IP and Legal Filings

MAY 1, 2023

According to Section 14 of the Copyright Act of 1957 , copyright is the exclusive right to perform or authorise the performance of any of the following acts in relation to a work or any significant portion thereof: Any kind of reproduction is permitted, including saving the work in any format.

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IP and Legal Filings

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Introduction An artist’s ideas, be it for a renowned painting, sculpture, novel, technological design, jewelryor fashion are his own. However, many a times, we witness these designs being copied or recreated. A copyright protection is the ability of a designer to protect his original designs through the copyright laws.

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The IPKat

JUNE 17, 2023

The one above is the question that a Florida judge (Robert N Scola, Jr) answered just a few days ago (Case 1:21-cv-20039-RNS) after fellow artist Joe Morford had gone – quite literally – bananas and sued Cattelan for copyright infringement. The notion of ‘substantial taking’ should not be intended in a quantitative sense.

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The IPKat

MARCH 4, 2024

This time, Katfriend Spyridon Sipetas (Stockholm University) tells the story of a collaboration – the one between Jacquemus and Nike – that has been already plagued with accusations of copying. Here’s what Spyridon writes: Jacquemus x Nike Swoosh Bag: ‘Just Copy It’ or re-appropriation of Nike’s own trade mark?

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Plagiarism Today

MAY 23, 2022

Mange, who has nearly 4 million followers, pointed out the copying in a video comparing the two works. This kicked off a firestorm of controversy in China, with Audi, M&C and Lau all apologizing for the copying. All these systems are remarkable feats of technology and have helped shape our understanding of copying.

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IP Law 360

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

The owner of the Naked Wolfe brand has accused two online footwear retailers of design and copyright infringement, alleging that they "slavishly copied" its chunky boot designs.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 24, 2022

2: Dracula vs. Nosferatu: A True Copyright Horror Story. However, due to a copyright infringement lawsuit filed by the widow of Bram Stoker, Florence Stoker, the movie almost didn’t survive at all. This prompted Florence Stoker to sue, a case she won handily with an order that all copies of the film be destroyed.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

First off today, The Fashion Law reports that trainer Megan Roup has filed for the dismissal of a lawsuit filed by fellow trainer Tracy Anderson over allegedly copyright-infringing exercise routines. Anderson filed the lawsuit against Roup saying that Roup had copied several exercise routines that Anderson had created.

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IP and Legal Filings

APRIL 24, 2023

The Designs Act, 2000 (“the Act”), is a complete code in itself and protection under it is totally statutory in nature. It protects the visual design of objects that are not purely utilitarian. Designs are registered in different classes as per the Locarno Agreement. These classes are mainly function oriented.

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Copyright Lately

OCTOBER 24, 2022

The letter claimed that the director, an ad agency, and a popular theme park had all committed copyright infringement because a panda appeared in the background of their TV commercial. But if they appear on film without permission, even fleetingly, they could prompt a copyright infringement lawsuit.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 23, 2022

To that end, NFTs have long been heralded as a great solution for transferring copyright in a simple, elegant way. However, NFTs were never designed for this purpose. This is an especially large problem for photographers and visual artists, whose works are trivially copied and reshared. But that shouldn’t be a big deal.

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Plagiarism Today

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Though the Navy had purchased some 38 copies, it ended up installing it on more than 550,000 machines. The alleged offenses include violations of the Copyrights, Designs and Patents Act as well as conspiracy to defraud and money laundering. It is unclear what punishment the individual faces if they are convicted.

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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

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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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Popular CDN and DDoS protection service Cloudflare has come under a lot of pressure from copyright holders in recent years. The company offers its services to millions of sites, some of which provide access to copyright-infringing material. This makes Cloudflare liable for the associated copyright infringements, they said.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JULY 11, 2022

The defendants did not seek approval from the claimant in relation to the OFDE and, as a result, in 2019 the claimant sued the defendants for copyright infringement and passing off. This is the first time that a fictional character has been found to be protected in the UK as a copyright work. The Infringement.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 23, 2022

2: Bungie’s Copyright Infringement Claims Against AimJunkies ‘Insiders’ Can Continue. AimJunkies continues to argue that the development of cheat software is not an infringement of copyright, though Bungie made claims that code was copied for the purpose of creating the software.

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43(B)log

JULY 3, 2024

28, 2024) The court tosses out most of an independent fashion designer’s claims against LVMH, while preserving one copyright infringement claim based on a distorted checkerboard pattern. Ultimately, the fashion conglomerate did not make time to meet with the designer or decide to work with her. 22-3742 (E.D.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Though it’s impossible to know where the source actually is, Ghanaian rapper M.anifest posted the image on Twitter two weeks prior, and it’s likely that too was a copy from somewhere else. Whether by design or by accident, by not rewarding original content is making it so that the most popular and visible content is unoriginal.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 21, 2022

According to the claim, the defendants allegedly used copyright-infringing fairy wing designs in several photos that were shared on social media. “My own photos of my design were used in image edits and displayed on 11:11 Digital / Paris Hilton’s social media accounts without my permission.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JANUARY 16, 2024

LLaMA is a large language model in the form of an AI software program designed to emit convincingly naturalistic text outputs in response to user prompts. Rather than being programmed in the traditional way, a large language model is “trained” by copying massive amounts of text and extracting information from it.

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Copyright Lately

JANUARY 23, 2024

A federal jury is set to decide whether celebrity tattoo artist Kat Von D infringed photographer Jeff Sedlik’s copyright in a Miles Davis portrait by tattooing the image onto her client’s body. A first-of-its-kind copyright infringement trial is scheduled to begin today in Los Angeles.

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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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IP Law 360

JANUARY 10, 2024

A Los Angeles-based designer is accusing Spirit Halloween of copyright infringement in a suit claiming that the country's largest Halloween retailer willfully made and sold unauthorized copies of her original "Spooky All Year" ghost pins.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 27, 2021

However, that is just the latest in a decade-long history of discussing copyright, plagiarism and other authorship issues as they pertain to Halloween and horror. So, this year we’re going to take a look back at the various tales of copyright infringement and/or plagiarism that we’ve looked at over the years.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 10, 2022

Then, in early December, companies including Paramount, Universal, Warner, Columbia, Disney and Netflix filed a full-blown copyright infringement lawsuit against the alleged operators of the site including moderators Dev_Team, Silverrain, Fugitive, and drodman250. A copy of the preliminary injunction can be found here (pdf).

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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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The IPKat

JANUARY 30, 2024

This Kat has found a recent decision issued by the Paris Court of Appeal in a dispute over the allegedly unlawful reproduction of a t-shirt design. This ruling was an opportunity for the court to reiterate that a garment can be protected by copyright and design law. Consequently, no copyright infringement could be found.

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The IP Law Blog

MARCH 14, 2024

In 2023, several authors, including the comedian Sarah Silverman, filed putative class action lawsuits alleging various copyright infringement claims. The OpenAI defendants moved to dismiss all causes of action alleged by the author plaintiffs with the exception of the first cause of action for direct copyright infringement. (It

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

In all cases, whether on physical cartridges or supplied as digital downloads, Switch games contain security measures designed to prevent copying or being run on unauthorized devices. “Only because Yuzu decrypts a Nintendo Switch game file dynamically during operation can the game be played in Yuzu. .

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43(B)log

AUGUST 26, 2021

5, 2021) The plaintiff benefits from very generous treatment of its false designation and copyright claims, in the process stripping false designation of anything other than a prohibition on copying/vitiating both Wal-Mart and Dastar. 2021 WL 1253803, No. 20-cv-06957-VKD (N.D. The court agreed!

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IPilogue

OCTOBER 4, 2024

His chapter probes the future of copyright law, attempting to turn the focus of copyright to collaborative authorship. This move, Dagne argues, could respond to demands for the fair allocation of rights between digital workers, as authors or joint authors in some cases, and AI designers as exploiters of digital works.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 13, 2022

Over the past few years, we have seen copyright holders take several ISPs to court, accusing them of failing to disconnect repeat copyright infringers. In one of these cases, the filmmakers accused Torguard of being involved in widespread copyright infringement. Filmmakers sued Torguard. Settlement & U.S.

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LexBlog IP

JUNE 26, 2023

The court concluded that JSC’s unique designs acquired secondary meaning in the eyes of consumers in the furniture market, particularly because of Trendily’s copying, and possessed protectable trade dress. JSC designs high-end furniture hand-crafted by woodworkers in Indonesia.

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The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 4, 2022

The copy was subsequently removed from the NGO’s website at Safarov’s request. The ECtHR then reviewed national law and found that none of the copyright exceptions available therein, notably those considered by the national courts (private copying, and libraries and archives) in the background proceedings, would be applicable.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Within days, stock image supplier Getty Images announced that it was one of the “folks” who disagreed – and disagreed so strongly that it had commenced legal proceedings in the High Court in London alleging copyright infringement. What is AI image generation software?

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TorrentFreak

JULY 21, 2022

Massive, Rampant Copyright Infringement. “Defendant Meta is not merely aware of this infringement. . “Defendant Meta is not merely aware of this infringement. It has actively infringed, as well as participated in, encouraged and enabled such infringement.” Copyright Infringment Claims.

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