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“Go Ahead, Sue Us”: Sony sends Cease-and-Desist after Taunts

IPilogue

Unsurprisingly, Sony sent DBrand a cease-and-desist letter , which the Canadian company published online and used to generate marketing for a newer, allegedly “not illegal,” albeit similar, product. The cease-and-desist letter can be found here. Photo by DBrand.

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Other Barks and Bites for Friday, May 17: Senate AI Working Group Releases AI Policy Roadmap; Voice Actors Accuse AI Company of Stealing Their Voices; USPTO Accidentally Publishes Patent Application Titles

IP Watchdog

This Week in Other Barks and Bites: two voice actors file a class action lawsuit against an AI company accusing the firm of stealing their voice; the NMPA sends a cease-and-desist letter to Spotify asking the streaming company to pull unlicensed content from their platform; and the Senate AI Working Group releases a roadmap for Senate AI policy with (..)

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Music Publishers Launch Crackdown on Copyright Infringing Apps

TorrentFreak

In recent years music publishers have repeatedly spoken out against online platforms that use their music without a proper license. The music industry association has already sent cease-and-desist letters to nearly 100 apps that use copyrighted music without proper licenses. These include TikiTok and Roblox , among many others.

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Search first!

JD Supra Law

There once was a company named Zotz, Which created toys for tots, The newest toy, named Ketter™, Recalled after a cease and desist letter, Oh my, no trademark search, CEO Zotz? First published in Inside magazine, NYSBA, Fall 2017. By: Tarter Krinsky & Drogin LLP

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3 Count: Mortal Kopyright

Plagiarism Today

by the musician and, according to a copyright notice and a published cease and desist letter, it was used without permission. However, when one user published the game’s source code on GitHub as a “Historical Source” that prompted the company to act. The video featured the song Still D.R.E.

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RightsClick Offers Simplified Copyright Management

Plagiarism Today

Users simply upload their work to RighsClick with all the relevant information about them, including the title of the work, the date it was created, whether it is published or unpublished and who the author is. . For example, if you publish a collection of photographs at once you only have to input one change for all the works.

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3 Count: Fining Google

Plagiarism Today

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. This led to the watchdog’s decision. million) a day. He has also been ordered to pay some $4.3