TorrentFreak

MARCH 7, 2023

Since most tweets relating to the initial dispute have since been deleted or disabled, here we rely on archived and cached copies for evidence. “He sent a DMCA report which blocked my account: this means I’m on the brink of the permanent suspension. The two people at the heart of the original dispute are both Twitter users.

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Plagiarism Today

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

As we reported earlier this month , Gleeson’s downfall began in late October when he published a piece entitled Power and Palaszczuk in the Courier-Mail The piece was an unflattering 12-page “special investigation” into the government of Queensland premier, Annastacia Palaszczuk, and her government. This, to be clear, is grossly unfair.

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The IPKat

APRIL 2, 2024

Trade Marks Alessandro Cerri reported on the highly anticipated judgment of the England & Wales Court of Appeal in Lidl v Tesco , which upheld the High Court's findings on bad faith, infringement, and passing off, including the findings in respect of the 'price-matching' allegation.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Hollywood believes that these ‘cam’ copies cause significant damage to the cinema industry, an opinion shared by the UK’s Film Distributors’ Association. Sources confirm that the copies were traced back to two multi-screen cinemas, both of them in Liverpool, the location mentioned by PIPCU.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 23, 2023

In the report, the group lists various pirate sites that allow the public to download games for free. Over the past year, the number of estimated game downloads rose 135% according to the report. Interestingly, the game companies write that 1337x was launched in 2014, which is seven years after its actual founding date.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 10, 2024

When pirated copies of “Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas” came out nearly two decades ago, The Pirate Bay changed its front page logo. The production took place in Stockholm, Sweden, but also ventured to other countries including Chile and Thailand, where Fredrik Neij was arrested and paraded in front of the press in 2014.

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SpicyIP

JULY 29, 2021

As most readers must be aware by now, the Parliamentary Standing Committee Report on India’s IP regime has revealed a problematic, maximalist approach to IP protection, showing no more than a tokenistic appreciation of public interest considerations. Limitations on storage of copied works in digital formats. Bench decision).

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The IPKat

JUNE 2, 2022

Following this consultation, the Government reported that the Copyright (Amendment) Bill 2022 was gazetted on 27 May 2022 (last Friday). A copy of the Copyright (Amendment) Bill 2022 (“the Bill”) can be found here. At third reading, members may only deliver a short speech on whether the Bill should be supported.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

It’s perhaps fitting that sites that relied heavily on copying are being copied themselves; the original operators can hardly complain about that. Government’s notorious markets report. The owners eventually decided to let go of the name and in 2014 rebranded as Firedrive. Not just once but two years in a row.

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The IPKat

JANUARY 27, 2022

Kat friend Marijus Dingilevskis reminds us of this in reporting on a recent decision by the Lithuanian Supreme Court. The international registration of the given trademark is valid as of 1980; the Lithuanian designation was made in early 2014. The trademark depicts the shape of the Chanel No. 5 perfume bottle. Unported license.

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SpicyIP

MARCH 29, 2024

Thus, the Controller further directed the Appellant to file a fresh translated copy of the PCT application. The Appellant was again directed to file the verified copy of the English translation of the international patent application. It is at this point that this set of claims were directed towards an “insecticidal composition”.

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The IPKat

APRIL 19, 2023

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. e) the history of the token as reported on the relative blockchain explorer.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

AI-generated works have won awards: The Crow , an “AI-made” film won the Jury Award at the Cannes Short Film Festival and the story of an AI artwork winning the Colorado State Fair’s annual art competition was reported in The New York Times. AI-generated art was used for magazine covers, including Cosmopolitan and The Economist.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 1, 2023

By Guest Blogger Tyler Ochoa Recently, the Ninth Circuit reaffirmed what has become known as the “server test”: in order to be held directly liable for violating the public display right, the alleged infringer must have a fixed “copy” of the work stored on a server in its possession or control. Instagram, LLC , 2023 WL 4554649 (9th Cir.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

This personal intellectual creation is lacking if the photographs in question are “mere reproductions of other photographs” in which an original has been merely reproduced (copied) as closely as possible. If a copy of a computer program is published in the territory of the EU/EEA with the consent of the rightholder, Section 69 No.

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LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 21, 2023

1] The Court reasoned that the defendant companies could not have possibly copied the script in question, as they did not have access to the script until after Ad Astra was written. 4] Winston Cho, Disney, CAA Beat Copyright Infringement Lawsuit From Production Exec Over ‘cosmi’ , The Hollywood Reporter (Nov. 36(a)(1). [3]

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 11, 2023

The SCPA legally protects layouts of integrated circuits upon registration, making them illegal to copy without permission. The deposit can be either a physical copy of the mask work or a digital copy in a format specified by the Office. Statistics from Copyright Office’s Annual Reports. government. 37 C.F.R. §

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SpicyIP

JUNE 28, 2023

and Saranya Ravindran This June 28 th marks the thirteenth anniversary of the tabling of the Parliamentary Standing Committee Report on The Protection and Utilisation of Public Funded Intellectual Property Bill, 2008 (PUPFIP) – a legislation introduced by the UPA government on the recommendations of the National Knowledge Commission.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 31, 2023

As reported by The United States Attorney’s Office District of Minnesota , it is alleged Wolf and Olson defrauded grain purchasers by selling them non-GMO grains falsely labeled as “organic.” The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported the cost of vegetables increased by an eye-watering 38.1%

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Above the Fold

JANUARY 31, 2023

As reported by The United States Attorney’s Office District of Minnesota , it is alleged Wolf and Olson defrauded grain purchasers by selling them non-GMO grains falsely labeled as “organic.” The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported the cost of vegetables increased by an eye-watering 38.1%

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Copyright Lately

DECEMBER 29, 2021

The parties dutifully went back to the lower court, and following expert witness reports and depositions, Disney brought a motion for summary judgment. Judge Rakoff held that the fact that Sinclair didn’t actually possess a copy of Nicklen’s video didn’t mean that Sinclair wasn’t responsible for displaying it.

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LexBlog IP

JULY 18, 2023

And it couldn’t have come at a better time—according to a recent report from Goldman Sachs, AI is putting 44% of legal jobs at risk. Amazon had reportedly been developing a program since 2014 to automate review of job applicant resumes. His blunder suggested that we are not so easily replaceable by AI.

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IP Tech Blog

JULY 18, 2023

And it couldn’t have come at a better time—according to a recent report from Goldman Sachs, AI is putting 44% of legal jobs at risk. Amazon had reportedly been developing a program since 2014 to automate review of job applicant resumes. His blunder suggested that we are not so easily replaceable by AI. This doesn’t sound so great.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 15, 2022

663 (2014) (“It is hardly incumbent on copyright owners, however, to challenge each and every actionable infringement”). Day to Day Imports. * Satirical Depiction in YouTube Video Gets Rough Treatment in Court. * 512(f) Preempts Tortious Interference Claim–Copy Me That v. See, e.g., Petrella v. Alper Automotive v.

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The IPKat

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Indeed, Motorola did not even have access to the infringing source code contained on the Qualcomm chips, which militates against a finding that Motorola deliberately copied SLC’s technology.” 8 GPNE’s technical expert conceded that “each of the GPRS and LTE signals identified in [his] report are processed by the. 21, 2014).

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LexBlog IP

JUNE 7, 2023

1) Specifically, in its regulation of the public performance of musical works incorporated in legitimately released sound carriers, stores, and undertakings, article 24 of Law 4481/2017 introduced a reporting obligation for users. What is the reporting obligation? When does the reporting obligation apply? Emphasis added.)

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azrights

MARCH 15, 2021

Securing legal protection gives you scope to build associations to your brand name without fear of competitor copying. Secondly, they made strategic use of the available IP protections to protect the bottle shape against copying once they began to use it. In a case involving Jack Wills Limited and the House of Fraser stores in 2014.

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Plagiarism Today

JUNE 8, 2022

In 2014 she was offered a five-year extension on that deal. However, according to an investigation by The Mercury News , roughly one-fifth of the book was copied from a variety of online sources. Roughly half of the copied paragraphs did not contain footnotes, and none of the paragraphs indicated that the text was quoted.

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Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

DECEMBER 9, 2022

PDF copy available. Supreme Court’s 2014 Octane Fitness LLC v. As Unified Patents reports, approximately 59% of cases in the past five years were filed by NPEs.[8] Starting in 2014, several states implemented new laws that would impose a bonding requirement in certain situations. 545, 554 (2014) (“[A]n.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

First off today, Kevin Shalvey at Business Insider reports that “Sports Illustrated” swimsuit model Genevieve Morton has filed a lawsuit against Twitter alleging that the site was slow to remove infringing material and that an AI photo editing tool created unlawful derivative works. Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 17, 2021

as a reporting judge), a case involving Melons’ infringement of CV-Online Latvia’s database of job advertisements arguably protected by the sui generis right. So, it does reutilise the database’s content and by the fact that it previously copies and indexes the content of CV-Online Latvia’s database, it also extracts it.

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Plagiarism Today

DECEMBER 14, 2021

First off today, Reuters reports that a lawsuit accusing Taylor Swift of copyright infringement in her 2014 hit single Shake it Off has been allowed to move ahead, setting the stage for a possible trial. According to the duo, they wrote the song Playas Gon’ Play , elements of which they allege were copied by Swift for her song.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

WCT’s app was first released in 2014 for the iPhone and Pebble watch as a metric-tracking cycling app that was designed to “track speed, distance, altitude, and grade.” In mid-July 2020, Apple released a new operating system that introduced a bug; in September, he reported this bug to Apple. Downloads declined after a 2015 peak.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

TVkaista said that since its service was similar to a VCR or a DVR, that would be legal under Finnish law since private copying is permitted for personal use. The TV companies whose content was being recorded and fed back to subscribers of TVkaista disagreed, arguing that no permission was granted for this type of use.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 22, 2023

Harmonization With EU Copyright Law Under the EU-Moldova Association Agreement of 2014, Moldova was required to reform copyright law to meet EU standards. The same would’ve applied to any new applicants but if there have been approvals, they are yet to be reported.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

With help from user-uploaded videos, the company created massive databases of adult entertainment, much to the frustration of incumbent adult industry companies that often found pirated copies of their content on the site. The company reported nearly twice as many notices as the runner-up, anime publisher Viz Media. 60% Removal Rate.

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The IPKat

JUNE 23, 2022

Predictably, these third parties made available watch faces copied from watches made by others including the Swatch group of companies (which owns brands like Tisso, Omega and Breguet). As has been widely reported, Shazam has now won. Those watch faces bore Swatch’s trade marks.

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