Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

First off today, Winston Cho at The Hollywood Reporter Esquire reports that three major ISPs, Comcast, Verizon and AT&T, have settled lawsuits filed by a group of filmmakers that claimed the companies were not doing enough to combat piracy on their networks. Have any suggestions for the 3 Count?

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 19, 2024

According to the broadcaster, it is nonetheless undisputed that Guardaserie offers pirated content, which was backed up by an external report by the company SP Tech. When RTI reports future domains to Cloudflare, these should be blocked as well. There are other domains using the Guardaserie brand that are still functional.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Nsw2u.xyz (previously branded Switch-xci) offers links to pirated games for most platforms including PC. After making an appearance in earlier reports, the main thorn in the ESA’s side remains 1fichier.com. Other sites include mpgh.net, iwantcheats.net and engineowning.com, which are all reported for similar behavior.

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The IPKat

MARCH 4, 2024

This time, Katfriend Spyridon Sipetas (Stockholm University) tells the story of a collaboration – the one between Jacquemus and Nike – that has been already plagued with accusations of copying. Here’s what Spyridon writes: Jacquemus x Nike Swoosh Bag: ‘Just Copy It’ or re-appropriation of Nike’s own trade mark?

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Yet media reports published by DDAY.it Is it feasible that they independently decided to report instances of collateral damage, against innocent web entities, without evidence or regard for the truth? Whether the two publications mentioned above now consider their reporting debunked seems unlikely.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 31, 2025

These marks include popular adult entertainment brands including Pornhub, Youporn, Brazzers and Reality Kings, which fall under the umbrella of Aylo, the empire formerly known as MindGeek. Licensing IP alleged that the defendant intentionally registered these domains to profit from consumers’ brand recognition of these trademarks.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 20, 2025

The Court, relying on the Local Commissioners report, and previous instances of infringement by the defendants, concluded that the defendant was a habitual infringer and harbored mala fide intentions behind using the name Amrit Nayan Jyoti. The plaintiff used the registered trademark Nayan Jyoti for their most popular product.

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SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

The plaintiff argued that the defendant’s products and branding closely resembled its own, intended to mislead consumers and capitalize on New Balance’s established reputation. The Defendant was alleged to have copied both in name and in design a well known trimmer. New Balance Athletics, Inc. Koninklijke Philips N.V

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The IPKat

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Here’s what Felicia writes: Archival Authenticity or Iconic Copies? It also suggests that copying might have some effect on our understanding of what is and is not iconic. Assuredly, Dolce & Gabbana may not be able to prevent copies on the U.S. In this negative space of copyright law in the U.S., In the U.S.,

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 24, 2022

All it has to do is use readily available plagiarism detection tools to detect works that contain a large volume of clearly copied text. It’s an author acting in bad faith to sell a book that was copied wholesale from another author. However, as I pointed out in 2019 , Amazon could solve this problem quickly and easily.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 20, 2022

As with most popular brands on the Internet, the ‘MP3Juices’ and ‘YTMP3’ keywords are used by third parties to attract search traffic. ‘Brand Infringers’ The notice in question came in a few days ago and was sent by someone using the name Ryan Milne. cc, is seeking help from Google as well.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 17, 2021

This income isn’t just coming from shady businesses either, major brands are involved as well. Major Brands Fund Pirates. Fortune 500 companies, defined as ‘major brands’ in the research, paid the operators of pirate operators $100 million over the past year. This shift to apps comes after a concerted e?ort

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TorrentFreak

MAY 31, 2022

Reports indicate that four well-known piracy brands have been reported to the police – the infamous Tamil Rockers, Tamil Blasters, and Tamil MV, plus popular mobile application Pikashow. So, in order to combat the threat at the street level, it is now seeking help from the authorities to dismantle several piracy platforms.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Hollywood believes that these ‘cam’ copies cause significant damage to the cinema industry, an opinion shared by the UK’s Film Distributors’ Association. Sources confirm that the copies were traced back to two multi-screen cinemas, both of them in Liverpool, the location mentioned by PIPCU.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 18, 2021

This means that the copy was not obtained from a ‘cammed’ or camcorder copy of the movie shown in theaters but has been ripped from some other source. As the image above shows, the quality could be better and indeed, some pirates will prefer to wait until October 21 to obtain a copy of the movie ripped from HBO Max.

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The IPKat

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

A few days ago The IPKat reported on the injunction issued by the Rome Court of First Instance regarding the unauthorized minting of NFTs from a trade mark perspective. of the Museum District and uploaded on the OpenSea marketplace. MANGO is owner of the original paintings. Obviously, the response of rightholders was immediate.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 10, 2024

Instead, Nintendo successfully protected its brand and eliminated all risk of not getting precisely what it needed to shut down similar operations in the future. For good measure, copies of the Yuzu judgment and the injunction that restrains its developers are supplied for reference. On that basis, Nintendo wants them taken down.

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Copyright Lately

DECEMBER 29, 2024

In a January 2024 report and recommendation later adopted by the court , the magistrate judge found that the repost infringed the plaintiff’s display right simply because it shows a copy of the photo on Chicken Joes social media account. Alyssa Sheil LLC one of the years most misguided copyright decisions. Who wore it better?

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TorrentFreak

MAY 13, 2023

” In its 2022 ‘Engaging With Music’ report, IFPI estimates that almost a third of people say they have used illegal or unlicensed methods to download and listen to music. Similar brands appear in legal documents relating to a High Court ruling in the UK.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 25, 2025

The Premier League, UK broadcaster Sky, plus global anti-piracy coalition Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment, are reporting the conclusion of a ‘landmark’ pirate IPTV case in the Middle East. Hoping to fill in the gaps, TorrentFreak requested a copy of the court order.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 27, 2023

At the time it was rumored that cooperation had prevented Sweden being placed on the USTR’s Special 301 Report ‘Watch List’ but whatever the truth, that never happened. Fmovies, also known as Bmovies and Bflix, are three of the most recognizable pirate streaming brands for good reason.

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Patent Trademark Blog

JANUARY 25, 2024

How to take down Amazon seller listings that copy your products You have invested a great deal of time and money to develop your products. Now you’re being copied by others. What can you do to take down Amazon seller listings of copy products? The goal is to win and shut down listings of copy products on Amazon.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Starting early this week, reports began to surface of a new anti-piracy campaign being carried out on behalf of Funimation, which last month completed the acquisition of Crunchyroll from AT&T for a cool $1.175 billion. Anime app ‘Shiro’ also reported receiving a DMCA takedown this week. “This app is now closed.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

With Hollywood regularly reporting UnblockTech to the U.S. Somewhat unusually, these operations weren’t mentioned in Hollywood’s reports to the U.S. An IIPA report dated January 2023 goes into detail in other ways but makes no mention of arrests in Taiwan. Government. Ltd hardly suggests an operation in stealth mode.

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Olartemoure Blog

MARCH 16, 2021

If you need brand protection in Colombia, this information might be useful: Colombian Customs’ Authorities issue alerts by email. Create trademark alerts for your main brands, block them on Google, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and other social media. Training sessions in Colombia are still necessary.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

The company does business under various brands, including J18 and JAST USA, and sees nHentai as a major threat to its operation. The proposed terms of the agreement are unknown, but PCR declined and insisted that nHentai should take down pirated copies of their works. However, 100% of the reported URLs remain active.”

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azrights

MARCH 15, 2021

There are two drivers of brand asset strength: uniqueness and fame. For example, when you see the swoosh logo of the Nike brand you know it represents Nike even though it may be featured on its own with no name accompanying it. If an asset is less famous, it is more likely to be mistakenly attributed to a competitor’s brand.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 16, 2021

Last week it was reported that progress has been made between the parties, with Saudi Arabia set to lift the ban on beIN along with a promise to close pirate websites. BeoutQ was happy to continue broadcasting beIN’s content, however. One pirate IPTV provider in particular appears to be a major concern.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 30, 2022

In this case, however, Paramount Pictures wants to protect the McDowell’s brand against an external threat. According to the claim, the restaurant copied a wide variety of copyrighted materials without permission.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 22, 2024

Popular brands including Fmovies, AniWave, 123movies, BestBuyIPTV, 2embed, and Y2mate are all linked to the Asian country, which was recently branded a ‘piracy haven’ BestBuyIPTV Conviction To curb this trend, western rightsholders have been working with local authorities to bring local investigations and enforcement efforts up to par.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

As reported last week, an order published in Argentina dated September 13, 2024, revealed that local ISPs are now required to block dozens of Magis TV-linked domains for violating intellectual property law. On Friday, dozens of local media reports linked those arrests to Magis TV. Source: YouTube Two other suspects, Roberto V.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 8, 2024

A Mountain to Climb The world-famous news publications mentioned above have faced considerable challenges with the transition to digital, including unauthorized digital copies of their products being made available online by pirate sites. Images are stored in the same location or the same images are used.”

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Corsearch

AUGUST 24, 2023

In this blog, we outline the tools you can use to protect your brand reputation and prevent consumer confusion. Counterfeits Counterfeiting is a specific type of trademark infringement where exact copies of registered trademarks on products are used to deceive customers into believing they are buying from the original brand.

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SpicyIP

OCTOBER 14, 2024

The Local Commissioner appointed by the Court reported that seven pairs of POLO slippers were recovered from the defendant’s location. The Court observed that the report of a Local Commissioner can be treated as evidence in the suit where it is not challenged by any party and granted a permanent injunction to the plaintiff.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 17, 2022

This situation allowed others to step in and profit from Z-Library’s troubles, by launching knockoff sites with the same brand, hoping to lure visitors through search engines, for example. Apparently, this article was copied by other sites, which prompted Rationalinsurgent to request the takedowns. ‘Scam’ Takedown.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

“Unfortunately, American right holders continue to report that these procedures are being directed against the infringing activity of only users within Russia and are not being used against Russian sites and services catering to users outside the country,” IIPA writes. ” Criminal Prosecution.

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Corsearch

AUGUST 2, 2023

Your business has likely collectively spent countless hours and resources to build a strong brand presence on Amazon. However, counterfeiters will continuously undermine these efforts by listing counterfeit products and passing them off under your brand name. However, they can be useful to tackle lookalikes on marketplaces.

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