TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The featured vocals were extracted and published without permission. Most of the sites branded as notorious markets by the RIAA remain quiet but Songmastr, Acapella-extractor and Remove-Vocals, which are all operated by the same person, sent a rebuttal to the USTR which was published this week. Operator Responds.

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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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Plagiarism Today

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

The issue deals with copyright termination, a process through which creators, including songwriters, can reclaim the rights to their creation after a period of time. They further claim that the song was also featured in advertisements for the device, furthering the alleged infringement. The lawsuit also Kano Computing Ltd.,

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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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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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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. This clearly goes too far, the company argues.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JANUARY 6, 2022

2021-1382 of 25 October 2021 on the regulation and protection of access to cultural works in the digital age has been published in the Official Journal. ARCOM is in charge of implementing new procedures to fight online infringement: 1/ ARCOM can publish a list of manifestly infringing websites.

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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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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

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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IP Law 360

APRIL 22, 2025

Eminem's publisher on Monday agreed to drop a copyright infringement lawsuit alleging a Michigan Ford dealership used the rapper's song "Lose Yourself" in social media advertisements for a limited edition Detroit Lions Ford F-150 pickup without permission.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

The Digital Citizens Alliance ( DCA ) shared some new research that it carried out in partnership with piracy advertising expert White Bullet and cybersecurity outfit Unit 221B. The group has a long history of publishing anti-piracy research and has highlighted the malware angle before. New Pirate Site Malware Research.

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Plagiarism Today

MAY 23, 2022

The ad, which was produced by the London-based advertising agency M&C Saatchi, featured prominent Hong Kong actor and musician Andy Lau Tak-wah as he delivered a monologue about Xiaoman, the eighth solar term and second solar term of summer on the traditional Chinese calendar. The Challenge of Cross-Media Plagiarism Detection.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

Advertising still promised the earth, but instead of receiving nothing for their money, subscribers were given access to obscure and unpopular content; a far cry from the blockbusters promised but a veneer of legitimacy for dubious operators. By 2021, the business model had evolved. one that functions without judicial oversight.

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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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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

JULY 29, 2021

The “repeat infringer” issue remains a hot topic in US courts after rightsholders filed lawsuits against several ISPs. These Internet providers are accused of not doing enough to stop copyright infringers on their networks, even after receiving multiple ‘copyright infringement’ notifications.

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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. 277 (2020). [iv]

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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. The pair stand accused of criminal copyright infringement, wire fraud and money laundering. As such, the site impacted the revenues of authors and publishers of millions of books.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Hollywood & Netflix File Copyright Infringement Lawsuit. 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. Advertising and Referral Schemes. Comments published on-site are also cited.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 24, 2025

This is most evident where sentences for copyright offenses are perceived to be less punitive than those available for crimes like fraud, for example. With amendments to Article 10, the bill introduces specific offenses based on the offense of copyright infringement and related rights provided for by the Intellectual Property Code.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 10, 2022

In 2020, complaints from the Federation of Newspaper Publishers (FIEG) over the illegal distribution of newspapers, periodicals, and books, led to an emergency order requiring Telegram to shut down 19 channels or face blocking itself. The organization also seeks fair competition in the marketplace where piracy is seen as a disruption.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 14, 2024

Just before the weekend, dozens of record labels including UMG, Warner, and Sony, filed a massive copyright infringement lawsuit against Verizon at a New York federal court. ’ advertising campaign, it has intentionally chosen not to listen to complaints from copyright owners. Verizon Services Corp.,

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The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

Earlier in April, the Supreme Court of Appeal of South Africa (SCA) ruled on the appeal brought by the Advertising Regulatory Board (ARB) against the decision of the High Court (discussed on the IPKat here ), which held inter alia that the certain provisions of the ARB’s Code of Advertising Practice (the “Code”) were unconstitutional.

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IPilogue

DECEMBER 20, 2021

What may seem like a harmless activity in the spirit of fandom can at times give rise to copyright infringement. . This year, Japan made headlines by proposing a new law that could potentially create copyright infringement problems for cosplayers. Some authors, most notably the late Anne Rice and George R.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 29, 2023

YouTube’s Content ID system helps rightsholders and content creators prevent copyright infringement. Copyright holders can either remove problematic content from the video platform, or they can choose to monetize it. From: TF , for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

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IPilogue

JANUARY 21, 2022

It is accepted that the copyright (or the “exclusive legal right to produce, reproduce, publish or perform”) to the source code, maps, sound effects, and characters of a game is held by the game publisher. Interestingly, Riot Games—the publisher who owned the copyright to the game—was not involved in the dispute at the time.

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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.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 11, 2022

Over the past several years a wave of copyright infringement lawsuits have been filed against alleged cheaters or cheat makers. This includes several copyright infringement allegations. According to Bungie, AimJunkies copied and distributed its copyrighted work, to develop and advertise its cheat software.

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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. The ultimate goal of the developers is the same though.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 21, 2022

Commercial users publishing content for clients and businesses pay a slightly higher rate. Massive, Rampant Copyright Infringement. “Defendant Meta is not merely aware of this infringement. . “Defendant Meta is not merely aware of this infringement. Alleged Direct Use of Infringing Content.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Last week, an Illinois jury awarded tattoo artist Catherine Alexander $3,750 in damages at the conclusion of a copyright infringement trial. Among the tens of thousands of tattooers working in the United States, the tiny handful who have brought copyright infringement claims are rare outliers. Copyright in Tattoos.

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SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Alpino Health Foods Recently, the DHC passed an order prima facie finding that Marico’s “Saffola oats” TM was “generically disparaged” by Alpino’s advertisements. International IP Developments New York Federal Judge dismisses Raw Story and AlterNet’s copyright infringement suit against OpenAI.

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The IP Law Blog

AUGUST 4, 2022

Embedding” means the process of copying unique HTML code assigned to the location of a digital copy of the photo or video published to the Internet, and the insertion of that code into a target webpage or social media post so that photo or video is linked for display within the target post. In September, U.S. District Judge Charles R.

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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. On Friday, a Texas federal judge dismissed much of the case but kept Atari’s core copyright infringement claim in play.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 19, 2024

We gave the news a brief mention at the time but since MPA/ACE have certain procedures to follow, the official announcement was published yesterday. However, the most concerning aspect (copyright infringement aside) is the promotion of these scripts to people with little to no relevant experience.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 15, 2023

‘Breeding Mass Copyright Infringement’ In a complaint filed at a federal court in Nashville, Universal Music, Sony Music, EMI and others accused X Corp of “breeding” mass copyright infringement. However, X’s attorneys, contest all three claims.

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