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. It is ill-equipped to handle how copyright-protected works are shared today. Simply put, the system was built in a very different time.

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BYU Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Over the last few years, we have posted about a number of cases that have reached quiet settlements or otherwise come to an end without us acknowledging them here. It seems likely that the parties reached a private settlement of the dispute instead of continuing the litigation.Jim Olive Photography v.

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Intepat

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Some argue that AI art lacks true originality and creativity, leading to debates about whether it should be eligible for copyright protection or if it should be considered a mere replication of existing content. Copyright Office’s guidelines, but a settlement was reached in 2018.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The Lenz case got a lot of press, but it ended with a confidential settlement. The precedent work is “a set of replacement stickers for the dashboard climate controls for certain GM vehicles”: The Copyright Office registered this design. As a result, we’ve seen very, very few successful 512(f) enforcements.

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LexBlog IP

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

If the creator has greater leverage or financial means than the enforcement-targeted business, the result of these demands is often swift settlement. Plainly, predicting the merits of a copyright claim in this realm is extraordinarily difficult, and for many small businesses, settlement is the better part of valor. Warner Bros.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

In May 2018, a massive copyright infringement lawsuit targeted PrimeStreams, one of the most recognizable pirate IPTV brands ever to hit the market. Two Copyright Infringement Lawsuits The foundations of the complaint were straightforward. Filed in a Kentucky court, the complaint saw U.S.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 15, 2022

With ties to the shadowy piracy monitoring and settlement factory GuardaLey , Voltage is currently pursuing Virgin Media customers in the UK to retrieve cash while warning that something much worse could happen. On March 16, 2018, a statement of claim was filed against 110 ‘Doe’ defendants, identified only by their IP addresses.

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BYU Copyright Blog

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Over the last several years, we have reported on a number of cases that have reached quiet settlements or otherwise fizzled out without us acknowledging their end. Carrington CollegeWe previously reported on this case in late 2018. Here, we round up final updates on a few of those cases:Meyer, Suozzi, English & Klein, P.C.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 16, 2022

Back in 2018, broadcaster DISH Network sued the people behind pirate IPTV service SetTV. Mundo TV and Must TV are described as rebranded versions of ExpediteTV that were sold to subscribers via the domains mundo-tv.com and must-tv.com, in breach of the agreed settlement and court injunctions in the earlier lawsuit. 1201(a)(1)(A).

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

Depending on opinion, the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society, the supervising body and publisher for the Jehovah’s Witness religious group, either doesn’t like criticism, dislikes copyright infringement, or hates both. In the summer of 2021, that case also ran into trouble when McFree refused to supply his real name.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 31, 2022

In 2018, the publishers filed a motion at the Tokyo District Court demanding that Cloudflare stop providing services to several pirate sites. That matter was apparently concluded via a settlement , with Cloudflare agreeing to “stop the replication” of the sites on its Japan-based servers, if a court declares them illegal.

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Copyright Lately

AUGUST 22, 2021

Recent decisions suggest courts are losing patience with those who bring dubious copyright infringement claims as part of their business models. Back in May, I wrote about an overzealous copyright infringement lawsuit filed by Rachel Dolezal , the woman best known for mispresenting her racial background.

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Much of alleged infringement occurred while Nealy was incarcerated, and he alleged that he did not become aware of the infringement until 2016. Nealy filed suit in 2018, within three years of the date he allegedly discovered the infringement. Sherman Nealy and Music Specialist, Inc.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 16, 2022

McFree utilized copyrighted material owned by Watch Tower in his productions, something that gave the religious group a leverage point to shut him down. In 2018, Watch Tower filed an application for a DMCA subpoena to compel YouTube/Google to hand over his details. In practice, that is impossible to enforce.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

An appeal in 2018 failed to dodge this finding by trying to argue that the registration was a series of marks (see Volume 5 ). But that is the basis of Lidl’s trade mark infringement, passing off and copyright infringement claim against Tesco. The images below show the marks and sign at issue.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 5, 2023

Under the ‘Notice and Notice’ regime, ISPs are required to forward rightsholders’ copyright infringement notices to subscribers, in most cases those linked to the downloading and sharing of movies using BitTorrent. including hosting companies , VPN providers , and the latest targets, internet service providers.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 18, 2021

First off today, Joseph Menn at Reuters reports that, despite a recent settlement, Apple has appealed a lower court decision in its ongoing lawsuit against the security firm Corellium. Apple sued the company, alleging that it violated both their copyright and their rights under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 27, 2022

These lawsuits can be a lucrative business, especially when targeted defendants opt for quick settlements of a few thousand dollars. The money comes on top of the deterrent factor, which is often cited by copyright holders as one of the main reasons to take action. Strike 3 Lawsuits per Year *. Edge Cases.

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Case: Harshal Kate vs Lok Sabha Secretariat on 8 February, 2023 (Chief Information Commission) The CIC dismissed the appeal against the CPIO’s refusal to disclose information sought on the research proposal made by one Dr. Shveta Singh, Fellow under the Lok Sabha Fellowship Program 2018-19. Check out the post for more details.

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IP and Legal Filings

DECEMBER 17, 2023

[viii] Spotify, Pandora and other companies also follow the principle of settlement rather than compliance in their regimes. ix] It is essentially a cheap get out of jail free card for companies like Spotify who use copyright litigation and time as a weapon to cede the music label into bowing down. [x] Super Cassette Industries Ltd.

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SpicyIP

MARCH 27, 2023

IP Financing in India – Part II: The Supreme Court and (mis)interpretation of Banking Regulation Act, 1949 Part II of the two-part guest post by Bharat Harne on IP Financing in India focuses on the 2018 Supreme Court decision in Canara Bank v N.G. Internet Archive loses US copyright lawsuit relating to its digital book lending program.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 29, 2023

At an initial conference on January 23, 2023, the parties reached a settlement and asked to dismiss the claim. On June 4, 2018, Oppenheimer found his image on Prutton’s website. The claim says hat infringement is ongoing from 2018-present, even though the photo was removed in 2019. It seems like it did.

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LexBlog IP

JULY 21, 2021

73, 77 (2018)(footnotes omitted)]. Garg (2018), at 78-80 ]. Though continuing more recently in 2018 to extol the human author requirement, her 2003 work demonstrates that the UK has historically been more flexible on this issue than the United States has now become. ” But beauty is not a basis for copyright protection.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 20, 2023

Thus, if an artist creates a derivative work based on a photograph unlawfully , and copies of that derivative work are reproduced and distributed to the public, the owner of copyright in the photograph is entitled to sue for copyright infringement and to recover remedies for the unlawful use of their photograph.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 9, 2022

The Danish parliamentary elections have recently come to an end and it seems that the Danish politicians, rather exceptionally, have behaved reasonably well, at least when it comes to copyright. Finally, carrying on with the infringement-experts situated north from Mexico and south from Canada, bringing us to the United States of America.

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