43(B)log

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Brough Brothers alleged that Fresh Bourbon falsely advertised that Fresh Bourbon is the first black-owned bourbon distillery in Kentucky, and made other related claims. By December of that year, it had distilled bourbon and filled its first bourbon barrel in a leased Kentucky facility. Apparently Master Distiller has no set definition.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Skillz sued its competitor Papaya, alleging false advertising under federal and state law. That is, false advertising was sufficiently pled as to statements that games on Skillzs platforms did not use bots, matched players evenly, and allowed users to withdraw funds at any time. Skillz Platform Inc. Papaya Gaming, Ltd.,

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Plagiarism Today

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

More news organizations sue OpenAI, Donna Summer estate sues Ye and advertisers create new system to block pirate sites. The post 3 Count: Piling On appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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Erik K Pelton

MARCH 4, 2025

Here are 25 common ways to use one: Website Letterhead Business cards Note cards Refrigerator magnets Email signature Building sign or awning Lighting Stickers or temporary tattoos Trade show banners / displays Product placements in TV and film Opening scene of a video Social media profiles Domain name registrations App icon Shirts Coffee mugs Pens (..)

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SpicyIP

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

With this Louis Vuitton seems to have struck a jackpot as it managed to restrain Haute24 from selling its products in a copyright dispute over its advertisement material. Due Protection to Advertisement Material The Court has rightly acknowledged the artistic merit of commissioned photos for promotional purposes. www.haute24.com

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JD Supra Law

APRIL 2, 2025

Ortovox Sportartikel GmbH v. Mammut Sports Group AG/GmbH (UPC_CFI_16/2024), Dsseldorf Local Division (January 14, 2025) ORD_63219/2024. Anyone developing or marketing an innovative product will want to ensure that they do not infringe existing intellectual property rights.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 4, 2025

The goal of the investigation is to establish whether Google has strategic market status in the search and search advertising markets that potentially harms consumers and competition. Pirates can still use search and Google advertisements to drive traffic and, without additional regulation, this is unlikely to change, they say.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 12, 2021

3: Advertising Fuels $1.34 billion annually through advertising. billion annually through advertising. This advertising is coming from a wide variety of sources, including major brands and Fortune 500 companies, and that the larger pirate sites can receive tens of millions of dollars per year.

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Erik K Pelton

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Running a small business involves making decisions about many costs that are not mandatory but that are very important to the business, such as rent, new equipment, software programs, advertising budgets, personnel, and many more.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 22, 2024

This includes social media platforms, where pirate streams are often openly advertised. Pirates Ideally, online services should be required by law to remove infringing content “instantaneously or near-instantaneously”, the sports companies argued. ” The sports leagues stressed that widespread piracy hurts their revenues. .

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 31, 2024

“In addition, the act of infringing on content that creators have spent time, effort, and money to create and unfairly obtaining advertising revenue, is extremely malicious and should never be tolerated.” ” From: TF , for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

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JD Supra Law

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

In October 2024, both the US Courts of Appeals for the Second and Ninth Circuits issued published decisions that rejected trademark infringement claims based on advertising in keyword searches.

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Erik K Pelton

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

The commercials that they run the content of those commercials and advertisements is a copyrighted work protected by copyright. It can get complicated when there’s overlap if a business or a product has elements that are protected by each of these concepts of intellectual property.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 2, 2022

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. According to Netflix, their agreement only extended to the audio album and that additional permission was required for anything beyond that.

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The IPKat

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

In 2016, the EUIPO Examination Division issued a total provisional refusal, citing descriptiveness and a lack of distinctive character under Articles 7(1)(b) and (c), in conjunction with Article 7(2), of the EU Trade Mark Regulation (EUTMR).

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Police monitoring of IPTV forums and various profiles used to advertise the availability of streams, played a part in identifying the suspects. Fake identities and false documents were used to register phones, obtain credit cards, subscribe to TV channels, and rent servers.

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Erik K Pelton

JANUARY 7, 2025

Class 3: cosmetics and cleaning preparations Class 5: pharmaceutical products Class 9: electrical and scientific apparatus (includes both software (downloadable or physical software on a disc or drive) and hardware) Class 12: vehicles Class 14: jewelry Class 15: musical instruments Class 16: paper goods and printed matter (includes anything that’s (..)

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43(B)log

MARCH 26, 2025

The court allows Lanham Act false advertising claims (and others) to proceed. I think the proximate cause question is interesting, but the other claims may have obscured the specific proximate cause question with respect to false advertising, since there was a material issue of fact on proximate causation of damage to the bees/honey.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

In the United States, the formation of the Trustworthy Accountability Group (TAG) in 2015 saw advertisers and advertising agencies come together to clean up the system and prevent ad revenue from reaching pirate sites. still aims to defund pirate sites and protect advertisers from undesirable associations.

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IP Watchdog

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Impact Engine, the owner of several patents for internet advertising technology, has petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court asking it to review a U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) decision that invalidated most of its patent claims as patent ineligible abstract ideas.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 10, 2024

Pirate Site Promoter, Piracy Profiteer The opening salvo in the publishers’ lawsuit, which majors on violations of the Copyright Act, the Lanham Act, and New York’s General Business Law, details Google’s ‘systemic and pervasive advertising’ of infringing copies of their textbooks and other educational works.

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JD Supra Law

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Such a statement could not ring more true for the entertainment and advertising industries where weve seen an uptick in AI being leveraged nefariously by. On a daily basis, industries are grappling with how to adapt, and how to navigate this quickly evolving, largely unregulated space. By: International Lawyers Network

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JD Supra Law

AUGUST 12, 2024

Whether for social media advertisements, customer surveys, or email campaigns, a data licensing agreement is often at the center of arrangements concerning the use and transfer of consumer data. Join us for our September Advertising Law webinar program, which will examine the role of data licensing within the advertising industry.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Phan Thanh Cong was the programmer and manager, who also took care of advertisers and through that, handled the money; he allegedly took 90% of the spoils, leaving just 10% for his partner. The indictment focuses on one type of revenue, from a single source.

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JD Supra Law

JANUARY 17, 2025

The Patent Trial and Appeal Board granted institution of inter partes review of a patent directed to delivery of targeted television advertisements. The board rejected patent owners argument that a lack of particularity as to the asserted grounds justified denial under 35 U.S.C.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 10, 2025

Rightsholder-led campaigns urged mainstream advertisers to boycott the platforms to cut off their revenue streams. As reported last week, elaborate and lucrative schemes are able to counter limitations on advertiser choice. Public pirate sites accessible by anyone with an internet browser have been under financial pressure for years.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

APRIL 13, 2023

The complaint alleges violations of the class members’ rights under the California Right of Publicity statute, which states that, “[a]ny person who knowingly uses another’s name, voice, signature, photograph, or likeness, in any manner … for purposes of advertising or selling, or soliciting purchases of … services, without such person’s prior consent (..)

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

While advertising agencies will always claim to have a great solution, the default for most anti-piracy messaging is negativity, with few campaigns reaching the public without at least some element of fear. For example, the discounted ads tier satisfied users with a more positive attitude towards advertising.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 27, 2025

The stated purpose of WIPO ALERT, to help advertisers avoid pirate sites, has remained substantially unchanged since its 2019 launch. In an announcement this week, CNCP said it had submitted another 7,931 domains subject to local blocking orders to the central WIPO ALERT database.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 5, 2024

The suspects used a well-known website operated by an individual to publish articles and provide download links, generating advertising revenue through click-through rates.” . “After installation, users could switch the software to pirated video mode by entering specific keywords or commands.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 16, 2024

The Court heard how 30-year-old Tuan began work on the sites back in 2019, aiming to distribute movies to the public, without permission from rightsholders, for the purpose of generating illegal profits from advertising. The men were also responsible for increasing user engagement to attract advertising revenue.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

JANUARY 18, 2024

2022-1194, 2022-1208, and 2022-1246 (December 7, 2023) , the Federal Circuit held that generic pharmaceutical companies may continue to use skinny labels to avoid infringement of method of treatment claims as long as they do not engage in advertising or promotional activities that encourage infringement of the patents. Lupin Ltd.,

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 20, 2021

1: Pizza Companies Sued for Copyright Infringement of Advertising Photo. Have any suggestions for the 3 Count? Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday. First off today, Kendall Heebink at Law Street reports that a pair of pizza companies have been sued by Prepared Food Photos, Inc.

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Plagiarism Today

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

In addition to WWDC footage, the channel had archived advertisements, internal training videos and more. The channel was operated by Brendan Shanks, who had uploaded a series of WWDC videos going back to the early 2000s. However, the channel is gone after it was flooded with copyright notices filed by Apple.

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Plagiarism Today

MAY 4, 2022

However, 18 months ago, the site removed all advertising and sought to keep itself afloat with donations. Finally today, Andy Maxwell at Torrentfreak writes that the popular anime pirate site AnimeKisa.tv has shut its doors, saying that the unwillingness of their audience to pay made the site untenable.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Previously, the court held that there was a genuine issue of material fact as to whether Metrasens advertisements proximately caused KDI to lose business from the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, one of KDIs existing customers, which also created a genuine factual issue on corresponding tort claims. And it is a rebuttable presumption.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 24, 2025

Advertising delivered along with video streams through the embedded player reportedly accounts for 36% of all advertising on pirate streaming sites. One unnamed service reportedly has more than 550,000 items of video listed in its database. Overall, F6 notes that these services allow pirates to more effectively grow their sites.

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