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3 Count: Frequent Flyer

Plagiarism Today

First off today, Kim Lyons at The Verge reports that American Airlines has filed a lawsuit against the travel tips website The Points Guy alleging that the site has violated their copyrights, trademarks and the terms of service of their frequent flyer program. 2: Nintendo Copyright Strikes That Pokemon First Person Shooter.

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Movie Companies Sue Lawyer in Dispute Over Piracy Settlement Cash

TorrentFreak

The movie companies allege a breach of contract but note that due to the defendants’ alleged accounting deficiencies, they are unable to put an exact figure on the amount Hierl and his law firm failed to pay. For their part, the defendants view the situation quite differently.

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A Look Back at India’s Top IP Developments of 2021

SpicyIP

Particularly, it was argued that against the backdrop of the pandemic, the medicines produced were in high demand due to their characteristics of relieving some of the major symptoms exhibited by the patients who had contracted the Covid-19 virus. Parliamentary Standing Committee Report on the IP regime.

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A Preliminary Analysis of Trump’s Copyright Lawsuit Over Interview Recordings (Trump v. Simon & Schuster) (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

If the work was published with proper copyright notice, it received a federal statutory copyright. If the work was published without proper copyright notice, the work entered the public domain. Once a work was published, state law was divested, and one of two things happened. Nation Enterprises , 723 F.2d

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