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

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. A Napster Moment?

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 12, 2022

Having spent billions on development and marketing over decades, companies like Microsoft dominate important sections of the software market. The defendants are described as prolific distributors of “black market access devices”, aka activation keys and tokens for Microsoft software.

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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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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JULY 15, 2021

The Polish Ministry of Culture has announced draft changes to the Polish copyright law on the collection and division of the private copying levy (also known as the blank media tax or levy). In Part I of this set of posts, I describe draft changes to the Polish copyright law on the collection and division of the private copying levy.

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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. The company, whose market cap exceeds $2 trillion, is mostly known for its GPUs and related software and services, but also has its own AI models.

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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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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 ). Thomson Reuters contends that Ross’s tool was designed to compete directly with Westlaw, targeting the same legal market.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 9, 2022

I found 166 cases in 2021 (so far), a 23% increase over 2020. When the symbols “include something in addition to common tropes and shapes,” and even then, the registrations should only preclude verbatim copying. My Emoji Law Year-in-Review for 2020. Footnote: courts sometimes clearly mislabel the symbol.

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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). Only one patron can borrow each book at a time, and the one patron who borrowed a particular print copy from a library is entitled to read it, IA adds.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

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. He was arrested in the Dominican Republic in September 2020 and was deported to the U.S. One of the defendants is Canadian Gary Bowser. soon after.

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SpicyIP

OCTOBER 9, 2024

By Tanishka Goswami Providing advantages of accessibility, affordability, and shareability among others, the swiftly expanding market for e-books stands at $17.20 Given this, when the Internet Archive, a non-profit digital library based in the US changed its digital lending policy in 2020, trouble ensued.

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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

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Six major ISPs – BT, EE, Plusnet, Sky, TalkTalk and Virgin Media – control more than 90% of the fixed line broadband market in the UK. appeared in September 2020 when MPA/ACE obtained a DMCA subpoena at a California district court. Traffic recently dropped to around 9.7 domain acted as a replacement for its predecessor.

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Copyright Lately

DECEMBER 29, 2024

When I first launched this tradition in 2020, during the height of the pandemic, best of lists felt a little out of touch. Photographers, writers, and other artists often register multiple works as part of a group to save costs and streamline the process, even when the individual works are marketed and consumed independently.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 5, 2024

Pressure Increases on Players in the Illicit Market In common with its counterparts in Europe, Sweden had already been paying more attention to those involved in the supply and sale of pirate IPTV subscriptions. The extensive evidence was noted once again and reference was made to the SEK 2,000,000 the man received 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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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 8, 2024

We usually get ours at the local farmers market.] In 2020, the plaintiff learned that “Defendant was using Plaintiff’s Marks in online tamale advertisements and in Google AdWords, which placed Defendant’s products above Plaintiff’s products in search results for the phrase ‘Texas Tamale.'” Yum, and easily veganized.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

WCT’s principal testified that he continued developing a new version of the Bike+ app from 2017 until 2020, writing “over 2.4 In mid-July 2020, Apple released a new operating system that introduced a bug; in September, he reported this bug to Apple. After an inquiry, Apple confirmed in December 2020 that the bug was fixed.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 14, 2021

In March 2020, with the world gripped by the coronavirus pandemic, the Internet Archive (IA) offered a new service to help displaced learners. In a lawsuit filed June 1, 2020, in a New York court, Hachette Book Group, Inc., The service was not appreciated by book publishers. Publishers Sue IA For Copyright Infringement.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 16, 2021

This week, beIN Media Group and subsidiary Miramax submitted their recommendations to the Office of the United States Trade Representative for the purposes of the USTR’s 2021 Out-of-Cycle Review of Notorious Markets. One pirate IPTV provider in particular appears to be a major concern. Many Other Pirate IPTV Providers Pose a Threat.

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IPilogue

DECEMBER 9, 2022

The Court, by order dated 22 September 2020 , rejected the Defendants’ motion and allowed the Plaintiff’s motion for Partial summary judgement. The court opined that the dispute to copying does not arise as the defendants had admitted to copying the tattoo. The Court’s Conclusions. Citing Muhammad-Ali v.

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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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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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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 16, 2021

Robinhood Markets, Inc., Robinhood used Ice Cube’s picture and paraphrase of a line from his song to illustrate an article about market corrections. Mangos Caribbean Restaurant LLC, 2020 WL 10056405 (N.D. On the contrary, they seem easily separable. 2021 WL 2435307 (N.D. June 15, 2021). Employment. Crawford v.

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 31, 2022

Globalization has given Indian businesses a huge opportunity to access global markets to sell and buy goods and services not only in India but also abroad. 58/2015-2020 dated February 12, 2021, of DGFT an amendment was made relating to IEC scrapping the lifetime validity to an annual one. Copy of rent agreement or electricity bill.

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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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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] 21, 2020), [link]. [3]

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

“[T]he illegal market on the Internet is constantly and rapidly developing, which is why it has been necessary to carry out a slight revision of the CoC agreement,” Rights Alliance explains. In 2017, Danish ISPs were blocking around 100 pirate sites , a figure that jumped to 478 in 2020. How Will The System Work?

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IPilogue

JULY 21, 2021

In February 2020, a jury in the U.S. copyright laws by copying their source code, it also complained that Hytera infringed the federal Defend Trade Secrets Act. Profiting from a market competitor’s innovations via trade secrets and source code theft misappropriates the intellectual creation and property of other firms’ investments.

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Patently-O

AUGUST 17, 2021

Valve submitted a printout of Burns and argues that it was a printed copy of an online review of a Scuf controller from 2010. In particular, one of the inventors (Burgess) testified that he had facilitated the publication back in 2010 for marketing purposes. 10, June 2020). ” Fed. See, e.g., MPEP § 2128 (9th ed.

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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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TorrentFreak

MAY 1, 2024

Copying or reproduction remains relevant, as does the concept of distribution. The Protecting Lawful Streaming Act ( PLSA ) closed the loophole late December 2020 with the creation of a new felony offense ( 18 U.S.C. Between 2018 and May 2020, Valverde sold reseller credits to ‘M.D’, But in this case, apparently not.

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 8, 2023

modification, and other forms of copying of the work fall under this category. A product or piece of information may be easily copied thanks to modern technology, and some businesses get a significant portion of their income from copying what other businesses have produced. Image Sources : Shutterstock]. The Tips v.

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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. Congress and Google Must Do More.

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Velocity of Content

JANUARY 26, 2022

In fact, by April 2020 there were already 39,000 articles in our Covid Collection within RightFind. At pharmaceutical companies, the role of medical affairs has moved from simply disseminating information to providing market-based strategic input to drug development and portfolio management. Marketing & Communications.

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Velocity of Content

JULY 14, 2021

In response to these threatening conditions, many RROs are looking to broaden their offerings and to diversify the markets in which they operate. Revenues from the statutory educational license will start to be collected and new voluntary licenses are expected to be launched in the university market. York University.

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