IP Watchdog

OCTOBER 25, 2024

This week in Other Barks & Bites: the USPTO is changing its approach to auditing trademark applications; the production company behind Blade Runner 2049 sues Tesla for AI-aided copyright infringement;a former OpenAI staffer publishes an essay accusing his former employer of breaking copyright law; and Microsoft’s CEO asks countries to change their (..)

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 15, 2023

‘Breeding Mass Copyright Infringement’ Universal Music, Sony Music, EMI and others filed a complaint at a federal court in Nashville, Tennessee, accusing Twitter’s parent company X Corp of “breeding” mass copyright infringement. copyright law.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 10, 2024

Nealy sues over ‘dated’ copyright infringements The underlying deal didn’t benefit Nealy, who found out about it after he was released from prison for the second time. In response, he filed a lawsuit against Warner Chappell in 2018, demanding compensation for the alleged copyright infringements, dating back to 2008.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 29, 2023

In their lawsuit filed in June , book authors Paul Tremblay and Mona Awad accused OpenAI of direct and vicarious copyright infringement, among other things. They include vicarious copyright infringement, DMCA violation, unfair competition, “negligence,” and unjust enrichment allegations.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 27, 2024

NVIDIA Faces Copyright Infringement Claims Earlier this year, several authors sued NVIDIA over alleged copyright infringement. The class action lawsuit claims that the company’s AI models were trained on copyrighted works taken from the ‘pirate’ site Bibliotik. Copyright Act,” the company writes.

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Indiana Intellectual Property Law

MARCH 10, 2025

Plaintiff Morgan Howarth , through his legal counsel, filed a complaint against Defendant Premier Aquascapes LTD for copyright infringement under the Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. copyright laws. Court documents claim the Photograph was registered with the United States Copyright Office (USCO) on January 19, 2017.

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 2, 2025

It also discusses national and international viewpoints on the subject before going into the Indian judiciary’s stance on copyright violations in the social media era. Copyright law is in charge of controlling how literary, artistic, and theatrical works, among others, are used. 1 (2022). [5]

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

A class-action lawsuit filed by authors including Richard Kadrey, Sarah Silverman, and Christopher Golden is one such copyright infringement case. “By downloading through the bit torrent protocol, Meta knew it was facilitating further copyright infringement by acting as a distribution point for other users of pirated books.”

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

The publishers dismiss this as “just a ruse” to account for a “massive piracy effort” that runs counter to the stated aim of copyright law. copyright law to ‘promote the progress of science and the useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors. Copyright Infringement (17 U.S.C. §

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IP and Legal Filings

MARCH 19, 2025

The defense concluded that the case was without merits, thus not violating copyright laws. Thus, in such cases, copyright laws would favor the producer if the BTS Footage was created as part of the production process. The dispute shares a similarity with Ilaiyaraaja’s copyright case. [1] 1] Llaiyaraja v.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

This maneuver blurs the lines between defamation and copyright law, raising questions about the appropriate remedies for defamation and the jurisdictional authority of courts in such matters. Defamation Remedies vs. Copyright Remedies Defamation and copyright law are distinct legal frameworks with separate objectives and definitions.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 2, 2021

1: Manhattan Judge Rejects ‘Server Test’ for Internet Copyright Infringement. District Court Judge Jed Rakoff has issued a controversial ruling denying the “server test” of copyright law and ruling that embedding images can be an infringement of copyright law.

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 19, 2022

1: Government Pauses Plans to Rewrite UK Copyright Laws After Authors Protest. The IPO has said that it will continue evaluating potential changes to copyright law but did not set a timetable. 2: Maryland Defends Its Library E-book Law, Seeks Dismissal of AAP Lawsuit. Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

If Bayam is actually infringing ID Tech’s IP rights, these consequences might seem normal and appropriate. So until there are meaningful penalties for abusing the copyright system, copyright law will remain a tool of choice for anti-competitive efforts. Case citation : Bayam Group Inc. The CourtListener page.

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IP and Legal Filings

JULY 29, 2024

This make chances of piracy and copyright infringement higher because lots of course encompasses material such as video, powerpoint presentation, and text among others, which once created can be duplicated and distributed by people other than the original creator. This was set in the earliest case of A&M Records Inc. v Napster Inc.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 22, 2023

This is a highly controversial topic in the music industry, with many insiders suggesting that commercial use of these models could breach copyright law. The letter to Discord simply states that AI Hub is dedicated to copyright infringement of its members’ works.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 4, 2023

Under copyright law, platforms can limit liability for the actions of their users provided they respond to DMCA takedown notices in a timely fashion and suspend or terminate users who repeatedly infringe copyright. Backgrid seeks a declaration that Twitter infringes its copyrights and an injunction under 17 U.S.C. §

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 31, 2025

Various groups stressed the importance of copyright protection when it comes to new AI technologies. They argued that foreign governments should be mindful of potential copyright infringements. Other countries, including Japan, have already written AI exceptions into law. In the U.S.,

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

First off today, Blake Brittain at Reuters reports that the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled against an author in his battle against Texas A&M University, ruling that he cannot sue the school for copyright infringement but may be able to sue the school under the state’s constitution.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Under the agreement, Internet providers will voluntarily block sites that are deemed to be copyright infringing; no court order needed. MPA Complaint Results in First Blockades In March, the MPA was the first rightsholder representative to file a copyright infringement complaint under the new administrative site blocking rules.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 31, 2024

First Case of its Type in Japan This week local anti-piracy group CODA revealed details of a copyright prosecution that’s so unusual, it’s probably never happened before. On October 29, officers from Miyagi Prefectural Police Headquarters and Tome Police Station arrested three men on suspicion of violating copyright law.

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Likelihood of Confusion

SEPTEMBER 21, 2024

Republished by Blog Post PromoterYou’ve heard the tale in one form or another: A bar plays a recorded song over its sound system (without permission), then gets sued for violating the public performance right of the musical composition’s copyright holder. Copyright infringement. But it’s just an urban legend, right?

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 14, 2024

This ruling was appealed, with the higher court taking a different stance, emphasizing the responsibility of CDNs to actively combat copyright infringement within their networks. Based on these conclusions, the Court held that Cloudflare is liable for copyright infringement, ordering the company to pay €1.27

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

But if you really want Kiwi Farms gone, have you considered using copyright law for its censorial power? Greer sued Moon and Kiwi Farms for contributory copyright infringement and other claims. Direct Infringement. CloudFlare’s block ). The Court Opinion Greer was a target of one of Kiwi Farms’ attacks.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 22, 2025

. “While this approach aims to protect intellectual property and reduce online piracy, it relies on IP address and domain name system (DNS)-level blocking, making it a potentially extremely blunt instrument to address online copyright infringement,” CCIA writes.

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The IPKat

JUNE 17, 2023

The one above is the question that a Florida judge (Robert N Scola, Jr) answered just a few days ago (Case 1:21-cv-20039-RNS) after fellow artist Joe Morford had gone – quite literally – bananas and sued Cattelan for copyright infringement.

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Plagiarism Today

JUNE 21, 2022

First off today, Hillel Italie at the Associated Press reports that a judge in Maryland has shot down a law that would have required publishers to make e-books available on “reasonable terms” to libraries in the state. ” 3: U.S. Finally today, Blake Brittain at Reuters reports that the U.S.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JANUARY 23, 2024

One AI topic, which has so far only been examined in any depth in relation to EU copyright law in a few instances, is copyright infringement by generative AI and the associated liability. 1) When does AI output constitute an infringement? 2) Who is liable for copyright-infringing AI output?

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

copyright law, Internet providers must terminate the accounts of repeat infringers “in appropriate circumstances”. This legal requirement remained largely unenforced for nearly two decades but a series of copyright infringement liability lawsuits, with hundreds of millions of dollars at stake, have shaken up the industry.

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Copyright Lately

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

Concrete Harm and AI Copyright Cases: A High Bar? The plaintiffs in Raw Story Media didn’t assert a claim for copyright infringement, instead relying entirely on section 1202(b). Indeed, Judge McMahon observed that the DMCA was a poor fit for the case: “Let us be clear about what is really at stake here.

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Plagiarism Today

MARCH 8, 2022

If you follow copyright news, you likely have been seeing countless stories of popular musicians being sued for alleged copyright infringement in their work. . Some of this is simply because it takes time for a copyright infringement lawsuit to be filed. Dua Lipa has been sued twice over her sling Levitating.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Next up today, Bill Donahue at Billboard reports that the rapper Snoop Dogg is facing a copyright infringement lawsuit. In addition to copyright infringement claims, the outlet is also arguing that Snoop violated the Digital Millennium Copyright Act by removing content management information from the video.

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Plagiarism Today

APRIL 27, 2022

On April 13, Ben Dickson at The Next Web received an email from a lawyer with the name Nicole Palmer with the subject “DMCA Copyright Infringement Notice”. First, the subject of DMCA Copyright Infringement Notice is strange. It would be a copyright infringement case. Nothing more.

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Michael Geist

JULY 20, 2022

For much of the past two decades, copyright groups have steadfastly sought to deny what the Supreme Court of Canada has repeatedly endorsed, namely that the purpose of Canadian copyright law is to serve the public interest by balancing users’ and authors’ rights. 11; see also Access Copyright, at para.

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Plagiarism Today

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

1: Instagram Once Again Seeks Dismissal of Derivative Liability Copyright Infringement Suit. 2: Hong Kong to Revive Bill Bolstering Copyright Law as Minister Warns Satire, Parodies Must Toe National Security Line. The law would also increase criminal penalties for those that commit copyright infringement.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Subsequently, on 31 December 2019, Ms Y brought an action against L'Oréal Paris a for copyright infringement before the Paris Court of First Instance. In a judgement dated 6 July 2021, the Court dismissed the photographer's claim and declared several of her photos to be unprotectable under copyright law.

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Plagiarism Today

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

First off today, Jeremy Roebuck at The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that YouTuber Bill Omar Carrasquillo has pleaded guilty to various crimes including copyright infringement, tax evasion and fraud. 3: Magic: The Gathering-Loving Crypto Losers Fail To Understand Copyright Law. Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday.

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