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Company ‘Hijacks’ Blender’s CC BY-Licensed Film, YouTube Strikes User

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The team at Blender Studio drive Blender development by providing help and training courses to Blender users in an open environment, sharing everything in public and making all content available under free licenses. In this case, at least, a Creative Commons license appears to have carried no weight. No Rights to Post Video on YouTube.

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3 Count: Database Audit

Plagiarism Today

First off today, Blake Brittain at Reuters reports that Oracle American has filed a lawsuit against NEC Corp alleging that NEC is using Oracle software, namely its biometric identification system, in a way that exceeds the terms of their license. The lawsuit is the direct result of an audit performed by Oracle of NEC ins 2019.

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3 Count: Royalty Raise

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headline rate for the 2018-2022 period. The rate was originally decided in 2018 but all the major streamers, barring Apple, appealed it saying that the increase was too great. The 3 Count Logo was created by Justin Goff and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License. The number had leapt from 11.4%

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3 Count: Dirty Cheaters

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Next up today, Baek Byung-yeul at the Korea Times reports that a new bill in the South Korean National Assembly follows in the footsteps of other nations in trying to force Google to pay a license fee to local news organization for the use of their content in Google News.

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3 Count: Charter Sued Part Deux

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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.” Fioranelli sued a wide assortment of filmmakers over the use of his footage.

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3 Count: Turtle Defeat

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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. The 3 Count Logo was created by Justin Goff and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License.

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3 Count: Plagiarism Again

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million settlement in 2018. The lawsuit was filed by Malibu Media in 2018 against a defendant identified as Mr. However, Malibu Media’s boss, Colette Pelissier, was not happy about the transfer, saying that it was part of Mullins’ attempt to extort the company. That lawsuit resulted in a $2.9