Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Furthermore, they allege that Reelz has copied many elements from Live PD including the show’s format, the show’s hosts and the same catchphrase to name a few. 2: HC Directs Telegram to Disclose Details of Channels Violating Copyright Law. The lawsuit was filed by songwriters L.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 10, 2023

An interesting feature of copyright law is its tendency to lag behind the times while new technology races ahead and exploits its numerous ‘loopholes’ One of the most famous loopholes was ‘exposed’ when streaming overtook BitTorrent to become the delivery method of choice for millions of video-oriented pirates.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JANUARY 5, 2023

It is a common practice to make copies of deteriorating or far away cultural heritage. As of 2022, it is not even a new idea to use digital methods to copy heritage, considering that the mass digitisation of cultural heritage, especially books, started more than two decades ago. Photo by awsloley via Pixabay.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 7, 2021

In May, Triller filed a lawsuit against the H3 Podcast, claiming that by showing a portion of the Jake Paul vs. Ben Askren fight event on YouTube, the defendants breached the company’s rights. ‘Unlisted’ Video Was a “Bootlegged” Copy. In its opposition, Triller moves directly to the core of its new focus.

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IP and Legal Filings

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Historical lookback The amendment to the existing copyright law act of 1957 was carried out owing to the sensitization of issue of copyright management and revenue sharing structure that is fair and reasonable to all owners and writers of filmed and recorded works. [i] Magic Mantra Vision. [ii] Magic Mantra Vision, CS (OS) NO.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JULY 15, 2021

The Polish Ministry of Culture has announced draft changes to the Polish copyright law on the collection and division of the private copying levy (also known as the blank media tax or levy). Part II looks at the compliance of the draft changes with EU law. million Euro.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 10, 2023

When a video goes viral, thousands of copies are made without permission, even by mainstream news outlets, other licensing companies, and some of the world’s largest copyright businesses. In addition to thousands of smaller accounts, mainstream companies including ESPN also copied the clip, as shown above. Of Course not.

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The IP Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Specifically, copyright protection attaches to the original, creative work when it is fixed in a tangible medium, such as when it is written, drawn, recorded digitally, or typed electronically. Further, only a modicum, or small amount, of creativity is required for copyright protection to attach.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 29, 2023

Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash Welcome to the second trimester of the 2023 round up of EU copyright law! In this series, every three months we update you on what has happened in EU copyright law. You can read the previous round-ups here.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Unauthorized views of UFC events have taken off in recent years. The problem isn’t limited to people who record or stream UFC events on their phones. copyright law, online services are required to “expeditiously” respond to takedown notices if they want to keep their safe harbor protections.

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Velocity of Content

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The culmination of a decades-long effort, and well before the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and Copyright Term Extension Act were passed in 1998, the 1976 Copyright Act ushered in a new era of copyright law in the United States. Nation Enterprises.

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Velocity of Content

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Today is the 45th anniversary of that event. The Copyright Act of 1976 became Public Law number 94-553 on October 19, 1976 and went into effect (as scheduled) as Title 17 of the United States Code on January 1, 1978. The new Copyright Act was the fourth general revision of copyright law since the original Act of 1790.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 1, 2023

In our brave new world where millions of ordinary people are copyright holders of snaps they publish to social media or videos they upload to YouTube, awareness of copyright law is at an all-time high. ” and “Is it copyright if nobody knows I copied a song and changed it so it sounds nothing like the original?

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Taiwan made amendments to copyright law that outlawed piracy-configured devices. With further amendments to copyright law in the pipeline in Taiwan, authorities launced an investigation into the supply of Unblock Tech’s devices in the country. With Hollywood regularly reporting UnblockTech to the U.S. government.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 2, 2022

On April 21, a special event at the WIP contemporary art center in Moscow featured The Batman. The pirated copy – complete with Russian dubbing – was downloaded from an unnamed torrent site. The source for the movie was unofficial, of course. Cinema Industry Condemnation.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

DMCA subpoenas compel service providers, such as Discord, Twitter or Reddit, to hand over information they hold on users identified by rightsholders as copyright infringers. In the event that useful personal information is disclosed to Cognosphere’s legal team, a number of options become available.

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The IPKat

JANUARY 24, 2023

The IPKat has received and is pleased to host the following legislative update on the new Ukrainian Copyright Law from Kateryna Militsyna and Liubov Maidanyk (both Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv). It also once again confirms the strong protection of moral rights in Ukrainian copyright law.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

AUGUST 16, 2021

Welcome to the second trimester of 2021 round up of EU copyright law! In this series, we update readers every three months on developments in EU copyright law. June was a particularly eventful month for the communication to the public right and platform liability. Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash. 682/18 and C ?683/18.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

Parrish Publishes LifeWise’s Children’s Curriculum, LifeWise Sues In the belief that the curriculum contains information supportive of the opposition group’s cause, Parrish obtained a copy of the closely-guarded documents and, in the public interest, posted them publicly online.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 24, 2021

channels, which are only possible to offer after content is copied and stored, contrary to copyright law. In keeping with its usual strategy, DISH also wants to take control of all hard copy and electronic records relating to Nitro TV. The main focus of the lawsuit was Nitro’s VOD offering and so-called ’24/7?

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2021

The courts need to understand the degree to which such usage may harm the work or decrease the profits for the owner of the copyright. Today, this doctrine has become one of most popular doctrines in the realm of copyright law. It allows people a positive defense against the infringement of copyright. Definition.

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SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Divij highlighted the use of copyright strikes as a new form of Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (‘SLAPPs’) using the problematic takedown structure of YouTube. Section 52 of the Indian Copyright Act, 1957, provides for certain acts which are an exception to the general norm of copyright infringement.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 7, 2023

” As CEO of Twitter, Musk understands that his platform has certain obligations if it wishes to maintain protection from liability under copyright law. Since most tweets relating to the initial dispute have since been deleted or disabled, here we rely on archived and cached copies for evidence.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

copyright law, Internet providers must terminate the accounts of repeat infringers “in appropriate circumstances”. This legal requirement remained largely unenforced for nearly two decades but a series of copyright infringement liability lawsuits, with hundreds of millions of dollars at stake, have shaken up the industry.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 1, 2024

Copyright law crafted decades ago to prevent infringement in an analog world has in many cases held up remarkably well in the digital age. Copying or reproduction remains relevant, as does the concept of distribution. In the United States, the existence of a loophole in copyright law had been an open secret for some time.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 10, 2022

Ukraine’s ‘Weak’ Copyright Laws. Many rightsholders see Ukraine as a problematic country when it comes to copyright enforcement; EUFA is no exception. — A copy of EUFA’s answers to the US Trade Representative, which includes the Ukraine comments, is available here (pdf).

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IPilogue

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Dorland will need to show: (1) ownership of a valid copyright, and (2) copying of constituent elements of the work that are original. The intriguing timeline of events surrounding the controversy has been followed closely by online writing communities, and the legal conclusion to the dispute by many others with bated breath.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 29, 2023

million copyright infringement damages award in hand, and suddenly cooperative defendants helping to unveil others involved in the circumvention of Bungie’s technological protection measures. By June 2022, Bungie had a $13.5

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Velocity of Content

MARCH 16, 2023

As a person involved in copyright on a daily basis, I’ve observed a number of events and requests for comment over the last few years on the issue of whether artificial intelligence (AI) systems can be “authors” in the copyright sense (or inventors of patents). This article was originally published in The Scholarly Kitchen.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 27, 2022

Over the years we’ve published thousands of articles on copyright law, from how it works in theory to its application in full-blown lawsuits. But other copyright disputes, where infringement isn’t so obvious, can trigger new complexity and polarized legal opinions. But would that be illegal under US copyright law?

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Copyright Lately

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

Central to her ruling was the conclusion that the plaintiffs hadn’t claimed that ChatGPT disseminated a copy of their works in response to any user query. The Bottom Line The Raw Story Media ruling, with its reliance on TransUnion , raises significant questions about the future of copyright law in the context of AI.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Two episodes of the TV series Bewitched dated 1964 aired on ABC Network and almost sixty years later, archive copies of those transmissions were removed from YouTube for violating Sony copyrights, with MCCTv receiving a strike. Two of the claims can be seen in the image below and on first view, appear straightforward enough.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Massive Copyright Infringement The language used in the complaint makes it extremely clear that the MPA views playlists as a threat and illegal under copyright law. In any event, claims of inducement (playlist suppliers/distributors) rely on the acts of primary infringers (users/viewers). Fung later settled with the MPA.

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Copyright Lately

JUNE 12, 2024

Jukebox Manatee creator Daniel Kassel filed a lawsuit in 2023 claiming that Comedy Central , production company Cartuna and Saturday Night Live alum Bobby Moynihan copied these elements to create their own talking manatee program, the adult animated series Loafy. Here’s the whole fishy story, which I call “A Tale of Two Manatees.”

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

After obtaining a copy of the High Court order, the nature of the blocking is easily understood. – This is quite a significant departure from previous orders which have been more specifically targeted at, particularly, valuable content in the nature of a particular sporting events and the like.

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Patently-O

DECEMBER 11, 2023

We, who have been writing and teaching about copyright law and how it has responded to challenges posed by new technologies for decades, were among those who submitted comments, see [link]. In addition, conduct that may be consistent with the copyright laws nevertheless may violate Section 5. That is far too hasty.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Blender has clearly shown otherwise which makes events of the last few days particularly disappointing. Hello, I sent you a copyright infringement email that you sent to my YouTube channel chANIMennel. The associated video is released under the copyright law of Attribution 4.0 Give feedback.

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