TorrentFreak

APRIL 14, 2022

In April 2020, Disney filed a copyright complaint with Google, stating that Club Penguin Rewritten’s domain (cprewritten.net) not only infringed its rights in artwork but also its trademarks.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

In early 2019, the company was the first to report in detail on so-called ‘pirate CDNs’, specialist content delivery systems that service huge numbers of pirate streaming sites with tens of thousands of movies and TV shows plus supporting artwork and descriptions. Founder and CEO of Group-IB Arrested.

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The IPKat

JANUARY 25, 2022

Beyond the obvious attempt to draw a connection between the artwork and the book based a shared sense of the "classical", the artwork also seeks to evoke a more specific connection with the contents of the book. The cover provides the requisite information—title, author, and publisher. You can't judge a book from its cover".

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 21, 2024

The subpoena was granted but X Corp pushed back and refused to disclose the requested information by the November 22, 2023, deadline. ” The company said it was concerned since it lacked information to show that its users’ rights were being protected. Cognosphere believes one person controls all four accounts) “X Corp. [.]

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LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 21, 2023

In effect, Sanhi was attempting to register the artwork as a derivative of his photograph. 1] For more information on the Thaler decision, please see our prior article at Thaler v. District Court for the District of Columbia in Thaler v. Shira Perlmutter, et al.:

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Traverse Legal Blog

APRIL 17, 2021

There’s not a lot of information out there about NFTs, so if you want to sell an NFT, if you’re an artist or creator, you need to know the legal implications of what you’re doing. There’s very little information about these things. If you look it up, this page will show you minimal information about the listing.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 3, 2024

. “They were arrested in front of the Songkhla Provincial Court, Bo Yang Subdistrict, Mueang Songkhla District, Songkhla Province, for the offense of jointly violating the copyright of others for commercial purposes by publishing creative works such as movies and artworks without permission.”

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Traverse Legal Blog

APRIL 1, 2021

NFT lawyer Enrico Schaefer covers the following topics in this informative article about non-fungible tokens. Different types of information can be stored on a blockchain including ledger information and smart contracts. People will bid on an NFT, a non-fungible token, associated with a piece of digital artwork.

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IP Law 360

MARCH 8, 2023

A descendant of artist Thomas Hart Benton said Wednesday in a trial against UMB over its trusteeship of Benton's estate that when the Missouri bank made plans to show numerous artworks to Barbra Streisand for possible purchase, he was neither asked for consent nor kept informed.

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Traverse Legal Blog

MARCH 8, 2022

Copyrights protection for the artwork itself is also critical. Any NFT project offering Apes are derivative of the artwork for the Bored Ape yacht CLub are potentially infringing the BAYC’s copyrights. The senior rights holder can stop any identical brand name use and any name, words, or logo that is confusingly similar.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Attorneys acting for Cognosphere inform the court that the company is the exclusive licensee of Genshin Impact in the United States and other territories, which includes any artwork, gameplay footage, and related audiovisual content. What happens after useful information is handed over is rarely discussed in public.

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IIPRD

JANUARY 22, 2025

The court accentuated that the Google’s use was transformative for the reason that it was providing researchers new pathways to access information by providing a searchable database. In this case, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals held that Google digitizing books as a part of its Google Books project constituted fair use.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

The lawsuits brought by the owners of such works, including artworks in the case of image-generators and journalism in the NYT case, claim that this should not be allowed. Copyright Act is an extremely limited right, and fair uses of artworks are explicitly made exempt from attribution requirements. Fair Use Precedent? 106A of the U.S.

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IIPRD

JANUARY 7, 2025

Selection of the suitable Algorithm: The particular task or issue that the AI system is intended to resolve informs the selection of AI algorithms. An AI might be used to propagate false information or spam using those created symbols, seriously hurting the owner of the trademark.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Equally, where was it getting its music and artwork from to populate its music player? Given that NFT Music Stream’s White Paper is just six pages long and provides almost no useful information about anything, it was up to the more technical among artists to have a quick look under the hood. .

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IPilogue

APRIL 11, 2022

He explained that an NFT typically includes only information about the artwork’s location. The actual artwork is not stored within the NFT because storing large amounts of data on a blockchain is fairly expensive. She received a cease-and-desist notice from the photographer Michael Halsband, directing her to destroy the artwork.

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SpicyIP

MAY 18, 2022

Hermes has sued a Californian artist, Mason Rothschild, for his “MetaBirkins” digital artworks alleging trademark infringement. In the US too, several companies are protecting their trademarks for similar goods and services. Dec 21, 2021.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 1, 2022

‘History Rewritten’ Tarantino is “shockingly” trying to mischaracterize the license agreements by leaving out critical parts, Miramax informs the court. Aside from the screenplay rights disagreement, the NFT sale also used other images and artwork that were directly related to Pulp Fiction.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

DMCA subpoenas compel service providers, such as Discord, Twitter or Reddit, to hand over information they hold on users identified by rightsholders as copyright infringers. In the event that useful personal information is disclosed to Cognosphere’s legal team, a number of options become available.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 10, 2022

It seeks the identities of the infringers detailed in those complaints, promising that any information obtained will only be used for protecting the developer’s copyrights. The requests for information are split into three groups – game URL, groups, and specific users. million and 15 million visits respectively.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 23, 2024

Cognosphere obtains the latter to compel online platforms, typically social media companies, to hand over whatever information they hold on alleged infringers. What happens when that information is handed over to Cognosphere is mostly unknown. to hand over the information detailed below by November 22, 2023. informs the court.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 24, 2021

Clickable download links are displayed on the sites alongside copyrighted cover artwork displaying Nintendo trademarks. Nintendo informed the Court that the platforms are commercial in nature since they generate income from advertising via “click-through” arrangements with third parties.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 5, 2022

For example, early artwork featuring Samuel L. TorrentFreak hoped to hear more from Tarantino directly but, despite the early heads-up, we were informed that the movie director isn’t available to comment on the matter. This doesn’t mean that the lawsuit had no impact at all.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 10, 2023

.” Around ten hours after sending the initial takedown notice, Nintendo followed up with a request for “immediate review and takedown” of the Discord channel, noting that members were still distributing the pre-release artwork using direct messages and links.

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Intepat

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

AI-generated art represents a fusion of human ingenuity in crafting algorithms and the machine’s ability to produce artworks autonomously. Mario Klingemann’s AI Artworks : Mario Klingemann, a well-known AI artist, has produced various AI-generated artworks.

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IPilogue

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

District Court, Central District of California, on June 15 suing Shein for over $100 million in damages for unauthorized reproductions of her artwork “One is good, more is better.”. In 2019, Mollman registered this artwork with the U.S. Copyright Office and included Copyright Management Information (CMI) on her artwork.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2022

By purchasing an NFT one only purchases an actual digital token that normally contains a link to or a copy of a digital artwork. That artwork itself is a copyrighted work and the NFT owner will only have rights to that copyrighted work if these have been specifically assigned or licensed to them as required by law. Conclusion.

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The IPKat

AUGUST 23, 2023

Confidential Information Image by Riana Harvey Annsley Merelle Ward discussed the recent decision Mimo Connect v Burley & Ors [2023] EWCA Civ 909 and in particular the fact that facts are everything in confidential information cases. Here is a brief recap of the topics covered last week on The IPKat.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 1, 2024

Alongside demands to take down links to House of the Dragon episodes and season packs on various pirate sites, this notice informed Google that our report on the months-old leak infringed Warner’s copyrights. After almost two weeks of DMCA silence following the PikaShow debacle, the calm was interrupted by a new complaint from Markscan.

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The IPKat

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

The author decided to search the Canadian Trademark Database for information on what had been registered under the mark "Ogopogo". There were 18 registered copyrighted works related to the Ogopogo, including books, posters, artwork, videos (in some cases, supposedly of the creature itself) and dramatic works.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Other claims in the complaint include the unlawful reproduction of copyrighted artwork and game files, plus inducing and contributing to the copyright-infringing acts of Ring-1 customers, who allegedly create unauthorized derivative works when they deploy Ring-1 cheats. Thorpe’s situation seems straightforward, but not in a good way.

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IIPRD

MARCH 5, 2025

Both artistic and technical information have been transforming lately about how to create in all industries. This position was reiterated through several decisions, the most significant ruling for an export artwork was by the U.S. Copyright Office.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

” That’s an eye-catching figure because in many cases Cloudflare has little useful information to pass on. – Illegal site operator information, such as address, email, and payment details, is essential information for tracking and arrest. court, the first in the webtoon industry.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 28, 2021

io but is also active on hundreds of forums, websites and social media accounts selling cheats that enable Ubisoft and Bungie customers to automatically aim their weapons, reveal the locations of opponents, and see information that would otherwise be obscured. Ring-1 is said to largely operate from Ring-1.io Defendants’ Business Model.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 25, 2022

This archive not only allows rightsholders to monitor trends relevant to them, but also shines light on how copyright can be abused to impede the free flow of information. Over the last decade, online platforms including Twitter, Wikipedia, Medium and Github joined this transparency movement by submitting their notices to the Lumen Database.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 27, 2022

That includes all of the artwork and movie information but crucially the videos too. What we have here is an easily replicated template website pulling all of the important data from third-party sources.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 10, 2023

The corresponding DMCA takedown notice sent to GitHub requests “expeditious action to remove or disable access to the Genshin Impact Artwork as referenced above. However, for reasons that will become clear, we’ve blurred out a section depicting a character from Genshin Impact.

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