TorrentFreak

MARCH 1, 2023

No doubt some media reports will take the ‘500,000 customers’ comment and run with it but nowhere here does it say that 500,000 lost access to one or more services. People can try and report them, but that rarely works out. From: TF , for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

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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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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. Have any suggestions for the 3 Count?

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Plagiarism Today

DECEMBER 8, 2021

1: YouTuber Hit With 150 Copyright Claims For Reviews Featuring Anime Footage. First off today, Brian Ashcraft at Kotaku reports that YouTuber Mark Fitzpatrick, better known as Totally Not Mark, says that he does not know what is next after the anime studio Toei has filed copyright claims against some 150 of the videos on his channel.

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Plagiarism Today

JULY 13, 2021

1: Google Fined €500m by France’s Antitrust Watchdog Over Copyright. First off today, Reuters reports that France’s anti-trust watch dog has fined Google €500 million ($591 million) for failing to conduct talks with the country’s news publishers and secure rights under a new European Union (EU) law. million to the IRS.

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Plagiarism Today

MAY 16, 2022

1: Supreme Court Leaves in Place Circuit Split Regarding Approach for Assessing Substantial Similarity in Copyrighted Works. 2: Judge Says ‘Vape’ Musical Parody May Go On as ‘Grease’ Copyright Claim Flops. 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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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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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

The lawsuit targets Jason Tusa and actually began back in August 2020 when he shuttered his Area 51 service following a cease-and-desist letter. 2: Life is Strange: True Colors Legally Isn’t Able to Show Subtitles During Copyrighted Songs. The reason, it turns out, is due to copyright.

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Plagiarism Today

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Million in Copyright Case. First off today, Heidi Groover at The Seattle Times reports that the real estate listing site Zillow has been ordered to pay nearly $2 million to the photography company VHT. However, even when notified about significant copyright infringement taking place, Cloudflare has failed to act against those sites.

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 12, 2022

1: LEGO is Being Sued for Copyright Infringement Over Leather Jacket Design. First off today, The Fashion Law reports that LEGO is facing a lawsuit from artist James Concannon following the inclusion of a jacket similar to one that he designed as part of a recent LEGO set. As a result, he sent a cease-and-desist letter to LEGO.

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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

OCTOBER 17, 2023

That no obvious effort was expended to correct the reports wasn’t a surprise from a commercial perspective. ” The ‘cease-and-desist’ notices instruct those running the services to immediately stop their illegal streaming activity otherwise risk facing criminal prosecution. That can be a welcome bonus, but not always.

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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

JANUARY 26, 2024

With more ways to stream online video than ever before, protecting video continues to be a key issue for copyright holders. Cease and Desist The DRM circumvention technique is described in detail but it’s not immediately clear if the defendants had a hand in coding it.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

A named defendant and others yet to be fully identified now face a full-blown lawsuit after allegedly failing to comply with the terms of a cease-and-desist notice. HoYoverse’s exclusive rights in Genshin Impact include all copyrights and the right to prevent circumvention of the game’s Technical Protection Measures (TPM).

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Starting early this week, reports began to surface of a new anti-piracy campaign being carried out on behalf of Funimation, which last month completed the acquisition of Crunchyroll from AT&T for a cool $1.175 billion. AnimeGlare – Cease-and-Desist. Anti-Piracy Campaign Targets Pirate Apps.

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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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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 23, 2023

Trade Representative’s list of notorious pirate sites, but it was in the crosshairs of copyright holders and anti-piracy groups. In a 2021 report produced by Nagra, USTVGO was listed as one of the most popular TV streaming sites. USTVGO From: TF , for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 8, 2022

The complaint alleges that Everly acquired the Firestick Steve customer database from someone who had already received cease-and-desist notices from DISH, which may explain why they were keen to pass former users over. Not even a cease-and-desist convinced him to stop. So what happened to Firestick Steve?

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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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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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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 23, 2021

BREIN certainly doesn’t shy away from taking matters to court but whenever it can, settlements and an agreement to cease and desist can be enough to ward off more serious action. “After consultation with his lawyer, the man chose to settle the case by means of a settlement,” BREIN reports.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 25, 2021

More specifically, users could install pirate applications on their Android devices via unofficial sources,” ACE reports. ” ACE provides no specific details on the terms of the shutdown but, if similar actions are any yardstick, a cease-and-desist notice and some kind of settlement were likely involved.

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BYU Copyright Blog

JUNE 27, 2022

On our last post in the Bell saga, we reported that the Court of Appeals ruled against Dr. Keith Bell (“Bell”) and labeled him as a “serial litigant.” 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.”

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 4, 2022

NWROCU reports that in a joint operation with Lancashire Police on March 23, it executed three search warrants as part of the “continuing fight against illegal streaming.” In 2019, the police unit delivered cease-and-desist notices to suspected IPTV resellers in the hope they would shut down voluntarily, thus avoiding arrest.

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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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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

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

DECEMBER 6, 2022

ACE now reports on developments every few days, but that barely scratches the surface. Producing articles on them all isn’t feasible but when ACE announced that United Media had joined the coalition this week, it stood out as something worthy of more detailed reporting. United Media: No Stranger to Piracy.

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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 14, 2022

While no official explanation is available, it’s safe to assume that this action was triggered by a copyright complaint. The Donuts link is crucial as the MPA has a “ trusted notifier ” deal with the company which allows the Hollywood group to report pirate sites, whose domains can then be suspended.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 21, 2022

In reponse to rampant cheating in Call of Duty games, earlier this month Activision filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against cheat maker EngineOwning UG and CMN Holdings S.A. In 2017 and 2018, its lawyers wrote to them several times, demanding that they cease and desist. Supporting court documents here ( 1 , 2 , 3 , pdf).

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 11, 2022

In 2013, Afdah.com entered the already crowded market and quickly attracted millions of users tempted by a comprehensive library of copyright-infringing movies. But of course, along with a rise in Afdah’s popularity came increased interest from copyright holders determined to shut down or disrupt the site.

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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. While court cases are also part of the repertoire, a cease-and-desist letter is usually the first step taken. There are a variety of enforcement actions available to ACE.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

While it can be used for a multitude of other things, Usenet’s popularity and longevity have certainly been boosted by the mountains of copyrighted content that exist on the sprawling system. From: TF , for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 11, 2023

The coalition announced that it had sent a cease and desist letter to the streaming portal’s Chilean operators, who decided to throw the towel. Earlier this year, we reported how Hollywood’s relentless pursuit of several Cuevana3 domains had failed to shut down the site. In fact, Cuevana3.io, io remained online.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Report on Brazilian TV The TV report embedded below doesn’t name the sites either but does reveal some details of the operation. When Brazilian authorities report Operation 404 successes, they rarely mention specific dates for individual actions. From: TF , for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

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