Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 20, 2022

On one hand, unattributed copying is rampant, widely accepted and even necessary. Much of what lawyers write have only one or two ways that they can correctly be written, thus it’s common to copy the works of others, especially from one’s own firm or their past work. While cases like this one are rare, they do happen.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 18, 2021

A Long History of Copying. However, it wasn’t the end of Epic Games’ issues with copying. At least five of those lawsuits were dismissed by March 2019 due to the lack of a proper copyright registration. In 2019, it was estimated to have made $1.8 Their copying is flagrant, but unlikely to be illegal.

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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. . The BGH arrived at the same ruling as in Cordoba II in another judgment in 2019 called Testversion.

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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. Related rights. In addition to rights of the author, German copyright law also recognises related rights.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

From March 2016 through November 2019, Carrasquillo and his co-defendants opened fraudulent accounts with TV providers Charter Communications, Comcast, DirecTV, Frontier Corporation, and Verizon Fios. A wire fraud scheme against the victim cable companies from March 2016 through November 23, 2019, in violation of 18 U.S.C.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

AUGUST 25, 2023

The case of Evans v John Lewis Plc & Anor [2023] EWHC 766 (IPEC) is a copyright infringement claim in which the IPEC (a specialist IP court in the UK) was asked to decide whether John Lewis’s 2019 Christmas advert and an associated book infringed the copyright in a children’s book. It said this showed it had not copied the book.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

JANUARY 11, 2023

The SCPA legally protects layouts of integrated circuits upon registration, making them illegal to copy without permission. The deposit can be either a physical copy of the mask work or a digital copy in a format specified by the Office. It is authorized by the federal Semiconductor Chip Protection Act of 1984 (SCPA).

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JANUARY 6, 2022

An independent Pennsylvania singer-songwriter accused Sony Music Entertainment of infringing on her copyrighted 1998 single, "Something About You," by putting out its own copy of the song in 2019, according to a suit filed Thursday in California federal court.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 24, 2022

In 2019, it was due to road work on my street and both 2020 and 2021 due to the pandemic. This prompted Florence Stoker to sue, a case she won handily with an order that all copies of the film be destroyed. However, at least one copy made it to the United States, where the original book was already in public domain.

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Plagiarism Today

APRIL 27, 2022

The new copyright directive, which was passed in 2019, requires web hosts and other online service providers to prevent infringing works from being reuploaded to them. However, the group argues that MODS copied at least two of their exhibitions, Boundaries from 2017 and Crystal from 2015. DCM also declined to comment.

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SpicyIP

JULY 31, 2023

There had been earlier attempts to amend the Act through amendment bills in 2010, 2019 (discussed by Divij here ), and 2021 (discussed by Adyasha here ). Another positive note is that like the 2021 draft and unlike the 2019 draft, the 2023 bill acknowledges exceptions under Section 52.

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Plagiarism Today

MARCH 14, 2022

Genius filed the lawsuit in 2019 alleging that Google was unlawfully copying lyrics to songs that they had hosted. According to Genius, they had used watermarking techniques to prove that Google had copied from their database of lyrics. copyright law.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 16, 2021

According to the lawsuit, Johnston made 15 copies of a master tape of his recording and sent it to various record labels, including Roadrunner. He claims that this granted Nickelback access to the song and that they copied various elements from it, including tempo, song form, melodic structure and more.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

JANUARY 11, 2023

The SCPA legally protects layouts of integrated circuits upon registration, making them illegal to copy without permission. The deposit can be either a physical copy of the mask work or a digital copy in a format specified by the Office. It is authorized by the federal Semiconductor Chip Protection Act of 1984 (SCPA).

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Plagiarism Today

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

They are a way to sell “unique” copies of digital works but do not transfer any rights. John Lewis, however, denies any copying and claims to have provided time-stamped evidence that their campaign was first presented to them in early 2016, before her book was published. 3: $31m piracy penalty for ChitramTV.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 11, 2023

The most modern instalment of this long history comes in the form of another kind ‘copy’, less richly decorated, yet more relevant and politically sensitive for a country that has established a long-term foreign investment “partnership” with the tech and communication industry: the transposition of Directive 2019/790 into Irish law.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Hollywood believes that these ‘cam’ copies cause significant damage to the cinema industry, an opinion shared by the UK’s Film Distributors’ Association. Sources confirm that the copies were traced back to two multi-screen cinemas, both of them in Liverpool, the location mentioned by PIPCU.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 26, 2023

So-called ‘cam’ copies appear online within hours of movies first appearing in theaters, yet as piracy releases go, cams are unique in their ability to disappoint just about everyone. Certain amendments proposed to the 2019 bill ( pdf ) recognized the growth of piracy in India and specifically targeted ‘cam’ piracy.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

In July 2019, YouTuber James St. All this raises a simple question: Did the series copy St Onge’s work? Onge and others who spotted the similarities, someone who worked on the series closely copied or even traced St. This leaves little doubt that, somewhere along the way, copied images made it into the show.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 18, 2021

The movie has been in the planning for years, with filming eventually taking place between March and July 2019. This means that the copy was not obtained from a ‘cammed’ or camcorder copy of the movie shown in theaters but has been ripped from some other source. From One Copy, Many Others Spawn.

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IPilogue

JULY 18, 2022

As an avant-guard artist of his time, Warhol used the mechanical process of copying to challenge the conventional notion of art. In this sense, the act of copying is the very medium of Warhol’s art. Copyright, in the simplest terms, is “ the right to copy.”

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

However, there are those who have made cottage industries out of the sale of illegal copies at significantly lower prices. One such individual, a 28-year-old man from Denmark, was spotted by Rights Alliance selling copies of textbooks via DBA, Denmark’s most popular online marketplace.

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Plagiarism Today

MAY 9, 2022

I put it on the back burner, but eventually sought out a cached copy of the article to read, even if I couldn’t write about it or link to it. Looking at the comparisons, it’s pretty obvious that she copied my words and then rewrote them to fit her style and message. Here’s Why.” However, when I clicked it, I went to an error page.

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Plagiarism Today

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

In 2019, Kenya updated its national copyright to better comply with international treaties and allow publishers (and other rightsholders) a means to file takedown notices against allegedly infringing works and have them removed. The 3 Count Logo was created by Justin Goff and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 29, 2022

When movies are recorded directly from cinema screens, the resulting pirate copy is known as a ‘cam’, regardless of the device used – camcorder or otherwise. A screenshot from the cam copy of Minions: The Rise of Gru. Forensic investigators linked the copy to a cinema in Leeds, West Yorkshire.

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Plagiarism Today

APRIL 20, 2022

For much of the web’s recent history, we scraping commonly referred a technique through which spammers would copy content from a website and republish it, either rewritten or verbatim. In 2019, the same court found largely the same thing , but chose to revisit the issue following the Supreme Court ruling last year.

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Plagiarism Today

JULY 28, 2021

The move is in line with other countries, most notably the EU, which passed a similar bill as part of a copyright overhaul in 2019. According to a local newspaper industry representative, local service providers have long paid for the news content they use while Google has not and the bill seeks to level that playing field.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 10, 2024

TV Report on the Arrests According to the authorities, 30-year-old Tuan sought to buy source code for the sites back in 2019. The aim was to launch services that would distribute movies to the public, without permission from rightsholders, for the purpose of generating illegal profits from advertising.

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Plagiarism Today

MAY 19, 2022

However, in 2019, a judge ruled in favor of Basil, saying that there was inadequate evidence to prove the song was a joint work. Atkinson sued Netflix and Dark Horse Comics, alleging that Umbrella Academy copies characters and elements from a 1996 comic book he created for Rogue Satellite Comics.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

According to the Danish anti-piracy group, the woman had been selling pirated copies of eBooks on a number of online platforms without obtaining permission from copyright holders. “In short, copying e-books is illegal if you do not own the rights to them. State Prosecutor for Serious Economic Crime.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 24, 2022

However, as I pointed out in 2019 , Amazon could solve this problem quickly and easily. All it has to do is use readily available plagiarism detection tools to detect works that contain a large volume of clearly copied text. It’s an author acting in bad faith to sell a book that was copied wholesale from another author.

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IPilogue

MAY 19, 2022

A group of plaintiffs sued the musicians in the United States District Court in California over their 2019 release “ 10,000 Hours ,” alleging that they “ stole the core portion ” of the 1973 song “ The First Time Baby is a Holiday ” (“ First Time” ). Access to the Infringed Work.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 21, 2021

First off today, Diane Haithman at TheWrap reports that filmmakers Spike Lee and Nate Parker have been sued for copyright infringement over allegations that their 2019 Film American Skin is an infringement of an earlier screenplay. They allege that American Skin copies elements from their 2017 screenplay, A Routine Stop.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 27, 2024

In the fall of 2019 , Brazilian law enforcement agencies launched the first wave of anti-piracy campaign ‘Operation 404,’ referring to the well-known HTTP error code. A copy of the verdict wasn’t released to the public, as is common with these types of convictions, so further details are scarce. The conviction of A.W.A.P.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The first season, which came out at the end of 2019, was viewed by over 76 million people within a month. Apparently, the wrong person got their hands on a screener copy and decided to share it with the rest of the world. However, removing the leaked copies from the Internet entirely will be an impossible task. The Witcher.S02.EP01.1080p.WEB-DL.AAC.2.0.x264-Telly.mkv.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

By the 2019 Funke , Pelham and Spiegel triptych, the CJEU notably closed the door for national courts to rely directly on fundamental rights as potential means of defence against alleged copyright infringements, in cases where no statutory exceptions are applicable. Interestingly, the Safarov judgment also relies on these provisions.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 19, 2022

In 2019, the makers of the superhero film “Hellboy” (HB Productions) filed a lawsuit against torrent site MKVCage at a Hawaii federal court. The movie company accused the site and its operator of promoting and distributing pirated copies of the movie, demanding to put an end to the activity. Some of the file sizes were as large as 2.3

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