Plagiarism Today

APRIL 20, 2022

For much of the web’s recent history, we scraping commonly referred a technique through which spammers would copy content from a website and republish it, either rewritten or verbatim. In 2019, the same court found largely the same thing , but chose to revisit the issue following the Supreme Court ruling last year.

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The IPKat

MAY 18, 2024

To celebrate the start of this event, this Kat has found a recent judgment issued by the Tribunal judiciaire (TJ) of Lyon [ the birthplace of cinema ] concerning a case of copyright infringement relating to the still of a short film. But, for once, there was no question of originality. It also confirmed that Mr T was its author.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 31, 2023

MindGeek Sues Goodporn Initially filed in 2021 at a federal court in California, the copyright infringement lawsuit accuses the site and its operator of large-scale copyright infringement. A copy of the agreement is offered as evidence and signed by Kumar. The counterclaims and defense go hand in hand.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

In addition, it refuted the copyright infringement allegations; these lacked any substance and were ungrounded because some of the referenced copyrights were registered well after the cheats were first made available. In an amended complaint the game developer added more copyright infringement details.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 31, 2023

MindGeek Sues Goodporn Initially filed in 2021 at a federal court in California, the copyright infringement lawsuit accuses the site and its operator of large-scale copyright infringement. A copy of the agreement is offered as evidence and signed by Kumar. The counterclaims and defense go hand in hand.

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Copyright Infringement Contracts Ownership Copyright 71

TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Brooke Jackson issued a judgment against the defunct hosting company MICFO, awarding $4,200,000 in statutory damages for contributory copyright infringement. The hosting company and its owner were indicted by a grand jury in Charleston, South Carolina in 2019, and stand accused of a scheme to fraudulently obtain IP addresses from ARIN.

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IP and Legal Filings

JULY 21, 2022

Among the other solutions, the most easy and feasible way to come out of the problem of unavailability and unaffordability was to start copying the books, study materials, and video lectures with the help of different mechanisms. The secondary copyright infringement or contributory infringement has not got much attention.

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43(B)log

DECEMBER 26, 2022

The logo is registered with the Copyright Office, and AFK applied for trademark registration as well. AKF contracted with two corporate defendants to be AKF’s third-party fulfillment intermediaries for several hundred thousand units of disposable vaping devices, batteries and related goods. AKF sued LCF etc. 3d 1068 (9th Cir.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 16, 2021

In 2019, Artem Stoliarov, a Russian DJ whose stage name is Arty, filed a lawsuit before the US District Court for the Central District of California, alleging that Marshmello’s song ‘ Happier ’ copied the synthesizer melody from his 2014 remix of OneRepublic’s ‘I Lived’ (OneRepublic is an American pop rock band).

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43(B)log

DECEMBER 7, 2023

23, 2023) The individual defendants co-founded COY in 2019 to provide creator clients with a platform to offer subscription services. Things eventually went bad, resulting in contract/trade secret claims and copyright/ROP counterclaims. This was “volitional for purposes of copyright infringement.” “In the servers.”

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Parts 1 to 3 of this post (originally published in “Auteurs & Media”) summarising case law of the German Bundesgerichtshof from 2015 to 2019 are available here , here and here. Copyright contract law (Sections 31 et seqq. Claims under copyright law. Right of remuneration (Sections 32 et seqq.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 19, 2023

The fair use doctrine (the basis of AWF’s copyright infringement defense) allows use of a copyrighted work by persons other than the author for “purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching., scholarship, or research” [2] and is evaluated through multiple factors. Oracle America, Inc.

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BYU Copyright Blog

MARCH 11, 2024

of Education After four long years, the case involving Linda Woodson (Woodson) and the Atlantic Board of Education et al (the Board) , initiated in 2019, was finally concluded. Encyclopedia Iranica Foundation On August 26, 2019 , we first covered a case involving Columbia University and the Encyclopedia Iranica Foundation.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Today, we begin with developments in the copyright field. CPL Industries Limited , dismissed an appeal from the High Court in a copyright infringement, trademark infringement and passing-off suit between two pharmaceutical companies. In January , the Court of Appeal in Nigeria in Morison Industries Plc V.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The precedent work is “a set of replacement stickers for the dashboard climate controls for certain GM vehicles”: The Copyright Office registered this design. All of these facts placed Defendant on actual notice that it was highly likely that, in fact, Plaintiff’s Sticker Sheet was not infringing the Subject Design.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 2, 2022

In 2019, the Ninth Circuit upheld the district court’s injunction ruling in favor of hiQ. They may look to state hacking laws, trespass to chattel claims, or other causes of action “such as copyright infringement, misappropriation, unjust enrichment, conversion, breach of contract, or breach of privacy.”. __.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 19, 2023

With help from user-uploaded videos, the company built massive databases of adult entertainment, much to the frustration of incumbent adult industry companies that, in the past , often found pirated copies of their content on MindGeek-operated sites. Instead, Goodporn owner Amrit Kumar fought back hard.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

MG Premium sued the platform for widespread copyright infringement, hoping to shut it down, but after two years that had proven elusive. Among other things, he allegedly signed a contract to obtain the rights to MG Premium’s content in 2019, leading him to accuse his accusers of copyright infringement.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 25, 2022

In so holding, the Ninth Circuit created (or widened) a circuit split with the Second Circuit, which previously held that even under the discovery rule, damages for copyright infringement are limited to “a three-year lookback period from the time a suit is filed.” Scholastic, Inc. , 3d 39, 52 (2d Cir. Scholastic, Inc. , 3d 39 (2d Cir.

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SpicyIP

MAY 2, 2022

This agreement was for a period from 1 st July 2019 to 30 th June 2022. While terminating the contract, the Plaintiff had informed Defendant of the terms of termination, which inter alia provided that using Plaintiff’s content without a license would now constitute infringement.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 20, 2023

For obvious reasons, the copyright in a photograph does not include the right to publicly perform the copyrighted work. 103(a) (“protection for a work employing preexisting material in which copyright subsists does not extend to any part of the work in which such material has been used unlawfully.”).

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IIPRD

JANUARY 18, 2022

NFTs are created using “smart contracts,” which are software codes that govern actions such as validating ownership and regulating their transferability. Copyright infringement arises when reproduction right is infringed (i.e. This endows NFTs with the unique qualities that make them so desirable.

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 30, 2023

[Delhi High Court] On May 23, the Delhi High Court passed an interesting jud gement on the issue of ownership of the copyright in a film screenplay and held that the copyright in the screenplay of the film ‘Nayak’, lay with Satyajit Ray and on his demise, with his son Sandip Ray and the Society for Preservation of Satyajit Ray Archives (SPSRA).

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Copyright Lately

MARCH 6, 2023

The copyright owner in Runt is seeking to enjoin director William Coakley from releasing a behind-the-scenes project about alleged on-set bullying and sexual harassment that it claims he fabricated. In 2019, actor Cameron Boyce , star of Disney franchises Jesse and Descendants , died tragically following a sudden epileptic seizure.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The lawsuit involves sound recordings of 19 interviews that then-President Trump voluntarily gave to Woodward between December 2019 and August 2020, plus one interview from 2016 (when Trump was still a candidate). 101 ] Issue 1: Are the recorded interviews a copyright-eligible “work of authorship”? Simon & Schuster, Inc.

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