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. . A journalist who does this is not a journalist, but another marketer for the company, and they aren’t disclosing it.

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TraskBritt Intellectual Property

APRIL 10, 2021

When developing Android, Google had copied the text and format of function calls from Oracle’s Java SE Application Programming Interface (API). LEXIS 1864 (2021), the Supreme Court held that Google’s copying was permissible fair use. In Google LLC v. 18-956, 2021 U.S. Software and IP.

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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. Hard to say on the evidence thus far but Riot was clearly concerned about something.

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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

MARCH 18, 2024

Patrons can also borrow books that are scanned and digitized in-house, with technical restrictions that prevent copying. Staying true to the centuries-old library concept, only one patron at a time can rent a digital copy of a physical book. A Napster Moment?

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IP and Legal Filings

JULY 28, 2022

Every financial year, project accounts must be audited, and a copy must be provided to MahaRERA. [9]. The promoter’s marketing or prospectus must prominently display the MahaRERA website URL, where all details of the registered project as well as the registration number acquired from the Authority have been recorded.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

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. The exhaustion doctrine was conceived with physically sold hardcopies in mind. Some commentators have remarked (e.g.,

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

The idea was to take market share away from piracy sites, by offering a legal and more convenient streaming platform. In recent years piracy started to grow again , including in well-served markets such as the United States. ” (Un)authorized Copying? Initially, this seemed to work.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 17, 2022

In some cases, it refers to little more than advanced algorithms, but complex self-learning computer systems with human-like traits are actively being developed as well. The algorithm masters your track with the same RMS, FR, peak amplitude and stereo width as the reference song you choose,” Songmastr explains.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 7, 2024

He assembled various collages of the images and sent copies by postal mail to Doe and “his ex-wife, his adult child, several of his neighbors, and his place of business.” Spencer appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. Spencer, the husband, came into possession of these materials via unspecified means.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 5, 2024

Pressure Increases on Players in the Illicit Market In common with its counterparts in Europe, Sweden had already been paying more attention to those involved in the supply and sale of pirate IPTV subscriptions. The extensive evidence was noted once again and reference was made to the SEK 2,000,000 the man received in 2020.

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43(B)log

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Simpson’s structural connectors are specified on most construction drawings in the US; its market share is over 75%. All Simpson’s connectors, catalogs, marketing literature, and retail display materials, are clearly labeled with the “Simpson Strong-Tie” name.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

It is that functionality, and not the copying, to which Apple truly objects. To this point, Apple responds that it would rather control the market for security research on its products. Importantly, there is no Apple code in CORSEC itself, and there is also no infringement when someone downloads a copy of iOS from Apple’s site.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 9, 2022

A recap of emoji law developments in 2021: Court References. I maintain a dataset of US court opinions that reference emojis and emoticons. Most case references are merely that–the court simply notes the presence of a symbol as part of reciting evidence in the case. Footnote: courts sometimes clearly mislabel the symbol.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 7, 2024

Several of these services have been listed in the USTR’s overview of notorious piracy markets. After uploading a copy of TPB-AFK to the system, near-instantly it found over 2,000 matches across the dozen platforms. Whether it missed any links is unknown, of course.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 29, 2021

The European Commission’s Directorate-General for Taxation and Customs Union ( DG TAXUD ) and the European Union Intellectual Property Office ( EUIPO ) recently released the first joint annual report on EU enforcement of intellectual property rights: results at the EU border and in the EU internal market 2020. billion in 2019.

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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

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

However, the focus of the conversation was on certain devices, referred to in the interview as “ISDs, Firesticks and Android apps” and their various abilities to facilitate piracy. It has the ability to record movies in cinemas, store copies for retrieval, and then distribute them on the internet.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

However, there are those who have made cottage industries out of the sale of illegal copies at significantly lower prices. One such individual, a 28-year-old man from Denmark, was spotted by Rights Alliance selling copies of textbooks via DBA, Denmark’s most popular online marketplace. This had little effect.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

‘Library Genesis,’ or ‘Libgen’ for short, is a group of pirate websites through which a vast array of written material is illegally copied and distributed online without any authorization, and with no remuneration to copyright holders.” “[T]he Sites undermine the very purpose of U.S.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 30, 2023

Nursing CE Central” is a descriptive mark with “a weak secondary meaning… the plaintiff makes no meaningful showing that the public, or even those in the market in which it competes, readily recognizes its name.” ” Marketing channel. ” Relatedness of goods. The litigants directly compete. Mark similarity.

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Patently-O

AUGUST 23, 2021

Importantly, the Federal Circuit suggests that the obviousness inquiry should begin with a primary reference whose whose “design characteristics … are basically the same as the claimed design” and that creates “basically the same visual impression.” ” Design Patent Obviousness: How to Pick a Primary Reference. In Graham v.

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The IPKat

OCTOBER 15, 2023

The Swedish Patents and Market Court (first instance) held that the shape of the dining table was the result of the author’s own intellectual creation and therefore sufficiently original. The claim to copyright infringement prevailed and that court prohibited the Respondent from further manufacturing, marketing, and selling its dining table.

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Velocity of Content

OCTOBER 19, 2023

And one quirk: while we refer to the law as the 1976 Act, its effective date is actually January 1, 1978 (the same date that CCC opened its doors, not coincidentally). By establishing a marketable right to the use of one’s expression, copyright supplies the economic incentive to create and disseminate ideas.”

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IPilogue

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Take-Two created the WWE 2k video game series, which use “photo reference” to realistically reproduce the featured wrestlers from a photograph. The court opined that the dispute to copying does not arise as the defendants had admitted to copying the tattoo. Take-Two licensed Randy Orton’s likeness from WWE.

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Velocity of Content

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Cross-functional groups within an organization — including research and development (R&D), clinical research, competitive intelligence, regulatory, marketing, and medical affairs — must work together and with external partners to advance drug compounds from discovery to approval for use in patients to physician education and promotion. .”

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

ID Tech believed that Bayam copies too much of its copyrighted website content and pursued a whirlwind of enforcement activity, including filing two lawsuits against Bayam and sending numerous DMCA takedown demands to Shopify. ID Tech appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. Both use Shopify as a service provider.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The Court referred to a 2012 decision of the Spanish Supreme Court in the Google case ( Sentencia no. The Court referred to a 2012 decision of the Spanish Supreme Court in the Google case ( Sentencia no.

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The IPKat

JULY 6, 2023

The Court referred to the principles set out in General Tire v Firestone Tyre regarding the assessment of “negotiating damages”, namely damages reflecting the sum that would have been agreed between a willing licensor and a willing licensee.

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Olartemoure Blog

MARCH 16, 2021

Ask your attorney to include your email address as a reference for authorities, so you receive the same alerts your attorney gets. Some may say you are telling counterfeiters how to better copy your brand, but the truth is most Colombian consumers don’t want to be caught by friends using counterfeits.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 8, 2023

Adjusted for inflation, imported Japanese N64s changed hands for the equivalent of $1,400 in today’s money; a copy of Super Mario 64? Imported into the gray market in Europe, US cartridges were cheaper than their Japanese counterparts. An emulator reference, presumably. A snip at $165.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 3, 2024

These were used as part of a marketing campaign by Tesco to indicate to customers which products were subject to discounted prices for Clubcard holders. On infringement, the judge found that the similarities were sufficiently close to be more likely a result of copying than coincidence and so it was for Tesco to explain those similarities.

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Patently-O

AUGUST 17, 2021

The focus of the appeal is whether the purported “Burns” reference should count as prior art. Valve submitted a printout of Burns and argues that it was a printed copy of an online review of a Scuf controller from 2010. Isenburg also argued that the document had not been shown to be a prior printed publication.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 11, 2022

In response, Newman, the community moderator, copied all of the community’s posts and uploaded them to Dreamwidth–an action we used to call “mirroring” in the old days. “Newman did not create the original allegedly defamatory posts on LiveJournal…Newman copied the allegedly defamatory posts from LiveJournal to Dreamwidth verbatim.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

In common with almost every country with a movie and TV show market to protect, Spain regularly conducts operations to shut down or disrupt local pirate IPTV services. As a result, movies, TV shows, and live sporting events, were available at a rate much lower than the legitimate market price.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

The group offered hardware and software solutions that allowed people to install and play unofficial games and pirated copies on various consoles, including the popular Nintendo Switch. To achieve this, co-defendant Max Louarn put Bowser in charge of operating maxconsole.com, through which he helped to market and sell Team-Xecuter devices.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JANUARY 4, 2024

CJEU judgments Seven.One, CJEU, C-260/22 Coming from Germany, this preliminary reference concerned broadcasting organisations and their entitlement to fair compensation as a result of private copying. Finally, the CJEU has received its first preliminary references on the CDSM Directive. You can read the previous round-ups here.

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