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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SpicyIP

MARCH 15, 2022

We are pleased to bring you a guest post by Mili Baxi, on the development of a publisher’s right in digital media. European Union and Australian Approach for Press Publishers’ Interest. The EU took the Intellectual Property route by introducing a related right under its copy right law.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 4, 2024

The site’s origins reportedly trace back to the Soviet Union’s underground publishing culture ‘ samizdat ,’ which was used to bypass state censorship in the last century. In 2017, Elsevier won a court case against LibGen and Sci-Hub in a New York federal court, which awarded the publisher $15 million in damages.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 8, 2025

The United States Trade Representative ( USTR ) published its annual Out-of-Cycle Review of Notorious Markets a few hours ago. The mentioned publishing sites, LibGen and Sci-Hub, didn’t change either. — A copy of the USTRs 2024 Review of Notorious Markets is available here (pdf).

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Plagiarism Today

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

However, publishing companies had been continuing to collect royalties on behalf of songwriters even after the rights were reclaimed due to the law saying that publishers can continue licensing any existing derivative works. The lawsuit also Kano Computing Ltd., 3: Filmmakers Win $4.2m Piracy Damages from Defunct VPN Hosting Company.

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43(B)log

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Boston Suburban allegedly continued to use the “Logan Car Service” mark in online keyword advertising and in metatags, and continued to copy customer reviews from Boston Carriage’s website and publish them on online review platforms.

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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 Requires Reporting and Royalties: Creators who publish work for direct sale under the 1.1 license will be required to both report the works they publish to WotC, but also pay royalties if they earn more than $750,000 per year.

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43(B)log

AUGUST 11, 2021

ICC publishes revised I-Codes every three years, and it also publishes custom codes that reflect versions of the codes as adopted by states and local governments (the “Custom Codes”). It allegedly sold or gave away unauthorized copies of the I-Codes and Custom Codes to both customers and prospective customers. UpCodes, Inc.,

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 17, 2021

Most pirate sites and apps won’t survive without advertising revenue. This is why the advertising industry is seen as an important partner to combat piracy. The overall conclusion is that there’s still plenty of advertising revenue going around in pirate circles. 1 Billion+ Ad Revenue for Pirate Sites and Apps.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 29, 2024

In a lawsuit filed at a New York federal court in June, leading textbook publishers including Cengage Learning, Macmillan Learning, Elsevier and McGraw Hill, accused Google of profiting from sales of infringing copies of their textbooks.

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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. With patience, some can even be made legible.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 4, 2021

With a reach of a billion users and 10,000 new advertising campaigns per week, PropellerAds is a major player in the online advertising industry. The Cyprus-based company works with advertisers and publishers from all over the world. MPA’s List of Notorious Markets. PropellerAds Cautions USTR.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Publisher/Speaker Claims. The court says that Amazon “easily satisfies” this factor: Plaintiff’s claims are all based on the theory that Defendants ‘continue to allow unlawful sellers to maintain their accounts’ and ‘permit them to advertise’ on Defendants’ website. Amazon , Joseph v.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

However, in recent years we have also seen hosting companies, advertisers, and e-commerce platforms being added. On the publishing side, Sci-Hub and Libgen are seen as two of the greatest piracy threats. Hosting, Advertising, and Shopping. Torrent Sites, Cyberlockers and Streaming Portals. Similarly, the.IS … —.

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43(B)log

JANUARY 13, 2023

Five 18 is a direct competitor of Wolf that allegedly copied its designs and stole its customers in violation of copyright law and the Lanham Act, and engaged in tortious interference and unfair competition. But what about false advertising? Thus, Wolf didn’t plead the requisite “false statement of fact” in a “commercial advertisement.”

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

The paper, originally published in 2013, brought Newmaster to prominence in the field of botany and led to massive amounts of not just academic success, but also entrepreneurial success. He found that many commercially-available products were not being sold as advertised and included fillers and even toxic substances mixed in.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 15, 2023

“Twitter fuels its business with countless infringing copies of musical compositions, violating Publishers’ and others’ exclusive rights under copyright law,” the complaint reads. ‘Music Piracy Fuels Revenue’ Twitter’s revenue partly relies on advertising which, in turn, is boosted by additional views.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Every year, the Office of the United States Trade Representative ( USTR ) publishes a list of ‘notorious markets’ that facilitate online piracy and related intellectual property crimes. For example, we have seen hosting companies, advertisers, and social media platforms being added.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 20, 2024

For many traditional newspapers reliant on sales of a physical product, the rise of the internet as an integrated publishing, distribution, and content consumption platform, disrupted almost everything. Advertising revenue that once kept digital publications online, later began to diminish. With new opportunities came new challenges.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 2, 2021

In pirate streaming, in part due to the way sites tend to copy each other’s branding, obvious long-standing players are less easy to identify. Defendants use the Copyrighted Works as the bait to lure the largest possible audience, so that Defendants will profit from advertisements shown to their users. is taken into account.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

With more than a billion impressions per month and over 30,000 active advertisers, PropellerAds is a serious player in the online advertising industry. The Cyprus-based company works with advertisers and publishers from all over the world and while many are legitimate companies, Hollywood believes there are some bad apples too.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

With nearly 12 million books, Z-Library advertised itself as the largest repositories of pirated books on the Internet. As alleged, the defendants profited illegally off work they stole, often uploading works within mere hours of publication, and in the process victimized authors, publishers and booksellers,” U.S.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Finally, the publishing sector calls out Libgen and Sci-Hub as problematic sites. These films eventually end up online, often with branding from gambling companies, who appear to see these releases as a great advertising venue. This includes torrent sites, linking sites and cyberlockers.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 10, 2024

The aim was to launch services that would distribute movies to the public, without permission from rightsholders, for the purpose of generating illegal profits from advertising. Images of all three men have since been published online, but the main focus is on alleged ringleader, Phan Ngoc Tuan.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

In October 2021, Andrew Azzopardi and a student he was mentoring, Andrew Camilleri, published a literature review entitled Risk and Protective Factors in Violent Youth Crime in the first edition of the journal Studies in Social Well-being. .

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Copyright Lately

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

Atari’s copyright infringement lawsuit against State Farm advances, underscoring the importance of careful clearance in advertising. It looks like Jake from State Farm is definitely going to blow through his deductible, as the insurance giant lost its bid to declare game over on a lawsuit brought by video game publisher Atari Interactive.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 11, 2022

According to Bungie, AimJunkies copied and distributed its copyrighted work, to develop and advertise its cheat software. The cheat software itself certainly isn’t a copy of Bungie’s work, they add. Copyright Questions. The cheat maker also highlights another problem with Bungie’s copyright claims.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

In their opposition brief, the publishers point out that intent isn’t a requirement under U.S. That is the case here, the music companies argue, due to the presence of advertising. The complaint showed how advertisements were shown next to copyright infringing content.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 16, 2024

The Retraction Order The relevant AGCOM ‘order of annulment’ is dated May 10, 2024, and, like most documents published by the regulator, it begins with a list of relevant laws dating back to 1941 before getting to the crux a page and a half later. Filed by FAPAV on behalf of Wonder S.r.l, Warner Bros. and Rai Cinema S.p.A,

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

This unauthorized activity has not gone unnoticed by publishers, who’ve made it clear that piracy will not be tolerated, especially in Japan. Publishers are tackling the problem by ramping up enforcement. That was a major win for the publishers, but they still weren’t done. Together, the companies requested 1.9

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

Our Katfriend evaluated the judgment from three perspectives: unfair advantage, impact of comparative advertising, and unfair competition in the UK. Anastasiia Kyrylenko evaluated a recent request for preliminary ruling to the Court of Justice of the EU concerning private copying.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 19, 2021

The court says: The offending content is generated by Classmates and the advertisement is not merely some passive display of content created by another entity, even if it contains a picture from a school yearbook. Facebook’s ads remixed third-party content, but Facebook generated the ad copy itself. Classmates moves to dismiss.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 18, 2022

As alleged in the Amended Complaint, the Classmates’ website uses his image to advertise a paid subscription to its services in at least two ways.” ” So, I guess the court thinks electronic versions of yearbooks aren’t literary works when they are sold via subscription services, even though the physical copies might be?

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 28, 2021

First, HuffPost displayed ads from Texas-based advertisers. Second, it used visitors’ location data to tailor advertising to them. So when the site detects that a user is visiting the site from Texas, advertisers may use that data to generate a relevant ad—such as the “Attention Texas Driver!” ads that no one clicks.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 26, 2021

In a summer 2020 lawsuit , Amazon Content Services, publisher Penguin Random House and several authors including John Grisham and Lee Child, accused several pirate eBook sites of infringing their copyrights. ” Court Awards $7.8m in Damages. .” ” Court Awards $7.8m in Damages. They asked for $7.8

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 19, 2023

App piracy includes legitimate apps that are copied but we reserve our reporting to those that are advertised as a gateway to pirated content or live streams. Some apps may monetize user data, for example, but for the vast majority advertising is the income stream of choice.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 31, 2022

While movie and music piracy tends to generate the most headlines, the publishing industry is facing similar issues. Publishers and authors are not happy with the site and are actively trying to limit its exposure. This growth is facilitated by users who openly advertise the site on social media, TikTok included.

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