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Rightscorp Taps Indie Labels to Fuel New Wave of Piracy Settlement Action

TorrentFreak

By attaching settlement demands to DMCA notices sent to ISPs, Rightscorp hoped these would be forwarded intact to subscribers. In 2014, the company revealed a $2.2m As for the notice settlement model, that assumes that ISPs will forward cash demands to their customers along with DMCA notices. loss for the previous year, $6.5m

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Caddo v. Siemens: Microsoft Settlement Covers Downstream Use and No Jurisdiction Over Foreign Parent

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by Dennis Crouch A short non-precedential opinion from the Federal Circuit provides guidance on two key issues: (1) downstream non-party reliance upon settlement agreements; and (2) personal jurisdiction over foreign corporations. 117 (2014). Siemens Industry, Inc. Siemens Aktiengesellschaft (AG) , Nos. 2022-1623, -1624 (Fed.

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Kronos Biometric Information Class Action Settlement Preliminarily Approved for $15.3M

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million settlement to resolve claims that it violated the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) by collecting biometric information from thousands of workers through its time clock that uses fingerprints for timekeeping. Kronos, Inc., has agreed to (and a federal judge has preliminarily approved) a $15.3

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Pirate IPTV Sellers Who Refused to Pay a Cash Settlement Get Sued & Lose

TorrentFreak

BREIN says the defendants were also required to pay a settlement fee. BREIN says that it tried to get the traders to stop selling the 10 euros per month subscriptions as far back as 2014 and had to take the matter to court in 2018 to show infringement was taking place.

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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. TorGuard has agreed in a settlement to block BitTorrent traffic on its servers in the United States using “commercially reasonable efforts” to do so. million in damages.

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CAFC Distinguishes Forum Selection Clause Language from Precedential Cases in Win for Abbott

IP Watchdog

entered into a settlement and license agreement in 2014, following years of patent litigation over their competing glucose monitoring system patents. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) today issued a precedential ruling that affirmed a district court’s denial of preliminary injunction to DexCom, Inc.,

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3 Count: Telenovela Drama Ending

Plagiarism Today

has reached a settlement with musician Andre Sims over the 2016 hit song Focus. This prompted Andre Sims, who wrote the song in 2014, to file a lawsuit against H.E.R., Finally today, Will Lavin at NME reports that the musician H.E.R. Camper and others involved in the song.