JIPL Online

MARCH 15, 2021

With more content comes the increased possibility that Netflix is engaging in copyright infringement and on the receiving end of copyright infringement claims. [1] 1] This blog will briefly summarize a few of the notable copyright infringement cases Netflix has defended against in the United States.

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IPilogue

AUGUST 4, 2021

Is GitHub Copilot a Copyright Infringer? While Ziegler’s use of the word “mostly” may not reassure those fearing copyright infringement, his paper highlights two details that might. Some licensing agreements contain “copyleft” obligations. Photo by Christopher Gower ( Unsplash). of the time. What About Copyleft?

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Plagiarism Today

JULY 28, 2021

1: Bungie & Ubisoft Sue Destiny 2 Cheatmakers Ring-1 For Copyright Infringement. The lawsuit alleges that the group is committing copyright infringement not only because they are making derivative works based upon their games, but because they are circumventing copyright protection tools.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 21, 2021

1: Spike Lee, Nate Parker Sued by Indie Filmmakers Over Copyright Infringement. First off today, Diane Haithman at TheWrap reports that filmmakers Spike Lee and Nate Parker have been sued for copyright infringement over allegations that their 2019 Film American Skin is an infringement of an earlier screenplay.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

The lawsuit was filed by rapper Anthony Campbell, who claimed that the 2018 song Everyday We Lit by YFN Lucci was an infringement of Campbell’s 2016 song Everything Be Lit. Campbell filed the lawsuit in 2018 and the lawsuit quickly ended as none of the defendants participated in the case, resulting in a default judgment.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 16, 2022

Copyright Infringement Verdict Against Vimeo Stands on Appeal. Piaggio has long claimed that Kumpan’s electric scooter is both a copyright and a trademark infringement of their design. The dispute reaching a boiling point in 2018 when Piaggio had several of Kumpan scooters confiscated at a tradeshow.

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Plagiarism Today

MARCH 7, 2022

First off today, Bill Donahue at Billboard reports that pop musician Dua Lipa has been hit with a second lawsuit over her hit song Levitating , as a pair of different accusers have accused her of copyright infringement. The lawsuit was filed in 2018, and Sheeran attempted to get the lawsuit tossed without any luck.

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Plagiarism Today

JULY 13, 2021

2: Man Sentenced to 12 Months Prison For Copyright Infringement & Tax Evasion. Next up today, Andy Maxwell at Torrentfreak writes that Talon White, the former operator of a pair of pirate websites, has been sentenced to 12 months in prison for criminal copyright infringement and tax evasion. million to the IRS.

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 18, 2022

1: Support Specialist Rimini Street Found in Contempt of Court for Continued Oracle Copyright Infringements. 2: Chris Brown and Drake Argue Copyright Infringement Lawsuit Over “No Guidance” Is ‘Baseless’. In 2018, a jury found in favor of the labels and ordered Cox to pay $1 billion in damages.

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 13, 2022

1: Krafton Sues Garena, Apple, and Google over Free Fire Copyright Infringement. First off today, Aaron Orr at Pocket Gamer reports that the developer of the battle royale game PUBG has filed a lawsuit against competitor Garena after alleging that Garena’s mobile game Free Fire is a copyright infringement of PUBG.

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 19, 2022

Next up today, Andrew Albanese at Publishers Weekly reports that the state of Maryland has hit back at a publisher lawsuit targeting their new e-book law, saying that the issue has nothing to do with copyright but “unfair and discriminatory trade practices” on the part of publishers.

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Plagiarism Today

MARCH 21, 2022

Next up today, Bill Donahue at Billboard reports that the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a lower court decision that favored the electronic musician Marshmello over his 2018 hit song Happier. The law3suit was filed by a producer named Arty that claimed Happier was an infringement of his 2014 remix of OneRepublic’s I Lived.

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Indiana Intellectual Property Law

MAY 26, 2022

d/b/a The Verve over 60 times since March 2018 to discuss their obligations under the Copyright Act without success. According to the Complaint, The Verve failed to purchase a license for multiple public performances of musical compositions in the BMI repertoire. Sony/ATV Songs LLC, and Fall out Boy Inc. Section 502.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 19, 2021

2: Tencent Video Sues Bytedance for Copyright Violation, Unfair Competition. Next up today, Zhanhang Ye at Technode reports that Tencent has filed yet another lawsuit against Bytedance’s short-video app Douyin, this time alleging copyright infringement of the TV show Crime Crackdown.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 12, 2022

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. In 2018, a judge agreed with that and ruled that Wolfgang’s Vault was infringing, but left the issue of damages up to a jury.

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Plagiarism Today

MAY 11, 2022

To support their claims, Riot included images of similar characters and elements between the two games, making the argument that Moonton crossed the line into copyright infringement. million settlement in 2018. 3: Wrongfully Accused ‘Pirate’ Recoups $108k From ‘Copyright Troll’. That lawsuit resulted in a $2.9

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

First off today, Winston Cho at The Hollywood Reporter Esquire reports that Disney has failed to dismiss an ongoing case against it over the 2018 reboot of the Muppet Babies TV show. He claimed he owned the production bible that the original show was based upon, and Disney did not seek permission or license its use in the reboot.

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JIPL Online

APRIL 9, 2021

In particular, it explores why copyright of a meme’s underlying content does not matter in a normative sense. In this blog I argue that copyright protection of the content underlying memes does not matter because of the relative weakness of enforcement mechanisms for copyright infringement of this scale.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 9, 2021

1: Major Record Labels Sue Charter Communications Again for Alleged Copyright Infringement. This new one addresses the time period between July 26, 2018 to the present and accuses Charter of doing little in response to some 150,000 notices of infringement, including notices targeting “flagrant and serial infringers.”

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 11, 2022

In 1981, Goldsmith licensed a photo that she took of the musician Prince to Vanity Fair magazine, with the intent that the magazine would have Warhol create a painting based on it. 3: Roanoke’s “Slumlord Millionaire” Files Copyright Infringement Lawsuit. Though a U.S. Netflix did not comment on the lawsuit.

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 12, 2022

1: LEGO is Being Sued for Copyright Infringement Over Leather Jacket Design. According to Concannon, he designed the jacked in 2018. However, he claims that LEGO responded claiming that they had an implied license to use the jacket as part of their set. Have any suggestions for the 3 Count?

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IP Whiteboard

JULY 19, 2021

The Federal Court of Australia has awarded additional damages in the highest order against Clive Palmer ( Palmer ) for his copyright infringement of the 1985 Twisted Sister’s rock song “ We’re Not Gonna Take It ” (the Song ). UMP held the exclusive license to the Song in Australia on behalf of Songs of Universal, Inc.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 2, 2023

The Court clarified that Member States are not obliged to allow collective management organisations (CMOs) to bring, in their own name, actions for copyright infringement on behalf of the rightholders. Thus, for such rights, Kopiosto is entitled to issue licensing not only on behalf of its members, but also on behalf of other authors.

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 27, 2022

Since the statute of limitations on copyright infringement is just three years, he had until 2018 to file a lawsuit and chose not to. The 3 Count Logo was created by Justin Goff and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License. The court has agreed and dismiss the case.

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IP Watchdog

AUGUST 18, 2022

(DDI) acted with willful blindness in submitting a fifth Takedown Notice to Amazon asking that auto stickers it alleged infringed its licensed artwork be removed from the site. In 2018, Alper Automotive, Inc. began selling a sticker that DDI alleged infringed the licensed copyright.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Licensed ‘Copyright Cockroaches’ Early June 2022, news outlets in Taiwan reported that former ultramarathon runner, entrepreneur, political critic, and law graduate Kevin Lin was a suspect in a “copyright cockroach” case. In May 2021, licenses were obtained from Vie Vision Pictures Co.

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IPilogue

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Take-Two licensed Randy Orton’s likeness from WWE. Alexander filed a complaint before the District Court of Southern District Of Illinois for copyright infringement under 17 U.S.C. § 501 in 2018 and moved for partial summary judgement on the grounds that she never authorized WWE to recreate her tattoo.

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Copyright Lately

APRIL 6, 2024

A federal court has shot down a copyright infringement lawsuit claiming that Top Gun: Maverick flew too close to a 1983 magazine article that inspired the original film.

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Plagiarism Today

MARCH 29, 2022

The lawsuit was originally filed by the record labels in 2018 and accused Cox of failing to do enough to stop piracy on its network. 2: Florida Court Says Hosting Company Can’t Be Liable for Copyright Infringement Via VPN it Hosts. The post 3 Count: Too Little, Too Late appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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IPilogue

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Olivia Rodrigo rose to stardom this year when her song Drivers License dominated pop music charts across the world. Rodrigo has come under fire for copyright theft and plagiarism for her songs Deja Vu and Good 4 U. Rodrigo has come under fire for copyright theft and plagiarism for her songs Deja Vu and Good 4 U. What happened?

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 25, 2022

2: Celeb Photography Agency Sues Ntando Duma for Copyright Infringement. As a result, the flag can be reproduced on apparel and merchandise and a lengthy battle over the flag’s copyright is brought to an end. The flag was designed in 1971 by artist Harold Thomas.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 14, 2023

January: The year kicked off in Tanzania with the news that the Parliamentary Standing Committee in Tanzania received a report from the Ministry of Culture, Arts and Sports addressing its efforts to review and improve the loopholes found in the Copyright Licensing and Rights to Benefit from Re-Sale Regulations, 2022.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2021

This is the initial copying design (without of the background graphics in the precedent work): The copyright registrant alleged this copying design constituted copyright infringement. The second comer/licensee assigned the exclusive license to a successor licensee, the defendant in this case. per sticker set.

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BYU Copyright Blog

APRIL 1, 2024

Francis") committed copyright infringement and was in breach of contract over the use of hundreds of photographs he took for the school and its students. Francis, located in Watsonville, CA, contracted with Morlos to be the exclusive provider of photography service for the school from June 2018 to May 2021. Morlos and St.

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Plagiarism Today

APRIL 7, 2022

Though Amazon did remove some 2,000 descriptions in 2018, that came after Amazon asserted that they had proper authorization to use the descriptions and that there was nothing they could do. 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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IP Tech Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Instagram, filed a complaint in the Northern District of California seeking class-wide relief against Instagram for inducing copyright infringement and for contributory copyright infringement and vicarious copyright infringement. Breitbart News Network, LLC , in 2018, and more recently, in 2021, Nicklen v.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 16, 2023

In November 2018, DISH Network filed a copyright complaint against Jadoo TV, a distributor of self-branded set-top IPTV boxes and later various software apps. Section 501 , DISH filed claims for direct, contributory, and vicarious infringement. DISH also sued Jadoo TV CEO, Sajid Sohail. Alleging violations of 17 U.S.C.

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