Traverse Legal Blog

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Enrico Schaefer, Copyright & Litigation Attorney. Preventing Accidental Infringement: Respect Copyright: Avoid copying others’ work without permission. Enrico Schaefer, Litigation Attorney Specializing in Copyright Infringement. Infringement can be willful or accidental. What Is Accidental Copyright Infringement.

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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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The IPKat

OCTOBER 27, 2021

The author argues that copyright holders would do well to heed this wisdom before entering into litigation, as exemplified by a recent decision from the Swedish Patent and Market Court in case PMT 2401-21. This Dune tells us, every member of the secretive Bene Gesserit sisterhood knows.

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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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Intellectual Property Law Blog

JANUARY 11, 2023

The SCPA legally protects layouts of integrated circuits upon registration, making them illegal to copy without permission. The deposit can be either a physical copy of the mask work or a digital copy in a format specified by the Office. when the mask work is involved in litigation. In particular, Section 1213.2

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

APRIL 12, 2023

Please email Jim Gatto (with the words “AI Guide” in the subject) for a copy of the Guide and/or if you are interested in the webinar details. We are also planning a webinar on legal issues with Generative AI, generating employee guidance on the use of AI and dealing with contractors that produce content for you.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Sheeran’s attorneys argued the elements that were allegedly copied, namely a chord progression and the harmonic rhythm, were both commonplace in music and not protectable by copyright. Songwriting and Litigation. There’s not much doubt that there is more litigation around songwriting.

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Copyright Lately

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Lawyers on both sides will rely on Ross some to argue that AI training constitutes infringement even when models don’t output copied material, others to distinguish generative LLMs trained on billions of works from Rosss narrow, headnote-specific dataset. And independent creation simply means you created it yourself, without copying.

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IP Watchdog

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Assessing arguments made by a co-rightsholder to Marvin Gaye’s 1973 single “Let’s Get It On,” the Second Circuit found that the district court properly limited the scope of the infringement allegations to Gaye’s sheet music deposit copy filed at the U.S.

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The IP Law Blog

MAY 11, 2023

UCANN filed for bankruptcy in 2020, which stayed the litigation. Under another theory, Pure Hemp argued the patent prosecutor committed inequitable conduct by copying and pasting excerpts from prior art references into the ‘911 patent application without disclosing the prior art to the USPTO. First, under 35 U.S.C. §

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IP Watchdog

JULY 30, 2024

Moreover, strong IP rights enable American businesses to compete effectively in the global marketplace by preventing competitors from simply copying their hard-earned innovations. This, in turn, leads to the creation of new products, services, and entire industries, which drive economic growth and create jobs.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 18, 2025

.” Amount taken: “Townsquare copied the entire Jordan video. However, it appears to be a breeding ground for trollish litigation as well. In general, this genre of reporting + embedding is an essential part of our information ecosystem and should be legally protected.

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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. The lawsuit was filed by the music company Melomega, which claims that 10,000 Hours is an infringement of the 1973 R&B song The First Time Baby Is A Holiday.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 26, 2021

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. Bringing us back to our Juice Demon, the elements that are copied include the striped suit and tie. This isn’t to say there’s been no litigation in this area.

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Velocity of Content

MARCH 16, 2023

After all, while we are pondering the weighty issue of future ownership, we are not focusing on the fundamental issue of wholesale copying of works to train AI in a wide variety of situations. Each of these cases is unique, fact dependent, and likely, if fully litigated on the merits, to shed light on different aspects of copyright law.

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Plagiarism Today

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

His group specialized in modifying Nintendo game consoles and selling pirated copies of Nintendo games to customers. That owner, Tofig Kurbanov, is a Russian national that attempted to litigate the case early on but, when told to hand over server logs as evidence, went silent.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Anderson filed the lawsuit against Roup saying that Roup had copied several exercise routines that Anderson had created. Next up today, Kyle Orland at Ars Technica reports that a serial cheater at the video game Destiny 2 has tried a novel new tactic to avoid litigation.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 28, 2025

“We have observed that, since filing of Nintendos litigation, you have begun deleting content you posted online, including content referenced in the Complaint. Upon commencement of a litigation, litigants have a duty to preserve evidence relevant to the case,” the email reads.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 19, 2022

However, the Copilot version did not come with the LGPL license, a requirement of using code under that license, nor was there any indication that it was copied. This is both due to the limited litigation in this space and the lack of clarity on this particular Supreme Court decision, especially given how fact-specific its findings were.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 3, 2025

In this case, the account holders are suspected infringers at the center of potential copyright litigation. — A copy of Shueisha’s DMCA subpoena request at the California federal court and the associated paperwork is available here ( 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 ). Shueisha specifically cited jurisprudence from a U.S.

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IP Watchdog

AUGUST 22, 2021

After a decade of litigation across two continents and an unpaid multi-million-dollar judgment, the parties are once again in court. This time, however, WPL’s arguments pose grave dangers to all owners of other copyrighted works. WPL did not try to compete with SAS by building a different or better product.

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Velocity of Content

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Nonetheless, on February 11, the Ross case did in fact become the first US decision on the merits to directly address copying to train AI. The case arose out of the surreptitious copying of the entire Westlaw database (after having been denied a license) by a company that wanted to create an arguably competing product. a copy shop).

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 4, 2022

However, the important thing to know is that there was no doubt that Take-Two did copy the tattoos in question and there was no question of Alexander’s ownership of them. Alexander had sought $2 for every copy of WWE 2K sold, an amount that would have equaled roughly $20 million. Instead, she only won actual damages totaling $3,750.

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Copyright Lately

OCTOBER 27, 2024

But this time, Hadid didn’t settle or litigate. And while the vast majority of these photo cases settle early, in my experience, copyright plaintiffs recently have been looking to extract increasingly steep settlements for the privilege of avoiding litigation. She didn’t even hire a lawyer. So what do you think?

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2021

It has cratered into a fireball of litigation that doomed the restaurant chain (e.g., It’s so complicated that the judge made an appendix recapping the status of dozens of claims: This post focuses on a sliver of the sprawling litigation empire. this article ) and is now generating truckloads of cash for many lawyers.

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Michael Geist

AUGUST 5, 2021

York University has unsurprisingly been applauded by the education community, which having faced years of litigation launched by the copyright collective, now finds its position vindicated. Last week’s Supreme Court of Canada copyright decision in Access Copyright v. The same was true after the Access Copyright v.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 4, 2022

” Indeed, the court says “the Deposit Copy reads like a manual, instructing a user how to generate digital messages—and convert those digital messages to analog signals—that Pyrotechnics’s control panel and field module can send and understand.” Oracle litigation.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

JANUARY 11, 2023

The SCPA legally protects layouts of integrated circuits upon registration, making them illegal to copy without permission. The deposit can be either a physical copy of the mask work or a digital copy in a format specified by the Office. when the mask work is involved in litigation. In particular, Section 1213.2

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 24, 2023

Tables Turned Not too long ago Malibu was one of the most active anti-piracy litigants in the U.S., Plaintiff monetizes its alleged copyrights through coercive and needless litigation and by extracting settlements from that litigation disproportionate to the minimal value of Plaintiff’s works,” the defense wrote.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 6, 2022

These sites allegedly sell infringing copies of his copyrighted works as posters and other merchandise. Leaseweb describes the photographer as a prolific litigant who has already filed more than 50 copyright infringement lawsuits. The cloud hosting provider notes that it is the latest target in this “litigation strategy.”

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 24, 2024

As developers of generative AI models and services continue to progress at a startling pace, it was only a question of when the RIAA would select the perfect litigation candidate, for the purpose of drawing a line in the sand. The companies “did not deny or proffer any facts to undermine those allegations. .”

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

LiPs Many large businesses face claims brought by unrepresented parties (known as litigants in person or LiPs in the UK, or pro se litigants in the USA). There is a tension, however, between being accommodating, and allowing expensive and often ill-founded litigation to continue.

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Dear Rich IP Blog

AUGUST 13, 2022

The Copyright Office Public Records Portal does not provide copies of the images, books, movies, or other copyrighted materials that are registered under copyright law. I have tried searching on www.copyright.gov, but the result doesn't include the image. All of this information (and more) is provided in Copyright Circular 6.

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SpicyIP

APRIL 15, 2025

She is interested in pursuing IP and tech litigation. ] She is interested in pursuing IP and tech litigation. ] The roll is required to be updated every year and serves as an important support to the Indian courts in complicated patent litigation. Advika is a third-year law student at Symbiosis Law School, Noida.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Not too long ago Malibu was one of the most active anti-piracy litigants in the U.S., “Rather, Plaintiff monetizes its alleged copyrights through coercive and needless litigation and by extracting settlements from that litigation disproportionate to the minimal value of Plaintiff’s works.” John Doe Fights Back.

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JD Supra Law

JANUARY 17, 2023

Our case of the week recounts an interesting saga of companies copying each other’s patent applications to provoke an interference. And if that’s not enough to grab your attention, the case provides some insight into the kinds of evidence that litigants can use to corroborate inventor testimony.

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Copyright Lately

OCTOBER 20, 2024

A good example comes from a case I litigated years ago on behalf of Costco. The Bottom Line During the course of the litigation, Skiplagged stopped using American’s flight symbol logo on its website. In the meantime, below is a copy of the jury’s verdict form to peruse on your next flight.

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