Plagiarism Today

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

First off today, Blake Brittain at Reuters reports that country music singer Dwight Yoakam has reached a settlement with Warner Music Group (WMG) that puts an end to their copyright termination battle. However, no details about the terms of the settlement have been released. Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday.

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Plagiarism Today

APRIL 7, 2022

That question is whether the descriptions were “published” or “unpublished” according to the law when they were put on FDN’s website. However, applying terms like “published” and “unpublished” to a website is complicated. That seems to be a pretty clear indication that these pages were not published, as no distribution was intended.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

However, Voltage has now moved to dismiss those lawsuits, citing a settlement that has been reached. The terms of that settlement are not known, but, in a similar lawsuit, ISP Cox Communications as ordered to pay major studios $1 billion in jury verdict over similar allegations.

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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. A Successful Career Defined by Plagiarism. According to Machine, Hirst’s painting were so similar to his that he thought he was looking at his own work.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Yesterday, news broke that Pearson Education, the largest publisher of textbooks in the world, has filed a lawsuit against the website Chegg alleging widespread copyright infringement of its content on the site. This may be especially an issue in cases where the question wasn’t copied, and the answer is just a number or short phrase.

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Plagiarism Today

JUNE 22, 2022

The latter had claimed that Shape of You as an infringement of a 2015 song they wrote, but the court ruled, after an 11-day trial, that no infringement took place and that Sheeran “neither deliberately nor subconsciously” copied anything from the song. The post 3 Count: Shape of Legal Costs appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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MARCH 28, 2022

The lawsuit, which was filed by Greensleeves Publishing, claims that Privacy is an infringement of the 1997 song Tight Up Skirt by Red Rat. That said, they did state that the two sides had met for at least one settlement discussion though, clearly, no settlement came out of it at this time.

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