TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

After more than two months of silence, local authorities have now released additional information on the investigation and the two men previously arrested. We just don’t know and the information being made available right now is simply insufficient. In many cases, this violated MPA members’ rights.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 11, 2025

The same applied to the claim that Meta removed copyright management information ( CMI ), which would violate the DMCA. CMI is information that is included in a copyrighted work, which among other things can identify the copyright owner. Leeching refers to the state where a complete copy of a torrent is yet to be downloaded.

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Plagiarism Today

MAY 9, 2022

I put it on the back burner, but eventually sought out a cached copy of the article to read, even if I couldn’t write about it or link to it. Reading it, I recognized some information in it, specifically a paragraph about what many consider the world’s first plagiarism case involving the Roman poet Martial in 80 AD.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 15, 2024

” After the parties got together, an agreement was reached to confidentially disclose basic subscriber information related to 64 Discord User IDs. Discord Draws a Line In July, Discord sent a letter to Nexon, informing the game company that it has no intention of cooperating with the latest request, describing it as improper.

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SpicyIP

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Image from here Hachette Book Group v Internet Archive: Archiving Access to Information or Strengthening Copyright Laws? 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.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 24, 2024

The company tried to obtain a DMCA subpoena requiring Cloudflare to hand over all identifying information it has on the site’s operators. DMCA subpoenas have proven to be an effective legal tool to gather information. In this case, however, nHentai’s operators decided to intervene, asking the court to quash the subpoena.

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Copyright Lately

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

Southern District of New York Judge Colleen McMahon ruled that the plaintiffs failed to show any concrete harm caused by OpenAI’s alleged removal of copyright management information from their articles, which they claim were then used to train ChatGPT’s language model. In the meantime, here’s a copy of Raw Story Media, Inc.

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Plagiarism Today

JUNE 21, 2022

The similarities included both scenes and ideas that were rewritten, as well as lengthy passages of text that were copied either verbatim or near-verbatim. Hughes, for his part, apologized for the copying. He claimed that it didn’t matter if he copied, it mattered if he did something new and meaningful with it.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

Founded over a decade ago, Dramacool became a go-to destination for pirated copies of Asian dramas and related content. information portal went offline too, leaving many users in the dark. The site was originally started by a group of ‘students’ who wanted to share their passion for this entertainment niche.

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Plagiarism Today

MARCH 30, 2022

First off today, Austen Goslin at Polygon reports that choreographer Kyle Hanagami has filed a lawsuit against Epic Games alleging that the video game company copied his choreography for an emote in the game Fortnite. This gives the scammers access to the user’s email as well as their Instagram account.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 3, 2025

because the manga publisher requests information from third-party intermediaries such as Cloudflare, PayPal, Visa, and Google. Not much later, these domains also showed up in a separate request in a California federal court, where Google, Visa, and PayPal were asked to provide information on the alleged operators. net website.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 20, 2024

The site, commonly abbreviated as “ FitGirl ” publishes slimmed down copies of pirated games which are easy to distribute and share. Both domains utilize a CDN,” ESA informs the USTR. — A copy of ESA’s submission for the 2024 Special 301 Out-of-Cycle Review of Notorious Markets is available here (pdf).

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 19, 2024

The company has a process in place to disclose hosting information with eligible rightsholders, for example, and will also share details of allegedly pirating customers in response to DMCA subpoenas. In addition, the broadcaster wants Cloudflare to reveal all information it holds that could help to identify the operator or operators.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Through these notices, the group asks Cloudflare to inform the website owner and the hosting company to shut these sites down. link to a pirated copy of “Bad Boys II” is made inaccessible by Cloudflare, honoring the takedown request. For example, the yts.cx This is a targeted intervention, as all other yts.cx

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 31, 2024

“Between January 2023 and February 2024, the men transcribed detailed information about the entire story, including the names of characters, lines, actions, scenes, and scene developments depicted in the film Godzilla 1.0 ,” CODA reveals. The rights to that movie and another whose name is yet to be revealed, are owned by Toho Co.,

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

To find out more, Altice subpoenaed the RIAA for what it believes is relevant information. The music group agreed to hand over a copy of its 2019 agreement with OpSec, but rejected to share any other communications related to it. The RIAA has so far refused to share this information.

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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. As such, all information I have is from published sources.

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Plagiarism Today

MAY 18, 2022

A variety of services work to find copied images , and many engage in speculative invoicing and litigation as part of their strategy. As such, the risk of copying images is only rising, and it may be a good time to seek out alternatives. To that end, there are ongoing campaigns to find and detect infringing images online.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 27, 2025

Release name as an image, to avoid being flagged in a wrongful DMCA notice) Typically distributed alongside pirate releases, the ‘NFO’ file above provides information on the nature of the screener and subsequent leak. ‘COLLECTiVE’ is the name of the group responsible for the release.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

APRIL 12, 2023

HathiTrust (which had similar facts as Google ), noting that in both cases the scanning created a searchable database but did not output a copy of the books. However, the output of the GAI is a new image (albeit typically not a copy of the scanned image(s)). The court distinguished the Google Books case and Authors Guild, Inc.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 14, 2024

The authors accused these services of sharing pirated copies of their book “5000 Integrated Circuits Power Audio Amplifiers” When the authors sent Cloudflare a takedown notice, the company responded that it doesn’t host any content for doku.pub, clarifying that it operates as a ‘pass-though’ CDN provider.

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The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 28, 2024

German Court finds LAION’s copying of images non-infringing by Mirko Brüß In what appears to be a first in Europe, the District Court of Hamburg has delivered a long-awaited ruling in a case brought by German photographer Robert Kneschke against LAION gemeinnütziger e.V., Without further ado, then, here’s what Mirko has to say!

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Plagiarism Today

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Publications are certainly free to copy the releases wholesale, and some do, but the more typical misuse is copying and pasting text from the press release and mixing it with original content, all the while not acknowledging the source. Image from James Stephanie Sterling’s video. Inevitably, some are going to take shortcuts.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 18, 2025

Instead, XXL relied on a fair use defense, which works: Nature of use: “the video was the subject of the news story and because the article added new information and context about the contents of the video.” ” Amount taken: “Townsquare copied the entire Jordan video.

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Plagiarism Today

MAY 25, 2022

In it, she discussed how she copied and pasted the works of others and then rewrote it to, in her mind, make it hers. When copying and pasting heavily into a new work, it can be easy to forget not only what came from where, but what is original versus what needs to be edited. 2: It’s Nearly Impossible to Completely Edit Copied Text.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

. “Where IFPI needs to obtain the customer’s contact information, Cloudflare will only disclose these details following a subpoena or court order – i.e. these disclosures are mandated by law and are not an example of the service’s goodwill or a policy or measures intended to assist IP rights holders,” IFPI wrote.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 11, 2021

Earlier this week, independent fashion designer Bailey Prado took to Instagram to call attention to a different fashion label that, according to her, copied her “whole life.” For example, items that may sell on Prado’s website for up to $300 typical appear as copies on Shein’s app for less than $20.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 3, 2022

It involved several pieces of information that were exclusive to his work, several passages that he felt were paraphrased or repeated nearly verbatim from his book, and other details. However, as Katz pointed out, some of the information shared was not located in any of those documents.

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Thomson Reuters argued that Legal Ease’s questions, incorporated by Ross in machine-readable form, essentially copied its creative headnotes. The copying was purely instrumental, aimed at training an AI system to recognize and retrieve relevant legal information efficiently.

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SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

The Defendant was alleged to have copied both in name and in design a well known trimmer. The Defendant was also alleged to have identically copied and sold several features of the Plaintiff’s product, shapes, label, trade dress, design, packaging and other descriptive features including copyright. Koninklijke Philips N.V

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Plagiarism Today

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

As part of their series The Facebook Files , which is an examination of leaked internal documents from the company, the paper published a scathing review of the company’s practices surrounding copied content. When a DMCA notice was filed, even if it was done using Facebook’s own DMCA form, the company would request additional information.

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 24, 2022

The guide is an amazingly thorough overview of copyright, written in a way to be understood by lay people and it includes nearly all of the important information one needs to know in just 10 pages and 4,000 words. This means that it can be freely copied, printed, shared, distributed without any permission from the U.S.

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Plagiarism Today

DECEMBER 13, 2022

The student changed their login information, and the “expert” did not end up taking any exams or completing any homework for them. Note: The original post has been deleted and, though it appears to be a throwaway account and several of the person’s comments remain, I will not be naming them or sharing personal information.

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Plagiarism Today

APRIL 28, 2022

One of the mistakes many new writers make is thinking that the issue of plagiarism is one of copying. They typically do either or both of these things: Copy Text Into a Work to “Edit”: This stems from a misunderstanding of paraphrasing. It’s about starting with a blank page and writing the information in your words.

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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. The court is specifically ordering the unveiling of any information related to the channels’ operators, including phone number IP address and email.

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Michael Geist

DECEMBER 3, 2024

The filing literally says “ the full particulars of when, from where, and exactly how, the Works were accessed, scraped, and/or copied is within the knowledge of OpenAI and not the News Media Companies.” In fact, OpenAI says it does not by-pass paywalls. Thus far, many of the lawsuits elsewhere have largely failed: a U.S.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 7, 2021

The Letter: Doorland accuses Larson of copying her donor letter and including significant portions of it, in particular in early versions of the story. She took the words that someone else had written, copied them and used them in her story while presenting them as her work. That is, in a word, unacceptable.

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