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

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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Copyright Lately

MARCH 6, 2022

On Tuesday, Dua Lipa was hit with a copyright complaint by Florida reggae band Artikal Sound System over her 2020 hit “Levitating.” Vale, tengo la prueba definitiva: DUA LIPA ha copiado a Miguel Bosé pic.twitter.com/YtxG1TU8Jx — Juan Arcones (@juanarcones) March 27, 2020. lawleyxzamo) March 30, 2020.

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Michael Geist

APRIL 14, 2023

Using the Access to Information Act, I have now obtained a copy of the government’s internal estimates for the economic and production impact of Bill C-11 ( methodology , memorandum , PPT ), which confirm many of my suspicions.

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 7, 2022

TikTok, a video-sharing platform, has quickly become one of the most popular social media platforms to date. ” After entering into this agreement with NMPA in 2020, TikTok went on to make licensing agreements with large music labels. By: Noelle Henry. were copyright related.

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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. Amazon.com, Inc.

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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. And they allegedly copied golf courses created on Perfect Golf’s course design platform.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 1, 2023

By Guest Blogger Tyler Ochoa Recently, the Ninth Circuit reaffirmed what has become known as the “server test”: in order to be held directly liable for violating the public display right, the alleged infringer must have a fixed “copy” of the work stored on a server in its possession or control. Instagram, LLC , 2023 WL 4554649 (9th Cir.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 18, 2023

In June 2020, during the Black Lives Matter protests, BuzzFeed News published an article titled “17 Powerful Pictures Of The Protests Through The Eyes of Black Photographers.” ’ Therefore, when they embed the images and videos, they do not display ‘copies’ of the copyrighted work.”

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 2, 2021

The book is available as a PDF at Gumroad for $10, as a Kindle ebook for $9.99, and in hard copy at Amazon for $20. The hard copy comes with a free PDF on request; and shipping should be free on Amazon Prime.] If you’re an academic and would like a free evaluation copy, please email me.

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Copyright Lately

MAY 27, 2021

In a nutshell, the lawsuit alleges that the social media app induced and contributed to “widespread copyright infringement” by allowing third parties to embed photos from public Instagram feeds onto their own websites. Email from Facebook to Ars Technica, June 4, 2020. Do the plaintiffs have a case?

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 16, 2021

22, 2021): companies now pay so-called “influencers” to issue posts on social media touting their products or services. Mangos Caribbean Restaurant LLC, 2020 WL 10056405 (N.D. Advertising/E-Commerce. Ariix, LLC v. NutriSearch Corp., 2021 WL 221878 (9th Cir Jan. Employment. Crawford v. Reuters : In U.S. Les Giblin LLC v.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 13, 2024

— Bright Data has long sold the data of all the major social media companies. As I wrote back in December, scraping claims are almost always about unwanted copying and distribution of data. Power Ventures involved a social media aggregator’s consensual use of its users’ Facebook passwords to access their Facebook accounts.

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Dragons' Den

JANUARY 5, 2023

One of the reasons Lucy was looking for investment was that she was worried that someone could copy her idea. Social media pro Steven Bartlett starting the questioning, asking Jayne and Grace how they used digital marketing for their direct sales. This got me thinking how can Lucy protect her product from any copiers?

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

AUGUST 25, 2023

Within hours of the advert’s release, children’s author Fay Evans (the “claimant”) alleged on social media that the 2019 Advert and an associated book retelling the story (titled Excitable Edgar, “EE”) was unusually similar to a book she had published in 2017 about a dragon that sneezed fire called “Fred the Fire-sneezing Dragon” (“FFD”).

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Copyright Lately

DECEMBER 29, 2021

I don’t know about you, but my 2021 actually made 2020 look pretty, prettay, prettaay good by comparison. Judge Rakoff held that the fact that Sinclair didn’t actually possess a copy of Nicklen’s video didn’t mean that Sinclair wasn’t responsible for displaying it.

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43(B)log

DECEMBER 7, 2023

One of the individual defendants is “a social media personality and model who became well-known for her photos and videos, and who has also started an agency to provide management services to other models and influencers.” But in Bell , the copy was apparently always infringing, which doesn’t seem to be the case here.

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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. Whois Privacy Corp., and NameCheap, Inc.,

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43(B)log

JUNE 26, 2023

16, 2023) The court refused to dismiss copyright and trademark claims based on copying of a TV show format, including the hosts. In 2020, as America reckoned with police brutality after the death of George Floyd, the show was taken off the air.” Fan reactions on social media included “Ok. 7411 (KPF) (S.D.N.Y. I missed it!”

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SpicyIP

MAY 24, 2023

Interactions through email and social media denote digitalisation of interactions. The Union Budget 2020 – 21 proposed to spend 8000 crores on the National Mission on Quantum Technologies and Applications (NM-QTA) for a period of five years. For example, converting a typewritten-text to a digital form is digitisation.

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IPilogue

JANUARY 17, 2022

The previously copyrighted works enter the public domain, free to use and copy. Already, versions of the beloved teddy bear are making rounds on social media , with celebrity Ryan Reynolds even introducing his own “Winnie-the-Screwed” book in an ad for Mint Mobile. In 2022, A. public domain.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Following the 2020 report, several of the mentioned pirate sites and services have disappeared. A copy of the European Commission’s third Counterfeit and Piracy Watch List is available here (pdf). Social media. For this article, however, we will mainly focus on pirate sites and services. Cyberlockers. – Mega.nz/.io.

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IPilogue

AUGUST 16, 2022

August asserts that the Defendant, AirG Inc, a Canadian social media brand, committed copyright infringement by reproducing six of Pugliese’s Jennifer Lopez photos on their website without permission. In 2020, AirG was involved in a similar copyright infringement action, Lickerish, Ltd. They sought $22,412.45 v AirG Inc.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

In November 2019, the federal government shut down Gears-branded IPTV services operated by Bill Omar Carrasquillo, better known by his social media handle Omi in a Hellcat. Yes, Omi says, but that made him think about a situation he faced too, when people copied his own products. IRS and FBI agents seized “at least” $5.2m

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LexBlog IP

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. Amazon.com, Inc.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2023

The C4 dataset, created by Google in 2020, is taken from the Common Crawl dataset, which is an open-source dataset and “ a massive collection of web pages and websites consisting of petabytes of data collected over twelve (12) years, including raw web page data, metadata extracts, and text extracts ” (§ I.78 76) (see here and here ).

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Intellectual Property Office Blog

JULY 29, 2021

million viewers back in 2020. A huge chunk of Molly Mae’s success comes from social media channel Instagram, where she is reported to charge over £10,000 for each sponsored post. Love it or hate it, Love Island has fast become one of the UK’s most watched shows, peaking at 5.9

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JIPEL Copyright Blog

APRIL 23, 2021

Taylor Swift is notorious for hiding secret messages in her lyrics , music videos , and social media. pic.twitter.com/fhkLfOssfm — Taylor Swift (@taylorswift13) May 25, 2020. Whoever owns the sound recording rights controls the “master,” or the original recording from which every other copy is made.

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43(B)log

JULY 20, 2023

Since early 2020, Defendant Nepute and Quickwork have used several platforms, including social media, emails, and radio, to tout the purported benefits of Vitamin D and zinc and to promote Wellness Warrior supplements. ” The COVID-19 Act was enacted on December 27, 2020.

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Copyright Lately

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

That order actually topped my list of the 5 Worst Copyright Decisions of 2020 because, by sending the case to a jury, the court effectively ruled that anyone with a tattoo is not in control of the uses to which his or her likeness is put. Let me know in the comments below or @copyrightlately on social media. At least I hope so.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2021

In the wake of the 2020 Lukis v. For example, if a third-party poster copies a newspaper article and posts it to their social media page, the court implies that the social media service can never assert Section 230 protection for that article–even if the third-party poster isn’t infringing copyright because of, say, fair use.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 31, 2022

For the past few years, the FTC considered changes to the Rule, and in 2020, the agency, after much deliberation, announced such changes. Any social media policy that you have should address the issue of employee reviews. Today’s case mostly involves violations of the old version of the Rule.

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43(B)log

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Allegations that Monster’s Reign energy drink was a “copy-cat” of Bang (and the subject of an unsuccessful trade dress suit by Vital in Florida): Vital argued that these were relevant because Reign was creatine-free, arguably showing that even Monster believed that caffeine, rather than Super Creatine or creatine, was material to Bang purchasers.

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Copyright Lately

AUGUST 10, 2021

Faced with the prospect of losing rights in the Phanatic, the team created a new version of its longtime mascot before the start of the 2020 season— angering many longtime fans in the process. As always, if you have any comments, feel free to drop me a line below or on your favorite social media platform @copyrightlately.

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The TTABlog

JUNE 10, 2021

In July 2020, the CAFC remanded to the TTAB the Board's decision that found the proposed mark COOKINPELLETS.COM to be generic for "Processed wood fuel in the nature of pellets for use in barbecue grills," and alternatively merely descriptive of those goods. 2020 USPQ2d 10729 (2020). TTABlogged here ]. Booking.com B.V.

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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. Shared also allegedly had some self-serve ads bounced and says it did not get sufficiently detailed explanations about why, which it thinks it’s entitled to per the applicable TOS.

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IP Whiteboard

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Since our breakdown in March 2020 of Justice Katzmann’s ruling in the Federal Court in favour of American burger chain In-N-Out in its bitter trademark dispute with local Australian company Hashtag Burgers Pty Ltd of DOWN-N-OUT (now Plan B) notoriety, another round of this sizzling hot battle of the burgers has been fought before the Full Court.

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