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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Plagiarism Today

MARCH 7, 2022

1: Dua Lipa Hit With Another Copyright Lawsuit Over ‘Levitating’. First off today, Bill Donahue at Billboard reports that pop musician Dua Lipa has been hit with a second lawsuit over her hit song Levitating , as a pair of different accusers have accused her of copyright infringement. Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday.

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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. He called an earlier decision in the case one of the 5 worst copyright decisions in 2020 and, with the jury verdict, called it a loss for bodily autonomy and free speech. Instead, she only won actual damages totaling $3,750.

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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. It was then, that PQ's solicitors wrote to Mr Aughton alleging breaches of confidence and infringement of copyright.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Yesterday, we looked at the myriad of ways that copyright and trademark impact Halloween costumes. 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. Copyright and Halloween.

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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

1: Top EU Court Rejects Polish Complaint Over Copyright Law. First off today, John Silk at Deutsche Welle reports that the highest court in the European Union, the European Court of Justice (ECJ), has rejected a Polish challenge to the latest EU copyright directive. Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday.

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Patently-O

AUGUST 31, 2021

The focus of the case is copyrightability of the SAS statistical software and its outputs. SAS argues that it made a “plethora of creative choices” in developing its material, and that creativity is more than sufficient to satisfy the originality requirements of copyright law. The Federal Circuit’s Google v.

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JIPL Online

APRIL 9, 2021

Such uses are often methods of social commentary regarding the user’s own life, or more broadly, current events; they also often utilize copyrightable material. [i] ii] Existing copyright law is ineffective in its application to new forms of digital media. i] Memes are also a form of communication that distinguishes generations.

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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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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JANUARY 15, 2024

Photo by Joey Csunyo on Unsplash In recent years, copyright departments in governments around the world have been preoccupied with AI’s effects on copyright industries and, more recently, copyright law challenges created for AI industries. Which copyright issues has the Australian government been grappling with?

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Plagiarism Today

APRIL 7, 2022

It deals with whether Amazon and/or CCA infringed FDN’s copyrights by scraping descriptions from their website for use as part of Amazon’s product listings. It’s a confusing question with no easy answer, but it’s an issue that puts the copyright registration of every website at risk.

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BYU Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Bell claims copyright in the Book but also separately in the WIN Passage itself, and included copyright registrations for both as exhibits to his Complaint. In the Complaint, Bell notes that he offers licensing of the Book and the WIN Passage at reasonable rates.

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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. 3: Twitch Will Warn Streamers About Copyright Issues After New Music Deal. million and an additional $1.65

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The IPKat

JANUARY 17, 2024

The book that is going to change copyright law? After the referrals in Mio [IPKat here and here ] and USM Haller [IPKat here ] , another referral asking about the meaning of originality in EU copyright law has been made to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU): it is the referral from Romania in Institutul G.

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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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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). The Google Solution.

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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

MAY 21, 2024

Cox alleges that the copyright infringement damages should be covered by the policies, which relate to claims from its ‘media activities’ The Hiscox policy has a limit of $15 million and includes legal defense costs, with a $500,000 per claim retention. .” — A copy of the complaint, filed by Cox at the U.S.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 15, 2022

Those allegations aren’t new, but the movie tycoon also said that YouTube would not allow him to join the Content ID copyright protection program unless he agreed to specific terms, including a revenue share agreement. New copies were uploaded constantly and banned users reportedly returned using new names.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Today, we begin with developments in the copyright field. CPL Industries Limited , dismissed an appeal from the High Court in a copyright infringement, trademark infringement and passing-off suit between two pharmaceutical companies. In January , the Court of Appeal in Nigeria in Morison Industries Plc V.

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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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The IPKat

JANUARY 30, 2024

This ruling was an opportunity for the court to reiterate that a garment can be protected by copyright and design law. Opull'ence considered that the sale of this t-shirt constituted a slavish copy its own t-shirt. Consequently, no copyright infringement could be found. Opull’ence appealed.

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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. Copyright Office. In order to prove copyright infringement , Ms. On June 10, 2018, Ms.

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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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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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LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 7, 2022

copyright law does not protect “elements of expression that nature displays for all observers,” [8] which, according to Cattelan, excludes the main components of Morford’s artwork. Morford’s work is only protected by a “thin” copyright, and there is no substantial similarity between the two works.

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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. While rightsholders don’t like this type of information being shared, there are no links to copyrighted material on the site. From: TF , for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

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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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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 20, 2022

Under US copyright law, Internet providers must terminate the accounts of repeat infringers “in appropriate circumstances.”. 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. Billion Dollar Lawsuits.

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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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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. Damages (Section 97(2) UrhG).

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 13, 2022

Copyright holders have tried a variety of measures to curb copyright infringement over the years, with varying levels of success. These blocking orders are typically limited to ISPs, so it’s still possible that people are directed to infringing sites through other means. This could in part be because the U.S.

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IPilogue

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

These events point to two prevalent issues within the current legal framework: First, that current intellectual property laws do not properly acknowledge collective ownership over shared culture within Indigenous communities and second, whether tattoo designs have the potential to be protected through copyright laws. Of note, in DRG Inc.

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IIPRD

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

There are few e-commerce companies which explicitly make copies of brands such as Firstcopyclub, ShoesKartel etc. Challenges in IPR Regulation in e-commerce As per a survey, around 38% online buyers experienced counterfeit products and 1/3 rd people have gotten copied products. 26, 2023, 11:00 AM), [link]. 5] Kirsty Phillips et al.,

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