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Police Shut ‘Club Penguin Rewritten’, 3 Arrested For Copyright Infringement

TorrentFreak

This success attracted the attention of Disney and in 2007, New Horizon was scooped up for $350 million. Its Antarctic-themed virtual world, inhabited by players’ penguin avatars, proved incredibly popular and two years later boasted 30 million users. The next steps and their timing are difficult to predict.

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3 Count: Legal Haze

Plagiarism Today

The case may well become one of the latest to test the “server rule”, a rule that was established by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in 2007 that made it so that sites that hyperlink or embed content from other sites cannot be found liable for direct copyright infringement.

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Cloud TV Service Boss Sentenced to 3 Years Prison Plus $505,000 Damages

TorrentFreak

Given the ongoing shift in the TV market away from terrestrial and satellite delivery in favor of IP-based services, cloud recording services are no longer the big deal they once were. When TVkaista launched in Finland way back in 2007, storing video in the cloud certainly wasn’t taken for granted as it is now.

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Instagram Defeats Copyright Claim Over Its Embedding Feature–Hunley v. Instagram

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

In 2007, in Perfect 10 v. In a weird turn, the plaintiffs only pursued a contributory copyright infringement theory against Instagram, where the incorporating websites are the direct infringers and Instagram facilitates their infringement. In-Line Linking May Be Copyright Infringement–Goldman v.

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The Great Global Work From Home Experiment and How it Changed the Way We Work Forever

Velocity of Content

since 2007, further shows that the transition to hybrid and remote work has created new dynamics for information sharing. The more third-party published content is shared, the higher the risk of copyright infringement. This study which has been developed by CCC in partnership with Outsell, Inc. 1] so important to note?

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Who’s Laughing Now? EUIPO Board of Appeal Rules that Banksy Can Keep his Trademark and Anonymity Too

IPilogue

Typically, artists protect their artwork using only copyright law. However, artists are required to reveal their identity when claiming copyright infringement. A trademark holder must make “genuine use” of a registration by using it to acquire market share in relation to distinguishable goods or services.

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Jack Daniels and the Dog Toy Drama

LexBlog IP

In 2007, the Court wrestled with Haute Diggity Dog’s purse-shaped dog toys bearing the name “Chewy Vuiton,” mimicking high-fashion Louis Vuitton. The Supreme Court found no dilution by tarnishment, no trade dress infringement, and no copyright infringement.