TorrentFreak

JUNE 15, 2022

With ties to the shadowy piracy monitoring and settlement factory GuardaLey , Voltage is currently pursuing Virgin Media customers in the UK to retrieve cash while warning that something much worse could happen. On March 16, 2018, a statement of claim was filed against 110 ‘Doe’ defendants, identified only by their IP addresses.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

Depending on opinion, the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society, the supervising body and publisher for the Jehovah’s Witness religious group, either doesn’t like criticism, dislikes copyright infringement, or hates both. In the summer of 2021, that case also ran into trouble when McFree refused to supply his real name.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Ltd [2022] EWHC 1895 (Ch) (July 2022) In our last volume , we reported on Samsung being held directly liable as a platform for copied watch faces for Samsung smartwatches. An appeal in 2018 failed to dodge this finding by trying to argue that the registration was a series of marks (see Volume 5 ).

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

If a design, when registered, does not suffer from lack of novelty or originality, the mere fact that, after it is registered, several persons may choose to copy the said design can obviously not constitute a ground to cancel the registration of the design.” Samsung to pay $150 mn to Nanoco Tech in QLED patent suit settlement.

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IP and Legal Filings

DECEMBER 17, 2023

ii] This unreported judgement helped bring the grievances on the table for the others to see that copyright law has deficiencies in terms of music sharing and copying along with royalty issues. iii] However, the act still comes short to address the issue of royalty and copyright claims in the digital streaming creative works.

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SpicyIP

MARCH 27, 2023

IP Financing in India – Part II: The Supreme Court and (mis)interpretation of Banking Regulation Act, 1949 Part II of the two-part guest post by Bharat Harne on IP Financing in India focuses on the 2018 Supreme Court decision in Canara Bank v N.G. Internet Archive loses US copyright lawsuit relating to its digital book lending program.

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Designs Design Cease and Desist Art 105

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 29, 2023

At an initial conference on January 23, 2023, the parties reached a settlement and asked to dismiss the claim. On June 4, 2018, Oppenheimer found his image on Prutton’s website. Prutton admitted to copying and said that his adult daughter had helped him with his website. (A Prutton, 22-CCB-0045 , February 28, 2023.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 20, 2023

For obvious reasons, the copyright in a photograph does not include the right to publicly perform the copyrighted work. 103(a) (“protection for a work employing preexisting material in which copyright subsists does not extend to any part of the work in which such material has been used unlawfully.”).

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LexBlog IP

JULY 21, 2021

73, 77 (2018)(footnotes omitted)]. Garg (2018), at 78-80 ]. Likewise, the Office cannot register a work purportedly created by divine or supernatural beings, although the Office may register a work where the application or the deposit copy(ies) state that the work was inspired by a divine spirit. copyright law.

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