Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

According to the lawsuit, in February 2020, Barbera took a photo of Cyrus as she left a building. The lawsuit represents the latest in a long line of celebrities that have been sued by paparazzi over the use of unlicensed images on their social media. Most celebrities have opted to settle their cases.

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Copyright Lately

OCTOBER 27, 2024

Each of these lawsuits involved a familiar scenario, putting Hadid squarely in the “ I got sued for posting pictures of myself on social media ” club—a club that’s now about as exclusive as a Sam’s Club membership. Let me know in the comments below or @copyrightlately on social media. So what do you think?

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Plagiarism Today

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

The first was in August 2020, shortly after this problem began. It’s either “We can’t see how it’s infringing” or “How you are authorized" — Jonathan Bailey (@plagiarismtoday) August 19, 2020. Otherwise, Facebook will continue to get older and more and more secondary in the social media wars.

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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. As part of his reelection campaign, he used the meme on various social media platforms, prompting Laney to file the lawsuit.

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Plagiarism Today

JULY 28, 2022

Back in November 2020, video game composer Tommy Tallarico discovered the use of the sound effect in Roblox and, rather than pull it, struck a licensing deal with Roblox for its continued use. 2: Rapper Nonini Goes After Social Media Influencer in Legal Battle.

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Plagiarism Today

APRIL 7, 2022

In short, this means that, if you post your work to a web page with social media buttons, an open license or even just tools to aid in printing or emailing, the work is likely considered to be published. There wasn’t even a system for registering blog content, like this site, until June 2020.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 26, 2024

Media Maverick Without the benefit of such foresight, Merrell continued to run a school during the day and began reselling Flawless subscriptions on the side. By now operating under the name Media Maverick on social media, customers hoping to watch Sky TV and BT Sport were in plentiful supply.

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IIPRD

AUGUST 4, 2022

A Social Media Influencer is someone who creates unique material that keeps people interested on multiple social media platforms, causing them to return for more high-quality information. One of the most significant methods to safeguard material on social media is through copyright. Make intangible assets.

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Indiana Intellectual Property Law

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Bell alleges that Bless, as an employee of Bartholomew and a coach at Columbus North High School , used his copyrighted material without permission by posting a representation of the WIN chapter on social media in March 2022. He claims that the defendants actions in 2022 breached that agreement.

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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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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

Chicken Joe’s, an Albany NY-based restaurant “reposted” @WGNAFM’s post, which apparently included the photo in question, to its “social media” page. Breitbart , the court says that “reposting” on “social media” is enough to find copyright infringement in a default judgment.

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently released data showing that more than 95,000 consumers reported losses totaling $770 million from fraud schemes that started on social media. That is a staggering amount of money lost by consumers and is a significant increase from losses of $258 million reported in 2020.

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IP Watchdog

DECEMBER 29, 2021

With the close of another year upon us, IPWatchdog is returning to an annual feature with its Top 10 list of issued U.S. patents during 2021.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 16, 2023

The last figure is up from 12% during the previous survey in 2020, and in 2018 it was only 10%. In 2020, fewer young Danes said they had downloaded or streamed pirated content. Of the 15% who admit to having pirated something over the past year, more than half used social media.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 19, 2024

Skipping bail is generally ill-advised but faced with a private prosecution, the worst possible scenario for any IPTV pirate in the UK, Hornung failing to answer his bail in March 2020 hardly came as a surprise. In this case the discussion takes place on police social media accounts where piracy-related matters represent a tiny minority.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 22, 2022

In 2022, many people are exposed to these subscriptions through friends or the marvels of social media. The image below from that report shows the regions where notices were issued during 2020-21. But for many, it’s even more simple than that. The problem is that this type of offense is viewed as fraud, a criminal offense.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

PETA objects to these experiments and commented on TAMU’s social media pages. TAMU claims that PETA’s comments were “spam” that violated TAMU’s social media policy. Texas A&M (TAMU) does medical experiments on dogs. TAMU blocked PETA, which led to a prior lawsuit that settled.

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 3, 2022

On December 2020, Congress passed the Copyright Alternative in Small-Claims Enforcement Act or the CASE Act. So, if you haven’t done so yet, take a moment to either follow this site on social media or sign up for the newsletter using the links in the sidebar. 1: The Copyright Small Claims Court.

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Barry Sookman

APRIL 26, 2020

Computer and Internet Weekly Updates for 2020-04-18 [link] 2020-04-19 Racing Head-On Into Artists’ Nightmares: An Examination of danah boyd’s ‘Facing the Great Reckoning… by… [link] 2020-04-19 Announcement: Commissioner publishes framework to assess privacy-impactful initiatives in response to COVID-19 – Of… [link] 2020-04-20 Message from the (..)

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U.S. Department of Commerce

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

billion according to the 2020 Small Business Saturday Consumer Insights Survey commissioned by American Express. including sample posters, and social media resources . SBA's social media guide. Follow SBA on social media for all the latest updates on #ShopSmall. in your area .

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 24, 2023

When BBB fans aren’t glued to their TVs waiting for the drama to unfold, many can be found on social media, usually speculating about what comes next, based on what they’ve just seen. To clamp down on social media users sharing images and videos of BBB23, staff are instructed to report them to Globo.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 15, 2024

In 2020, the Supreme Court of New Zealand ruled that Kim Dotcom and his colleagues could indeed be extradited to the United States. Dotcom revealed the decision on social media earlier in the week, describing New Zealand as an “obedient U.S. With the stakes this high, no legal resources are being spared. colony”. “[T]he

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IPilogue

JULY 28, 2022

Besides being the most played song on Tiktok in March 2020, it garnered 42.1 Record labels, like several companies, have turned to TikTok and other social media platforms to market their products. The virality of “#Savagechallenge” contributed to the song’s commercial success. million US streams and peaked at No.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 10, 2022

Defendants also managed the social media presence of the “La Baguette” business, which primarily consisted of a Facebook page. In March 2020, plaintiffs began to have concerns about defendants’ loyalties to the business. 1459 (2014); Zoe Argento, Whose Social Network Account? See generally, Christopher A.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 9, 2023

Affiliates and Social Media While it’s not uncommon for pirates to operate in groups, any type of close affiliate risks having their information processed by the Premier League. The goal here is to “establish level of involvement/extent of liability.”

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JIPEL Copyright Blog

APRIL 26, 2021

Nordstrom removed the pieces at issue, and everything seemed to be fine on the copying front—until 2020 hit. They first called out Bernstein on their Instagram stories and privately sent her and We Wore What a cease and desist letter in August 2020. If successful, this would mean TGE could not file an infringement suit).

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IP and Legal Filings

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Wide impact of Multimedia and Social media Multimedia is a much broader concept consisting of text, sounds, audio-video, images, graphics etc. Also, the privacy and security matters on the social media make it much difficult to prevent the duplication of copyrighted works. 2019 SCC Online Del 8002 Disney Enterprise inc.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

In 2020 his Area 51 service was shut down following an Alliance For Creativity and Entertainment (ACE) cease-and-desist letter. A confidential settlement was reached in October 2020 but it’s claimed that the defendant then launched Digital UniCorn Media and another service called Altered Carbon. Early July, Warner Bros.,

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Michael Geist

AUGUST 23, 2021

Those plans include the creation of a bureaucratic super-structure that featuring a new Digital Safety Commission, a digital tribunal to rule on content removal, and a social media regulation advisory board. Credits: Canada 2020, Democracy in the Digital Age: Addressing Online Harms.

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IPilogue

JULY 21, 2022

Hailey Bieber leverage d her fame and social media following, and that of her husband Justin Bieber’, to immediately establish her brand. Then, in December 2020 , Hailey Bieber and her companies filed an intent-to-use trademark application for RHODE as a word mark and stylized word depiction for use in skin care.

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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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The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Australia’s Parliament has recently passed the Designs Amendment (Advisory Council on Intellectual Property Response) Bill 2020 to allow designers more flexibility and simplify the designs system. Tyrone Berger , reports on what he calls "long-awaited changes" to the design law of Australia. Royal Assent was granted on 10 September 2021.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 2, 2023

Éric Grenier: Controversial and Media Friendly As part of its own investigation, La Presse recently trawled Grenier’s Facebook account and discovered that he’s been promoting Arubox.tv since at least 2020.

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The IPKat

MAY 20, 2022

Mostert co-submitted an application for a troll emoji ( ) to the Unicode Consortium in early 2020. Given the prevalence of social media trolls in the digital world, he came to the conclusion that an emoji that could be used to reference them would also be of use. This is thanks to Kat friend Frederick Mostert.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 18, 2024

The term “link taxes” refer to the government compulsion of large Internet services, such as social media or search engines, to pay news media for indexing and publishing their headlines and links. 4) Social media “defective design” lawsuits go forward. #StopTheSADScheme. Does anyone care?

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Initially filed in August 2020, the complaint targeted five ‘doe’ defendants, together doing business as Universe IPTV and Universe TV. In December 2020, DISH’s first amended complaint named three people as the alleged operators of Universe IPTV – Mohamed Omar, Hossam Abd Elghany, and Moustafa Maatouk.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Development of Genshin Impact began in 2017 and when it launched in 2020 utilizing a free-to-play model, a development budget of $100 million was on the line. With 16 million monthly players during its launch in September 2020, there was little doubt that developer miHoYo had hit the jackpot. But more was to come.

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