The IPKat

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

You may not love Asian carp, but you will hopefully love copi (and will give the fish a try at your favorite restaurant, thereby preventing ecological disaster). The maligned variety is referred to as European carp, but there is also an Asian carp. Focus groups described copi as 'cute' and 'manageable'. See also choosecopi.com.

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IP and Legal Filings

JULY 28, 2022

Every financial year, project accounts must be audited, and a copy must be provided to MahaRERA. [9]. The promoter’s marketing or prospectus must prominently display the MahaRERA website URL, where all details of the registered project as well as the registration number acquired from the Authority have been recorded.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 17, 2022

In some cases, it refers to little more than advanced algorithms, but complex self-learning computer systems with human-like traits are actively being developed as well. The algorithm masters your track with the same RMS, FR, peak amplitude and stereo width as the reference song you choose,” Songmastr explains.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 9, 2022

A recap of emoji law developments in 2021: Court References. I maintain a dataset of US court opinions that reference emojis and emoticons. Most case references are merely that–the court simply notes the presence of a symbol as part of reciting evidence in the case. Footnote: courts sometimes clearly mislabel the symbol.

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Traverse Legal Blog

MARCH 3, 2021

There is an increasing number of brands, talent agencies, and influencers looking to leverage influencer marketing. Celebrities, Influencers, Talent Agents, Marketing Agencies & Brands. We represent agencies, marketing agencies trying to line up influencer campaigns for their clients, for brands. Seems simple right?

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 18, 2024

Patrons can also borrow books that are scanned and digitized in-house, with technical restrictions that prevent copying. Staying true to the centuries-old library concept, only one patron at a time can rent a digital copy of a physical book. A Napster Moment?

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

However, there are those who have made cottage industries out of the sale of illegal copies at significantly lower prices. One such individual, a 28-year-old man from Denmark, was spotted by Rights Alliance selling copies of textbooks via DBA, Denmark’s most popular online marketplace. This had little effect.

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Plagiarism Today

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Mr. Beast makes it abundantly clear at multiple points in the video that his work is based on Squid Game , and he repeatedly references the show throughout. 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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The IPKat

DECEMBER 29, 2021

The European Commission’s Directorate-General for Taxation and Customs Union ( DG TAXUD ) and the European Union Intellectual Property Office ( EUIPO ) recently released the first joint annual report on EU enforcement of intellectual property rights: results at the EU border and in the EU internal market 2020. billion in 2019.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

The idea was to take market share away from piracy sites, by offering a legal and more convenient streaming platform. In recent years piracy started to grow again , including in well-served markets such as the United States. ” (Un)authorized Copying? Initially, this seemed to work.

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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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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

The three models argued that Cloudflare directly infringed their rights by making copies of the copyrighted works on its servers and deliberately marketing its service to pirate sites. In a copyright infringement context, volitional conduct refers to a causal link. No Direct Infringement (for now).

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

However, the channel the ‘reference video’ was uploaded to has none of these qualities, the defendants say. “Viewing a transmission – whether it be Triller’s April 17, 2021 transmission of the Broadcast, the Reference Video or the 4/22/21 Podcast – does not constitute copyright infringement. Fair Use Defenses.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

The group offered hardware and software solutions that allowed people to install and play unofficial games and pirated copies on various consoles, including the popular Nintendo Switch. To achieve this, co-defendant Max Louarn put Bowser in charge of operating maxconsole.com, through which he helped to market and sell Team-Xecuter devices.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 11, 2022

In response, Newman, the community moderator, copied all of the community’s posts and uploaded them to Dreamwidth–an action we used to call “mirroring” in the old days. “Newman did not create the original allegedly defamatory posts on LiveJournal…Newman copied the allegedly defamatory posts from LiveJournal to Dreamwidth verbatim.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 7, 2024

He assembled various collages of the images and sent copies by postal mail to Doe and “his ex-wife, his adult child, several of his neighbors, and his place of business.” Spencer appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. Spencer, the husband, came into possession of these materials via unspecified means.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

It is that functionality, and not the copying, to which Apple truly objects. To this point, Apple responds that it would rather control the market for security research on its products. Importantly, there is no Apple code in CORSEC itself, and there is also no infringement when someone downloads a copy of iOS from Apple’s site.

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Patently-O

AUGUST 17, 2021

The focus of the appeal is whether the purported “Burns” reference should count as prior art. Valve submitted a printout of Burns and argues that it was a printed copy of an online review of a Scuf controller from 2010. Isenburg also argued that the document had not been shown to be a prior printed publication.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

ID Tech believed that Bayam copies too much of its copyrighted website content and pursued a whirlwind of enforcement activity, including filing two lawsuits against Bayam and sending numerous DMCA takedown demands to Shopify. ID Tech appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. Both use Shopify as a service provider.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

With studios initially unable or reluctant to distribute their works through official channels, piracy platforms of all kinds sought to fulfill demand and as a result, gained a significant foothold in the market. “This app is now closed. Unfortunately it was hit by a DMCA by the monarchy company known as Funimation,” he writes.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

‘Library Genesis,’ or ‘Libgen’ for short, is a group of pirate websites through which a vast array of written material is illegally copied and distributed online without any authorization, and with no remuneration to copyright holders.” “[T]he Sites undermine the very purpose of U.S.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 4, 2024

For good measure, they also marketed them as such. “The reported repositories offer and provide access to unauthorized copies of cryptographic keys that are used to circumvent Nintendo’s Technological Measures and infringe Nintendo’s intellectual property rights. .

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LexBlog IP

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. Issue(s) Whether the Ressemann reference disclosed the combination of features as to preclude a nexus between the objective evidence of non-obviousness.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

“Plaintiff does not enforce its alleged copyrights to protect the market for its works or to further the useful arts and sciences,” John Doe writes, referring to the purpose of copyright as defined in the US Constitution. These include misuse of copyright, fair use, unclean hands, and excessive damages.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 8, 2024

We usually get ours at the local farmers market.] Still, there should be many circumstances where descriptive fair use permits the defendant to use the term “Texas tamale” in the ad copy. CPUSA2 appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. Yum, and easily veganized. ” Say what?

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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. An emulator reference, presumably. A snip at $165.

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Kashishipr

JULY 20, 2022

Although this may sound quite encouraging and motivating for those with original ideas, many famous brands out there are accused and widely recognized for being copycats in the market and, unfortunately, making a lot of money. The American video and photo sharing social media platform Instagram has been accused of copying Snapchat.

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Patently-O

AUGUST 23, 2021

Importantly, the Federal Circuit suggests that the obviousness inquiry should begin with a primary reference whose whose “design characteristics … are basically the same as the claimed design” and that creates “basically the same visual impression.” ” Design Patent Obviousness: How to Pick a Primary Reference. In Graham v.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

It also references a currently anonymous ‘Person 1’ as a co-conspirator. The content was then transmitted over the Internet and copied to computer servers controlled by the defendants, some of it for subscribers’ time-shifted consumption. Code § 506 and 18 U.S. Pirate Services Generated $30 Million in Subscriber Fees.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 6, 2024

Any surviving services may need to be structured as marketing agencies that push all of the legal risk to the users and third-party vendors. He ultimately summarizes: “District court decisions within the Sixth Circuit have held that plaintiffs must show the defendant ‘intentionally and knowingly’ copied the copyrighted work.”

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Olartemoure Blog

MARCH 16, 2021

Ask your attorney to include your email address as a reference for authorities, so you receive the same alerts your attorney gets. 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.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Z-Library was also mentioned in several recommendations to the US Trade Representative’s overview of notorious piracy markets. While the Authors Guild doesn’t recommend branding the platform as a notorious market, the social media platform responded to these and other rightsholder complaints in a letter to the USTR.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 6, 2022

” With respect to whether Babybus’ baby character infringed Moonbug’s baby, Babybus claimed that the alleged copying related to generic features found in nature. . Day to Day Imports. * Satirical Depiction in YouTube Video Gets Rough Treatment in Court. * 512(f) Preempts Tortious Interference Claim–Copy Me That v.

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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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SpicyIP

AUGUST 8, 2024

This is what was seen in the recent case of M/s KG Marketing of India v. KG Marketing India, through its proprietor, Mr. Karan Kumar, against Rashi Santosh Soni and Santosh Soni (the defendants) to seek an injunction to prevent the use of the trademark “SURYA”. Rashi Santosh Soni & Anr. Meenakshi case and the Ashok v.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

AT&T references this in its terms but according to the filmmakers’ complaint, this policy is not sufficient. They include YTS, The Pirate Bay, RARBG, 1337x, and others that have been called out in the US Trade Representative’s annual overview of notorious markets. Profit Motive?

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 21, 2021

After the apparent demise of Area 51 but in advance of the settlement being finalized, it’s alleged that Tusa launched a close copy of Area 51 called SingularityMedia, which scooped up Area 51’s customers. A pending settlement agreement included a clause that Tusa couldn’t launch or be involved with any similar services.

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