Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 3, 2022

On December 2020, Congress passed the Copyright Alternative in Small-Claims Enforcement Act or the CASE Act. This came to a head in 2017 when the filmmaker Rick Allen sued the State of North Carolina over alleged illegal copying of footage he shot of Blackbeard’s sunken ship. 1: The Copyright Small Claims Court.

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LexBlog IP

OCTOBER 28, 2021

A recent California District Court ruling affirmed that Perfect 10’s ruling applied to the embedding of images from social media onto third party websites. the user name and image, user caption, number of likes, and branding of the social media platform). Amazon.com, Inc., What is Embedding?

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IP and Legal Filings

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Any user can easily copy, duplicate or access the data without the permission of the author and it is difficult to trace them back due to the issues of privacy and other matters. Wide impact of Multimedia and Social media Multimedia is a much broader concept consisting of text, sounds, audio-video, images, graphics etc.

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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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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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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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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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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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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

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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Copyright Lately

JUNE 12, 2024

Jukebox Manatee creator Daniel Kassel filed a lawsuit in 2023 claiming that Comedy Central , production company Cartuna and Saturday Night Live alum Bobby Moynihan copied these elements to create their own talking manatee program, the adult animated series Loafy. Let me know in the comments below or @copyrightlately on social media.

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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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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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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

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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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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The IPKat

JULY 7, 2024

case concerning the creation and dissemination of a meme on social media saw the Court of Appeals clarify that “the fact that everyone else is doing it is not a particularly compelling justification” for the fair use doctrine under 17 U.S.C. § Now, adding one more nail to the coffin of the #SaveOurMemes movement, a U.S. 107 to apply.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 23, 2024

Cognosphere obtains the latter to compel online platforms, typically social media companies, to hand over whatever information they hold on alleged infringers. In 2020, a DMCA subpoena targeted a Twitter user known only as ‘MrMoneyBags’ with the aim of obtaining their identity based on allegations of copyright infringement.

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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

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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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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Copyright Lately

APRIL 3, 2023

book publishers, rejecting the Internet Archive’s argument that its practice of scanning and lending digital copies of books qualifies as fair use under the Copyright Act. When the electronic version is “checked out,” the physical copy is taken out of circulation. ” What is Controlled Digital Lending?

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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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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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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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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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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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JIPEL Copyright Blog

MARCH 21, 2022

scene in the past, things seemed to come to a head in November 2020 when Nintendo sent a cease-and-desist letter to the Tournament Organizers (TOs) of the Big House, an upcoming streamed Melee tournament, and subsequently forced them to cancel the event. While Nintendo has waffled on its support for the Smash Bros. Super Smash Bros.

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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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Copyright Lately

OCTOBER 3, 2022

In 2020, Southern District of Illinois judge Staci Yandle issued a key ruling when she denied defendants’ motion for summary judgment and granted Alexander’s motion for partial summary judgment. You can use the comment section below or @copyrightlately on social media.

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The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

The company supported its claims by using screenshots of social media posts, including hyperlinks. With the theme “Unlocking the Promise of Social Entrepreneurship,” this year's report included vast data and rankings, including the growth between 2020 and 2022.

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Copyright Lately

JUNE 25, 2023

The studio is asking the court to declare that a copyright termination notice served by Gallo and Israel in 2020 is invalid because transfers of works made for hire aren’t subject to termination under section 203(a) of the Copyright Act. You can use the comments below or @copyrightlately on social media.

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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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JIPL Online

APRIL 9, 2021

Basically, corporations must employ someone willing to scour the internet and report such infringing content by either filing Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) takedown notices, reporting such individual posts via the methods provided by social media platforms, or both. 277 (2020). [iv] iv] Maxwell L. Stearns, Todd J.

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Copyright Lately

JULY 10, 2022

” In a December 2019 social media post made shortly after the Art Basel exhibition, Morford proclaimed to his Facebook followers: “I did this in 2000. You’ll notice that Morford is suing over a piece of art called Banana & Orange , which he registered with the Copyright Office in 2020.

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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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