TorrentFreak

JUNE 1, 2022

Twice a year Mega publishes a transparency report that reveals the volume of copyright complaints. The latest release shows that in the first quarter of 2022, copyright holders sent 1,187,646 takedown requests. Repeat Infringers. Mega has a repeat infringer policy when it comes to copyright infringement claims.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 11, 2022

1: Microsoft Sues “Black Market” Software Distributor for TM and Copyright Infringement. First off today, Christina Tabacco at Law Street reports that Microsoft has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against The Search People Enterprises over allegations that the company distributed pirated copies of Microsoft products.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Supreme Court Tackles Andy Warhol Copyright Dispute. First off today, Blake Brittain at Reuters reports that yesterday the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a case pitting photographer Lynn Goldsmith against the estate of artist Andy Warhol. Lynn sued allegiging that those prints were a copyright infringement.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

By offering content for free, Libgen reportedly devalues the textbook market and according to the publishers, may even cause certain works to cease being published. Accordingly, Plaintiffs bring this action for injunctive relief and damages to stop and seek redress for Defendants’ knowing and willful copyright infringement.”

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 11, 2022

First off today, Ronald Mann at SCOTUSblog reports that, tomorrow, the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is expected to hear arguments in the case of Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. 2: Hollywood and Netflix Report Top Piracy Threats to US Govt. Have any suggestions for the 3 Count? Though a U.S.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 19, 2022

First off today, Ernesto Van der Sar at Torrentfreak writes that the RIAA has submitted its recommendations to the United States Trade Representative (USTR) regarding international notorious markets for piracy. The Notorious Markets report is an annual report by the USTR that identifies international markets that enable piracy.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 17, 2024

Last month, the community-driven news and discussion platform went public and, with a market cap of more than $6 billion, immediately became one of the larger tech players. A few hours ago, the company released its latest transparency report detailing the actions it took in the second half of 2023.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Most of these amount to copyright infringement complaints, challenging the unauthorized use of protected works as AI training data. However, the RIAA’s latest ‘notorious markets’ submission to the U.S. Over the past two years, dozens of lawsuits were filed against technology companies.

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Plagiarism Today

DECEMBER 6, 2022

1: Freeplay Sues CNN Over Music Used in News Reports. First off today, Chris Cooke at Complete Music Update reports that the music production company Freeplay music has filed a lawsuit against CNN, alleging that the news organization used their music in news segments without a license. Have any suggestions for the 3 Count?

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Just a few days ago we reported how ACE was instrumental in shutting down pirate streaming services in Latin America. Notorious Markets. This is apparent from the latest overview of ‘notorious markets’ that was just submitted to the US Trade Representative ( USTR ). and Amaratu are two such examples, the MPA reports.

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Plagiarism Today

JULY 25, 2022

1: Ninth Circuit Boosts Efforts to Sue Overseas Copyright Infringers. First off today, Edvard Pettersson at Courthouse News Service reports that the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has revived a copyright infringement lawsuit that was filed against the Vietnamese company VNG Group.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

In a recent report, RIAJ Chairman and Sony Music Entertainment CEO Shunsuke Muramatsu said that 2024 marked the 11th consecutive year of growth in the domestic market. In common with Western markets, streaming is the driving force. ” From: TF , for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

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Plagiarism Today

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

First off today, Will Nelson at NME reports that video game modders are fighting back against a lawsuit filed by Rockstar Games claiming that their fan-created mods are a fair use, not a copyright infringement. The outcome of the case was welcomed by local copyright holders in the country.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Earlier this month, the RIAA shared its recommendations for the USTR’s annual review of overseas notorious markets. The music group reported well-known targets such as The Pirate Bay, Newalbumreleases, MP3Juices, RARBG, and RapidGator, plus other piracy-related sites and services. Operator Responds.

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 19, 2022

1: Government Pauses Plans to Rewrite UK Copyright Laws After Authors Protest. The rule, entitled copyright exhaustion, places limits on the import of international editions of books. Without this rule, many authors fear the UK market would be flooded with cheaper international copies. Have any suggestions for the 3 Count?

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

First off today, Ted Johnson at Deadline reports that a group of six United States Senators have signed a letter to the domain name registry Verisign calling upon the service to suspend the domains of pirate websites and generally do more to combat copyright infringement. Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

1: Appeals Court Sides With ACT in Court Battle Over Copyright. First off today, David Saleh Rauf at Edweek Market Brief reports that ACT has emerged victorious in a legal fight against their competior WIN as an appeals court has upheld a legal victory for the prominent testing organization.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 13, 2021

In response to a request from the Office of the US Trade Representative (USTR), the Entertainment Software Association (ESA) has submitted a list of so-called ‘Notorious Markets’ to the US government. However, the ESA highlights the importance of the site to the Nintendo Switch piracy market. “As the U.S.

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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. ” As previously reported , cybersecurity firm ESET previously linked Magis TV to malware and botnets.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

For example, music group IFPI complained that while Cloudflare discloses the hosting locations of pirate sites in response to abuse reports, it doesn’t voluntarily share the identity of these pirate customers with rightsholders. The company has a trusted reporter program, for example, which currently counts roughly 200 organizations.

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 11, 2023

1: Steely & Clevie Productions Take Reggaetón’s Biggest Hitmakers To Court For Copyright Infringement. First off today, Michael Nattoo at DanceHallMag reports that Steely & Clevie Productions has expanded its lawsuit against Luis Fonsi to include dozens of performers in the Reggaetón genre.

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JIPL Online

MARCH 15, 2021

With more content comes the increased possibility that Netflix is engaging in copyright infringement and on the receiving end of copyright infringement claims. [1] 1] This blog will briefly summarize a few of the notable copyright infringement cases Netflix has defended against in the United States.

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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. This, despite a report earlier this year, suggesting that web-based piracy is declining in the Latin American country.

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Plagiarism Today

MARCH 16, 2022

First off today, Matt Novak at Gizmodo reports that, in a talk at South by Southwest, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that NFTs were coming to Instagram and that users “would be able to mint things within that environment.” ” 2: Court Overturns ‘Pirate’ IPTV Prison Sentences Due to Unenforceable Copyrights.

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Plagiarism Today

MAY 11, 2022

Josh Hawley’s Move to Strip Disney’s Copyrights Called ‘Blatantly Unconstitutional’. He claims that it aims to revoke Disney’s “special” copyright protections though the law would rewrite copyright law for all creators. Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

Evolution Hoping to secure their piece of the pie, new players entered the market in the years that followed. Dutch anti-piracy group BREIN is known to report scam sites to ScamAdvisor, but the only major action against these platforms came in the summer of 2021. Deception wasn’t just limited to movies either.

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IPilogue

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

On the other hand, Warhol’s great commercial success was the choice of the market. The Warhol Foundation plans to appeal the ruling, according to an Artnet News report. After all, Vanity Fair commissioned an Andy Warhol print, his signature silkscreen, instead of a creative portrait of Prince.

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JIPL Online

APRIL 9, 2021

In particular, it explores why copyright of a meme’s underlying content does not matter in a normative sense. In this blog I argue that copyright protection of the content underlying memes does not matter because of the relative weakness of enforcement mechanisms for copyright infringement of this scale. Int’l Com.

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Velocity of Content

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

The Paradox of Executive Behaviors From research to medical communications, from legal to marketing, sharing content with colleagues across job roles and departments is critical. The number of people that middle managers report sharing information with increased by 48.5% respectively. Computers and Electronics led the way with 314.5

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Velocity of Content

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Often, this critical information comes from externally-published materialsresearch analyses, market reports, news, and academic journalsthat help financial institutions stay current and maintain a competitive edge. Much of this material is protected by copyright.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

With torrent sites remaining fairly popular, Swedish authorities have also been attempting to disrupt the pirate IPTV subscription market, services that allow users to access premium live TV channels (plus movies and TV shows) at a fraction of the official market rate. MacIPTV Reported to the Police in 2019. Arrested in 2021.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Over the past several years there has been a drive to hold US-based ISPs liable for copyright infringements carried out by their customers. These Internet providers are accused of not doing enough to stop copyright infringers on their networks, even after receiving multiple ‘copyright infringement’ notifications.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JANUARY 6, 2022

These relationships must also be mentioned in the corporate reports that commercial corporations must establish under article L232-1 of the French commercial code. 2/ The Act creates new procedures to fight against mirror sites.

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SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Alpino, WIPO’s report on diversification and economic development, and the dispute between Samsung and its trade union over the use of “Samsung” in the Union’s name. SpicyIP Intern Deepali Vashist discusses the key aspects of this report and its observation on India. Anything we are missing out on?

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

The goal of the project is simple: allow stakeholders from member states to report problematic sites and share the resulting list with advertisers, so they can block bad apples. What we do know is that earlier this year, there were 5,800 domain names reported as “copyright infringing” sites.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 29, 2021

The “repeat infringer” issue remains a hot topic in US courts after rightsholders filed lawsuits against several ISPs. These Internet providers are accused of not doing enough to stop copyright infringers on their networks, even after receiving multiple ‘copyright infringement’ notifications.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Earlier this month, several copyright holder groups sent their annual “Notorious Markets” recommendations to the U.S. The American web security and infrastructure provider can’t be officially listed in the final report since it’s not a foreign company. Trade Representative (USTR). There are also more direct options.

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