TorrentFreak

JANUARY 4, 2022

The wide feature range of Genshin XYZ appears designed to undermine that monetization since the tool allows players to cheat their way to progress instead. Despite a reported development and marketing budget in excess of $100m, Genshin Impact is free to play but is monetized via gacha game mechanics.

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The IPKat

MARCH 4, 2024

This time, Katfriend Spyridon Sipetas (Stockholm University) tells the story of a collaboration – the one between Jacquemus and Nike – that has been already plagued with accusations of copying. Here’s what Spyridon writes: Jacquemus x Nike Swoosh Bag: ‘Just Copy It’ or re-appropriation of Nike’s own trade mark?

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The IPKat

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

On November 29, 2022, the European Commission published the long-awaited proposals for a revised Regulation and revised Directive on designs. New definitions for “design” and “product” (Art. 3 Draft Regulation) Draft Directive and Draft Regulation suggest a new definition for “design” and “product”, respectively.

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The IPKat

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Yesterday, the EU design reform reached its final step: it was published in the Official Journal as Regulation (EU) 2024/2822 and Directive (EU) 2024/2823. Taken upon by the European Commission, the initial design reform took several years of adoption, mainly because of controversies surrounding design protection of spare parts.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

JANUARY 11, 2023

In Brooktree, the court stated that “If the copied portion [of the mask work] is qualitatively important, the finder of fact may properly find substantial similarity under copyright law and the Semiconductor Chip Protection Act,” even if other portions of the chip were not copied. Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., 2d 1555 (Fed.

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Patently-O

MAY 21, 2024

by Dennis Crouch In a highly anticipated en banc decision, the Federal Circuit has overruled the longstanding Rosen-Durling test for assessing obviousness of design patents. Rejecting the argument that KSR did not implicate design patent obviousness, the court reasoned that 35 U.S.C. § GM Global Tech. Operations LLC , No. at 15 (Fed.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

JANUARY 11, 2023

Understanding Mask Work Mask work is a type of intellectual property protection designed to protect layout designs (topographies) of integrated circuits. The SCPA legally protects layouts of integrated circuits upon registration, making them illegal to copy without permission. Compendium: Chapter 1200, sections 1201-1202.

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IP and Legal Filings

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Introduction An artist’s ideas, be it for a renowned painting, sculpture, novel, technological design, jewelryor fashion are his own. However, many a times, we witness these designs being copied or recreated. A copyright protection is the ability of a designer to protect his original designs through the copyright laws.

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Plagiarism Today

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The lawsuit was filed by Unicolors, which accused H&M of infringing a 2011 design that they created as part of a 2015 one H&M sold in their stores and online. 2: Ruling Opens the Door to Protecting Room Design Under the Copyright Act. The case was brought by LDC Hotels & Resorts against Sheraton Taitung Hotel.

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Plagiarism Today

MAY 23, 2022

Mange, who has nearly 4 million followers, pointed out the copying in a video comparing the two works. This kicked off a firestorm of controversy in China, with Audi, M&C and Lau all apologizing for the copying. All these systems are remarkable feats of technology and have helped shape our understanding of copying.

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Plagiarism Today

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

It was hot on the heels of a very different kind of copying scandal, one that involved Streamlabs announcing the launch of a new product using content copied and pasted from one of their biggest competitors. Hey, can I copy your homework? ? Yeah, just change it up a bit so it’s not obvious you copied. This is our fault.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

All this raises a simple question: Did the series copy St Onge’s work? Onge and others who spotted the similarities, someone who worked on the series closely copied or even traced St. And despite copying my video, the episode still contains several errors, like saying the Orlando version has 2 ride systems while showing 4.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 11, 2023

The most modern instalment of this long history comes in the form of another kind ‘copy’, less richly decorated, yet more relevant and politically sensitive for a country that has established a long-term foreign investment “partnership” with the tech and communication industry: the transposition of Directive 2019/790 into Irish law.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 24, 2022

This prompted Florence Stoker to sue, a case she won handily with an order that all copies of the film be destroyed. However, at least one copy made it to the United States, where the original book was already in public domain. That copy was preserved and is the basis for all copies of the film we have today. Bottom Line.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 16, 2021

According to the lawsuit, Johnston made 15 copies of a master tape of his recording and sent it to various record labels, including Roadrunner. He claims that this granted Nickelback access to the song and that they copied various elements from it, including tempo, song form, melodic structure and more. Finally today, Michael S.

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Plagiarism Today

JUNE 8, 2022

However, according to an investigation by The Mercury News , roughly one-fifth of the book was copied from a variety of online sources. Roughly half of the copied paragraphs did not contain footnotes, and none of the paragraphs indicated that the text was quoted. However, I have not been asked about this case as of this writing.

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Plagiarism Today

APRIL 25, 2022

According to the lawsuit, the musicians and their songwriters copied elements from the earlier track, including the chorus, verse and hook from the song. Finally today, Jennifer Edwards Baker at Fox19 reports that, in Ohio, the Goshen Township police have been hit with a copyright infringement lawsuit over the design of their police badge.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 23, 2022

However, NFTs were never designed for this purpose. This is an especially large problem for photographers and visual artists, whose works are trivially copied and reshared. Since there is no difference between an original digital photograph and a copy of that photography, there’s no scarcity online.

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 4, 2023

According to Google, there were at least 50 instances of copying, some of which were “word-for-word”. Copy and Paste Roundup. However, it’s difficult to make that claim of impartiality when your reports copy and paste heavily from outside sources without attribution. Unattributed use of outside content does not help that image.

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SpicyIP

JULY 18, 2024

Controller of Patents and Designs , came down heavily on the IPO for its shoddy order rejecting the patent application filed by the appellant. The Madras High Court, vide judgement dated 3 July 2024 in University of Ulm v. The judgment raises serious concerns regarding the quality of functioning of the patent office.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

To help with this, many web designers, especially those that are new to it, get help in the form of themes or stock templates that can be obtained from a variety of sites. Many times, designers choose images or text based upon how it looks or reads, not whether they have permission to use it.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

OCTOBER 16, 2023

We’ve seen a flood of terrible Internet laws in the past few years, including the California Age-Appropriate Design Code (AADC). The court says the impact assessments don’t require businesses to look at service design configurations or to mitigate any identified risks, so they aren’t likely to advance the state’s child welfare goals.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 26, 2021

First, design elements that are “physically or conceptually separate” from the article can be protected. This means, theoretically, that elements such as the Superman “S” can be protected by copyright because they are separate elements that are merely copied onto the clothing. However, there are two key exceptions to this.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

The conclusion of that lawsuit declared that an emulator like Yuzu, that circumvents Nintendo’s technical measures, decrypts Switch games using unauthorized copies of Switch cryptographic keys, allowing games to be played on anything other than a Switch, violates copyright law. “In fact, Defendant has posted links to copies of [.]

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Plagiarism Today

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Though the Navy had purchased some 38 copies, it ended up installing it on more than 550,000 machines. The alleged offenses include violations of the Copyrights, Designs and Patents Act as well as conspiracy to defraud and money laundering. The arrest was made following a collaboration between several groups of authorities and Sky TV.

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 5, 2022

This means that others are free to copy, publish, distribute, create new works based upon it and otherwise make use of it without a license. It uses the art style and the meter of the original work, as well as the designs of characters from that book. That is, potentially, a big deal in many ways.

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IPilogue

OCTOBER 4, 2024

This move, Dagne argues, could respond to demands for the fair allocation of rights between digital workers, as authors or joint authors in some cases, and AI designers as exploiters of digital works. The post Dr. Tesh Dagne Shines a Light on the Unseen Hands and Invisible (Copy)Rights Behind AI Systems appeared first on IPOsgoode.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

In all cases, whether on physical cartridges or supplied as digital downloads, Switch games contain security measures designed to prevent copying or being run on unauthorized devices. “Only because Yuzu decrypts a Nintendo Switch game file dynamically during operation can the game be played in Yuzu. .

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 11, 2022

600,000 ‘Infringing’ Copies. This is based on the installed copies and the price both parties would have reached in a ‘fictitious’ negotiation. ” 579 ‘Infringing’ Copies. For one, it is unclear how many copies the U.S. Unfortunately, most of the legal paperwork is sealed.

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Plagiarism Today

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Though he clarified that they were not “direct copies”, he claimed there were similarities in style, color choices and techniques used that were overwhelming to him. The system isn’t designed to punish plagiarism and likely won’t since it would also punish the earlier investors.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Though it’s impossible to know where the source actually is, Ghanaian rapper M.anifest posted the image on Twitter two weeks prior, and it’s likely that too was a copy from somewhere else. Whether by design or by accident, by not rewarding original content is making it so that the most popular and visible content is unoriginal.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

While at this stage the particulars of Getty’s claim are unavailable, their press release states that Stability AI “unlawfully copied and processed millions of images protected by copyright and the associated metadata owned or represented by Getty Images”. What is AI image generation software?

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TorrentFreak

JULY 10, 2024

For good measure, copies of the Yuzu judgment and the injunction that restrains its developers are supplied for reference. The yuzu emulator is primarily designed to play Nintendo Switch games. A DMCA takedown notice sent to GitHub dated July 5, 2024, is a perfect example.

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IP Law 360

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

A California federal judge has ruled that a group of independent designers can pursue racketeering claims against Shein Distribution Corp. and other defendants in a lawsuit where the plaintiffs accuse the online retailer of copyright and trademark infringement for allegedly copying and selling the designers' works.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 8, 2024

Last month, the CJEU had an opportunity to tackle once again the direct effect of the InfoSoc Directive in the different context of reprography and private copying under Article 5(2)(a)-(b). The AG Opinion is adamant that neither Article 17 of the 1998 Design Directive nor Article 96(2) of the 2002 Design Regulation question this.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

“The yuzu emulator is primarily designed to play Nintendo Switch games. Specifically, yuzu illegally circumvents Nintendo’s technological protection measures and runs illegal copies of Nintendo Switch games,” Nintendo continues.

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IP Watchdog

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

On November 5, 2024, I received an official copy of U.S. Design Patent #D1,050,634 from the U.S. Design Application #29888619, titled “Rope Throw Dog Toy” on September 18, 2024, and the patent was issued on November 5, 2024. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). I received a Notice of Allowance for my U.S.

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