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Is Your Website Published or Unpublished?

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It deals with whether Amazon and/or CCA infringed FDN’s copyrights by scraping descriptions from their website for use as part of Amazon’s product listings. That question is whether the descriptions were “published” or “unpublished” according to the law when they were put on FDN’s website. According to the U.S. Bottom Line.

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3 Count: Less Than Routine

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1: Spike Lee, Nate Parker Sued by Indie Filmmakers Over Copyright Infringement. First off today, Diane Haithman at TheWrap reports that filmmakers Spike Lee and Nate Parker have been sued for copyright infringement over allegations that their 2019 Film American Skin is an infringement of an earlier screenplay.

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3 Count: Spare Time

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1: Major Publishers Sue Shopify, Alleging Copyright Violations. First off today, Suzanne Smalley at Inside Higher Ed reports that five major textbook publishers have teamed up to file a lawsuit against Shopify over allegations that the ecommerce platform is enabling rampant piracy. Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday.

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3 Count: Patchwork Lawsuit

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However, Terix has already been found liable for copyright infringement and has been ordered to pay $58 million to Oracle. However, HP argues that many of the servers involved predate Oracle’s current contract system, making the patches legal. 3: Marvel Confirms Conan the Barbarian is Leaving the Publisher.

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3 Count: ACTing Fast

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Specifically, the two companies created and produced work related to various testing needs and targeted state contracts. However, when WIN won a lucrative contract with the state of South Carolina, ACT sued allegiging that their skill definitoins and other elements were “virtually identical” to their own.

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3 Count: Pulp NFT

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1: Miramax Hits Tarantino With Copyright Suit on ‘Pulp Fiction’ NFTs. First off today, Samantha Handler at Bloomberg Law reports that the film studio Mirimax has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against director Quentin Tarantino over Tarantino’s plans to release of Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) related to the film Pulp Fiction.

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3 Count: Server Tested

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1: Manhattan Judge Rejects ‘Server Test’ for Internet Copyright Infringement. District Court Judge Jed Rakoff has issued a controversial ruling denying the “server test” of copyright law and ruling that embedding images can be an infringement of copyright law. ” As such, Warner Bros.,