Plagiarism Today

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

According to his confession, Bridi, as well as other members of the group, would get pre-release copies of movies from wholesalers, defeat the copyright protection schemes on the discs and then leak them online before their scheduled release date. ” 3: ‘Piracy’ Website Offers NFT Art as Free Downloads.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

The case involves ShutterStock, a photo licensing service. (We ShutterStock has a “contributor” program that allows anyone to upload photos into their licensing database in exchange for a fee if licensed. Only 2 visitors saw the subject image in ShutterStock’s database and neither licensed it.

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Copyright Lately

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

Internet Archive (read the opinion here) , the court dealt a decisive blow to the Internet Archive, ruling that its practice of scanning and lending digital copies of books doesn’t qualify as fair use under the Copyright Act. When the electronic book is “checked out,” the physical copy is removed from circulation.

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Traverse Legal Blog

APRIL 17, 2021

Copyright Licensing of Digital Assets Attached to NFT Sales. Bonus: Free Open Source Copyright License for NFT sales below]. What are the terms by which you are selling the NFT and licensing your work, the art you put into the platform that’s going to be attached to the NFT? NFT Copyright Licensing.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 28, 2022

The unprecedented leak also elicited a response from HBO, wth a spokesperson informing us that the company was pulling out all the stops to take copies offline. HBO is aggressively monitoring and pulling these copies from the internet. Downloads Peaked After Finale. Estimated Torrent Downloads (sample). Leak Source?

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Plagiarism Today

MARCH 8, 2022

1: Russia Mulls Making Software Piracy Legal and Patent Licensing Compulsory. However, one of the common uses of it is for researchers to publish copies of papers that they have completed. The 3 Count Logo was created by Justin Goff and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License.

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Plagiarism Today

DECEMBER 14, 2021

According to the duo, they wrote the song Playas Gon’ Play , elements of which they allege were copied by Swift for her song. Copyright termination is a clause under the Copyright Act of 1978 that allows artists or their heirs to terminate previous agreements related to licensing their work. The judge, however, disagreed.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 7, 2024

At the same time, some rightsholders such as Reddit and Getty Images are making deals to license their ‘data’, although that’s still relatively rare in the AI space. Many AI companies have simply been training their models on data scraped or downloaded from online resources, often without explicit permission.

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Kashishipr

JUNE 9, 2021

With the onset of the trend wherein users are gradually switching to online streaming to meet their music needs and discarding traditional methods such as radio, television, and music CDs, compulsory licensing for the internet was recognized as a key policy issue by the music industry last year. Background. The Plaintiff, Tips Industries Ltd.,

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 21, 2022

In the weeks that followed “House of The Dragon” crushed “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” in the unofficial pirate download rankings. A few hours ago, copies of the tenth episode appeared on Usenet and pirate sites, two days before the general public will have access to it on legal platforms.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 14, 2022

The RIAA cited the anti-circumvention provisions of the DMCA, claiming that the tool could be used to download their artists’ musical works from YouTube, in breach of copyright. “YouTube has measures to prevent users from downloading specific content, which they make use of for YouTube Movies and Music: DRM.

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Velocity of Content

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Marketplace customers can also assemble academic course pack projects comprised of content, purchase single copies of articles and chapters, and request article Reprints/ePrints from thousands of publishers. Looking for Content?

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 3, 2022

The lawsuit claimed that the site was offering illegal downloads of their books and specifically targeted two Ukrainian nationals as the operators. The lawsuit was filed by SoundExchange after an audit alleged that Music Choice, which relies on a statutory license for the music it uses, had underpaid the royalties it owes.

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Plagiarism Today

MAY 11, 2022

Next up today, Eva Martinello at Dot Esports reports that Riot Games has filed a lawsuit against Shanghai-based Moonton Games alleging that Moonton has copied assets from them when making the game Mobile Legends: Bang Bang. He was accused of downloading some 11 pirated videos.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 12, 2024

In addition, the company offers Plex Pass, a premium subscription that provides access to DVR recording, downloads, intro skipping, and many other features. Plex Pirates Lately, Plex has been working closely with some of the major content publishers to give provide access to licensed entertainment. on Plex Media Server.

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The IPKat

APRIL 21, 2022

Uploads were made easy and free, while downloads were made artificially slow, and users were encouraged to purchase a subscription, allowing for faster download speeds. The service appears to have made most of its profits from subscriptions for fast file downloads.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

The court noted that these tools allow people to download video and audio from YouTube, despite the streaming platform’s lack of a download button. The fact that YouTube doesn’t have a download button doesn’t mean that tools that enable people to download videos circumvent technological access restrictions.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 23, 2023

Downloading a track takes about the same time as a shrug of the shoulders followed by an internal “who cares?” “Is it legal to download music from YouTube?” ” is always popular, along with its self-focused twin sister, “Can I get caught downloading music from YouTube?”

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43(B)log

APRIL 29, 2024

The Cube file was provided under a Creative Commons, non-commercial, no derivatives license. Thingiverse cube Kitchen Cube made and sold copies of the Cube. Kitchen Cube cube Leszczynski sued for (1) copyright infringement; (2) violation of Creative Commons license terms; and (3) false advertising and misrepresentation.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 11, 2022

The lawsuit is not a typical piracy case in the sense that Navy officers downloaded software from shady sources, but the end result is the same. 600,000 ‘Infringing’ Copies. This is based on the installed copies and the price both parties would have reached in a ‘fictitious’ negotiation.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Downloading a Pluto TV.m3u playlist takes a second and they can be used in anything from VLC Media Player to systems like TVHeadEnd , which enables streaming to locations in a network, no official apps required. The GitHub repo shown below used to offer Pluto TV playlists for download before suddenly experiencing issues last week.

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SpicyIP

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Other than a brief period in 2020, the Archive maintained a one-to-one ratio of books owned by it in physical copies and made available digitally for users through its free digital library. the Court assessed that the Archive’s distribution of digital copies of the concerned books was not transformative.

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Dear Rich IP Blog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Dear Rich: Does putting "Copyright 2023" at the bottom of page pages protect it from site visitors who download an image or narrative content? Can we suggest you rephrase your question to "What can I do about visitors who download images and content from my website without my permission?" Gather evidence of copying.

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43(B)log

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Defendants allegedly copied key components of Trackman’s copyrighted software and falsely suggested, in promotions and advertisements, that defendants were authorized to use the well-known courses in their game. And they allegedly copied golf courses created on Perfect Golf’s course design platform.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

It wasn’t a typical piracy case where software was downloaded from shady sources, but the end result was the same. The goal was to establish what the Navy would have paid for the software licenses if an agreement had been reached. The court also had to decide how many copies the Navy should pay compensation for.

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Velocity of Content

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Significant amounts of content are available through licenses, including open licenses such as CC BY and CC BY-NC. When acting unlawfully, AI developers receive materials from pirate sites, through downloading in violation of express terms and flags, and from so-called “shadow libraries,” among other things. 529 F.Supp.3d

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 12, 2023

From the diametrically opposed view of the plaintiffs, the defendants willfully made copies thousands of recordings to which they own the copyrights. The digitized copies were then uploaded to the Internet Archive from where they were illegally distributed to users of the website millions of times.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Unauthorized Copies and Derivatives. “To the extent these services, or their partners, are training their AI models using our members’ music, that use is unauthorized and infringes our members’ rights by making unauthorized copies of our members works. Music Download Sites. But perhaps they’re still in the pipeline.

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The IPKat

JUNE 27, 2022

These digital files are freely downloadable by everyone (there is no DRM protection in NFTs). Ripps has clearly downloaded the digital files of the original BAYC collection, copied and re-used them to create his own RR BAYC collection. A digital file (an artwork, a song, etc.), Ether (USD 1+ million).

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

AUGUST 22, 2023

We are interested in exploring whether in the EU Arts 3 and 4 of the Copyright in the Digital Single Market Directive (CDSMD) played a role in shaping the contractual practices in selected industry sectors in relation to the licensing of works as training data. Springer, SAGE, Wiley and Elsevier). 3(2) CDSM, the text of item 7.8

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Velocity of Content

MARCH 1, 2023

Downloading content through any tool makes a new copy of that content – and copying often requires permission. Since the last survey in 2020, executive-level preference for collaboration tools has risen 82%.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 20, 2023

So-called ‘stream-ripping’ services typically use YouTube as a source while allowing users to keep copies of copyright tracks on their devices. While around three-quarters of internet users do obtain content illegally, 88% of Indian music consumers use licensed streaming services too. That statement deserves nuance.

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IP and Legal Filings

JULY 21, 2022

Among the other solutions, the most easy and feasible way to come out of the problem of unavailability and unaffordability was to start copying the books, study materials, and video lectures with the help of different mechanisms. for taking reprographic usage licenses after paying a prescribed tariff.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 14, 2024

In conjunction with a modded console, SigPatches bypass signature verification when games are downloaded digitally, a red line for Nintendo. “The link is accompanied by the statement ‘The patches are downloaded from a new host. 1201) (the “DMCA”), and infringes copyrights owned by Nintendo. . Huge thanks to them!’

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Velocity of Content

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

In the beginning, the policy might just say that employees are NOT to download information from journal-sharing sites or their academic institutions, and that such behavior will not be tolerated. And then describe how all staff are expected to handle information in a copyright-compliant manner. 4. Clarify copyright’s reach across formats.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

repeatedly breached the terms of its Limited Software License Agreement (LSLA) by using third-party cheating software, getting banned by Bungie, and then repeatedly signing back up to breach the LSLA’s terms once again. But on the other, they also grant permission – a license – for other actions too. ” No LSLA?

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 6, 2021

The RIAA filed the lawsuit against the pair of sites alleging that they enabled and encouraged piracy by allowing people to download music from YouTube. Cooper, who goes by the stage name Mr. Cooper, and Valentine, AKA Drum’n Skillz, allege that No Guidance copies several elements from their earlier work.

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