TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 3, 2023

Over the past several years, a wave of copyright infringement lawsuits has targeted alleged cheaters and cheat makers. In July, the game company submitted motions for summary judgment to resolve the copyright infringement dispute before trial. Instead, a jury would have to decide.

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Plagiarism Today

MAY 17, 2022

The system would scan the internet for potential infringements, inform artists of any that are detected, and allow the artist to file takedown notices of any works they felt were infringing. This is mirrored by an ongoing crash in regular crypto markets , that’s seen many of the currencies lose significant portions of their value.

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The IP Law Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Ross Intelligence Inc will provide guidance for similar AI training/copyright infringement cases and, as a bonus, it provides a bit of clarity (or muddies the waters… depending on your point of view) in the application of a post-Warhol fair use defense. These are the basic facts underlying this lawsuit.

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The IP Law Blog

MARCH 2, 2023

According to Getty Images, Stability copied Getty’s photographs with associated text and metadata to train its Stable Diffusion model, which uses AI to generate computer-synthesized images in response to text prompts. According to Getty, this is clear copyright infringement.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

With the NFT craze reaching new heights, Quentin Tarantino finds himself at the receiving end of a copyright infringement battle. Movie studio Miramax, which owns most of the rights to the film, sees it as a contract breach and copyright infringement.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

The blog post in question was written by Rebecca Marsh, the bank’s Vice President of Marketing & Communications. Marsh’s use of the photo is a clear example of copyright infringement. “Innocent Infringement” Backstory. . “Innocent Infringement” Backstory.

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IPilogue

MAY 26, 2022

Moten, a Texas pastor, filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against rapper Kanye West for incorporating a sample recording of his religious sermon into one of his songs. A grant of permission may accompany a written agreement to compensate the copyright holder through either a flat fee or royalty payments.

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JD Supra Law

AUGUST 5, 2021

Author Denise Shull lost her challenge to the Showtime television show Billions, which she claims copied the character bearing her name in Shull’s book Market Mind Games: A Radical Psychology of Investing, Trading and Risk.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 4, 2022

Despite a reported development and marketing budget in excess of $100m, Genshin Impact is free to play but is monetized via gacha game mechanics. This is the type of behavior that has attracted copyright infringement lawsuits in the past but in this case, the makers of Genshin XYZ are using copyright law to prevent piracy of their product.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 3, 2024

These were used as part of a marketing campaign by Tesco to indicate to customers which products were subject to discounted prices for Clubcard holders. On infringement, the judge found that the similarities were sufficiently close to be more likely a result of copying than coincidence and so it was for Tesco to explain those similarities.

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Copyright Lately

JULY 8, 2023

But number 1 when it comes to number 2 is a new copyright infringement lawsuit filed this week over a jigsaw puzzle called “101 Pooping Puppies.” But these puzzles are apparently popular gag gifts and UT Brands’ success soon spurred competitors to enter the pooping puppies puzzle market.

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LexBlog IP

JUNE 26, 2023

. (“JSC”) against Trendily Furniture, LLC, Trendily Home Collection, and Raul Malhotra (collectively, “Trendily”) finding Trendily liable for trade dress infringement for willfully copying, manufacturing, and selling identical JSC furniture pieces. Trade dress is not intrinsically protectable. Trendily appealed.

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JIPL Online

MARCH 15, 2021

With more content comes the increased possibility that Netflix is engaging in copyright infringement and on the receiving end of copyright infringement claims. [1] 1] This blog will briefly summarize a few of the notable copyright infringement cases Netflix has defended against in the United States.

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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.” Defendants allegedly marketed the My Avastars dolls with a “code” that could be used in the Roblox platform. And defendants’ dolls were “virtually identical” in shape to Roblox’s avatars.

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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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TorrentFreak

JULY 28, 2021

According to the plaintiffs, these people operate, oversee or participate in Ring-1, an operation that develops, distributes and markets a range of cheats for Destiny 2 and Rainbow Six Seige, among others. Copyright Infringement Offenses. Ring-1 is said to largely operate from Ring-1.io 1201(a)(2)).

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 19, 2024

and Morford sued him for copyright infringement. The works at issue (Morford’s on the left, Cattelan’s on the right): I could teach an entire semester’s Copyright class around this one case. It seems more likely that Cattelan heard the idea and decided to riff on it–something copyright law permits.

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LexBlog IP

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Ross Intelligence Inc will provide guidance for similar AI training/copyright infringement cases and, as a bonus, it provides a bit of clarity (or muddies the waters… depending on your point of view) in the application of a post-Warhol fair use defense. The first factor assesses whether the use is ‘transformative.'”

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LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Let’s suppose that you have not registered your copyright in a book with the U.S. Copyright Office and you find someone has infringed your copyright by copying substantial portions of your book. Can you prove that a license to produce the portions of your book has a fair market value for actual damages?

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 11, 2024

Authors Sue NVIDIA for Copyright Infringement On Friday, American authors Abdi Nazemian , Brian Keene , and Stewart O’Nan joined the barrage of legal action with a copyright infringement lawsuit against NVIDIA. “NVIDIA has admitted training its NeMo Megatron models on a copy of The Pile dataset.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

JULY 7, 2024

CIR alleges that the big corporations OpenAI and Microsoft have used, copied, abridged, and displayed the contents of CIR to train ChatGPT without obtaining permission or providing any compensation. The copyrighted material created by CIR was used to train the AI ChatGPT without acknowledging and respecting the Copyright.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 24, 2024

Two Targets, Two Lawsuits The RIAA announced not one, but two copyright infringement lawsuits on Monday, filed against two of the most impressive services in the generative AI music market. Udio owner Unchartered Labs was sued in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York, while Suno, Inc.

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 2, 2023

According to Getty Images, Stability copied Getty’s photographs with associated text and metadata to train its Stable Diffusion model, which uses AI to generate computer-synthesized images in response to text prompts. According to Getty, this is clear copyright infringement.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 14, 2022

On the flip side, today’s interconnected world has the ability to transform leaks into powerful advertising and hype, keeping message boards and social media alive with discussion of exciting new products, at zero cost to official marketing teams.

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IPilogue

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

On the other hand, Warhol’s great commercial success was the choice of the market. If Goldsmith wins, the Warhol Foundation will probably face floods of litigations after years of diligent copying and printing by Warhol. A great imbalance in power and wealth exists between the two parties in this case.

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Plagiarism Today

DECEMBER 6, 2022

ThFord argued that Freeplay’s name and marketing were deliberately confusing, but ultimately opted to settle the case. 2: UK Judge Delivers Mixed Ruling on Copyright Infringement in the Famous Love Story that Inspired Doctor Zhivago. 3: NitroTV Hit with $51m Piracy Damages.

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SpicyIP

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Image from here Hachette Book Group v Internet Archive: Archiving Access to Information or Strengthening Copyright Laws? By Tanishka Goswami Providing advantages of accessibility, affordability, and shareability among others, the swiftly expanding market for e-books stands at $17.20 billion today, only to grow manifold.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 18, 2024

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. A Napster Moment?

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 23, 2024

The organization literally archives key parts of the Internet, copying older versions of websites to preserve them for future generations. The organization doesn’t license authorized digital copies from publishers; instead, its books are scanned and digitized in-house. IA has plenty of other archive projects too.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 11, 2022

1: Microsoft Sues “Black Market” Software Distributor for TM and Copyright Infringement. First off today, Christina Tabacco at Law Street reports that Microsoft has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against The Search People Enterprises over allegations that the company distributed pirated copies of Microsoft products.

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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. They develop, market and sell statistical process control (SPC) software and gauge management software.

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LexBlog IP

JULY 24, 2023

The lawsuits, filed in San Francisco federal court, highlight the legal challenges faced by developers of chat bots who rely on copyrighted material to create realistic responses. Google’s commercial nature and profit motivation do not justify denial of fair use.”

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Patently-O

JANUARY 4, 2024

2024) A recent copyright infringement lawsuit filed by small Boston intellectual property boutique Hsuanyeh Law Group PC (HLG) against international giant Winston & Strawn LLP focuses a dividing line that can highlight when copying the work of another firm is permissible. Hsuanyeh Law Group v.

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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. Int’l Com.

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LexBlog IP

AUGUST 11, 2021

In this case, Google copied 37 Java API packages and wrote its own implementation code underlying those API packages for use by developers on its Android operating system. Oracle filed a lawsuit against Google, claiming that by copying the 37 APIs, Google infringed Oracle’s copyrights in that code.

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Traverse Legal Blog

MARCH 3, 2021

There is an increasing number of brands, talent agencies, and influencers looking to leverage influencer marketing. Celebrities, Influencers, Talent Agents, Marketing Agencies & Brands. We represent agencies, marketing agencies trying to line up influencer campaigns for their clients, for brands.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Earlier this year Texas-based model Deniece Waidhofer sued Thothub for copyright infringement after the site’s users posted many of her ‘exclusive’ photos. While Cloudflare isn’t new to copyright infringement allegations, this case has proven to be more than a nuisance.

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