guilty to Criminal Copyright Infringement. 3: Taylor Swift Rerecords ‘Wildest Dreams’ in Fresh Copyright Salvo. Have any suggestions for the 3 Count?

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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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The IP Law Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2021

The Ninth Circuit was recently asked to determine whether to continue to apply the Circuit’s two-part extrinsic/intrinsic test for “substantial similarity” with regard to a copyright infringement claim or to depart from this approach and apply the Second Circuit’s “ordinary observer” test instead. In Johannsongs-Publishing, Ltd.

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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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Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2021

The European Intellectual Property Office ( EUIPO ) has recently published a report on Online Copyright Infringement in the European Union. The report examines the consumption of copyright-infringing content in the EU Member States and the UK between January 2017 and December 2020. 8 t imes per month.

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 19, 2022

Finally, the state claims that this is not a copyright law, but an attempt to regulate unfair trade practices. 3: Ad Blockers Altering Website Code is Not a Copyright Violation, German Court Rules. However, that was defeated by the German Supreme Court in 2018.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 27, 2021

However, that is just the latest in a decade-long history of discussing copyright, plagiarism and other authorship issues as they pertain to Halloween and horror. So, this year we’re going to take a look back at the various tales of copyright infringement and/or plagiarism that we’ve looked at over the years.

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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. million settlement in 2018. 3: Wrongfully Accused ‘Pirate’ Recoups $108k From ‘Copyright Troll’. That lawsuit resulted in a $2.9

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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. To be clear, this doesn’t mean that a copyright infringement or other lawsuit is coming.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 9, 2021

1: Major Record Labels Sue Charter Communications Again for Alleged Copyright Infringement. 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

JANUARY 25, 2022

In 2015, Springer attempted to argue that Eyeo’s service to whitelist certain ads, for a fee, but in 2015 a German court ruled it did not breach any of the country’s laws and, in 2018, t he Supreme Court upheld that decision ( overturning a partial victory at an appeals court along the way ).

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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. It is ill-equipped to handle how copyright-protected works are shared today. Simply put, the system was built in a very different time.

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Plagiarism Today

MARCH 8, 2022

If you follow copyright news, you likely have been seeing countless stories of popular musicians being sued for alleged copyright infringement in their work. . In My Feelings and Nice for What were both released in early-to-mid 2018, Dancing with a Stranger was released in January 2019 and Levitating in March 2020.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JULY 11, 2022

In 2018, the defendants set up ‘Only Fools The (cushty) Dining Experience’ (‘OFDE’) in which actors adopted the appearance, mannerisms and catchphrases of the original OFAH characters. The aim of the company was to exploit the IP rights held by John Sullivan in connection with OFAH.

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 13, 2022

1: Krafton Sues Garena, Apple, and Google over Free Fire Copyright Infringement. First off today, Aaron Orr at Pocket Gamer reports that the developer of the battle royale game PUBG has filed a lawsuit against competitor Garena after alleging that Garena’s mobile game Free Fire is a copyright infringement of PUBG.

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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. 277 (2020). [iv]

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IP Watchdog

JUNE 9, 2022

On June 6, Paramount Pictures got its tower buzzed for copyright infringement in the U.S. Paramount allegedly secured the “exclusive motion picture rights to Ehud Yonay’s copyrighted story” and in 1986 released the motion picture Top Gun. Fast forward a few decades.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

MARCH 17, 2022

However, these are not the only essentials that have to be considered while deciding a case related to infringement, as the courts have from time and again pronounced judgments with respect to copyright infringement. The post “Copyright Infringement” appeared first on Biswajit Sarkar Blog. And Others.,

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Popular CDN and DDoS protection service Cloudflare has come under a lot of pressure from copyright holders in recent years. The company offers its services to millions of sites, some of which provide access to copyright-infringing material. Repeat Infringer Lawsuit.

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 27, 2022

Since the statute of limitations on copyright infringement is just three years, he had until 2018 to file a lawsuit and chose not to. However, Miramax claimed that he reasonably should have been aware of the alleged dispute by at least 2015. The court has agreed and dismiss the case.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 20, 2021

The sites’ Russian owner Tofig Kurbanov was taken to court in the United States in 2018, accused of facilitating mass copyright infringement. In a follow-up filing, the music companies demanded more than $82 million in damages for copyright infringement and DMCA violations.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

62 Count Indictment The original indictment charged Carrasquillo with a laundry list of crimes: Conspiracy to commit copyright infringement, circumvention of access controls, access device fraud, wire fraud, criminal circumvention of copyright protection measures under the DMCA, and 20 counts of criminal copyright infringement.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 6, 2021

The sites’ Russian owner Tofig Kurbanov was taken to court in the United States in 2018, accused of facilitating mass copyright infringement. The order means that the stream-rippers and their operator are liable for copyright infringement and violating the DMCA’s anti-circumvention provision.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

1: Disney Loses Bid to Dismiss ‘Muppet Babies’ Reboot Copyright Suit. First off today, Winston Cho at The Hollywood Reporter Esquire reports that Disney has failed to dismiss an ongoing case against it over the 2018 reboot of the Muppet Babies TV show. Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday.

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 12, 2022

1: LEGO is Being Sued for Copyright Infringement Over Leather Jacket Design. According to Concannon, he designed the jacked in 2018. Have any suggestions for the 3 Count? Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday. The set is based on the Queer Eye series and was worn by Antoni Porowski on the show.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 4, 2022

.’ According to Vasallo, YouTube tied Content ID participation to a required revenue-sharing deal and the condition to waive older copyright claims. The movie tycoon also accused YouTube of several copyright infringement claims by making movies available on the platform without permission. — A copy of U.S.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 11, 2022

3: Roanoke’s “Slumlord Millionaire” Files Copyright Infringement Lawsuit. Finally today, Lawrence Hammack at The Roanoke Times reports that Roland “Spanky” Macher has filed a lawsuit against Netflix alleging that Netflix claiming that an episode of the series Dirty Money is an infringement of a book he wrote.

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