Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

1: Megan Roup Seeks Dismissal in Fitness Routine Copyright, Contract Lawsuit. Anderson filed the lawsuit against Roup saying that Roup had copied several exercise routines that Anderson had created. Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday.

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Plagiarism Today

MARCH 14, 2022

Genius filed the lawsuit in 2019 alleging that Google was unlawfully copying lyrics to songs that they had hosted. According to Genius, they had used watermarking techniques to prove that Google had copied from their database of lyrics.

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Plagiarism Today

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

They are a way to sell “unique” copies of digital works but do not transfer any rights. Nonetheless, Mirimax claims to hold all the copyrights and trademarks related to the film, prompting them to file a lawsuit for breach of contract, copyright infringement, trademark infringement and unfair competition.

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Plagiarism Today

MARCH 1, 2023

Authors have been reporting that Amazon has been pulling their books because of pirated copies that allegedly breaking an exclusivity clause. The post How Amazon is Punishing Victims of Piracy appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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43(B)log

MAY 19, 2023

Wowwee sells a line of dolls called “My Avastars,” which plaintiffs allege were “copied directly from Roblox’s Classic Avatars.” Looking at the side by side pictures in the complaint, this is a bit hard to swallow, but the evidence of copying/references to Roblox clearly bleed over from the TM side.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 30, 2022

Handling citation after one has finished writing a piece opens the door to serious mistakes, including passages that were copied but not quoted, missing citations and forgotten sources. One of the major changes in the past decade has been the rise of contract cheating. However, that is not the case. 2: Avoid Free Plagiarism Checkers.

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Plagiarism Today

APRIL 4, 2022

In some types of programming, especially when there’s only one correct way to do something, copying code isn’t just a shortcut, it’s the norm. Many lawyers also copy and paste heavily in the legal documents in a bid to meet the criteria there.

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Patently-O

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Genius doesn’t hold copyright to the song lyrics that it has on its website, but it does (arguably) require users of its site to contractually agree not to copy and use those lyrics for commercial purposes. Other circuits have held that similar contracts are not preempted by the Copyright Act.

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Plagiarism Today

DECEMBER 6, 2021

At issue is pirate sites that, according to publishers, use the Shopify platform to sell pirate ebook copies of textbooks. However, in the absence of a clear contract, the court interpreted the situation favorably to MD5, claiming that Penhallurick was paid to write the software and that no further royalties were owed.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 21, 2021

They allege that American Skin copies elements from their 2017 screenplay, A Routine Stop. 2: Kairosoft, the Beloved Mobile Tycoon Game Developer, Openly Accuses its Chinese Publisher of Copyright Infringement and Contract Violation. The lawsuit was filed by filmmakers Selton and Langston Shaw.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 11, 2023

Another 3k+ word post about the jurisprudential chaos in online contract formation law. But ultimately, the onus is on Disney to create a contract formation process so conspicuous that a court can’t reach decisions like this. Once effective, it will govern your use and enjoyment of your Disney+ or ESPN+ subscription.”

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Morantz claims that he provided a digital copy of his book to aid in research, but that no deal to use it was struck before the episode was released. Morantz, who is 77, is suing Downey over alleged copyright infringement, breach of contract and elder abuse. The book covers Synanon, a drug rehab facility that morphed into a cult.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 2, 2022

Back in January, the crypto group Spice DAO (decentralized autonomous organization) made headlines for spending approximately $3 million to acquire a physical copy of the book Jodorowsky’s Dune , a bible for a planned Dune move that would have been made in the 1970s. . The payment beyond excessive.

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The IPKat

JUNE 27, 2022

created) on a permissionless blockchain (like Ethereum, Cardano o Solana) through a software called “smart contract” which is recorded on the blockchain itself. Ripps has clearly downloaded the digital files of the original BAYC collection, copied and re-used them to create his own RR BAYC collection. Ether (USD 1+ million).

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IP Watchdog

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Supreme Court today invited the Solicitor General’s views in a copyright case that asks the High Court to grant a petition on the question of whether the Copyright Act’s preemption clause allows a business “to invoke traditional state-law contract remedies to enforce a promise not to copy and use its content?”

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43(B)log

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Defendants allegedly copied key components of Trackman’s copyrighted software and falsely suggested, in promotions and advertisements, that defendants were authorized to use the well-known courses in their game. Although the court dismissed a contract claim, copyright and false advertising claims survived.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 23, 2022

In that regard, The Galaxy study mirrors one by Cornell University and the Initiative for CryptoCurrencies and Contracts that was published in January. This is an especially large problem for photographers and visual artists, whose works are trivially copied and reshared. This is why such images are considered fungible.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2023

by guest blogger Kieran McCarthy Many characterize the law of copyright preemption of contracts as a circuit split. It’s not that half of federal judges have adopted one clear stance on copyright preemption of contracts and the other half have adopted another clear stance. But fair use isn’t a defense to a breach of contract claim.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 11, 2022

600,000 ‘Infringing’ Copies. This is based on the installed copies and the price both parties would have reached in a ‘fictitious’ negotiation. ” 579 ‘Infringing’ Copies. For one, it is unclear how many copies the U.S. Unfortunately, most of the legal paperwork is sealed.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

OCTOBER 23, 2021

“To the extent the contract pertains to use of Peloton’s Services (e.g., ” The idea is that sometimes nonsignatories get benefits from a contract sufficient to impose the contract terms on them anyways. ” Thus, the nonparties cannot be swept into the contract. That’s Contracts Law 101.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 18, 2023

Moritz College of Law The copyright – contract tension Stewart Brand famously said that information wants to be free. The flexibility of contracts makes them a prime candidate for restricting uses that copyright law leaves unprohibited. That still leaves a rather broad space for contract law to effectively limit the use of information.

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Plagiarism Today

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

However, shortly after publication, another UK journalist, Josh Bavas, noticed that several paragraphs of one of the articles were copied verbatim from his earlier work without any citation. ABC’s Media Watch also investigated and found sill more copying in the piece, including large sections taken from a different journalist.

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Copyright Lately

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

But the less-shiny reality is that this is primarily a contract dispute—a fight about whether the publication rights Quentin Tarantino reserved in his agreement with Miramax include the right to sell digital screenplay scans. A used copy will set you back $1.09; for reasons unknown, a new copy is going for $113.03—In

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Plagiarism Today

APRIL 7, 2022

Also in 2018, FDN filed the original complaint, targeting both Amazon and CCA, alleging that they both breached contracts and committed copyright infringement. 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.”.

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The IPKat

AUGUST 3, 2022

These rights are often owned by different people, and are governed by contracts, so who owns what and how much they earn depends on the agreement between the parties. She said that she was told everything would be split equally between herself, Williams and Hugo, and so did not double check when presented with the contract.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

The license permitted the defendant to “copy, email and otherwise distribute the” forms but not post them to the web. Copyrightability The case sets up one of the longstanding open questions in copyright law: when are form contracts copyrightable, and when is sharing them infringing?

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LexBlog IP

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

In a copyright case with evidence of actual copying, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia nevertheless dismissed copyright infringement claims on summary judgment, holding that allegedly copied features of software code were not protected under the Copyright Act. Read more

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JD Supra Law

JULY 3, 2023

The Supreme Court of the United States has denied a plea to resolve a 20-year circuit split regarding the extent to which the Copyright Act preempts private contracts involving a promise not to copy digital content.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

APRIL 23, 2022

Plus, “Facebook cannot be said to have been a willful wrongdoer when the contract did not require it to preserve any content of its users.” The plaintiff’s alleged harm is the loss of a decade of photos, but the lack of an explanation didn’t cause that harm (the termination did). Peculiar Value.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 11, 2022

According to Bungie, AimJunkies copied and distributed its copyrighted work, to develop and advertise its cheat software. The cheat software itself certainly isn’t a copy of Bungie’s work, they add. . Copyright Questions. It is a factual and legal impossibility long recognized by the courts.”

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Plagiarism Today

APRIL 20, 2022

For much of the web’s recent history, we scraping commonly referred a technique through which spammers would copy content from a website and republish it, either rewritten or verbatim. Copyright and breach of contract are just two other areas to consider. Where Does This Leave Us.

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IPilogue

OCTOBER 4, 2024

The ownership of the creative tasks conducted by digital workers as part of the collaborative venture is determined either by the workers’ status as employees or otherwise by contract—which means that it is determined in the context of significant power asymmetries and the routine exploitation of digital workers.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 13, 2024

sued Bright Data for trespass to chattels, breach of contract, tortious interference with a contract, violation of California Business and Professions Code Section 17200, and misappropriation. As I wrote back in December, scraping claims are almost always about unwanted copying and distribution of data. In November 2023, X corp.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 1, 2024

These include Mod Chips and the “MIG Switch,” a memory card that allows people to play pirated copies of Nintendo Switch games on authentic consoles. “Defendant not only offers the hardware and firmware to create and play pirated games, but he also provides his customers with copies of pirated Nintendo games,” the complaint reads.

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IP and Legal Filings

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

i] It required the contracting parties to implement limitations and exceptions to their national law of copyright in their country for permitting the production, distribution, and accessibility of published work in such a format that is convenient as well as permission to exchange such copyright works across borders and serve the beneficiaries. [ii]

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The IPKat

AUGUST 31, 2022

by Marianna Ryan Decentralised Autonomous Organisations (DAOs) are a new type of quasi-corporate entities, existing with the use of blockchain and smart contracts. The use of blockchain and smart contracts in the creation of DAOs has its pros and cons. Here's what Marianna writes: Ownership of IP rights by DAOs – the future is nigh?

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Sales of the cheats and loader, which effectively bypassed Bungie’s copyright protections, amount to 1,361 copies in total. “The evidence shows that Phoenix sold more than one thousand copies of the cheats. — A copy of the arbitration Judge’s conclusions is available here (pdf). .

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