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Is Your Website Published or Unpublished?

Plagiarism Today

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 That question is whether the descriptions were “published” or “unpublished” according to the law when they were put on FDN’s website.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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Facebook’s Plagiarism Problems Are Deeper Than You Realize

Plagiarism Today

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. . The findings, to put it mildly are not shocking. While we likely won’t know for certain, the answer likely is a combination of both.

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Kat Von D Tattoo Lawsuit Appears Headed to a Jury

Copyright Lately

Sedlik alleges that Von D infringed the copyright in his photo by tattooing a reproduction of the Miles Davis image onto the skin of Blake Farmer and then displaying images of the tattoo on her social media accounts. The Nature of the Copyrighted Work and the Amount and Substantiality of the Portion Used.

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Copyright Office Technical Measures Consultations

43(B)log

We do receive copyright claims based on titles or trademarks, which are invalid, and while we occasionally receive a valid claim not based on an initially authorized posting, our records indicate that we have never received a second copyright notice based on rights in the same complaining work.

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Not Invincible: A Cautionary Tale for Creators

Copyright Lately

The Ninth Circuit, which follows the majority view on joint authorship, has published model jury instructions containing a useful checklist of factors that a jury may consider in deciding joint authorship issues. The 2003 copyright notice at the bottom of the title page is in the name of Kirkman and Walker. Invincible #1.

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Twitter Now ‘Rejects’ Most Copyright Takedown Requests

TorrentFreak

Takedown notices are a vital tool for copyright holders who want to make sure that infringing copies of their work are not widely distributed. Every week, millions of these requests are sent to hosting platforms and third-party services, including social media networks. Takedown Notices Increase.

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