Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

However, the judge in the case granted a motion to dismiss that affirmative defense, specifically because it uses funds from paying customers to pay for its expansion in to new markets, not merely to offset costs. The man, George Bridi, was arrested in Paphos, Cyprus in August 2020.

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The IPKat

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Such conduct generated exploitative effects by excessive pricing towards users as well as exclusionary effects towards SGAE’s competitors, representing a barrier to entry into the market for collective management as well as the market for licensing of copyright-protected works for other CMOs or independent management entities (IMEs).

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

In 2020 she claims to have sold over 8,000 pieces, mostly through her Etsy store. She claims that her sales have “dropped to a trickle” and that the defendants were using her marketing material to promote costumes that were cheaper than she could ever sell.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 26, 2024

The Beginning of the End In April 2020, an investigator made a test purchase from Media Maverick, paying £10 through PayPal to an account operated by Merrell. Merrell suspected nothing, and when the investigator bought another subscription in November 2020, that didn’t change.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

When Reuters found out, it issued a claim against Ross (in 2020) for copyright infringement, and both parties sought summary judgment on various points. 539 ), the Court focused on the fact that Ross had intended to compete with Westlaw by creating a market substitute.

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Patently-O

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

For instance, 55% of global design applications filed in 2020 were by Chinese residents. In 2015, the US linked its design patent system with Hague — this gives U.S. designers easier access to global design rights; and non-U.S. applicants easier access to the U.S. This week, China announced that it is also joining the system.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 31, 2021

In October 2020, the user posted 6 tweets attacking Brian Sheth , a private equity billionaire, that included photos “depicting a woman or portions of a woman’s body.” 2H 2019 and Q1 2020 Quick Links, Part 1 (Copyright, E-Commerce, Advertising). Q2 2015 Quick Links, Part 1 (IP, Marketing and More).

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Virginia has a 1 year statute of limitations (SOL), which had a 4-month tolling in 2020 due to COIVD. To reset the SOL, Crosswhite pointed to a Reuters employee’s August 2020 tweet linking to the August 2019 story. Reuters appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. Reuters News & Media, Inc.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Early September, Swedish anti-piracy group Rattighetsalliansen (Rights Alliance) reported on a trial that took place at the specialist Patent and Market Court in Stockholm. Payments for PlayTV subscriptions were accepted via a PayPal account, which over a six month period in 2020 amounted to roughly SEK 1.2 million (around US$111,800).

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 21, 2024

They alleged that between August 20, 2020, and May 17, 2022, J.E. Patent and Market Court Convicts In its judgment handed down in April 2023, Sweden’s Patent and Market Court found J.E. By August 2020, a “large number of payments” for IPTV subscriptions had been received by J.E., Evidence J.E.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2022

of personal protective equipment (PPE) from the seller in April 2020 and wired the money. At the end of this thread: the plaintiff sent a text summarizing the payments expected which included four payments of $368,750 on July 15, August 15, September 15 and September 25, 2020. Condon, 2020 Mass. Robbins, 2020 WL 1676771 (D.

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IP Watchdog

JANUARY 22, 2023

Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit’s March 2020 ruling that a “Bad Spaniels” dog toy marketed by VIP Products was an expressive work entitled to First Amendment protections against trademark infringement liability under the Rogers test. The petition filed by Jack Daniel’s appealed the U.S.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 18, 2021

That primer proved to be quite popular, and I posted annual updated versions in summer 2019 and 2020. The passage of the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) in November 2020 necessitated a complete revamp. The post New Primer on the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 22, 2022

” Market Effect. “there is no danger that the Dubtown Video will usurp the market for which Watch Tower intends its works. 2H 2019 and Q1 2020 Quick Links, Part 1 (Copyright, E-Commerce, Advertising). Q2 2015 Quick Links, Part 1 (IP, Marketing and More). Other Blog Posts on 512(h). Maximized Living v.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 18, 2023

AtomoHD Splits Under ACE Pressure AtomoHD (Atom HD in English) appeared as a newcomer in 2020 but in less than three years, ACE says the platform received 235 million visits, averaging 9.7 Less than 10% of the site’s visitors were located outside Spain so its recent disappearance will be felt most acutely in the local market.

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IP Watchdog

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

The UK Supreme Court today held that the England and Wales Court of Appeal was wrong to overturn a 2020 High Court decision that found Sky Ltd. had acted in bad faith when applying for the mark SKY in categories of goods and services it never intended to put on the 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. My Emoji Law Year-in-Review for 2020. The post 2021 Emoji Law Year-in-Review appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. The chart below depicts the number of cases by year, further divided by references to emoticons or emojis [FN].

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 17, 2022

Focused on the Danish market, Asgaard was one of the more popular local platforms. However, due to a tightening enforcement environment in Denmark, 2020 became a year to forget for most pirate torrent sites in the region. Asgaard was founded in May 2019 and those who were able to gain access became part of a thriving sharing community.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 23, 2024

The Court also restrained Natco Pharma, Hetero, BDR Pharma, Shilpa Medicare, Alkem, and Laurus Labs from manufacturing and marketing the generic versions of Imbruvica. Pharmacyclics, the plaintiff, is a subsidiary of the US firm AbbVie, while the drug is marketed in India by Johnson & Johnson.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 4, 2022

Nor does such harm become a necessary component of the Uber business model because the Uber entities marketed the Uber app as safe to use, refused to cooperate with sexual assault investigations, or concealed sexual assaults related to the use of the app. 2020 WL 2097599 (N.D. Uber Technologies, Inc., Uber Technologies, Inc.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Victory operates as Brough Brothers, which claims it was the first African American owned bourbon distillery in the Commonwealth of Kentucky, with the requisite licenses to operate a distillery by September 2020. The fact that both parties used first black-owned distillery in their marketing campaigns was insufficient.

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IPilogue

JULY 28, 2022

TikTok’s effectiveness, as a music marketing tool, became apparent during the early COVID 19 quarantine period, at which time a TikTok influencer created choreography to rapper Megan Thee Stallion’s newly released single, “Savage.” Besides being the most played song on Tiktok in March 2020, it garnered 42.1

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

In April 2020, Columbia Pictures, Amazon Content Services, Disney Enterprises, Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros. The plaintiffs obtained a preliminary injunction in 2020 and with this judgment, that was made permanent. Permanent Injunction. Judge Frimpong’s judgment and order granting default can be found here ( 1 , 2 , pdf).

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TorrentFreak

JULY 7, 2022

In 2015, the chief judge at Finland’s Market Court questioned whether the system had the resources to cope but that didn’t deter those seeking to turn piracy into profit. The Market Court ruled that the subscribers should be dealt with on a case-by-case basis. Initial Victory For Internet Subscribers.

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IPilogue

JULY 21, 2022

Rhode-NYC argues that Hailey Bieber’s use of her middle name “Rhode” as the name of her skin care brand is creating market confusion and potential harm to its goodwill and reputation. Notably, Rhode-NYC did not oppose the 2020 application.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 14, 2022

In a matter of months, Club Penguin Rewritten had a million users and, after briefly shutting itself down in 2018, grew to reach an estimated eight million players late 2020. This appeared to upset Disney. Copyright Troubles Begin. The next steps and their timing are difficult to predict.

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IP and Legal Filings

MAY 10, 2024

It has gained momentum in India with the advent of technology transfer and commercialization rules,2020. Likewise, IP marketing plays a pivotal role, markets are identified where usage of technology is exchanged or transferred by recognizing prospective stakeholders. link] Transferring Technology from Lab to Market.

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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. “This market generates at least tens of millions of dollars a year for the Publishers. . And IA supplants the Publishers’ place in this market.”

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Plagiarism Today

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Over at CopyByte , one of my main jobs is removing plagiarized marketing copy such as what Streamlabs had on its site. While they moved quickly to rectify the problem, the fact that there was an issue at all needs a closer examination. Accident or Not, a Problem Remains.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 24, 2023

. “Digital piracy causes several damages to the market and the entertainment industry is especially affected by it,” the translation reads. For example, there is an impact on the attractiveness of audiovisual products for the advertising market,” it reads.

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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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TorrentFreak

JULY 31, 2024

NCP received a similar tip in 2020, this time from police in the city of Gävle. At the Stockholm District Court’s Patent and Market Court in October 2023, the men were found guilty of criminal copyright infringement and sentenced to prison. Discovery and streaming service Viaplay, launched a pirate IPTV investigation.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Then in 2020, NCP reportedly received another tip, this time from police in Gävle, who in turn had received similar tips about a similar operation. Discovery and streaming service Viaplay, it signaled the start of an investigation and subsequent prosecution that wouldn’t conclude for another four years.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

They were sold below the market rate and in some cases at half the original price. In 2019, a 26-year-old man was handed a 20-day suspended prison sentence and fined around US$4,000 for similar offenses and in 2020, a woman who sold access to pirated copies of academic textbooks stored on Dropbox received a similar punishment.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 12, 2022

“NuStar’s clothing and apparel products, including its RELOADED® line of merchandise, are available for retail purchase in brick-and-mortar stores, and were also marketed, distributed, and sold through NuStar’s ‘Reloaded’ storefront on Amazon.com,” the complaint reads. ” Plaintiff Seeks Damages and Injunction.

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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. “Dream TV is a well-known and widely viewed Moroccan-based pirate IPTV service provider.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 11, 2021

In April 2020, members of the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment including Columbia, Amazon, Disney, Paramount, Warner, and Universal filed a lawsuit in the US against the operators of Nitro TV. Nitro TV: Court Should Dismiss Case. Both Raul and Firestream LLC are named defendants in the ACE lawsuit.

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