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Amazon.com, Inc. sued for Copyright Infringement and Counterfeiting

Indiana Intellectual Property Law

Delaware, A/K/A Authorhouse for copyright infringement and counterfeiting of his work Mixed Blessings. . printed and sold copies of Mixed Blessings on January 18, 2020 and February 2021 from its online sales platform. Therefore, Plaintiff is seeking compensatory damages for Copyright Infringement in violation of 17 U.S.C. ยง

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De Minimis & Copyright Infringement : Where To Draw The Line?

IP and Legal Filings

Copyright infringement and De Minimis are often replaced to complement each other. However, de minimis is sometimes used as a defence in a copyright lawsuit. More often than not, the lawsuits filed for copyright infringement are cases of de minimis and thereto, get dismissed on the anvil of frivolity. INTRODUCTION.

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3 Count: Unplanned Floors

Plagiarism Today

1: 8th Circuit Revives Copyright Dispute Over House Floor Plans. First off today, Blake Brittain at Reuters reports that the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals has reinstated a copyright infringement lawsuit against the realtors Columbia House of Brokers Realty over the alleged infringement of floor plans.

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Pirate Bay Proxy Defeats Policeโ€™s GitHub Takedown with DMCA Counternotice

TorrentFreak

Various courts around the world have come to the conclusion that The Pirate Bay is a copyright-infringing website. These proxies act as a copy of The Pirate Bay, making the site accessible through an alternative domain name. As a result, Internet providers in dozens of countries are required to block access to the site.

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Police Complaint Removes Pirate Bay Proxy Portal from GitHub

TorrentFreak

By now, various courts around the world have concluded that The Pirate Bay is a copyright-infringing website. This GitHub subdomain is a copy of thepirateproxybay.com and appears to be operated by the same people, but it’s not blocked by UK ISPs. One domain managed to escape these blocking actions; proxybay.github.com.

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The Not-Quite-So Legal Future for Web Scraping

Plagiarism Today

Web scraping has been one of the longest-running themes on this site, with the first articles about it going live as far back as 2006. . For much of the webโ€™s recent history, we scraping commonly referred a technique through which spammers would copy content from a website and republish it, either rewritten or verbatim.

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E&W Court of Appeal upholds TM/passing-off judgment in Lidl v Tesco

The IPKat

Tesco also advanced grounds of appeal challenging the High Court's conclusions on detriment, unfair advantage and due cause in respect of the trade mark infringement claim, and against the finding of copyright infringement. All Tesco had copied was the visual concept.