Plagiarism Today

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Million in Copyright Case. 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. 2: Japanese Publishing Giants to Sue US Firm Over Manga Piracy. Have any suggestions for the 3 Count?

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SpicyIP

JUNE 30, 2023

Image from here In a copyright dispute involving two giants of the media industry, Shemaroo sued Super Cassettes (SCIPL), in Shemaroo Entertainment Ltd vs Super Cassettes Industries Pvt Ltd and Ors , for allegedly publishing audio-visuals of songs from 24 films (suit films) without seeking prior permission from it.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Discord Server Was Removed “By Force” In most cases, copyright complaints filed by the RIAA against online services such as Reddit and indeed Discord are actioned under the DMCA’s notice and takedown provisions. The message is framed as a “cease-and-desist” but has an interesting element.

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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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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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The IPKat

MARCH 14, 2024

The IPKat has received and is pleased to host the following guest contribution by Nkem Itanyi (University of Nigeria) on a recent dispute over copyright ownership of the movie, Shanty Town which premiered on Netflix in January 2023 and discussions over a sequel to the movie. GMC denied the assertions as false.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Over the past couple of years, Genshin Impact publisher Cognosphere has been to court several times in the United States hoping to identify those who leak unreleased content online ( 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 ). What happens when leakers are identified is mostly unknown. These matters in the U.S. That message remains on GitHub today.

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IPilogue

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Published by the New York Times on October 5 th , 2021, “Who is the Bad Art Friend?” There is no copyright in facts and historical events; however, writers can claim copyright in their letters if they are sufficiently original. Perhaps this is what makes “ Who Is the Bad Art Friend? ” so refreshing.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 17, 2023

” The ‘cease-and-desist’ notices instruct those running the services to immediately stop their illegal streaming activity otherwise risk facing criminal prosecution. These individuals either received an in-person visit or were sent a cease-and-desist letter. .”

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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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Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2022

In this blog post, based on a recently published article , I assess this lesser-explored exception and call for its wider implementation and expansive interpretation by EU member states. . It is often prepared and published by either the original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) or third-party publishers. Image by Annie Spratt.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Parts 1 to 3 of this post (originally published in “Auteurs & Media”) summarising case law of the German Bundesgerichtshof from 2015 to 2019 are available here , here and here. Copyright contract law (Sections 31 et seqq. Claims under copyright law. Injunctive relief (Section 97(1) UrhG) and cease and desist agreements.

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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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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Copyright is a type of intellectual property rights. One infringes on copyrighted works when they violate the exclusive rights of the owner. But how do you prove that a considerable amount of your copyrighted work has been infringed? How do you show that their final product is the same as your copyrighted work?

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

AnimeGlare – Cease-and-Desist. “I just received a DMCA takedown notice from funimation and I’ll therefore cease all development on the Shiro app, but the site will likely stay,” the Shiro developer informs his users. From: TF , for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

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The IPKat

JANUARY 5, 2023

Background The plaintiffs (from the USA, UK and Germany, respectively) are publishers of scientific books. Since 2019, several books to which they hold copyright have been made publicly available through the internet services ‘LibGen’ and ‘Sci-Hub’. The identity of the operators of ‘LibGen’ and ‘Sci-Hub’ was unclear.

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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? Would Sending a Cease-and-Desist Notice Harm Your Chances of Securing an Ex Parte Ad Interim Injunction? The defendants were ordered to cease using specific domain names and email addresses associated with the brand.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Anna’s Archive scraped several terabytes of data over the course of a year and published roughly 700 million unique records online, for free. These records contain no copyrighted books or articles. We believe that efforts like ours to preserve the legacy of humanity should be fully legal, and that copyright is way too strict.

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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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Intellectual Property Law Blog

JUNE 9, 2021

There are several strategies for protecting your brand and your business ranging from quick and inexpensive actions such as cease and desist letters, to district court and International Trade Commission (ITC) litigation. In addition, they may be liable for defective counterfeit products even if they did not manufacture them.

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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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The IPKat

OCTOBER 21, 2023

Copyright infringement cases often provide an opportunity to explore exceptions and limitations to copyright. This time this Kat encountered a recent French case involving incidental inclusion, an optional exception/limitation to copyright under EU copyright law [ IPKat on incidental inclusion here ]. 112-1 and L.112-2-10

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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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JIPEL Copyright Blog

APRIL 26, 2021

“Girl you are not going to enjoy your time here,” read a particularly prophetic comment on Danielle Bernstein’s very first Tik Tok video, published in late February. In this case, via alleged copyright infringement. Perhaps the most infamous of the above scandals was the allegation of copyright infringement by The Great Eros (“TGE”).

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TorrentFreak

JULY 27, 2022

Initially branded ‘StarHack’, the reverse-engineered project soon ran into trouble after receiving a cease-and-desist letter from the Software Publishers Association. From: TF , for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more. Given the above, it would be somewhat hypocritical not to.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 27, 2022

Cease and Desist. While court cases are also part of the repertoire, a cease-and-desist letter is usually the first step taken. As ACE is expanding, the cease-and-desist approach has become a more international endeavor. Cease-and-desist letters can be effective but they are no silver bullet.

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SpicyIP

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

SpicyIP Tidbit: CGPDTM Calls for Comments and Suggestions on Different IP Manuals and Guidelines The office of the Controller General of Patents, Design and Trademarks (CGPDTM) is inviting comments from stakeholders to revamp the Patents, Designs, Trademarks, GI and Copyright Manuals and Guidelines. Deadline- October 15, 2023. Star India Pvt.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 14, 2022

While no official explanation is available, it’s safe to assume that this action was triggered by a copyright complaint. To point people in the right direction, the operator published a list of more than a dozen official backup domains, in case these are needed in the future. TorrentFreak reached out to the.io

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The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

A Kat thinking about synchronisation The past few years have been marked by major copyright disputes involving musical works [ IPKat here , here or here ]. Regent believed that it held the right to synchronise this work under a sub-publishing contract with Delphine productions. sent a cease-and-desist letter to the three companies.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 24, 2021

“We request to immediately cease and desist, or we will be forced to file a legal case to the supreme court of the United States of America to have our customers’ rights indemnified and ask the Hosting Provider to delete the website and all associated domains,” these notices read. . ” Extortion?

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JIPL Online

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Mods are beneficial for the video game industry, [3] but mods can threaten a company’s copyright exclusivity because of their status as derivative works. [4] 4] Mods that collect revenue by paywalls are likely to scare copyright holders into litigation. [5] Why Paywalled Monetization of Mods Makes Copyright Holders Threaten Litigation.

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The IPKat

JANUARY 2, 2022

COPYRIGHT Giovanni Maria Riccio and Fabiola Iraci Gambazza (E-Lex law firm) reported on the recent publication of the European Audiovisual Observatory entitled " Mapping report on national remedies against online piracy of sports content ", commissioned by the European Commission. disputes between domain names and trademarks).

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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. Numerous Legal Uses.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JANUARY 31, 2023

Therefore, case law plays a huge role in ensuring the establishment of a fair and balanced liability regime, in particular as concerns the issue of (indirect) liability for internet service providers and other intermediaries whose services are used to commit copyright infringements. The resulting conclusion in the BGH case law (e.g.,

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The IPKat

JULY 22, 2021

Katfriend Dr Sabine Jacques , Associate Professor in IP, IT & Media law at the University of East Anglia and author of The Parody Exception in Copyright Law (OUP 2019), provides the follow review of The Copyright/Trademark Interface: How the Expansion of Trademark Protection is Stifling Cultural Creativity – by Martin Senftleben.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Article 17 has been a (the) leading buzzword of the copyright reforms of the European Union in recent years (at least half a decade already). As of June 6, 2021, however, only a handful of Member States have implemented Directive 2019/790/EU (Copyright in the Digital Single Market; hereinafter CDSMD). There was no need to do so.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 27, 2022

Over the years we’ve published thousands of articles on copyright law, from how it works in theory to its application in full-blown lawsuits. But other copyright disputes, where infringement isn’t so obvious, can trigger new complexity and polarized legal opinions. Post Removed By Reddit For Copyright Infringement.

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