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. 3: Oracle, NEC Resolve Contract, Copyright Dispute Over Database Software. Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday.

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U.S. Department of Commerce

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Manufacturers Like Custom Contract Furnishings in High Point, North Carolina. Photo of a Custom Contract Furnishings (CCF) worker making upholstered seating for the hospitality, health care and senior living industries. . Custom Contract Furnishings (CCF) is one of the many furniture manufacturers located near High Point.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 17, 2024

If the issue lies in loopholes within the ToS, the solution seems straightforward: draft tighter contracts and perhaps incorporate a browsewrap on your platforms to catch those who don’t hold accounts. X’s breach of contract cases against CCDH for violating its ToS by scraping also didn’t fare well. In 2022, in ML Genius v.

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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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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

Contracts are a state-law issue. And online contracts, even though they exist in the friction-less, boundary-less world of the internet, are also generally governed by state-law principles. There are relatively few state-court cases with outsized influence in the law of online contracts. 14, 2020, No. 3, 2020) 442 F.Supp.3d

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 30, 2022

For many, it will be the first “normal” year since the start of the pandemic in 2020. One of the major changes in the past decade has been the rise of contract cheating. Though online essay mills may dominate headlines, studies show that most contract cheating isn’t for money and happens on a more personal level.

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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. This prompted Walkie Check to sue for breach of an implied contract, unjust enrichment and copyright infringement.

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The IPKat

OCTOBER 14, 2024

The musical rights in question are subject to voluntary collective management rights, so SGAE cannot be attributed the management of rights of authors who have not signed a management contract with them. Since 2020, UNISON had a musical repertoire, so the SGAE repertoire could not be universal. 102 of the TFEU. 102 of the TFEU.

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The IPKat

AUGUST 3, 2022

These rights are often owned by different people, and are governed by contracts, so who owns what and how much they earn depends on the agreement between the parties. In 2020, Kelis revealed in an interview that she is not credited and does not receive any royalties from her two albums produced by The Neptunes.

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IP Law 360

MAY 17, 2022

Patent pool MPEG LA skipped out on more than $11 million in royalty payments to Samsung for video compressing patents as a way of punishing the electronics giant for leaving the pool in early 2020, according to a breach of contract suit filed in New York state court.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 5, 2021

Since May 2020, at least two superintendents resigned following allegations that they plagiarized in addresses to graduating students. Though there are definitely limitations on that given the nature of Strine’s contract and employment law more broadly, the message to the public has to be clear: Plagiarism will not be tolerated.

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43(B)log

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

25, 2021) Unlike the education cases so far, this pandemic case sustains both consumer protection and contract claims. Plaintiffs purchased Ikon ski passes for the 2019-20 ski season but, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Defendants closed their ski resorts on March 15, 2020.” Defendants declined to refund their money. 3d 834 (9th Cir.

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IP Law 360

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

This past week in London has seen Kazakh mining company ENRC file libel lawsuits over a 2020 book, the Solicitors Regulation Authority take action against a human rights lawyer and London's police force facing an unfair contract procurement claim.

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43(B)log

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Although the court dismissed a contract claim, copyright and false advertising claims survived. Although Perfect Golf used to be compatible with third-party launch monitors, as of August 2020, Perfect Golf users had to buy plaintiff’s launch monitors to play the game. Perfect Golf has a EULA that bans reverse engineering.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 13, 2024

sued Bright Data for trespass to chattels, breach of contract, tortious interference with a contract, violation of California Business and Professions Code Section 17200, and misappropriation. Here, the court agreed, and dismissed Twitter’s breach-of-contract claims on that basis. In November 2023, X corp. on all counts.

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IPilogue

JULY 15, 2021

In 2020, a licensed Harley Quinn-inspired Birds of Prey collection by Her Universe did not involve the film’s costume designer, Erin Benach. Many costume designers’ contracts with big production companies currently do not address involvement in merchandising. Conflict arises in contracts’ terms.

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IPilogue

JUNE 14, 2022

Swift, in being denied an opportunity to bid for her masters, announced in late 2020 that she would re-record her entire pre-2019 catalogue in order to regain control of her music and limit the profitability of Ithaca’s asset. All music can be subdivided into three categories of copyright: lyrical, compositional, and sound.

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LexBlog IP

JULY 14, 2022

The new 2022 SAG-AFTRA Commercials Contract (the 2022 Contract), which is retroactively effective to April 1, 2022, appears to offer certain benefits to advertiser and agency signatories of the Commercials Contract, particularly JPC authorizers, as well as Union member performers.

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LexBlog IP

JULY 20, 2021

After a year-long delay, the 2020—now 2021—Tokyo Olympic Games will begin July 23. Thankfully, most of the revenue that Japan and the IOC will receive from the 2020 Tokyo Olympics are from television broadcast rights and sponsorship deals. By: Hannah Norem.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

In 2020 his Area 51 service was shut down following an Alliance For Creativity and Entertainment (ACE) cease-and-desist letter. A confidential settlement was reached in October 2020 but it’s claimed that the defendant then launched Digital UniCorn Media and another service called Altered Carbon. Breach of Contract.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2022

of personal protective equipment (PPE) from the seller in April 2020 and wired the money. At the end of this thread: the plaintiff sent a text summarizing the payments expected which included four payments of $368,750 on July 15, August 15, September 15 and September 25, 2020. Condon, 2020 Mass. Robbins, 2020 WL 1676771 (D.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 12, 2023

In 2020, he performed procedures for four patients, Chesson, Gage, Melton, and Robinson (tragically now deceased). ” Despite the contract, the defendants allegedly posted negative remarks about Hah’s work online. Hah’s filings focused on breach of contract, so his other claims weren’t properly alleged.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

All three faced potential prison sentences plus fines for crimes allegedly committed in 2020. In June 2021, three ‘Fast Movie’ YouTubers were arrested in Japan following criminal complaints from several media companies.

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Plagiarism Today

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

When that happens, the most common reason given is that the site is “under construction” or “was not meant to be live” This is such a common reason that, back in May 2020, I wrote an article about how your web developer can land you in legal trouble. That said, it feels like that isn’t what happened here.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 11, 2022

The original complaint lists four copyright registrations but two of these were first published on November 10, 2020, well after the cheats were first made available. The cheat maker also highlights another problem with Bungie’s copyright claims. ” The latter claims don’t belong in federal court either, AimJunkies notes.

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The IPKat

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Bill has now been published , proposing new laws for equitable remuneration for streaming, contract adjustment, right of revocation and transparency. Background Readers may have followed the IPKat reports on the UK DCMS Select Committee Streaming Inquiry [ here ], which took place in October 2020. What happens next?

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Plagiarism Today

APRIL 7, 2022

Also in 2018, FDN filed the original complaint, targeting both Amazon and CCA, alleging that they both breached contracts and committed copyright infringement. There wasn’t even a system for registering blog content, like this site, until June 2020. Even today, the system is wholly inadequate.

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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. Fourth, Shared avers that Meta committed breach of contract (Claim 3) for failing to deliver the April 2018 payment on time in violation of the FAN payment term.

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The IP Law Blog

MARCH 31, 2022

The Court, however, held that Densy stated sufficient facts to establish the existence of an implied-in-fact contract between the parties. There the Court quoted Justice Traynor’s dissenting opinion in Stanley : The policy that precludes protection of an abstract idea by copyright does not prevent its protection by contract.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 4, 2022

There wasn’t a special relationship arising from Uber’s contract because it did not expressly reference any such relationship. 2020 WL 2097599 (N.D. ” Also, any duty may not extend to passengers waiting for the common carrier. The court distinguishes a contrary result in federal court (Doe v. Uber Technologies, Inc.,

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Traverse Legal Blog

APRIL 6, 2022

While NFTs – aka token contracts- last forever on the blockchain ledger, the linked digital asset could be taken from you or have its value/utility diminished or extinguished. Securities law, contract law, consumer protection laws, and causes of action for fraud and misrepresentation are all possible legal claims.

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IP and Legal Filings

MAY 22, 2024

This paper provides a comprehensive overview of the statutory obligation mentioned under the occupational safety, health and working condition code of 2020 and under the code on social security Act of 2020. In India around 1109 deaths and more than 4000 injuries in registered factories were recorded in 2017 to 2020 [3].

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IPilogue

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

In this contract, it was stipulated that for licences, he would be paid a royalty rate of approximately 50%, but for a sale, such as the sale of a CD, he would be paid a royalty rate of 18%. When Four Tet’s contract was signed in 2001, these standard licensing terms were different for the music industry. Sales vs Licences.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2022

In the fall of 2020, hiQ Labs had its antitrust claims dismissed. In spring 2021, hiQ Labs had its motion to dismiss denied on LinkedIn’s misappropriation, breach of contract, and trespass to chattels claims. Breach of Contract. The CFAA is in part a criminal statute and breach of contract claims are not. The opinion.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 9, 2022

Facebook sued BrandTotal on October 1, 2020, which the court treats as a revocation of BrandTotal’s rights to access Facebook’s servers. Penal Code § 502); (5) intentional interference with Meta’s contracts with its users; and (6) violation of the “unlawful,” “unfair,” and “fraudulent” prongs of the UCL. ” Oof.

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The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Registrations are cancellable: Under Article 11, the registration of a copyright may be cancelled where the initial registration was erroneously made or fraudulently procured or by an order of court or pursuant to the law of the relevant contracting state. Under what circumstances may a contracting state make laws to cancel a registration?

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 11, 2022

According to the lawsuit, Crabtree worked as a colorist on the series and was granted a portion of royalties on both single sales and any adaptations of the comic and its characters via an oral contract. However, at the end of 2020 they went on the offense and sued the RIAA asking the court to declare their site legal.

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