Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 31, 2022

1: Sony Music sues Triller Claiming Copyright Infringement, Alleging it is Owed Millions. According to the lawsuit, JMC ignored multiple cease and desist letters sent by Paramount and, instead, went forward with the events. Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday.

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Plagiarism Today

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Finally today, Andrew Burnett at PokerTube reports that the PokerPaint saga appears to be continuing as the company is offering a new line of NFTs, many of which feature copyright infringing issues. The 3 Count Logo was created by Justin Goff and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 9, 2023

A Public Invidious Instance The software is licensed under AGPL-3.0 ” Clients may not infringe copyrights or exploit copyright-infringing materials, Google adds. ( ” Clients may not infringe copyrights or exploit copyright-infringing materials, Google adds. (

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 12, 2022

1: LEGO is Being Sued for Copyright Infringement Over Leather Jacket Design. As a result, he sent a cease-and-desist letter to LEGO. However, he claims that LEGO responded claiming that they had an implied license to use the jacket as part of their set. Have any suggestions for the 3 Count?

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Several record labels including Sony and UMG, sued the Internet Archive for copyright infringement in Manhattan federal court last year. According to the Archive, many of the claims are simply too late, as they supposedly point to infringements that occurred over three years ago.

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Plagiarism Today

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

VHT licenses real estate photos for marketing purposes and many of its photos appear on Zillow. This prompted ZHT to file the lawsuit and decided that Zillow’s infringement was innocent until July 10, 2014, when ZHT sent a cease and desist letter to the company. million) in damages.

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Plagiarism Today

MAY 16, 2022

Next up today, Jonathan Stempel at Reuters reports that a judge has ruled that Vape: The Musical will be allowed to proceed despite a copyright infringement lawsuit filed by the rightsholders of the musical Grease. The owners of Grease sent a cease and desist letter in August 2019 that resulted in performances of Vape being cancelled.

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Selvam & Selvam Blog

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Upon investigation, it was found that the defendants had 130 computer systems, most of which had Microsoft’s software installed on them, but the licenses held by the defendants did not match their usage. Therefore, the court held that the defendants had infringed upon Microsoft’s copyright and were liable for damages.

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SpicyIP

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Would Sending a Cease-and-Desist Notice Harm Your Chances of Securing an Ex Parte Ad Interim Injunction? Some Perspectives Would Sending a Cease-and-Desist Notice Harm Your Chances of Securing an Ex Parte Ad Interim Injunction? On the other hand, this gives a chance to the violating party to quickly dispose of the goods.

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BYU Copyright Blog

APRIL 1, 2024

Francis") committed copyright infringement and was in breach of contract over the use of hundreds of photographs he took for the school and its students. In December 2022, Morlos sent a cease-and-desist letter to St. Francis High School - Salesian College Preparatory ("St. Morlos and St.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2023

The producers have broadened monetization prospects with separate licensing agreements with traditional broadcasters and OTT platforms. If viewers are able to access these contents for free then the amount of revenue generated from licensing of intellectual property will be far below estimations.

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Erik K Pelton

JULY 14, 2022

The second issue I’m seeing come up more and more, where copyright cease and desist letters are received and someone says, “Well, I hired someone to do my newsletter, or do a blog post, or do the social media, and I wasn’t aware of where they got the content from.” Make sure you have proper contracts.

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The IPKat

JANUARY 5, 2023

The host provider for the content of these internet services was based in Sweden and did not react to cease-and-desist letters from the plaintiffs. 7(4) German Teleservices Act allows blocking orders, but only under the condition that there is no other way for the IP owner to stop the infringement.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

On January 9th, American Airlines sent TPG a cease-and-desist letter. Of course, Facebook objected and sent a cease-and-desist letter. That language implied that revocation-by-cease-and-desist letter was no longer sufficient to trigger CFAA liability. Trademark infringement 6. Trespass 5. Dilution 7.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Does 1-10 are described as the infringing IPTV service’s operators, who knowingly and unlawfully transmit, and publicly perform in the United States, TV channels for which DISH holds or held an exclusive license. A second infringement notice was sent on July 27, 2021, in broadly similar circumstances.

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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

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). “As Plaintiffs point out, Defendant’s activities also expand the market for infringing services, which causes further harm to Plaintiffs. Early July in a California court, Warner Bros.,

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IIPRD

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

While trademarks protect movie titles, important characters, and other film components, copyright protects content from infringement and recognizes the rights of authors. But as the sector grows, so does the problem of intellectual property rights infringement, cybercrimes, copyright infringement , and trademark infringement.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 8, 2022

The RIAA had already sent cease-and-desist orders to the hosting company in 2020, before it approached GitHub. Their complaint, which cites an earlier case from 2017 , alleges that youtube-dl aids copyright infringement by circumventing YouTube’s technical protection measures. No Circumvention.

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IP Tech Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

18, 2023) , the plaintiff brought a lawsuit alleging copyright infringement because a photograph flashed on the screen during the “Tiger King 2” documentary depicted a tattoo of the now famous “Tiger King” (a/k/a “Joe Exotic”), that the plaintiff tattoo artist had inked. In Cramer v. Netflix, Inc. , 3:22-cv-131 (W.D.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 2, 2022

CFAA : The key question is whether hiQ’s continued access following receipt of LinkedIn’s cease-and-desist letter was “without authorization” under the CFAA. Are robots.txt, IP address blocks, or cease-and-desist letters still relevant to the CFAA at all?

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2023

. — One logical starting point to tell the history of copyright preemption of contracts is to begin with ProCD v. The Second Circuit now takes “a restrictive view” of the extra elements that would make a contract claim qualitatively different from copyright, and therefore not subject to preemption. “[W]e Briarpatch, 373 F.3d

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LexBlog IP

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

18, 2023) , the plaintiff brought a lawsuit alleging copyright infringement because a photograph flashed on the screen during the “Tiger King 2” documentary depicted a tattoo of the now famous “Tiger King” (a/k/a “Joe Exotic”), that the plaintiff tattoo artist had inked. In Cramer v. Netflix, Inc. ,

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 30, 2022

Remember the Fifth Circuit case from 2018 holding that a real restaurant’s name could infringe trademark rights in the name of a fictional restaurant from the TV show SpongeBob SquarePants, the Krusty Krab? I predict a cease and desist letter”; “I WILL DEFINITELY BE CONTACTING NICKOLODEON TO ASK IF THIS GHETTO PLACE HAVE THE RIGHTS.”.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2021

This is the initial copying design (without of the background graphics in the precedent work): The copyright registrant alleged this copying design constituted copyright infringement. The second comer/licensee assigned the exclusive license to a successor licensee, the defendant in this case. assertions.

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Copyright Lately

AUGUST 2, 2022

The full story behind Netflix’s copyright infringement lawsuit against Barlow & Bear, and why it’s actually a win for the fan fiction community. When it comes to copyright cases, Netflix has seen stranger things. Netflix could have sent Barlow & Bear a cease and desist letter hand-delivered by Regé-Jean Page.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

JUNE 5, 2023

3] The Court found that the Warhol Foundation’s licensing of the Orange Prince to Conde Nast did not have a sufficiently different purpose as the Goldsmith photograph because both were “portraits of Prince used in magazines to illustrate stories about Prince.” [4] 13] AWF’s use was commercial because AWF licensed the artwork for a fee. [14]

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Barry Sookman

MAY 3, 2020

Redbox [link] 2020-04-26 Freezing order made in the UK to enforce trade secret misappropriation judgment in the United StatesMotorola Solut… [link] 2020-04-27 Statutory damages for copyright infringement of a web site about page awarded2020 FC 379 (CanLII) | Biofert Manufa… [link] 2020-04-27 Link to York University v.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 13, 2021

2: Le Tigre’s Kathleen Hanna and Johanna Fateman Sue Over “Deceptacon” Copyright Infringement Accusation. According to Mann, Deceptacon infringes on his 1961 single Who Put the Bomp (Bomp, Bomp, Bomp). 3: Back 4 Blood Streamers Will Have to Turn Off Licensed Music to Avoid Copyright Strikes.

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LexBlog IP

JUNE 5, 2023

3] The Court found that the Warhol Foundation’s licensing of the Orange Prince to Conde Nast did not have a sufficiently different purpose as the Goldsmith photograph because both were “portraits of Prince used in magazines to illustrate stories about Prince.” scholarship, or research is not an infringement of copyright.”

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LexBlog IP

MAY 26, 2023

3] The Court found that the Warhol Foundation’s licensing of the Orange Prince to Conde Nast did not have a sufficiently different purpose as the Goldsmith photograph because both were “portraits of Prince used in magazines to illustrate stories about Prince.” scholarship, or research is not an infringement of copyright.”

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Claims under copyright law. In Germany, in the case of copyright infringements, Section 97(1) and (2) UrhG provides for claims to be asserted for injunctive relief and damages. Injunctive relief (Section 97(1) UrhG) and cease and desist agreements.

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JIPEL Copyright Blog

MARCH 21, 2022

scene in the past, things seemed to come to a head in November 2020 when Nintendo sent a cease-and-desist letter to the Tournament Organizers (TOs) of the Big House, an upcoming streamed Melee tournament, and subsequently forced them to cancel the event. Melee , know this better than anyone. The second issue comes from Slippi itself.

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SpicyIP

MARCH 27, 2023

Case: Kishan Tibrewalla & Ors vs The State Of West Bengal & Anr on 20 March, 2023 (Calcutta High Court) Admitting a revision petition, Calcutta High Court stayed the proceedings of a copyright infringement case lodged against the petitioner. MSM Discovery Pvt.

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 24, 2023

The Plaintiff issued a cease and desist letter against the use of such marks and the Defendant agreed to settle the claim, but not to discontinue use of its erstwhile company name. on 18 December, 2023 (Delhi High Court) This suit for copyright infringement by was filed by Bentley Systems Inc. 2 lakhs on the Defendant.

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 13, 2022

Although none has reached a resolution, these private civil actions highlight various legal theories of liability that could arise when participating in the NFT market, including claims for copyright infringement, trademark infringement, breach of contract and violations of securities laws. Damon Dash. Roc-A-Fella Records Inc.

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IP Whiteboard

JUNE 7, 2021

In Australia, the rights protected by copyright arise automatically upon the creation of a work and there is no need or ability to obtain a registration for copyright. By contrast, in the United States, registration of copyright is a prerequisite to filing a lawsuit for copyright infringement.

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