TorrentFreak

APRIL 2, 2024

For roughly a quarter-century, rightsholders have sent copyright infringement notices to ISPs, informing them about alleged copyright infringements carried out by subscribers. After reviewing the matter, Judge Glenn saw no reason to dismiss the copyright liability claims at this stage.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 28, 2021

io but is also active on hundreds of forums, websites and social media accounts selling cheats that enable Ubisoft and Bungie customers to automatically aim their weapons, reveal the locations of opponents, and see information that would otherwise be obscured. Copyright Infringement Offenses. 1201(a)(2)).

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TorrentFreak

MAY 14, 2022

Given that the production of today’s videogames requires the involvement of a large number of people, preventing all information leaks is an impossible task. After being uploaded in the preceding days, on April 26 the company filed a complaint at YouTube alleging copyright infringement. Aside from generating more than 4.6

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Copyright Lately

MARCH 16, 2022

How about being liable to your professor for willful copyright infringement damages of up to $300,000? Several students from Chapman University in Orange County California (currently identified only as John Does 1-5) are finding themselves on the receiving end of a copyright infringement lawsuit filed by Assistant Professor David A.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The company objected, arguing that handing over the requested information would violate its users’ right to anonymous speech. Reddit Shared IP Address Recent legal activity shows that Reddit doesn’t intend to automatically comply with all user information requests. According to the film companies, a response never arrived.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 8, 2024

This landmark ruling was appealed and while Cox remains liable for contributory copyright infringement, the damages award may change. The record labels don’t object to this reasoning and have informed the court that its mandate could be stayed until the second appeal is finalized. That has to conclude first.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 10, 2024

In a complaint filed at a Nashville federal court last spring , Universal Music, Sony Music, EMI and others, accused X Corp of “breeding” mass copyright infringement. The social media company allegedly failed to respond adequately to takedown notices and lacks a proper termination policy.

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IPilogue

JUNE 13, 2022

Artists in the digital space have always been vulnerable to the unauthorized distribution, copying, and sale of their work. Listing someone else’s artwork on an NFT marketplace is as simple as saving a copy of the work from an artist’s website or social media platform and uploading it onto a marketplace where it is minted into an NFT.

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Plagiarism Today

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

As part of their series The Facebook Files , which is an examination of leaked internal documents from the company, the paper published a scathing review of the company’s practices surrounding copied content. This was in part because the company feared running afoul of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 14, 2023

Last year, a Texas federal jury found Grande Communications liable for willful contributory copyright infringement and ordered the ISP to pay $47 million in damages to a group of record labels. The ISP was held liable for infringing 1,403 copyrighted songs, as it failed to terminate persistent pirates’ internet access.

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IPilogue

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Typically, tattoo aftercare instructions include strictly hygienic recommendations, but tattoo artist Kat Von D might have a unique suggestion: prepare to be an exhibit in a copyright infringement lawsuit. for copyright infringement under the Copyright Act of 1976. Sedlik (“Sedlik”) filed a complaint in the U.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 16, 2023

The detailed takedown notices accused Ironmace of copyright infringement and stealing trade secrets. The torrent link also made its way to Steam , where the developers provided additional background information, as well as a recommendation to use the qBitTorrent client.

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Plagiarism Today

APRIL 7, 2022

They asked about the descriptions on the FDN-hosted CCA website, but were informed that those were owned by FDN. Also in 2018, FDN filed the original complaint, targeting both Amazon and CCA, alleging that they both breached contracts and committed copyright infringement. But this is where FDN introduces a new wrinkle.

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IPilogue

JULY 28, 2021

Although few laws concern the use of an image without consent, the Charter of Rights and Freedoms , the Criminal Code , the Copyright Act , and the Security of Information Act address these legal issues. In this post, I will focus on the Copyright Act.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 20, 2024

At this stage, the infringement notices sent to IP-addresses of pirating subscribers are sufficient to show that the provider had knowledge of copyright-infringing activities. “It The movie companies continue to accuse the Internet provider of contributory and vicarious copyright infringement, as well as DMCA violations.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 4, 2022

For website operators trying to get information into the public eye, the last thing they need are legal threats claiming that they’ve infringed someone’s copyrights. Copyright lawsuits have a reputation of being expensive to defend so, when threatened, most people take the easiest way out.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 31, 2024

Specifically, the labels alleged that the company failed to terminate repeat infringers. A Texas federal jury found Grande guilty of willful contributory copyright infringement, and the ISP was ordered to pay $47 million in damages to the record labels. $47 This leaves the court with two options, Grande says. (1)

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

People have become less dependent on print media and more likely to use a digital medium such as computerized documents of soft copies. Given the fact that the copyright law was originally framed to protect literary and artistic works, it needs to be seen how much the law has evolved to grant protection to digitalized works.

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Copyright Lately

OCTOBER 2, 2023

While a flurry of AI copyright lawsuits from prominent authors and artists grab headlines, another case has quietly taken something more important: a head start. This means that a jury could weigh in on some of the thorniest copyright questions involving artificial intelligence as early as May 2024.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 12, 2023

social media platforms such as YouTube, came predominantly from the United States, with Facebook, Reddit, Instagram and Twitter users adding to the total. social media platforms did so via U.S.-based MG Premium said that in December 2022, 7,818 of its copyrighted works were available on PornEZ via 51,375 URLs.

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Intellectual Property Office Blog

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Photographs will generally be protected by copyright as artistic works. This means that a user will usually need your permission if they want to perform certain acts, such as copying your image or sharing it on the internet. Question: When uploading images to social media, do I automatically transfer my copyright to the platform? .

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Copyright Lately

JUNE 2, 2022

When lighting technician Blake Farmer got a tattoo of Miles Davis from celebrity tattoo artist Kat Von D in 2017, he never could have imagined that the image on his right arm would one day become Exhibit A in a copyright infringement lawsuit. a jury) could find infringement. .” Kat Von D’s Instagram post.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

When publishers clashed with The Pirate Bay over illegally shared copies, we envisioned that things could get much worse if Kindle-ready pirate sites began to pop up. “Copyright infringement is outside of my control. From: TF , for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

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SpicyIP

OCTOBER 11, 2021

New Social Media Rules, But No Clarity for Copyright Claims. To an extent, the misuse of notice and takedown procedures is a function of the strange evolution of copyright takedowns and intermediary liability issues in India (which we have covered extensively here).

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2023

2000) (“ copying an entire work militates against a finding of fair use. ”). Google , which recognized property interest in personal information). Church of God, Inc., 3d 110, 1118 (9th Cir. 161 recalling the precedent Calhoun v. 161 recalling the precedent Calhoun v.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 18, 2023

copyright law, Internet providers must terminate the accounts of repeat infringers “in appropriate circumstances.” Many ISPs have been reluctant to take such drastic measures, which triggered a wave of copyright infringement lawsuits in recent years. Internet provider RCN is among the targeted providers.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 1, 2023

By Guest Blogger Tyler Ochoa Recently, the Ninth Circuit reaffirmed what has become known as the “server test”: in order to be held directly liable for violating the public display right, the alleged infringer must have a fixed “copy” of the work stored on a server in its possession or control. July 17, 2023).

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IP and Legal Filings

APRIL 19, 2022

It was recently uncovered that numerous internet platforms are posting infringing content on their websites without the approval of the copyright owners. Copyright infringement cases on the internet have increased because the internet has become more widely available. Information Technology Act,2000.

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Corsearch

AUGUST 24, 2023

Identify the type of infringement Facebook will remove listings and posts that infringe your intellectual property, covering five categories: counterfeits, copyright infringement, brand abuse (which includes other forms of trademark infringement), design infringement, and patent infringement.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 30, 2022

Remember the Fifth Circuit case from 2018 holding that a real restaurant’s name could infringe trademark rights in the name of a fictional restaurant from the TV show SpongeBob SquarePants, the Krusty Krab? The court then moves on to consider Viacom’s copyright infringement claim.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Thousands of users also had their accounts suspended for repeat copyright infringements. “The stakeholders report Mega for the lack of preventive measures to avoid uploads of infringing content. In addition, Mega stresses that it takes its copyright takedown responsibilities very seriously. Social media.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Social media (aka Facebook) were not a part of the conversation. This raises the question: does the press publishers’ right apply to social media? Information society service providers. While social media were not explicitly singled out, they seem to comfortably fall within the ISSP definition.

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Copyright Lately

MARCH 13, 2024

copyright registration limits the claimed authorship in the game to “computer program code and text of instructions.” ” This omission is important, because, per Copyright Office policy, the information provided in a copyright application defines the claim being registered. Wordle’s U.S.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 15, 2024

documentation, methods, weighting factors, information on the model architecture or usage). documentation, methods, weighting factors, information on the model and on the architecture). Think of social media, whose data are scraped and used to train Large Language Models (LLM) (e.g. This raises questions of liability.

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Corsearch

AUGUST 14, 2023

Counterfeiting is one form of trademark infringement, where exact copies of registered trademarks are used to deceive customers and pass off as your brand. Copyright infringement Copyrights are granted to authors and creators of written and multimedia works, such as books, movies, music, photographs, video games, and artwork.

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43(B)log

JUNE 26, 2023

16, 2023) The court refused to dismiss copyright and trademark claims based on copying of a TV show format, including the hosts. Media critics allegedly readily observed that the new show was “a clone of A&E’s Live PD,” and that “On Patrol: Live is Live PD.” Fan reactions on social media included “Ok.

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IP Tech Blog

JULY 18, 2023

ChatGPT’s 2,000+ word privacy policy states that OpenAI, the chatbot’s creator, may share a user’s personal information (such as the user’s name / IP / address / messages / queries / uploaded files) with third parties without providing the user further notice, unless it is required to do so by law.

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