IPilogue

AUGUST 16, 2022

On April 5 th 2022, the Federal Court released its decision for August Image LLC v AirG Inc , a copyright infringement action concerning images of singer-actress, Jennifer Lopez. However, the Court ultimately dismissed August’s case because they failed to prove all the necessary elements of copyright infringement.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Parts 1 to 3 of this post (originally published in “Auteurs & Media”) summarising case law of the German Bundesgerichtshof from 2015 to 2019 are available here , here and here. Copyright contract law (Sections 31 et seqq. Claims under copyright law. Right of remuneration (Sections 32 et seqq. a) Perpetrators and accessories.

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Plagiarism Today

APRIL 25, 2022

1: Dan + Shay, Justin Bieber Sued for ‘10,000 Hours’ Copyright Infringement. First off today, Mathew Lemkuehler at The Tennessean reports that a new lawsuit claims the song 10,000 Hours , performed by Dan + Shay and Justin Bieber, is a copyright infringement of an earlier work.

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The IPKat

MAY 12, 2023

When one hears the claims of copyright infringement, confidential information and employment claims one can readily assume that this is an employer/ex-employee dispute. He resigned in 2015. The issues (1) are the copyright and confidential information in ProSPC owned by PQ? (2)

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Part 1 of this post (originally published in “Auteurs & Media”) summarising case law of the German Bundesgerichtshof from 2015 to 2019 is available here , and parts 3 and 4 will be published on the blog over the coming days. . A decision in 2015 concerned the definition of “public” in the act of communication.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Parts 1 and 2 of this post (originally published in “Auteurs & Media”) summarising case law of the German Bundesgerichtshof from 2015 to 2019 are available here and here , and part 4 will be published on the blog shortly. In addition to rights of the author, German copyright law also recognises related rights. Related rights.

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Plagiarism Today

APRIL 27, 2022

3: Immersive Experiences and Copyright: TeamLab Sues MODS for ‘Copying their Artwork’ Finally today, Jonny Walfisz at Euronews reports that the Tokyo-based art collective teamLab has filed a lawsuit against the Los Angeles-based museum, the Museum of Dream Space (MODS) alleging copyright infringement.

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JIPEL Copyright Blog

APRIL 26, 2021

In this case, via alleged copyright infringement. However, an equally long list of controversies accompanies this list of accomplishments, the majority of which involve alleged copying. Nordstrom removed the pieces at issue, and everything seemed to be fine on the copying front—until 2020 hit. The account and its 2.6

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Plagiarism Today

MAY 23, 2022

Mange, who has nearly 4 million followers, pointed out the copying in a video comparing the two works. This kicked off a firestorm of controversy in China, with Audi, M&C and Lau all apologizing for the copying. All these systems are remarkable feats of technology and have helped shape our understanding of copying.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

TVkaista Faces Legal Action In advance of TTVK’s letters being sent out, TVkaista’s CEO, technical director, and legal advisor, faced legal action for criminal copyright infringement and aggravated fraud. The platform eventually shut down in 2015, but the bankruptcy estate had no funds available to pay the compensation owed.

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JIPL Online

APRIL 9, 2021

In particular, it explores why copyright of a meme’s underlying content does not matter in a normative sense. In this blog I argue that copyright protection of the content underlying memes does not matter because of the relative weakness of enforcement mechanisms for copyright infringement of this scale. 8, 2015), [link].

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Plagiarism Today

APRIL 7, 2022

In 2015, FDN filed a DMCA takedown notice, but Amazon did not take down the work in question. Also in 2018, FDN filed the original complaint, targeting both Amazon and CCA, alleging that they both breached contracts and committed copyright infringement. According to the U.S. But this is where FDN introduces a new wrinkle.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

1: The Weeknd Sued for Copyright Infringement Over ‘Call Out My Name’. First off today, Justin Curto at Vulture reports that The Weeknd has been hit with a copyright lawsuit over his song Call Out My Name. Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday. 2: Movie Companies Demand Over $10m in Piracy Damages from LiquidVPN.

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Plagiarism Today

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

As part of their series The Facebook Files , which is an examination of leaked internal documents from the company, the paper published a scathing review of the company’s practices surrounding copied content. This was in part because the company feared running afoul of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). Bottom Line.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

The groups sent a copy of the UK High Court order to Google, requesting removal of the listed domains. The Electonic Frontier Foundation (EFF), for example, wrote an amicus curiae brief in support of Flvto and 2Conv when they were sued for copyright infringement in the United States. In 2015, it told the U.S.

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IP Watchdog

APRIL 8, 2022

The court held that Sheeran did not copy a part of Defendant Sami Chokri’s 2015 song called “Oh Why.”

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 15, 2022

New copies were uploaded constantly and banned users reportedly returned using new names. The movie tycoon also pointed out that YouTube’s repeat infringer policy resets copyright strikes after 90-days, after which the same users can upload copyright-infringing content again. Content ID is Not for Everyone.

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LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Slaughter for the Central District of California granted motions for summary judgment against a screenwriter’s claims that the creation of Ad Astra , the 2019 Brad Pitt film, had infringed on a script he had written. [1] Jones first brought his script to CAA in November 2015, with a subsequent submission of the script in September 2016.

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The IPKat

APRIL 21, 2022

From former Guest Kat Peter Ling comes an interesting report on that most rare of copyright cases, a criminal complaint based on infringement. Rapidshare was an online file hosting service that operated between 2002 and 2015. Creating a download link and providing it to the Uploader is not relevant under copyright law.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 19, 2021

By the end of 2015, it had completed the transformation from a ‘pirate site’ into a licensed publisher, which is a laudable achievement. In fact, Fakku suggests that our news article covering the legal action against Hentai.cafe is somehow copyright infringing. That worked well as the platform kept growing.

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Patently-O

AUGUST 31, 2021

In addition, SAS argues that the formatting of the reports is also copyrighted. There apparently is no claim of copying of any lines of software, but instead it is copying of the functionality and use of the particular coding language. Pamela Samuelson, A Fresh Look at Tests for Nonliteral Copyright Infringement , 107 Nw.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 8, 2024

As with other platforms that host user-generated content, this massive code library occasionally runs into copyright infringement troubles. And there are also developers whose projects are seen as pirate tools or apps, which often leads to copyright holder complaints.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 4, 2022

This prompted Alexander to file a lawsuit against Take-Two, claiming copyright infringement of her work. However, the important thing to know is that there was no doubt that Take-Two did copy the tattoos in question and there was no question of Alexander’s ownership of them. Instead, she only won actual damages totaling $3,750.

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IPilogue

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

A literary controversy surrounding a copyright claim has taken over the North American online writing community, and it involves a kidney donation, a private Facebook group, and a short story.? . On June 24, 2015, Ms. In order to prove copyright infringement , Ms. 19-cv-10203-IT), Ms.

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The IPKat

JANUARY 30, 2024

Opull'ence considered that the sale of this t-shirt constituted a slavish copy its own t-shirt. On 15 June 2020, the French company brought an action against Gazelle before the Paris Court of First Instance claiming infringement of its copyright and unregistered Community designs. Opull’ence appealed.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Though it’s impossible to know where the source actually is, Ghanaian rapper M.anifest posted the image on Twitter two weeks prior, and it’s likely that too was a copy from somewhere else. All in all, only four of the posts appeared to be original with the others being lifted from Reddit, Twitter, Quora and other sites.

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Copyright Lately

MAY 21, 2021

Rachel Dolezal, the woman accused of misrepresenting her racial background, has filed a new infringement lawsuit against CBS Interactive. Is she weaponizing copyright? Dolezal claims that the CBS-owned website ETonline.com infringed the photo by reproducing it without permission in a June 2015 article about the controversy.

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BYU Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The Complaint alleges that Dave Poltrock ("Poltrock"), an employee of MPS, shared the WIN Passage (in the form of a photograph of a crumpled print-out of the passage) on his Twitter account in 2015 and again in 2017.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 27, 2021

However, that is just the latest in a decade-long history of discussing copyright, plagiarism and other authorship issues as they pertain to Halloween and horror. So, this year we’re going to take a look back at the various tales of copyright infringement and/or plagiarism that we’ve looked at over the years.

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 22, 2024

The domain of copyright deals with the literary, musical, dramatic, and artistic works, and cinematograph films. Before the digital era, copyright protected tangible art or works, allowing authors to easily regulate usage, copies, and earnings.

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

In what may be the first instance of stream ripping being prohibited in India, the Delhi High Court in the case of Sony Music Entertainment India Pvt Ltd and Ors vs Yt1s.Com and Ors has passed an order restricting the defendants from engaging in copyright infringement via use of rogue websites. Of these, 46.8

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Since 2015, TIR has made its specialist content available via the website mistressharley.com (NSFW) and through authorized third parties under licensing agreements. In parallel, websites that sell pirated copies of TIR’s copyrighted videos compete in the same market by targeting TIR’s customers. .

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 16, 2023

By now, various courts around the world have concluded that The Pirate Bay is a copyright-infringing website. This GitHub subdomain is a copy of thepirateproxybay.com and appears to be operated by the same people, but it’s not blocked by UK ISPs. One domain managed to escape these blocking actions; proxybay.github.com.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 20, 2022

The readable parts suggest that evidence related to the reliability and accuracy of notices that were sent out between 2012-2015 is no longer available. This information applies to MarkMonotor’s piracy tracking system as well as Audible Magic’s services, which are used to verify that shared files are indeed copyright infringing.

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IP and Legal Filings

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Radha Pocket Books,the plaintiff filed a copyright infringement case against the defendant for publishing a comic book character named ‘Nagesh’. Emerging Trends in Publicity Rights in India : An Analysis Under the Intellectual Property Laws in India, 2 CMET (2015) 74 Zacchini v. InRaja Pocket Books v. 2007, I, no.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JANUARY 15, 2024

It sought public views on various copyright enforcement challenges, including industry-led enforcement mechanisms, the website blocking scheme that was introduced in Australia in 2015, a statutory safe harbour and notice and take-down scheme, access to courts in copyright disputes, especially small ones, and remedies for copyright infringements.

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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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