TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Earlier this year, Universal Music, Sony Music, EMI and others filed a complaint at a Nashville federal court, accusing Elon Musk’s X Corp of “breeding” mass copyright infringement. The company behind X allegedly fails to properly respond to takedown notices and lacks a proper termination policy for repeat infringers.

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Plagiarism Today

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Back in September , I reported on Facebook’s Widely Viewed Content Report and how Casey Newton, a reporter at The Verge, noticed that nearly all the top posts on Facebook for the quarter were plagiarized. . This was in part because the company feared running afoul of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 7, 2024

Aside from addressing copyright infringements in an automated fashion, the Content ID system brings in billions of dollars in revenue. Many rightsholders choose to monetize copyright-infringing videos instead of taking them down, which can be quite lucrative. WebKyte is certainly not a newcomer to the copyright scene.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 26, 2023

The number of removals runs in the hundreds of thousands during a typical month, without getting noticed by the public at large, but if Instagram users continue to post copyright infringing content, they risk losing their accounts. However, as often happens with popular media, pirated footage was readily available too.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 14, 2022

On the flip side, today’s interconnected world has the ability to transform leaks into powerful advertising and hype, keeping message boards and social media alive with discussion of exciting new products, at zero cost to official marketing teams. Copyright Complaint Targets Just One Video.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 19, 2024

As reported yesterday , the decision was cited in the ongoing legal battle between book publishers and the Internet Archive. Instead of alleging concrete copyright infringement by end users, the technology itself is framed as copyright-infringing. “Defendants’ generative AI models are nothing like VCRs.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 21, 2022

That would usually mean a decision not to report on these matters, but due to the novelty of the Board we decided to take a closer look. According to the claim, the defendants allegedly used copyright-infringing fairy wing designs in several photos that were shared on social media. 12,000 for Ongoing Infringments.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 7, 2023

Copyright complaints kept coming in and increased in volume compared to the same period last year, the site’s latest mid-year transparency report shows. User access requests, which allow users to ask for a copy of their account information, skyrocketed in the first half of 2023. .

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Specifically, they 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 ” Piracy v.s

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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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TorrentFreak

APRIL 16, 2023

According to reports , the developers allegedly stole assets from their former employer, game publisher Nexon , which is allegedly working on a similar project too. The detailed takedown notices accused Ironmace of copyright infringement and stealing trade secrets.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 5, 2022

The report then continues with examples of concrete threats. According to IFPI, a group of social media platforms and messenger services have become increasingly problematic. The music industry group notes that social media can also be beneficial to artists. IFPI Flags Top Piracy Problems.

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JIPL Online

APRIL 9, 2021

In particular, it explores why copyright of a meme’s underlying content does not matter in a normative sense. In this blog I argue that copyright protection of the content underlying memes does not matter because of the relative weakness of enforcement mechanisms for copyright infringement of this scale. 511, 523 (2012).

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 4, 2024

LibGen Hoping for a better outcome, textbook publishers Cengage, Bedford, Macmillan Learning, McGraw Hill, and Pearson Education filed a similar copyright infringement lawsuit against LibGen last year. According to the plaintiffs, LibGen is responsible for “staggering” levels of copyright infringement.

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Copyright Lately

APRIL 6, 2024

A federal court has shot down a copyright infringement lawsuit claiming that Top Gun: Maverick flew too close to a 1983 magazine article that inspired the original film. These flaws rendered Bean’s opinions “unhelpful and inadmissible,” resulting in the court excluding his expert report.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Ever since it’s been technically possible to distribute pirated copies of movies and TV shows online, the Motion Picture Association has been attempting to stop it. As we have reported on many occasions, not all cases investigated by the MPA and/or ACE will result in a full-blown lawsuit. The Ideal Candidate.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 4, 2022

In a new article this week, Richard Byrne reports on an email sent to him by another fake law firm, this time calling itself ‘Nationwide Legal’ [nationwidelaw[D0T]org]. The image referenced in the email as being the original, copyrighted image, is suspiciously hosted on Imgur. Ghosts From the Past.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 30, 2023

In addition, the defense asked the court to exclude evidence taken from Doe’s social media profiles and comments from his neighbors, who testified on the strength of his WiFi signal. However, the court granted the request to prohibit the use of information from the defendant’s social media profile.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 7, 2021

This prompted Dorland to first report the alleged plagiarism to a wide variety of groups and worked on getting the story pulled while working through lawyers to demand financial compensation. That, in turn, prompted a counterclaim by Dorland for copyright infringement. That is, in a word, unacceptable.

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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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The IPKat

DECEMBER 20, 2023

by Despoina Dimitrakopoulou Recently, the news of reggaeton mega-star Bad Bunny's eloquently put disappointment spread on social media, bringing up interesting questions concerning music creation using AI. Did the track infringe Bad Bunny's rights? Bad Bunny was also disappointed. probably without having Bad Bunny´s consent.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Following the 2020 report, several of the mentioned pirate sites and services have disappeared. Thousands of users also had their accounts suspended for repeat copyright infringements. According to the EU report, however, a lack of upload filters and a recent Russian court decision still warrant its inclusion.

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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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Copyright Lately

MAY 27, 2021

I finally had a chance to take a closer look at the new copyright class action complaint filed last week against Instagram. While the difference between embedding and simply copying an Instagram image may have legal significance (as I’ll discuss below), from the perspective of the viewer, it’s fairly seamless.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Trump’s ability to attract and generate controversy will go down in history, as will his numerous appearances in copyright infringement lawsuits. Musician Eddy Grant filed a complaint against Trump in 2020 and three years later there’s little positivity to report for anyone involved.

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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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Copyright Lately

MARCH 13, 2024

copyright registration doesn’t claim rights in the game’s graphics or other visual elements. At a Loss for Wordles In recent days, numerous developers targeted by the Times’s DMCA notice have taken to social media to report that their own Reactle-built games have been shut down. Wordle’s U.S.

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Copyright Lately

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Last year, it was the Ninth Circuit’s reversal of a pleading-stage dismissal by Central District of California Judge Consuelo Marshall, which (correctly in my view) found that similarities in stock and unprotectable pirate genre elements such as battles at gunpoint and jewel-filled caves couldn’t support a viable copyright infringement claim.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2023

The defendants’ wholesale collection and use of copyrighted material, with no option for copyright owners to opt out, would exceed the legal interpretation of “fair use” (see VHT vs Zillow Group , 918 F.3d 2000) (“ copying an entire work militates against a finding of fair use. ”). 4th 1149 (9th Cir. 3d 723, 743 (9th Cir.

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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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CopyrightsWorld

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Copyright infringement and how to stop it is a question in the minds of most of us these days. Google’s Transparency report which is compliant with the DMCA is mentioning over 5 billion Urls being delisted due to copyright infringement.

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Copyright Lately

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

Breaking down Miramax’s copyright infringement lawsuit against Quentin Tarantino, a dispute about NFTs that isn’t really about NFTs. The breathless media reports soon followed. A used copy will set you back $1.09; for reasons unknown, a new copy is going for $113.03—In

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

AI-generated works have won awards: The Crow , an “AI-made” film won the Jury Award at the Cannes Short Film Festival and the story of an AI artwork winning the Colorado State Fair’s annual art competition was reported in The New York Times. AI-generated art was used for magazine covers, including Cosmopolitan and The Economist.

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IPilogue

JANUARY 11, 2023

The Globe and Mail is Canada’s foremost news media company, a nationally-distributed newspaper with one of the largest circulations in Canada. The newspaper’s print and digital formats reach over 6 million readers every week, with Report on Business magazine reaching over 2.5 million readers every issue in print and digital.

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The IPKat

MARCH 26, 2024

In last week's eagerly anticipated judgment , the Court of Appeal of England and Wales (the Court) upheld the High Court's findings of trademark infringement and passing off against Tesco in respect of its "Clubcard Prices" signs, which were found to have conveyed the message to consumers that it was price-matching Lidl.

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Copyright Lately

MAY 21, 2021

Earlier this week, she filed a lawsuit for copyright infringement against CBS Interactive over a photograph CBS used in a 2015 Entertainment Tonight Online article about her scandal. The man in the photo, whom Dolezal previously identified as “my dad” in social media posts, was later revealed to be Albert Wilkerson Jr. ,

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Following the Twitter account of Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom every single day for the last ten years is a requirement for keeping up to date with the largest copyright infringement case of all time. Copyright law has always been controversial, but rarely this political or to these depths. “@Twitter has a #NAFO problem.

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