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Tiktok's other, smaller legal problem

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2015) “in this circuit, a reverse passing off claim requires the alteration of a product and a subsequent sale.” False advertising: Meishe pointed to statements defendants made in their copyright notice at tiktok.com, in the ByteDance Code of Conduct, in TikTok’s Intellectual Property Policy, and in TikTok’s terms of service.

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3 Count: Finally Settled

Plagiarism Today

1: Cox Settles Dispute with BMG, Rightscorp Over Copyright Notices. First off today, Blake Brittain at Reuters reports that Cox Communications has settled its dispute with BMG and Rightscorp over allegedly false Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) filed by Rightscorp on BMG’s behalf.

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Chinaware Designs to Needlepoint Patterns: Problems Getting Permission

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And you don't need permission if the works were produced between 1963 and March 1989 and they did not include a copyright notice. In summary, you only need to be concerned about 1963 - 1989 designs with copyright notices. In 2015, the Copyright Office analyzed t he orphan works dilemma.)

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Is Your Website Published or Unpublished?

Plagiarism Today

In 2015, FDN filed a DMCA takedown notice, but Amazon did not take down the work in question. Copyright Office is required before a lawsuit can be filed, and a timely one is needed to obtain maximum damages from the courts. However, in spite of this, Amazon scraped those descriptions and used them in Amazon listings.

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DISH Wins $31m Judgment & Injunction Against Pirate IPTV Service & Resellers

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In an effort to shut the service down, DISH said it sent at least 134 copyright infringement notices to Chitram between July 2014 and November 2015. In December 2015, Chitram reportedly “temporarily ceased” transmitting DISH content but by December 2017, it was back online.

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Facebook’s Plagiarism Problems Are Deeper Than You Realize

Plagiarism Today

Facebook also implemented filters for video content following the “freebooting” controversies of 2015 and 2017. They weren’t scared to block videos and images years ago, and they felt comfortable rejecting and obstructing filed DMCA notices, why did they not take similar action against other kinds of plagiarized and pirated content?

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The United States Copyright Office Notice of Inquiry on AI: A Quick Take

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2015) , and held that copies made and used for a specific purpose involving snippets would likely fall under fair use. relating to use of copyrighted content for the development of AI systems. There is good reason that copyright is an “opt in” regime. Google, Inc. 3d 132 (2d Cir.