IP.com

MARCH 12, 2024

With the leap in technological accessibility since smartphones hit the market in 2008/2009, it opened up an entirely new market revenue channel for the gaming industry. Before this, games were limited to consoles or PCs, but now the mobile and internet age has opened up a consumer-fueled demand for ever-increasing novelty.

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Plagiarism Today

DECEMBER 7, 2022

1: Roddy Ricch Sued For Copyright Infringement Over Monster Hit ‘The Box’. First off today, Nancy Dillon at Rolling Stone reports that rapper Roddy Ricch has been hit with a copyright infringement lawsuit over his hit song The Box. Have any suggestions for the 3 Count? Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

1: ‘ Sports Illustrated’ Model Sues Twitter for $10 million, Accusing its Algorithm of Contributing to Copyright infringement. 2: Three Plead Guilty to Criminal Copyright Infringement. Have any suggestions for the 3 Count? Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday.

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IP Whiteboard

JULY 19, 2021

The Federal Court of Australia has awarded additional damages in the highest order against Clive Palmer ( Palmer ) for his copyright infringement of the 1985 Twisted Sister’s rock song “ We’re Not Gonna Take It ” (the Song ). After being alerted to the UAP campaign, Universal commenced copyright infringement proceedings against Palmer.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

In a recent case before the district court of Amsterdam, the question was brought whether the unauthorized publication of manuscripts of Anne Frank’s diary would result in copyright infringement. The AFF was founded by Otto Frank, who appointed it to be the sole owner of the copyrights on Anne Frank’s works.

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LexBlog IP

OCTOBER 30, 2023

(collectively, “Nealy”), sued Warner Chappell Music, Inc. (“Warner”), for copyright infringement in the Southern District of Florida, alleging that Warner was using Nealy’s musical works based on invalid third-party licenses in violation of 17 U.S.C. § § 501.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 25, 2021

That prompted the lawsuit for copyright infringement. However, a judge has dismissed the lawsuit, arguing that one of the key issues in the case is whether Bundy holds the copyright in question. The lawsuit was filed by Jocelyn Susan Bundy, who claims that her grandfather created the design based on Dante’s Inferno.

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Plagiarism Today

MARCH 16, 2022

ATN was founded in 2008 and eventually grew to over 70,000 customers. The two men were given prison sentences for copyright infringement and ordered to pay 209 million Swedish kroner ($21 million) in damages. The case was initiated by the Qatari company beIN and targeted the Advanced TV Network (ATN).

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 29, 2023

In the United States, however, higher education institutions were forced to put the brakes on piracy due to the passing of the Higher Education Opportunity Act ( HEOA ) in 2008. “If you copy and distribute copyrighted material without legal permission, you may be found liable for civil or criminal copyright infringement.

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Olartemoure Blog

JULY 17, 2023

In 2008… A federal court ruled in favor of Mattel and ordered MGA to pay $100 million in damages, and to remove Bratz dolls from store shelves for one year. The court awarded MGA over $137 million for copyright infringement. MGA alleged that Mattel had hired individuals to spy on toy designs and marketing plans.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 15, 2022

Launched in 2008, search engine DuckDuckGo is a go-to service for Internet users who value their privacy. These “bangs”, as they are called, were seen as a potential copyright infringement liability. “We This site certainly doesn’t host or link to any copyright-infringing material.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 28, 2023

In 2008, consuming pirated movies and TV shows using BitTorrent was practically the norm in Australia and rightsholders had seen enough. “Copyright infringements occurring via the digital platforms continues to be a major problem.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 29, 2022

Mass copyright infringement, failure to suspend repeat infringers, and breaches of the DMCA are all featured in a case that seems to have one key goal – Content ID access for all artists no matter how popular, so they can defend their work from pirates on YouTube. It’s Not Infringement if You Have Permission.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 15, 2022

Founded in 2008, ATN was a fast-growing business that had 25 employees and over 70,000 paying customers at its height. Two years later, the Stockholm Patent and Market Court found several people connected to the company guilty of copyright infringement and the unauthorized decoding of broadcast signals.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 15, 2024

If the Supreme Court upholds the discovery rule for copyright cases, or simply declines to address it, the decision will leave copyright defendants exposed to very large awards for years of infringing conduct (as they have been everywhere but the Second Circuit). By Guest Blogger Tyler Ochoa Last week, the U.S. 3d 39 (2d Cir.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 4, 2024

LibGen launched around 2008 as a digital version of the same concept. LibGen Hoping for a better outcome, textbook publishers Cengage, Bedford, Macmillan Learning, McGraw Hill, and Pearson Education filed a similar copyright infringement lawsuit against LibGen last year.

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The IPKat

MAY 28, 2023

Copyright infringement cases often involve works of art, literature, or design. This recent French decision gives us an opportunity to look at a rarer case, that of copyright infringement in a typeface. Le Monde Journal font In 2008, Mr X collaborated with Mr Y.

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Copyright Lately

MAY 10, 2024

That’s because it does away with a nationwide split among appellate courts, including a 2020 ruling by the influential Second Circuit Court of Appeals that limited copyright infringement damages to three years before the filing of a lawsuit, even if the plaintiff had been unaware of earlier infringements.

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IP and Legal Filings

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Copyright Infringment In The Clothing Industry The various methods through which copyright infringement takes places in the fashion line are as follows: COUNTERFEITING – In simple words, counterfeiting means “to imitate or feign especially with the intent to cheat or to make a copied replica of”.

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Patently-O

MAY 9, 2024

2024) , resolving a circuit split over the availability of back-damages in copyright infringement cases. Nealy was incarcerated from 1989 to 2008 and again from 2012 to 2015 , and consequently was unaware that Butler had licensed their music without proper authorization. Nealy , No. 22-1078, 601 U.S. Despite 17 U.S.C. §

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

In 2008, that was an unusual achievement. A police raid in 2016 led to three of its operators being convicted two years later for criminal copyright infringement, among other offenses. Advanced TV Network (ATN) was an IPTV service in Sweden that supplied more than a thousand TV channels to customers via the Internet.

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Copyright Lately

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

If you like your turkey with a side of copyright infringement, you’ve come to the right place. But before you enter your tryptophan-induced coma, feast your eyes on Copyright Lately ‘s platter of 5 Thanksgiving-themed copyright cases, all stuffed with a generous helping of legal fowl play. Ahh, Thanksgiving.

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Plagiarism Today

MARCH 9, 2022

Much of that perception comes from issues that NFTs have had, One of the more common ones is plagiarism and copyright infringement. This grabbed headlines in September 2008 when electronics retailer Best Buy purchased the rights to the Napster name for $121 million.

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Copyright Lately

JANUARY 29, 2024

Late last week they filed a federal court copyright infringement and right of publicity lawsuit against Dudesy, LLC, along with Sasso and Kultgen personally ( read the complaint here ). Here are seven words you should never say in a copyright infringement case: “I don’t have a copyright registration yet.”

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 4, 2024

Anime piracy site B9Good first appeared way back in 2008, initially operating under B9DM branding. Female B, who was paid by Man A to upload pirated anime to the site, was sentenced to one year in prison, suspended for one year and six months, for copyright infringement offenses.

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The IPKat

OCTOBER 27, 2021

The claimant sued the defendant seeking a declaratory judgment that its use of the twenty-word installation instruction did not infringe defendant’s copyright and sought a prohibition against the defendant’s marketing (sending cease and desist letters to claimant’s customers) under the Swedish Marketing Act (SFS 2008:486).

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IP and Legal Filings

APRIL 19, 2022

It was recently uncovered that numerous internet platforms are posting infringing content on their websites without the approval of the copyright owners. Copyright infringement cases on the internet have increased because the internet has become more widely available. Legal Framework governing take down notice.

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Connolly acknowledged that at least one district court held that, unlike in patent cases, “‘[t]he ability to avoid damages by rewriting a computer program, or a song, or reproducing a painting, should not be considered [in a copyright infringement case] because it would not implicate the originality of the expression being protected.’”

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 22, 2024

“Oiseau volant vers le soleil” by Joan Miró displayed in Mango stores, together with the NFT “The rainbow wears Mango” based on such painting. Such NFTs were never put on a blockchain nor offered to the public (they were what are known as “lazy minted NFTs”).

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IIPRD

APRIL 8, 2024

The ambit of IPR when it comes to recognizing these AI generators and whether they are also capable of copyright infringement by transforming other creators work has been discussed in detail in the article. Neeraja Seshadri, The Dilemma of Artificial Intelligence Generated Works and Indian Copyright Law, 3 INDIAN J.L. &

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The IPKat

JANUARY 17, 2024

A second (revised) edition followed in 2008. As a result, his estate launched proceedings for copyright infringement. In 2017, the Regional Court of Bucharest held that the defendants had infringed the professor’s moral right of attribution. The professor also prepared a Romanian translation of the Latin text.

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43(B)log

JANUARY 17, 2023

This allegedly involved false copyright and release date information, as well as “drastically low bargain-rate prices” and failure to distinguish between HD and SD versions. LW sued for copyright infringement, violations of both sections of Lanham Act §43(a), §1202 CMI violations, fraud, and state-law statutory unfair competition.

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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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The IPKat

JUNE 8, 2022

In 2008, music producer Frank Peterson had sued YouTube, seeking injunctive relief, disclosure and damages. The BGH had to decide on a whole series of cases and bundled them into two referral proceedings to the CJEU, which in turn merged the proceedings in joined cases C-682/18 and C-683/18 and ruled on 22 June 2021.

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Patently-O

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

” The appellate panel did not mention that the plaintiffs had alleged that copyright infringement occurred in the W.D.Tex. Although a district court has discretion, the Fifth Circuit has held that § 1404(a) motions should be granted if the movant demonstrates that the transferee venue is “clearly more convenient.”

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 6, 2023

A 2020 class action lawsuit filed by musician Maria Schneider accused YouTube of mass copyright infringement, failing to suspend ‘repeat infringers, and restricting access to anti-piracy tools, among other allegations.

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Copyright Lately

JULY 10, 2022

A banana taped to a wall may qualify as art, but as a copyright infringement lawsuit it should have been left to rot. In some ways it’s only fitting that Cattelan finds himself defending an absurd copyright infringement lawsuit. But enough about food, let’s talk about copyright infringement.

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