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3 Count: Unicolors Redux

Plagiarism Today

The lawsuit was filed by Unicolors, which accused H&M of infringing a 2011 design that they created as part of a 2015 one H&M sold in their stores and online. According to LDC, Sheraton copied the design of the rooms at their five-start hotel, Palais de Chine. Artikal Sound System has not responded to the motion.

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Software Company Still Fighting U.S. Navy Over Millions in Piracy Damages

TorrentFreak

It all started in 2011 when the US Navy began testing Bitmanagement’s 3D virtual reality application ‘BS Contact Geo’ After some testing, the Navy installed the software across its network, assuming that it had permission to do so. 600,000 ‘Infringing’ Copies. ” 579 ‘Infringing’ Copies.

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Court Orders U.S. Navy to Pay $154,400 in Software Piracy Damages

TorrentFreak

It all started in 2011 when the US Navy began testing Bitmanagement’s 3D virtual reality application ‘BS Contact Geo’ The Navy subsequently installed the software across its network, assuming that it had permission to do so. The court also had to decide how many copies the Navy should pay compensation for.

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The Not-Quite-So Legal Future for Web Scraping

Plagiarism Today

For much of the web’s recent history, we scraping commonly referred a technique through which spammers would copy content from a website and republish it, either rewritten or verbatim. This form of web scraping began to fall out of favor in 2011 following a series of Google search updates that de-prioritized scraped websites.

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Publishers: Internet Archive’s Sales Data Demand is “Burdensome and Irrelevant”

TorrentFreak

However, the parties cannot reach a compromise so IA is now demanding access to detailed book sales performance data for all books sold since 2011. The market harm compounds as others engage in the activity, destroying the vibrant market for licensed library ebook lending that currently exists.

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A Win for Users’ Rights: Supreme Court Finds Access Copyright Tariff Not Mandatory and End-User Perspective Must be Considered in Fair Dealing Analyses

IPilogue

On July 30, the Supreme Court of Canada released their much-anticipated judgement in York University v Canadian Copyright Licensing Agency (Access Copyright) [ York University ]. In this case, but for the students, there would be no copying. Background. per full-time student and $0.10

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UK Government axes plans to broaden existing text and data mining exception

The IPKat

On the other hand, the debate around TDM has not developed in a context devoid of licensing practices, at least in Europe. It should be noted at the outset that, on the one hand, some commentators hold the view that TDM would not even be covered by copyright law.