JIPEL Copyright Blog

APRIL 26, 2021

However, an equally long list of controversies accompanies this list of accomplishments, the majority of which involve alleged copying. This pattern begins as far back as May of 2018, when Bernstein was accused of copying pieces from several smaller jewelry lines for a collaboration she did with Nordstrom.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 4, 2022

The French streaming site actively campaigns on social media where it has booked some impressive results. That kind of social media exposure is unprecedented for a pirate site and it definitely helped to get more viewers to the platform. TikTok Views. WishFlix nailed the first part of that equation.

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Erik K Pelton

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Trademark registration is not a necessity, but it’s a real value to protect from someone else trying to come after the name, and gives you tools if someone else copies the name. That is the definition of what a brand is. We find that many musical artists overlook this step and fail to protect, and that can lead to problems.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Watch UFC Free” These people also brazenly advertise on social media platforms to attract viewers to their pirate websites, with slogans on social media sites such as “Watch UFC Free,” McKnight notes. That includes those who register new accounts. law, but that’s not a given.

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Michael Geist

MARCH 14, 2023

Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez is on the defensive as he tries to defend Bill C-18 in the wake of both Google and Facebook signalling that they may remove Canadian news from search results and social media sharing in light of the government’s approach that creates mandated payments for links.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Between blogs, social media, forums, YouTube and a million other sites, one doesn’t have to be in a writing profession to be a widely read author. Turnitin launched in the year 2000 , Between search engines and ready-made copy detection tools, spotting plagiarism became much faster and easier than ever before.

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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. Firstly, take the example of social media. With the advent of social media, anyone can post anything on it. Kind of Copyright Infringement. Indian Scenario.

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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. Instagram, LLC , 2023 WL 4554649 (9th Cir.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 6, 2024

Many of the large social media platforms stick to these rules but, according to a lawsuit filed by several prominent music companies last year, X is not among them. “Any feature that makes a service easier for all of its users will, by definition, also make the service easier for bad actors.

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Plagiarism Today

APRIL 4, 2022

In some types of programming, especially when there’s only one correct way to do something, copying code isn’t just a shortcut, it’s the norm. Many lawyers also copy and paste heavily in the legal documents in a bid to meet the criteria there. So, what, if anything, can we do? There’s not much that can be done on the macro level.

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The TTABlog

JANUARY 9, 2023

The record also included use of the phrase other than in connection with goods included in the subject application: for example, media articles, social media posts, and podcasts. However, the starting point for registration is the statutory definition of a trademark. 15 U.S.C. §§ 1051, 1127.

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Copyright Lately

OCTOBER 2, 2023

In a nutshell, plaintiffs allege that Ross hired a third-party contractor to unlawfully copy Westlaw content—including its proprietary Key Number System and case headnotes—in order to train Ross’s own AI-driven natural language legal search engine. These copies, Ross claims, are fair use. That issue will be decided by a jury.

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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? While social media were not explicitly singled out, they seem to comfortably fall within the ISSP definition. Do social media make content available?

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 30, 2022

Judging from the Rusty Krab’s marketing efforts and social media promotion as detailed in Viacom’s complaint, the pop-up was far more focused on providing the backdrop for Instagram-worthy selfies than it was on producing edible food. The court then moves on to consider Viacom’s copyright infringement claim.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 17, 2022

On social media platforms and elsewhere, Z-Library users openly discussed what to do next. is behind this request but it’s definitely unusual, as pirate sites generally don’t hold copyrights to the content they host. “This Website is copying my client’s content daily without any consent.

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Copyright Lately

MARCH 6, 2022

levitating by dua lipa is a copy of don diablo by miguel bose and you can’t change my mind. As a result, coincidental copying is, in fact, a thing. And experts hired by the parties are of limited value because they’re, by definition, advocating on behalf of one side or the other. — elizabeth ?

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

” Perhaps the plaintiffs were concerned that Instagram has insufficient “volition” for the copies made by its servers; or perhaps Instagram can claim the 512 safe harbor for any embedded user-uploaded files (but the 512 safe harbor also applies to contributory infringement, so this theory isn’t very plausible).

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43(B)log

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

True, “generic” and “descriptive” are separate legal definitions along the distinctiveness spectrum. Even if this evidence were relevant, the definitions of “generic” and “descriptive” were overlapping and confusing. By the Poret Survey’s own definition, those terms are therefore generic.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 8, 2022

” The company doesn’t believe that its service is a cyberlocker under the Commission’s own definitions. A copy of the European Commission’s third Counterfeit and Piracy Watch List is available here (pdf). Social media. Mega had no opportunity to correct their misunderstandings.” Cyberlockers.

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Copyright Lately

JANUARY 23, 2023

Stable Diffusion Doesn’t Store Copies of Training Images The complaint also mischaracterizes Stable Diffusion by asserting that images used to train the model are “stored at and incorporated” into the tool as “compressed copies.” None of it includes copies of images. The Copyright Act Definition is Broad, But.

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IPilogue

AUGUST 16, 2022

August asserts that the Defendant, AirG Inc, a Canadian social media brand, committed copyright infringement by reproducing six of Pugliese’s Jennifer Lopez photos on their website without permission. They sought $22,412.45 in damages, which is the total license fee for the photos.

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Copyright Lately

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

From an archived copy of HitPiece’s FAQ. A number of the executives’ social media posts also appear to have been deleted, including photos of a launch party HitPiece held at Art Basel in Miami, for which it hired Artz, Busta Rhymes, Noreaga and MurdaBeatz to perform. I’d love you get your take.

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IP and Legal Filings

OCTOBER 18, 2022

It encompasses all intersecting IT industries and might affect anything from social media use to surveillance, e-commerce, and technological innovation. The IT Bill mandates a licencing structure for numerous services, including social networks and data centres, while offering broad definitions for social network and service provider.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2023

2000) (“ copying an entire work militates against a finding of fair use. ”). To create its product, Clearview scraped billions of publicly available photos from websites and social media platforms. Such class actions can be considered part of the evolution of the regulatory landscape dedicated to Generative AI.

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Traverse Legal Blog

MARCH 6, 2024

PopSugar allegedly created profiles of prominent social media influencers and copied their photos from Instagram without permission, leading to a class action lawsuit. One example that comes to mind is the time PopSugar Inc. faced a lawsuit for the unauthorized use of influencers’ likenesses.

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Velocity of Content

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

In this post, I’m looking at the vast domain of the YouTube video & social media platform —which, lest we forget, is a major division of Google/Alphabet — and how its copyright aspect manifests in options for individual contributors (“YouTubers,” in the jargon). YouTube is no different in that respect.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 11, 2023

The most modern instalment of this long history comes in the form of another kind ‘copy’, less richly decorated, yet more relevant and politically sensitive for a country that has established a long-term foreign investment “partnership” with the tech and communication industry: the transposition of Directive 2019/790 into Irish law.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Moreover, contrary to The Satanic Temple’s novel argument, domain registration is not the same as registration for a social media website.” But none of those cases outright hold that there is a blanket rule for whether using a mark in a keyword purchase is definitively infringement or definitively not infringement.

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 6, 2024

PopSugar allegedly created profiles of prominent social media influencers and copied their photos from Instagram without permission, leading to a class action lawsuit. One example that comes to mind is the time PopSugar Inc. faced a lawsuit for the unauthorized use of influencers’ likenesses.

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Copyright Lately

AUGUST 10, 2021

The court rejected H/E’s assertion (as well as those of its expert witnesses) that the new mascot costume was a “slavish copy” that wasn’t original enough to qualify as a derivative work. As always, if you have any comments, feel free to drop me a line below or on your favorite social media platform @copyrightlately.

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43(B)log

JUNE 30, 2023

His view: some recommender systems should be prohibited AI, if social media use is addictive. Different regulatory structures for different entities—when telcos became broadband providers, had to decide where they would be regulated, which is similar to the Qs raised by definitions of covered AI—regulatory arbitrage.

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Intepat

MAY 16, 2023

A fraudulent lottery-winning message with Amitabh Bachchan’s voice from KBC was viral through various social media platforms and many people fell into this trap. The definition clause under Sec. This association of KBC with his name, voice, and image, in general, was the root cause of a recent scam.

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LexBlog IP

OCTOBER 25, 2023

That is the difference between the court of public opinion in one’s industry and a court of law in a governmental building—”In writing, plagiarismis a straight-up cardinal sin: If you copy, you’re wrong. Now social media has allowed for PSRs with reality TV celebrities, Instagram influencers, and the like.

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 13, 2023

Firstly, the definition of harm is different for everyone and thereto, the party bringing upon the lawsuit might consider it differently even if the amount in controversy is small. There are several possible reasons why a de minimis litigation is still pursued. DE MINIMIS IN COPYRIGHT LAW. In the landmark case of Bell v. Conclusion.

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43(B)log

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Thus, Universal argued that the alleged misrepresentation was too vague and non-specific to definitely represent that viewers would see De Armas or her segment in the movie. But buying a limited-time license to stream a digital copy of Yesterday was neither a tangible good nor a service under the CLRA. The Court agrees.

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43(B)log

AUGUST 3, 2023

That’s where disclosure rules need the most attention: definition and relation to what courts are going to do with the registration. Keep up with the culture by considering social media. It’s market definition. The definition expanded far beyond packaging/display. Is diet soda a category or a subgroup?

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Copyright Lately

DECEMBER 4, 2023

public domain on January 1, director Dreyer never chose a definitive musical score for the film. Twentieth Century Fox , warned that allowing these types of restrictions on a public domain work could effectively create “a species of mutant copyright law” that would limit the public’s right to copy and use expired copyrights.

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