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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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Tiktok's other, smaller legal problem

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23, 2024) Skipping the copyright and trade secrets part of the case. (In 2015) “in this circuit, a reverse passing off claim requires the alteration of a product and a subsequent sale.” Beijing Meishe Network Technology Co. Tiktok Inc., 2024 WL 1772833, No. 23-cv-06012-SI (N.D. As stated in Luxul Technology Inc. Nectarlux, LLC, 78 F.

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Is Your Website Published or Unpublished?

Plagiarism Today

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. In the United States, a registration with the U.S.

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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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Facebook’s Plagiarism Problems Are Deeper Than You Realize

Plagiarism Today

This was in part because the company feared running afoul of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). That’s because many people who reported copyright infringing content to Facebook were turned away by a DMCA takedown system that threw nothing but obstacles. A Long-Running Problem. The issue was straightforward.

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

TorrentFreak

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. “DISH Network, L.L.C.,

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

Velocity of Content

This post originally appeared in the Scholarly Kitchen on 11/28/23 Monday, October 30 was the final date for interested parties to submit comments to a comprehensive “ Notice of inquiry and request for comments ” issued by the United States Copyright Office entitled “Artificial Intelligence and Copyright.”