TorrentFreak

MAY 17, 2022

Long before the advent of legitimate online video streaming services, torrent sites and similar platforms allowed users to download and keep copies of movies and TV shows. Is it permissible to download and keep copies of movies and TV shows if you’ve paid for a legal subscription? Subscriber Agreements.

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JD Supra Law

DECEMBER 19, 2024

A recent lawsuit in Texas highlights the challenges social media influencers face in protecting their intellectual property.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Today’s social media users see copyright conflicts on a regular basis, but probably due to the way copyright is enforced, tend to view images and text as faiir game when compared to movies and music. .” The belief that somehow everything is free on the internet was widespread in the late 1990s.

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The IP Law Blog

AUGUST 17, 2023

This ultimately means that when a copy of an image is not stored on a computer’s servers but merely “embedded” onto a website, search engine, etc., As articulated in Perfect 10 , embedding websites that do not “store,” the content do not entirely “communicate a copy” of the content.

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Copyright Lately

DECEMBER 29, 2024

The trouble began when Albany radio station WGNA asked its social media followers to vote for the regions best fried chicken and tagged a few contenders, including Chicken Joes, which retweeted the stations original post. Share your thoughts in the comments below or on social media @copyrightlately. Sydney Nicole LLC v.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

As of this writing, Joy’s Instagram post is still up with the copied caption intact. In short, Joy is far from the first person to have copied and pasted a love letter from somewhere else. What has changed is the internet and the rise of social media. The Role of Social Media. Why It’s So Common.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Earlier this year, the Texas legislature enacted HB 20 , a blatant attempt to censor social media service. The opinion emphatically slices through the FUD that’s been generated by pro-censorial forces questioning whether social media services exercise editorial discretion. The Opinion. ” [cite to USTA v.

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Erik K Pelton

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The way people find the restaurant, the way people tell their friends about it, search for it online, or follow a social media page all revolves around the name of the restaurant. Restaurants are frequently sold to investors or to new owners at some point.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

Founded over a decade ago, Dramacool became a go-to destination for pirated copies of Asian dramas and related content. This triggered an outpouring of responses on social media, mourning the sites’ demise. But what started as a hobby, eventually became a multi-site streaming operation with tens of millions of users.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 14, 2022

On the flip side, today’s interconnected world has the ability to transform leaks into powerful advertising and hype, keeping message boards and social media alive with discussion of exciting new products, at zero cost to official marketing teams. Aggressive Promotion – Not Really a ‘Pirate’ Trait.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 18, 2025

.” Amount taken: “Townsquare copied the entire Jordan video. Lynk Media LLC v. 14, 2025) Fedun posted three videos to social media and then assigned the copyrights to Lynk Media. ” Cite to Konangataa v. IHeartMedia, Inc., 2025 WL 208768 (W.D.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 5, 2024

Every day, millions of people break the law; by posting copyrighted images, music, and videos on social media, for example. That worked well as a sizable crowd showed up, allowing the controversial major to proudly boast the event’s popularity in public through his social media channels.

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IIPRD

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Introduction What separates long-established print and electronic media from social media is that it comes along with a bunch of techniques for its usage. These are tools that shaped social media to be more significant than the long-established medias. As a result, it is crucial to learn how to safeguard IP.

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Plagiarism Today

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

As part of their series The Facebook Files , which is an examination of leaked internal documents from the company, the paper published a scathing review of the company’s practices surrounding copied content. It has an addiction to copied content. There is a selfish reason for Facebook to do this. Bottom Line.

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Copyright Lately

JANUARY 26, 2025

The long-running case, which wrapped Friday in Riverside, California, centered on allegations that Apple TV+s Servant was a “wholesale copy” of Francesca Gregorinis 2013 indie film, The Truth About Emanuel (read my trial preview here). While access alone isnt sufficient, without it, similarities cant be the result of copying.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 21, 2021

They allege that American Skin copies elements from their 2017 screenplay, A Routine Stop. The move comes after a recent copyright direct in the European Union, one that requires search engines and social media sites to pay a license to use content from news outlets within the bloc.

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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

APRIL 7, 2022

Copyright Office, “Online content is considered published if the copyright owner authorizes the end user to retain copies of the content or further distribute the content.”. Their pages contained a pair of copyright notices that read, “Nothing on this page may be copied or reproduced without explicit permission.”

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JD Supra Law

AUGUST 21, 2024

Employees copy and paste photos from the internet or embed social media posts to the company’s website or into a press release or news article. In the Internet era, every firm has a risk of copyright infringement. Images stored on the company server are renamed, and the scope of rights are no longer ascertainable.

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Plagiarism Today

DECEMBER 14, 2021

According to the duo, they wrote the song Playas Gon’ Play , elements of which they allege were copied by Swift for her song. The lawsuit pits Swift against songwriters Sean Hall and Nathan Butler. Swift had called for the case to be dismissed, saying that the works were fundamentally different and that there was no need for a trial.

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Copyright Lately

OCTOBER 27, 2024

Each of these lawsuits involved a familiar scenario, putting Hadid squarely in the “ I got sued for posting pictures of myself on social media ” club—a club that’s now about as exclusive as a Sam’s Club membership. Let me know in the comments below or @copyrightlately on social media. So what do you think?

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43(B)log

MAY 19, 2023

Wowwee sells a line of dolls called “My Avastars,” which plaintiffs allege were “copied directly from Roblox’s Classic Avatars.” Looking at the side by side pictures in the complaint, this is a bit hard to swallow, but the evidence of copying/references to Roblox clearly bleed over from the TM side.

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Copyright Lately

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

Central to her ruling was the conclusion that the plaintiffs hadn’t claimed that ChatGPT disseminated a copy of their works in response to any user query. Let me know in the comments below or @copyrightlately on social media. In the meantime, here’s a copy of Raw Story Media, Inc. OpenAI, Inc.—hopefully

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Those questions come from every angle and include debates about social media, the ethics of organ donation, writers’ ethics when using elements from another person’s life and much, much more. She took the words that someone else had written, copied them and used them in her story while presenting them as her work.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 28, 2025

That Keighin was a prolific streamer on YouTube, Discord, Twitch, TikTok, Trovo, Kick, Vaughn, Dlive, Picarto, Nimo, Facebook, and Loco, ensures social media reach with serious potential, although maybe not for a while.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 3, 2025

One Piece ‘Pirates’ on X This week the manga mogul was back in court, requesting a DMCA subpoena from another American intermediary, Elon Musk’s social media platform X. These cases are filed in the U.S. From: TF , for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Between blogs, social media, forums, YouTube and a million other sites, one doesn’t have to be in a writing profession to be a widely read author. Turnitin launched in the year 2000 , Between search engines and ready-made copy detection tools, spotting plagiarism became much faster and easier than ever before.

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Copyright Lately

JANUARY 23, 2024

Photographer Jeff Sedlik will ask a federal jury to find that celebrity tattoo artist Katherine Von Drachenberg (aka Kat Von D) infringed the copyright in his iconic portrait of Miles Davis by reproducing the photo in a tattoo and then displaying images of her handiwork on social media. What Will The Jury Need to Decide?

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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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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 8, 2025

— A copy of the USTRs 2024 Review of Notorious Markets is available here (pdf). But it’s worth pointing out anyway. 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

APRIL 4, 2022

In some types of programming, especially when there’s only one correct way to do something, copying code isn’t just a shortcut, it’s the norm. Many lawyers also copy and paste heavily in the legal documents in a bid to meet the criteria there.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 26, 2023

Takedown Trouble Triggers Lawsuit This takedown policy is widely accepted as the standard for social media services but every now and then, disputes can arise. However, as often happens with popular media, pirated footage was readily available too. The TV production is licensed to Sony LIV and was a huge success.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 4, 2022

The French streaming site actively campaigns on social media where it has booked some impressive results. That kind of social media exposure is unprecedented for a pirate site and it definitely helped to get more viewers to the platform. The real challenge is driving traffic to a site while ensuring it also stays online.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2021

The application of this principle to this case is easy: the elements that Defendants allegedly copied from Coscarelli’s cookbooks are primarily lists of ingredients and directions for combining them. There’s a whole lot of tail-waggin’ and lip-smackin’ when my pups smell these all-natural treats baking. ” Really?

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 2, 2022

She tattooed the Sedlik photo onto Farmer and promoted the tattoo on social media. “Von D presumably did not need to copy the pose from the Portrait in order express a sentiment of melancholy.” However, the court says the jury can decide if the defendants profited from their social media posts.

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Plagiarism Today

MAY 19, 2022

However, it’s doing so in a way that is unique to any social media platform that came before it. While TikTok may be best known for its widely copied trends, a stronger culture of citation can help reward those that start them. This move puts TikTok in an unusual position. Creating a Culture of Credit.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

There are dozens of recognizable brands in the illegal streaming market, all jostling for position in a chaotic market where trademarks are copied even more readily than movies or live TV streams. In Latin America, one brand stands out more than most, and not just because it has a bright orange logo.

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