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. Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday.

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 19, 2022

First off today, Alison Flood at The Guardian reports that, in the United Kingdom, the Intellectual Property Office (IPO) has announced that they are pausing any changes to their copyright laws after authors expressed concern the change could drastically hurt their income. Have any suggestions for the 3 Count?

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LexBlog IP

MAY 19, 2023

In 1984, Vanity Fair sought to license the photograph for an “artist reference” in a story about the musician. Goldsmith agreed to license a one-time use of the photograph with full attribution. AWF licensed the “Orange Prince” to Condé Nast for an article about Prince.

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Velocity of Content

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Several copyright and licensing stories of interest have captured our attention during recent months. Back in the spring, we reported on the long-running efforts to reform copyright law in Singapore. The report made a series of recommendations for change to the country’s IP laws and regulations. Access Copyright.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

First off today, Justin Curto at Vulture reports that The Weeknd has been hit with a copyright lawsuit over his song Call Out My Name. The lawsuit alleged that LiquidVPN either directly or indirectly referenced copyright infringement in its marketing material. Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday. million and an additional $1.65

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 15, 2022

Many Steam users buy keys from third-party platforms for various reasons, including to obtain cheaper prices reserved for other markets. There’s no suggestion that the keys sold by Buka were obtained illegally, but licensing can be extremely complicated. According to prices listed today on SteamDB , Ukrainians pay just $37.88

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Responding to a request from the Office of the US Trade Representative (USTR), the music group highlighted several of these sites in its annual overview of ‘notorious’ piracy markets. Unauthorized Copies and Derivatives. While Songmastr’s service is a bit more advanced, the RIAA sees it as clearly infringing. mp3juices.cc.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 19, 2022

LaLiga Reports ‘Empty’ IPTV Players to the EC. In support of its case for a crackdown on this ‘IPTV’ app, LaLiga provides the following screenshot: That was captured when the ‘IPTV’ app was available at its previously-available Google Play URL ( copy here via Wayback Machine ).

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 15, 2024

3) What is the effect of open source licenses on the AI model that uses only some open source components? (4) There are many AI models that claim to be open source – just as there are multiple forms of open source licenses , from permissive licenses (e.g. MIT License or Apache License ) to less permissive licenses (e.g.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 18, 2023

Released on January 10, ‘Spare’ was an immediate smash-hit sensation, with PRH reporting record-breaking global sales of more than 3.2 As previously reported , that has caused huge issues for the cinema industry and beyond. million units across print, digital, and audio formats – in its first week on sale. Plagiarism?

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Velocity of Content

MARCH 1, 2023

From research to medical communications to legal to marketing, sharing content with colleagues across job roles and departments is critical. Ninety-two percent of executives report considering copyright before forwarding information and 91% acknowledge awareness of “serious risks of copyright infringement” when they do.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 19, 2021

As reported last week, IA wants the opportunity to show that its digital library lending had no negative effect on the publishers’ business. “Here, IA self-evidently harms Plaintiffs’ existing markets by refusing to pay the customary fees that aggregators pay to distribute the same ebooks to library borrowers. .

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Velocity of Content

MAY 1, 2024

29 town hall, The Heart of the Matter: Copyright, AI Training and LLMs, presented a comprehensive case that AI systems do infringe copyrights and called for a licensing system to compensate content owners. Thus, it can be said that they have made complete and exact copies of everything they have ingested.

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The IPKat

JANUARY 27, 2022

Kat friend Marijus Dingilevskis reminds us of this in reporting on a recent decision by the Lithuanian Supreme Court. Ab initio distinctiveness The Court concluded that the trademark is not distinctive ab initio because there are numerous similar perfume bottles on the market.

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Velocity of Content

APRIL 12, 2023

Half of all respondents reported a hybrid work arrangement; 30% an exclusively remote arrangement; and 20% reported being entirely on-site. To put that in perspective, 60% of employees reported working entirely on-site in 2019. Across job roles and verticals, employees reported that weekly access to at least 7.5

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

By recording the latest movies directly from the silver screen using concealed devices, ‘cammers’ fuel the illicit piracy market that thrives during the first few days of a film’s initial release. TGx is an open platform with an active and lively community, a relative rarity in today’s streaming-dominated market.

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IPilogue

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Netflix also holds the position that Barlow and Bear “ copied liberally and nearly identically ” the elements of expression, dialogue, characters, and key plot points from Bridgerton. Netflix alleges Barlow and Bear have benefited from their album’s false association with the Bridgerton brand.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JANUARY 4, 2024

CJEU judgments Seven.One, CJEU, C-260/22 Coming from Germany, this preliminary reference concerned broadcasting organisations and their entitlement to fair compensation as a result of private copying. One highlight from the report is that global collections for creators reached a new historical record of €12.1

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TorrentFreak

MAY 30, 2023

Operating from 2016 until 2018, the Flawless IPTV service copied subscription TV broadcasts from official (and unofficial) sources and then restreamed that content to tens of thousands of customers, at a dramatically cut down price. Peter Jolley’s share of the profit was reported as £773,000.

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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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Olartemoure Blog

MARCH 16, 2021

Some may say you are telling counterfeiters how to better copy your brand, but the truth is most Colombian consumers don’t want to be caught by friends using counterfeits. Many cases remain under the radar if you do not have local counsel helping you know the market. Take advantage on this to request purchasing licenses.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 13, 2023

” In its 2022 ‘Engaging With Music’ report, IFPI estimates that almost a third of people say they have used illegal or unlicensed methods to download and listen to music. The major threat in today’s market has been growing for many years, mainly because it’s so quick and easy.

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Velocity of Content

APRIL 20, 2023

Was the software designed for the corporate market? Some solutions place a link next to articles that requires the user to manually look up information on available licensed rights using a separate tool. What level of content reporting does the solution provide?

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 8, 2022

After gaining serious momentum over the past seven years, the pirate IPTV phenomenon is now a major challenge for the entire audiovisual entertainment market. While at times unpredictable, pirate subscriptions are now viewed as a credible market alternative. And when cost enters the equation, there can only be one winner.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 8, 2023

Adjusted for inflation, imported Japanese N64s changed hands for the equivalent of $1,400 in today’s money; a copy of Super Mario 64? Imported into the gray market in Europe, US cartridges were cheaper than their Japanese counterparts. Specifically, the reported repository provides Lockpick to users,” the complaint reads.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 31, 2021

” Factor four : The court acknowledges that a market exists for plaintiff’s photos, but the transformative nature of defendant’s use “mutes” the degree of market substitution. Factor three : The entirety of the work was copied. McGucken is appealing the ruling against him. He has a reasonable chance of success on appeal.

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Intepat

MAY 24, 2024

Advantages of Patents: Exclusive Rights: In India, the patent holder enjoys various privileges, including the rights to exploit, grant licenses, and assign their patents, allowing others to manufacture and sell the patented items. To qualify for a patent, an invention must be novel, non-obvious, and useful.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

The company demanded damages under copyright law claiming that the team “willfully and maliciously” copied, adapted and distributed its source code and other content without permission. This leads to the question of whether the alleged conduct of the defendants affected the market for those games and if so, in what way.

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BYU Copyright Blog

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Over the last several years, we have reported on a number of cases that have reached quiet settlements or otherwise fizzled out without us acknowledging their end. Higbee et alWe previously reported on this case here. the "Plaintiff") in an article it produced without complying with the attribution requirements of the license.

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Copyright Lately

MAY 22, 2023

In a 7-2 decision , the Court ruled that the commercial licensing of Andy Warhol’s “Orange Prince” to Condé Nast to illustrate a story about the late musician shared “substantially the same purpose” as the original Lynn Goldsmith photo from which Warhol’s silkscreen was derived, and therefore weighed against fair use. Goldsmith.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 19, 2023

Specifically, a group called Spice DAO purchased an NFT displaying a copy of filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky’s ‘Dune’ for $3 million, assuming it would grant them the ability to produce derivative works, such as an animated Dune series.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

These and other relevant figures were recently published by WIPO and Marques' CLASS 46 reported on them here. According to WIPO, China's accession means that the Hague System will cover nine of the world's top 10 economic markets. Marques' CLASS 99 reported more insights here. In 2021, there was a 14.4% COPYRIGHT In the U.S.,

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 1, 2023

By Guest Blogger Tyler Ochoa Recently, the Ninth Circuit reaffirmed what has become known as the “server test”: in order to be held directly liable for violating the public display right, the alleged infringer must have a fixed “copy” of the work stored on a server in its possession or control. Instagram, LLC , 2023 WL 4554649 (9th Cir.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Plaintiffs’ Copyrighted Works must be illegally copied and stored in order to be streamed on a 24/7 channel,” the lawsuit reads. These can be arranged not only by genre but by officially licensed providers including Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Hulu, and Disney+. ” Illegal Operation, Unfair Competition.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 28, 2022

The Office of the United States Trade Representative has just released its 2022 Special 301 Report detailing the state of intellectual property protection and enforcement by trading partners around the world. The 88-page report covers a broad range of intellectual property rights issues. Pirate IPTV Services Are a Global Problem.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 26, 2023

The lawsuit in question was filed by Applause Entertainment, the Indian company behind the TV-series “Scam 1992” The series covers the 1992 Indian stock market scam, adapted from Debashis Basu’s book The Scam. The TV production is licensed to Sony LIV and was a huge success.

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Plagiarism Today

DECEMBER 1, 2021

While it’s almost certain that Mr. Beast’s video was fully licensed, thus eliminating any copyright issues, it still has to raise mixed emotions. Journalists routinely find their original reporting copied by later publications, often with little to no citation, that often find more readers. Why Bother?

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