Kluwer Copyright Blog

MARCH 11, 2025

Traditionally, the purchase of the tangible copy of a work afforded the buyer or every lawful acquirer of the tangible copy the possibility to enjoy the work as long as the physical object incorporating the work exists. However, the shift from a market of goods to a market of services has changed this paradigm.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 16, 2021

Reminder: courts sometimes demand that consumers click twice to form a contract. The post 1H 2021 Quick Links, Part 4 (Advertising, Contracts, & More) appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. . * Lona’s Lil Eats, LLC v. DoorDash, Inc., 2021 WL 151978 (N.D. New Yorker : Dude, Where’s My Couch? Handle, Inc.,

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Plagiarism Today

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

It was hot on the heels of a very different kind of copying scandal, one that involved Streamlabs announcing the launch of a new product using content copied and pasted from one of their biggest competitors. Hey, can I copy your homework? ? Yeah, just change it up a bit so it’s not obvious you copied. This is our fault.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 16, 2022

1: New Tools to Detect Contract Cheating. Services such as Turnitin and Unicheck have made it much more difficult to get away with copy and paste plagiarism. That caused many students to look to contract cheating, either locally or through online essay mills. As such, expect to see rapid growth for tools to address this issue.

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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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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 11, 2023

The most modern instalment of this long history comes in the form of another kind ‘copy’, less richly decorated, yet more relevant and politically sensitive for a country that has established a long-term foreign investment “partnership” with the tech and communication industry: the transposition of Directive 2019/790 into Irish law.

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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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Traverse Legal Blog

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Preventing Accidental Infringement: Respect Copyright: Avoid copying others’ work without permission. Even in situations where a business owner contracts a third-party web designer to build their website, both the business and the web designer can be held liable for copyrights violated if they are used on your website.

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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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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 31, 2025

Music Sues Apple over App Removal In a complaint filed at a California federal court last October, Musi alleged that the takedown was unjustified, accusing Apple of breach of contract, among other things. — A copy of Judge Eumi K. Wasting no time, Musi requested a preliminary injunction to compel Apple to reinstate the music app.

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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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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.” This isn’t me speculating. Much like Bill C-18, it would not surprise if coverage of the case sided with Canadian media companies.

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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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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

JANUARY 18, 2025

.” Amount taken: “Townsquare copied the entire Jordan video.

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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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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JULY 29, 2024

Photo by ThisisEngineering on Unsplash In November 2024, the CJEU cast light on the right to fair compensation under the private copying exception harmonised by Article 5(2)(b) InfoSoc Directive and the thorny issue of whether broadcasters are entitled to it. This post considers this judgment.

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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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Intepat

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

This doctrine is mainly pertinent to the physical copies of copyrighted works, such as books, CDs, and DVDs. Digital content can easily be copied which raises the question of whether this doctrine ought to apply to digital works as well. However, the applicability of this doctrine in the digital era is still a matter of contention.

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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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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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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Copyright contract law (Sections 31 et seqq. In another decision , from 2016, the BGH found that remuneration claims under Section 32 UrhG arise when the agreed remuneration at the time of the respective contract being concluded is not appropriate when viewed from the perspective of the time of conclusion of the contract (ex-ante view).

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