3 Count: Over The Hump
Plagiarism Today
OCTOBER 5, 2023
BMG and MGA settle a lawsuit over My Humps parody, Plex sued over photograph and NLE Choppa sued over a 2020 song. The post 3 Count: Over The Hump appeared first on Plagiarism Today.
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Book Release: Second Edition of “Imperfect Recollections: The Indian Supreme Court on Trade Mark Law” by Eashan Ghosh
SpicyIP
NOVEMBER 26, 2024
The second edition of Eashan Ghosh’s 2020 book “Imperfect Recollections: The Indian Supreme Court on Trade Mark Law” is out now! On each of these issues – and several others besides – the conversation has shifted appreciably since I drew the curtain on the first edition of Imperfect Recollections in March 2020.”
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DECEMBER 2, 2024
Originally posted 2020-08-27 12:30:53. Republished by Blog Post Promoter Student note idea, free to a good home: Why did Congress pass this? Is there any reason Congress has the power to do this? What about changes to the law of personal jurisdiction since this was passed? I have so many questions.
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USPTO Patent Grant Rate and Growing Backlog
Patently-O
NOVEMBER 29, 2024
Since Director Kathi Vidal’s confirmation in April 2022, the grant rate has shown a modest decline from its peak levels of around 80-85% during 2020-2021. More recent data points to subtle but noteworthy changes in USPTO practice.
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Some Copyright Highlights in 2021-Around the World and in Canada?
Hugh Stephens Blog
DECEMBER 21, 2021
It seems as if it was only a few weeks ago that I was writing a similar summary for 2020, the “annus horribilis” when COVID first hit us, but in fact it was 51 weeks ago yet many of the same pandemic and copyright-related issues that I wrote about last year are still with us, … Continue reading "Some Copyright Highlights in 2021-Around the World (..)
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Cox Tells SCOTUS to Deny Sony’s Petition or Make a Bad Situation Worse
IP Watchdog
OCTOBER 22, 2024
A 2020 jury verdict found that Cox liable for both vicarious and contributory infringement, leading to a $1 billion damages verdict against Cox after damages were increased for the jury’s willfulness finding.
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Why Are There So Many Pop Music Lawsuits
Plagiarism Today
MARCH 8, 2022
Back in 2020, Rolling Stone reported that the sharp rise in such cases was causing songwriters to pick up insurance against such lawsuits. As we discussed in early 2020, the idea of the Blurred Lines case being some form of legal ground shift should be buried. To that end, it’s a trend that has been going on for some time now.
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Livehd7 Sports Piracy Network Shut Down By ACE, But Not For the First Time
TorrentFreak
OCTOBER 30, 2024
” According to ACE, the Livehd7 streaming network launched in late 2020 and made available through “at least” 85 associated domains. top MarkMonitor 2020-12-29 2025-12-29 ns3.films.org today MarkMonitor 2020-11-07 2025-11-07 ns3.films.org Domain Registrar Created Expires Nameserver livehd7.net films.org ; ns4.films.org
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3,682 Pirate Sites Blocked to Protect Creators; More Importantly, Did it Work?
TorrentFreak
JANUARY 15, 2025
The next wave of success and the subsequent and inevitable rise of other unblocked sites kept Malaysian authorities busy; in 2019 (438 sites), 2020 (644), and in 2021 (347). A study published by the Asia Video Industry Association (AVIA), which counts the MPA’s members among its own, reported significant ongoing success in 2020.
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3 Count: Copyright Claims Onboarding
Plagiarism Today
APRIL 7, 2022
The CCB became a reality in December 2020 when the U.S. government passed the Copyright Alternative in Small-Claims Enforcement Act of 2020 (CASE Act). Copyright Office announces that the Copyright Claims Board (CCB) has launched its new website, ccb.gov.
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3 Count: YouTube Battles
Plagiarism Today
FEBRUARY 3, 2022
However, in the second half of 2020, the trend started to reverse, with 2021 marking a 2.8% increase in such visits compared to 2020. The data comes from the internet monitoring form Muso, which reported that music piracy had been in a steady decline since January 2017.
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3 Count: Sealed with a Kiss
Plagiarism Today
JANUARY 3, 2022
The lawsuit was filed back in July 2020 by the Authors Guild, a group of publishers including Amazon and a collection of authors. In September 2020, the court granted a preliminary judgment, however, this expands that judgment by granting both damages and a permanent injunction.
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3 Count: Music Licensing is Strange…
Plagiarism Today
SEPTEMBER 14, 2021
The lawsuit targets Jason Tusa and actually began back in August 2020 when he shuttered his Area 51 service following a cease-and-desist letter. First off today, Andy Maxwell at Torrentfreak writes that the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE) is asking for some $16.35
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3 Count: Roblox Battle
Plagiarism Today
JULY 27, 2022
First off today, Larisha Paul at Rolling Stone reports that Megan Thee Stallion and Big Sean are facing a lawsuit over their 2020 collaboration Go Crazy. They allege that Megan Thee Stallion and Big Sean infringed their 2012 song entitled Krazy when creating Go Crazy for Big Sean’s 2020 debut album.
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3 Count: Wolfgang Disappointment
Plagiarism Today
OCTOBER 12, 2022
In early 2020, as COVID-19 was starting to become a concern, a jury awarded the NMPA a meager $189,500 in damages for the 197 infringed works. However, in November 2020 the judge ruled that there was no “miscarriage of justice” and now the Second Circuit has upheld that decision.
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Navigating Pharmaceutical Patent Settlements and Reverse Payments: Key Takeaways from the FTC’s Latest MMA Reports
JD Supra Law
JANUARY 23, 2025
The last time the FTC published this type of report was in December 2020, covering fiscal year 2017. By: Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
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The First 100 Cases at the Copyright Claims Board
Plagiarism Today
AUGUST 18, 2022
copyright law in December 2020 with the signing of the Copyright Alternative in Small-Claims Enforcement Act (CASE Act). . Of the registrations, 49 of the registrations were before 2020 and 68 were from before 2022. Before 2002 7 2002-2020 42 2020/2021 19 2022 15. Within a month, the first 70 cases had been filed.
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TPAC slides from meeting March 12, 2021
Erik K Pelton
MARCH 16, 2021
filings were down just before the the pandemic and dropped even more in March and April of 2020, but ever since June have been at record levels, fueled by economy, filings from China, and a rush to the beat the fee increases in December. the vast majority (3/4) of applications come from applicants who submit 10 or less applications.
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Facebook’s Plagiarism Problems Are Deeper Than You Realize
Plagiarism Today
NOVEMBER 16, 2021
The first was in August 2020, shortly after this problem began. It’s either “We can’t see how it’s infringing” or “How you are authorized" — Jonathan Bailey (@plagiarismtoday) August 19, 2020. I’ve sat down twice to write an article about this specific issue. This seems to be a common theme.
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USPTO Announces Sweeping Patent Fee Changes: Steps to Take for 2025
JD Supra Law
DECEMBER 4, 2024
Set to take effect January 19, 2025, these changes represent the most significant fee restructuring since 2020. The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has released its long-anticipated final rule on patent fee adjustments (“Final Rule”). Here's what patent applicants and owners need to understand about the upcoming changes.
Pirate IPTV’s ‘Breaking Bad’ Headteacher Risked More Than Most, Paid the Price
TorrentFreak
OCTOBER 26, 2024
The Beginning of the End In April 2020, an investigator made a test purchase from Media Maverick, paying £10 through PayPal to an account operated by Merrell. Merrell suspected nothing, and when the investigator bought another subscription in November 2020, that didn’t change.
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3 Count: iTunes DRM
Plagiarism Today
MARCH 10, 2022
Nas republished the photo on his Instagram in 2020 and, according to Pereira, this was done without permission or a license. First off today, Ryan Naumann at Radar Online reports that photographer Al Pereira has filed a lawsuit against the rapper Nas claiming copyright infringement over a post on social media.
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CA Anti-SLAPP Law Applies to #MeToo Instagram Post–Nelson v. Bridgers
Technology & Marketing Law Blog
NOVEMBER 1, 2024
“In October 2020, Bannon made a lengthy post to Instagram summarizing negative experiences of persons doing business with Nelson and of his romantic partners, and recounting her own bad experiences with him.” ” Nelson separately sued Bannon and Bridgers for defamation and related claims.
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Cloudflare Blocks Pirate Site URLs “For Legal Reasons”
TorrentFreak
DECEMBER 9, 2024
Therefore, it’s no surprise that the number of takedown requests for this type of content has been rather minimal, averaging between 1 and 3 reports per year between 2018 and 2020. In the years that followed, this number started to pick up.
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3 Count: Telenovela Drama Ending
Plagiarism Today
AUGUST 23, 2021
Sims filed the lawsuit in June 2020 after Dr. Camper, the coauthor of Focus, went on Instagram live and said that Endless Minds was the inspiration for the melody of the song. Finally today, Will Lavin at NME reports that the musician H.E.R. has reached a settlement with musician Andre Sims over the 2016 hit song Focus.
3 Count: Levitating Lawsuit
Plagiarism Today
MARCH 3, 2022
First off today, Murray Stassen at Music Business Worldwide reports that musician Dua Lipa has been hit with a copyright infringement lawsuit that claims her 2020 hit Levitating is an infringement of an earlier song. Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday. 1: Dua Lipa Sued for Alleged Copyright Infringement Over Hit Single Levitating.
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3 Count: Pop Trio
Plagiarism Today
MARCH 7, 2022
According to the lawsuit, they contacted the defendants in November 2020 about the similarities but failed to explain the similarities, prompting the lawsuit. Specifically, the lawsuit claims that the hook and chorus of both songs are nearly identical, with other lyrical and melody similarities.
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3 Count: Not Very Private
Plagiarism Today
MAY 4, 2022
However, the judge previously dismissed that counterclaim but left room for RCN to file it again, they did in October 2020, but now that counterclaim has been dismissed as well. According to the judge, the case is not about RCN versus Rightscorp, but the safe harbor questions that exist between RCN and the major labels.
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3 Count: Warhol Battle
Plagiarism Today
OCTOBER 13, 2022
The lawsuit indicates that this is not the first run in between the two parties, as EKB claims to have sent a cease and desist letter to the company in 2020. The lawsuit was filed in California and accuses Zulily of using their designs on fabrics that they have sold through their site. 3: BMI Is Changing to a For-Profit Business Model.
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3 Count: House Party
Plagiarism Today
JUNE 28, 2022
However, after talks to produce the show ended, BET went forward with the idea, BET launched a similar show in March 2020 at the start of the pandemic. According to the lawsuit, Walkie Check CEO Joshua Lebowitz pitched the idea for House Party back in 2015.
Not Seeking Sanctions Before DivX ITC Complaint Withdrawn Dooms Realtek
IP Watchdog
MARCH 19, 2025
The ITC instituted a Section 337 investigation in October 2020 against Realtek, TCL and other respondents over DivXs allegations certain video processing devices imported into the U.S. for sale infringed its patent claims.
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3 Count: Paparazzi Lawsuit
Plagiarism Today
SEPTEMBER 13, 2022
According to the lawsuit, in February 2020, Barbera took a photo of Cyrus as she left a building. First off today, Meghann Cuniff at Law & Crime reports that Miley Cyrus is the latest celebrity to face a lawsuit from New York photographer Robert Barbera, causing her to join the ranks of Justin Bieber and Ariana Grande.
Stakeholders Should Not Miss Congress’s Invitation For Feedback On Patent Eligibility
Intellectual Property Law Blog
OCTOBER 8, 2021
The Federal Circuit created controversy in 2020 over its application of the Supreme Court’s subject matter eligibility jurisprudence by finding a method of manufacturing an automobile propshaft ineligible for patent protection. See American Axle & Manufacturing, Inc. Neapco Holdings LLC , 966 F.3d 3d 1347 (Fed.
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Danish Court Greenlights Copyright Protection for Live Sports in Landmark Blocking Case
TorrentFreak
DECEMBER 27, 2024
The Court of Appeal upheld the lower court’s preliminary ruling in 2020. In addition, it stressed that users were required to tick a box, indicating that submitted streams were not infringing any copyrights. According to the ruling, it is likely that Rojadirecta violates the rights of the Spanish football league.
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Recent Expansion of IPR Estoppel Scope Viewed As Victory for Patent Owners
Intellectual Property Law Blog
FEBRUARY 28, 2022
2020-2222, F.2d For petitioners, they will need to carefully decide when to file IPRs and fully consider all of the invalidity defenses that they will be estopped from bringing up later in the district courts. FOOTNOTES. [1] 3d 1293 (Fed. 1348 (2018). .
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Department of Commerce issues report finding that “USPTO’s trademark registration process was not effective in preventing fraudulent or inaccurate registrations”
Erik K Pelton
AUGUST 14, 2021
A new report from the Department of Commerce, the agency of which the USPTO is a part, was released last week following its ” audit of the United States Patent and trademark Office’s (USPTO’s) efforts to improve the accuracy of the trademark register” that began in April of 2020. See all the details here: [link].
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3 Count: Bowser’s Finale
Plagiarism Today
FEBRUARY 14, 2022
Bowser, who lived in Dominican Republic, was arrested in September 2020 and deported to the United States to face charges. First off today, The Associated Press reports that Gary Bowser, a man who pleaded guilty to his role in the Team Xecutor piracy group, has been sentenced to forty months in prison.
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3 Count: Bridgerton’s Musical
Plagiarism Today
AUGUST 2, 2022
That lawsuit was settled in February 2020 but, according to Muggerud, Peloton has still not properly secured licenses for Cypress Hill songs, including ones he helped write and performed on. Peloton was notably sued in March 2019 by a group of music publishers. 3: VeePN Puts in Place Some Anti-Piracy Blocks to Settle Copyright Litigation.
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3 Count: Courtroom Performance
Plagiarism Today
MARCH 9, 2022
The case involves two separate lawsuits, one filed by the Alliance for Creativity in April 2020 and a second filed by DISH Network and others in August 2021. However, now that their attorney has withdrawn due to a lack of payment, the plaintiffs are moving in to end the cases.
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Trying to Understand the Motives of ‘The Spine Collector’
Plagiarism Today
MARCH 15, 2022
Though the name originates from an August 2021 article by Reeves Wiedeman and Lila Shapiro in Vulture , many reporters had written about the story well before that, including an October 2018 article in Publishers Weekly and a December 2020 article by the New York Times. The scam was both simple and incredibly complex. Baker in The New Yorker.
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Court Rejects Appeal of Youtube-dl Hosting Provider ‘Uberspace’
TorrentFreak
NOVEMBER 27, 2024
In 2020, the RIAA infuriated many players in the open source community by targeting YouTube-ripping tool youtube-dl. The RIAA sent a takedown notice to GitHub, alleging that the software bypassed technological protection measures, in violation of the DMCA. GitHub initially complied but later changed course.
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10 Christmas Copyright Stories
Plagiarism Today
DECEMBER 15, 2021
However, the extreme secrecy of the character meant that toys would not be ready until May 2020, well after Christmas. 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.
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[GuestPost] How the European Patent Office uses AI to facilitate patent searches
The IPKat
NOVEMBER 13, 2024
A key advancement in the EPO’s AI efforts came in 2020 with the introduction of the EP-AutoCla model, an AI-powered classification system. Examiners retain responsibility for the final review of relevant documents, ensuring their expertise and judgment remain central to the patent search and examination process.
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3 Count: Top Gun 2.5
Plagiarism Today
NOVEMBER 15, 2022
According to the plaintiffs, Paramount optioned the article for the first film but failed to option it for the sequel, despite the rights reverting back to the estate in January 2020. Paramount attempted to have the lawsuit dismissed, claiming that the claims had no merit.
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