TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 10, 2022

In 2020, complaints from the Federation of Newspaper Publishers (FIEG) over the illegal distribution of newspapers, periodicals, and books, led to an emergency order requiring Telegram to shut down 19 channels or face blocking itself. In early 2020, ODG filed a complaint at the Public Prosecutor’s Office at the Court of Milan.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 12, 2022

Microsoft’s problem is that product activation keys can be ‘decoupled’ from the software they were meant to authorize and then reused to activate more copies of the software, in some cases more copies than the attached Microsoft license permits.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 28, 2023

Sharing Pirated eBooks & Paywalled Articles Asgaard announced its closure in mid-December 2020 but that didn’t stop at least one of the site’s staff spending Christmas in prison. Anti-piracy group Rights Alliance is now reporting the details of yet another Asgaard-related conviction.

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Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Yet 2020 saw a slowdown in biosimilar activity with the lowest number of annual biosimilar approvals since 2016 and fewer product launches than 2019—as well as a decrease in district court litigation and post-grant proceedings. Below, we review these notable developments and more from 2020. Biosimilar Approvals and Launches in 2020.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 24, 2021

In April 2020, a coalition of entertainment companies headed up by Universal, Paramount, Columbia, Disney and Amazon filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against the operators of ‘pirate’ IPTV service Nitro TV. channels, which are only possible to offer after content is copied and stored, contrary to copyright law.

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43(B)log

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Defendants allegedly copied key components of Trackman’s copyrighted software and falsely suggested, in promotions and advertisements, that defendants were authorized to use the well-known courses in their game. Although the court dismissed a contract claim, copyright and false advertising claims survived. 3d 1137 (9th Cir.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 27, 2021

. “In terms of our client’s loss, our client’s film was originally planned to be released in cinemas in the first quarter of 2020. “In August 2020, our client started to receive emails from distributors explaining that the film was available via BitTorrent. ” Loss Recovery: Cost of Film. .

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 26, 2021

In a summer 2020 lawsuit , Amazon Content Services, publisher Penguin Random House and several authors including John Grisham and Lee Child, accused several pirate eBook sites of infringing their copyrights. ” Court Awards $7.8m in Damages. .” ” Court Awards $7.8m in Damages. They asked for $7.8

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43(B)log

DECEMBER 1, 2022

OSD Audio then sued Outlaw under §512(f), and Outlaw counterclaimed for false advertising and unfair competition under the Lanham Act, copyright infringement, and trade libel. Lanham Act: The user manual did not constitute “commercial advertising or promotion.” But “[n]ot all commercial speech is promotional.” Prager Univ.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

‘Fast movies’ are essentially heavily edited copies of feature-length films that tell the entire story in just a few minutes. cutting the films down to 10 minutes without permission, adding narration and then uploading to YouTube from June to July 2020,” CODA informs TorrentFreak.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

He found that many commercially-available products were not being sold as advertised and included fillers and even toxic substances mixed in. In 2020, Ken Thompson, a post-doctorate fellow and a co-author on a 2014 study published by Newmaster on forest plants, sounded the alarm and approached UG with concerns about Newmaster’s work.

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Delaware Intellectual Property Litigation Blog

MAY 15, 2021

May 7, 2021), the Court granted Natera’s motion to exclude at trial the opinions of CareDx’s damages expert relating to “corrective advertising damages.” 1117(a)(2), a successful false advertising plaintiff can recover the costs of any completed advertising that actually and reasonably responds to the defendant’s offending ads.’” Id.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 8, 2022

In late 2020, the open-source software youtube-dl was added to the list of targets. The RIAA had already sent cease-and-desist orders to the hosting company in 2020, before it approached GitHub. For example, to create “ reaction videos ” in response to other YouTubers, which are then monetized through advertisements.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

The group offered hardware and software solutions that allowed people to install and play unofficial games and pirated copies on various consoles, including the popular Nintendo Switch. Department of Justice to step in and following a thorough investigation, three members of the group were indicted in 2020. Team-Xecuter Prosecution.

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The TTABlog

DECEMBER 6, 2021

2020 USPQ2d at 10869. (1) Dimarzio claimed use of the proposed mark since 1979, with millions of consumers observing its guitar pickups in videos, advertisements, and musical performances. The Board concluded that DiMarzio's advertising fell short of supporting its Section 2(f) claim. See Guaranteed Rate, Inc.

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43(B)log

DECEMBER 18, 2023

15, 2023) Simpson sued its competitor MiTek for using Simpson part numbers for structural connectors/fasteners for use in the construction industry in its catalogs/other promotional material; the court here, after a nonjury trial before the magistrate judge, rather comprehensively rejects its false advertising, trademark, and copyright claims. (It

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2021

In the wake of the 2020 Lukis v. As another example, when the search results provide the records associated with Mr. Abraham, “adjacent to the list of records containing [his] name, photograph, and likeness” is an advertisement promoting the subscription membership. I’ve blogged three yearbook cases so far this year ( Callahan v.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 9, 2022

Between 2013 and 2020, a man from Finland operated three websites – lyrics.fi, lyricsfi.com and nettiradio.fi. As highlighted earlier, the audio streams made available by the defendant on his radio portal were not copied or duplicated in any way. Man Operated Unlicensed Sites For Seven Years.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 14, 2024

’ advertising campaign, it has intentionally chosen not to listen to complaints from copyright owners. “Scope of Repeat Infringement on Verizon’s Network is Staggering” The labels claim that since early 2020, their representatives have sent more than 340,000 infringement notices to Verizon.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 8, 2024

Last month, Japan-based anti-piracy group Authorized Books of Japan (ABJ) ran a newspaper advertising campaign in the United States, Italy, Spain, and France. Yet, based on the sheer scale of piracy, none have experienced anything close to that taking place in the manga market. billion yen (estimated as of February 2023) • 2023 – ~381.8

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

In 2020, Amazon teamed up with publisher Penguin Random House and authors including John Grisham, Scott Turow and Lee Child to sue several pirate ‘Kiss Library’ eBook sites operating out of Ukraine. When sales are replaced by pirated copies, authors earn a lot less.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 15, 2023

The popular video platform has become an important promotional channel that brings in billions of dollars of advertising revenue every year. Yout vs. RIAA At the end of 2020, the operator of one of the largest stream-rippers took matters into his own hands. The success story has a downside, however.

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The IP Law Blog

MARCH 5, 2021

Xerox ran an advertising campaign “You can’t Xerox a Xerox on a Xerox. But we don’t mind at all if you copy a copy on a Xerox® copier.”. Consistent use of the ® or symbol and also using the brand name along with the general name such as Kleenex brand tissue is a way brand owners can attempt to avoid genericide.

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The IP Law Blog

AUGUST 4, 2022

Embedding” means the process of copying unique HTML code assigned to the location of a digital copy of the photo or video published to the Internet, and the insertion of that code into a target webpage or social media post so that photo or video is linked for display within the target post. Alexis Hunley et al v. In September, U.S.

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IP and Legal Filings

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

It has opened wide range of facilities for us like entertainment, education, advertisements, communication etc. Any user can easily copy, duplicate or access the data without the permission of the author and it is difficult to trace them back due to the issues of privacy and other matters. Kim cartoon and Ors. , Kim cartoon and Ors.,

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TorrentFreak

JULY 16, 2022

Operation 404-2 took place in 2020, leading to 252 pirate sites and 65 pirate streaming apps being handed the same fate. A little while back we became aware of a discussion about Nagra’s work based on documents made publicly available on a regional website of an advertising regulation authority with offices across South America.

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IP and Legal Filings

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

for the fees incurred by them through August 19, 2020. The cause of action in the original suit was the alleged breach of a settlement with the plaintiff, caused by the defendant’s continued use of the plaintiff’s trademark in advertisements on the big search engine. Defendant sought attorney fees of $257,881.19 Passport Health, LLC v.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 28, 2024

Those IPTV services include ‘Streaming TV Now’, ‘Instant IPTV’, ‘Cash App IPTV’, and ‘TV Nitro’ Some of these were subsequently advertised through the YouTube channel @williamfreemon3378, which the plaintiffs believe belongs to the defendant.

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Velocity of Content

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

In 2020, digital advertising spending worldwide amounted to US$378 billion — with online platforms Google and Facebook together owning half the market or about $190 billion. For scale, the New York State budget in 2020 was $177 billion. Last year, newspaper advertising spending worldwide was just $US31.4 Sandra Chastenet.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

At the end of 2020, the operator of one of the largest YouTube rippers took the unprecedented step of taking the music industry to court. Judge Leval responded by saying that preventing downloads is of great commercial significance to YouTube, as it generates its revenue from advertising. Is it designed to prevent copying?

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2022

Finally, in October 2020, Facebook nuked the Shared account (and the personal accounts of some of its employees) and blocked Shared’s ads. Cod § 17200, for failing to provide sufficient details regarding ad rejections in violation of the Advertising Policies. & Prof. Bonne chance.”).

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 14, 2023

With the filing of a second amended complaint in February 2020, a clearer picture emerged. As a result, Plaintiff has suffered substantial economic damage in the form of lost box office income, lost royalty income, lost advertising income, and other monetary damages stemming from Defendants’ illegal distribution of its Works.”

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The IPKat

MARCH 25, 2024

In 2020, New Yorker Marketing & Media International GmbH (‘New Yorker’) filed invalidity applications against BIW’s trade marks, alleging that they lacked distinctiveness and were descriptive at the filing date ( Art. New Yorker also referred to BIW trying to popularise Compton in its advertising for the relevant goods.

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SpicyIP

MARCH 9, 2025

Case Summaries Abbott Healthcare Private Limited vs Vinsac Pharma on 17 February, 2025 (Delhi High Court) Abbott Healthcare sued two defendants for trademark and copyright infringement, claiming they deceptively copied its well-known LIMCEE Vitamin C tablets by selling LIMEECEE with similar packaging. Citing Jaisuryas Retail Ventures v.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2021

This is the initial copying design (without of the background graphics in the precedent work): The copyright registrant alleged this copying design constituted copyright infringement. Anthony, 2020 WL 11206863 (N.D. Signal 23 Television v. Prior Posts on Section 512(f).

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Intellectual Property Office Blog

JULY 29, 2021

million viewers back in 2020. As ITV2’s most successful show of all time, it’s no surprise that it attracts such huge sponsors and advertisers to invest. Love it or hate it, Love Island has fast become one of the UK’s most watched shows, peaking at 5.9 This license only ends when the image is deleted from the platform.

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Garrigues Blog

JUNE 1, 2021

Autocontrol and Asociación Española de Anunciantes (Spanish Advertisers’ Association or AEA) agree on the ethical standards that should be applied to advertising by influencers from January 1, 2021. Mandarins arrive in Luxembourg… the IP ‘case of the year 2020’. My product was copied and I haven’t registered it.

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