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MARCH 21, 2022

1: US Senators Introduce SMART Copyright Act of 2022. Senators Thom Tillis and Patrick Leahy have introduced the SMART Copyright Act, a bipartisan bill that aims to reform the notice and takedown system. Copyright Office would oversee to designate standard technical measures through a public rulemaking process.

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MAY 9, 2022

1: Copyright Royalty Board Asked to Approve 32% Increase on Mechanical Royalties for Physical Products, Downloads. When a song or comedy performance is streamed, there are two copyrights to consider: The copyright in the audio work and the written version of that work. Have any suggestions for the 3 Count?

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

1: Meta Criticizes Epidemic’s Copyright Lawsuit Over “Vague Assertions and Glaring Omissions”. 2: AnyStories Drags Cloudflare to the Copyright Claims Board Over Pirate Site. However, the agreement that McMurry had with his publisher meant that the book’s copyright was returned to him 30 years after the first printing.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

1: Pearson Education Sues Chegg, Alleging ‘Massive’ Copyright Infringement. They claim that it’s a violation of the copyright not only of those textbooks, but of any answer keys that the companies does or will provide. The post 3 Count: Pulp Non-Fiction appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Next up today, Ernesto Van der Sar at Torrentfreak writes that the RIAA is seeking some $250,000 in attorneys fees from the stream-ripping site Yout after the RIAA emerged victorious in a decision that found Yout was violating the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) anti-circumvention prevention.

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OCTOBER 12, 2022

1: US Appeal Court Upholds Wolfgang’s Vault Copyright Ruling, Including the Disappointing Damages. In 2015, the National Music Publishers Association (NMPA) filed a lawsuit against Wolfgang’s Vault, alleging that the service did not have a license for the underlying compositions of the songs it streamed.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

1: Instagram Dodges Photogs’ Copyright Lawsuit Over Embedding Feature. Yout enables users to download content from YouTube, something the RIAA says is a violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act’s (DMCA) rules against circumventing copyright protection schemes.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2022

1: YouTuber Hit With Ungodly Number Of Anime Copyright Strikes Gets A Win For Everyone. 2: Nintendo Music YouTuber Who Received 4,000 Copyright Strikes is Closing Their Channel. However, The channel made headlines last week when he reported receiving some 1,300 copyright notices from Nintendo.

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JANUARY 12, 2022

1: LEGO is Being Sued for Copyright Infringement Over Leather Jacket Design. However, he claims that LEGO responded claiming that they had an implied license to use the jacket as part of their set. The Widevine app makes it possible for users to download high definition video from various streaming platforms.

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OCTOBER 6, 2021

The RIAA filed the lawsuit against the pair of sites alleging that they enabled and encouraged piracy by allowing people to download music from YouTube. 3: Seuss, ComicMix Close Book on Landmark Copyright Dispute Over ‘Star Trek’ Mashup. The post 3 Count: Settling Seuss appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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MARCH 15, 2022

Kurbanov was sued by the major record labels, alleging that he operated a stream ripping site that allowed users to illegally download MP3s. The 3 Count Logo was created by Justin Goff and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License. The post 3 Count: Suspended Domains appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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AUGUST 23, 2022

An article by Adi Robertson at The Verge looks at a recent study by The Galaxy , which examines the top 25 most valuable NFT projects and examines what the buyer is obtaining in terms of copyright or other intellectual property rights. NFTs were never meant to address copyright issues, they had a different purpose altogether.

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DECEMBER 14, 2021

1: Can’t Shake This: Taylor Swift to Face Copyright Lawsuit. First off today, Reuters reports that a lawsuit accusing Taylor Swift of copyright infringement in her 2014 hit single Shake it Off has been allowed to move ahead, setting the stage for a possible trial. 2: Sonny Bono’s Widow Strikes Back in Cher Copyright Fight.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

The lawsuit accuses AT&T of contributory copyright infringement for its failure to act against piracy on its network. 2: Taiwanese Ultramarathon Runner Indicted in Copyright Troll Case. It then began to target alleged downloaders of those films, seeking to obtain quick but lucrative settlements from the alleged infringers.

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JANUARY 11, 2022

Next up today, Ernesto Van der Sar at Torrentfreak writes that the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has hit back against Yout.com, alleging that the site’s bid to be declared legal is nothing but “wordplay” Yout is one of many stream ripping websites that allow users to download videos or audio tracks from YouTube.

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AUGUST 25, 2021

Such changes are common as a means to head of potential copyright litigation. The move comes as part of an agreement with the Dutch anti-piracy group BREIN, which has a long history of targeting Usenet sites that enable users to download pirated content. The post 3 Count: No Impact appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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