Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

1: After Settling with Justin Bieber and Ariana Grande, Photographer Sues Miley Cyrus for Copyright Infringement. According to the lawsuit, in February 2020, Barbera took a photo of Cyrus as she left a building. 2: China to Crack Down on Copyright Infringement Through NFTs.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 2, 2021

1: Manhattan Judge Rejects ‘Server Test’ for Internet Copyright Infringement. District Court Judge Jed Rakoff has issued a controversial ruling denying the “server test” of copyright law and ruling that embedding images can be an infringement of copyright law. ” As such, Warner Bros.,

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Plagiarism Today

MARCH 10, 2022

First off today, Ryan Naumann at Radar Online reports that photographer Al Pereira has filed a lawsuit against the rapper Nas claiming copyright infringement over a post on social media. Nas republished the photo on his Instagram in 2020 and, according to Pereira, this was done without permission or a license.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 5, 2021

DISH Files Copyright Infringement Lawsuit Against IPTV Provider. Initially filed in August 2020, the complaint targeted five ‘doe’ defendants, together doing business as Universe IPTV and Universe TV. Together they were accused of direct and contributory copyright infringement.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 2, 2022

1: Netflix Slams Unofficial ‘Bridgerton’ Musical Creators in Copyright Infringement Lawsuit. In addition to the copyright issues, which includes verbatim dialog included in the songs, Netflix alleges that the duo used Bridgerton trademarks improperly in advertising the show. Have any suggestions for the 3 Count?

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 12, 2022

In 2015, the National Music Publishers Association (NMPA) filed a lawsuit against Wolfgang’s Vault, alleging that the service did not have a license for the underlying compositions of the songs it streamed. In 2018, a judge agreed with that and ruled that Wolfgang’s Vault was infringing, but left the issue of damages up to a jury.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 23, 2021

The lawsuit actually began in 2012 when LaTele sued Telemundo over alleged copyright infringement of a telenovela. Settles ‘Focus’ Copyright Infringement Lawsuit. The 3 Count Logo was created by Justin Goff and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License.

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Plagiarism Today

MARCH 7, 2022

First off today, Bill Donahue at Billboard reports that pop musician Dua Lipa has been hit with a second lawsuit over her hit song Levitating , as a pair of different accusers have accused her of copyright infringement. The 3 Count Logo was created by Justin Goff and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Aldi was sued for copyright infringement of an artwork that appeared on the packaging of childrens snacks under the BABY BELLIES, LITTLE BELLIES and MIGHTY BELLIES brands, each aimed at different age groups. The brands (hereafter Bellies) were licensed to Every Bite Counts Pty Ltd ("EBC"), including a range of Puffs products.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 3, 2021

1: Twitter Is Turning a Blind Eye to Music Copyright Infringement, Group of U.S. million takedown notices for copyright infringement in the first half of 2020, pointing to a pervasive problem on the service. Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday. According to the letter, Twitter received some 1.6

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Plagiarism Today

JULY 28, 2022

First off today, Luke Plunkett at Kotaku reports that the iconic “oof” sound effect in Roblox has been removed yet again due to licensing issues with the sound’s creator. He is claiming that neither Mutinda nor Syinix paid for a synchronization license for the use of the song.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

The issue is, what is (the copyright implication of retweeting a photo of) chicken? head nod to Judge Friendly ). * * * The plaintiff licenses a photo database to grocery stores for $12k/yr. Instagram ), where embedding isn’t an infringement. The case involves one of those photos, evocatively named “ChickenFried013.”

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Michael Geist

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Canada’s largest media companies, including the Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, Postmedia, CBC, and Canadian Press, came together last week to file a copyright infringement lawsuit against OpenAI, the owners of ChatGPT. Instead, they point to how much they have produced or licensed with the assumption that it is all scraped by OpenAI.

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Plagiarism Today

JULY 26, 2022

1: Court of Appeals Rules That a Timely Filed Copyright Infringement Lawsuit Can Recover All Damages, No Matter How Long Ago They Occurred. However, under the conventional theory of damages, Starz would have only been eligible for damages on infringements going back to May 2017, three years before the lawsuit was filed in May 2020.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

First off today, Ted Johnson at Deadline reports that a group of six United States Senators have signed a letter to the domain name registry Verisign calling upon the service to suspend the domains of pirate websites and generally do more to combat copyright infringement. Header Image: ?english

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JIPL Online

MARCH 15, 2021

With more content comes the increased possibility that Netflix is engaging in copyright infringement and on the receiving end of copyright infringement claims. [1] 1] This blog will briefly summarize a few of the notable copyright infringement cases Netflix has defended against in the United States.

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Plagiarism Today

JULY 27, 2021

Specifically, the accusations were that the melody of Butter matched the 2020 Luca song You Got Me Down. However, this turned out to be more of a licensing than a traditional plagiarism issue. The most likely cause for this similarity was simply Garcia using either the same or a very similar melody to the one he licensed to Luca.

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Plagiarism Today

JUNE 7, 2022

Copyright termination allows original creators or their heirs to reclaim rights to works they may have signed away years before. According to the Yonays, they completed that process and the rights reverted to them in January 2020 and work on Top Gun: Maverick didn’t finish until 2021. million) in a timely fashion.

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Plagiarism Today

MARCH 9, 2022

Back in 2019, a jury verdict found that Cox was not doing enough on its network to deter piracy and, as such, awarded a group of some 53 music publishers a $1 billion judgment for some 10,000 instances of copyright infringement by Cox customers. Cox immediately appealed the verdict, but it was then upheld by a separate court.

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Plagiarism Today

JUNE 21, 2022

Copyright Office’s Copyright Claims Board has finally opened has created what it hopes will be the first small claims court for copyright infringement cases. Others are concerned that it could be a new tool for “copyright trolls” to target more people.

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Plagiarism Today

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

According to the plaintiffs, Paramount optioned the article for the first film but failed to option it for the sequel, despite the rights reverting back to the estate in January 2020. 3: King Copyright Infringement Trial to Begin in Federal Court. The case began yesterday and is expected to last through Thursday.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 4, 2022

This prompted Alexander to file a lawsuit against Take-Two, claiming copyright infringement of her work. 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.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 18, 2023

.’ Within that article, Time embedded one of Brauer’s Instagram posts, which contained a copyrighted photograph of Hillary Clinton to which Brauer owned the copyright. BuzzFeed News did not seek permission or attempt to license Hunley’s photograph taken during the protests.

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IPilogue

AUGUST 16, 2022

On April 5 th 2022, the Federal Court released its decision for August Image LLC v AirG Inc , a copyright infringement action concerning images of singer-actress, Jennifer Lopez. in damages, which is the total license fee for the photos. According to the Copyright Act RSC 1985, c. They sought $22,412.45 v AirG Inc.

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The IP Law Blog

AUGUST 25, 2022

District Court can exercise personal jurisdiction over a foreign defendant with regard to a copyright infringement suit. Lang Van is a California corporation that produces and distributes Vietnamese music and entertainment, owning the copyrights to thousands of songs and programs. Wanat , 970 F.3d 3d 1201 (9 th Cir.

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JIPL Online

APRIL 9, 2021

In particular, it explores why copyright of a meme’s underlying content does not matter in a normative sense. In this blog I argue that copyright protection of the content underlying memes does not matter because of the relative weakness of enforcement mechanisms for copyright infringement of this scale.

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IPilogue

OCTOBER 26, 2021

The decade-long dispute between Google and Oracle over computer code’s copyrightability finally came to an end on April 5, 2021. Supreme Court on October 7, 2020. copyright law. It is arguably, as Stanford law professor Mark Lemley coined it, “ the copyright case of the century. ” .

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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. Mass Copyright Infringement or Fair Use? The Internet Archive has no such license.

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Plagiarism Today

APRIL 7, 2022

Also in 2018, FDN filed the original complaint, targeting both Amazon and CCA, alleging that they both breached contracts and committed copyright infringement. 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.”.

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Copyright Lately

OCTOBER 27, 2024

Model Gigi Hadid defaults in a copyright lawsuit over an Instagram post, leading to a judgment of only $3,000 in damages. Gigi Hadid’s post of sister Bella resulted in the fourth copyright infringement lawsuit filed against her. Gigi Hadid is no stranger to copyright lawsuits. She didn’t even hire a lawyer.

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Copyright Lately

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

In a letter sent in December 2024 and reviewed by Copyright Lately, the estates lawyers warned a small Midwestern cinema that its planned screening of the 1925 version of The Gold Rush would constitute willful copyright infringement, exposing the theater to statutory damages of up to $150,000. Conan Doyle Estate, Ltd.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 23, 2024

The organization doesn’t license authorized digital copies from publishers; instead, its books are scanned and digitized in-house. They filed a lawsuit in 2020 equating IA’s controlled digital lending operation to copyright infringement. IA points out that it doesn’t lend out digital copies without limits.

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Barry Sookman

APRIL 5, 2020

Computer and Internet Weekly Updates for 2020-03-28 [link] 2020-03-29 The Week in Tweets: The End of the Techlash Edition? Recorded Artists Ac… [link] 2020-04-04

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 11, 2022

Over the past several years a wave of copyright infringement lawsuits have been filed against alleged cheaters or cheat makers. This includes several copyright infringement allegations. According to Bungie, AimJunkies copied and distributed its copyrighted work, to develop and advertise its cheat software.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 16, 2023

The complaint described Jadoo TV’s operation as a “wide-ranging, deliberate, multi-year effort” to distribute the plaintiffs’ exclusively-licensed TV channels without authorization. Section 501 , DISH filed claims for direct, contributory, and vicarious infringement. Alleging violations of 17 U.S.C.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Since June 2020, we have been reporting on a class action lawsuit filed by Grammy award-winning musician Maria Schneider against YouTube. “In this case filed nearly 18 months ago, Plaintiffs seek to assert copyright infringement claims on behalf of a sprawling putative class of copyright owners. .

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

At the same time, it introduced provisions for dealing with so-called ‘leech’ sites, platforms that index or link to copyrighted content hosted elsewhere. Operating such a site without appropriate licensing is now an arrestable offense. Notable Criminal Cases Since the Changes.

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