TorrentFreak

AUGUST 30, 2021

“Defendants advertise their service for allowing their subscribers to bypass regional restrictions of streaming platforms to stream copies of copyright protected content including Plaintiffs’ Works from locations Plaintiffs have not authorized the platform to stream the Works,” the lawsuit reads. Previously, VPN.ht

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Instead of the usual DMCA copyright notices, the music group asked the search engine to remove various URLs for alleged violations of the DMCA’s anti-circumvention provision. To put this number into perspective, the RIAA sent just over 100 anti-circumvention notices this year, while the BPI is stuck at roughly 180.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Thus far, however, the piracy tracking company has failed to hand over all requested information. To force the matter, Altice submitted a motion to compel Rightscorp to comply with the subpoenaed information. In reality, the volume of these notices is so high that it risks crippling Altice’s systems,” the motion adds.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Over the course of a decade, Google copied large volumes of books and made them available online, both through excerpts, known as “snippets”, and as entire publications. As in the present context, the initial concern of copyright holders was that their consent had not been acquired by Google prior to scanning their works.

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IP and Legal Filings

MAY 3, 2024

Fair use provides some exceptions to copyright protection, allowing limited use of copyrighted material without the permission of the copyright owner. Understanding legal and fair use is especially important in academic settings because dissemination of information often requires the use of evidence.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 7, 2023

Last year, governments and law enforcement sent more than 1,000 information requests to Reddit, seeking user details. Reddit complies with most of these information requests, but not all. The Redditors in question discussed issues such as RCN’s handling of copyright infringement emails. According to U.S.

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Copyright Lately

APRIL 30, 2021

The new lawsuit raises a host of complicated legal issues that, while exciting for copyright nerds like me, are often a nightmare to litigate. Key among them is the extent to which pre-1978 works first published abroad without proper copyright notice are still protected under U.S. copyright law. Copyright Office.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

Lawsuit Accuses Comcast of Copyright Infringement. In general terms, the new lawsuit filed against Comcast is almost a direct copy of those filed against Verizon and AT&T. The movie companies say they notified Comcast of these infringements in more than 250,000 DMCA notices. Failure to Terminate Repeat Infringers.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 14, 2024

.” Knowledge of infringement, the labels say, was established at Verizon over a period of several years during which it received “hundreds of thousands” of copyright notices, referencing instances of infringement allegedly carried out by its subscribers.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 21, 2022

. “The record contains no evidence that Bright House supplied Internet service to subscribers or otherwise handled infringement notices with the object of fostering copyright infringement,” Bright House informs the court. ” Piracy Notices Never Came Through. .”

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TorrentFreak

MAY 20, 2024

Unlike the initial claims, there’s no evidence that Facterra or anyone else informed WOW about the added infringements. “Plaintiffs do not allege that Facterra ever sent email ‘notices’ to WOW about those alleged infringements.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 5, 2024

On January 1, 2024, TorrentFreak published a review of the wrongful DMCA notices filed against us in 2023, either directly via email or at Google demanding deindexing of our articles. Our small request for 2024 was not unreasonable: stop sending us bogus copyright notices. ” Interesting.

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SpicyIP

APRIL 24, 2022

Slato: I think … Essentially, IPR is more than copyright, patents, etc, I see it as a way we produce knowledge and regulate information, as a society. How and why we generate, validate, and regulate information, also affects our pattern of knowledge production. This is a good question to ponder over. Very annoying!

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 27, 2022

The obvious fakes are pretty easy to spot but there is no simple way to steer towards more truthful information – until someone draws unusual attention to it, that is. The poster noted that while it appeared the information had multiple sources, several people might have copied existing information.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 23, 2022

Using the DMCA’s takedown process as a weapon, persons unknown sent copyright notices to YouTube, claiming that the targeted videos should be taken down for infringing Bungie’s rights. Bungie’s early attempts to obtain information from Google/YouTube ran into trouble.

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43(B)log

APRIL 29, 2024

23, 2024) Skipping the copyright and trade secrets part of the case. (In In brief: Meishe argued that Tiktok copied its code via an employee who departed. Beijing Meishe Network Technology Co. Tiktok Inc., 2024 WL 1772833, No. 23-cv-06012-SI (N.D.

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SpicyIP

OCTOBER 11, 2021

In a new low for Indian media, Aaj Tak (owned by the media conglomerate Living Media) has allegedly taken to using copyright claims to prevent criticism of its reportage by media watchdog Newslaundry.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 29, 2023

The CCB Board found his complaint met “statutory and regulatory requirements for bringing a claim,” and that the claim “provided enough information” for respondent to respond to the claim. Prutton admitted to copying and said that his adult daughter had helped him with his website. (A A typical thing that happens in our world).

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 13, 2023

In Iraq, for example, tackling copyright infringement isn’t seen as a priority or a new phenomenon. As a result, “copyright notices” were sent to US bases and United States Central Command was put on high alert. At the end of 2021, the U.S.

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Velocity of Content

JANUARY 31, 2023

The making of copies to perform text and data mining, machine learning, and AI training (collectively “TDM”) without additional licensing is authorized for commercial and non-commercial purposes under CC BY , and for non-commercial purposes under CC BY-NC. Does the attribution need to be included in the data set at every stage?

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 4, 2023

By 2021, many lawsuits in Sweden alone suggested a link between CMS and PML, if only due to the latter picking up where the former had left off while continuing to use data provided by Maverickeye as the basis of copyright actions. Our information was that PML was not entitled to any portion of the settlement recoveries.”

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Copyright Lately

JUNE 2, 2022

On Sedlik’s affirmative motion for summary judgment, there was no dispute that the photographer owned a valid copyright in his photo of Miles Davis or that the defendants used the image as a reference in creating the tattoo. Nike that the various elements that make up a photo (pose, lighting, camera angle, etc.)

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LexBlog IP

JUNE 7, 2023

DMCA Section 1202(b) Claims: Section 1202(b) of the DMCA prohibits anyone from (1) intentionally removing or altering any copyright management information (“CMI”), (2) distributing CMI knowing the CMI has been removed or altered or (3) distributing copies of works knowing that CMI has been removed or altered while “knowing, or.

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

The lawsuits claim that because the defendants copied their original works of authorship to use as training material for the LLMs, the AI companies are liable under the federal Copyright Act and various state tort laws. For a quick recap of the theories they are asserting, check out our recent AI Update.

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The court also dismissed claims for violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”). Plaintiffs failed to allege that OpenAI altered or removed copyright management information (“CMI”), such as author names and copyright notices, from their works with the intent to conceal or induce infringement.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

We do receive copyright claims based on titles or trademarks, which are invalid, and while we occasionally receive a valid claim not based on an initially authorized posting, our records indicate that we have never received a second copyright notice based on rights in the same complaining work.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

These accounts were previously targeted in copyright notices sent by the RIAA or a third party. The music labels could use this information to gather further evidence to support their allegations. Several of the music company plaintiffs have obtained information concerning alleged pirate subscribers in similar lawsuits.

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Patently-O

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

. § 1202(b)(1) – an element of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) that prohibits intentional removal or alteration of copyright management information (CMI). Notably, the plaintiffs did not bring direct copyright infringement claims, instead focusing solely on alleged CMI removal.

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