The IP Law Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2021

The Ninth Circuit was recently asked to determine whether to continue to apply the Circuit’s two-part extrinsic/intrinsic test for “substantial similarity” with regard to a copyright infringement claim or to depart from this approach and apply the Second Circuit’s “ordinary observer” test instead. In Johannsongs-Publishing, Ltd.

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Plagiarism Today

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

1: Miramax Hits Tarantino With Copyright Suit on ‘Pulp Fiction’ NFTs. First off today, Samantha Handler at Bloomberg Law reports that the film studio Mirimax has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against director Quentin Tarantino over Tarantino’s plans to release of Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) related to the film Pulp Fiction.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 24, 2024

All five men were convicted of conspiracy to commit criminal copyright infringement. Dallmann was further convicted of two counts of money laundering by concealment and three counts of misdemeanor criminal copyright infringement. One of Dallmann’s objections relates to an episode of the TV show Paradise.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 7, 2021

That, in turn, prompted a counterclaim by Dorland for copyright infringement. The Letter: Doorland accuses Larson of copying her donor letter and including significant portions of it, in particular in early versions of the story. Inspiration is one thing, but copying and rewriting exact words is another.

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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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Copyright Lately

MARCH 16, 2022

How about being liable to your professor for willful copyright infringement damages of up to $300,000? Several students from Chapman University in Orange County California (currently identified only as John Does 1-5) are finding themselves on the receiving end of a copyright infringement lawsuit filed by Assistant Professor David A.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

Bungie Wins Landmark Trial After years of legal back-and-forth, the case went to trial in May, where both sides presented their arguments. AimJunkies, in particular, emphasized that the defendants never accessed or modified any of Destiny 2’s copyrighted game code. The presented evidence supports that, he concludes.

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43(B)log

DECEMBER 14, 2023

61, 2023 Abstract To prove copyright infringement, a plaintiff must convince a jury that the defendant copied from the plaintiff’s work rather than independently creating it. Until that knowledge is available, testimony about the probability of copying should be deemed inadmissible under Federal Rule of Evidence 702.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 5, 2022

In recent years we have seen several lawsuits against ISPs including Charter, Cox, RCN, and Bright House, which are accused of failing to terminate repeat copyright infringers. Under US copyright law, Internet providers must act against persistent pirates “in appropriate circumstances.” Music Industry vs. Bright House.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 19, 2022

The movie company accused the site and its operator of promoting and distributing pirated copies of the movie, demanding to put an end to the activity. With regard to direct copyright infringement, Judge Seabright doesn’t believe that the allegations are plausible. Virtual vs. Physical Presence.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Under the agreement, Internet providers will voluntarily block sites that are deemed to be copyright infringing; no court order needed. MPA Complaint Results in First Blockades In March, the MPA was the first rightsholder representative to file a copyright infringement complaint under the new administrative site blocking rules.

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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

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

APRIL 2, 2024

Online piracy continues to present massive challenges for the entertainment industries. For roughly a quarter-century, rightsholders have sent copyright infringement notices to ISPs, informing them about alleged copyright infringements carried out by subscribers.

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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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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

In both cases, the ISPs are accused of failing to disconnect subscribers who were repeatedly flagged as copyright infringers. The copyright infringement notices are key evidence in both cases. The allegedly infringing files were central to prove direct copyright infringement. Recreated Evidence?

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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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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

OCTOBER 15, 2022

Under US copyright law, Internet providers must terminate the accounts of repeat infringers “in appropriate circumstances.”. Many ISPs have been reluctant to take such drastic measures, which triggered a wave of copyright infringement lawsuits in recent years. Copyright Infringement Claims. DMCA Violations.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 30, 2022

While running a VPN doesn’t equal copyright infringement, the movie companies accused the service of encouraging and facilitating piracy. ‘Popcorn-Time VPN’ The complaint mentioned a variety of examples where the defendants directly or indirectly referenced copyright-infringing activity.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 15, 2023

On the flip side, it also presents several threats. This ranges from complex existential worries to concerns about AI-related copyright infringement, which is already widespread. At the same time, it also presents new challenges. At the moment, UMG doesn’t believe that copyright regulation needs to be updated.

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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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Plagiarism Today

JULY 8, 2021

Users coding in GitHub can be presented blocks of code to solve specific problems that they are trying to solve. She says that text and data mining is not a copyright infringement and that, since an AI cannot produce a copyright-protected work, its output cannot be an infringement.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Copyright Infringement Complaint. ” According to Take-Two, the defendants’ conduct is willful and deliberate since they are well aware that they do not have the necessary rights to copy, adapt or distribute derivative GTA source code or the audiovisual elements of the games. .

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

The groups sent a copy of the UK High Court order to Google, requesting removal of the listed domains. The Electonic Frontier Foundation (EFF), for example, wrote an amicus curiae brief in support of Flvto and 2Conv when they were sued for copyright infringement in the United States. Google Removes YouTube Rippers.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Specifically, they alleged that the company failed to terminate repeat infringers. A Texas federal jury found Grande guilty of willful contributory copyright infringement, and the ISP was ordered to pay $47 million in damages to the record labels. $47 ” Piracy v.s

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

1, 2017 to the present. 1, 2017 to present. 1, 2017 to the present. All social media account usernames used including for Reddit, Twitter and Facebook January 1, 2016 to present. 1, 2016 to the present 6. 1, 2016 to the present 6. All written communications with RCN concerning piracy from Oct.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 13, 2023

However, these stories are easily copied and posted on pirate sites, much to the frustration of READ ASAP, AnyStories’ Singapore-based parent company. There were no copyright infringement allegations against Cloudflare and no request for monetary damages either. ” Refile and Repeat?

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The IPKat

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

What happens when a copyright infringement claim is made against the playwright? The monograph is presented in six chapters. Who receives the credit and the licensing rights? In what circumstances can a director or actor be granted joint-authorship with the writer? And who poses moral rights in the work?

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 15, 2024

The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals confirmed that the ISP was contributorily liable for pirating subscribers, but reversed the vicarious copyright infringement finding. And the key questions presented to the Supreme Court don’t directly involve hospitals in rural areas. ” the petition reads.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

TVkaista Faces Legal Action In advance of TTVK’s letters being sent out, TVkaista’s CEO, technical director, and legal advisor, faced legal action for criminal copyright infringement and aggravated fraud.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 14, 2022

The new information centers around the copyright infringement notices that were sent by MarkMonitor, the anti-piracy outfit that tracked files downloaded by BitTorrent pirates. To confirm that these files were indeed infringing, they were downloaded and verified by Audible Magic’s fingerprinting technology.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 21, 2022

Before it starts, however, both sides have submitted requests for summary judgments, in order to settle crucial matters before they are presented to the jury. ‘Copyright Claims Should be Dismissed’ Bright House requests the court to dismiss the only remaining copyright infringement claim.

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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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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Drawing inspiration from the RIAA’s early efforts to identify music pirates in the early 2000s, they use the DMCA subpoena process to obtain the personal details of suspected copyright infringers. The 81-page petition presents a wide array of arguments. Ultimately, two key questions are presented.

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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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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

The lawsuit accused YouTube of not doing enough to stop people from uploading pirated copies of Vasallo’s content. New copies were constantly uploaded and banned users reportedly returned under new aliases. — A copy of U.S. YouTube also submitted a motion for summary judgment to establish that it does nothing wrong.

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