Plagiarism Today

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

1: Ninth Circuit Affirms Validity of Unicolors’ Copyright Registration on Remand, But H&M Scores Big on Remittitur Calculations. The lawsuit was filed by Unicolors, which accused H&M of infringing a 2011 design that they created as part of a 2015 one H&M sold in their stores and online.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

In order to train their technologies, should AI companies be allowed to use works under copyright protection without consent? Such uses, they argue, constitute copyright infringement. As in the present context, the initial concern of copyright holders was that their consent had not been acquired by Google prior to scanning their works.

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The IPKat

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Here’s what Felicia writes: Archival Authenticity or Iconic Copies? According to The Business of Fashion , Kardashian “tweaked Dolce & Gabbana styles from the 1990s and early 2000s” creating “finished looks” with Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana “that were, the designers said, about 20 percent different from the originals.”

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

This post looks back at the key developments in AI and copyright in 2022, covering generative AI, text and data mining exceptions, the pastiche exception, deep fakes, voice cloning and infringement and enforcement of copyright using AI. Very few jurisdictions expressly provide for copyright in computer-generated works.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 4, 2022

Despite a reported development and marketing budget in excess of $100m, Genshin Impact is free to play but is monetized via gacha game mechanics. The wide feature range of Genshin XYZ appears designed to undermine that monetization since the tool allows players to cheat their way to progress instead.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 18, 2022

At TorrentFreak we do our best to keep readers updated on the latest copyright and piracy news, highlighting issues from different points of view. We report on the opinions and efforts of copyright holders when it comes to online piracy and have active dialogues with anti-piracy outfits. TorrentFreak Threat?

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash Welcome to the third trimester of the 2023 round up of EU copyright law! In this edition, we update you on what has happened between July and September 2023 in EU copyright law. In this case, the video game publishers are the copyright holders for the video games in the entire EU and EEA.

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Copyright Lately

DECEMBER 24, 2023

Thousands will compete, many are objectively baseless, but only five can be crowned the worst of the worst copyright lawsuits of 2023. We’re nearing the end of December, which means it’s time for Copyright Lately ’s annual worst-of list. When Netflix refused to pay up, Cramer sued for copyright infringement.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 21, 2022

Last Thursday, the US Copyright Claims Board went live. Through this venue, hosted at the Copyright Office, copyright holders can try to recoup alleged damages outside the federal court system. The Copyright Claims Board put several safeguards in place to prevent this, but it’s certainly worth keeping an eye on.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 9, 2023

TLDR Generative AI is one of the hot topics in copyright law today. In the EU, a crucial legal issue is whether using in-copyright works to train generative AI models is copyright infringement or falls under existing text and data mining (TDM) exceptions in the Copyright in Digital Single Market (CDSM) Directive.

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Plagiarism Today

APRIL 25, 2022

1: Dan + Shay, Justin Bieber Sued for ‘10,000 Hours’ Copyright Infringement. First off today, Mathew Lemkuehler at The Tennessean reports that a new lawsuit claims the song 10,000 Hours , performed by Dan + Shay and Justin Bieber, is a copyright infringement of an earlier work.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 16, 2021

1: Man Files Copyright Lawsuit Against Nickelback Over ‘Rockstar’ First off today, Lauryn Schaffner at Loudwire reports that a musician named Kirk Johnston has filed a lawsuit against Nickelback, Roadrunner records and others involved with the band. Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday. Finally today, Michael S.

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Plagiarism Today

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

First off today, Nicholas Slayton at Task & Purpose reports that the United States Navy has been ordered to pay $154,400 in damages to a software firm after a court found the Navy had violated the copyright in one of their applications. Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday. 1: US Navy Fined for Acts of Software Piracy.

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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. After Judge Anderson allowed the Yonay case to proceed past the pleading stage , the parties designated dueling experts.

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Velocity of Content

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Fast-paced organizations that rely on and invest heavily in R&D should not only regard published content as the heart of innovation, but also possess a deep appreciation of the system of copyright protecting this intellectual property. How Do Different Departments Use the Annual Copyright License?

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IP and Legal Filings

MAY 3, 2023

Introduction Originality in copyright works is the sine qua non of all the copyright regimes of the world. Originality is the quality that distinguishes produced or invented works from copies, clones, forgeries, or derivative works by being new or novel. Yet the Act does not define what “original” clearly means.

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Copyright Lately

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Exploring Section 113(c) of the Copyright Act, an underutilized defense that could have changed the outcome of a recent infringement case. There’s a provision of the Copyright Act that provides a simple and straightforward defense to an entire category of infringement claims. 17 U.S.C. § 17 U.S.C. §

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Patently-O

AUGUST 31, 2021

The focus of the case is copyrightability of the SAS statistical software and its outputs. SAS argues that it made a “plethora of creative choices” in developing its material, and that creativity is more than sufficient to satisfy the originality requirements of copyright law. The Federal Circuit’s Google v.

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IP and Legal Filings

JULY 13, 2022

The recent controversy involving French fashion house Jean Paul Gaultier and TaTa Top, known for their rather distinct bikini prints, has brought the issue of fashion copyright to the forefront again. Fashion Copyright. Till now, this article has focused on the ambit of copyright protection in a relatively generic manner.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Popular CDN and DDoS protection service Cloudflare has come under a lot of pressure from copyright holders in recent years. The company offers its services to millions of sites, some of which provide access to copyright-infringing material. Not a typical “piracy” lawsuit, but it’s a copyright case that could have broad implications.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 13, 2021

According to the trade group, the site is now hosted in Ukraine having departed France last year, which perhaps explains why the site removed just 1% of the content listed in ESA member copyright infringement notices. After making an appearance in earlier reports, the main thorn in the ESA’s side remains 1fichier.com.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Katfriends Adrian Aronsson-Storrier and Oliver Fairhurst from Lewis Silkin report on recent litigation in the UK against the developers of AI generation software. To do so, it first discusses how AI image generation tools are trained and how copyright protected images are involved in that process. What is AI image generation software?

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The IPKat

APRIL 2, 2024

Trade Marks Alessandro Cerri reported on the highly anticipated judgment of the England & Wales Court of Appeal in Lidl v Tesco , which upheld the High Court's findings on bad faith, infringement, and passing off, including the findings in respect of the 'price-matching' allegation.

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Copyright Lately

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Here are some of the greatest copyright horror stories, featuring such classics as “Nightmare on Elm Street,” “Halloween,” “Dracula,” “Ghostbusters” and … a creepy McDonalds character? The studio settled quietly out of court, so there’s no reported decision in this one.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 11, 2023

Mask work is a type of intellectual property protection designed to protect layout designs (topographies) of integrated circuits. The SCPA legally protects layouts of integrated circuits upon registration, making them illegal to copy without permission. Compendium: Chapter 1200, sections 1201-1202. Id, section 1203.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

All this raises a simple question: Did the series copy St Onge’s work? Onge and others who spotted the similarities, someone who worked on the series closely copied or even traced St. And despite copying my video, the episode still contains several errors, like saying the Orlando version has 2 ride systems while showing 4.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 30, 2023

VXN had no user’s manual, no design documentation, and was never verified by an independent third party. Copyright Troll & Press Strike 3 also asked the court to exclude information from the upcoming trial. This means that the defense can freely use the ‘copyright troll’ moniker in their arguments.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 15, 2022

Fuxi, the putative copyright owner, has a registration for an image of printed sage leaves (the left image): The alleged infringer, the Sunny Factory, sells the candles on the right on Amazon. That’s by design–the DMCA was designed to resolve matters outside of court. ” This is clearly wrong.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2022

In 2019, the EU’s Copyright in the Digital Single Market Directive (CDSMD) was adopted. This included the highly controversial Articles 15 and 17 on, respectively, the new press publishers’ right (PPR) and the new copyright liability scheme for OCSSPs (“online content-sharing services providers”).

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 17, 2021

1: 8th Circuit Revives Copyright Dispute Over House Floor Plans. First off today, Blake Brittain at Reuters reports that the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals has reinstated a copyright infringement lawsuit against the realtors Columbia House of Brokers Realty over the alleged infringement of floor plans.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 24, 2023

Photo by Artur Shamsutdinov on Unsplash This is a two-part post summarising the authors’ findings from the report on Copyright Infringement in the Video Game Industry , which was prepared by the authors for the World Intellectual Property Organization.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Copyright infringement – Copyright subsists in the Lidl logo and this was copied by Tesco in creating their Clubcard Price(s) signs. On copyright subsistence, the judge held that the Mark with Text is an artistic work, failing within the sub-category of “graphic works”. Tesco denied copyright subsisted in either.

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 29, 2023

The Beijing Internet Court recently decided an interesting copyright infringement lawsuit concerning AI generated images ( GW law translated version here ). Original work by a human The court held that the image qualifies as an original work of human intellectual achievement under applicable Chinese copyright law.

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Velocity of Content

JULY 14, 2021

However, in other places, remote learning and working have stimulated a greater appreciation and uptake of licenses and some Reproduction Rights Organizations ( RROs ) have reported revenue and distribution growth year-on-year. Others are facing or anticipating new copyright legislation that will be hostile to their interests.

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SpicyIP

JUNE 17, 2023

In part I, Anshuman discusses the ‘Open House’ sessions on Patents (June 7) and Designs, GI and Copyright (June 9) and part II of his post will discuss the session on Trademark (June 12) along with his takeaways. Patil (Joint Controller of Patents & Designs & Head of Office, O/o CGPDTM), Sh. N R Meena (Sr.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 12, 2021

In recent years, adult entertainment outfit Malibu Media has often been described as a copyright-trolling operation. Harsh comments were also directed at Malibu’s designated representative Colette Pelissier, who failed to appear before a court without a proper reason. courts, collecting millions of dollars in settlements.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

This is the promised second part of the post reviewing the South African MPs’ opposition to the Copyright Amendment Bill (CAB). By the ‘reading-in remedy’, the relevant provisions of the Copyright Act would be read as though it also contains the proposed section 19D. Quantity or quality? provisions) and processes.

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