TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

However, at least one day before (and most likely two) at least one copy was being shared within piracy communities. No specific parameters are published by Discord (such as two or three ‘strikes’) and indeed, the company reserves the right to take action immediately, even if there is no repeat infringement.

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The IPKat

OCTOBER 27, 2021

This instruction was followed by an explicit copyright notification “ Copyright [Brand]”. Over several years, the defendant had sent cease and desist letters to the claimant’s customers, alleging that claimant infringed defendant’s copyright in this instructional manual.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 1, 2024

In a complaint filed at a federal court in Seattle, Washington, Nintendo accuses Modded Hardware of copyright infringement and violating the DMCA by trafficking in circumvention devices, among other things. Daly said that he was looking for a new lawyer, but Nintendo’s patience had run out and it followed up with a lawsuit.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 20, 2021

The sites’ Russian owner Tofig Kurbanov was taken to court in the United States in 2018, accused of facilitating mass copyright infringement. In a follow-up filing, the music companies demanded more than $82 million in damages for copyright infringement and DMCA violations. Registered DMCA Agent.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 8, 2023

Traditionally, when copyright holders go after pirate sites, their main mission is to shut them down permanently. In some cases these shutdowns are easy, only requiring a cease and desist order to be delivered to the owner’s home address. YTS Lawsuits and Settlements As one of the most iconic piracy brands, YTS.mx

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 21, 2021

Last year his Area 51 service was shut down following a cease-and-desist issued by the Alliance For Creativity and Entertainment (ACE). On July 8, the plaintiffs submitted a proposed preliminary injunction to the court, a copy of which was personally served on Tusa two days later.

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SpicyIP

OCTOBER 27, 2024

on 15 October, 2024 (Delhi District Court) The plaintiff alleged trademark and copyright infringement of his registered mark “KHATOON” by the defendants, who used an allegedly similar mark “SHAHI KHATOON.” The Court held that the defendants had copied the plaintiff’s mark and passed off their products as those of the plaintiff.

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LexBlog IP

OCTOBER 30, 2021

The author, or their employer, typically owns copyright in the work. How is Copyright Infringed? Copyright infringement occurs when a person, without the consent of the copyright owner, does anything with a copyrighted work that only an owner is allowed to do. Cease and Desist Letters.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 29, 2024

However, not all music industry insiders were happy with it, as the copying took place without obtaining permission from all rightsholders. Specifically, IA argues that many of the works should be removed from the lawsuit, as the labels failed to take timely action following a cease and desist letter the RIAA sent in 2020.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 21, 2024

“As the copying and distribution of content over the internet proliferates, the risk of piracy, gray market sales, illegal downloading, file-sharing or other infringement, misappropriation and other violation of our intellectual property is likely to continue to increase,” Webtoon Entertainment states. 1stkissmanga.me

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TorrentFreak

MAY 16, 2024

The organization literally archives key parts of the Internet, copying older versions of websites to preserve them for future generations. However, not all music industry insiders were happy with it, as the copying took place without obtaining permission from all rightsholders. — A copy of U.S.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 6, 2022

Babybus runs a competitive channel that Moonbug believes infringes its copyrights. An example: Moonbug submitted takedown notices to YouTube covering at least 70 videos and sued Babybus for copyright infringement. Summit Entertainment. * Cease & Desist Letter to iTunes Isn’t Covered by 17 USC 512(f)–Red Rock v.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 12, 2023

As the Internet Archive continues to deal with an adverse ruling in a copyright infringement lawsuit filed by the world’s largest publishing companies, late Friday some of the world’s largest record labels launched similar legal action in the United States. named as defendants. .”

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Not seldomly these have raised precarious copyright issues. There are NFT projects ‘copying’ other NFTs, for example, and in some cases, people simply issue NFTs based on existing copyrighted works owned by others. . ‘NFT Piracy’ Over the past year, there has been a boom in NFT projects.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 29, 2024

However, not all music industry insiders were happy with it, as the copying took place without obtaining permission from all rightsholders. Specifically, IA argues that many of the works should be removed from the lawsuit, as the labels failed to take timely action following a cease and desist letter the RIAA sent in 2020.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

In addition, it refuted the copyright infringement allegations; these lacked substance because some of the referenced copyrights were registered well after the cheats were first made available, AimJunkies said. As a result, the copyright infringement dispute is currently ongoing and progressing to trial.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 8, 2022

The RIAA had already sent cease-and-desist orders to the hosting company in 2020, before it approached GitHub. Their complaint, which cites an earlier case from 2017 , alleges that youtube-dl aids copyright infringement by circumventing YouTube’s technical protection measures. No Circumvention.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 4, 2023

The RIAA had already sent cease-and-desist orders to the hosting company in 2020, before it approached GitHub. Their complaint alleged that youtube-dl aids copyright infringement by circumventing YouTube’s technical protection measures. At the time of writing, the youtube-dl website is still online as well.

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JIPEL Copyright Blog

APRIL 26, 2021

In this case, via alleged copyright infringement. However, an equally long list of controversies accompanies this list of accomplishments, the majority of which involve alleged copying. Nordstrom removed the pieces at issue, and everything seemed to be fine on the copying front—until 2020 hit. The account and its 2.6

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 15, 2023

DISH followed up with an infringement notice on August 23, 2017, supported by copies of judgments and permanent injunctions previously obtained by the company. A second infringement notice was sent on July 27, 2021, in broadly similar circumstances.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

In Iraq, tackling copyright infringement appears to have very little priority. After being copied by these companies, beIN’s channels are then re-streamed on pirate IPTV services generally, as well as from pirate websites accessible all over the MENA region, and the rest of the world. This isn’t a new phenomenon.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 27, 2022

The poster noted that while it appeared the information had multiple sources, several people might have copied existing information. Post Removed By Reddit For Copyright Infringement. Spoilers: Are They Copyright Infringement? According to AMC, significant spoilers can be considered copyright infringement.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 12, 2022

Others are hit with cease-and-desist notices and/or direct legal action. Whatever the location in the world, the domains are all accused of infringing the rights of ACE members, with the specific movies and related rightsholders shown in the table below. The documents for this subpoena can be found here ( 1 , 2 , 3 , pdf).

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

JUNE 5, 2023

2] The Court’s decision affirmed the ruling of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, which held that the Warhol work was derivative of the original, and noted that “the new expression may be relevant to whether a copying use has a sufficiently distinct purpose or character” but that factor was not dispositive by itself. [3]

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2023

OTT services may implement tools for content recognition and removal of infringing material from User-generated Content (UGC). Moreover, Section 51 of the Act of 1957 categorizes the reproduction of any literary, dramatic, musical or artistic work in the form of a cinematographic work as an infringing copy.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 8, 2021

The Television Academies sued Goodman for copyright infringement, trademark infringement and dilution, and defamation. Copyright Infringement/Fair Use. Prior Posts on Section 512(f): * 512(f) Preempts Tortious Interference Claim–Copy Me That v. The court rejects Goodman’s motion to dismiss.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

The defendant in that case had offered adapters for sale which enabled Nintendo games, that had been produced by third parties in circumvention of copy protection measures and downloaded from the internet, to be used on the Nintendo games console. Claims under copyright law.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2022

But if they want to be double-sure, send a takedown notice on any grounds other than copyright infringement and voila! Day to Day Imports. * Satirical Depiction in YouTube Video Gets Rough Treatment in Court. * 512(f) Preempts Tortious Interference Claim–Copy Me That v. You know how this claim went. 512(f) disappears entirely.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 2, 2022

CFAA : The key question is whether hiQ’s continued access following receipt of LinkedIn’s cease-and-desist letter was “without authorization” under the CFAA. Are robots.txt, IP address blocks, or cease-and-desist letters still relevant to the CFAA at all? ” hiQ Labs Inc.

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The IPKat

JUNE 23, 2023

As a result, Mercredie sent a cease-and-desist letter to the French brand on 16 September 2019. The influencer subsequently brought an action for copyright infringement and parasitic conduct against Maje before the Paris Court of First Instance. This point calls for a brief comment.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2023

And that data might be subject to varying levels of copyright protection. Platforms that copy online data and use it to create AI have a strong fair use argument under copyright laws. — One logical starting point to tell the history of copyright preemption of contracts is to begin with ProCD v. See Montz, 649 F.3d

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 30, 2022

Remember the Fifth Circuit case from 2018 holding that a real restaurant’s name could infringe trademark rights in the name of a fictional restaurant from the TV show SpongeBob SquarePants, the Krusty Krab? I predict a cease and desist letter”; “I WILL DEFINITELY BE CONTACTING NICKOLODEON TO ASK IF THIS GHETTO PLACE HAVE THE RIGHTS.”.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The precedent work is “a set of replacement stickers for the dashboard climate controls for certain GM vehicles”: The Copyright Office registered this design. All of these facts placed Defendant on actual notice that it was highly likely that, in fact, Plaintiff’s Sticker Sheet was not infringing the Subject Design.

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JIPEL Copyright Blog

MARCH 21, 2022

scene in the past, things seemed to come to a head in November 2020 when Nintendo sent a cease-and-desist letter to the Tournament Organizers (TOs) of the Big House, an upcoming streamed Melee tournament, and subsequently forced them to cancel the event. Melee , know this better than anyone. The second issue comes from Slippi itself.

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SpicyIP

MARCH 27, 2023

Case: Kishan Tibrewalla & Ors vs The State Of West Bengal & Anr on 20 March, 2023 (Calcutta High Court) Admitting a revision petition, Calcutta High Court stayed the proceedings of a copyright infringement case lodged against the petitioner. MSM Discovery Pvt.

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The IPKat

JULY 9, 2023

Chapter 3 is entitled "Copyright within the street art and graffiti circles". This chapter examines whether street artists and writers are interested in copyright. Would they be prepared to take legal action for copyright infringement if someone exploited or copied one of their works?

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Copyright Lately

AUGUST 2, 2022

The full story behind Netflix’s copyright infringement lawsuit against Barlow & Bear, and why it’s actually a win for the fan fiction community. When it comes to copyright cases, Netflix has seen stranger things. Netflix could have sent Barlow & Bear a cease and desist letter hand-delivered by Regé-Jean Page.

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