The IPKat

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Kat friend Hans Eriksson discusses an interesting decision (only available in Swedish) concerning copyright protection and originality, namely whether the sequence of twenty words in an instruction manual may be regarded as being enough for copyright to arise. Remaining hooks are evenly distributed over the roof.”

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 26, 2021

As we’ve discussed in the past , copyright has played an oddly oversized role in our modern Halloween festivities. However, one of the areas that is generally less talked about is copyright’s impact on Halloween costumes. Copyright and Halloween Costumes. Copyright Office. However, copyright is only half the picture.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 29, 2024

However, good intentions themselves are not immune to copyright complaints, or worse, multi-million dollar lawsuits. However, not all music industry insiders were happy with it, as the copying took place without obtaining permission from all rightsholders. copyright law. RIAA’s Cease and Desist The U.S.

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Dear Rich IP Blog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Dear Rich: Does putting "Copyright 2023" at the bottom of page pages protect it from site visitors who download an image or narrative content? Placing a copyright notice on your website is like sticking a "Keep off the grass" sign on your front lawn. Gather evidence of copying. Some who copy may have fair use defenses.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 29, 2024

However, good intentions themselves are not immune to copyright complaints, or worse, multi-million dollar lawsuits. However, not all music industry insiders were happy with it, as the copying took place without obtaining permission from all rightsholders. copyright law. RIAA’s Cease and Desist The U.S.

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 10, 2023

1: Marjorie Taylor Greene Promo Video Removed From Twitter After Dr. Dre’s Copyright Complaint. House Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene was locked out of her Twitter account following a copyright complaint filed by Dr. Dre over a video Greene posted. Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 12, 2023

As the Internet Archive continues to deal with an adverse ruling in a copyright infringement lawsuit filed by the world’s largest publishing companies, late Friday some of the world’s largest record labels launched similar legal action in the United States. named as defendants. .”

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 17, 2022

Many of the enforcement efforts are targeted at services or tools that offer pirated content, but there are less visible copyright infringement challenges too. The music industry association has already sent cease-and-desist letters to nearly 100 apps that use copyrighted music without proper licenses. NMPA Sues Vinkle.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 14, 2022

The RIAA cited the anti-circumvention provisions of the DMCA, claiming that the tool could be used to download their artists’ musical works from YouTube, in breach of copyright. While the RIAA’s effort to take down youtube-dl from GitHub grabbed all the headlines, moves had already been underway weeks before that in Germany.

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JIPEL Copyright Blog

APRIL 26, 2021

In this case, via alleged copyright infringement. However, an equally long list of controversies accompanies this list of accomplishments, the majority of which involve alleged copying. Nordstrom removed the pieces at issue, and everything seemed to be fine on the copying front—until 2020 hit. The account and its 2.6

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LexBlog IP

OCTOBER 30, 2021

It is also an increasingly popular medium for infringers to illegally source and share copyrighted materials. Fortunately, copyright law prohibits the unauthorized reproduction of a work. Copyright disputes do not need to escalate into costly and time-consuming litigation. What is Copyright? How is Copyright Infringed?

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2023

by guest blogger Kieran McCarthy Many characterize the law of copyright preemption of contracts as a circuit split. But that undersells the level of inconsistency in courts’ interpretations of the law of copyright preemption. With that, any state or common law claim that is equivalent to copyright must therefore be preempted.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

However, at least one day before (and most likely two) at least one copy was being shared within piracy communities. The message is framed as a “cease-and-desist” but has an interesting element. The cease-and-desist notice also references 17 U.S.C. § ” The Complaint Cites Criminal Law.

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Plagiarism Today

JULY 25, 2022

1: Ninth Circuit Boosts Efforts to Sue Overseas Copyright Infringers. First off today, Edvard Pettersson at Courthouse News Service reports that the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has revived a copyright infringement lawsuit that was filed against the Vietnamese company VNG Group. including sending him a cease and desist letter.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 26, 2024

With more ways to stream online video than ever before, protecting video continues to be a key issue for copyright holders. ” The reverse-engineered hardware doesn’t keep Sling’s programming secure, of course, as it can easily be copied now. Widevine DRM is one of the leading players in the field.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 31, 2022

1: Sony Music sues Triller Claiming Copyright Infringement, Alleging it is Owed Millions. 2: Paramount Brings ‘Coming To America’ Claim Before Copyright Claims Board To Shut Down McDowell’s Pop-Up. According to the lawsuit, JMC ignored multiple cease and desist letters sent by Paramount and, instead, went forward with the events.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

With the NFT craze reaching new heights, Quentin Tarantino finds himself at the receiving end of a copyright infringement battle. Movie studio Miramax, which owns most of the rights to the film, sees it as a contract breach and copyright infringement. From: TF , for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

We haven’t been able to secure a copy of the takedown notice itself but the operator of the platform confirms that in response to the notification, the project has been shelved. AnimeGlare – Cease-and-Desist. From: TF , for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more. “This app is now closed.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 8, 2023

Traditionally, when copyright holders go after pirate sites, their main mission is to shut them down permanently. In some cases these shutdowns are easy, only requiring a cease and desist order to be delivered to the owner’s home address. From: TF , for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

The DMCA takedown process allows copyright holders to report infringing content and have it removed or taken down. In an attempt to curtail the abuse, the site sent a cease and desist letter to Google in April, asking the search engine to begin verifying senders of DMCA notices. In addition, YTMP3.nu

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SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 26, 2022

We’re pleased to bring you a guest post by Kartik Sharma and Aditya Singh, analysing copyrightability of datasets in light of the recent controversy surrounding NSE’s issuance of C&D notices to many stock gaming apps. Copyrighting The Uncopyrightable – The NSE Saga. Kartik Sharma and Aditya Singh. MODICUM OF CREATIVITY.

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The IPKat

JUNE 23, 2023

The issue of copyright protection in photographic works is a classic one. More specifically, the dispute in question concerned copyright protection in a selfie taken in a lift, a widespread phenomenon on social networks. As a result, Mercredie sent a cease-and-desist letter to the French brand on 16 September 2019.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Unauthorized usage, storage and sharing of unsolicited copyrighted content is a threat to human creativity. Content Identification technologies, such as digital fingerprinting or watermarking are effective methods in detecting and taking action against piracy by tracking and preventing unauthorized distribution of copyrighted material.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

JUNE 9, 2021

The Lanham Act defines ‘trademark counterfeiting’ as producing or selling a product bearing a false trademark that is an intentional copy of a genuine trademark (15 USC §1127). In addition, they may be liable for defective counterfeit products even if they did not manufacture them.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 19, 2024

The safeguard against groundless threats alleging copyright infringement in Section 60 suffers from a lack of clarity around some of its key terms like “due diligence”, “groundless” and “prosecution” One decision that attempts to address this lacuna is the Bombay High Court’s decision in Manya Vejju v.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 15, 2022

Fuxi, the putative copyright owner, has a registration for an image of printed sage leaves (the left image): The alleged infringer, the Sunny Factory, sells the candles on the right on Amazon. ” Copyright owners don’t have any policing duty. See, e.g., Petrella v. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc. , Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc. ,

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BYU Copyright Blog

JUNE 27, 2022

The post allegedly was “stripped of any notice of copyright, the author’s name, surrounding literary text, or other information identifying the work or the author of the work.” Bell further asserts that Basehor did not remove the post despite “receiving notice from Dr. Bell, three different times, to cease and desist the copying and display.”The

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The IPKat

JULY 9, 2023

This is a review of “ Copyright in the street. As its title suggests, this book focuses on the relationship between US copyright law and street art and graffiti. This book should not be perceived as a classic manual on the application of copyright to these art forms.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 13, 2024

. — For the claims related to illegal selling of scraped data, the court dismissed those because they were preempted by copyright. I did a deep dive on this topic in December , but the general gist of it is that copyright law preempts state law claims if the state-law claims come within the general scope of copyright.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 30, 2023

Their responses consisted mostly of denials, quite a few statements indicating a lack of knowledge, a scattering of affirmative defenses, and a concession that the plaintiffs had indeed sent cease and desist letters in both April and June 2021. S 1201 (“DMCA”). S 1201 (“DMCA”).

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

While NFTs don’t grant copyrights, NFT owners are ‘rights’ holders in a sense, although the specifics may vary from project to project based on the fine print. In the past, major copyright holders have fiercely resisted novel technologies. Government is taking these issues seriously.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 6, 2022

Babybus runs a competitive channel that Moonbug believes infringes its copyrights. An example: Moonbug submitted takedown notices to YouTube covering at least 70 videos and sued Babybus for copyright infringement. Moonbug runs the CoComelon channel, the top-ranked Kids YouTube channel. Babybus counterclaimed for 512(f).

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BYU Copyright Blog

JUNE 9, 2021

its complaint, Ivy accuses Lehren of copying “significant portions of Ivy Coach’s content from a page explaining the benefits of using an admissions consultant.” Both companies assist and guide prospective university and college students in their application process.In

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

In Iraq, tackling copyright infringement appears to have very little priority. As a result, “copyright notices” were sent to US bases and even United States Central Command was put on high alert. That’s a concern for copyright holders. Corporate ‘Pirates’ Profit from Lacking Copyright Protection.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 21, 2021

Last year his Area 51 service was shut down following a cease-and-desist issued by the Alliance For Creativity and Entertainment (ACE). On July 8, the plaintiffs submitted a proposed preliminary injunction to the court, a copy of which was personally served on Tusa two days later. ” Terms of the Injunction. .”

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 20, 2021

The sites’ Russian owner Tofig Kurbanov was taken to court in the United States in 2018, accused of facilitating mass copyright infringement. In a follow-up filing, the music companies demanded more than $82 million in damages for copyright infringement and DMCA violations. The copyright infringement complaints were not new either.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Two years ago, Bungie filed a complaint at a federal court in Seattle, accusing AimJunkies.com of copyright and trademark infringement, among other things. The original complaint didn’t provide sufficient evidence for a plausible claim that the ‘Destiny 2 Hacks’ infringed any copyrights, the Judge concluded.

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