Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 4, 2023

According to Google, there were at least 50 instances of copying, some of which were “word-for-word”. Copy and Paste Roundup. In 2017, partially based upon that report, the European Union voted to renew the license for glyphosate. At this time, neither the CCI nor the European Commission has released any comment.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

JANUARY 11, 2023

The SCPA legally protects layouts of integrated circuits upon registration, making them illegal to copy without permission. The deposit can be either a physical copy of the mask work or a digital copy in a format specified by the Office. It is authorized by the federal Semiconductor Chip Protection Act of 1984 (SCPA).

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Through our modern lens, this kind of copying can seem insane. Ethically, this type of copying would be seen as plagiarism and the creators would be treated accordingly, especially given that some of the images were traced. These days, comic artists and comic fans do not tolerate this kind of copying. Where We Are Today.

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Plagiarism Today

JUNE 21, 2022

However, according to The Guardian, the book contained many similarities to a 2017 English translation of the book The Unwomanly Face of War by Svetlana Alexievich. The similarities included both scenes and ideas that were rewritten, as well as lengthy passages of text that were copied either verbatim or near-verbatim.

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Plagiarism Today

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

According to LDC, Sheraton copied the design of the rooms at their five-start hotel, Palais de Chine. The lawsuit was filed by members of the band Artikal Sound System, which accused Lipa of using elements from their 2017 song Live Your Life in the song. The case was brought by LDC Hotels & Resorts against Sheraton Taitung Hotel.

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Plagiarism Today

APRIL 27, 2022

3: Immersive Experiences and Copyright: TeamLab Sues MODS for ‘Copying their Artwork’ Finally today, Jonny Walfisz at Euronews reports that the Tokyo-based art collective teamLab has filed a lawsuit against the Los Angeles-based museum, the Museum of Dream Space (MODS) alleging copyright infringement.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 18, 2021

A Long History of Copying. Epic Games first released Fortnite in July 2017 as an early access game. However, it wasn’t the end of Epic Games’ issues with copying. When Fortnite famously copied PUBG , it was largely copying mechanics only, and it was doing so from a competitor that, at the time, was seen as an equal.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

1, 2017 to the present. 1, 2017 to present. 1, 2017 to the present. — A copy of the movie companies’ motion to compel, submitted at the U.S. S, who is not necessarily the Redditor: 1. All written communications with RCN concerning piracy from Oct. Payment records to RCN from Oct.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

JANUARY 11, 2023

The SCPA legally protects layouts of integrated circuits upon registration, making them illegal to copy without permission. The deposit can be either a physical copy of the mask work or a digital copy in a format specified by the Office. It is authorized by the federal Semiconductor Chip Protection Act of 1984 (SCPA).

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Plagiarism Today

MAY 11, 2022

Next up today, Eva Martinello at Dot Esports reports that Riot Games has filed a lawsuit against Shanghai-based Moonton Games alleging that Moonton has copied assets from them when making the game Mobile Legends: Bang Bang. This is actually the second lawsuit between the two, as Riot sued Moonton over similar allegations in 2017.

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SpicyIP

AUGUST 10, 2023

Relevant Provisions Under Consideration: The Conflict Between the 2002 and the 2017 Rules Even though the tiff between the parties revolved around whether Rule 51 of the Trademark Rules , 2002, ( dealing with the filing of evidence ), was mandatory or directory in nature, t he court did not dive deep into a discussion of the same.

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Plagiarism Today

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

They are a way to sell “unique” copies of digital works but do not transfer any rights. According to the author, Fay Evans, the character in the commercial is strikingly similar to her picture book Fred the Fire-Sneezing Dragon , which she published in 2017. NFTs are unique digital tokens tracked by a blockchain.

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The IPKat

AUGUST 30, 2023

Three US cases were brought claiming that the song Thinking Out Loud performed by Ed Sheeran, copied Let’s Get It On performed by Marvin Gaye. This case was brought by Kathryn Townsend Griffin, Ed Townsend’s sister, Helen Mcdonald, and The Estate of Townsend’s wife Cherrigale Townsend in July 2017 , against Ed Sheeran and Amy Wadge.

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Plagiarism Today

MARCH 22, 2022

According to the lawsuit, the trio collaborated with Lizzo in 2017 to create the song, which included an unreleased song entitled Healthy that they had created. The lawsuit was filed by Anastas “Pupa Nas-T” Hackett, who claims that the defendants willfully copied his song Work without a license or attribution.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Though it’s impossible to know where the source actually is, Ghanaian rapper M.anifest posted the image on Twitter two weeks prior, and it’s likely that too was a copy from somewhere else. All in all, only four of the posts appeared to be original with the others being lifted from Reddit, Twitter, Quora and other sites.

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Plagiarism Today

JUNE 27, 2022

According to an article published on Reason , roughly six sentences of his 2000 dissertation at Cornell University contained text that was either copied directly or near-verbatim from outside sources that were not cited in the paper. . Kruse (@KevinMKruse) May 24, 2017. However, Kruse is not innocent here. — Kevin M.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

However, there are those who have made cottage industries out of the sale of illegal copies at significantly lower prices. One such individual, a 28-year-old man from Denmark, was spotted by Rights Alliance selling copies of textbooks via DBA, Denmark’s most popular online marketplace.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

The original lawsuit was filed in September 2017 and was initially dismissed by the court the next year. Morantz claims that he provided a digital copy of his book to aid in research, but that no deal to use it was struck before the episode was released. 2: Robert Downey Jr.

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Indiana Intellectual Property Law

JANUARY 26, 2024

It goes onto explain that in 2004, Liu created a graphic work known as the “Diamond Tile,” a unique square or rectangular tile featuring a three-dimensional design composed of various diamond-like elements, which he had copyrighted with the United States Copyright Office in 2017.

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Plagiarism Today

DECEMBER 8, 2022

The lawsuit was filed by Jingna Zhang, who alleged that Dieschurg copied a photo she took in 2017 when creating a painting. Finally today, Chandler Treon at NextShark reports that, in Luxembourg, a court has ruled that artist Jeff Dieschburg did not infringe the work of a Singaporean photographer.

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IPilogue

OCTOBER 1, 2022

In March 2017 , Kat Von D inked a tattoo of Sedlik’s Davis photograph on the arm of lighting technician Blake Farmer (“Farmer”) for free. On March 18, 2017, Kat Von D posted an image on her personal Instagram of herself using the Davis image as a reference while inking the tattoo. On May 31, 2022, Judge Dale S. Background.

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The TTABlog

JANUARY 8, 2024

Andrusiek's "actual" trademark use on comic books did not begin until 2017, but from 2006 he used the term as the name of a character, which the Board accepted as use analogous to trademark use, leading to the award of priority to Andrusiek. Andrusiek's identical mark, for which he claimed prior use for comic books.

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LexBlog IP

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Further, according to article 8(2) of Law 4481/2017, a CMO may exist under the form of a public limited company (SA), but all of its shares must be mandatorily registered. Legal forms of CMOs. In practice, most CMOs in Greece have chosen the form of limited liability civil cooperatives. to be organised on a non-profit basis.

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IPilogue

MAY 6, 2022

Claimants have the best chance of success if they can prove direct copying of their work, but considering the different lyrics and disparate sounds, these artists are unlikely to plead direct copying. Members of the reggae band Artikal Sound System allege that the song is substantially similar to its 2017 song “Live Your Life”.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 12, 2023

. “While the commercially viable recordings will have been restored or remastered onto LP’s or CD, there is still research value in the artifacts and usage evidence in the often rare 78rpm discs and recordings,” IA wrote following the launch of the project in 2017.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

AUGUST 25, 2023

Within hours of the advert’s release, children’s author Fay Evans (the “claimant”) alleged on social media that the 2019 Advert and an associated book retelling the story (titled Excitable Edgar, “EE”) was unusually similar to a book she had published in 2017 about a dragon that sneezed fire called “Fred the Fire-sneezing Dragon” (“FFD”).

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Plagiarism Today

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

As part of their series The Facebook Files , which is an examination of leaked internal documents from the company, the paper published a scathing review of the company’s practices surrounding copied content. Facebook also implemented filters for video content following the “freebooting” controversies of 2015 and 2017. Bottom Line.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 14, 2022

In their complaint, Sony Entertainment, Warner Music Group and Universal Music broadly maintain the framework outlined in their earlier cease-and-desist notice ( pdf , via NetzPolitik), which referenced the decision handed down by the Hamburg Regional Court via a preliminary injunction in another case in 2017.

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The TTABlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Andrusiek's "actual" trademark use on comic books did not begin until 2017, but from 2006 he used the term as the name of a character, which the Board accepted as use analogous to trademark use, leading to the award of priority to Andrusiek. Andrusiek's identical mark, for which he claimed prior use for comic books.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

The complaint states that Boomer is the author of the massively popular Roblox games Weight Lifting Simulator (released in 2017/18) and a game with a similar theme called Muscles Legends (2019). The same gameplay mechanics also appear in Get Muscles Simulator but the complaint alleges that copying goes well beyond that.

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Selvam & Selvam Blog

AUGUST 20, 2023

However, with the amendment of the Trademark Rules in 2017, the communication methods were expanded. To ensure a record of this email and its delivery, the Trademark Office also sends a carbon copy (cc) to one of their own internal email addresses. In defense, the Trademark Office cited Rules 17 and 18 of the Trade Marks Rules, 2017.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 1, 2024

Copying or reproduction remains relevant, as does the concept of distribution. Between 2017 and July 2021, Valverde sold reseller credits to ‘J.R.D’, Copyright law crafted decades ago to prevent infringement in an analog world has in many cases held up remarkably well in the digital age. But in this case, apparently not.

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Plagiarism Today

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

The report begins and ends with a man named Mihai Costache (not his real name), who remembers widespread cheating and copying in his high school classrooms. This includes blatant copying from the internet without any repercussions. They have repeatedly been thrust into the international stage.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 1, 2023

By Guest Blogger Tyler Ochoa Recently, the Ninth Circuit reaffirmed what has become known as the “server test”: in order to be held directly liable for violating the public display right, the alleged infringer must have a fixed “copy” of the work stored on a server in its possession or control. Instagram, LLC , 2023 WL 4554649 (9th Cir.

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Delaware Intellectual Property Litigation Blog

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

In so ruling, the Court found that Defendants’ affirmative defenses of laches and acquiescence failed as a matter of law because (1) they were based on an alleged 2017 assignment of the EMERSON QUIET KOOL trademark from American Ductless AC Corp. A copy of the Memorandum Order is attached.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

However, in 2017, claims of plagiarism arose with regard to said song against Sheeran by X-Factor winner, singer Matt Cardle and his fellow songwriters Thomas Leonard and Martin Harrington. This time around he was accused of copying Marvin Gaye and Ed Townsend’s hit song “Let’s Get It On”. THINKING OUT LOUD” IN COURT?:

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LexBlog IP

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Since May 15, 2017, NYC’s Freelance Isn’t Free Act (the “Act” or “FIFA”) established and enhanced protections for freelance workers, a/k/a “independent contractors.” The contractor and the hiring party must keep a copy of the written contract.

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