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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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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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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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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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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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.

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IP Watchdog

JANUARY 5, 2024

The Regulations align with the revisions made to the Patent Law in 2020 and provide further guidance. Recently, amendments to the Implementing Regulations of the Chinese Patent Law were issued and will take effect from January 20, 2024.

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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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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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Plagiarism Today

DECEMBER 9, 2021

According to the takedown notice, Angela Game, the makers of Myth of Empires , was founded in 2020 with at least one person from Studio Wildcard’s parent company.

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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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TorrentFreak

JUNE 21, 2024

They alleged that between August 20, 2020, and May 17, 2022, J.E. By August 2020, a “large number of payments” for IPTV subscriptions had been received by J.E., including a one-month subscription purchased covertly by Rights Alliance on August 20, 2020, which was used to the monitor the service for the next seven days.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 12, 2023

The secretive nature of The Scene has been a major challenge for law enforcement but in the summer of 2020, the US Department of Justice made a major breakthrough. The group published its first release “The 100 S07E16” on October 1, 2020, and many more would follow.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 3, 2021

million takedown notices for copyright infringement in the first half of 2020, pointing to a pervasive problem on the service. According to the letter, Twitter received some 1.6 They note that, even with that high takedown count, it’s likely many, many more infringing works go unnoticed by rightsholders.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 2, 2021

1 Hit ‘Made for You’ Finally today, Sterling Whitaker at Taste of Country reports that country music performer Jake Owen is facing a lawsuit from songwriters Alexander Cardinale and Morgan Reid, who allege that Owen’s 2020 hit Made for You is an infringement of their 2014 song of the same name.

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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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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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Likelihood of Confusion

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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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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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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TorrentFreak

MAY 18, 2023

AtomoHD Splits Under ACE Pressure AtomoHD (Atom HD in English) appeared as a newcomer in 2020 but in less than three years, ACE says the platform received 235 million visits, averaging 9.7 It’s a story that’s played out many times in recent years and led to the closure of hundreds of sites. million visits per month.

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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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JD Supra Law

JULY 3, 2024

This rate remains flat compared to the previous two fiscal years (67% in FY 2023 and 66% in FY 2022), but remains significantly increased from the two fiscal years prior to that (58% in FY 2021 and 56% in FY 2020). By: Jones Day

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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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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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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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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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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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TorrentFreak

JULY 8, 2023

Instead of shutting the site down, the film companies reached settlement agreements with the operator in 2020, which allowed the site to continue operating. While lawsuits against torrent sites are not new, these cases stood out due to the manner in which they were resolved. We will consider the next steps,” Culpepper says.

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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.

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Erik K Pelton

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Although it was invented a couple of decades ago, ever since the pandemic in 2020 its popularity has boomed. The following is an edited transcript of my video Pickleball: A Boom in Trademark Filings If you haven’t played pickleball yet, you’ve certainly heard about it.

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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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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

The man, George Bridi, was arrested in Paphos, Cyprus in August 2020. Finally today, Colin Mann at Advanced Television reports that a UK citizen has been extradited to the United States over allegations that he was a member of the Sparks Group, an international piracy group that, previously, distributed movies and television shows online.

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Plagiarism Today

JULY 26, 2022

However, under the conventional theory of damages, Starz would have only been eligible for damages on infringements going back to May 2017, three years before the lawsuit was filed in May 2020. However, the Ninth Circuit has ruled that is not the case.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

The Copyright Claims Board (CCB) is the new copyright small-claims court that was introduced in the CASE Act, which as passed in December 2020. The court itself has been open since June of this year and, as of this writing, some 151 cases have been filed with it. Of those 151 cases, some 11 are already closed.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 23, 2024

Readers will recall that this Ibrutinib patent controversy started in 2020 when the Opposition Board rejected patent no. Union of India , dated February 12, 2020, extended this tenure until December 31, 2020. The Ibrutinib patent is set to expire in 2026. This controversy has previously been discussed on the blog here and here.

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Plagiarism Today

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Finally today, Chris Cooke at Complete Music Update reports that lawyers representing Dua Lipa have filed a motion to dismiss in a lawsuit over Lipa’s 2020 hit song Levitating. 3: Dua Lipa Hits Back at Another of the Levitating Song-Theft Lawsuits.

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