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Software Downloads Netflix & Disney+ Videos to Make DRM-Free Copies

TorrentFreak

Long before the advent of legitimate online video streaming services, torrent sites and similar platforms allowed users to download and keep copies of movies and TV shows. Is it permissible to download and keep copies of movies and TV shows if you’ve paid for a legal subscription? Subscriber Agreements.

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3 Count: Dark Horse Dismissal

Plagiarism Today

The lawsuit was filed in 2014 by musician Marcus, Gray, who claimed Dark Horse was an infringement of his earlier song, Joyful Noise. Genius filed the lawsuit in 2019 alleging that Google was unlawfully copying lyrics to songs that they had hosted. Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday. million in damages.

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Cox Sues Insurers for Failing to Cover Landmark Piracy Lawsuit

TorrentFreak

At the end of 2014, a novel type of lawsuit appeared on the docket of a Virginia federal court. In a complaint filed at a federal court in Atlanta, Georgia, the ISP accuses the insurance companies of contract breach. Beach of Contract? — A copy of the complaint, filed by Cox at the U.S.

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Dropbox’s TOS Amendment Fails (And If This Opinion Stands, Yours Will Too)–Sifuentes v. Dropbox

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

Dropbox says it has amended its TOS twelve times since 2011, including adding the arbitration clause in 2014. [NB: NB: there always should be someone at the company who can easily answer just how many times the TOS has been amended and provide definitive copies of each amendment and the date they occurred. Qwest & Vernon v.

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Indian Copyright Act and Marrakesh Treaty : Decoding the Lacuna under Copyright Act.

IP and Legal Filings

i] It required the contracting parties to implement limitations and exceptions to their national law of copyright in their country for permitting the production, distribution, and accessibility of published work in such a format that is convenient as well as permission to exchange such copyright works across borders and serve the beneficiaries. [ii]

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[Guest post] Free Holdings case raises important issues regarding the legal nature of NFTs

The IPKat

In 2014, digital artist Kevin McCoy created a piece of digital art named “Quantum” (viewable here ) and decided to create a digital record of Quantum by recording a name on the Namecoin blockchain on 2 May 2014. The legal nature of an NFT In each NFT there is a non-fungible token created by the smart contract and an image (e.g.,

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Peter Gleeson Leaves News Corp Following Plagiarism Scandal

Plagiarism Today

However, shortly after publication, another UK journalist, Josh Bavas, noticed that several paragraphs of one of the articles were copied verbatim from his earlier work without any citation. ABC’s Media Watch also investigated and found sill more copying in the piece, including large sections taken from a different journalist.