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. The plaintiff sued the defendant (and others) for copyright infringement. Sadly, this case sidesteps that important copyrightability question. As such, defendant made the Forms available.”

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 27, 2024

Piracy Challenges Remain Despite these successful enforcement efforts, the MPA still sees room for progress, to further clamp down on copyright infringement. “MPA opposes these restrictions because they would not only impact providers’ revenues and general freedom of contract but would also weaken copyright enforcement.”

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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. 2: Movie Studios Sue Free Streaming Website Primewire For ‘Mass Online Copyright Piracy’. 3: Dev loses copyright appeal over forensic software after judges rule suite was owned by his employer.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

The lawsuit was filed by songwriters Sean Hall and Nathan Butler, who claim that Swift’s Shake it Off is a copyright infringement of their 2001 song, Playas Gon’ Play , which was written for the R&B group 3LW. Morantz, who is 77, is suing Downey over alleged copyright infringement, breach of contract and elder abuse.

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Michael Geist

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Canada’s largest media companies, including the Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, Postmedia, CBC, and Canadian Press, came together last week to file a copyright infringement lawsuit against OpenAI, the owners of ChatGPT. First, the Canadian claims are much narrower than those found in other lawsuits such as the NY Times case.

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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.” The court found copyright infringement adequately pled as to several figures, although substantial similarity was a “close issue.”

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IPilogue

AUGUST 16, 2022

On April 5 th 2022, the Federal Court released its decision for August Image LLC v AirG Inc , a copyright infringement action concerning images of singer-actress, Jennifer Lopez. However, the Court ultimately dismissed August’s case because they failed to prove all the necessary elements of copyright infringement.

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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. Their pages contained a pair of copyright notices that read, “Nothing on this page may be copied or reproduced without explicit permission.”

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 11, 2022

Government regularly goes after copyright-infringing companies and individuals, both domestically and abroad. That doesn’t mean that there are no copyright issues within its own ranks. At the United States Court of Federal Claims, the German company accused the US Navy of mass copyright infringement.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 20, 2025

Can a Claim for Breach of Confidence and Breach of Contract be made together? Enforcing Criminal Remedies Against IP Infringement in India: A Long Road to Justice? In a recent order, a Mumbai Magistrate Court acquitted an accused in a copyright infringement case after 37 years! Deepak Gupta.

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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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IPilogue

JULY 28, 2021

Section 13(3) states that if the photographer was contracted for work, the photos taken belong to their employer. Additionally, under section 13(4) , the photographer can contract out of this complete assignment of rights, and instead grant certain rights in the photo instead of full ownership. However, the Act includes an exception.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 11, 2022

Over the past several years a wave of copyright infringement lawsuits have been filed against alleged cheaters or cheat makers. This includes several copyright infringement allegations. According to Bungie, AimJunkies copied and distributed its copyrighted work, to develop and advertise its cheat software.

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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. Simply put, the legal issues of copyright ownership are complicated even under the best of circumstances, and NFTs are far from the best of circumstances.

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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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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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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Hundreds of Thousands of Infringements. According to the plaintiffs, IP addresses allocated to Verizon/Cellco Partnership were monitored by anti-piracy tracking outfit Maverickeye downloading and sharing pirate copies of their movies. Several Types of Copyright Infringement. 1202(a)(b) , the complaint adds.

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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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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 21, 2021

After the apparent demise of Area 51 but in advance of the settlement being finalized, it’s alleged that Tusa launched a close copy of Area 51 called SingularityMedia, which scooped up Area 51’s customers. A pending settlement agreement included a clause that Tusa couldn’t launch or be involved with any similar services.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

In addition, it argued that the copyright infringement allegations were ungrounded because some of the referenced copyrights were registered well after the cheats were first made available. Court Dismissed Bungie’s Copyright Claims Last May, U.S. In total, an award of $4,396,222 was handed to the game developer.

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Copyright Lately

OCTOBER 20, 2024

Yes, there was a copyright infringement claim in the mix, based on Skiplagged’s use of American’s “flight symbol” logo. The court denied summary judgment on American’s trademark infringement and unfair competition claims, citing unresolved factual issues. It sought $94.4

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IIPRD

OCTOBER 16, 2024

There are various laws in India that govern IPR and gaming laws, but the primary law are Patents Act, of 1970 , Trademark Act, of 1999 and Indian Contract Act, of 1872. Copyright also helps in protecting the narrative contents and preventing it from being copied. Licensing of their games are also controlled under Copyright only.

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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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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Among other things, Judge Buchanan recommends awarding damages for trademark infringement, DMCA violations, contract breach, and willful copyright infringement against Popcorntime.app. Because of Defendant Doe’s willful infringement, the undersigned finds that Plaintiffs’ request for $3,150,000.00

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Copyright Lately

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

Breaking down Miramax’s copyright infringement lawsuit against Quentin Tarantino, a dispute about NFTs that isn’t really about NFTs. ” Based on his reserved screenplay publication rights, there’s no question that Tarantino is permitted to sell copies of the “Pulp Fiction” screenplay.

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The IPKat

APRIL 15, 2024

The prompt used by the claimant in this case had been: “ Create a visual representation of two parties signing a business contract in a formal setting, such as a conference room or a law firm office in Prague. The defendant, a local law firm, subsequently copied the Image and used it on its own website (presumably, to prove a point?).

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

JULY 19, 2022

What is copyright infringement? Unauthorized use of a work protected by copyright is referred to as copyright infringement. In this blog we will take a look at best practices to avoid copyright infringement. In this blog we will take a look at best practices to avoid copyright infringement.

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The IPKat

AUGUST 15, 2023

Dua Lipa and Warner Music are being sued by talk box inventor and singer, Bosko Kante, for breach of contract and copyright infringement in hit song 'Levitating'. This case was dismissed in June 2023 in an order by Judge Sykes, for failure to plead copying – primarily for lack of 'access'. Secondly, in New York, from L.

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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. But that undersells the level of inconsistency in courts’ interpretations of the law of copyright preemption. But fair use isn’t a defense to a breach of contract claim.

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The IPKat

MAY 12, 2023

When one hears the claims of copyright infringement, confidential information and employment claims one can readily assume that this is an employer/ex-employee dispute. The issues (1) are the copyright and confidential information in ProSPC owned by PQ? (2) 296-297).

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 22, 2022

Movie studio Miramax, which owns most of the rights to the film, sees the plan as a contract breach and copyright infringement. The original artwork was labeled as copyright-infringing by Miramax so this change appears to be a direct response to this claim. Miramax Sues over Pulp Fiction NFTs.

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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

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Last week, an Illinois jury awarded tattoo artist Catherine Alexander $3,750 in damages at the conclusion of a copyright infringement trial. Among the tens of thousands of tattooers working in the United States, the tiny handful who have brought copyright infringement claims are rare outliers. Copyright in Tattoos.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 31, 2023

MindGeek Sues Goodporn Initially filed in 2021 at a federal court in California, the copyright infringement lawsuit accuses the site and its operator of large-scale copyright infringement. A copy of the agreement is offered as evidence and signed by Kumar. The counterclaims and defense go hand in hand.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 28, 2022

Over the past several years a wave of copyright infringement lawsuits has targeted alleged cheaters and cheat makers. In addition, the company denied Bungie’s copyright infringement allegations. The cheat software itself certainly isn’t a copy of Bungie’s work, they argued. — A copy of U.S.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 13, 2024

In addition, they committed contract breach under California law. No Monetary Damages Google’s proposed judgment holds Nguyen Van Duc and Pham Van Thien liable for DMCA violations and contract breaches. — A copy of Google’s request for a default judgment, filed as a California federal court, is available here (pdf).

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IPilogue

OCTOBER 4, 2024

The Copyright Question Much of the debate around copyright and AI has focused on whether using the underlying work of which inputs are constituted (the images, texts, musical works and other subject matter) for unauthorized learning constitutes copyright infringement.

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