TorrentFreak

MARCH 31, 2025

Yet in the summer of 2022, when at least four cam copies were spotted online and then traced back to two cinemas in the UK, this turned into a major incident. Given that copies have a tendency to end up on the internet, the stakes are very high indeed and could even affect day-and-date premieres in the UK.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 24, 2025

In the press release, NSK mentions that the 48-year-old illegally copied content from three streaming services, specializing in Danish children’s series, including dubbed ones. Danish Crackdown on The Scene The authorities note that the alleged “Scene” member was active from November 2021 until his arrest in November 2023.

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43(B)log

MAY 9, 2023

May 8, 2023) The Eleventh Circuit affirmed the core finding that Corellium’s copying of iOS for security research purposes was fair use, but vacated and remanded for further analysis of contributory infringement claims and claims related to the use of the icons, giving Apple another bite at, etc. Corellium, Inc. , 21-12835 (11th Cir.

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Copyright Lately

DECEMBER 24, 2023

Thousands will compete, many are objectively baseless, but only five can be crowned the worst of the worst copyright lawsuits of 2023. This year, I’m counting down the five most frivolous, ill-conceived, and all-around cringeworthy copyright lawsuits of 2023. Atlantic Records Lyrically Challenged. Carter wrote in Jones v. Polychron v.

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SpicyIP

JULY 31, 2023

Image from here Yesterday, July 31, the Lok Sabha passed the Cinematograph (Amendment) Bill, 2023 , which was earlier passed by the Rajya Sabha on July 27, 2023. Furthermore, the 2023 bill enables aggrieved individuals to pursue action under Section 51 of the Copyright Act 1957 for copyright infringement.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 24, 2022

This prompted Florence Stoker to sue, a case she won handily with an order that all copies of the film be destroyed. However, at least one copy made it to the United States, where the original book was already in public domain. That copy was preserved and is the basis for all copies of the film we have today.

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Copyright Lately

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Goldsmith in the days following the Supreme Courts 2023 landmark fair use decision. A copy of something in the public domain can’t support a copyright unless it contains a distinguishable variation that reflects independent creativity. And independent creation simply means you created it yourself, without copying.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 1, 2022

Finally today, Ad i Robertson at The Verge reports that Spice DAO (decentralized autonomous organization) has announced that it is abandoning much of its Dune -related plans and, instead, intends to sell its copy of the Dune bible and attempt to pay out holders of its $SPICE cryptocurrency.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Grande Communications Networks, LLC, 2023 WL 1422808 (W.D. Jan 31, 2023). 11, 2023): Time and again we have declared that “prevailing defendants in copyright cases are presumptively entitled (and strongly so) to recover attorney fees.” . Hoffmann Air Conditioning and Heating, LLC, 2023 WL 2681994 (E.D. March 29, 2023).

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

On September 25, 2023, Judge Bibas rendered his initial opinion on summary judgment motions concerning direct infringement and fair use. Thomson Reuters argued that Legal Ease’s questions, incorporated by Ross in machine-readable form, essentially copied its creative headnotes. But, first, Some History!

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 18, 2025

This represents a social cost in terms of additional labour from community volunteers, as well as missing use from the absence of preserved copies of games available for research, innovation and other productive uses. “Moreover, as preservation is delayed, technical costs for knowledge institutions may rise.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 13, 2023

But does wordplay stop people from ripping billions of tracks from YouTube and copying them to their machines?

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

The music group agreed to hand over a copy of its 2019 agreement with OpSec, but rejected to share any other communications related to it. The music industry group already shared payments between 2020 and 2023, but it should hand over older data too. According to Altice, this missing context is vital to its defense.

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 30, 2023

As 2023 comes to an end, in line with our annual tradition, we take stock of the top IP developments that occurred this year. We have also included a list of other notable IP developments of 2023. The judgement was passed in October 2022, but was uploaded in September 2023 on the High Court’s website. A special thanks to Mr. G.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

The focus of the case is twofold: the scope of application of the private copy exception, on the one hand, and that of the right of communication to the public, on the other. On the one side, it ruled out the inclusion of a specific type of copying systems in the scope of the private copy exception.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MARCH 10, 2025

If the AI learning process does not result in (non-incidental) copies of works used during AI training, then we do not need to discuss copyright exceptions, and we cannot talk about remuneration of right holders at all. some training datasets contain only hyperlinks to content stored online rather than copies of content).

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

As such, the judge is holding firm to the currently planned trial date, which is in January 2023. Morantz claims that he provided a digital copy of his book to aid in research, but that no deal to use it was struck before the episode was released. The book covers Synanon, a drug rehab facility that morphed into a cult.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 2, 2022

Back in January, the crypto group Spice DAO (decentralized autonomous organization) made headlines for spending approximately $3 million to acquire a physical copy of the book Jodorowsky’s Dune , a bible for a planned Dune move that would have been made in the 1970s. . The payment beyond excessive.

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JD Supra Law

JANUARY 30, 2024

Interestingly, Wayfarers Chapel alleged in their complaint dated January 25, 2023 that the defendants copied the “distinctive architectural trade dress of the chapel itself.”. By: Womble Bond Dickinson

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 18, 2024

According to an infamous anti-piracy PSA that just recently celebrated its 20th birthday, downloading a copy of a movie is the same as stealing a physical disc from a regular store, stealing a handbag, or even stealing a car.

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Velocity of Content

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

This article originally appeared in the Scholarly Kitchen Back in March of 2023, when there were only a handful of cases alleging copyright infringement for training purposes by AI companies, I predicted that we would soon have some guidance from the court in Thomson Reuters Enterprise Center GMBH and West Publishing Corp. a copy shop).

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BYU Copyright Blog

MARCH 24, 2025

John Carroll University In February 2023, we first published a post describing the Complaint by Gina Weisblat ("Weisblat") against her former employer, John Carroll University ("JCU"). St John Central Academy In March 2023, Samantha Watts filed a lawsuit on behalf of her daughter, who is referred to as "SW" to preserve her privacy.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 30, 2025

In late 2023, Anna’s Archive expanded its offering by making information from OCLC’s proprietary WorldCat database available online. Many Unanswered Questions Judge Watson further questioned whether copying scraped data, especially publicly accessible data, can be considered legally “unjust”?

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 9, 2023

Last week, Gizmodo reporter Linda Codega received a leaked draft copy of the upcoming OGL 1.1 Code-named One D&D , the changes were announced in 2022 with anticipation of a 2023 release. The leaked draft was meant to be published on January 4, 2023 and to take effect on January 13, 2023.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JANUARY 16, 2024

The plaintiffs’ factual allegations in Kadrey v Meta and Chabon v Meta The first class action, Kadrey v Meta ( here ), was filed on 7 July 2023, in U.S. The second class action, Chabon v Meta, was filed on 12 September 2023 before the same court ( here ). District Court for the Northern District of California – San Francisco Division.

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IIPRD

JANUARY 22, 2025

Thus, fundamental questions arise, such as whether such copying amounts to infringement under copyright law or whether it falls under the purview of fair use. Goldsmith (2023) [2]. The Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 provides for the laws related to data privacy and some form of regulation. 1] Authors Guild v.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 17, 2024

With box office sales up again last year – 135,133,635 tickets in 2023 versus 127,794,382 in 2022 – generating over £1.06 ” Cammer Arrest in 2022 Results in 2023 Conviction As previously reported , in the summer of 2022 at least four high-quality cams were traced back to two cinemas in the UK.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

‘Library Genesis,’ or ‘Libgen’ for short, is a group of pirate websites through which a vast array of written material is illegally copied and distributed online without any authorization, and with no remuneration to copyright holders.” while runner-up India accounts for 7.9%. Copyright Infringement (17 U.S.C. §

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JD Supra Law

MARCH 17, 2023

Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) announced that it will no longer issue patents in a printed “ribbon copy” form as of April 18, 2023. Instead, patents will now only be issued electronically in a digital form.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 18, 2023

The Court found that Dstorage could be held liable for failing to remove illegal copies of Nintendo games hosted on 1fichier, based on notifications sent by rightsholders. The videogame company did not share the Court of Appeal’s decision and thus far we’ve been unable to obtain a copy.

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Erik K Pelton

JUNE 12, 2023

On Friday, the USPTO sent out a notice to many trademark owners who’s email address were “recently identified a data security incident that impacted domicile information in certain trademark filings between February 2020 and March 2023.”

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 20, 2025

Upon the expiry of the patent on August 18, 2023, the Respondent no. Macleods Pharmaceuticals Ltd vs The Controller Of Patents & Anr. on 15 January, 2025 (Delhi High Court) Image from here The Respondent No. The Respondent no. 2 had in turn filed an infringement suit at the Himachal HC.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 11, 2023

When he solicited copies of unpublished books, novels and other content, targets believed they were speaking to someone in a position of trust. Emails recovered by the authorities revealed that Bernardini had impersonated hundreds of people across hundreds of attempts to obtain electronic copies of unreleased content.

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 2, 2025

The law of copyright regulates the activities of copying and disseminating the words of someone who has copyright over something online without that person’s consent. Ning Zhang , Copyright Infringement on YouTube- Understanding Consequences and Best Practices , (29 TH 2023). 1 (2022). [5] 7] Super Cassettes Industries Ltd.

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The IPKat

AUGUST 30, 2023

Three US cases were brought claiming that the song Thinking Out Loud performed by Ed Sheeran, copied Let’s Get It On performed by Marvin Gaye. As such, the case proceeded to trial in April 2023 in a US Federal Court in Manhattan. Townsend filed a notice of appeal on 1st June 2023. Are the songs substantially similar?

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

In all cases, whether on physical cartridges or supplied as digital downloads, Switch games contain security measures designed to prevent copying or being run on unauthorized devices. Nintendo says 100% of the copies available were necessarily pirated copies and every user who obtained a copy did so without paying for the game.

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BYU Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Last October, Grecco filed a Complaint against the University of Southern California (USC), alleging that USC used one of his copyrighted works without permission at some point between 2004 and 2023. He also alleges that USC utilized his photograph to promote the sale of goods and services within an educational context.

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