TorrentFreak

JULY 9, 2022

These VPN providers emphasize in advertisements that they delete their end users’ log access records so their identities will never be disclosed to copyright owners or law enforcement. Millions in Copyright and Trademark Damages. That’s why you need a Popcorn Time VPN.

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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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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 31, 2024

“As a result of the police investigation, it was discovered that the company’s management and employees had conspired to systematically commit copyright infringement, and had operated the website for profit, attracting a large number of hits.”

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 2, 2022

1: Netflix Slams Unofficial ‘Bridgerton’ Musical Creators in Copyright Infringement Lawsuit. 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. Have any suggestions for the 3 Count?

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 20, 2021

1: Pizza Companies Sued for Copyright Infringement of Advertising Photo. As such, the company to sue for copyright infringement. They are seeking an injunction barring further infringement, actual and statutory damages, as well as other relief deemed appropriate by the court.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Skillz sued its competitor Papaya, alleging false advertising under federal and state law. Papaya counterclaimed for the same causes of action and added trademark and copyright infringement as well as defamation and civil conspiracy claims. Papaya Gaming, Ltd., 2025 WL 438387, 24cv1646(DLC) (S.D.N.Y.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 26, 2022

On GitHub, Deezer explicitly advertises Spleeter’s music separation features, including the separation of vocals. This leads to an interesting connection, as Acapella-extractor and Remove-Vocals use the Spleeter algorithm published by Deezer. Songmastr is also based on third-party open-source software.

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Plagiarism Today

MAY 23, 2022

However, the labels argue that Bright House was clearly in violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and that the court should find in favor of them. 2: German carmaker Audi, Ad Agency M&C Saatchi Apologize for Copyright Infringement in Video Campaign with Hong Kong’s Andy Lau.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 10, 2022

1: Music Producer Challenges Copyright Infringement Claims Over Hit Rap Song. Under the system, rightsholders, advertisers and technology partners will work together to block access to pirate websites, ideally within 48 hours (if it follows Portugal’s system). Have any suggestions for the 3 Count?

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SpicyIP

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

issued a significant order directing for a permanent injunction and INR 5,00,000 as damages to Louis Vuitton for the unauthorized use of the brand’s copyrighted photos and promotional materials on the website [link]. His previous posts can be accessed here. ] On 21st August 2024, the Delhi High Court in Louis Vuitton Malletier v.

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IP and Legal Filings

MAY 30, 2022

A careful step towards ensuring the acquisition of prosperity gained through your work is to copyright it. Nagarathna, in the Supreme Court ruled that copyright infringement is a cognizable and non-bailable offense under Section 63 In of the Copyright act.

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Plagiarism Today

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Figure Skaters and NBC Sued for Copyright Infringement Over Song Used in Olympic Routine. The lawsuit claims that the song is a valuable licensing asset and notes that it has appeared in several films, TV shows and advertisements. Next up today, Jen Juneau and Adam Carlson reports that two U.S.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 2, 2023

The European Union recognizes that online piracy poses a serious threat to copyright holders and the public at large. This includes a requirement for large platforms to deter repeat copyright infringers. In recent years, Europe has updated legislation to deal with modern piracy threats. Google Removes Europa.eu

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Earlier this year Texas-based model Deniece Waidhofer sued Thothub for copyright infringement after the site’s users posted many of her ‘exclusive’ photos. While Cloudflare isn’t new to copyright infringement allegations, this case has proven to be more than a nuisance.

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SpicyIP

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

The appellant contended that its copyright in the artistic label displayed on the liquor bottles was infringed by the respondent. The District Court, while finding copyright infringement and passing off, passed a permanent injunction. Accordingly, it sought a permanent injunction to restrain the respondent.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Earlier this year, Universal Music, Sony Music, EMI and others filed a complaint at a Nashville federal court, accusing Elon Musk’s X Corp of “breeding” mass copyright infringement. The company behind X allegedly fails to properly respond to takedown notices and lacks a proper termination policy for repeat infringers.

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IPilogue

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

This is not the first time Andy Warhol was sued for IP infringement. In fact, nearly all creations by Andy Warhol are derivatives of existing images—celebrity photos, advertisements, magazine illustrations, etc.—to to the extent where one could argue that the essence of Warhol’s art is appropriation.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JANUARY 6, 2022

This blacklist may be used by the signatories of voluntary agreements promoted by ARCOM, which are supposed to contribute to remedying infringements of copyrighted material and sporting competitions and events. 2/ The Act creates new procedures to fight against mirror sites.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

People generating advertising revenue from ‘Fast Movies’ certainly wouldn’t improve things either. “This is a ruling that fully upholds our allegations, and we believe that it should be a great deterrent against copyright infringement in the future,” a joint CODA and JVA statement reads.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 3, 2022

After those tattoos appeared in the WWE 2K game series, she sued Take-Two Interactive for copyright infringement. The new agency has worked to tackle piracy by reducing the appearance of such resources in search engines and targeting advertising on such sites.

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IPilogue

JULY 28, 2021

Since Roderique was unaware of the advertisement and was not doing work for The Bay, she tweeted the following: “ Hey @hudsonsbay, it would have been a good idea for you to get my permission to use my face and associated activism to solicit donations ‘to support employment and empowerment of IBPOC’, no? Roderique’s Response.

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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. However, MPA never used this, nor did the company send any copyright infringement notices.

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Plagiarism Today

JULY 28, 2022

Next up today, Amos Robi at Pule reports that, in Kenya, musician Hubert Mbuku Nakitare (Nonini) has accused a local media influencer of unlawfully using one of his song as part of an advertisement for an electronics manufacturer. 3: YouTube Reduces Length Of Copyright Dispute Process.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 4, 2024

to Fights Back The removal, which also affected the associated AdSense advertising account, came as a surprise to MP3.to to adheres to relevant copyright law and doesn’t circumvent any protection measures. Because there are no copyright infringements, MP3.to to and directly harmed its business.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 23, 2021

On June 2, 2021, he was sentenced to three years in prison and fines in excess of US$650,000, much of it representing a clawback of revenue generated by advertising. The Judge said that the operator of Mangamura committed copyright infringement and the agency that paid the advertising fees to the operator helped to fuel that infringement.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Last year, Texas-based model Deniece Waidhofer sued Thothub for copyright infringement after the site’s users posted many of her ‘exclusive’ photos. The trio accused Cloudflare of both direct and contributory copyright infringement. This prompted Waidhofer to change priorities.

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Plagiarism Today

MAY 2, 2022

creators whose creative works were featured in Facebook advertisements without permission. Normally, a company like Facebook would be protected by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) from such arguments. The lawsuit is proposed as a class action, including all U.S. They estimate that class to be in the thousands.

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Plagiarism Today

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

It was not intended to prevent the songwriter from gaining the rights in their original works, and that the copyright owner of the work is the one entitled to the royalties from the song itself. They further claim that the song was also featured in advertisements for the device, furthering the alleged infringement.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 30, 2021

Not everyone agrees that YouTube downloaders and domain registrars are piracy havens, and adding advertising companies is seen as a controversial step as well. Copyright holders clearly believe that these services deserve to be called out. PopAds generates advertising revenue for copyright infringing sites including gomovies123.org,

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JIPL Online

APRIL 9, 2021

In particular, it explores why copyright of a meme’s underlying content does not matter in a normative sense. In this blog I argue that copyright protection of the content underlying memes does not matter because of the relative weakness of enforcement mechanisms for copyright infringement of this scale.

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JD Supra Law

APRIL 25, 2024

Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit was tasked with excavating the truth behind claims of false advertising and copyright infringement. In a case that pitted two sellers of construction equipment against each other — I Dig Texas, LLC v. Creager — the U.S.

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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. Google says these were “tacked on” as part of a “kitchen-sink pleading strategy.”

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 27, 2024

Piracy Challenges Remain Despite these successful enforcement efforts, the MPA still sees room for progress, to further clamp down on copyright infringement. MPA says that the online piracy rate and the use of illegal streaming devices continues to rise in Brazil.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 29, 2023

“If you copy and distribute copyrighted material without legal permission, you may be found liable for civil or criminal copyright infringement. Civil penalties for Federal Copyright infringement range from $750 per song to $150,000 in damages for each willful act.”

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43(B)log

APRIL 29, 2024

It advertised “This device was one of the most popular items on a popular 3D printing website with over 20,000 unique downloads” on its website, at a time when Leszczynski’s Thingiverse page displayed that his Cube had been downloaded 20,000 times. False advertising: Only ok against Kitchen Cube.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 4, 2022

“Plaintiff contends that Pinterest has infringed the copyrights of 51 of his works by displaying these works in proximity to advertisements and by displaying and distributing them to users via notifications.” Davis’ copyrighted work is the red rose photo (“Kiss from a Rose”) in the upper left.

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Advertising Advertising Copyright Infringement Copyright 119

TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

These apps play a key role in the advertising mechanisms that generate revenue for the Pluto TV service and support the free-to-watch model. Users may also prefer less advertising or find the amount of user data scooped up by official apps a privacy risk. at [former repo location],” the notice reads (minor edits for clarity).

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