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Infographic | Barbie movie

Olartemoure Blog

These new dolls captured about 40% of Barbie’s market share in five years, creating tension between Mattel and MGA. In 2011… However, the verdict was later overturned in 2011 when the court rejected Mattel’s claims and instead sided with MGA. The court awarded MGA over $137 million for copyright infringement.

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Google Answers Question About Plagiarized Content, Kind Of

Plagiarism Today

However, in February 2011, Google launched its “Panda” update , which heavily targeted content farms, including sites that were engaging in scraping. This has made copied content something of a sore spot with many Google watchers. Why SEO Practitioners Cares About Copied Content.

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Cloud TV Service Boss Sentenced to 3 Years Prison Plus $505,000 Damages

TorrentFreak

Given the ongoing shift in the TV market away from terrestrial and satellite delivery in favor of IP-based services, cloud recording services are no longer the big deal they once were. TVkaista said that since its service was similar to a VCR or a DVR, that would be legal under Finnish law since private copying is permitted for personal use.

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Copyright Exceptions and Digital Exhaustion addressed by the European Court of Human Rights (yes, the one in Strasburg!)

Kluwer Copyright Blog

The Azerbaijani Supreme Court upholds this decision in 2011. Pursuant thereto, the copyright holder is no longer entitled to control the further distribution of a copy of their work after that copy had been put on the market with the rightholder’s consent. What does this excerpt mean for the digital exhaustion debate?

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Publishers: Internet Archive’s Sales Data Demand is “Burdensome and Irrelevant”

TorrentFreak

However, the parties cannot reach a compromise so IA is now demanding access to detailed book sales performance data for all books sold since 2011. “Here, IA self-evidently harms Plaintiffs’ existing markets by refusing to pay the customary fees that aggregators pay to distribute the same ebooks to library borrowers. .

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Connect 4: Trade Dress Infringement and Secondary Meaning

The IP Law Blog

It apparently conducted market research and discovered that P&P was one of the most successful sellers on Amazon in this category. It further alleged that Johnson Enterprises intended to “deceive the public as to the source or origin” of its game to benefit from “P&P’s goodwill and reputation in the four in a row market.”.

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Is Generative AI Fair Use of Copyright Works? NYT v. OpenAI

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Over the course of a decade, Google copied large volumes of books and made them available online, both through excerpts, known as “snippets”, and as entire publications. Instead, Google Books was found to support the marketing of books by giving them increased public exposure.

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