TorrentFreak

MAY 14, 2022

On the flip side, today’s interconnected world has the ability to transform leaks into powerful advertising and hype, keeping message boards and social media alive with discussion of exciting new products, at zero cost to official marketing teams. First Images of ‘Valorant Mobile’ Appear.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Case Citation : Digital Marketing Advisors v. McCandless Group, LLC, 2022 WL 17403067 (C.D. Day to Day Imports. * Satirical Depiction in YouTube Video Gets Rough Treatment in Court. * 512(f) Preempts Tortious Interference Claim–Copy Me That v. The post 512(f) Plaintiff Must Pay $91k to the Defense–Digital Marketing v.

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 8, 2022

TUESDAY, MARCH 8, 2022. This is especially relevant in the motorsports industry where teams are not only looking to stay ahead of the competition and create the most innovative designs, but also market to fans with consumer consumer products and team merchandise. Interesting Patents | MARCH 1, 2022. important;}.thegem-template-wrapper.wpb_wrapper.thegem-custom-6227f19f37b0b9390{flex-direction:

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 4, 2022

” Indeed, the court says “the Deposit Copy reads like a manual, instructing a user how to generate digital messages—and convert those digital messages to analog signals—that Pyrotechnics’s control panel and field module can send and understand.” Pyrotechnics wants to control the market for every component of its system.

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BYU Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

On January 25, 2022, Panoramic Stock Images, LTD ("Panoramic") filed a lawsuit against Washington University in St. its complaint, Panoramic accuses Wash U of copying "Panoramic’s copyrighted Work in order to advertise, market and promote its business activities."

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Plagiarism Today

JUNE 1, 2022

— johnmu.xml (personal) (@JohnMu) May 30, 2022. — johnmu.xml (personal) (@JohnMu) May 30, 2022. This has made copied content something of a sore spot with many Google watchers. Why SEO Practitioners Cares About Copied Content. This has taken many forms, including article marketing and spinning.

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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. Other Camming Incidents in 2022. FCPA-issued Camming Response Flow Diagram.

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43(B)log

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Roup, 2022 WL 17670418, No. 12, 2022) Plaintiffs sued defendants for copyright infringement, violation of the Lanham Act, breach of contract, and violation of unfair competition law; copyright and breach of contract claims survived a motion to dismiss but the others didn’t. Tracy Anderson Mind & Body, LLC v.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 7, 2024

He assembled various collages of the images and sent copies by postal mail to Doe and “his ex-wife, his adult child, several of his neighbors, and his place of business.” Spencer appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. Spencer, the husband, came into possession of these materials via unspecified means.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 19, 2023

Corporations are rarely considered worthy recipients of sympathy votes, but tearing down a patiently-built market that had overcome many piracy challenges over the previous decade won’t have been easy, even if it was necessary. It appears that price-cutting and piracy quickly took their toll on a collapsing market.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 12, 2022

Having spent billions on development and marketing over decades, companies like Microsoft dominate important sections of the software market. The defendants are described as prolific distributors of “black market access devices”, aka activation keys and tokens for Microsoft software.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 4, 2024

In 2022, a platform called Pirate Library Mirror appeared on the scene, courting controversy right from the start after obtaining a full copy of Z-Library before the site’s legal troubles began. “We deliberately violate the copyright law in most countries. . million books and 99.4 million papers for download.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2022

The court says Likee didn’t engage in volitional conduct: Plaintiff has failed to establish the necessary causal nexus between Defendants’ conduct and its users’ illegal copying of Plaintiff’s copyrighted works. 2022 WL 17578247 (C.D. Likee appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

In a judgement of 1 September 2022 , the ECtHR scrutinized the text of exceptions in national copyright legislation and unanimously considered that the Azerbaijani judiciary failed to provide sufficient reasons to apply either statutory exceptions or the exhaustion doctrine to the unconsented online publication.

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IPilogue

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Vogue’s publishers have sued rappers Drake and 21 Savage for unauthorized use of Vogue’s trademarks and false representations in marketing their newest album, “Her Loss”. On November 17, 2022, Drake and 21 Savage agreed to this preliminary injunction and also agreed to stop using Vogue trademarks for their album promotion.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

WIPIP 2022, Session 4 Michael Meurer IP Protection of Business Knowledge Since Bilski: First, business method patent protection is a lot less significant for today’s innovators. Eliminating a monopoly may not convert deadweight loss into consumer surplus if other monopolies remain in the market.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 5, 2024

Pressure Increases on Players in the Illicit Market In common with its counterparts in Europe, Sweden had already been paying more attention to those involved in the supply and sale of pirate IPTV subscriptions. In 2022, a then 23-year-old was criminally convicted and ordered to pay around $230,000 in damages to local rightsholders.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

APRIL 23, 2022

April 20, 2022). Facebook appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. The plaintiff’s alleged harm is the loss of a decade of photos, but the lack of an explanation didn’t cause that harm (the termination did). ” Protip: Facebook is a terrible cloud storage option. Case citation : King v. Facebook, Inc.,

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 7, 2024

Several of these services have been listed in the USTR’s overview of notorious piracy markets. After uploading a copy of TPB-AFK to the system, near-instantly it found over 2,000 matches across the dozen platforms. Whether it missed any links is unknown, of course. Put more bluntly; it’s an upload filter.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

The court shows the moves at issue side-by-side: There is no doubt that Fortnite “copied” the video. At the same time, the choreography of a full dance routine should be copyrightable–and it would likely be infringing if a second comer copied the routine completely and verbatim. 2022 WL 4007874 (C.D.

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IPilogue

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Barlow and Bear went on to become viral sensations on social media and Grammy-winning artists (2022 Best Musical Theatre Album) for their production. On July 29 th 2022, Netflix sued the TikTok stars Barlow and Bear in the U.S. District Court in D.C. 501 and 15 U.S.C.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Marketing fast Internet is evidence that the service is trying to profit from copyright infringement…? RCN Telecom Services, LLC , 2022 WL 6750322 (D.N.J. 2022 WL 7560395 (D. RCN appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. Some lowlights from the opinion: Direct infringement.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 27, 2023

Glenmark made out the case that in September 2022 it had received reports of counterfeit Telma and Telma-AM products being sold in Delhi markets. The plaintiff emphasized that the defendant had copied the trade mark, trade dress, and get up of the genuine products.

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JD Supra Law

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

The US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit upheld a ruling that a marketer had an implied copyright license to distribute marketing materials containing digital copies of photographs of the late musical artist Prince. 30, 2022) (Gruender, Benton, Grasz, JJ.). Beaulieu v. Stockwell, Case No. 21-3833 (8th Cir.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

ID Tech believed that Bayam copies too much of its copyrighted website content and pursued a whirlwind of enforcement activity, including filing two lawsuits against Bayam and sending numerous DMCA takedown demands to Shopify. ID Tech LLC , 2022 WL 16849454 (S.D.N.Y. ID Tech appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

The last time developer Christopher Boomer appeared on our radar was back in July 2022 when he attempted to unmask thousands of alleged copyright infringers using the DMCA subpoena process. The same gameplay mechanics also appear in Get Muscles Simulator but the complaint alleges that copying goes well beyond that.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 2, 2022

Back in January, the crypto group Spice DAO (decentralized autonomous organization) made headlines for spending approximately $3 million to acquire a physical copy of the book Jodorowsky’s Dune , a bible for a planned Dune move that would have been made in the 1970s. . The payment beyond excessive.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

By recording the latest movies directly from the silver screen using concealed devices, ‘cammers’ fuel the illicit piracy market that thrives during the first few days of a film’s initial release. TGx is an open platform with an active and lively community, a relative rarity in today’s streaming-dominated market.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 11, 2022

In response, Newman, the community moderator, copied all of the community’s posts and uploaded them to Dreamwidth–an action we used to call “mirroring” in the old days. “Newman did not create the original allegedly defamatory posts on LiveJournal…Newman copied the allegedly defamatory posts from LiveJournal to Dreamwidth verbatim.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

According to the complaint, when Apple learned of the app, it liked the idea—so much so, in fact, that it copied it. These screenshots (from the complaint) show the alleged copying: I trust the differences are immediately apparent. Apple appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. Apple, Inc. LEXIS 28086 (N.D.

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IPilogue

DECEMBER 9, 2022

On 30 September 2022, the much-awaited jury verdict for Alexander v Take Two Interactive Software Inc. & The court opined that the dispute to copying does not arise as the defendants had admitted to copying the tattoo. 2016) it stated that the burden is on the Defendant to prove the copying was authorised.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 11, 2023

According to a federal indictment unsealed early 2022, that was certainly not the case. Unfinished works leaking out to the public can wreak havoc on everyone involved, from authors and publishers to interested parties in film and other secondary markets. Bernardini understood that and went ahead anyway.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 20, 2023

Pre-2022 content libraries remain accessible in some cases but fresh releases of movies, music, and videogames are mostly a thing of the past, at least how things stand today. The chaos in the movie market has been well-documented over the past 17 months and there are now signs that the videogame market is unlikely to escape a similar fate.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 6, 2022

” With respect to whether Babybus’ baby character infringed Moonbug’s baby, Babybus claimed that the alleged copying related to generic features found in nature. . 2022 WL 580788 (N.D. Babybus appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. Babybus (Fujian) Network Technology Co. Alper Automotive v.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Your project could fit into the role of probabalistic judgments in law generally: maybe we just should be honest that we are willing to sanction particular interventions in the info market b/c we think they’re wrong (or that it’s not worth taking the risk of this particular effect on reputation). Legally: Falwell v. Current answer: yes.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 19, 2022

Gripers and Political Critics Cases involving criticism of ordinary commercial actors provide a fascinating contrast to both noncommercial speech sold in the market and to political and religious conflicts. Next thing that happened: Omaha Quilt Guild copied Just Wanna Quilt’s logo for its show. Related: © threats. 4 years of effort!

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The IPKat

JANUARY 27, 2022

On 12 January 2022, the Lithuanian Supreme Court upheld the rejection of the Lithuanian designation of Chanel SARL’s two-dimensional trademark (see below) in Class 3 for perfumery products. So the Court considered that Chanel’s perfume bottle is commonplace within the perfume market. The trademark depicts the shape of the Chanel No.

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