Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 17, 2023

Users retain ownership of content they upload to GitHub, but grant GitHub: the “right to store, archive, parse, and display [the content], and make incidental copies, as necessary to provide the Service, including improving the Service over time.” GitHub (Guest Blog Post) appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 13, 2024

As I wrote back in December, scraping claims are almost always about unwanted copying and distribution of data. However, scraping generally means “extracting data from a website and copying it into a structured format, allowing for data manipulation or analysis.” citations omitted) X Corp. Bright Data at 21. See hiQ Labs, Inc.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 18, 2025

.” Amount taken: “Townsquare copied the entire Jordan video. Lynk Media is positioning itself for many appearances on this blog. The post Copyright Owners Are Still Suing Over Embedding appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog.

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Plagiarism Today

MAY 18, 2022

These articles come from a variety of sources including publishing blogs , sites that help those that run churches and even sites that help photographers enforce their images. A variety of services work to find copied images , and many engage in speculative invoicing and litigation as part of their strategy.

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Traverse Legal Blog

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Preventing Accidental Infringement: Respect Copyright: Avoid copying others’ work without permission. However, courts may reduce damages if you can prove: Unawareness: You were unaware of the infringement and had no reason to suspect it. Prompt Removal: You promptly removed the infringing material after receiving notice.

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Plagiarism Today

JUNE 27, 2022

According to an article published on Reason , roughly six sentences of his 2000 dissertation at Cornell University contained text that was either copied directly or near-verbatim from outside sources that were not cited in the paper. . Furthermore, the author of both the Reason article and the blog post is Philip Magness.

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Plagiarism Today

JULY 27, 2021

The composer of Towering Catastrophe , Nakamura Kojo, took to his personal blog and addressed the issue. He said he doesn’t mind the similarities between the two songs and believes the similarities to be coincidental. Looking at the first case, if it were being tried in the United States, Konami would have a large challenge ahead of it.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2023

As the new threshold test for application of Rogers , courts can’t simply assume trademark use based on the close copying of the plaintiff’s goods. The post Hot Take on the Wavy Baby Decision (Guest Blog Post) appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. They would be hard-pressed to be less careful.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 30, 2022

It confirms both ownership of valid copyrights and copying by the defendants of original constituent elements of the works. Rusty Krab Restaurant (Guest Blog Post) appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. The court then moves on to consider Viacom’s copyright infringement claim. March 25, 2022). The complaint.

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Akshat Agrawal is a Senior Associate at Saikrishna and Associates and has previously written on the blog here. Thomson Reuters argued that Legal Ease’s questions, incorporated by Ross in machine-readable form, essentially copied its creative headnotes. [ This post is authored by Akshat Agrawal and Sneha Jain. Long post ahead. ]

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Michael Geist

DECEMBER 3, 2024

The filing literally says “ the full particulars of when, from where, and exactly how, the Works were accessed, scraped, and/or copied is within the knowledge of OpenAI and not the News Media Companies.” In fact, blogging platforms such as Blogspot and WordPress were also each more used than all Canadian media companies combined.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Platforms that copy online data and use it to create AI have a strong fair use argument under copyright laws. Copyright law forbids duplication, public performance, and so on, unless the person wishing to copy or perform the work gets permission; silence means a ban on copying. A copyright is a right against the world.

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Intepat

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Make copies. For example: Reprinting or Quoting: To include parts of a book in a blog, brochure, or other material, you’ll need a license. Selling Copies: If you want to publish or sell copies of the book, royalties or licensing fees may apply. However: Avoid copying large sections. Distribute or lend the book.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 18, 2023

Genius planted tiny mistakes in some of the lyrics it posted, and once those appeared in Google’s information boxes, it argued that Google copied lyrics from Genius. Genius’s “browsewrap,” however, prohibits copying for commercial use, and Genius sued Google for breach of contract.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 24, 2022

Back in 2009, Amazon launched a Kindle service for blogs that made it easy for anyone to sell any blog’s content. . All it has to do is use readily available plagiarism detection tools to detect works that contain a large volume of clearly copied text. Amazon’s Ongoing Plagiarism and Copyright Problem.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Between blogs, social media, forums, YouTube and a million other sites, one doesn’t have to be in a writing profession to be a widely read author. Turnitin launched in the year 2000 , Between search engines and ready-made copy detection tools, spotting plagiarism became much faster and easier than ever before. Google launched in 1998.

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Plagiarism Today

APRIL 7, 2022

Copyright Office, “Online content is considered published if the copyright owner authorizes the end user to retain copies of the content or further distribute the content.”. Their pages contained a pair of copyright notices that read, “Nothing on this page may be copied or reproduced without explicit permission.” According to the U.S.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 19, 2024

The Eleventh Circuit agrees, quietly dismissing the case in an unpublished opinion. * * * The short opinion addresses the copying-in-fact element, sidestepping the possibly more interesting copyrightability, wrongful copying, and fair use questions. Cattelan appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 1, 2023

By Guest Blogger Tyler Ochoa Recently, the Ninth Circuit reaffirmed what has become known as the “server test”: in order to be held directly liable for violating the public display right, the alleged infringer must have a fixed “copy” of the work stored on a server in its possession or control. Instagram, LLC , 2023 WL 4554649 (9th Cir.

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Submitted posts will need to be reviewed and approved by the SpicyIP team to ensure it meets the quality standards of the blog, prior to publication. A copy of their latest curriculum vitae. Fellows are also encouraged to publicly present or publish their writings or findings in other venues where possible.

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Likelihood of Confusion

JUNE 12, 2024

Republished by Blog Post Promoter Originally posted March 21, 2016. Says Pamela Chestek, of the Property, intangible® blog: I haven’t written about “zombie” or “heritage” marks in a long time. Originally posted 2016-12-20 14:56:14. So when she does, we don’t want to miss it! Here’s the story.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2021

The application of this principle to this case is easy: the elements that Defendants allegedly copied from Coscarelli’s cookbooks are primarily lists of ingredients and directions for combining them. Some Related Blog Posts. Smashburger (Guest Blog Post). Esquared appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 29, 2023

Prutton admitted to copying and said that his adult daughter had helped him with his website. (A Therefore, there is a market available for this Work, which Prutton evaded by copying and displaying the Work on his website without permission. Screengrabs from October 29, 2019 from the Wayback Machine. Oppenheimer sent him a letter.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 2, 2023

s advertisement for hats, copying Sarony’s Oscar Wilde No. The post How A Century-Old Insight of Photography Can Inform Legal Questions of AI-Generated Artwork (Guest Blog Post) appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. Ehrich Bros.’s 2023, Generative AI Works Found Ineligible for Copyright Under the U.S.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

According to the complaint, when Apple learned of the app, it liked the idea—so much so, in fact, that it copied it. These screenshots (from the complaint) show the alleged copying: I trust the differences are immediately apparent. In my prior blog post, I wrote: this lawsuit could be an example of emoji trolling.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 4, 2022

” Indeed, the court says “the Deposit Copy reads like a manual, instructing a user how to generate digital messages—and convert those digital messages to analog signals—that Pyrotechnics’s control panel and field module can send and understand.” XFX appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 20, 2023

Similarly, when an artist lawfully creates a derivative work based on a photograph, and copies of that derivative work are reproduced and distributed to the public, ordinarily the owner of copyright in the photograph and the owner of copyright in the derivative work are entitled to royalties. . 36, because remote controls did not exist.)

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 11, 2022

Price: $9.99. * Print-on-demand hard copy from Amazon. Buyers of the hard copy can also get a free PDF file by emailing me a copy of their receipt showing which edition they bought. If you are a professor, or are hoping to teach the course, and would like a free evaluation copy, please email me (egoldman@gmail.com).

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 25, 2022

The email contains a copy of a blog post published by Boing Boing. Copying isn’t the issue here; it’s the topic of the article that’s important. — A copy of the record labels’ motion in limine is available here (pdf) and Grande’s response can be found here (pdf).

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2024

But the suit, in which 24-year-old influencer Sydney Nicole Gifford accuses another influencer, 22-year-old Alyssa Sheil, of copying both her posts and her style, may have an outsized effect on the law around online content creation. Sheil (Guest Blog Post) appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog.

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Patently-O

APRIL 26, 2023

I sent her a copy so she knows it is real. We intend for our blog to disseminate research findings on “what works” to advance diversity and inclusion in innovation and inventing. Professor Chien thanks Sydney Yang, SCU Law ’22, for her help with the blog post. .” – Sujesha S., ” – Scott S.,

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

The court sides with DistroKid: volitional conduct is not shown merely by alleging that a system copied, reformatted, or distributed copyrighted material, even if the system’s functions can be broken down into three separate events. DistroKid appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Patrons can also borrow books that are scanned and digitized in-house, with technical restrictions that prevent copying. Staying true to the centuries-old library concept, only one patron at a time can rent a digital copy of a physical book for a limited period. Mass Copyright Infringement or Fair Use?

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Note 2: I don’t have a problem with saying that a collection of headnotes may be subject to a compilation copyright, but I’m not sure ifRoss copied the selection/arrangement/ coordination of the headnote collections.) Ross Copyright Ruling appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2021

She sent takedown notices to the blog’s “registrar” (this is the court’s word), GoDaddy, which GoDaddy honored. Some prior blog posts on 512(h): 512(h) Doesn’t Preempt Doe Unmasking Lawsuits–Strike 3 v. Does (Guest Blog Post). GoDaddy appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 11, 2022

I previously blogged this case last year. In response, Newman, the community moderator, copied all of the community’s posts and uploaded them to Dreamwidth–an action we used to call “mirroring” in the old days. I summarized the facts: This case involves a LiveJournal community (the Davis Square community for Somerville, MA).

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 25, 2022

In a previous blog post , I criticized the Second Circuit’s ruling as inherently self-contradictory. My previous blog post contains detailed information about the Copyright Act’s three-year statute of limitations [ 17 U.S.C. § If it’s still unclear, go back and read my previous blog post on Sohm for a more detailed explanation.).

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