TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 20, 2024

The Entertainment Software Association ( ESA ) has submitted its latest overview of “ Notorious Markets ” to the Office of the US Trade Representative (USTR). These submissions serve as input for the USTR’s yearly overview of piracy ‘markets’ which helps to shape the U.S. Government’s global copyright enforcement agenda going forward.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Every year, the Office of the United States Trade Representative ( USTR ) publishes a list of ‘notorious markets’ that facilitate online piracy and related intellectual property crimes. 2022 Notorious Markets Review Yesterday, the USTR published its 2022 Review of Notorious Markets.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

The conclusion of that lawsuit declared that an emulator like Yuzu, that circumvents Nintendo’s technical measures, decrypts Switch games using unauthorized copies of Switch cryptographic keys, allowing games to be played on anything other than a Switch, violates copyright law. “In fact, Defendant has posted links to copies of [.]

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Hugh Stephens Blog

JANUARY 7, 2024

Image: Shutterstock There has been lots of ink spilled over the issue of Artificial Intelligence (AI) developers free riding on the backs of creators by copying and ingesting their content without permission to produce AI “created” content, output that sometimes competes directly in the market with the original work.

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Plagiarism Today

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Earlier today, video game critic and prominent YouTuber James Stephanie Sterling posted a video calling out a marketing firm working for Activision Blizzard in the run-up to the release of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. . A journalist who does this is not a journalist, but another marketer for the company, and they aren’t disclosing it.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 20, 2025

To the extent that Meta made any unauthorized copies of any Plaintiffs registered copyrighted works, such copies constitute fair use under 17 U.S.C. They characterize the use as transformative and argue that it doesnt compete with the original market for these works. 107, Meta said in its early response.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MARCH 11, 2025

Traditionally, the purchase of the tangible copy of a work afforded the buyer or every lawful acquirer of the tangible copy the possibility to enjoy the work as long as the physical object incorporating the work exists. However, the shift from a market of goods to a market of services has changed this paradigm.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

APRIL 12, 2023

The court found that this was transformative (creating the searchable database) and did not adversely impact the market for books. In fact, the court noted that this likely helps the market by making it easier for people to find relevant books. And the image may impact the market for images.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

LegalEase instructed those lawyers to prepare the questions (which have "good" and "bad" answers) using Westlaw headnotes, but without simply copying and pasting those headnotes directly into the questions. On this basis, the Court went through all 2,830 headnotes individually, and found that there has been actual copying of 2,243 of them.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2023

In this case, the Federal Circuit determined the sufficiency of evidence to rebut a nexus between objective evidence and non-obviousness; and to establish the objective indicia of copying. Direct evidence of copying is not necessary to establish copying. The Board’s finding of copying is supported by substantial evidence.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 23, 2024

Rebecca Tushnet and I are pleased to announce the seventh edition of our casebook, Advertising & Marketing Law: Cases & Materials. Paperback buyers can get a free PDF file by emailing me a copy of their receipt showing which edition they bought. It is available for purchase in the following formats: * DRM-free PDF file.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 18, 2025

.” Amount taken: “Townsquare copied the entire Jordan video. Perhaps because it was a judgment on the pleadings, Townsquare got some pretty favorable bounces on the fair use defense–especially on the market effect, because embedding is absolutely in competition with a paid license to upload.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

APRIL 7, 2025

Robinson alleges that Binello uploaded Robinson’s recording of Maple Leaf Rag for use in MeepCity without Robinson’s knowledge or permission and that Roblox employees reviewed and approved the uploaded audio file, created a copy, assigned it a unique asset ID, and stored the copy on the Roblox server. Implications.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 8, 2025

The United States Trade Representative ( USTR ) published its annual Out-of-Cycle Review of Notorious Markets a few hours ago. Perhaps it will result in another ‘positive development’, which the USTR can highlight in next year’s version of the notorious markets report. The full overview also includes offline markets.

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Plagiarism Today

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

It was hot on the heels of a very different kind of copying scandal, one that involved Streamlabs announcing the launch of a new product using content copied and pasted from one of their biggest competitors. Hey, can I copy your homework? ? Yeah, just change it up a bit so it’s not obvious you copied. This is our fault.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 27, 2025

Yet, for many years, avoiding the most obvious response to unauthorized distribution meant that the ‘recently released’ movie market was dominated by not only illicit, but mostly inferior products. The inclusion of ‘remuxed’ (copied without changes) Portuguese subtitles is common to the leak of September 5.

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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. The 9th Circuit in Sony Computer Entertainment v.

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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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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

DECEMBER 6, 2022

ThFord argued that Freeplay’s name and marketing were deliberately confusing, but ultimately opted to settle the case. A judge in the case has ruled that, while the order and selection of events can be protected by copyright, that TSWK did not copy those elements from Lara and, instead, took them from primary sources.

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Plagiarism Today

JUNE 1, 2022

This has made copied content something of a sore spot with many Google watchers. Why SEO Practitioners Cares About Copied Content. This has taken many forms, including article marketing and spinning. Though Google claims not to penalize duplicate content, it also tries to have results with varied links.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MARCH 19, 2025

In ACI Adam , the CJEU introduced lawfulness as a prerequisite for the enjoyment of the private copy exception, when affirming that the benefit of the private copy exception concerns only reproductions made from a lawful source. This line of reasoning was also adopted in the subsequent V ereniging Openbare Bibliotheken v.

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Traverse Legal Blog

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Preventing Accidental Infringement: Respect Copyright: Avoid copying others’ work without permission. the effect of the use upon the potential market. However, courts may reduce damages if you can prove: Unawareness: You were unaware of the infringement and had no reason to suspect it. the purpose and character of your use.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 1, 2022

Finally today, Ad i Robertson at The Verge reports that Spice DAO (decentralized autonomous organization) has announced that it is abandoning much of its Dune -related plans and, instead, intends to sell its copy of the Dune bible and attempt to pay out holders of its $SPICE cryptocurrency.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 4, 2025

In January, the UK’s digital markets competition regime went into effect. This procedure allows the Government’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) to regulate dominant tech firms, ensuring fair competition and consumer protection. They say that Google’s current demotion policy has only a limited effect.

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Plagiarism Today

MAY 11, 2022

However, an element of the bill would make it retroactive for all companies with a market cap of $150 billion, an amount Disney exceeds. According to the lawsuit, which was filed in California, Moonton copied elements of its mobile game, Wild Rift , which is the mobile version of League of Legends.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 27, 2024

“Operation 404 is a model for effective and efficient criminal enforcement measures against piracy sites and services and should be replicated by other markets within the Western Hemisphere,” MPA writes. A copy of Bill No. 1153 can be found here (pdf).

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 2, 2022

Back in January, the crypto group Spice DAO (decentralized autonomous organization) made headlines for spending approximately $3 million to acquire a physical copy of the book Jodorowsky’s Dune , a bible for a planned Dune move that would have been made in the 1970s. . The payment beyond excessive.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 25, 2023

IA’s library is operated by a non-profit organization that scans physical books and then lends the digital copies to patrons in an ebook format. In this case, IA sent physical books it owned to a scanning facility and made its own copies. “This market generates at least tens of millions of dollars a year for the Publishers.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 22, 2025

They were not submitted under the TRIS procedure either, a key element of the European Union’s single market policy when it comes to rules regarding online services. Withdraw — A copy of CCIA Europe’s letter is available here (pdf) From: TF , for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

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IIPRD

JANUARY 22, 2025

Thus, fundamental questions arise, such as whether such copying amounts to infringement under copyright law or whether it falls under the purview of fair use. Another important factor is market effect. This, however, would depend on how the elements are qualified, the amount of material that is used, and its potential on the market.

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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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Intepat

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

This doctrine is mainly pertinent to the physical copies of copyrighted works, such as books, CDs, and DVDs. Digital content can easily be copied which raises the question of whether this doctrine ought to apply to digital works as well. However, the applicability of this doctrine in the digital era is still a matter of contention.

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Intepat

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

” While countries like China focus on the “first to file” rule, India gives more importance to those who first use a trademark in the market. Because the big company has more resources for marketing and advertising, it overwhelms the smaller business’s brand identity. India Allianz Aktiengesellschaft Holding v.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 19, 2024

The Eleventh Circuit agrees, quietly dismissing the case in an unpublished opinion. * * * The short opinion addresses the copying-in-fact element, sidestepping the possibly more interesting copyrightability, wrongful copying, and fair use questions. Cattelan appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Note 2: I don’t have a problem with saying that a collection of headnotes may be subject to a compilation copyright, but I’m not sure ifRoss copied the selection/arrangement/ coordination of the headnote collections.) Ross Copyright Ruling appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog.

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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.” Pyrotechnics wants to control the market for every component of its system.

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