TorrentFreak

MAY 17, 2022

Even if rightsholders could obtain the IP address or even a name of an alleged streaming pirate, they would have to prove that the person in question is actually engaged in copyright infringement. Not Clear Whether Streaming is Infringing. No Lasting Copy. That’s easier said than done.

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

The Court has granted summary judgment in respect of 2,830 headnotes belonging to Thomson Reuters and admittedly used by Ross Intelligence to train its Natural Language Processing and Artificial Enabled Legal Research tool, finding Direct Copyright Infringement and rejecting fair use. But, first, Some History!

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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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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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TorrentFreak

MARCH 21, 2023

In 2020, publishers Hachette, HarperCollins, John Wiley and Penguin Random House sued the Internet Archive (IA) for copyright infringement, equating its ‘Open Library’ to a pirate site. Staying true to the centuries-old library concept, only one patron at a time can get a copy. Mass Copyright Infringement or Fair Use?

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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. So while the ruling is definitely worth noting, it’s also not worth making too large of a deal about it.

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IP Tech Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Instagram, filed a complaint in the Northern District of California seeking class-wide relief against Instagram for inducing copyright infringement and for contributory copyright infringement and vicarious copyright infringement. In contrast, Sinclair and another case last year, McGucken v.

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IP and Legal Filings

MARCH 7, 2022

A person who is fully aware of an existing copyright, and chooses to infringe or abets to do the same, could be held liable for copyright infringement, which can incur criminal charges, and in order to find the cognizability of the same, Schedule I of the CrPC needs to be looked into. THE CONUNDRUM. JUDGEMENTS.

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SpicyIP

MARCH 11, 2025

Interestingly, the civil suit has been disposed of by the Madras High Court, holding that there is no copyright infringement, and the proceedings in the criminal case have been stayed. The Court was of the opinion that Tamilnadan failed to prove copyright infringement. But it may not be copyright infringement.

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JIPL Online

APRIL 9, 2021

In particular, it explores why copyright of a meme’s underlying content does not matter in a normative sense. In this blog I argue that copyright protection of the content underlying memes does not matter because of the relative weakness of enforcement mechanisms for copyright infringement of this scale. 511, 523 (2012).

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

The company demanded damages under copyright law claiming that the team “willfully and maliciously” copied, adapted and distributed its source code and other content without permission. Take-Two also demanded damages for alleged misrepresentations in the defendants’ DMCA counternotices.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 24, 2021

In April 2020, a coalition of entertainment companies headed up by Universal, Paramount, Columbia, Disney and Amazon filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against the operators of ‘pirate’ IPTV service Nitro TV. channels, which are only possible to offer after content is copied and stored, contrary to copyright law.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 5, 2023

Fans loved ‘re3’ and ‘reVC’ but Take-Two and Rockstar Games most definitely did not. Take-Two Files Copyright Lawsuit In September 2021, Take-Two filed a lawsuit against the programmers, claiming that the aim of the projects was to create and distribute pirated versions of GTA 3 and Vice City.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 6, 2024

In a lawsuit filed at a federal court in Nashville last summer, Universal Music, Sony Music, EMI, and others accused X Corp of “breeding” mass copyright infringement. Elon Musk himself had previously added fuel to the smoldering fire, characterizing the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) as a “ plague on humanity ”.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 22, 2024

AimJunkies stated that cheating isn’t against the law and refuted the copyright infringement allegations; these lacked substance and were ungrounded because some of the referenced copyrights were registered well after the cheats were first made available, AimJunkies argued. Instead, a jury would have to decide.

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SpicyIP

APRIL 18, 2025

2025) has addressed an important question: when does a creative work stop being art and become an industrial design outside the realm of copyright? The case arose from Inoxs claim that Cryogas copied proprietary engineering drawings for cryogenic storage tanks (mounted on trailers for transporting liquid gases). Inox India Ltd.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Over the past several years we’ve covered dozens of copyright troll cases against tens of thousands of alleged copyright infringers. The definition of the term ‘copyright troll’ is fluid. Nealy lawsuit, a music copyright case that in itself is unrelated to copyright trolling.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 13, 2023

In 2020, publishers Hachette, HarperCollins, John Wiley and Penguin Random House sued the Internet Archive (IA) for copyright infringement, equating its ‘Open Library’ to a pirate site. Patrons can also borrow books that are scanned and digitized in-house, with technical restrictions that prevent copying.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 23, 2022

In addition, it refuted the copyright infringement allegations; these lacked any substance and were ungrounded because some of the referenced copyrights were registered well after the cheats were first made available. In that process, they are believed to have reverse-engineered the copyrighted game content.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

“Kiwi Farms users provided a Google Drive link to a full copy of Mr. Greer’s book.” Greer sued Moon and Kiwi Farms for contributory copyright infringement and other claims. The district court dismissed the contributory claim because the defendants didn’t materially contribute to the infringement.

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IPilogue

JULY 18, 2022

Last year, Andy Warhol lost an infamous copyright infringement lawsuit against photographer Lynn Goldsmith regarding an image of the pop singer Prince. Copyright Act —whether Warhol’s print is transformative of the original photograph so that it qualifies as fair use. Copyright, in the simplest terms, is “ the right to copy.”

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

In a weird turn, the plaintiffs only pursued a contributory copyright infringement theory against Instagram, where the incorporating websites are the direct infringers and Instagram facilitates their infringement. In-Line Linking May Be Copyright Infringement–Goldman v. Update: I got this cleared up.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

The Copyright Directive does not offer its own definition of an ISSP, referring instead to the one provided by Directive 2015/1535 : it is a service normally provided for remuneration, at a distance, by electronic means, and at the individual request of the recipient of the service. This change was to bring art.

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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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Michael Geist

AUGUST 5, 2021

York University has unsurprisingly been applauded by the education community, which having faced years of litigation launched by the copyright collective, now finds its position vindicated. The decision absolutely does not mean a free-for-all on copyright-protected materials used in the classroom.

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Michael Geist

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Once you get past the rhetoric, the data leaves little doubt that education and libraries are still actively paying for copyright materials through licensing and the claims of mass illegal copying in education in 2023 is a fabrication unsupported by the evidence. This error tainted their analysis of several fairness factors.

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 13, 2023

Copyright infringement and De Minimis are often replaced to complement each other. However, de minimis is sometimes used as a defence in a copyright lawsuit. More often than not, the lawsuits filed for copyright infringement are cases of de minimis and thereto, get dismissed on the anvil of frivolity. INTRODUCTION.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 14, 2022

In the summer of 2020, publishers Hachette, HarperCollins, John Wiley and Penguin Random House filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Internet Archive (IA). By definition, any lending is controlled and the library simply provides a digital alternative to physical libraries. Publishers: IA’s Use is Not Fair.

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Copyright Lately

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

Website owner Wilmott Storage Services learned that first hand last week when the Ninth Circuit held that an image stored on a largely inaccessible web folder wasn’t protected by the “de minimis defense” to copyright infringement. He found that a copy was located in a VisitUSA database folder. The Ruling.

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Copyright Lately

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

Atari’s copyright infringement lawsuit against State Farm advances, underscoring the importance of careful clearance in advertising. On Friday, a Texas federal judge dismissed much of the case but kept Atari’s core copyright infringement claim in play.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 21, 2022

One of the key questions for the CJEU is whether online streaming services are liable for copyright infringement if their subscribers use VPN services to bypass geo-blocking efforts. As such, they communicate the content to a new public, something that can constitute copyright infringement. Streaming Service Not Liable.

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The IPKat

JUNE 27, 2022

Consequently, the definition of NFTs as “certificate of authenticity” or “certificate of ownership” is not accurate. Ripps has clearly downloaded the digital files of the original BAYC collection, copied and re-used them to create his own RR BAYC collection. Ripps’s collection has sold out in 15 days, producing a revenue of 1,023.03

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

APRIL 6, 2022

While the definition of “Platform” includes “content,” it doesn’t appear to contain “User Content.”. Whether Instagram granted Newsweek an implied sublicense : An implied license exists where someone (1) creates content (2) at another’s request and (3) handed it over, intending the other party copy and distribute it.

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JIPEL Copyright Blog

APRIL 26, 2021

In this case, via alleged copyright infringement. However, an equally long list of controversies accompanies this list of accomplishments, the majority of which involve alleged copying. Nordstrom removed the pieces at issue, and everything seemed to be fine on the copying front—until 2020 hit. The account and its 2.6

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 25, 2021

According to the order, this does not detract from the case, since all of the sites knowingly facilitate access to copyright-infringing content via communications to a “new public” All of the sites are operated on a for-profit basis, so this falls foul of existing rulings too.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 12, 2025

Reappearance of copyright-infringing streams is also more common through Dedicated Server Providers. The lack of definition for other providers could use more context, for example. The notices sent to the remaining category of “other providers” led to suspensions in 8% of cases. “Online platforms have a 7.6%

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

While not necessarily true, the most common answer is: yes, emulators are completely legal but distributing the games (ROMs) is most definitely not, so don’t request them here. It’s not uncommon for people to wander into some corner of the overall emulation scene with a specific question: Are emulators legal?

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