TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 4, 2023

For companies whose movies are downloaded and shared illegally, solutions have been developed that allow them to monitor suspected pirates and track them back to their ISPs, before obtaining their identities and making a settlement offer to end the risk of a full-blown lawsuit.

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Plagiarism Today

APRIL 7, 2022

However, that agreement made it clear that FDN retained all rights to the intellectual property involved. As such, they would hold the copyright on those text descriptions. 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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SpicyIP

OCTOBER 3, 2021

Webinar on ‘Traditional Knowledge as Intellectual Property: Opportunities and Challenges at the International Level’ [October 13]. The Walt Disney Company filed numerous lawsuits in courts in New York and California seeking to invalidate copyright notices issued by painters and illustrators associated with Marvel characters.

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 2, 2023

Typically, they are extracting settlements anywhere from $150 to $750 per movie allegedly infringed. For example, if an adult downloads 100 movies and shares them via BitTorrent protocol via “the swarm” the so-called John Doe Defendant can be on the hook for a $20,000 to $50,000 settlement. This can add up.

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Canadian Intellectual Property Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Automatic Forwarding Unfortunately, the original system was subject to abuse as social media platforms tended to forward all copyright notices they received in order to limit their liability. These letters were used to effectively extort settlement money from alleged infringers.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 2, 2024

All you have to do is add up the numbers and see how outrageous the settlement demands will be. It is not uncommon to see demands of $25,000 to $35,000 for merely downloading movies (where copyright notices and FBI warnings are not usually found) and to try to milk these people financially dry.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 7, 2022

In the interests of full disclosure, readers should note that I wrote and submitted an amicus brief , on behalf of myself and four other intellectual property professors, in support of the copyright owner (Unicolors), in this case. Copyright Office before an infringement lawsuit could be filed. (For

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