TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Today’s social media users see copyright conflicts on a regular basis, but probably due to the way copyright is enforced, tend to view images and text as faiir game when compared to movies and music. The belief that somehow everything is free on the internet was widespread in the late 1990s.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

After this initial disclosure in March last year, no new information surfaced in 2023. However, a recent court filing shows that the movie companies, including Voltage Holdings and Millennium Media, actively tried to track down the commenter. — A copy of the movie companies’ motion to compel, submitted at the U.S.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 31, 2024

In common with previous years, the 2023 edition published Tuesday highlights “prominent and illustrative” examples of mainly online sites and services that either engage directly in piracy, facilitate it, or simply turn a blind eye to infringement while enjoying the benefits. media, and cuevana3.nu) government.

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BYU Copyright Blog

JUNE 3, 2024

Boyages states that she was an employee of the Athletic Department at the University of Vermont when she was invited to be part of a new brand working group in January 2023. They allegedly copied, reproduced, displayed, and published it on social media, clothing, sports equipment, and wall signage in the Universitys facilities.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 27, 2023

Copying-in-Fact. If a plaintiff can’t show mechanical copying through direct evidence, it can establish copying inferentially by showing that the defendant had access to the copyrighted work and that it’s improbable the works’ similarities were due to the defendant’s independent creation. VINDICATED!!!

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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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43(B)log

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Defendants allegedly copied key components of Trackman’s copyrighted software and falsely suggested, in promotions and advertisements, that defendants were authorized to use the well-known courses in their game. And they allegedly copied golf courses created on Perfect Golf’s course design platform.

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BYU Copyright Blog

MAY 1, 2023

On April 10, 2023, Marenem Inc. According to the Complaint, Katherine is featured at many educational conferences as a keynote speaker and has a large following of almost 100,000 via her blog and other social media platforms where she shares her findings. However, the school district allegedly refused to answer them.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 4, 2023

In April 2023, India’s Union Cabinet gave the bill a green light and during July it was passed by both Houses of Parliament. In a statement on Friday, officials mentioned YouTube and Telegram directly but there seems no obvious barrier to content being taken down from any social media or video hosting platform.

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Copyright Lately

OCTOBER 20, 2024

The judge did side with the airline on its copyright infringement claim, ruling that Skiplagged had used American’s flight symbol logo without permission as recently as August 2023. Let me know in the comments below or @copyrightlately on social media. As always, I’d love to hear what you think.

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Copyright Lately

JULY 8, 2023

2023 is shaping up to be a year of crappy IP lawsuits. As Judge Learned Hand once wrote , “Obviously, no principle can be stated as to when an imitator has gone beyond copying the ‘idea,’ and has borrowed its ‘expression.’ Let me know in the comments below or @copyrightately on social media.

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43(B)log

APRIL 18, 2023

2023 WL 2918724, No. 12, 2023) Following a large verdict for Monster on false advertising claims, this opinion discusses extensively the requirements for injunctive relief in false advertising cases. Plus, they hadn’t removed existing false advertising from their social media accounts. Monster Energy Co.

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SpicyIP

MAY 24, 2023

Interactions through email and social media denote digitalisation of interactions. National Mission on Quantum Technologies and Applications (NM-QTA) On 19 April 2023 , the Union Cabinet sanctioned 6000 croress for the time period 2023-24 to 2030-31. Digitalisation can be defined at various levels.

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43(B)log

DECEMBER 7, 2023

LA CV 21-02069-DOC-KES, 2023 WL 8351525 (C.D. 23, 2023) The individual defendants co-founded COY in 2019 to provide creator clients with a platform to offer subscription services. But in Bell , the copy was apparently always infringing, which doesn’t seem to be the case here. McCandless Group, LLC v. COY Collective, Inc.,

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43(B)log

MARCH 10, 2023

2023 WL 2372059, No. 14, 2023) Plaintiffs sued defendants for state and federal trademark infringement and related claims. World Axe Throwing League, Inc. Cold Steel Inc., 2:20−cv−11407 JAK (Ex) (C.D. Thus, a reasonably prudent consumer could be confused, and another putative defense dies as it is reduced merely to confusion.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 13, 2024

— Bright Data has long sold the data of all the major social media companies. In November 2023, X corp. As I wrote back in December, scraping claims are almost always about unwanted copying and distribution of data. Recently, Bright Data had its motion to dismiss granted against X Corp. on all counts. May 9, 2024).

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TorrentFreak

JULY 12, 2023

PornEZ Doing Business in the United States On January 18, 2023, MG Premium, the adult entertainment giant behind brands including Reality Kings, Brazzers, MOFOS, Babes.com, and Twistys, filed a copyright complaint at a California federal court. social media platforms did so via U.S.-based Building on the site’s U.S.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

AUGUST 25, 2023

The case of Evans v John Lewis Plc & Anor [2023] EWHC 766 (IPEC) is a copyright infringement claim in which the IPEC (a specialist IP court in the UK) was asked to decide whether John Lewis’s 2019 Christmas advert and an associated book infringed the copyright in a children’s book. It said this showed it had not copied the book.

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The limitation with an unregistered design is that it merely confers the right to prevent third parties from using a design only when it occurs as a consequence of the copying the protected design. Unfair competition may protect your fashion items against copying in two scenarios. Fashion show: a work of art?

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The TTABlog

JANUARY 8, 2024

The CAFC affirmed the Board's decision on October 19, 2023 [ TTABlogged here ]]. He sold copies of comic books featuring the character and displayed the comic books at a comic convention. He also received some media attention. The TTAB has re-designated as precedential its September 2022 opinion in this cancellation proceeding.

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43(B)log

JUNE 26, 2023

Big Fish Entertainment, LLC, 2023 WL 4053871, No. 16, 2023) The court refused to dismiss copyright and trademark claims based on copying of a TV show format, including the hosts. Media critics allegedly readily observed that the new show was “a clone of A&E’s Live PD,” and that “On Patrol: Live is Live PD.”

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 4, 2024

“Cloudflare did not disable the gateway URLs in Plaintiffs’ notice, prompting Plaintiffs to send additional notices in September 2023 and January 2024, on which Cloudflare still has not acted, resulting in Libgen users’ continued ability to access the infringing URLs,” the publishers write.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2023

2000) (“ copying an entire work militates against a finding of fair use. ”). To create its product, Clearview scraped billions of publicly available photos from websites and social media platforms. 3d 723, 743 (9th Cir. 2019); Worldwide Church of God vs Phila. Church of God, Inc., 3d 110, 1118 (9th Cir.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 5, 2024

If rightsholders didn’t get everything they asked for when Italy passed tough new anti-piracy legislation in 2023, they still received more than the majority of their counterparts have elsewhere in the EU. Harsher penalties for both providers of pirated content and those who consume, including fines for simply watching a pirate stream.

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Intepat

JULY 4, 2023

As of May 2023, it has been reported that India alone accounts for nearly 467 million YouTube users. Dabur filed a trademark infringement suit against various parties for using the Dabur mark unfairly by not just passing off as Dabur but completely impersonating Dabur by copying their trade dress, labels, logos, product packaging etc.

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The TTABlog

JANUARY 9, 2023

The record also included use of the phrase other than in connection with goods included in the subject application: for example, media articles, social media posts, and podcasts. And why does Skirill's have to prove that the third-parties copied its mark? Welch 2023. Text Copyright John L.

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SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Emerald Enterprises vs Emerald Valves Private Limited on 21 November, 2023 (Delhi High Court) The Delhi High Court passed an ex-parte at interim injunction order restraining the defendants from using the mark “Emerald” for valves holding it to be deceptively similar to the plaintiff’s registered “Emerald” mark. Universal City Studios Llc. &

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LexBlog IP

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

The “Trader Joe” creators also offer a mobile app called “Trader Joe,” where users can interact with the Trader Joe platform, and operate many social media profiles under the name “Trader Joe” and/or “Trader Joe XYZ.” A copy of that publication is below. Source: Compl.

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 11, 2023

A brand that uses material generated by AI in a public-facing manner – such as in an ad or a social media post – could run the risk of infringing on another’s rights, for which the brand could be held liable. 10, 2023). [2] 18, 2022, 2:57pm ET), [link] , and Karen Hao, “What Is ChatGPT?

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Copyright Lately

MAY 1, 2023

billion in the first quarter of 2023 , largely driven by successful releases from Morgan Wallen, Taylor Swift, and the aforementioned Drake. The comments from Michael Nash quoted above really only speak to the input phase, during which audio recordings are copied to a dataset that’s then used to train a voice model.

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43(B)log

MAY 22, 2023

2023 WL 3556053, No. May 19, 2023) Whereas the timeshare false advertising cases might be making law largely applicable to other timeshare cases, what’s going on in the strip club advertising cases might have somewhat broader implications. Their social media footprints range from several thousand to a few million followers.

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Copyright Lately

JUNE 15, 2023

“Safaera” allegedly “copies elements of the Fish Market drum and bass patterns throughout most of the work.” You can leave comments below or at @copyrightlately on social media. ” In addition to Bad Bunny, most of the other defendants named in the lawsuit also filed motions to dismiss today.

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Copyright Lately

MAY 22, 2023

For the majority, what was important was that “[b]oth Goldsmith and AWF sold images of Prince (AWF’s copying Goldsmith’s) to magazines to illustrate stories about the celebrity, which is the typical use made of Goldsmith’s photographs.” “[T]he first fair use factor. “[T]he first fair use factor.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 2, 2023

In a registration decision issued February 21, 2023 regarding a comic book entitled “Zarya of the Dawn,” the Copyright Office explained that it would only issue a registration covering the compilation of images and text created by the human author. Members of the public can access Zoom links through the Office’s website.

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Copyright Lately

OCTOBER 13, 2024

Two documentaries, one Boy Scouts scandal—a trial lawyer claims Netflix copied his film, but the legal trail ahead looks rocky. Nagel Films , claims that Netflix’s 2023 documentary, Scouts Honor: The Secret Files of the Boy Scouts of America , is a near replica of his own film. Read Nagel’s complaint here.) Take Zella v.

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LexBlog IP

JULY 7, 2023

5] Prince used both photographs in his New Portraits series, which featured works that Prince created by copying and magnifying posts from Instagram (including “likes” and user comments), then adding a comment of his own. ” [17] On May 18, 2023, in a decision penned by Justice Sotomayor, the U.S.

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 20, 2023

We stand on the cusp of bidding farewell to 2023 with just 10 days remaining! So, before 2023 turns into yesteryear, let’s see what the past Novembers on SpicyIP (2005 to present) have offered. Although India now has the Digital Personal Data Protection Act 2023 , it doesn’t provide IP protection to databases.

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