Plagiarism Today

MARCH 7, 2022

Specifically, they claim that the song copies “particular lines and phrases” from their piece. The lawsuit was filed in 2018, and Sheeran attempted to get the lawsuit tossed without any luck. The 3 Count Logo was created by Justin Goff and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License.

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 4, 2023

Back in 2018, that resulted in the European Commission handing down a 4.1-billion-euro According to Google, there were at least 50 instances of copying, some of which were “word-for-word”. Copy and Paste Roundup. In 2017, partially based upon that report, the European Union voted to renew the license for glyphosate.

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Plagiarism Today

JULY 28, 2021

Next up today, Baek Byung-yeul at the Korea Times reports that a new bill in the South Korean National Assembly follows in the footsteps of other nations in trying to force Google to pay a license fee to local news organization for the use of their content in Google News.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 21, 2021

They allege that American Skin copies elements from their 2017 screenplay, A Routine Stop. However, the relationship soured quickly and Kairosoft claims to have filed a termination notice in 2018 but Beijing Shi Jun has cut off communication and continued to sell both Kairosoft games and knock offs since.

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IPilogue

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Take-Two licensed Randy Orton’s likeness from WWE. 501 in 2018 and moved for partial summary judgement on the grounds that she never authorized WWE to recreate her tattoo. The Defendants also filed a motion for partial summary judgement on the basis of three defences : 1) de minimus, 2) fair use doctrine and 3) implied license.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 24, 2021

Next up today, Daniel Goldblatt at The Wrap reports that filmmaker Michael Moore is facing a lawsuit from Flint, Michigan resident Darick Lemons over footage that was used in Moore’s 2018 film Fahrenheit 11/9. The 3 Count Logo was created by Justin Goff and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License.

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 19, 2022

Without this rule, many authors fear the UK market would be flooded with cheaper international copies. The law, which took effect January 1, requires publishers that distribute e-books to offer a license to libraries on “reasonable” terms. However, that was defeated by the German Supreme Court in 2018.

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43(B)log

AUGUST 11, 2021

“[I]ts primary funding source is the sale and licensing of publications containing its copyrighted works.” It allegedly sold or gave away unauthorized copies of the I-Codes and Custom Codes to both customers and prospective customers. Where these are not provided, UpCodes has integrated the local amendments.”

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 7, 2021

However, as the case went along, LAMCO failed to produce any evidence of copying and even admitted that they didn’t own the tracks at issue. The story began in August 2018 when the Saudi government blocked access to beIN sports as part of a larger dispute with Qatar.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 20, 2022

In 2018, the game companies filed a lawsuit in Australia , targeting several people believed to be linked to the popular “Infamous” cheating mod. With the orders in hand, a search party was permitted to enter several buildings and search, copy, or remove evidence including any computers and documents that were linked to the alleged offenses.

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Patently-O

JANUARY 4, 2024

2024) A recent copyright infringement lawsuit filed by small Boston intellectual property boutique Hsuanyeh Law Group PC (HLG) against international giant Winston & Strawn LLP focuses a dividing line that can highlight when copying the work of another firm is permissible. Winston & Strawn , 23-cv-11193 (S.D.N.Y. Cannon , 789 N.W.2d

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LexBlog IP

OCTOBER 29, 2021

The Pennsylvania Senate announced on October 26, 2021 that it has passed Senate Bill 705 , and a copy of the Senate Press Release can be found at [link]. A previous telemedicine bill was passed in Pennsylvania in July of 2018, when the Pennsylvania Senate approved Bill 780, which was discussed in my MedLaw Blog article of July 30, 2018.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 30, 2023

Operating from 2016 until 2018, the Flawless IPTV service copied subscription TV broadcasts from official (and unofficial) sources and then restreamed that content to tens of thousands of customers, at a dramatically cut down price. For many UK football fans, Flawless granted access to the sport they love, at a price they could afford.

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Plagiarism Today

APRIL 7, 2022

Though Amazon did remove some 2,000 descriptions in 2018, that came after Amazon asserted that they had proper authorization to use the descriptions and that there was nothing they could do. Their pages contained a pair of copyright notices that read, “Nothing on this page may be copied or reproduced without explicit permission.”

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IPilogue

AUGUST 4, 2021

This is because Copilot would copy small snippets of commonly used code which are unlikely to amount to substantial reproduction or meet the threshold of originality necessary to be protected under copyright. Some licensing agreements contain “copyleft” obligations. What About Copyleft? What Comes Next?

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 15, 2023

“Twitter fuels its business with countless infringing copies of musical compositions, violating Publishers’ and others’ exclusive rights under copyright law,” the complaint reads. — A copy of the music publishers’ complaint against Twitter, filed at the U.S. This hasn’t changed since Elon Musk took over.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 1, 2023

By Guest Blogger Tyler Ochoa Recently, the Ninth Circuit reaffirmed what has become known as the “server test”: in order to be held directly liable for violating the public display right, the alleged infringer must have a fixed “copy” of the work stored on a server in its possession or control. Instagram, LLC , 2023 WL 4554649 (9th Cir.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2021

This is the initial copying design (without of the background graphics in the precedent work): The copyright registrant alleged this copying design constituted copyright infringement. The second comer/licensee assigned the exclusive license to a successor licensee, the defendant in this case. per sticker set. 512(f) Analysis.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 8, 2023

Adjusted for inflation, imported Japanese N64s changed hands for the equivalent of $1,400 in today’s money; a copy of Super Mario 64? Jumping through these hoops to play a genuine cartridge on a genuine console not only felt ridiculous but probably amounted to a breach of license/copyright. A snip at $165.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 15, 2023

IPR Recordation was introduced through the Statute Law (Miscellaneous Amendments) Act of 2018 under Section 34B of the Anti-Counterfeit Act which requires all intellectual property rights relating to goods imported into Kenya to be recorded with the ACA. Each license remains valid for one year from the date of issue.

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Michael Geist

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

This week’s Law Bytes podcast features Western librarian Stephen Spong on fair dealing and prior posts in the series endeavoured to set the record straight and discussed site licensing , transactional licensing , and the disappearance of course packs. between 2018/19 and 2021/22.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 13, 2023

While the industry group’s definition is broad enough to encompass all streaming services offering licensed content, a more specific description for the lion’s share of related piracy is carried out by people using YouTube-ripping tools. It is now the most prevalent form of online music copyright infringement.

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Copyright Lately

AUGUST 2, 2021

The test is premised upon the technical difference between a website that displays a copy of an image hosted on the site’s own server and a site that uses HTML instructions to direct a user’s browser to another server that stores the image. Therefore, there’s no direct infringement. Breitbart News Network.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 21, 2021

This is also true for Greece, where the first domains were targeted in 2018. Several of these are for proxies or copies of the popular torrent site RARBG, such as rarbgto.org, proxyrarbg.or, rarbgget.org, rarbgmirror.com, and rarbgmirror.org. Site operators can either acquire a license or file an official appeal.

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BYU Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Bell states that he "provided notice to the MPS [ ] in 2018 and 2019 demanding the infringing activities of copying and distribution cease immediately[,]" but the posts were not taken down. In the Complaint, Bell notes that he offers licensing of the Book and the WIN Passage at reasonable rates.

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Copyright Lately

APRIL 6, 2024

Yonay’s widow and son launched the legal action in June 2022 after Paramount Pictures released the blockbuster sequel Top Gun: Maverick without renegotiating a license to adapt Yonay’s “Top Guns” article, despite a 2018 copyright termination notice served by his heirs. As always, I’d love to know what you think.

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BYU Copyright Blog

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

This dispute concerned an image shared under a Creative Commons license, which was allegedly used by the law firm Meyer, Suozzi, English & Klein, P.C. the "Plaintiff") in an article it produced without complying with the attribution requirements of the license. Carrington CollegeWe previously reported on this case in late 2018.

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JIPL Online

MARCH 15, 2021

3] The suit alleged that Sherlock Holmes’ character traits of warmth and empathy were copied and not yet in the public domain, as these traits only developed in later works that are still protected by copyright. [4] 14] Before lawyers got involved, pressure from the photographer resulted in the granting of a licensing fee. [15]

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BYU Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

University of Houston SystemOur last update on this dispute was on December 6, 2021, and we had previously reported on it in July of 2019 and February of 2018. Louis for allegedly copying a panoramic stock image of the iconic Gateway Arch and using it on the university's website. Washington University in St.

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IPilogue

AUGUST 3, 2021

Copies of the game along with a gamer’s guide packaged in special extra-large cardboard boxes sat unsold on shelves for months. Due to low sales ( under 150,000 copies sold in North America), the game remained a hidden gem for years until Earthbound ’s main character Ness appeared in the popular 1999 fighting game Super Smash Bros.

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IP Tech Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Breitbart News Network, LLC , in 2018, and more recently, in 2021, Nicklen v. Judge Breyer saw no basis to limit the rationale of Perfect 10 to its facts (i.e., embedded images in Google’s search engine’s image results), finding that the ruling relied on the plain language of the statute.

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The IP Law Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2021

In essence, the Ninth Circuit explained that de minimis goes to the amount of copying of a copyrighted work as opposed to any de minimis use or display of any such a work. Bell, however, sued Wilmott for copyright infringement claiming that it continued to display a copy of the image on its server at a different pinpoint address than before.

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IP Intelligence

JUNE 7, 2023

Sy Damle, (2016-2018 General Counsel) testified that “the training of AI models will generally fall within the established bounds of fair use.” (S. At the time Goldsmith was also licensing her original photograph to several magazines that were also writing articles about Prince’s life and music. Damle introductory statement, Tr.

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IPilogue

APRIL 22, 2022

ViiV Healthcare (“ViiV”), majority-owned by GlaxoSmithKline (“GSK”), claims that Gilead’s bictegravir (sold under the brand name “Biktarvy”) directly copied its dolutegravir’s formulation under U.S. Sales forecasts for the drug were $1B USD in 2018 and rising to $5B USD annually by 2024 (see Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S ).

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Plagiarism Today

JULY 8, 2021

The most vocal critics were in the open-source programming community , who were upset that GitHub trained their AI on significant amounts of open-source code and can even reproduce that code verbatim in some circumstances, but does not follow the respective open-source licenses. This has led to a massive debate about the legality of Copilot.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

MARCH 17, 2022

The acts which would constitute the acts of infringement are: If the owner of the copyrighted work has exclusive rights, and such work has been used by the other party without a license. If the original contents of a cinematographic film have been duplicated, copied, and pirated.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 30, 2022

Remember the Fifth Circuit case from 2018 holding that a real restaurant’s name could infringe trademark rights in the name of a fictional restaurant from the TV show SpongeBob SquarePants, the Krusty Krab? It confirms both ownership of valid copyrights and copying by the defendants of original constituent elements of the works.

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