TorrentFreak

AUGUST 19, 2021

Last June, publishers Hachette, HarperCollins, John Wiley and Penguin Random House sued the Internet Archive for copyright infringement , describing its ‘Open Library’ as operating like a pirate site. Publishers Respond to Internet Archive’s Request.

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IP Law 360

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Garland shows that demanding book copies without paying for them is arguably property theft, but it also stifles innovation in the publishing industry by disincentivizing small printing companies from entering the market due to a fear of high costs and outdated government regulations, says Zvi Rosen at Southern Illinois University School of Law.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 14, 2022

In the summer of 2020, publishers Hachette, HarperCollins, John Wiley and Penguin Random House filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Internet Archive (IA). Two Years of Litigation, Both Parties Request Summary Judgment. Two Years of Litigation, Both Parties Request Summary Judgment. In a June 10 letter to Judge John G.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Every year, the Office of the United States Trade Representative ( USTR ) publishes a list of ‘notorious markets’ that facilitate online piracy and related intellectual property crimes. 2022 Notorious Markets Review Yesterday, the USTR published its 2022 Review of Notorious Markets.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 17, 2022

Long before the advent of legitimate online video streaming services, torrent sites and similar platforms allowed users to download and keep copies of movies and TV shows. Aside from living up to the significant functional claims in its marketing, the big questions revolve around legality. Subscriber Agreements.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 18, 2023

Sales Could’ve Been Better Despite becoming a number one best-seller in multiple countries, not every country has access to ‘Spare’ In common with many Western entertainment companies, publisher Penguin Random House pulled out of Russia following its invasion of Ukraine last year. ” the letter reads. Plagiarism?

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

In its yearly “Out-of-Cycle Review of Notorious Markets”, the United States Trade Representative (USTR) lists a few dozen websites said to be involved in piracy or counterfeiting. The music industry nominated several stream-rippers as notorious markets and FLVTO.biz, 2Conv.com, and MP3Juices.cc Music, Games, Books, and Science.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 14, 2021

The service was not appreciated by book publishers. Publishers Sue IA For Copyright Infringement. HarperCollins Publishers LLC, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., and Penguin Random House LLC – all members of the Association of American Publishers – accused the Internet Archive of running a pirate site.

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Plagiarism Today

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Earlier today, video game critic and prominent YouTuber James Stephanie Sterling posted a video calling out a marketing firm working for Activision Blizzard in the run-up to the release of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. . Searching for that text, you quickly find a slew of sites that have published it, either in whole or in part.

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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 original software is a DLL which we publish inside a DLL loader programmed by us in C# with VMProtection. “They have cracked the C# loader to get the DLL.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 20, 2023

The chaos in the movie market has been well-documented over the past 17 months and there are now signs that the videogame market is unlikely to escape a similar fate. A report from Kommersant published today indicates that local companies are also feeling the pain.

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Plagiarism Today

JUNE 21, 2022

On June 9th, Anna Katharine Verney at the Guardian Australia published a lengthy analysis of the John Hughes book The Dogs. The similarities included both scenes and ideas that were rewritten, as well as lengthy passages of text that were copied either verbatim or near-verbatim. Hughes, for his part, apologized for the copying.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

APRIL 28, 2023

Enforce published terms, policies, and community standards established by the business, including but not limited to privacy policies and those concerning children.” By mandating TOS enforcement, states can effectively gain unprecedented access to an online publisher’s editorial decisions. Enforcement of Terms.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 18, 2023

In 2020, publishers Hachette, HarperCollins, John Wiley and Penguin Random House sued the Internet Archive (IA) for copyright infringement, equating its ‘Open Library’ to a pirate site. Patrons can also borrow books that are scanned and digitized in-house, with technical restrictions that prevent copying.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 1, 2024

“Defendants are taking the Publishers’ work with impunity and are using the Publishers’ journalism to create GenAI products that undermine the Publishers’ core businesses by retransmitting ‘their content’—in some cases verbatim from the Publishers’ paywalled websites—to their readers.”

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Publishers vs. Internet Archive The self-scanning service is different from the licensing deals other libraries enter into. Not all publishers are happy with IA’s approach which triggered a massive legal battle two years ago. The publishers didn’t listen to these concerns.

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The IPKat

AUGUST 8, 2022

But, for those who are yet to pick up a copy, here is what is in store: The EU legislature adopted Directive 2019/790 on Copyright in the Digital Single Market (DSM) in 2019. It was against this background that the proposal for a Directive on copyright in the Digital Single Market was made in 2016.

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43(B)log

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Boston Carriage’s principals voluntarily shared their business knowledge with Boston Suburban, including Boston Carriage’s business and marketing strategies and its online presence.” Boston Suburban registered the domain name “logan-car-service.com.”

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TorrentFreak

MAY 1, 2024

“Defendants are taking the Publishers’ work with impunity and are using the Publishers’ journalism to create GenAI products that undermine the Publishers’ core businesses by retransmitting ‘their content’—in some cases verbatim from the Publishers’ paywalled websites—to their readers.”

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Kashishipr

JULY 20, 2022

Although this may sound quite encouraging and motivating for those with original ideas, many famous brands out there are accused and widely recognized for being copycats in the market and, unfortunately, making a lot of money. The American video and photo sharing social media platform Instagram has been accused of copying Snapchat.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 5, 2023

While no digital content is ever entirely immune from being copied and distributed illegally, photographs and other images are especially vulnerable. Tools enabling users to download, copy, share, and then ultimately mass distribute images exist in, or are accessible from, most phones, tablets, and computers.

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Patently-O

JANUARY 4, 2024

2024) A recent copyright infringement lawsuit filed by small Boston intellectual property boutique Hsuanyeh Law Group PC (HLG) against international giant Winston & Strawn LLP focuses a dividing line that can highlight when copying the work of another firm is permissible. Winston & Strawn , 23-cv-11193 (S.D.N.Y. Cannon , 789 N.W.2d

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 1, 2022

2: Publishers Sue ex-Mangamura Operator for ¥1.9 Next up today, The Japan Times reports that, in Japan, three major manga publishers have filed a lawsuit against Mangamura, a now-closed manga piracy website that was previously found guilty of unlawfully distributing manga content. The publishers are seeking some ¥1.93

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 19, 2022

According to authors, this enables authors and publishers to sell books at different prices for different countries. Without this rule, many authors fear the UK market would be flooded with cheaper international copies. The rule, entitled copyright exhaustion, places limits on the import of international editions of books.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

It confirms the reasoning and adds that, by publishing hardcopies of his book, the author had exhausted his right of communication to the public. Pursuant thereto, the copyright holder is no longer entitled to control the further distribution of a copy of their work after that copy had been put on the market with the rightholder’s consent.

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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.

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Plagiarism Today

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Though he clarified that they were not “direct copies”, he claimed there were similarities in style, color choices and techniques used that were overwhelming to him. In 2010, artist Charles Thomspon compiled a list of 15 separate plagiarism allegations against Hirst and published them in the art magazine Jackdaw.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 13, 2023

The submission was filed by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association ( SFWA ), which represents over 2,500 published writers. The decision to publish creative work online to read and share for free […] is a trade-off of many factors including piracy, audience, and the simple (albeit elusive) ability to make a living.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 6, 2024

Any surviving services may need to be structured as marketing agencies that push all of the legal risk to the users and third-party vendors. He ultimately summarizes: “District court decisions within the Sixth Circuit have held that plaintiffs must show the defendant ‘intentionally and knowingly’ copied the copyrighted work.”

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 11, 2023

As an employee of Simon & Schuster, London-based Filippo Bernardini would’ve been expected to act in the interests of the publishing sector. Unfinished works leaking out to the public can wreak havoc on everyone involved, from authors and publishers to interested parties in film and other secondary markets.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 2, 2022

Granting broad access to manga titles, especially publications translated into English, was not a key priority for publishers until a few years ago. As a result, companies including Tokyo-based publisher Shueisha and US-based publisher VIZ Media now have a big piracy problem. Publishers Target Manga Piracy Giants.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Publishers around the world regularly engage in various actions aimed at preventing the unauthorized reproduction and distribution of academic publications and eBooks. However, there are those who have made cottage industries out of the sale of illegal copies at significantly lower prices. Man Handed Suspended Prison Sentence.

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Velocity of Content

APRIL 15, 2024

As a species in publishing, the university press is the long-lived progeny of hybridization – the academic paired with the popular. Interaction of Color from Yale University Press , a handbook for artists and art lovers by Yale Professor Joseph Albers, has sold more than a quarter of a million copies since it first appeared sixty years ago.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 29, 2022

When movies are recorded directly from cinema screens, the resulting pirate copy is known as a ‘cam’, regardless of the device used – camcorder or otherwise. Our report published late November provides more detail and last week an FDA/FCPA newsletter dated December 20 ( pdf ) confirmed events as reported.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 21, 2023

Piracy release group EVO was long considered one of Hollywood’s main targets, publishing thousands of movie and TV show titles including several high-profile releases. The piracy group repeatedly opened “screener season” by releasing leaked copies of upcoming films.

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IPilogue

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Vogue’s publishers have sued rappers Drake and 21 Savage for unauthorized use of Vogue’s trademarks and false representations in marketing their newest album, “Her Loss”. Photo Credits: Condé Nast ) (Alt text: Screen capture of Drake’s now-deleted Instagram post containing multiple copies of the impugned magazine cover).

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 15, 2022

Some publishers no longer allow their content to be bought in Russia at all so when new games are released – especially good ones like Spider-Man Remastered – there are hurdles to overcome. Many Steam users buy keys from third-party platforms for various reasons, including to obtain cheaper prices reserved for other markets.

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