Technology & Marketing Law Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

“Kiwi Farms users provided a Google Drive link to a full copy of Mr. Greer’s book.” Greer sued Moon and Kiwi Farms for contributory copyright infringement and other claims. The district court dismissed the contributory claim because the defendants didn’t materially contribute to the infringement.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

In 2019, Cox Communications was ordered to pay a billion dollars in damages to record labels. Hundreds of Thousands of Infringements. According to the plaintiffs, IP addresses allocated to Verizon/Cellco Partnership were monitored by anti-piracy tracking outfit Maverickeye downloading and sharing pirate copies of their movies.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 27, 2023

, Cattelan created artwork named “Comedian” in 2019. The court displayed the respective artworks: Morford sued Cattelan for copyright infringement. Copying-in-Fact. No Wrongful Copying To determine wrongful copying, the court uses the abstraction-filtration-comparison test. VINDICATED!!!

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TorrentFreak

JULY 29, 2021

The “repeat infringer” issue remains a hot topic in US courts after rightsholders filed lawsuits against several ISPs. These Internet providers are accused of not doing enough to stop copyright infringers on their networks, even after receiving multiple ‘copyright infringement’ notifications.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

But last year, one supranational interference with copyright law surprisingly did not come from Luxemburg, but from Strasbourg: the judgment in Safarov v Azerbaijan. He sues for copyright infringement and claims damages. The Safarov case In 2009, Safarov authors a book. An NGO makes his entire work available for download.

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IPilogue

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit reversed a 2019 federal district court’s ruling that held a French court’s ruling was unenforceable due to a conflict in copyright laws between the countries. Background The case between De Fontbrune and Alan Wofsy regarding photographs of Picasso’s paintings dates to 1991.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 5, 2024

A study published by the EU Intellectual Property Office in November 2019 revealed ( pdf ) that Sweden and the Netherlands were the most prolific consumers of pirate IPTV services in the entire bloc, with 9% of each population already exposed. who was accused of copyright infringement in connection with the website swedeniptv.se.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 21, 2022

For many years Japanese manga companies had a tendency to ignore the majority of overseas markets, despite the potential for lucrative trade. Manga pirates often take credit for what amounted to a highly successful unpaid marketing project but having seen the potential, manga publishers understandably want this market for themselves.

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Velocity of Content

APRIL 12, 2023

To put that in perspective, 60% of employees reported working entirely on-site in 2019. The more third-party published content is shared, the higher the risk of copyright infringement. Downloading content through any tool makes a new copy of that content – and copying often requires permission.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

The last time developer Christopher Boomer appeared on our radar was back in July 2022 when he attempted to unmask thousands of alleged copyright infringers using the DMCA subpoena process. The same gameplay mechanics also appear in Get Muscles Simulator but the complaint alleges that copying goes well beyond that.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 8, 2022

After gaining serious momentum over the past seven years, the pirate IPTV phenomenon is now a major challenge for the entire audiovisual entertainment market. While at times unpredictable, pirate subscriptions are now viewed as a credible market alternative. Investigation Began in 2019. Investigation Launched Against Smart IPTV.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2021

The application of this principle to this case is easy: the elements that Defendants allegedly copied from Coscarelli’s cookbooks are primarily lists of ingredients and directions for combining them. Whereas the latter may be entitled to copyright protection, the former plainly is not. MN) (left the case in 2019).

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 30, 2021

Every year, major copyright industry groups compile their lists of the most notorious pirate sites, which are publicly reported to the US Trade Representative ( USTR ). PopAds generates advertising revenue for copyright infringing sites including gomovies123.org, Pressure Tool. org, megafilmeshdplus.org, video.az, and mega1080.com,

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 5, 2024

South American news site Hollogram TV informs TF that their copyright complaint problems relate to just two URLs, but the consequences for them could be much more severe. Streaming News and Reviews Reaching out to a South American audience, Hollogram TV launched in 2019 and today covers all aspects of the streaming market.

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43(B)log

DECEMBER 26, 2022

28, 2022) Brick and mortar infringement still exists, and this opinion considers both copyright and trademark claims. for unlawfully manufacturing, importing, advertising, marketing, selling, and distributing unauthorized, counterfeit versions of its popular CAKE brand of hemp-derived Delta-8 products. AKF sued LCF etc.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 8, 2023

years in prison for crimes related to Carrasquillo’s pirate IPTV service, Gears TV, which was shut down by the FBI in 2019. In Carrasquillo’s plea agreement, the YouTuber acknowledged a laundry list of crimes, from the most serious copyright offenses to fraud and money laundering crimes. Last month the U.S.

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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? Imported into the gray market in Europe, US cartridges were cheaper than their Japanese counterparts. 1201), and infringes copyrights owned by Nintendo.” A snip at $165.

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IPilogue

OCTOBER 28, 2021

In Canada, under section 64(2) of the Copyright Act , it is not an infringement of copyright to reproduce the design of a “useful article”, so long as more than 50 copies are made. For one, section 64(3)(a) states that copyright may persist in graphic or photographic representations that are applied to useful articles.

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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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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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IIPRD

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

of the population of India having ingress to the world wide web and ever growing e-commerce market which is forecasted to reach about twenty billion euros by 2030, it becomes pertinent to analyse the interconnect between these two. [1] Bindu Shah, ‘Retail Industry of India’ (IIPTA 1 st December 2019) [link] accessed on 16th August, 2020.

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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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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2023

And that data might be subject to varying levels of copyright protection. Platforms that copy online data and use it to create AI have a strong fair use argument under copyright laws. — One logical starting point to tell the history of copyright preemption of contracts is to begin with ProCD v. 2019 WL 3555509 (D.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 5, 2022

Market effect. Bayside didn’t explain the market for the photos or how the tweets harmed that market. “Even if Bayside had made a prima facie showing of copyright infringement, the subpoena would still need to be quashed because the balance of equities tilts in MoneyBags’s favor.” Amount taken.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2023

It could also undercut the commercial market for books and works already created; this is because, on demand, the Products are able not only to summarize books in detail, chapter by chapter, but also to regenerate the text of books (§ I.B.110-111). 2019); Worldwide Church of God vs Phila. 3d 723, 743 (9th Cir. Church of God, Inc.,

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BYU Copyright Blog

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

and Higbee & Associates (another law firm) (collectively "defendants") reached out to the Plaintiff, claiming that failure to comply with the license was copyright infringement and seeking a settlement of $5,280 while threatening a lawsuit for damages of up to $150,000. DoeWe previously reported on this case in late 2019.

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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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Kashishipr

JUNE 9, 2021

If the music that is streamed is not licensed out, then does it amount to Copyright Infringement ? The Draft Copyright (Amendment) Rules, 2019. Although customers may have easy and legal access to music than before, how true is it in India?

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LexBlog IP

JULY 7, 2023

A pair of copyright decisions issued in May, one involving the appropriation artist Richard Prince [1] and the other involving works portraying the musician known as Prince, explore and expand on the “fair use” defense to copyright infringement. Goldsmith counterclaimed for copyright infringement.

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43(B)log

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Simpson’s structural connectors are specified on most construction drawings in the US; its market share is over 75%. New parts in recent catalogs are marked as new; Simpson registered copyrights in two of its recent catalogs. Simpson or MiTek or both) in addition to including specific part names on construction drawing.

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IP Tech Blog

JULY 27, 2021

On June 21, 2021, the Shenzhen Administration for Market Regulation (Shenzhen AMR) issued the first ever administrative injunction against the alleged infringement of a design patent. The problem therefore remains: Current remedies for design and copyright infringements pass mostly through civil courts and are neither cheap nor quick.

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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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IP Intelligence

JUNE 7, 2023

Warhol created these silkscreens from a photograph of Prince taken by Lynn Goldsmith, who claimed copyright infringement when the Warhol estate licensed Orange Prince to Conde Nast after Prince’s passing in 2016 to illustrate an article about Prince’s life and music. at 1289 (Gorsuch, concurring) (emphasis added). at 1290 (Gorsuch, J.,

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

In 2017, the Warhol Foundation sued Goldsmith and her agency for a declaratory judgment that the Prince Series works are non-infringing or, in the alternative, that they constitute a fair use of the Prince Photograph. Goldsmith counterclaimed for copyright infringement. 2019.) Originals [Album]. 2019 NPG Records, Inc.

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The IPKat

MARCH 10, 2022

The IPKat's favourite Le Pliage When you have a handbag design bestseller with over 54 million copies sold around the world since its creation in 1993, the question concerning the IP rights vesting in it is not just an academic one. All this was at the centre of a recent decision of the Milan Court of First Instance ( decision 10280/2021 ).

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LexBlog IP

JULY 27, 2021

On June 21, 2021, the Shenzhen Administration for Market Regulation (Shenzhen AMR) issued the first ever administrative injunction against the alleged infringement of a design patent. The problem therefore remains: Current remedies for design and copyright infringements pass mostly through civil courts and are neither cheap nor quick.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

There is uncertainty over how much selection and refinement is needed to produce the best work (see examples of selection, refinement and reworking here and here ) and getting the right prompt is challenging enough to have created a market for effective prompts. We were not aware that the image may have been created by AI” 2.

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