TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

“Rightscorp intentionally sends out millions of notices a year, and includes threatening settlement demands therein, as it stands to gain a portion of each settlement received as a result of each notice. To force the matter, Altice submitted a motion to compel Rightscorp to comply with the subpoenaed information.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

All direct complaints were ignored so DISH sent copyright notices to the service’s CDN providers too but according to the broadcaster, Chitram simply moved its business elsewhere. He says that the original documents confused him, in part because the envelope was unmarked, had no stamp, and was sent from the United States.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 14, 2024

.” Knowledge of infringement, the labels say, was established at Verizon over a period of several years during which it received “hundreds of thousands” of copyright notices, referencing instances of infringement allegedly carried out by its subscribers.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 21, 2022

.” Piracy Notices Never Came Through. If the court chooses not to dismiss the copyright claims, the ISP would like the claims to be drastically limited. The company explains that many of the copyright notices sent by the rightsholders should be excluded because they were sent to the wrong email address.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 23, 2022

Using the DMCA’s takedown process as a weapon, persons unknown sent copyright notices to YouTube, claiming that the targeted videos should be taken down for infringing Bungie’s rights. On the day that Google asked Minor for documents, he used his ‘Lord Nazo’ Twitter account to send messages to Bungie accounts.

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IP Law 360

AUGUST 28, 2023

A website that asks college students to upload study guides and course documents in return for the ability to download similar material cannot escape a copyright lawsuit by a for-profit Connecticut university connected to the site's own watermarks copyright notice, a Connecticut federal judge has determined.

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Dear Rich IP Blog

AUGUST 27, 2023

And you don't need permission if the works were produced between 1963 and March 1989 and they did not include a copyright notice. In summary, you only need to be concerned about 1963 - 1989 designs with copyright notices. In 2015, the Copyright Office analyzed t he orphan works dilemma.) Is it an orphan work?

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 29, 2023

The document then directed Flores to serve in a “Service Packet,” provided by the CCB in a PDF, and upload proof of service to the CCB within 90 days of notice. The Service packet includes: An initial notice The approved claim, along with any supplemental documents submitted with your claim An opt-out notification form.

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LexBlog IP

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Further, only a modicum, or small amount, of creativity is required for copyright protection to attach. Many find it surprising, but there is no requirement to include a copyright notice on a work for the work to be protected by copyright law. The lack of a copyright notice does not give you permission to use the work.

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Patently-O

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

The case shows that documents with quite limited distribution, such as operating manuals sent to ~10 customers, may still meet the public accessibility standard for prior art depending on the circumstances of disclosure and expectations around further dissemination. ” Accessibility does not actually require that it was accessed.

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Velocity of Content

DECEMBER 6, 2023

It is important to understand the role of word embeddings when it comes to copyright because the embeddings are the representations (or encodings) of entire sentences, paragraphs, and even documents, in a high-dimensional vector space. There is good reason that copyright is an “opt in” regime.

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Dear Rich IP Blog

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

We contacted the USPTO for guidance as to why the FOA was reversed but the examining attorney directed us back to the documentation. Publicity photos published after 1924 were rarely renewed (a requirement for works published before 1964) and they often did not include a copyright notice (a requirement for works published before March 1989).

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Velocity of Content

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Is a copyright notice sufficient? It has been well documented that some AI companies have trained systems on illegal sets of content. After all, the TDM exception is an exception to allow very smart machines to “read” and process information, so isn’t anything on a website “machine readable?” First, there is pirated content.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 7, 2022

Before the 1909 Act, the author was required to register the title of the work before publication, as a condition of receiving copyright protection. Under the 1909 Act, an author received a federal statutory copyright merely by publishing the work with proper copyright notice. 110-617 , at 23 (2008) (emphasis added).

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Copyright Lately

JANUARY 16, 2022

As a new lawsuit involving the popular comic book and animated series “Invincible” shows, the failure to properly document the copyright status of a jointly-created work at the beginning can lead to messy consequences later. Can someone be tricked into giving up copyrights he may never have owned in the first place?

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

These accounts were previously targeted in copyright notices sent by the RIAA or a third party. Altice, for example, will also gain access to some non-privileged documents and communications between the music companies and their anti-piracy partners , including the RIAA, OpSec, and Audible Magic.

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