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

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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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

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

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

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

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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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

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

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. The post 3 Count: LEGO Jacket appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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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 post 3 Count: Italian Shutdown appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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AUGUST 18, 2021

2: Federal Court Awards $29M in Statutory Damages for Copyright Infringement in Media Case. The in ruling the judge noted that, by selling the boxes with the software already on it, the distributors were inducing copyright infringement. ” as evidence of infringement. As such, he ordered the case dismissed.

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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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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’s highly anticipated debut album, Sour , was released in the wake of the success of Drivers License.

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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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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 post 3 Count: Freeing the Flag appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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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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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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Plagiarism Today

JULY 8, 2021

The most vocal critics were in the open-source programming community , who were upset that GitHub trained their AI on significant amounts of open-source code and can even reproduce that code verbatim in some circumstances, but does not follow the respective open-source licenses. This has led to a massive debate about the legality of Copilot.

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