The IPKat

JULY 12, 2024

These must be read in conjunction with Directive 2019/790 , and in particular Article 4(3) thereof, that is: the more general exception or limitation for text and data mining (as opposed to the more specific one found in Article of that Directive). IP-related impact Recitals 104 to 109 and Article 53 have a direct impact on copyright.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

OCTOBER 11, 2022

The decisions are: Ex parte Hannun (formerly Ex parte Linden), 2018-003323 (April 1, 2019) , which applies the 2019 Patent Eligible Guidance (PEG) to a method for “improving the transcription of speech into text” invention, and In re Appl. training the neural network in a second stage using the second training set.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

From March 2016 through November 2019, Carrasquillo and his co-defendants opened fraudulent accounts with TV providers Charter Communications, Comcast, DirecTV, Frontier Corporation, and Verizon Fios. A wire fraud scheme against the victim cable companies from March 2016 through November 23, 2019, in violation of 18 U.S.C.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

MAY 25, 2023

Patent Owner also argued that it complied with its duty of candor “because the withheld data was not “inconsistent with any statement in [its] witnesses’ testimony, Exhibit 2019” and was not “inconsistent with anything that the patent owner has said.” 2019’ … appears wholly untrue.”

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

The investigation began after Carrasquillo failed to file timely tax returns from 2016 to 2019 and the service was shut down in 2019 when FBI agents raided his home. The grand jury indictment seeks forfeiture of more than $34 million in cash including some $5.2 million in cash that had already been confiscated.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 27, 2021

The move comes after a 2019 report showed that HADOPI had collected just €87,000 in fines over the prior eight years. After locating it in 2019, he opted to move ahead. This is dwarfed by the organization’s estimated €82 million in operating costs during the same period.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 26, 2021

This was highlighted in 2019 when both the New York Times and Vulture released follow-ups on the impact of the case for songwriters and found that, while litigation wasn’t necessarily increasing, interest was. A similar study done by Music Business Worldwide in 2019 found that the hit songs of 2018 had an average of 9.1

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Plagiarism Today

APRIL 13, 2022

government in November 2019 and, since then, he has had “at least” $5.2 NuStar Enterprises LLC, a company that was using a similar mark, originally tried to negotiate with him over a license, but those efforts fell apart in 2019. That operation was shut down by the U.S. million seized from him.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 23, 2021

That underlying case was settled back in 2019 but, as the case dragged on, Fraiz was removed from the company by the Venezuelan government and replaced with an appointed Junta. The lawsuit actually began in 2012 when LaTele sued Telemundo over alleged copyright infringement of a telenovela.

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Plagiarism Today

JULY 27, 2021

Back in 2019, the EU passed a series of controversial copyright reforms including requiring certain service providers to block the re-upload of infringing material and to require search engines to pay for the use of news content.

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Plagiarism Today

JULY 28, 2021

The move is in line with other countries, most notably the EU, which passed a similar bill as part of a copyright overhaul in 2019. According to a local newspaper industry representative, local service providers have long paid for the news content they use while Google has not and the bill seeks to level that playing field.

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 4, 2023

However, Google is far from the first to make this argument, as we saw something similar happen in the European Union in 2019. At this time, neither the CCI nor the European Commission has released any comment. Copy and Paste Roundup. In 2017, partially based upon that report, the European Union voted to renew the license for glyphosate.

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IP Watchdog

JUNE 22, 2023

The bill’s aim is to reform the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) and would build upon Coons’ STRONGER Patents Act, introduced in 2019.

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 3, 2022

Due to the Sony Bono Copyright Term Extension Act in 1998, nothing entered into the public domain in the United States between 1999 and 2019. Though Robert Frost’s poem Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening lapsed in 2019 and F.

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Plagiarism Today

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

In 2019, Kenya updated its national copyright to better comply with international treaties and allow publishers (and other rightsholders) a means to file takedown notices against allegedly infringing works and have them removed.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 16, 2021

The lawsuit began in 2019 when Rizal accused Nieman Marcus of “blatant” copyright infringement in their “Ravenstail” coat. The lawsuit was settled in March of this year, bringing the court case to an end.

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Plagiarism Today

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Though December 2019 feels like an eternity ago, it was the season in which the world was introduced to “Baby Yoda” (or more accurately, Grogu) from The Mandelorian. This article has 5 public domain Christmas movies that you are free to do with as you wish.

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Plagiarism Today

APRIL 28, 2022

The lawsuit was filed by a pair of songwriters that claimed the 2019 track was an infringement of their earlier song 2016 song I Love Your Dress. First off today, Brad Callas at Complex reports that the rapper Drake has been dismissed from the No Guidance lawsuit, leaving Chris Brown as the only artist who worked on the track as a defendant.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 16, 2022

Though distance learning is here to stay and education will likely never look exactly like it did in 2019, 2022 is still marks a return to something that as close to that previous norm as possible. But one of the things that the pandemic changed with academic integrity was academic integrity.

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Plagiarism Today

MARCH 8, 2022

As we discussed back in 2019 , the case itself didn’t have a significant impact on the legal landscape of copyright. 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. Though reduced to $5.3

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The IPKat

OCTOBER 25, 2023

The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has received its first request for preliminary ruling concerning the interpretation of Directive (EU) 2019/790 (DSM Directive). 205/4 of the Belgium’s Code of Economic Law (as in force prior to the 2022 reform to implement Directive (EU) 2019/790).

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 12, 2021

Harrison/Erickson created the original costume in 1978 and licensed its use until 2019, when negotiations broke down. The 91-page report is part of an ongoing legal battle between Harrison/Erickson, a design firm that created the original Phanatic, and the Philadelphia Phillies baseball team.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 9, 2021

The lawsuit is the second the group has filed against Charter, with one being filed in 2019 that looked at Charter’s alleged activities between March 24, 2013 and May 17, 2016.

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SpicyIP

JULY 22, 2024

The decision is rather interesting, as it brings back to attention the debate (which started back in 2019 with the passing of the Prohibition of Electronic Cigarettes Act, 2019) over the patentability of e-cigarettes and provides an opportunity to reassess whether the restriction on patent grants under Section 3(b) should hold valid.

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The IPKat

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

Last month, Advocate General (AG) Szpunar issued his Opinion in case C-575/23 , this being the first request for a preliminary ruling on the interpretation of Directive (EU) 2019/790. 18 to 23 Directive (EU) 2019/790 Under Art. 18 to 23, which govern fair remuneration in exploitation contracts of authors and performers.

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 5, 2022

Winnie-the-Pooh is likely the most culturally relevant character to enter the public domain since 2019, when works started entering the public domain again in the United States due to the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act. This has raised widespread speculation as to what this means for Disney and the character’s future.

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Plagiarism Today

JUNE 8, 2022

Between 2009 and 2019, she held a very lucrative position at the Santa Clara County government. For this, her payment jumped from $220,000 to $510,000 in 2018 and remained above $500,000 in 2019. Jean McCorquodale is the wife of former California state senator Dan McCorquodale. Despite the payments, work on the book fell behind.

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Plagiarism Today

MAY 19, 2022

However, in 2019, a judge ruled in favor of Basil, saying that there was inadequate evidence to prove the song was a joint work. However, a UK company named Stillwater Ltd. claimed that they held 50% ownership in the work, given to them by a producer named Greg Mathieson who worked on the album.

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Michael Geist

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

The issue was one of the most controversial at the 2019 copyright review with the committee split on the issue: the government supported the creation of an open licence, while both the Conservatives and NDP backed its elimination altogether.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 15, 2023

In early 2019, Ms Y noticed that several of her other photos were still available online and had been altered. On 8 July 2019, Ms Y unsuccessful addressed a cease-and-desist letter to L'Oréal. Consequently, by noting that some of these photos were still visible in 2019, in application of article L.

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Plagiarism Today

APRIL 19, 2022

The lawsuit was filed by photographer Robert O’Neil in 2019. Finally today, Winston Cho at The Hollywood Reporter writes that Emily Ratajkowski has settled a case against a paparazzi photographer after she used his photo he took of her as part of her Instagram story.

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Plagiarism Today

MARCH 14, 2022

Genius filed the lawsuit in 2019 alleging that Google was unlawfully copying lyrics to songs that they had hosted. copyright law. According to Genius, they had used watermarking techniques to prove that Google had copied from their database of lyrics.

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

arguing that the order quashed an exactly similar 2019 notification by the Copyright Board (read Devika’s take on it here ) as the DPIIT one. Opposing this, the defendant referred to a 2022 judgement by a Single Judge of the High Court of Punjab & Haryana in Novex Communications Private Limited v. Union of India and Anr.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 6, 2023

Between October 24, 2014, and May 8, 2019, the operation made 5,251 sales and generated £237,058. Police visited Brockley in 2019 and seized his laptop and mobile phone, which linked him to the Infinity IPTV Twitter account. Brockley reportedly charged £15 per month for a subscription.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 21, 2021

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. Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday. The lawsuit was filed by filmmakers Selton and Langston Shaw.

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Plagiarism Today

APRIL 27, 2022

The new copyright directive, which was passed in 2019, requires web hosts and other online service providers to prevent infringing works from being reuploaded to them. Poland, as well as others in the EU, felt that this would lead to the installation of upload filters that would harm legitimate content.

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Plagiarism Today

MAY 17, 2022

” The song itself was released in 2019 and featured a wide assortment of local artists. According to Sol, Odinga and his Azimio La Umoja Convention allegedly used the song Extravaganza as a soundtrack to a post that announced Odinga’s running mate in the election.

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