TorrentFreak

AUGUST 21, 2021

A pending settlement agreement included a clause that Tusa couldn’t launch or be involved with any similar services. 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.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

The blog post in question was written by Rebecca Marsh, the bank’s Vice President of Marketing & Communications. The backstory and context provide some interesting insight into the copyright infringement settlement mill. Lucrative Settlements. “Innocent Infringement” Backstory. As it turns out, Ms.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

courts, collecting millions of dollars in settlements. “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. ” Corporate Status (Still) Suspended.

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IPilogue

OCTOBER 26, 2021

It started out in 2010 when Oracle sued Google for copying the application programming interfaces (APIs) of Java, a programming language developed and licensed by Sun Microsystems and later acquired by Oracle, in Google’s development of the Android operating system. In addition, Breyer J. ruled that Google’s use is “minimal,” about 0.4

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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. 1-800 Contacts * FTC Explains Why It Thinks 1-800 Contacts’ Keyword Ad Settlements Were Anti-Competitive–FTC v. ” Say what?

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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.

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Patent Trademark Blog

JANUARY 25, 2024

How to take down Amazon seller listings that copy your products You have invested a great deal of time and money to develop your products. Now you’re being copied by others. What can you do to take down Amazon seller listings of copy products? The goal is to win and shut down listings of copy products on Amazon.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

They argued that the company made copies of their copyrighted works on its servers and deliberately marketed its service to pirate sites such as Thothub. Settlement? Cloudflare as Piracy Facilitator? The trio accused Cloudflare of both direct and contributory copyright infringement.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

To many trademark owners, it’s a simple decision to sue when the advertiser includes the trademark in the ad copy. As I teach my students, Porta-Fab should have spent its enforcement budget on more marketing instead of more lawyers, which almost certainly would produce a higher ROI than this lawsuit did.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 9, 2022

When the symbols “include something in addition to common tropes and shapes,” and even then, the registrations should only preclude verbatim copying. Dear [smiley]” formed a settlement agreement. The post 2021 Emoji Law Year-in-Review appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. When exactly?

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Troia wasn’t offering any services at all, but also, note the ad copy–the headline says “horror story” and the text says “They abruptly fired me,” which were pretty good tipoffs to consumers of what they should expect at the link. To marketplace alternatives that they independently discover and vet?

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SpicyIP

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Furthermore, the continuous sales done by the violating party flood the market with infringing products where they are sold at a fast pace on a regular basis. The similarity/copying should be slavish and of a high degree between the product of the plaintiff and the product of the defendant. Some of these benefits are: A.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 3, 2023

The case initially seemed set for a quick settlement, but the parties failed to reach an agreement. However, the court denied these motions, as there is no hard evidence that any game code was copied. Defendants did not have access to the software Bungie accuses them of copying,” defendants note in a pretrial statement.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 9, 2022

Several of these lawsuits have ended in settlements, where some VPNs services agreed to block notorious pirate sites or BitTorrent traffic on US-based servers. While not all VPN services are bad apples, VeePN is allegedly using pirates’ fear of getting caught as a marketing strategy. ’,” the plaintiffs write.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 30, 2023

Nursing CE Central” is a descriptive mark with “a weak secondary meaning… the plaintiff makes no meaningful showing that the public, or even those in the market in which it competes, readily recognizes its name.” ” Marketing channel. ” Relatedness of goods. The litigants directly compete. Mark similarity.

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JIPL Online

MARCH 15, 2021

Then, the post will predict how Netflix may shift its content practices, defense strategies, and settlement tactics as a result of their past litigation successes in copyright actions. SETTLEMENT CASES. 9] Both parties reached an amicable settlement. [10] 9] Both parties reached an amicable settlement. [10] TRIAL CASES.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 29, 2021

That claim is backed up by an affidavit from the operator of YTS , who signed settlements with several of the movie companies in the past. should also block all alleged pirate sites that are listed in the USTR’s annual overview of notorious markets. — A copy of the movie companies’ complaint against WOW!,

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 11, 2022

A photo of the Indianapolis nighttime skyline has generated $825 in license fees & $135k in settlements. After 3+ yrs of litigation, court awards Bell $200 in statutory damages–but actually $0 due to a related settlement. 26, 2021). This is a preview of the future of CCB litigation…CAN’T WAIT! 19-55882 (9th Cir.

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43(B)log

MARCH 1, 2022

Bell continues to market his 1982 72-page book, and also sells merchandise, “including t-shirts and posters that display the passage that was quoted in the tweets.” If that were all, copying the WIN Passage would be qualitatively significant. Effect on the market: Harm was implausible. NXIVM Corp. Ross Institute, 364 F.3d

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TorrentFreak

MAY 2, 2024

The speed of the settlement seemed to suggest some type of vulnerability beyond the paperwork, and real enough – whatever it was – for Yuzu’s developers to submit. Genuine dubious device or merely a copy of one? When the team settled the lawsuit just a week later, that was not just unexpected.

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Copyright Lately

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

The company claimed the ad’s use of the Crystal Castles cabinet was de minimis —too fleeting and trivial to constitute infringement—and that it was protected under the fair use doctrine, asserting that the commercial had no conceivable impact on the market for Atari’s game. In the meantime, a copy of the court’s opinion is below.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 1, 2022

million was transferred from accounts in violation of the court’s asset freeze but after showing a copy of a contempt motion to the defendants’ council, the defendants plus Beaman engaged in settlement discussions. DISH claims that $3.4 DISH Obtains Evidence From Jailhouse Phone Recordings.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 16, 2021

To support this claim, the movie companies turn to evidence handed to them as part of a settlement deal with the operator of the YTS torrent site. allegedly distributed multiple copies of the movies After, Hellboy and Angel Has Fallen. The Grande subscriber behind 66.196.3.46

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TorrentFreak

MAY 29, 2023

.” DoNotPay says its AI product provides affordable legal representation but according to Tewson, the supposed AI amounts to a document wizard dressed up in Theranos-style marketing. Being hounded by “ the world’s most tenacious paralegal ” is also reality for defendants in Bungie cheat lawsuits.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The Lenz case got a lot of press, but it ended with a confidential settlement. This is the initial copying design (without of the background graphics in the precedent work): The copyright registrant alleged this copying design constituted copyright infringement. Signal 23 Television v.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 14, 2023

These require ISPs to charge for the traffic they receive from each other rather than utilize settlement-free peering as they did in the past. Clones Probably Incoming The inevitable response to the closure of a platform as significant as Noonoo TV will be the influx of clone and copy sites.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Whatever legal ambiguity might have existed then has been decisively resolved, at least with respect to competitive keyword ads that don’t use the trademark in the ad copy. This ruling doesn’t address the scenario where the advertiser’s ad copy references the trademark. Google (4th Circuit). Actual Confusion.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 30, 2021

It was certified as a class action on behalf of a large number of sound recording copyright owners (but excluding the major record labels, which had already entered into a separate settlement with Sirius XM). That settlement left Flo & Eddie’s lawyers representing a class of only about 20% of the pre-1972 sound recording copyright owners.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 2, 2024

The company first launched a proactive lawsuit against music rights group BMG in 2016, which ended in a settlement. In its complaint, SMV mentions that it has invested significant financial resources, time, and effort in marketing its movies. Ideally, those investments should be recouped through sales but online piracy gets in the way.

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Velocity of Content

APRIL 12, 2023

The ease with which teams can access and share information, such as news, feature articles, research reports, and more, can influence the pace at which organizations and their teams drive innovation and deliver products and services to the market. 1] so important to note?

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

“IJR copied a significant percentage of the Photo in its article, and it only cropped out the negative space while keeping the Photo’s expressive features, or the ‘heart’ of the work.” ” Market Effect. IJR appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. Amount Taken. 21-2021 (4th Cir.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 4, 2022

A copy from the Wayback Machine also reveals that the photographs of the therapist are drastically different when compared across sites, an indication of a deliberate switch. As the archive copy of the Beyond Boundaries website on the Wayback Machine clearly shows in the footer, the site was created by web design/SEO company i New Media.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 8, 2024

That’s certainly true for high-profile and well-advertised consumer items like fast food chains, mass-market phones, and major car labels, but is it true in this particular niche? the rival included ad copy telling consumers they were buying the trademark owner’s items when they weren’t.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

In summary, H3 says that when it showed the fight along with biting commentary on YouTube, that was fair use, even though the video shown was sourced from a pirated copy of the PPV event. “TEI did not make a simultaneous copy of the Broadcast when it was viewed on April 17, 2021. For its part, Triller disagrees, bitterly.

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SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 26, 2022

To build the forthcoming argument, an analogy is to be drawn between the NSE data and the copy-edited judgments in question in DB Modak. The data is a function of the market forces of supply and demand and is bereft of any application of creativity, save the labour and capital put into the functioning of the stock exchange.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 29, 2022

1-800 Contacts. * FTC Explains Why It Thinks 1-800 Contacts’ Keyword Ad Settlements Were Anti-Competitive–FTC v. OxBlue. * Want To Know Amazon’s Confidential Settlement Terms For A Keyword Advertising Lawsuit? Warby Parker appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog.

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Greenspoon Marder LLP

OCTOBER 21, 2012

has agreed this week that his most recent brand has violated a 2010 settlement of a trademark infringement lawsuit involving his first brand, The South Butt. In the 2010 infringement lawsuit, Winkelmann reached an amicable settlement with The North Face promising to stop selling clothing under the name The South Butt.

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