Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 2, 2024

Law firm sues competitor over copied brief, pirate site closure was exaggerated, and a horror game based on Steamboat Willie is announced. The post 3 Count: Scary Mouse appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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Corsearch

JANUARY 9, 2025

Enter common law trademarks a practical way to secure certain rights to your brand from the moment you start using it, without the registration process or fees. In this post, well break down what common law trademarks are, how they work, and when they might (or might not) be enough for your brand. What is a common law trademark?

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

and torrents.yts.rs , all violate local copyright law. The MPA lists six domains in total; sflix.to, sflix.se, and sflix.is, plus myflixerz.to, myflixertv.to, and myflixer.today, noting that these domains shared pirated copies of many films including “Shazam!”, “Jumanji: The Next Level” and “Top Gun: Maverick”.

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Barry Sookman

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

However, and consistent with copyright law, it concluded that copyright can subsist in generative AI outputs that contain copies of inputs that are perceptible in AI-generated outputs, as well as where persons take AI-generated outputs and select, arrange, coordinate, or modify them to meet the threshold requirements of originality.…

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Hugh Stephens Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

On January 1, 2022, a new law entered into force in the state of Maryland requiring that authors and publishers holding the rights to an e-book title must offer unlimited copies of that title to public libraries in the state at an undetermined “reasonable price” if and when the title is offered to individual consumers.

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 18, 2022

million ($3 million) acquiring a physical copy of the book Jodorowsky’s Dune. With previous ones selling for around €25,000 ($28,000), their copy cost more than 100 times the going rate. Make the book public (to the extent permitted by law) 2. Many copies of the book are already easy to access just through a simple search.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

In the lawsuit, Pearson alleges that Chegg, through the use of thousands of freelancers, provides answers to questions found in textbooks it publishes and, in doing so, often copies the question verbatim or with slight paraphrasing. As a result, Pearson is suing Chegg alleging copyright infringement. Chegg’s Potential Defenses.

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Sneha is a Partner at Saikrishna and Associates and leads their Artificial Intelligence and Law Practice. Thomson Reuters argued that Legal Ease’s questions, incorporated by Ross in machine-readable form, essentially copied its creative headnotes. The post will also look at how contention of parties would fare under Indian law.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 20, 2022

On one hand, unattributed copying is rampant, widely accepted and even necessary. Much of what lawyers write have only one or two ways that they can correctly be written, thus it’s common to copy the works of others, especially from one’s own firm or their past work. Still, this latest case stands out. Analyzing the Plagiarism.

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Traverse Legal Blog

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

2024 Update) Accidental copyright infringement occurs when someone unknowingly violates copyright law. This can happen due to: Lack of Understanding: Not fully comprehending copyright laws and regulations. Preventing Accidental Infringement: Respect Copyright: Avoid copying others’ work without permission.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 28, 2024

When films are released on streaming platforms, they are copied and shared online almost immediately. Since the early 2000s, leaked copies of Oscar ‘screeners’ would circulate on pirate sites at the end of the year. There’s one type of piracy that’s particularly concerning, however. The problem isn’t new.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

As IPKat readers are, of course, aware, Westlaw users can pay to access its contents, which includes case law, statutes and journals, as well as editorial content and annotations including headnotes which summarise key points of law and decisions from various cases. The Court did not apply its analysis to all c.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 25, 2025

Meta doesn’t dispute that it uploaded data via BitTorrent but notes that there is no evidence that any data shared with others amounted to full copies of the authors’ books. It is not difficult to see how the plaintiffs could use this same data point to argue that Meta helped other people to download pirated copies of their works.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 22, 2025

” Problematic Reporting Obligations In addition to matters directly related to blocking, the tech industry is concerned about recent amendments to Italian copyright law that introduce obligations that contradict the principles set forth in the EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA).

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Many of the details were previously sealed, but unsealed copies added to the docket yesterday reveal new information. copyright law. — A copy of all relevant documents referenced here are available though Free.law’s Courtlistener From: TF , for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

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JD Supra Law

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

On February 11, 2025, Third Circuit visiting Judge Stephanos Bibas, sitting by designation on the U.S.

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Copyright Lately

JANUARY 26, 2025

The long-running case, which wrapped Friday in Riverside, California, centered on allegations that Apple TV+s Servant was a “wholesale copy” of Francesca Gregorinis 2013 indie film, The Truth About Emanuel (read my trial preview here). While access alone isnt sufficient, without it, similarities cant be the result of copying.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 26, 2025

The figure was based on more than 600,000 copies of the software allegedly installed by the Navy, multiplied by the negotiated $370 license per install, minus a 30% discount. The Federal Circuit affirmed the damages figure, noting that the law does not require every award of copyright damages to be on a per-copy basis.

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Plagiarism Today

MARCH 14, 2022

copyright law. Genius filed the lawsuit in 2019 alleging that Google was unlawfully copying lyrics to songs that they had hosted. According to Genius, they had used watermarking techniques to prove that Google had copied from their database of lyrics. Neither side commented on the decision.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Under the laws at the time, this mean that it didn’t have copyright protection. 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.

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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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Intellectual Property Law Blog

JANUARY 11, 2023

In analogizing semiconductor chips to traditional areas of copyright law, the legislative history notes that, just as a plagiarist who copies only one chapter of a book may be held liable for infringement, a person may be liable for copying a part of a mask work if it is a qualitatively important portion that results in substantial similarity.

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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. But as Cornell law professor James Grimmelmann told WIRED last week , “This theory of no standing is actually a potential earthquake far beyond AI. OpenAI, Inc.—hopefully

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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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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 31, 2024

On October 29, officers from Miyagi Prefectural Police Headquarters and Tome Police Station arrested three men on suspicion of violating copyright law. First Case of its Type in Japan This week local anti-piracy group CODA revealed details of a copyright prosecution that’s so unusual, it’s probably never happened before.

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JD Supra Law

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

The Second Circuit recently decided Structured Asset Sales, LLC v. Edward Christopher Sheeran, considering whether Sheeran’s hit song “Thinking Out Loud” infringed the copyright of Marvin Gaye’s 1973 classic “Let’s Get It On.”

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Plagiarism Today

MAY 11, 2022

First off today, Gene Maddaus at Variety reports that Senator Josh Hawley has introduced a bill that aims to drastically rewrite copyright law in the United States, rolling back the term of copyright to just 28 years with the option for renewal for another 28. According to Sen.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 5, 2024

Every day, millions of people break the law; by posting copyrighted images, music, and videos on social media, for example. In addition, it was apparent that the copy had been sourced from pirate streaming site, Obaflix. For most of these people, copyright is merely an afterthought, not a real concern.

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Plagiarism Today

APRIL 5, 2022

The case was filed by artist Sami Chokri, who accuses Sheeran of copying his hit song Shape of You from his earlier track Oh Why. Specifically, they accuse the musician of copying a key hook from their song, which made the two works, in their mind, substantially similar under the law.

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Plagiarism Today

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Both books are non-fiction examinations of the story that inspired the book Doctor Zhivago, though Pasternak alleges that Prescott copied a significant portion of her selection, structure and arrangement in seven chapters from TSWK. 3: NitroTV Hit with $51m Piracy Damages.

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Plagiarism Today

JULY 27, 2021

The reason is that the track has faced not one, but two separate allegations of plagiarism, with many fans and critics alike wondering if the band may have run afoul of copyright law. Though the laws in Korea and Japan are different, many of those same obstacles remain.

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SpicyIP

OCTOBER 9, 2024

She graduated from National Law University, Delhi in 2023 & enjoys reading and writing on copyright laws. Image from here Hachette Book Group v Internet Archive: Archiving Access to Information or Strengthening Copyright Laws? Tanishka is an advocate at the High Court of MP. billion today, only to grow manifold.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 18, 2025

Emulation, ROMs and Legal Friction While emulators like MAME are legal, gaming code dumped from arcade machines, 8bit computer disks, or the cartridges of veteran consoles, find friction in the presence of copyright law. The researchers conclude their study (available here ) with recommendations to guide future law and policy.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 13, 2021

As such, new copies of Makan are now unavailable on major retailer websites. Still, this case rests at an interesting intersection of both law and ethics. One quick look at the examples shows clearly that Haigh copied words from other sources and then attempted to rewrite the relevant passages.

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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.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 26, 2021

To answer that and other questions about Halloween costumes, we have to step back and look at how copyright and trademark law apply to costumes. 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. Bottom Line.

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Plagiarism Today

APRIL 4, 2022

In some types of programming, especially when there’s only one correct way to do something, copying code isn’t just a shortcut, it’s the norm. Many lawyers also copy and paste heavily in the legal documents in a bid to meet the criteria there. The most significant difference between is that copyright is a function of the law.

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