Plagiarism Today

MAY 17, 2022

The post DeivanArt Expanding System for Detecting Copied Images appeared first on Plagiarism Today. It will be interesting to see what impact this has over the long term and if artists that are not currently on DeviantArt are willing to entrust the company with protecting their work.

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Hugh Stephens Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Writers across the country are writing the government and their MPs urging them to pass legislation to stop the great educational rip-off, being the uncompensated copying of 600,000,000 pages per year that has been taking place in the education sector … Continue reading "Canadian Writers Speak Up: It’s Time to End the Education Sector Rip-off (..)

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2023

In this case, the Federal Circuit determined the sufficiency of evidence to rebut a nexus between objective evidence and non-obviousness; and to establish the objective indicia of copying. Direct evidence of copying is not necessary to establish copying. The Board’s finding of copying is supported by substantial evidence.

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IP Law 360

JUNE 20, 2024

Theravance Biopharma and Mylan Specialty have sued a Chinese drugmaker, alleging it copied Yupelri, one of its chronic obstructive pulmonary disease drugs, and infringed several patents in the process.

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IP Law 360

JULY 11, 2024

senators introduced legislation dubbed the COPIED Act on Thursday to fight the growth of AI-generated "deepfakes," proposing a framework that would give journalists and artists control over their work via a watermarking process and allow them to sue those who use their work without permission. A bipartisan group of U.S.

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IP Law 360

MAY 28, 2024

A Philadelphia-area fashion designer has accused luxury clothing brand Louis Vuitton and its related corporate entities of allegedly copying her designs for women's apparel and fabrics.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

The Internet Archive is widely known for its Wayback Machine, which preserves copies of the web for future generations. “Defendants have created a massive online storefront providing digital copies of thousands of these protected sound recordings to anyone to stream or download for free. .

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IP Law 360

JANUARY 16, 2024

didn't engage in copyright infringement of UIRC-GSA Holding's bond offering documents, stating that UIRC's paperwork was not eligible for protection because the government contractor copied it from a housing association. The Seventh Circuit has upheld an Illinois federal court's finding that financial services company William Blair & Co.

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Patently-O

DECEMBER 7, 2023

by Dennis Crouch In patent law, product copying can serve as indirect evidence of non-obviousness. A pending petition before the Supreme Court asks a similar question in the trademark realm – to what extent does copying of a product serve as evidence of secondary meaning of the product associated trade dress.

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43(B)log

DECEMBER 14, 2023

61, 2023 Abstract To prove copyright infringement, a plaintiff must convince a jury that the defendant copied from the plaintiff’s work rather than independently creating it. Until that knowledge is available, testimony about the probability of copying should be deemed inadmissible under Federal Rule of Evidence 702.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 25, 2022

However, there are also instances where developers see copies of their own content elsewhere on Github, placed there by others without permission. The takedown notice also claims that the copied repository circumvents technical protection measures, which would be an additional violation of the DMCA. GitHub Complies.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

With more than 238 million copies sold, it’s also the best-selling video game in history, a reign that looks set to continue. Mojang is totally fine with this, as long as people don’t charge money or distribute modded copies of the game. All repositories are reportedly linked to copies of Eaglercraft.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 17, 2022

Long before the advent of legitimate online video streaming services, torrent sites and similar platforms allowed users to download and keep copies of movies and TV shows. Is it permissible to download and keep copies of movies and TV shows if you’ve paid for a legal subscription? Subscriber Agreements.

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IP Law 360

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Department of Defense contractor made unauthorized copies of the company's software and the DOD tried to cover up that copying. A Court of Federal Claims judge has awarded a software developer $12.7 million for copyright infringement after finding that a U.S.

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IP Law 360

APRIL 25, 2023

British pop star Ed Sheeran took the witness stand in Manhattan federal court Tuesday for the first day of a copyright trial over his ballad "Thinking Out Loud," denying that he copied Marvin Gaye's "Let's Get It On" and testily sparring with opposing counsel.

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Patent Trademark Blog

JANUARY 25, 2024

How to take down Amazon seller listings that copy your products You have invested a great deal of time and money to develop your products. Now you’re being copied by others. What can you do to take down Amazon seller listings of copy products? The goal is to win and shut down listings of copy products on Amazon.

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IP Law 360

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Medieval Times has launched an unusual lawsuit alleging its trademark is being infringed by a union that represents its workers at a New Jersey location, but trademark and labor law experts are skeptical that the effort will be successful or copied by other employers.

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IP Law 360

MARCH 29, 2024

A Winston & Strawn LLP attorney on Friday told a Manhattan federal judge that the firm is angling to settle a copyright infringement suit that accuses its attorneys of copying a motion-to-dismiss filing by a boutique intellectual property firm "nearly verbatim," saying it isn't worth the cost to all involved.

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The IPKat

MARCH 4, 2024

This time, Katfriend Spyridon Sipetas (Stockholm University) tells the story of a collaboration – the one between Jacquemus and Nike – that has been already plagued with accusations of copying. Here’s what Spyridon writes: Jacquemus x Nike Swoosh Bag: ‘Just Copy It’ or re-appropriation of Nike’s own trade mark?

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Patent Trademark Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

No patents: What are your options against product copies? The post No Patents: How to Protect Product from Copying appeared first on Patent Trademark Blog | IP Q&A. The post No Patents: How to Protect Product from Copying appeared first on Patent Trademark Blog | IP Q&A. It’s understandable.

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JD Supra Law

JULY 26, 2024

The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit held that reprinting foreign law cannot be an infringement of US copyright law. Canadian Standards Association v. P.S. Knight Co., 23-50081 (5th Cir. July 16, 2024) (King, Willett, Douglas, JJ.). By: McDermott Will & Emery

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IP Law 360

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

The owner of the Naked Wolfe brand has accused two online footwear retailers of design and copyright infringement, alleging that they "slavishly copied" its chunky boot designs.

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IP Law 360

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

A federal magistrate judge in Waco, Texas, says he doesn't think "some copy-and-paste errors" are enough to hook a prolific litigator of patent lawsuits to paying legal fees in a shell company's latest failed campaign against Salesforce.

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azrights

OCTOBER 5, 2023

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The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

Kat cloud Does the private copying exception and, with it, the fair compensation requirement under Article 5(2)(b) of the InfoSoc Directive apply to reproductions carried out by using cloud-based recording services? In Austro-Mechana , the question is once again one of private copying in the cloud.

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JD Supra Law

APRIL 11, 2022

The Court of Justice of the European Union (“CJEU”) has recently ruled that the private copying exception contained in the Information Society Directive (the “Directive”) applies to works stored in space made available to users by cloud computing service providers.

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Velocity of Content

DECEMBER 15, 2021

For these companies, their need is simple – get a hard copy of their research into the hands of physicians so they know it’s available if they ever need it. It’s a testament to the deeply engrained preference of physicians for hard copies of research and to the value of the tactile experience of a physical copy.

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43(B)log

MAY 9, 2023

May 8, 2023) The Eleventh Circuit affirmed the core finding that Corellium’s copying of iOS for security research purposes was fair use, but vacated and remanded for further analysis of contributory infringement claims and claims related to the use of the icons, giving Apple another bite at, etc. Corellium, Inc. , 21-12835 (11th Cir.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JANUARY 5, 2023

It is a common practice to make copies of deteriorating or far away cultural heritage. As of 2022, it is not even a new idea to use digital methods to copy heritage, considering that the mass digitisation of cultural heritage, especially books, started more than two decades ago. Photo by awsloley via Pixabay.

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IP Law 360

JANUARY 3, 2024

A Boston boutique law firm has filed a copyright infringement complaint against Winston & Strawn LLP, accusing it and four of its attorneys of copying a motion-to-dismiss filing "nearly verbatim" in a patent dispute where both firms were representing co-defendants.

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JD Supra Law

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) plans to stop issuing patent and trademark certificates in hard copy format. As part of its plan to modernize the U.S. intellectual property registration system, the U.S. By: Fox Rothschild LLP

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IP Law 360

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

A founding member of the Romantics will likely have a tough time regaining control of the band's finances after a Michigan appellate judge said Wednesday he couldn't condone the "incompetence" of the musician's trial attorneys, who filed a brief that was a copy of the opposing side's argument.

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IP Law 360

DECEMBER 11, 2023

A Los Angeles furniture business infringed the copyrights of a late iconic French designer, a California federal judge has concluded, saying the estate that brought the suit established that the furniture designs at issue are original and not copied from other sources as the defendants argued.

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IP Law 360

JULY 8, 2024

A Washington smoke chain has hit several rivals with trademark infringement lawsuits, accusing them of unauthorized use of its name, Smoke City, so they can lean on the goodwill it has developed with customers.

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The IPKat

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

You may not love Asian carp, but you will hopefully love copi (and will give the fish a try at your favorite restaurant, thereby preventing ecological disaster). This recasting was done by a Chicago marketing company, Span Studio , which came up with a new name for the fish—"copi". There may be a lot to this change of name.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 4, 2022

That the creators of a cheat that almost certainly violates the anti-circumvention provisions of the DMCA attempted to have a copy taken down based on the same law is both novel and pretty ironic, to say the least. Github’s Analysis Results in Takedown.

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43(B)log

MAY 19, 2023

Wowwee sells a line of dolls called “My Avastars,” which plaintiffs allege were “copied directly from Roblox’s Classic Avatars.” Looking at the side by side pictures in the complaint, this is a bit hard to swallow, but the evidence of copying/references to Roblox clearly bleed over from the TM side.

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