Plagiarism Today

JULY 25, 2022

First off today, Edvard Pettersson at Courthouse News Service reports that the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has revived a copyright infringement lawsuit that was filed against the Vietnamese company VNG Group. The lawsuit was filed by the California company Lang Van Inc. Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 6, 2022

The Dutch company has thousands of customers that come in all shapes and sizes. This hasn’t gone unnoticed. Ten years ago it was revealed that Megaupload hosted hundreds of servers at Leaseweb and, at one point, Hollywood even considered taking the company to court. Lawsuit over Hosting Infringing Sites.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Its founding director was Patrick Achache, who later rose to fame as the boss of Germany-based BitTorrent tracking company, MaverickEye. According to UK Companies House data, Patrick Achache stopped being a director and the significant controller of CMS on November 19, 2019. Copyright Management Services Wants Out.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 17, 2022

One of the lawsuits targeted Canadian company Elite Boss Tech, its alleged owner, and around 20 ‘John Doe’ defendants. In June 2022, a consent judgment saw Elite Boss Tech, Inc., 11020781 Canada Inc., matches the address of an IT company Larsen appears to own. 11020781 Canada Inc., 11020781 Canada Inc.,

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The film’s writer, Victor Miller, filed such a notice with Cunningham and his production company, Manny Inc. However, Cunningham attempted to argue that the Miller was an employee for the company and that the film was a work made for hire. The lawsuit was filed by AOM Music, Inc., back in 2016.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 15, 2022

This was done through their company, MediaMuv, which used a service named AdRev to gain access to YouTube rights management tools and take royalties for unclaimed songs without artist permission. Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday. 1: How Did Two Unknown Latin Music Operators Make $23 Million From YouTube? The IRS Says They Stole It.

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IP Law 360

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

T-Mobile US Inc. urged Delaware's Chancery Court on Friday to preserve new allegations it levied against Cox Communications Inc.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Complaint Targets Kokoa TV Plaintiff Wavve Americas Inc. (wA) According to the company’s website, wA’s mission is to use its open video streaming platform Kocowa ( Ko rean Co ntent Wa ve) to generate value for its content partners while providing an exceptional user experience. Judge Michael T. filed its complaint.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

AimJunkies denied the claims and argued that cheating isn’t against the law. The original complaint didn’t provide sufficient evidence for a plausible claim that the ‘Destiny 2 Hacks’ infringed any copyrights, the judge concluded. However, the older version of the LSLA didn’t allow Bungie to do that.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 1, 2024

Platforms should respond by taking allegedly-infringing content down but in practice, some do and some don’t. We very much appreciate that first line of defense; since we don’t have to commit resources towards countering wrongful complaints, we can concentrate on our reporting. It didn’t in any way.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 10, 2021

Backed by the RIAA, several major music industry companies have taken some of the largest U.S. The music companies accuse these providers of failing to terminate the accounts of the most egregious pirates by ignoring millions of copyright infringement notices. The company collected settlements from U.S. Rightscorp Evidence.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

In the unlikely event people haven’t noticed, the internet isn’t what it used to be. Put much more bluntly, entertainment companies want to make sure that the people ‘stealing’ their content are kept safe and don’t have their private information unnecessarily exposed. or CTAM for short.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

JUNE 16, 2023

1] The Case In the District Court , Ninth Circuit and Oral Argument in the Supreme Court Jack Daniels Properties, Inc. 1] The Case In the District Court , Ninth Circuit and Oral Argument in the Supreme Court Jack Daniels Properties, Inc. Are all of these companies taking themselves too seriously?” [6]

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

AimJunkies denied the claims and argued that cheating isn’t against the law. While this was a setback for Bungie, the court gave the company an opportunity to file a new complaint to address these shortcomings, which it did soon after. Instead, James May and the three managing members of Phoenix Digital turned the tables.

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Copyright Lately

MARCH 31, 2024

A botched attempt to target young gamers lands the insurance company in court, as Atari sues over a classic console’s unauthorized ad appearance. Atari isn’t blameless either. It’s a mistake that could have been avoided. ” A screenshot from the (now deleted) social media video at the center of the controversy.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

A Kat on a monster-truck Facts Feld Motor Sports Inc. Feld Motor Sports Inc. noted that the company H Z was also organizing monster trucks shows displayed on its website and social networks. In July 2019, a cease-and-desist letter was sent to the company H Z without much effect.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 14, 2022

This is a noble goal and the UK-based company doesn’t shy away from taking a stand. This means that the company sends out takedown notices on a regular basis, helping its clients to remove links to copyright-infringing material from the web. Apparently, Muso is also working with a company named MediaMuv Inc.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Tumblr’s parent company Automattic is known to inspect all takedown notices carefully and has a track record of defending its users, whether abuse is intentional or not. To set an example, the company occasionally highlights the worst offenders in its “Hall of Shame.” This resulted in a flurry of inaccurate takedown requests.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 22, 2022

To prevent these videos from being shared online without permission, the company regularly takes legal action. The adult media company won by default after the defense failed to appear. purportedly from MG Premium requesting Verisign, Inc. Victory Against DaftSex. DaftSex alone was good for dozens of millions of monthly visits.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 11, 2024

This diverges from the Aereo ruling where the only players were the broadcaster, the viewer, and Aereo, so there wasn’t a fourth entity to throw under the bus. If the statute didn’t cover Aereo’s unique implementation, then the statute doesn’t apply.] Contributory Copyright Infringement.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 30, 2022

ran into trouble mid-July, there were ominous signs that this wasn’t just a regular technical problem. Massive Coalition of Companies Take Action. Other companies involved in the action include Disney, Paramount, Columbia, Warner Bros., Late last week TorrentFreak learned that things didn’t go entirely to plan.

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JD Supra Law

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Rebecca Kelly Slaughter, Commissioner at the Federal Trade Commission, Mary Engel, EVP at BBB National Programs, Katherine Armstrong, the Deputy Director of NAD and in-house counsel from The Clorox Company, Campbell Soup Company and T-Mobile USA, Inc. We heard from a number of great speakers, including the Hon.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

Airbnb, Inc., ” To be clear, suggesting content shouldn’t affect 230. The “policy of section 230 is to avoid” the chilling of speech “by the imposition of tort liability upon companies that do not create potentially harmful messages but are simply intermediaries for their delivery.” [ Doe v. Airbnb, Inc.,

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TorrentFreak

MAY 10, 2023

After another judgment and multi-million dollar damages award was handed down this week, any cheat developers still operating may consider other companies’ games less of a risk. in copyright infringement damages against Elite Boss Tech, Inc., 11020781 Canada Inc., In June 2022, Bungie was awarded $13.5m

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Copyright Lately

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Even die-hard copyright geeks would be forgiven for overlooking a lawsuit first filed over three years ago by information services company Thomson Reuters against AI start-up Ross Intelligence. Thomson Reuters doesn’t own any of the underlying judicial opinions that make up its database. Thomson Reuters v.

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LexBlog IP

JUNE 22, 2023

On June 16, 2023, Coherus BioSciences, Inc. and Surface Oncology, Inc. announced that they have entered into a definitive merger agreement, where, at the closing, Coherus will acquire Surface Oncology, a clinical-stage immuno-oncology (I-O) company developing next-generation immunotherapies that target the tumor microenvironment.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 11, 2022

After scouring court records in the US, we can now confirm that this time around, HBO isn’t taking copyright infringment as a compliment. Documents filed at a court in California by Home Box Office, Inc. Discovery Inc. And that’s exactly what the company is doing. HBO Sent Multiple DMCA notices to Reddit.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 2, 2022

No longer the sole preserve of Japanese consumers, manga publications (comics/graphic novels) now have global reach and massive commercial potential, but that hasn’t always been the case. As a result, companies including Tokyo-based publisher Shueisha and US-based publisher VIZ Media now have a big piracy problem.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 4, 2022

The email doesn’t mention Byrne by name (a red flag in itself) but attempts to achieve the same goals: link to a site, credit the ‘source’, and Byrne won’t get sued for copyright infringement. Given that they now all contain links to the scam hypnotherapy site, they aren’t hard to find.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 12, 2021

This was a significant move for local companies that still rely on Flash Player but also provided a limited opportunity to keep Flash alive, something of importance to those who don’t want historic Flash content to be rendered useless. “Adobe Inc. The files in question contain our proprietary Adobe Inc.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 5, 2023

The companies’ first move was to file a DMCA notice that ordered GitHub to take the projects down. The company’s claims included damages for “willful and malicious” copyright infringement due to the illegal copying, adaption and distribution of GTA source code and other protected content.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 4, 2023

For companies whose movies are downloaded and shared illegally, solutions have been developed that allow them to monitor suspected pirates and track them back to their ISPs, before obtaining their identities and making a settlement offer to end the risk of a full-blown lawsuit.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 18, 2023

Early January 2022, Activision filed a lawsuit in the United States against German companies EngineOwning UG and CMN Holdings S.A., The gaming company went on to allege that selling the cheats to Activision customers constitutes contract interference and selling cheats into the market amounts to unfair competition. Jadoo TV, Inc.

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Michael Geist

MARCH 21, 2023

However, it still retained mandated document disclosures that should send a chill into companies, NGOs, and anyone else that engages in, or strategizes about, government legislation. At issue is Google and Meta’s response to Bill C-18, the bill that establishes uncapped liability for the two companies for linking to news stories.

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IP Law 360

JUNE 27, 2022

has urged a New York federal judge to reject a patent-holding company's $450 million infringement suit over phone number sharing technology, arguing that the suit is too stale and that the patent covers nothing more than an abstract idea.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 2, 2022

But there are also anti-piracy groups that don’t give warnings and don’t believe in second chances, no matter how small the infringement or how poor the alleged infringer might be. Public support for these enforcement schemes is comparable to that enjoyed by wheel clampers and ANPR-powered parking fine companies.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Not Even Canadians Can Escape Despite efforts to render internet subscribers less accessible and in theory, less lucrative targets, Canadians haven’t escaped the global industrial-scale settlement machine. Kenneth Clark, a lawyer at Toronto-based law firm Aird Berlis which represents Hitman Two Productions Inc.,

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