TorrentFreak

JANUARY 20, 2025

To the extent that Meta made any unauthorized copies of any Plaintiffs registered copyrighted works, such copies constitute fair use under 17 U.S.C. As a result, Meta allegedly shared copies of these books with other people, as is common with the use of BitTorrent. 107, Meta said in its early response.

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JD Supra Law

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

On February 11, 2025, Third Circuit visiting Judge Stephanos Bibas, sitting by designation on the U.S.

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Plagiarism Today

MAY 29, 2024

It's accused of copying a store that's just a short walk away. An Australian business has sparked an unusual plagiarism controversy. The post Australian Business Accused of Plagiarizing a Whole Store appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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Erik K Pelton

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Trademark protection provides a tremendous return on investment (ROI) over the life of a business and can minimize or even eliminate further costs in the future, both financial and emotional.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Specifically, yuzu illegally circumvents Nintendo’s technological protection measures and runs illegal copies of Nintendo Switch games,” Nintendo continues. “Nintendo Switch games are encrypted using proprietary cryptographic keys (prod.keys) which protect against unauthorized access to and copying of the copyrighted games.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

LegalEase instructed those lawyers to prepare the questions (which have "good" and "bad" answers) using Westlaw headnotes, but without simply copying and pasting those headnotes directly into the questions. On this basis, the Court went through all 2,830 headnotes individually, and found that there has been actual copying of 2,243 of them.

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 2, 2024

Law firm sues competitor over copied brief, pirate site closure was exaggerated, and a horror game based on Steamboat Willie is announced. The post 3 Count: Scary Mouse appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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JD Supra Law

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

In a highly watched copyright case, a federal district court has ruled that an AI companys unauthorized copying and use of original case annotations and editorial content from a leading legal research platform to train and develop a competing legal research tool runs afoul of U.S. copyright law. Ross Intelligence Inc.,

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 18, 2022

million ($3 million) acquiring a physical copy of the book Jodorowsky’s Dune. With previous ones selling for around €25,000 ($28,000), their copy cost more than 100 times the going rate. Many copies of the book are already easy to access just through a simple search. Last year, the group spent €2.66

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Through our modern lens, this kind of copying can seem insane. Ethically, this type of copying would be seen as plagiarism and the creators would be treated accordingly, especially given that some of the images were traced. These days, comic artists and comic fans do not tolerate this kind of copying. Where We Are Today.

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Plagiarism Today

JULY 10, 2024

Nexon, developers of The First Descendent, are accused of copying icons from Destiny 2. However, the story is more complicated. The post Copyright, Trademark and Plagiarism in Icons appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Founded by the Piratbyrån group, The Pirate Bay and its founders embraced the power of the new BitTorrent technology: to copy culture en masse. Pirating ‘The Pirate Bay’ Series Soon after the first two episodes of The Pirate Bay series came out, scene release copies started circulating online. As one would expect.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 20, 2022

On one hand, unattributed copying is rampant, widely accepted and even necessary. Much of what lawyers write have only one or two ways that they can correctly be written, thus it’s common to copy the works of others, especially from one’s own firm or their past work. While cases like this one are rare, they do happen.

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 24, 2024

In September, Games Workshop filed 12 claims against a user offering copied 3D models online. Now the user is finally shutting down. The post Printed Minis and the Power of the Copyright Claims Board appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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Plagiarism Today

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Zack Nelson, the man behind JerryRigEverything, claims that Casetify copied his and dbrand's work. And he has significant proof. The post Understanding The JerryRigEverything/Casetify Copyright Battle appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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Plagiarism Today

JUNE 21, 2022

The similarities included both scenes and ideas that were rewritten, as well as lengthy passages of text that were copied either verbatim or near-verbatim. Hughes, for his part, apologized for the copying. He claimed that it didn’t matter if he copied, it mattered if he did something new and meaningful with it.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

The MPA lists six domains in total; sflix.to, sflix.se, and sflix.is, plus myflixerz.to, myflixertv.to, and myflixer.today, noting that these domains shared pirated copies of many films including “Shazam!”, “Jumanji: The Next Level” and “Top Gun: Maverick”. After a careful review, IPOPHL decided to grant both requests.

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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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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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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 28, 2024

When films are released on streaming platforms, they are copied and shared online almost immediately. Since the early 2000s, leaked copies of Oscar ‘screeners’ would circulate on pirate sites at the end of the year. There’s one type of piracy that’s particularly concerning, however. The problem isn’t new.

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JD Supra Law

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

The Second Circuit recently decided Structured Asset Sales, LLC v. Edward Christopher Sheeran, considering whether Sheeran’s hit song “Thinking Out Loud” infringed the copyright of Marvin Gaye’s 1973 classic “Let’s Get It On.”

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Plagiarism Today

MAY 3, 2023

However, when he got his copy, he saw something was removed. Fantasy artist Jeff Easley recently created a print for the upcoming D&D film. The post The Case of the D&D Poster and the Missing Signature appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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Copyright Lately

JANUARY 26, 2025

The long-running case, which wrapped Friday in Riverside, California, centered on allegations that Apple TV+s Servant was a “wholesale copy” of Francesca Gregorinis 2013 indie film, The Truth About Emanuel (read my trial preview here). While access alone isnt sufficient, without it, similarities cant be the result of copying.

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Plagiarism Today

APRIL 25, 2023

TikToker and Singaporean essay tutor Brooke Lim is facing allegations of plagiarism after her most recent essay featured copied text. The post Celebrity TikTok Essay Expert Accused of Plagiarism appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 26, 2025

The figure was based on more than 600,000 copies of the software allegedly installed by the Navy, multiplied by the negotiated $370 license per install, minus a 30% discount. The Federal Circuit affirmed the damages figure, noting that the law does not require every award of copyright damages to be on a per-copy basis.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 11, 2025

The authors previously alleged that Meta shared copies of pirated books with third-parties when it downloaded shadow library data via BitTorrent. Because seeding typically refers to the state where a BitTorrent user has a complete copy of the downloaded files, the rightsholders became interested in Metas leeching activity.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 31, 2022

Any time you do copy and paste outside material into your writing, quote and cite it immediately. Contrary to what many believe, plagiarism doesn’t just cover the copying of words without attribution. Copying ideas, concepts and facts without citation can, just as easily, lead to allegations of plagiarism.

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Plagiarism Today

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

They further claimed that the Disney songwriters, Richard and Robert Sherman, gained access to their version of the song either from a club where Parker used to perform at , including their version of the song, or via a copy they sent to Disney. As with most such cases, their belief that they were copied is, most likely, completely genuine.

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Plagiarism Today

APRIL 19, 2022

Though the company provides traditional copy-and-paste plagiarism detection, the service aims to detect the “voice” of the author and the meaning of their text, hunting for sources that may match it too closely, even if the text itself isn’t duplicated. The Need for Smart Plagiarism Detection. Expanding the Usefulness. Bottom Line.

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Plagiarism Today

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Publications are certainly free to copy the releases wholesale, and some do, but the more typical misuse is copying and pasting text from the press release and mixing it with original content, all the while not acknowledging the source. Image from James Stephanie Sterling’s video. Inevitably, some are going to take shortcuts.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

In the lawsuit, Pearson alleges that Chegg, through the use of thousands of freelancers, provides answers to questions found in textbooks it publishes and, in doing so, often copies the question verbatim or with slight paraphrasing. As a result, Pearson is suing Chegg alleging copyright infringement.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Many of the details were previously sealed, but unsealed copies added to the docket yesterday reveal new information. — A copy of all relevant documents referenced here are available though Free.law’s Courtlistener From: TF , for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more. The request was denied. copyright law.

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Plagiarism Today

JUNE 2, 2022

According to the right of first sale, rightsholders have the right to sell a physical copy the first time. However, any owner of a legally obtained copy is free to sell, rent or distribute that copy as they see fit as long as no new copies are made.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Alleged FMovies ‘Accomplice’ Nguyen Tuan Anh (Credit: police video) It’s claimed he was responsible for illegally copying around 50,000 films and posting them to FMovies and its ‘sister’ websites. In many cases, this violated MPA members’ rights. Commercial Scale Offending?

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Hugh Stephens Blog

JANUARY 7, 2024

Image: Shutterstock There has been lots of ink spilled over the issue of Artificial Intelligence (AI) developers free riding on the backs of creators by copying and ingesting their content without permission to produce AI “created” content, output that sometimes competes directly in the market with the original work.

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IP Watchdog

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Assessing arguments made by a co-rightsholder to Marvin Gaye’s 1973 single “Let’s Get It On,” the Second Circuit found that the district court properly limited the scope of the infringement allegations to Gaye’s sheet music deposit copy filed at the U.S.

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Plagiarism Today

JUNE 8, 2022

However, according to an investigation by The Mercury News , roughly one-fifth of the book was copied from a variety of online sources. Roughly half of the copied paragraphs did not contain footnotes, and none of the paragraphs indicated that the text was quoted. However, I have not been asked about this case as of this writing.

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