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. As a result, Github honored the takedown request on broader copyright infringement grounds and disabled the repository, which probably satisfied the cheat makers.

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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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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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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 21, 2024

While that may be the case, Webtoon’s first quarterly earnings report on August 8 wasn’t well received. This was a disappointment to many investors and the stock price fell by more than 40%, ‘evaporating’ a billion dollars in market cap. A copy of the signed DMCA subpoena can be found here (pdf).

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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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IPilogue

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

On the other hand, Warhol’s great commercial success was the choice of the market. The Warhol Foundation plans to appeal the ruling, according to an Artnet News report. If Goldsmith wins, the Warhol Foundation will probably face floods of litigations after years of diligent copying and printing by Warhol.

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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. Under the fair use doctrine of the U.S. Google’s commercial nature and profit motivation do not justify denial of fair use.”

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Plagiarism Today

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

First off today, Will Nelson at NME reports that video game modders are fighting back against a lawsuit filed by Rockstar Games claiming that their fan-created mods are a fair use, not a copyright infringement. The outcome of the case was welcomed by local copyright holders in the country.

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Plagiarism Today

JULY 25, 2022

1: Ninth Circuit Boosts Efforts to Sue Overseas Copyright Infringers. First off today, Edvard Pettersson at Courthouse News Service reports that the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has revived a copyright infringement lawsuit that was filed against the Vietnamese company VNG Group.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 18, 2023

The efficacy of the DMCA takedown process is open for debate, but it certainly doesn’t help when companies flag legal websites as copyright-infringing. It lists a few hundred URLs that allegedly point to pirated copies of titles such as DAHMER, Cable Girls, Cursed, and Bridgerton. This is exactly what happened recently.

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 19, 2022

1: Government Pauses Plans to Rewrite UK Copyright Laws After Authors Protest. Without this rule, many authors fear the UK market would be flooded with cheaper international copies. The IPO has said that it will continue evaluating potential changes to copyright law but did not set a timetable.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 7, 2024

Aside from addressing copyright infringements in an automated fashion, the Content ID system brings in billions of dollars in revenue. Many rightsholders choose to monetize copyright-infringing videos instead of taking them down, which can be quite lucrative. WebKyte is certainly not a newcomer to the copyright scene.

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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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Plagiarism Today

MAY 11, 2022

Josh Hawley’s Move to Strip Disney’s Copyrights Called ‘Blatantly Unconstitutional’. He claims that it aims to revoke Disney’s “special” copyright protections though the law would rewrite copyright law for all creators. Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday.

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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. Copyright Complaint Targets Just One Video.

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Velocity of Content

MARCH 1, 2023

From research to medical communications to legal to marketing, sharing content with colleagues across job roles and departments is critical. s Information Seeking and Consumption Study, commissioned by CCC, is that executives share the most content and have the highest likelihood of copyright infringement.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

The decision is being appealed by Cox, but it set the stage for similar lawsuits, including a new complaint reported just yesterday targeting AT&T. Hundreds of Thousands of Infringements. In some cases, infringement notices weren’t even forwarded to the allegedly-infringing subscribers, the plaintiffs add.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 4, 2024

For good measure, they also marketed them as such. “The reported repositories offer and provide access to unauthorized copies of cryptographic keys that are used to circumvent Nintendo’s Technological Measures and infringe Nintendo’s intellectual property rights. .

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

1: The Weeknd Sued for Copyright Infringement Over ‘Call Out My Name’. First off today, Justin Curto at Vulture reports that The Weeknd has been hit with a copyright lawsuit over his song Call Out My Name. 3: Twitch Will Warn Streamers About Copyright Issues After New Music Deal. million and an additional $1.65

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 30, 2023

Authors Sue OpenAI for Copyright Infringement This week, authors Paul Tremblay and Mona Awad filed a class action lawsuit against OpenAI, accusing ChatGPT’s parent company of copyright infringement and violating the DMCA, among other things. Congress recently stating that it doesn’t plan to overreact.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Publishers Share IPFS Concerns This week, IPFS was repeatedly mentioned by the Association of American Publishers ( AAP ) in its overview of the most notorious piracy markets submitted to the U.S. Most gateways accept copyright infringement notices. Trade Representative. Perhaps these will also pose a problem some day.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 29, 2021

The “repeat infringer” issue remains a hot topic in US courts after rightsholders filed lawsuits against several ISPs. These Internet providers are accused of not doing enough to stop copyright infringers on their networks, even after receiving multiple ‘copyright infringement’ notifications.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 5, 2024

Pressure Increases on Players in the Illicit Market In common with its counterparts in Europe, Sweden had already been paying more attention to those involved in the supply and sale of pirate IPTV subscriptions. The verdict as reported suggests that the conditional sentence and 100 day fines stands. In this case, already four years.

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Velocity of Content

APRIL 12, 2023

Half of all respondents reported a hybrid work arrangement; 30% an exclusively remote arrangement; and 20% reported being entirely on-site. To put that in perspective, 60% of employees reported working entirely on-site in 2019. Across job roles and verticals, employees reported that weekly access to at least 7.5

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 8, 2022

After gaining serious momentum over the past seven years, the pirate IPTV phenomenon is now a major challenge for the entire audiovisual entertainment market. While at times unpredictable, pirate subscriptions are now viewed as a credible market alternative. And when cost enters the equation, there can only be one winner.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Simply responding to takedown notices isn’t sufficient for all rightsholders, some of which mentioned Meta’s companies as potential “notorious markets” in recent recommendations to the U.S. Meta Rebuts Notorious Markets Claims Meta is not happy with this and this week the company responded with a rebuttal.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 15, 2023

This ranges from complex existential worries to concerns about AI-related copyright infringement, which is already widespread. Tthese copyright concerns will be discussed next month at a meeting of WIPO’s Advisory Committee on Enforcement, where several stakeholders will present their thoughts.

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SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

In a recent post , Divij discussed the use of copyright infringement claims by Aaj Tak against the independent media platform, Newslaundry. The videos in relation to which the copyright claims were made contained clips from videos of Aaj Tak’s reporting and as per Newslaundry were used to critique Aaj Tak’s reporting on certain issues.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 15, 2022

A few years ago, Advanced TV Network (ATN) was a dominant player in the Swedish IPTV market. Two years later, the Stockholm Patent and Market Court found several people connected to the company guilty of copyright infringement and the unauthorized decoding of broadcast signals. No Prison, No Copyright Damages.

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Velocity of Content

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Unfortunately, from growing startups to established global companies, we hear all the time from organizations whose teams are not fully aware of how copyright applies to the content they rely on to accomplish their respective goals.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Earlier this month, several copyright holder groups sent their annual “Notorious Markets” recommendations to the U.S. The American web security and infrastructure provider can’t be officially listed in the final report since it’s not a foreign company. Trade Representative (USTR). There are also more direct options.

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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. This leads to the question of whether the alleged conduct of the defendants affected the market for those games and if so, in what way.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 11, 2024

The debate over whether copyright infringement cannibalizes legitimate media consumption has been dragging on for several decades now. The issue has been researched extensively with both positive and negative effects being reported, varying based on the type of content and the ‘piracy’ source, among other variables.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 19, 2021

Last June, publishers Hachette, HarperCollins, John Wiley and Penguin Random House sued the Internet Archive for copyright infringement , describing its ‘Open Library’ as operating like a pirate site. In parallel, IA believes its liability is limited due to the safe harbor provisions of the DMCA.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Russia began cracking down on VPNs in 2017 to help deter copyright infringement. “This is an obvious trade barrier and real threat to the free market,” ACT writes in its letter to the USTR. Unlike in Russia, China’s anti-VPN stance has little to do with copyright infringement. ” China Too.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 30, 2021

Every year, major copyright industry groups compile their lists of the most notorious pirate sites, which are publicly reported to the US Trade Representative ( USTR ). PopAds generates advertising revenue for copyright infringing sites including gomovies123.org, The advertising company points to its DMCA reporting tool.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 5, 2024

South American news site Hollogram TV informs TF that their copyright complaint problems relate to just two URLs, but the consequences for them could be much more severe. Streaming News and Reviews Reaching out to a South American audience, Hollogram TV launched in 2019 and today covers all aspects of the streaming market.

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