IP Law 360

APRIL 28, 2023

A North Carolina federal jury on Friday said independent service organization TEC Holdings didn't misappropriate any of Philips Medical Systems' trade secrets for X-rays and other imaging, but that it should pay up to $4.2 million for Digital Millennium Copyright Act violations.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Yesterday, Getty Images and iStock have announced that they are following in the footsteps of other art sites , including NewGrounds and Inkblot, in banning artwork generated by artificial intelligence (AI) from their service. As such, Getty has decided to avoid the issue altogether for now, banning AI art from its service.

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Plagiarism Today

JULY 29, 2021

1: Cox Settles Dispute with BMG, Rightscorp Over Copyright Notices. First off today, Blake Brittain at Reuters reports that Cox Communications has settled its dispute with BMG and Rightscorp over allegedly false Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) filed by Rightscorp on BMG’s behalf.

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IP Watchdog

MAY 18, 2023

Real estate data firm CoStar and real estate digital marketplace CREXi are currently engaged in a high-profile intellectual property fight. Costar, which runs Apartments.com, alleges that CREXi is violating the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) by using its images on Crexi.com without regard to its terms of service.

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Plagiarism Today

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Next up today, Ernesto Van der Sar at Torrentfreak writes that the RIAA is seeking some $250,000 in attorneys fees from the stream-ripping site Yout after the RIAA emerged victorious in a decision that found Yout was violating the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) anti-circumvention prevention.

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Plagiarism Today

JULY 27, 2021

1: Twitch Streamers Hit with DMCA Copyright Bans for Streaming Near Olympics. However, some of t hose streamers have reported having their streams cut and their channels receiving copyright strikes even though they were mere livestreaming from public places near the games. Have any suggestions for the 3 Count?

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JD Supra Law

JULY 13, 2022

Can internet service providers necessarily be compelled to unmask anonymous copyright infringers?

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Plagiarism Today

MAY 23, 2022

First off today, Ernesto Van der Sar at Torrentfreak writes that both the internet service provider Bright House and the record labels suing it have filed motions for summary judgment, hoping to bring an early end to the lawsuit. 3: Guests Outraged After Universal Music Group Blocks Content on Copyright Claims.

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Plagiarism Today

MAY 9, 2022

1: Copyright Royalty Board Asked to Approve 32% Increase on Mechanical Royalties for Physical Products, Downloads. When a song or comedy performance is streamed, there are two copyrights to consider: The copyright in the audio work and the written version of that work. Have any suggestions for the 3 Count?

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 16, 2021

1: Man Files Copyright Lawsuit Against Nickelback Over ‘Rockstar’ First off today, Lauryn Schaffner at Loudwire reports that a musician named Kirk Johnston has filed a lawsuit against Nickelback, Roadrunner records and others involved with the band. 3: Saga Over Garment Design Copyright Infringement Ends with Ceremonial Fire.

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Plagiarism Today

JULY 25, 2022

1: Ninth Circuit Boosts Efforts to Sue Overseas Copyright Infringers. 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. Have any suggestions for the 3 Count?

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JD Supra Law

APRIL 13, 2022

The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) was intended to give copyright owners protection against online infringement and service providers a safe harbor when service users infringe copyrights in works displayed online. By: SmithAmundsen LLC

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Plagiarism Today

MAY 2, 2022

Normally, a company like Facebook would be protected by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) from such arguments. As such, it’s DMCA and copyright policies have a tremendous bearing on how other sites handle theirs. The SMART Copyright Act aims to address this by having the U.S.

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Plagiarism Today

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Last week, five major education publishers filed a lawsuit against Shopify alleging that the ecommerce service provider has enabled rampant commercial textbook piracy on its platform. However, the publishers claim that is simply “lip service” and that the company’s responses to actual infringement are far too weak.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

1: Instagram Dodges Photogs’ Copyright Lawsuit Over Embedding Feature. Next up today, Chris Cooke at Complete Music Update reports that the stream-ripping site Yout has re-filed its lawsuit against the Recording Industry Association Of America (RIAA) seeking to certify that their service is legal.

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 12, 2022

1: LEGO is Being Sued for Copyright Infringement Over Leather Jacket Design. Next up today, Ernesto Van der Sar at Torrentfreak writes that the code hosting service GitHub has removed various “Widevine Dump” forks following a takedown notice filed by the Motion Picture Association (MPA).

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Plagiarism Today

JUNE 22, 2022

In December 2020, the United States government passed the Copyright Alternative in Small-Claims Enforcement Act (CASE Act). The act, to put it simply, created the Copyright Small Claims Board (CCB), a “small claims court” to hear copyright infringement disputes. In the one and a half years since, the U.S.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 23, 2023

The Western District of Wisconsin recently held that an internet service provider (“ISP”), cannot be held liable for claims that that ISP failed to follow the Digital Millennium Copyright Act’s (“DMCA”) takedown provisions. Read more

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Plagiarism Today

MARCH 29, 2022

2: Florida Court Says Hosting Company Can’t Be Liable for Copyright Infringement Via VPN it Hosts. Quadranet is a large internet service provider that counts LiquidVPN among its clients. 3: Bungie Files Lawsuit Against Individuals Behind False Destiny Copyright Takedowns.

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Plagiarism Today

JUNE 1, 2022

1: Majors and Spinrilla Set Out Jury Selection Questions as Copyright Dispute Proceeds. First off today, Chris Cooke at Complete Music Update reports that jury selection has begun in the impending trial of the mixtape sharing service Spinrilla and the major record labels. 2: Turkey to Follow Europe on Copyright Deal with Google.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 24, 2022

Amazon’s Ongoing Plagiarism and Copyright Problem. Back in 2009, Amazon launched a Kindle service for blogs that made it easy for anyone to sell any blog’s content. . In 2016, The Atlantic did their own expose on widespread plagiarism on Amazon’s self-publishing service.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 24, 2023

Once upon a time, at the turn of the millennium, a cat logo with headphones heralded the arrival of a seismic shift in how people listened to music. The name was Napster, and in its wake, it left a transformed landscape of music consumption and copyright law. And that’s where the tumultuous saga of copyright law begins.

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JD Supra Law

AUGUST 26, 2021

On the latest episode of Trending Now - An IP Podcast, Ed White and Janet Cho discuss the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) and explain the specific requirements and procedures copyright owners and online service providers must undertake to ensure that they are compliant with the DMCA takedown requirements.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 6, 2024

law, online service providers must respond to takedown notices and implement a meaningful policy to terminate the accounts of repeat infringers. In a lawsuit filed at a federal court in Nashville last summer, Universal Music, Sony Music, EMI, and others accused X Corp of “breeding” mass copyright infringement.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 1, 2024

Sadly, India-based anti-piracy outfit Markscan (on behalf of Hotstar and/or rightsholder Novi Digital Entertainment Pvt. The next day, January 22, Novi Digital Entertainment tried its hand with a similar takedown notice which targeted the same article once again. ” Once again, the complaint demanded the removal of our article.

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JD Supra Law

AUGUST 12, 2021

On the latest episode of Trending Now - An IP Podcast, Ed White and Janet Cho discuss the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, or DMCA, along with its takedown procedures for content owners. They also review safe harbor provisions for online service providers and how they may avail themselves of the involved safe harbors.

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Plagiarism Today

MARCH 16, 2022

Chapman University, for their part, is not involved in the lawsuit, but a spokesperson for the school made it clear that instructors hold the copyright in their work and are free to take whatever action they see necessary to protect their creations. Course Hero states that it has a policy to not tolerate copyright infringement.

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Plagiarism Today

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

The fallout seems to have even impacted Twitter’s copyright filtering tools. But, while Mastodon does have a slew of important and well-understood differences between it and a centralized platform, like Twitter, there’s a very important one that’s easy to overlook: Copyright. Your Obligations Under the Law.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Apparently, a copyright holder intervened claiming that Mega TV is an infringing website. “In response to a complaint that we received under the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act, we have removed 1 result(s) from this page.” From: TF , for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

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IP and Legal Filings

OCTOBER 23, 2021

Technology and copyright law. Copyright laws play a crucial role in protecting creative expressions such as literary works, artistic works and musical works. Through copyright enforcement, an exclusive right is granted to creators. Digitization has impacted several aspects of our everyday life.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 12, 2022

When Congress passed the Digital Millennium Copyright Act in 1998, section 1201 outlawed circumvention of technological protection measures controlling access to copyright works. Section 1201 also prohibits trafficking in technology or services that facilitate the circumvention of such systems.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 15, 2023

law, online service providers need to respond to takedown notices and implement a meaningful policy to terminate the accounts of repeat infringers. “Twitter fuels its business with countless infringing copies of musical compositions, violating Publishers’ and others’ exclusive rights under copyright law,” the complaint reads.

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IPilogue

JANUARY 31, 2023

On November 3, 2022, the United States Postal Inspection Service seized the Z-library site and all of its domains, and all of their DNS servers, effectively shutting down the site. Z-Library Shadow libraries are online databases of readily available content that is normally inaccessible due to paywalls or copyright controls.

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 4, 2024

Last week the Fourth Circuit reversed a $1 billion copyright verdict against an internet service provider and ordered a new trial on damages allegedly arising from illegal music downloads by its subscribers. In 2019, a jury found Cox liable on both theories for infringement of 10,017 copyrighted works and awarded $99,830.29

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 25, 2022

According to their filing, the section of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) that governs such subpoenas doesn’t just apply to web hosts, but also to internet service providers like Centurylink. 2: Celeb Photography Agency Sues Ntando Duma for Copyright Infringement.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 17, 2022

The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) is easily the best-known law when it comes to notice and takedown. . India has their own process, implemented through the Information Technology Act of 2000. Find the Host’s Designated Agent: Hosts designate an agent to receive copyright notices on their behalf.

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CopyrightsWorld

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Copyright infringement and how to stop it is a question in the minds of most of us these days. The law that is our reference for answering this question is the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). Along with Google, most social media have their own services for copyright infringement and takedown requests.

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