Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2021

The European Intellectual Property Office ( EUIPO ) has recently published a report on Online Copyright Infringement in the European Union. The report examines the consumption of copyright-infringing content in the EU Member States and the UK between January 2017 and December 2020. 8 t imes per month.

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The IPKat

AUGUST 30, 2023

Additional cases were filed over the same songs by Structured Asset Sales, a company owned by investment banker David Pullman that is a beneficial owner of one-third of the copyright in the Townsend catalogue. Both parties submitted expert musicologist reports. Are the songs substantially similar?

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 17, 2024

A few hours ago, the company released its latest transparency report detailing the actions it took in the second half of 2023. 779,628 ‘Infringing’ Items Flagged At TorrentFreak, we are mostly interested in copyright-related actions. During the second half of the year, this upward trend reversed.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Some allegdly-infringed works (full list below) “Without Court intervention, Defendants will continue operating the Libgen Sites, causing still further harm to copyright holders, including Plaintiffs. Copyright Infringement (17 U.S.C. § 101 et seq.)

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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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SpicyIP

AUGUST 20, 2023

Image from here A couple of weeks ago, I discussed a law student in Bengaluru filed a case, alleging copyright infringement, against two assistant professors. On the above allegations, the court took cognizance of the offense u/s 63 of the Copyright Act (copyright infringement) and Section 420 of the IPC (Cheating).

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The Illusion of More

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Copyright Office published its report on copyright infringement by states and state actors in response to the present circumstance whereby states are immunized against litigation for unlicensed use of protected works. The post State Copyright Infringement Should Be About Justice appeared first on The Illusion of More.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 24, 2022

Copyright holders send out millions of takedown notices a day, hoping to remove pirated content or making it harder to find. The efficacy of the DMCA takedown process is open for debate but it certainly doesn’t help when companies flag their own websites as copyright infringing. Sony Targets Sony.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 3, 2022

In addition to rising visitor numbers, copyright enforcement complaints have skyrocketed to previously unimaginable levels. Reddit detailed these trends a few days ago in its latest transparency report. “From January to June of 2022, Reddit received 176,959 copyright notices reporting 738,010 pieces of content.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 21, 2021

This data is presented in Mega’s annual transparency report and this week the company published its latest set, revealing that it now has 230 million users in more than 200 countries and territories. Copyright Infringement & Content Removal. million takedown requests from copyright holders, up from around 1.2

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Over the past several years, a wave of copyright infringement lawsuits has targeted alleged cheaters and cheat makers. Two years ago, Bungie filed a complaint at a federal court in Seattle, accusing AimJunkies of copyright and trademark infringement, among other things. Zilly last week fills in some of the blanks.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2022

This act is often done without the prior consent or permission of the copyright holder or the photographer of the picture. Thus, the question arises if such use attracts copyright infringement. If the photo taken without any prior consent is edited and used for a commercial benefit, then it might attract copyright infringement.

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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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TorrentFreak

APRIL 2, 2023

The European Union recognizes that online piracy poses a serious threat to copyright holders and the public at large. This includes a requirement for large platforms to deter repeat copyright infringers. Nonetheless, dozens of rightsholders have reported the dubious URLs. domain alone.

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JD Supra Law

APRIL 18, 2023

Amazon’s Counterfeit Crimes Unit (CCU) has filed three lawsuits over false copyright infringement claims on the platform. As Amazon reported, “multiple bad actors” submitted thousands of false copyright infringement claims against Amazon sellers in an effort to have them and their products removed from the Amazon store.

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BYU Copyright Blog

JANUARY 10, 2022

In October, we reported that Post University, a for-profit university located in Waterbury, Connecticut, filed a complaint claiming copyright infringement, trademark infringement, violations of the DMCA, and related violations of law by online service provider Course Hero.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 22, 2023

The letter to Discord simply states that AI Hub is dedicated to copyright infringement of its members’ works. ” Shut Down Server, Ban Repeat Infringers The anti-piracy group wants the server taken offline and warnings issued to its operators. The reported links don’t reveal the nature of the content.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 20, 2021

They illegally downloaded Destiny 2 in violation of the company’s licensing terms and willfully distributed copyright infringing code. He is the reported operator of Lavicheats.com. The defendants therefore laundered money in connection with their cheat sales. Bungie vs. Kunsal Bansal (Lavicheats.com).

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

With the NFT craze reaching new heights, Quentin Tarantino finds himself at the receiving end of a copyright infringement battle. Movie studio Miramax, which owns most of the rights to the film, sees it as a contract breach and copyright infringement.

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The IP Law Blog

MARCH 23, 2023

The Ninth Circuit recently addressed the issue of whether parties can contractually agree to shorten the statute of limitations period for bringing a copyright infringement claim. Normally, the statute of limitations for a copyright violation is three years. In an unpublished opinion in the case, Evox Productions, LLC v.

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BYU Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Although the Video was originally posted in 2010, Charming Beats claims to have been unable to locate the Video until this year notwithstanding a practice of making dozens of YouTube searches each year to identify instances of potential copyright infringement of works Charming Beats owns.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 18, 2022

Triller alleged willful copyright infringement (for distributing, uploading, copying, and publicly displaying the fight), violations of the Federal Communications Act (interception/misuse of a satellite broadcast), and vicarious copyright infringement in respect of the infringing acts of those who allegedly viewed the fight on FilmDaily.

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The IP Law Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2021

The Ninth Circuit was recently asked to determine whether to continue to apply the Circuit’s two-part extrinsic/intrinsic test for “substantial similarity” with regard to a copyright infringement claim or to depart from this approach and apply the Second Circuit’s “ordinary observer” test instead. In Johannsongs-Publishing, Ltd.

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IP Watchdog

JULY 5, 2024

Federal Trade Commission (FTC) a blow when it issued a preliminary injunction against the agency's proposed ban on noncompete agreements; the company behind President Trump’s shoe line filed a lawsuit accusing counterfeiters of trademark and copyright infringement; the FTC is set to start an investigation into Teva Pharmaceuticals after it refused (..)

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IP Law 360

MARCH 27, 2024

after a Washington federal judge ruled earlier this month that the gamer illegally posed as a company employee and reported Bungie fans' YouTube videos as copyright violations, according to a court order Wednesday. An online gamer has settled a lawsuit filed by video game developer Bungie Inc.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Over the past few years, copyright holders have reported more than seven billion copyright-infringing URLs to Google. Top Offenders The two top-reported domain names, daft.sex and dsex.to, are relatively new. Overall, we can say that the majority of the five million reported domains are only flagged incidentally.

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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

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

For the purpose of this report, however, we’ll home in on the copyright issues faced by Reddit during the last year and how the site responded to them. Copyright Removals. We removed 665,898 pieces of content in response to these takedown notices,” the company reveals in the latest edition of its transparency report.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 12, 2024

Following a rightsholder complaint about copyright infringement taking place on Telegram, a judge in Spain issued a controversial order for ISPs to block Telegram in its entirety , across the whole country. In May 2023, progress appeared to be going in the wrong direction.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The plaintiff sued Cloudflare for copyright infringement. It found that Cloudflare was liable for copyright infringement due to providing the CDN services but not for the DNS resolver services. Copyright infringement on ddl-music.to infringed the plaintiff’s right under the German equivalent of Art.

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JD Supra Law

JANUARY 9, 2024

A California jury has awarded a photographer reportedly the “largest maximum statutory damages verdict for photography infringement in U.S. The jury awarded $150,000 in statutory damages for each of the 43 infringed images, for a total of $6.3 history,” according to the photographer’s lawyer. By: AEON Law

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LexBlog IP

OCTOBER 30, 2021

The copyright owner controls the use of their work. Copyright exists automatically, without the need for registration. The author, or their employer, typically owns copyright in the work. How is Copyright Infringed? How Can You Address Copyright Infringement? DMCA Takedown Requests.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 11, 2022

However, after reportedly streaming six hours of Avatar: The Last Airbender to her significant audience, she reported a temporary ban from Twitch on January 8. Twitch Users Are Getting Suspended. subscribers, Pokimane is an extremely successful Twitch streamer. “Confirmed 48 hour suspension!” Twitch Users Were Warned About Piracy.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 16, 2024

Some of these sites have been repeatedly reported by FAPAV to AGCOM and blocked by the Authority. Most of the pages mentioned in the petition have already been reported to AGCOM in petition DDA/5427. The same web pages often include directions on how to change DNS or use VPNs to obviate the blocking of some sites by Internet providers.

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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. The MPA report typically provides a detailed overview of the piracy landscape. and Amaratu are two such examples, the MPA reports. The MPA first defined PaaS as a separate category in its report last year.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 23, 2021

Despite the main event of the Jake Paul card ending in just 119 seconds, Triller’s lawsuits are aimed at recovering damages for alleged copyright infringement of that segment. The H3 Podcast reports that in an effort to end that dispute quickly and amicably, it offered to pay Triller $25,000.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 26, 2022

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

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