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3 Count: That’s So Meta

Plagiarism Today

It accuses VNG Group of releasing the Zing MP3 app, which features music owned by Lang Van even though VNG, according to the lawsuit, do not have license to use. including sending him a cease and desist letter. This is a library that Facebook and Instagram users can use when editing videos for those platforms.

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RightsClick Offers Simplified Copyright Management

Plagiarism Today

RightsClick also makes it easy to bulk edit a large number of works. The first is sending a cease and desist letter. However, this is something of a misnomer as the letter can be customized to send demands for payment, offer a license for legitimate use or a demand to remove the work.

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Trademark Registration works for the owner, even in their sleep

Erik K Pelton

The following is an edited transcript of my video, Why Apply to Register Your Trademark. It makes for a more compelling cease and desist letter. A trademark registration can actually be assigned a value in the valuation of a business and it can actually be licensed or transferred or sold.

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Copyright Concerns When Using Others to Create Content

Erik K Pelton

The following is an edited transcript of my video Copyright Concerns When Using Others to Create Content. There are web-based fighters and robots that will go out in search for photos that are owned by photographers or by copyright licensing clearing houses, and they will find it eventually and they will send you a demand letter.

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Elon Musk’s Gifts to Web Scrapers (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

Editions Ltd. a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license”), and there is no allegation that it was corrupted, changed, or deleted. Facebook objected and sent a cease-and-desist letter. 3d 754, 760 (9th Cir. 2015) (emphasis added). The data that CCDH accessed does not belong to X Corp., see Kaplan Decl.

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Around the IP Blogs

The IPKat

The dispute raised questions about a long-debated issue, namely the unauthorized use of images first posted on Instagram and other social media platforms (particularly in light of social media platforms' terms and conditions that allow authors to grant an implied license to repost their works on the platform). Ireland, Italy and Estonia).

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Copyright case law of the German Bundesgerichtshof 2015 – 2019 – Part 4 of 4: Copyright contract law and enforcement

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Injunctive relief (Section 97(1) UrhG) and cease and desist agreements. The BGH stated in 2018 that when interpreting (contractual) cease and desist agreements in cases of doubt cease and desist obligation must be interpreted as meaning that its effect has the same scope as the statutory claim for injunctive relief.