Intellectual Property Law Blog

JANUARY 11, 2023

The SCPA legally protects layouts of integrated circuits upon registration, making them illegal to copy without permission. The deposit can be either a physical copy of the mask work or a digital copy in a format specified by the Office. It is authorized by the federal Semiconductor Chip Protection Act of 1984 (SCPA).

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Plagiarism Today

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

According to LDC, Sheraton copied the design of the rooms at their five-start hotel, Palais de Chine. 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.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

However, there are those who have made cottage industries out of the sale of illegal copies at significantly lower prices. One such individual, a 28-year-old man from Denmark, was spotted by Rights Alliance selling copies of textbooks via DBA, Denmark’s most popular online marketplace.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 24, 2022

Then, in 2020, as the pandemic was ramping up, Amazon found itself in the news again as it was overrun by plagiarized books about COVID-19. All it has to do is use readily available plagiarism detection tools to detect works that contain a large volume of clearly copied text. To that end, they are the perfect company to do it.

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Plagiarism Today

JULY 29, 2021

In November 2020, the RIAA filed a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) takedown notice against a GitHub project named youtube-dl, which enables the downloading of YouTube videos. It’s unclear how many of those notices deal with Section 1201 disputes versus more traditional issues of copied code and other content.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

According to the lawsuit, A&E presented the program Live PD between 2016 and 2020. Furthermore, they allege that Reelz has copied many elements from Live PD including the show’s format, the show’s hosts and the same catchphrase to name a few. The lawsuit was filed by songwriters L.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 11, 2022

According to Bungie, AimJunkies copied and distributed its copyrighted work, to develop and advertise its cheat software. The cheat software itself certainly isn’t a copy of Bungie’s work, they add. Copyright Questions. The cheat maker also highlights another problem with Bungie’s copyright claims.

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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. His group specialized in modifying Nintendo game consoles and selling pirated copies of Nintendo games to customers.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 14, 2022

In October 2020, the RIAA caused outrage by taking down YouTube-ripping tool youtube-dl from GitHub. In emailed correspondence today Uberspace informed TorrentFreak that, following the cease-and-desist in October 2020, three major music labels are now suing the company in Germany. Now Comes a Lawsuit.

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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. No pirated copies were ever leaked. No ransoms were demanded.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 8, 2022

GitHub already posts copies of all DMCA notices on its own website and, starting this year, it also sends copies to Lumen. This central database, managed by the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, also archives copies of notices sent to Google, Twitter, and other platforms.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 11, 2024

Books3 was created by AI researcher Shawn Presser in 2020, who scraped the library of ‘pirate’ site Bibliotik. “NVIDIA has admitted training its NeMo Megatron models on a copy of The Pile dataset. Through the lawsuit, the rightsholders demand compensation in the form of actual or statutory damages.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 23, 2024

The organization literally archives key parts of the Internet, copying older versions of websites to preserve them for future generations. The organization doesn’t license authorized digital copies from publishers; instead, its books are scanned and digitized in-house. IA has plenty of other archive projects too.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

According to the Danish anti-piracy group, the woman had been selling pirated copies of eBooks on a number of online platforms without obtaining permission from copyright holders. “In short, copying e-books is illegal if you do not own the rights to them. A relationship that may matter to her for many years to come.

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IP Watchdog

MARCH 5, 2023

The Copyright Claims Board (CCB) has issued its first final decision since it was established by law in December 2020, finding in favor of a photographer who claimed a lawyer infringed his copyright by displaying one of his photographs on his law firm website. Oppenheimer said he discovered his aerial photograph of the Ronald V.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 25, 2023

In 2020, publishers Hachette, HarperCollins, John Wiley and Penguin Random House sued the Internet Archive (IA) for copyright infringement, equating its ‘Open Library’ to a pirate site. IA’s library is operated by a non-profit organization that scans physical books and then lends the digital copies to patrons in an ebook format.

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Erik K Pelton

JUNE 12, 2023

On Friday, the USPTO sent out a notice to many trademark owners who’s email address were “recently identified a data security incident that impacted domicile information in certain trademark filings between February 2020 and March 2023.”

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Plagiarism Today

JUNE 27, 2022

According to an article published on Reason , roughly six sentences of his 2000 dissertation at Cornell University contained text that was either copied directly or near-verbatim from outside sources that were not cited in the paper. . Clark, for the record, was accused of copying text without quotation marks while still including footnotes.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Screeners are advance copies of recent movies that are generally sent out to critics and awards voters for review. These copies have regularly ended up in the hands of pirates after which they’re widely circulated online. In 2020, the first ones came out in October and a year later the first leaks appeared in September.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 31, 2021

This was no different last Friday when the Tokyo 2020 officially opened. For the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, we haven’t noticed much activity on torrent sites. — A copy of the NFO file for the “Summer Olympics Tokyo 2020 S01E01 Opening Ceremony 4320p HLG UHDTV AAC22 2 HEVC-TrollUHD” release can be found here.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Screeners are advance copies of recent movies that are generally sent out to critics and awards voter for review. Some of these copies end up in the hands of pirates and are subsequently published online. These links point to leaked screener copies of “The Power of the Dog” and “The Guilty.”

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 12, 2022

And in anticipation of the big day, pirated copies of award-screeners would often leak early. Last year, a high-quality copy of all Oscar contenders was available before the awards, and this year 88% leaked already. As a result, pirates can get their hands on unauthorized copies of the movies much quicker. From 100% to 9%.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 4, 2022

He called an earlier decision in the case one of the 5 worst copyright decisions in 2020 and, with the jury verdict, called it a loss for bodily autonomy and free speech. However, the important thing to know is that there was no doubt that Take-Two did copy the tattoos in question and there was no question of Alexander’s ownership of them.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 29, 2022

When movies are recorded directly from cinema screens, the resulting pirate copy is known as a ‘cam’, regardless of the device used – camcorder or otherwise. A screenshot from the cam copy of Minions: The Rise of Gru. Forensic investigators linked the copy to a cinema in Leeds, West Yorkshire.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 4, 2023

A few decades ago, copying machines at universities were already duplicating copyrighted works every day of the week. However, with digital books becoming more common, copying has become a breeze. While enforcement is relatively rare, in Denmark several students have been convicted for selling pirated copies of textbooks.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 18, 2024

In 2020, publishers Hachette, HarperCollins, John Wiley and Penguin Random House sued the Internet Archive (IA) for copyright infringement, equating its ‘Open Library’ to a pirate site. Patrons can also borrow books that are scanned and digitized in-house, with technical restrictions that prevent copying.

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Plagiarism Today

APRIL 7, 2022

Copyright Office, “Online content is considered published if the copyright owner authorizes the end user to retain copies of the content or further distribute the content.”. Their pages contained a pair of copyright notices that read, “Nothing on this page may be copied or reproduced without explicit permission.” According to the U.S.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 18, 2023

In 2020, publishers Hachette, HarperCollins, John Wiley and Penguin Random House sued the Internet Archive (IA) for copyright infringement, equating its ‘Open Library’ to a pirate site. Patrons can also borrow books that are scanned and digitized in-house, with technical restrictions that prevent copying.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 29, 2021

The European Commission’s Directorate-General for Taxation and Customs Union ( DG TAXUD ) and the European Union Intellectual Property Office ( EUIPO ) recently released the first joint annual report on EU enforcement of intellectual property rights: results at the EU border and in the EU internal market 2020.

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Plagiarism Today

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Without a doubt, 2020 was a difficult year for school districts across the country and the globe. This has led authors to include large amounts of protectable material with their works (often leading to frustration from readers) and to a culture of protecting attribution and limiting copying of recipes through community action.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 19, 2021

It started in February 2020 when the now-former Katy Independent School District Lance Hindt was accused of having plagiarized his dissertation. Over the past 18 months, there has been a major rash of school superintendents being caught committing plagiarism. To make matters worse, her explanation for the plagiarism is horrible.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 19, 2022

The movie company accused the site and its operator of promoting and distributing pirated copies of the movie, demanding to put an end to the activity. In 2020, the court concluded that a US court doesn’t have jurisdiction over the Pakistani defendant. At the same time, the uploader stopped pushing torrents to other sites as well.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 11, 2024

It was created by AI researcher Shawn Presser in 2020, who scraped the library of ‘pirate’ site Bibliotik. For example, Danish anti-piracy group Rights Alliance demanded The Eye to remove their copy of Books3, which it did. The Books3 dataset has a clear piracy angle. 107,” Meta notes.

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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

AUGUST 30, 2022

For many, it will be the first “normal” year since the start of the pandemic in 2020. Handling citation after one has finished writing a piece opens the door to serious mistakes, including passages that were copied but not quoted, missing citations and forgotten sources. However, that is not the case.

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The IP Law Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

I say “was” because Ross AI closed down as an operating company in 2020 – Ross says it was due to the Thomson Reuters lawsuit – but its insurance coverage has allowed it to continue to defend the Thomson Reuters lawsuit). The court found, as a matter of law, that Ross copied portions of the Westlaw headnotes.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 13, 2022

In 2020, Japan’s parliament followed up by criminalizing those who download pirated manga. Following amendments that came into effect on October 1, 2020, anyone operating such a site faces up to a five million yen fine, a five-year prison sentence, or potentially both. It seems that some people didn’t get the memo.

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