TorrentFreak

JANUARY 11, 2022

According to Bungie, AimJunkies copied and distributed its copyrighted work, to develop and advertise its cheat software. The cheat software itself certainly isn’t a copy of Bungie’s work, they add. Copyright Questions. The cheat maker also highlights another problem with Bungie’s copyright claims.

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The IPKat

AUGUST 3, 2022

These rights are often owned by different people, and are governed by contracts, so who owns what and how much they earn depends on the agreement between the parties. In 2020, Kelis revealed in an interview that she is not credited and does not receive any royalties from her two albums produced by The Neptunes.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 2, 2021

The book is available as a PDF at Gumroad for $10, as a Kindle ebook for $9.99, and in hard copy at Amazon for $20. The hard copy comes with a free PDF on request; and shipping should be free on Amazon Prime.] If you’re an academic and would like a free evaluation copy, please email me. Primer on CCPA/CPRA. Primer on FOSTA.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

increase in international registration filings compared to 2020! DESIGN On Saturday, February 5, 2022, WIPO announced China's accession to the Hague System, making it the 68th contracting party to the 1999 Act and the 77th member of the Hague Union. The IPKat has once again compiled some of them for you. In 2021, there was a 14.4%

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 14, 2022

In 2020, Sifuentes sued Dropbox for a 2012 data breach. NB: there always should be someone at the company who can easily answer just how many times the TOS has been amended and provide definitive copies of each amendment and the date they occurred. Anarchy Has Ensued In Courts’ Handling of Online Contract Formation (Round Up Post).

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

From a cold, legal perspective, a 2020 blocking application filed by publishers Elsevier, Wiley, and American Chemical Society should’ve been straightforward. On one hand, unauthorized mass copying and distribution of movies, TV shows, and music is widely recognized as copyright infringement. Today, most run relatively smoothly.

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The IP Law Blog

MARCH 31, 2022

Desny could not get through to Wilder and subsequently stripped his script to the bare facts so that Wilder’s secretary could copy it in short-hand over the phone. The Court, however, held that Densy stated sufficient facts to establish the existence of an implied-in-fact contract between the parties.

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Plagiarism Today

APRIL 7, 2022

Also in 2018, FDN filed the original complaint, targeting both Amazon and CCA, alleging that they both breached contracts and committed copyright infringement. Copyright Office, “Online content is considered published if the copyright owner authorizes the end user to retain copies of the content or further distribute the content.”.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

This older copy is the one presented by Bungie as evidence. In 2020, someone using the name “Martin Zeniu” obtained a license to the Destiny 2 cheat software, agreeing to these terms. The purchased software was allegedly decompiled and reverse engineered, which is a breach of contract since it violates the Terms of Service.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The movie companies allege a breach of contract but note that due to the defendants’ alleged accounting deficiencies, they are unable to put an exact figure on the amount Hierl and his law firm failed to pay. Overall, Millennium believes that there is an enforceable contract and it’s owed $130,000 in collected settlements.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Christopher Buccafusco (& Rebecca Tushnet), Base Rate Neglect in Copying-in-Fact Comes out of an excellent Buccafusco paper about the failures of copying in fact, which led me to think about base rate neglect in cases where plaintiff’s expert claims that it’s not possible that these similarities arose in the absence of copying.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2022

In the fall of 2020, hiQ Labs had its antitrust claims dismissed. In spring 2021, hiQ Labs had its motion to dismiss denied on LinkedIn’s misappropriation, breach of contract, and trespass to chattels claims. Breach of Contract. The CFAA is in part a criminal statute and breach of contract claims are not. The opinion.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2022

Finally, in October 2020, Facebook nuked the Shared account (and the personal accounts of some of its employees) and blocked Shared’s ads. Fourth, Shared avers that Meta committed breach of contract (Claim 3) for failing to deliver the April 2018 payment on time in violation of the FAN payment term. Bonne chance.”).

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 21, 2021

After the apparent demise of Area 51 but in advance of the settlement being finalized, it’s alleged that Tusa launched a close copy of Area 51 called SingularityMedia, which scooped up Area 51’s customers. In response, ACE contacted Tusa again and demanded that the new service was shut down. It later disappeared.

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43(B)log

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Things eventually went bad, resulting in contract/trade secret claims and copyright/ROP counterclaims. After the relationship broke down, Bartlett’s website became disabled, but MG and McCandless kept copies of Bartlett’s photos on their servers until after defendants filed their counterclaims.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

APRIL 1, 2023

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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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MARCH 13, 2024

The social contract of copyright, which main purpose is to realize a broader collective concern, the access of citizens to science and culture ( Geiger, 2013 ), lies in the approximation of the interests of rightholders and users. From this constitutional dimension of copyright emerged the notion of ‘user rights’ ( Geiger, 2020 ).

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 31, 2022

Desny could not get through to Wilder and subsequently stripped his script to the bare facts so that Wilder’s secretary could copy it in short-hand over the phone. The Court, however, held that Densy stated sufficient facts to establish the existence of an implied-in-fact contract between the parties.

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 13, 2022

According to a 1999 report by Washington City Paper , she first found herself dealing with accusations of plagiarism, something she blamed on copy and paste errors. Because of that, she’s suing for a variety of causes including defamation, breach of contract and tortious interference.

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LexBlog IP

JULY 7, 2021

Companies may therefore continue to negotiate their own individual contracts addressing the compulsory elements of Article 28(3) and (4) of the GDPR. Instead, the controller retains the choice as to whether the processor must delete or return the personal data, until following termination of the contract (clause 10(d)). Background.

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

billion in sales in 2021 alone, the non-fungible token (“NFT”) has recently undergone a dramatic rise in prominence in the cryptoverse, similar to the “crypto summer” of 2017-18 or the “DeFi summer” of 2020. With an astounding $17.7 This metadata may be “on-chain” or “off-chain.”

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IPilogue

AUGUST 16, 2022

In 2020, AirG was involved in a similar copyright infringement action, Lickerish, Ltd. The Court was not satisfied that any of this evidence confirmed that Pugliese was a US citizen in April 2015, when photos were created. Another Escape by AirG. v AirG Inc.

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IP Spotlight

APRIL 1, 2020

(Note: This post was updated June 30, 2020 to reflect the new extension dates that the USPTO published on that date.). Extensions available through June 30, 2020. On March 31, 2020, and updated on April 28, 2020, the USPTO issued notices indicating that it will waive certain patent and trademark filing deadlines under the CARES Act.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 11, 2023

Another 3k+ word post about the jurisprudential chaos in online contract formation law. Ticketmaster, a 9th Circuit memo opinion from 2020 that I did not blog. But ultimately, the onus is on Disney to create a contract formation process so conspicuous that a court can’t reach decisions like this. ” Double UGH.

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Kashishipr

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

It was in October 2020 when SSPL came to know about NTC’s use of a similar label and trade dress for its set of soya bean edible oil products. In May 2007, the label mark ‘SOYA DROP’ was registered. Since then, it has been continuously used and has even acquired reputation and goodwill in the market. For more visit: [link].

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IP and Legal Filings

APRIL 28, 2022

The trial jury found West guilty of reverse passing off under the Lanham Act but not for trade dress infringement, trade dress counterfeiting, trade secret misappropriation, or tortious interference with a contract between OTR and Genie. Instead, it held that OTR’s trade dress was invalid and fraudulently obtained.

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JIPEL Copyright Blog

APRIL 23, 2021

pic.twitter.com/fhkLfOssfm — Taylor Swift (@taylorswift13) May 25, 2020. Whoever owns the sound recording rights controls the “master,” or the original recording from which every other copy is made. There seemed nothing particularly odd about Swift’s tweet – except that the band didn’t exist.

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The IP Law Blog

MARCH 2, 2021

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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IIPRD

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

On 12 th February 2021, Taylor Swift re-released one of her most famous songs “Love Story” the reason being as Swift told Good Morning America last August was, “My contract says that starting November 2020 … I can record albums one through five all over again.”. All copies are made from this recording.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JULY 14, 2023

use of indigenous content, model contracts and/or national laws on limitations and exceptions). The initial pre-print version was drafted with the collaboration of academics from different universities and led to an international conference in 2020 in Geneva. version with further considerations (e.g., Proposal 8.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 11, 2023

In 2020, the RIAA infuriated many players in the open source community by targeting YouTube-ripping tool youtube-dl. ‘Clearly Not Clearly Illegal’ Also, Uberspace couldn’t find any claims from YouTube itself that their content has effective copy protection. After all, we have a hosting contract to fulfill!’

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JIPEL Copyright Blog

MARCH 29, 2022

6, 2020, which sold for nearly $400,000. In effect, the rights acquired by the buyer of the NFT are more akin to a license to a unique copy of the content including things like the right to use, display or transfer the content but may or may not contain the right to commercially benefit from it. Rockets game of Feb.

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Kashishipr

JUNE 23, 2021

The digital universe is so large that it is said that big data is doubling in size every two years, and by the end of 2020, it is expected to reach 44 zettabytes. It is a popular saying that “if it is worth copying, it is worth protecting.” Where does IP come from in the Said Scenario?

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Trading Secrets

DECEMBER 21, 2021

This year’s series included: 2020 Year in Review: What You Need to Know about the Recent Cases and Developments in Trade Secrets, Non-Competes, and Computer Fraud Law. 2020 Year in Review: What You Need to Know about the Recent Cases and Developments in Trade Secrets, Non-Competes, and Computer Fraud Law. View the Recording.

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Confidentiality Law Contracts Business 69

Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

MARCH 8, 2021

This article focuses on regulatory and legislative actions in 2020 that may impact the burgeoning biosimilars space in 2021 and beyond. In particular, the authors review FDA’s preparation for the March 23, 2020 transition date, as well as FDA’s efforts to address biosimilar competition, interchangeability, and the COVID-19 pandemic.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Interested readers can find the Africa IP Highlights 2020, here. The plaintiff applied for an injunction against the defendant for copyright infringement and breach of contract. Since he used the company resources to produce the drawings, the architectural drawings became commissioned works by the Company under a contract of service.

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IP Whiteboard

JULY 19, 2020

On 27 April 2020, the Supreme Court of the United States ( Supreme Court ) handed down its decision in Georgia Et Al v Public Resource Org, Inc. However, this exception is limited to one copy and does not permit, for example, a publisher making multiple copies for a book. What was copyrighted? reasons given by a judge.

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