TorrentFreak

MARCH 11, 2024

Books3 was created by AI researcher Shawn Presser in 2020, who scraped the library of ‘pirate’ site Bibliotik. “NVIDIA has admitted training its NeMo Megatron models on a copy of The Pile dataset. Through the lawsuit, the rightsholders demand compensation in the form of actual or statutory damages.

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Erik K Pelton

JUNE 12, 2023

On Friday, the USPTO sent out a notice to many trademark owners who’s email address were “recently identified a data security incident that impacted domicile information in certain trademark filings between February 2020 and March 2023.”

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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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TorrentFreak

MARCH 18, 2024

In 2020, publishers Hachette, HarperCollins, John Wiley and Penguin Random House sued the Internet Archive (IA) for copyright infringement, equating its ‘Open Library’ to a pirate site. Patrons can also borrow books that are scanned and digitized in-house, with technical restrictions that prevent copying.

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The IP Law Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

I say “was” because Ross AI closed down as an operating company in 2020 – Ross says it was due to the Thomson Reuters lawsuit – but its insurance coverage has allowed it to continue to defend the Thomson Reuters lawsuit). The court found, as a matter of law, that Ross copied portions of the Westlaw headnotes.

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IP Watchdog

MARCH 5, 2023

The Copyright Claims Board (CCB) has issued its first final decision since it was established by law in December 2020, finding in favor of a photographer who claimed a lawyer infringed his copyright by displaying one of his photographs on his law firm website. Oppenheimer said he discovered his aerial photograph of the Ronald V.

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Plagiarism Today

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

It was hot on the heels of a very different kind of copying scandal, one that involved Streamlabs announcing the launch of a new product using content copied and pasted from one of their biggest competitors. Hey, can I copy your homework? ? Yeah, just change it up a bit so it’s not obvious you copied. This is our fault.

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Bio Law Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

Buried in a 2020 spending bill passed in December 2019 is a provision that amends the definition of “Biological Product” in the Biologics Price Competition and Innovation Act of 2009 (BPCIA) and thereby expands the products that will be regulated as biologic medicines and litigated under the BPCIA. ” 42 U.S.C. 262 (i)(1).

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 18, 2023

In 2020, publishers Hachette, HarperCollins, John Wiley and Penguin Random House sued the Internet Archive (IA) for copyright infringement, equating its ‘Open Library’ to a pirate site. Patrons can also borrow books that are scanned and digitized in-house, with technical restrictions that prevent copying.

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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

MARCH 7, 2022

Specifically, they claim that the song copies “particular lines and phrases” from their piece. According to the lawsuit, they contacted the defendants in November 2020 about the similarities but failed to explain the similarities, prompting the lawsuit.

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IP Law 360

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

A British hacker copped to cracking the copyright protections on nearly every major motion picture released on disc between 2011 and early 2020 and distributing copies across an online piracy syndicate that caused Hollywood to lose tens of millions of dollars, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Thursday.

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Plagiarism Today

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

As part of their series The Facebook Files , which is an examination of leaked internal documents from the company, the paper published a scathing review of the company’s practices surrounding copied content. The first was in August 2020, shortly after this problem began. It has an addiction to copied content. Bottom Line.

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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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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 16, 2022

According to LDC, Sheraton copied the design of the rooms at their five-start hotel, Palais de Chine. Finally today, Chris Cooke at Complete Music Update reports that lawyers representing Dua Lipa have filed a motion to dismiss in a lawsuit over Lipa’s 2020 hit song Levitating.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 27, 2024

Following a criminal complaint from the group, Judge Marina Figueiredo Coelho of the Fifth Criminal Court of Campinas, Sao Paolo, convicted the operator of a pirate IPTV service that was taken down in 2020. A copy of the verdict wasn’t released to the public, as is common with these types of convictions, so further details are scarce.

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Michael Geist

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

The course packs were copied and typically sold as an alternative to course textbooks. Copyright lobby groups and their supporters have long claimed that the practice relies on fair dealing and that universities are profiting from copying without compensation. The University of Saskatchewan’s use of course packs decreased 93.7%

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 11, 2024

It was created by AI researcher Shawn Presser in 2020, who scraped the library of ‘pirate’ site Bibliotik. For example, Danish anti-piracy group Rights Alliance demanded The Eye to remove their copy of Books3, which it did. The Books3 dataset has a clear piracy angle. 107,” Meta notes.

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 3, 2022

The lawsuit was filed back in July 2020 by the Authors Guild, a group of publishers including Amazon and a collection of authors. In September 2020, the court granted a preliminary judgment, however, this expands that judgment by granting both damages and a permanent injunction. They are free of copyright.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

According to the lawsuit, A&E presented the program Live PD between 2016 and 2020. Furthermore, they allege that Reelz has copied many elements from Live PD including the show’s format, the show’s hosts and the same catchphrase to name a few. The lawsuit was filed by songwriters L.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 4, 2023

A few decades ago, copying machines at universities were already duplicating copyrighted works every day of the week. However, with digital books becoming more common, copying has become a breeze. While enforcement is relatively rare, in Denmark several students have been convicted for selling pirated copies of textbooks.

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JD Supra Law

JUNE 16, 2023

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) recently issued a notice that a data security incident exposed domicile addresses of numerous trademark applicants who filed applications between February 2020 and March 2023.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 8, 2023

Instead of shutting the site down, the film companies reached settlement agreements with the operator in 2020, which allowed the site to continue operating. While lawsuits against torrent sites are not new, these cases stood out due to the manner in which they were resolved. We will consider the next steps,” Culpepper says.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Screeners are advance copies of recent movies that are generally sent out to critics and awards voters for review. These copies have regularly ended up in the hands of pirates after which they’re widely circulated online. In 2020, the first ones came out in October and a year later the first leaks appeared in September.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

9, 2020), Phillip Morris petitioned for post-grant review of the ’542 Patent. The disparagement in the specification from which the claim was copied showed that the copied claims were drawn to a different invention than what was disclosed in the written description of the patent at issue in Baird. 1:20-cv-393 (E.D. filed Apr.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The Books3 dataset was created by AI researcher Shawn Presser in 2020, who scraped the library of ‘pirate’ site Bibliotik. This argument fails too, the court ruled, as OpenAI didn’t distribute full copies of books. As will many of the other AI copyright lawsuits.

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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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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 14, 2022

In October 2020, the RIAA caused outrage by taking down YouTube-ripping tool youtube-dl from GitHub. In emailed correspondence today Uberspace informed TorrentFreak that, following the cease-and-desist in October 2020, three major music labels are now suing the company in Germany. Now Comes a Lawsuit.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 8, 2022

GitHub already posts copies of all DMCA notices on its own website and, starting this year, it also sends copies to Lumen. This central database, managed by the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, also archives copies of notices sent to Google, Twitter, and other platforms.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 12, 2022

And in anticipation of the big day, pirated copies of award-screeners would often leak early. Last year, a high-quality copy of all Oscar contenders was available before the awards, and this year 88% leaked already. As a result, pirates can get their hands on unauthorized copies of the movies much quicker. From 100% to 9%.

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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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Indiana Intellectual Property Law

JANUARY 19, 2024

The complaint explains that the heart of the matter lies in Radic’s creation, a photograph titled “ Plaster falling off the ceiling ,” crafted in 2020 and officially registered under copyright law in 2021. He has accused the defendants of unauthorized use and distribution of his copyrighted work.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

According to the lawsuit, Apple and other tech companies were selling and distributing unlicensed copies of their songs. The lawsuit was filed by Francesca Gregorini in early 2020. In her lawsuit, she argues that Servant stole the plot and other elements from her film The Truth About Emmanuel.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 29, 2021

The European Commission’s Directorate-General for Taxation and Customs Union ( DG TAXUD ) and the European Union Intellectual Property Office ( EUIPO ) recently released the first joint annual report on EU enforcement of intellectual property rights: results at the EU border and in the EU internal market 2020.

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IPilogue

DECEMBER 9, 2022

The Court, by order dated 22 September 2020 , rejected the Defendants’ motion and allowed the Plaintiff’s motion for Partial summary judgement. The court opined that the dispute to copying does not arise as the defendants had admitted to copying the tattoo. The Court’s Conclusions. Citing Muhammad-Ali v.

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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. A relationship that may matter to her for many years to come.

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