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A Case of ‘Smart Copying’: ‘Peace Maker’ Restrained from Imitating ‘Officer’s Choice’

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A Case of ‘Smart Copying’: ‘Peace Maker’ Restrained from Imitating ‘Officer’s Choice’ Do you enjoy your whiskey? It alleged infringement by the Hermes Distillery’s use of an allegedly similar ‘PEACE MAKER PRESTIGE WHISKY’ label, which the latter introduced in 2019. image below). Glass Half-Full, Half-Empty?

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Book review: Copyright in the Digital Single Market

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But, for those who are yet to pick up a copy, here is what is in store: The EU legislature adopted Directive 2019/790 on Copyright in the Digital Single Market (DSM) in 2019. It was against this background that the proposal for a Directive on copyright in the Digital Single Market was made in 2016.

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competitor's copying of photos doesn't inherently inflict competitive harm

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3, 2021) The parties compete in the market for custom landscape design services. “[I]n McCleese registered copyrights for his photos in 2019. He did allege sadness, distress, and “profound grief” from Natorp’s copying of images of a particular landscape job, but the Lanham Act doesn’t cover psychological, emotional harm.

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Five Widely Recognized Brands Accused of Being Copycats in the Market

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Although this may sound quite encouraging and motivating for those with original ideas, many famous brands out there are accused and widely recognized for being copycats in the market and, unfortunately, making a lot of money. The American video and photo sharing social media platform Instagram has been accused of copying Snapchat.

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Copyright case law of the German Bundesgerichtshof 2015 – 2019 – Part 2 of 4: Exploitation rights

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Part 1 of this post (originally published in “Auteurs & Media”) summarising case law of the German Bundesgerichtshof from 2015 to 2019 is available here , and parts 3 and 4 will be published on the blog over the coming days. . The BGH arrived at the same ruling as in Cordoba II in another judgment in 2019 called Testversion.

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U.S. Govt: Omi in a Hellcat Should Serve 15.5 Years For Pirate IPTV Scheme

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From March 2016 through November 2019, Carrasquillo and his co-defendants opened fraudulent accounts with TV providers Charter Communications, Comcast, DirecTV, Frontier Corporation, and Verizon Fios. A wire fraud scheme against the victim cable companies from March 2016 through November 23, 2019, in violation of 18 U.S.C.

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Copyright case law of the German Bundesgerichtshof 2015 – 2019 – Part 3 of 4: Related rights and exceptions and limitations

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Parts 1 and 2 of this post (originally published in “Auteurs & Media”) summarising case law of the German Bundesgerichtshof from 2015 to 2019 are available here and here , and part 4 will be published on the blog shortly. Related rights. In addition to rights of the author, German copyright law also recognises related rights.