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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Traverse Legal Blog

APRIL 17, 2021

Copyright Licensing of Digital Assets Attached to NFT Sales. Bonus: Free Open Source Copyright License for NFT sales below]. What are the terms by which you are selling the NFT and licensing your work, the art you put into the platform that’s going to be attached to the NFT? NFT Copyright Licensing.

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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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Michael Geist

DECEMBER 3, 2024

It has already entered into licensing agreements with several content creators, including other news media organizations.” Instead, they point to how much they have produced or licensed with the assumption that it is all scraped by OpenAI. The claims that are alleged will face some significant headwinds. This isn’t me speculating.

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Traverse Legal Blog

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Misinterpreting Licenses: Incorrectly assuming permission to use copyrighted material. Preventing Accidental Infringement: Respect Copyright: Avoid copying others’ work without permission. What Is Accidental Copyright Infringement. Fair Use Misconception: Believing that a particular use falls under fair use guidelines.

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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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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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Traverse Legal Blog

JANUARY 29, 2022

One of the big problems with the NFT marketplace, where NFTs are both sold and purchased, is that the platform doesn’t provide any licensing language for the digital asset that the owner attaches to the NFT. “These platforms are not providing any license language for the actual asset attached to the NFT.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

The case involves ShutterStock, a photo licensing service. (We ShutterStock has a “contributor” program that allows anyone to upload photos into their licensing database in exchange for a fee if licensed. Only 2 visitors saw the subject image in ShutterStock’s database and neither licensed it.

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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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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. That is true no matter what the headlines say.

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Velocity of Content

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The Annual Copyright License (ACL) from CCC helps minimize an organization’s infringement risk by providing a consistent set of global reuse rights across millions of publications from thousands of rightsholders that complements existing publisher agreements, subscriptions, and other content purchases.

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Velocity of Content

JANUARY 31, 2023

I have had people tell me with doctrinal certainty that Creative Commons licenses allow text and data mining, and insofar as license terms are observed, I agree. Full disclosure: CCC offers RightFind XML, a service that supports licensed commercial access to full-text articles for TDM with value-added capabilities.) GitHub Inc.,

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

He orally licensed the beats to Rivers for a 50% royalty and a promise to keep booking live performances for White. White alleges that Rivers stopped booking live performances and thereby abrogated the beats license. ” After the alleged license breach, White took down the album, but Rivers reuploaded it.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Traverse Legal Blog

JANUARY 26, 2022

Today, we will be talking about NFT non-fungible token licensing. The NFT is a smart contract coded with the NFT. THE NFT smart contract does NOT include the licensing terms for the underlying digital asset (i.e. This limited edition Dune book may be one of 10 copies of this hardback auctioned.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 17, 2023

Also, ignoring copyright licenses is at least arguably copyright infringement, and your fair use claim probably won’t get you out of the lawsuit at the motion to dismiss stage. The court also held that the coders did not have standing to seek damages, but they did have standing to pursue injunctive relief. Complaint at 2.

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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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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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BYU Copyright Blog

JANUARY 27, 2025

Four years ago, we first published a post about an intriguing case involving two education consulting firms litigating over an online excerpt published on the website of Lehren Education (Defendant), which Ivy Coach (Plaintiff) alleged had been improperly copied, infringing on its copyrights.

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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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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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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 2, 2022

“Von D presumably did not need to copy the pose from the Portrait in order express a sentiment of melancholy.” “no one has told [Sedlik] they would not buy a copy of the Portrait because they had seen the Tattoo or social media posts about the Tattoo.” Nature of the Work. Amount Used. ” Huh? Warner Bros.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

repeatedly breached the terms of its Limited Software License Agreement (LSLA) by using third-party cheating software, getting banned by Bungie, and then repeatedly signing back up to breach the LSLA’s terms once again. has indeed rendered the contract void ab initio. The core of Bungie’s lawsuit is that L.L.

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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

AUGUST 12, 2021

means to show a copy of it, either directly or by means of a film, slide, television image, or any other device or process or, in the case of a motion picture or other audiovisual work, to show individual images nonsequentially.”. Nicklen sued Sinclair Broadcast Group and others. Is Embedding a Display? Under the Copyright Act, display.

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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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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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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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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

APRIL 6, 2022

The “Platform Policy” appears to grant a broad license to users of the API. The current terms make clear that platform API users are not automatically granted a license and must independently secure rights in any content they embed. Its revised terms make clear that platform users are not granted an express license. For example.

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