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Another API (c) case with false advertising and contract claims too

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Defendants allegedly copied key components of Trackman’s copyrighted software and falsely suggested, in promotions and advertisements, that defendants were authorized to use the well-known courses in their game. Although the court dismissed a contract claim, copyright and false advertising claims survived.

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Elon Musk’s Gifts to Web Scrapers (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

sued Bright Data for trespass to chattels, breach of contract, tortious interference with a contract, violation of California Business and Professions Code Section 17200, and misappropriation. As I wrote back in December, scraping claims are almost always about unwanted copying and distribution of data. In November 2023, X corp.

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Hollywood Wins Injunction To Shut Down Pirate IPTV Operations, Disable Domain Names

TorrentFreak

Last year his Area 51 service was shut down following a cease-and-desist issued by the Alliance For Creativity and Entertainment (ACE). In October 2020, a confidential settlement was reached, which included a clause for Tusa not to create or be involved in any other similar services. It later disappeared.

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You’re a Fool if You Think You Can Win a 512(f) Case–Security Police and Fire Professionals v. Maritas

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

March, 13, 2023): on February 4, 2020, Bar-Z submitted a DMCA notification to Google Play and Apple that App Star’s applications needed to be taken down. While Bar-Z did interfere with App Star’s existing contracts and intended to do so, Bar-Z is protected by the defense of justification that it raised in its response.

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Meeting of the Minds: The Price of Recklessness: Disgorgement of Pro?ts in a Post-Romag World

The IP Law Blog

This information or any portion thereof may not be copied or disseminated in any form or by any means or stored in an electronic database or retrieval system without the express written consent of the American Bar Association or the copyright holder. company contracting with Chinese manufacturers, after insurance, 32 will be contracts.

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A 512(f) Plaintiff Wins at Trial! ??–Alper Automotive v. Day to Day Imports

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

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. Anthony, 2020 WL 11206863 (N.D. Summit Entertainment. * Cease & Desist Letter to iTunes Isn’t Covered by 17 USC 512(f)–Red Rock v.

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SpicyIP Weekly Review (May 8- May 13)

SpicyIP

After perusing the material on record, the court concluded that Brompton had no privity of contract with YSL and the Supply Agreement with Beverly from which Brompton claims to derive its rights was in contravention of the original Franchise Agreement with YSL.