Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 2, 2021

I’m pleased to announce the 2021 edition of my Internet Law casebook, Internet Law: Cases & Materials. 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. If you’re an academic and would like a free evaluation copy, please email me. Zimmerman v. Weis Markets.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 31, 2021

On the brink of the new year, we look back at 2021 by going over the twelve most read news items of the last 12 months. There were dozens of movie leaks in 2021 but James Bond’s “No Time to Die” garnered the most interest among readers. The download numbers picked up later in the year when a high-quality copy appeared online.

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IPilogue

JANUARY 14, 2022

2021 was an exciting year for the IPilogue. This article summarizes the top developments reported on our blog and in patents, trademarks, and copyright law in 2021. Top 10 Most Read IPilogue Articles Published in 2021. On June 28, 2021 , the College of Patent Agents and Trademark Agents Act came into force. David Vaver.

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TraskBritt Intellectual Property

APRIL 10, 2021

Supreme Court issued a decision in litigation involving Google’s Android operating system for mobile devices on April 5, 2021. When developing Android, Google had copied the text and format of function calls from Oracle’s Java SE Application Programming Interface (API). 18-956, 2021 U.S. In Google LLC v.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

In 2021, Reddit’s users created nearly 5.8 “In 2021, Reddit received 177,450 copyright notices reporting 920,672 pieces of content. “In 2021, Reddit permanently suspended 2,813 users and banned 2,625 subreddits for excessive copyright infringement,” the company writes. under the doctrine of fair use.

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IPilogue

AUGUST 18, 2021

Term: September 2021 – April 2022, with a possibility to continue on for the 2022 summer term. Application Process: Deadline: Friday, September 3, 2021. Copy of your resume and unofficial grades. Performing freedom-to-operate and clearance searches. Performing trademark searches. Conducting legal research. 750 words).

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JULY 16, 2021

The Polish Ministry of Culture has announced draft changes to the Polish copyright law on the collection and division of the private copying levy. The draft law on the rights of professional artists will significantly change how the private copying levy system has been functioning in Poland so far.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 16, 2021

2021 WL 221878 (9th Cir Jan. 22, 2021): companies now pay so-called “influencers” to issue posts on social media touting their products or services. 2021 WL 2435307 (N.D. June 15, 2021). 2021 WL 151978 (N.D. 2021 WL 2476853 (E.D. La Marque, 2021 WL 1997376 (D. Advertising/E-Commerce. Ariix, LLC v.

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43(B)log

AUGUST 11, 2021

2021 WL 1236106, Nos. It allegedly sold or gave away unauthorized copies of the I-Codes and Custom Codes to both customers and prospective customers. International Code Council, Inc. UpCodes, Inc., 6261 (VM) & 20 Civ. 4316 (VM) (S.D.N.Y. Where these are not provided, UpCodes has integrated the local amendments.”

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Plagiarism Today

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

They did so anyway and followed up by filing a trademark We’ve tried to sort this out in private and they have been uncooperative at every turn [link] — OBS (@OBSProject) November 17, 2021. pic.twitter.com/00sjHsmntF — Streamlabs (@streamlabs) November 17, 2021. Hey, can I copy your homework? ? This is our fault.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 6, 2024

Pirated copies of movies leak all year round, often ripped from streaming platforms after their official premiere. However, when a high-quality copy of a blockbuster title appears online before it’s officially available, people take notice. EVO was the group that leaked a copy of Dune: Part One before its official release.

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Plagiarism Today

MAY 23, 2022

Instead, it was published in 2021 on Douyin, the Chinese equivalent of TikTok, by a prominent video blogger that uses the name Beida Mange. Mange, who has nearly 4 million followers, pointed out the copying in a video comparing the two works. Audi has also removed the video. They compare like works to other works of that type.

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IPilogue

AUGUST 16, 2021

Professors Giuseppina D’Agostino and David Vaver are seeking JD Research Assistants to assist in intellectual property law research in the 2021/22 academic year, with a particular emphasis on copyright, with an early Fall start date. . September 2021 to April 2022, with a possibility of continuing on for the summer in 2022.

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Michael Geist

APRIL 11, 2023

This first post starts with the aftermath of the 2021 consultation on online harms, which was designed to provide the foundation for the bill. The consultation was launched by then-Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault in the summer, running for much of the 2021 election campaign ( my submission here ).

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JIPEL Copyright Blog

APRIL 26, 2021

However, an equally long list of controversies accompanies this list of accomplishments, the majority of which involve alleged copying. This pattern begins as far back as May of 2018, when Bernstein was accused of copying pieces from several smaller jewelry lines for a collaboration she did with Nordstrom.

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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

AUGUST 18, 2021

Parker (@PeterNStrange) August 17, 2021. — Puff (@PuffballsUnited) August 17, 2021. A Long History of Copying. However, it wasn’t the end of Epic Games’ issues with copying. pic.twitter.com/3IWbpmUf60 — Stephen N. Worst part is we've been actively trying to collab with them.

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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. If you want a more complete list of the Halloween-related articles that have been featured on this site, check out this post from October 2021. That copy was preserved and is the basis for all copies of the film we have today.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 16, 2021

In this regard, the Court concluded that the defendants’ song appears to be a case of copying and reproduction of the plaintiff’s work. The Africa IP Highlights is an initiative of this Kat and is a series of posts put together to highlight some of the key developments in IP in Africa each year.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

In July 2021, Disney debuted a new series entitled Behind the Attraction , which among its initial episodes, featured their own episode about the attraction. Right is from Behind the Attraction on Disney+ pic.twitter.com/Sf1biymTSz — James St.Onge – Art of Engineering (@aoEngineering) September 16, 2021. According to St.

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Trading Secrets

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Throughout 2021, our dedicated Trade Secrets, Computer Fraud & Non-Competes Practice Group hosted a series of CLE webinars that addressed significant trade secret and restrictive covenant issues facing clients today. Overview of Non-Compete Legislation and Enforcement Issues from 2021. View the Recording.

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Patently-O

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Apparently Landis then copied the Barkley approach and an infringement suit followed. In particular, with the Landis system, the a book of coupons was held by the bank, and individual sheets given out to the customer with each deposit. The Barkley reversal allowed the customer to keep the book and give deposit slips to the bank.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 18, 2023

The Judicial Court of Paris sided with Nintendo in a decision handed down on May 25, 2021. The Court found that Dstorage could be held liable for failing to remove illegal copies of Nintendo games hosted on 1fichier, based on notifications sent by rightsholders. The Pokémon Company, Creatures Inc. and DE Inc.

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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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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Photo by Christian Wiediger from Unsplash The implementation transposition of the Copyright Directive 2019/790 (DSMD) in the summer of 2021 represented probably the greatest reform in German copyright law since the German Copyright Act (UrhG) came into force. Germany’s implementation of Art. Germany’s implementation of Art.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Pirated copies of movies leak all year round, usually after they come out on streaming services or through digital release. These are advance copies of recent movies that are generally sent out to critics and awards voters. These leaked copies are then published online, sometimes months ahead of their official release dates.

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LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Throughout 2021, our dedicated Trade Secrets, Computer Fraud & Non-Competes Practice Group hosted a series of CLE webinars that addressed significant trade secret and restrictive covenant issues facing clients today. Overview of Non-Compete Legislation and Enforcement Issues from 2021. View the Recording.

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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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TorrentFreak

MARCH 6, 2023

in 2021 and stills from the film appeared online last year. Screenshot of leaked copy Nobody seems to know who leaked it, much less why, but Warner clearly doesn’t want the film to be seen in public. Copies of the movie are now widely available elsewhere, including on various torrent sites.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Photo by Christian Wiediger from Unsplash 2021 saw a very active German Bundesgerichtshof (“BGH” – Federal Supreme Court) in the area of copyright law. Collecting Societies In the course of 2021, several decisions of the BGH were also handed down concerning the rights of collecting societies.

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Plagiarism Today

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

” In January 2021, the pair submitted it to the International Small Business Journal , a SAGE journal. However, on Christmas Day 2021, the authors got an unpleasant holiday surprise when their paper was published in Vision: The Journal of Business Perspective by a different group of authors. Why was this copying not detected?

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Plagiarism Today

MAY 3, 2022

2: ‘The Exact Same Thing’: Oliver Tree Accuses the Kid Laroi Director of Copying His Videos. Next up today, Tomás Mier at Rolling Stone reports that musician Oliver Tree is lashing out at Kid Laroi accusing Kid of copying elements in his newest music video.

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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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LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 17, 2021

If you would like a copy of the Presentation in.PDF format, please Subscribe to Ping® -Arts, Entertainment, Media, Communications, & Technology Legal News From Adler Law Group. A trademark is a source identifier that distinguishes one company, product or service from another and which is used to prevent confusion in the marketplace.

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Velocity of Content

JANUARY 29, 2024

Kim Ji-young, Born 1982 by Cho Nam-Joo, a fictionalized memoir with factual footnotes, ignited a feminist groundswell in South Korea and has sold over 1 million copies worldwide since its publication in 2016. From 2017 to 2021, sales of Korean literature published rose 10 percent year over year, according to Lin.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 4, 2022

Lin pointed out the similarities on Twitter, highlighting various elements that were clearly copied from his earlier work. . Lin, for his part, said that, while he is a Call of Duty fan, he was “very disappointed” to see his work copied in such a manner. That case was settled in October 2021.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 13, 2021

In May 2021, US District Court Judge Consuelo Marshall ruled on the matter, largely siding with Nintendo. The injunction specifically prohibits RomUniverse’s operator to copy, distribute, sell or even play unauthorized copies of Nintendo games. Million in Piracy Damages. The court granted a $2.1 Destroy All Pirated Games.

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