Michael Geist

DECEMBER 3, 2024

It has already entered into licensing agreements with several content creators, including other news media organizations.” Instead, they point to how much they have produced or licensed with the assumption that it is all scraped by OpenAI. This comes directly from scientists at ChatGPT, who published on the issue in 2020.

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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. The post 3 Count: Bowser’s Finale appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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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

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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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

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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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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TorrentFreak

MARCH 21, 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. Staying true to the centuries-old library concept, only one patron at a time can get a copy. The Internet Archive has no such license.

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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

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.”

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Copyright Lately

OCTOBER 27, 2024

Last August, Hadid was sued yet again , this time for sharing a 2020 photo of her sister Bella— another frequent copyright defendant —taken by photographer Ulices Ramales. And while plaintiffs often use lost licensing fees as a baseline for statutory damages, Ramales didn’t provide any licensing history for the image here.

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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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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 12, 2022

Background: Keys and Tokens Are Not Licenses. Importantly, Microsoft stresses that it does not sell software; it offers licenses that enable people to use its software, under a set of strict terms and conditions. Microsoft says that it develops software and distributes digital downloads using its own site and those of other vendors.

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IPilogue

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Take-Two licensed Randy Orton’s likeness from WWE. The Defendants also filed a motion for partial summary judgement on the basis of three defences : 1) de minimus, 2) fair use doctrine and 3) implied license. The court opined that the dispute to copying does not arise as the defendants had admitted to copying the tattoo.

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Michael Geist

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Last month, the Canadian Federation of Library Associations released a much-needed statement that sought to counter the ongoing misinformation campaign from copyright lobby groups regarding the state of Canadian copyright and the extensive licensing by libraries and educational institutions.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

The brands (hereafter Bellies) were licensed to Every Bite Counts Pty Ltd ("EBC"), including a range of Puffs products. EBC licensed the nine bright and colourful artistic works and used them on various food products including biscuits, puffs and fiddlesticks. baby, young, and fully-grown) to allude to natural progression.

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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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Copyright Lately

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

Internet Archive (read the opinion here) , the court dealt a decisive blow to the Internet Archive, ruling that its practice of scanning and lending digital copies of books doesn’t qualify as fair use under the Copyright Act. When the electronic book is “checked out,” the physical copy is removed from circulation.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 6, 2023

A 2020 class action lawsuit filed by musician Maria Schneider accused YouTube of mass copyright infringement, failing to suspend ‘repeat infringers, and restricting access to anti-piracy tools, among other allegations. YouTube’s Licensing Defense. It has not,” Judge Donato writes.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 14, 2022

In the summer of 2020, publishers Hachette, HarperCollins, John Wiley and Penguin Random House filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Internet Archive (IA). In a June 10 letter to Judge John G. As for IA’s “Controlled Digital Lending” concept, the plaintiffs insist that has no basis in law.

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Michael Geist

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

This week’s Law Bytes podcast features Western librarian Stephen Spong on fair dealing and prior posts in the series endeavoured to set the record straight and discussed site licensing , transactional licensing , and the disappearance of course packs. between 2018/19 and 2021/22.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Recording a license agreement concerning an EU trade mark is not mandatory but has several benefits (see the EUIPO’s trade mark Guidelines ): The license has effects vis-à-vis third parties ( Art. The license was not recorded with the EUIPO. 27(1) EUTMR ). 57(3) sentences 2 and 3 EUTMR ). The EUIPO revoked the recordal ( Art.

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SpicyIP

JULY 1, 2021

Printed copies, adaptations or publications with new material would only widen the dissemination of these works. If local publishers are not charged hefty royalties or licensing fees, they can make these books available at cheaper prices and reduce their distribution costs. vii), Balbharati Copyright Policy].

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 8, 2023

modification, and other forms of copying of the work fall under this category. Through a licensing agreement, they can give consent for other parties to utilize their creations. The Indian Government enacted The Copyright Act of 1957 to protect the rights of artists from getting copied or pirated. Image Sources : Shutterstock].

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SpicyIP

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Given this, when the Internet Archive, a non-profit digital library based in the US changed its digital lending policy in 2020, trouble ensued. Other than a brief period in 2020, the Archive maintained a one-to-one ratio of books owned by it in physical copies and made available digitally for users through its free digital library.

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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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JIPL Online

MARCH 15, 2021

The Conan Doyle estate, heirs to the author of the works about the famed detective Sherlock Holmes, alleged that Netflix infringed on the character Sherlock Holmes in its portrayal of Sherlock Holmes in the 2020 movie “Enola Holmes.” [2] 18] Netflix admitted it had access to and copied the memoir. [19] Netflix knows what it is doing.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 13, 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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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

May, who played Destiny 2 and agreed to its Limited Software License Agreement (LSLA) in the fall of 2019. This older copy is the one presented by Bungie as evidence. In 2020, someone using the name “Martin Zeniu” obtained a license to the Destiny 2 cheat software, agreeing to these terms.

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Velocity of Content

JULY 14, 2021

In countries, for example, that saw academic and educational institutions closed entirely and for long periods of time, the effect on licensing revenues from those sectors has been very serious and damaging. In China , new copyright legislation came into effect in June that supports the introduction of academic and educational licensing.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 2, 2022

In January 2020, YesPornPlease had around 100 million visitors per month (SimilarWeb stats) so any information would’ve been useful to MG Premium. Late February 2020, MG Premium filed a full-blown copyright lawsuit in a Washington court against the then-unknown operators of the platforms. for some time.

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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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Copyright Lately

AUGUST 19, 2024

But unlike those cases, this one was first filed way back in 2020, before generative AI was poised to change the world (and also before it was spitting out fake cat videos and telling us to put glue on pizza ). Sorry, future jurors.)

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 17, 2024

” 2 Live Crew had previously sought to license the track from Acuff-Rose to be used as a parody; Acuff-Rose refused and 2 Live Crew used it anyway. Without obtaining permission, Lokka made a copy of the report, added his own subtitles, and then retransmitted the new version to the public via Twitter. Subtitle Defense 2.0:

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Garrigues Blog

JULY 27, 2021

The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has published its World Intellectual Property Indicators Report 2020 , which contains valuable information on changes in intellectual property indicators and trends worldwide, from 2018 to 2019, as we discussed in this post. million copies, followed by Japan (677.7 Industrial designs.

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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. Amazon.com, Inc.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 21, 2021

After the apparent demise of Area 51 but in advance of the settlement being finalized, it’s alleged that Tusa launched a close copy of Area 51 called SingularityMedia, which scooped up Area 51’s customers. In response, ACE contacted Tusa again and demanded that the new service was shut down. It later disappeared.

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