Plagiarism Today

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Gervais took the dispute in stride, saying that it was most likely someone on Corden’s writing team that “’came up with it’ for him” and that it was unlikely he would knowingly copy such a famous routine. . I doubt he would knowingly just copy such a famous stand up routine word for word like that. Bottom Line.

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Plagiarism Today

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

They further claimed that the Disney songwriters, Richard and Robert Sherman, gained access to their version of the song either from a club where Parker used to perform at , including their version of the song, or via a copy they sent to Disney. In 2022, we seem to be in a time when litigation over music is ever-present.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 18, 2025

This represents a social cost in terms of additional labour from community volunteers, as well as missing use from the absence of preserved copies of games available for research, innovation and other productive uses. The researchers report that encryption of game data was most common, present on 370 devices (10%) of the arcade sample.

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Plagiarism Today

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

However, shortly after publication, another journalist, Josh Bavas, took to Twitter to ask why the article copied four paragraphs from a piece that he wrote two years prior. As others have noted, less popular and less connected journalists would likely have been fired or at least reprimanded already, based on the evidence presented.

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The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 28, 2024

German Court finds LAION’s copying of images non-infringing by Mirko Brüß In what appears to be a first in Europe, the District Court of Hamburg has delivered a long-awaited ruling in a case brought by German photographer Robert Kneschke against LAION gemeinnütziger e.V., Without further ado, then, here’s what Mirko has to say!

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Plagiarism Today

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Publications are certainly free to copy the releases wholesale, and some do, but the more typical misuse is copying and pasting text from the press release and mixing it with original content, all the while not acknowledging the source. Image from James Stephanie Sterling’s video. Inevitably, some are going to take shortcuts.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

In the lawsuit, Pearson alleges that Chegg, through the use of thousands of freelancers, provides answers to questions found in textbooks it publishes and, in doing so, often copies the question verbatim or with slight paraphrasing. Not Covered by Copyright: This is a likely argument where just the answers are presented.

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Thomson Reuters argued that Legal Ease’s questions, incorporated by Ross in machine-readable form, essentially copied its creative headnotes. The copying was purely instrumental, aimed at training an AI system to recognize and retrieve relevant legal information efficiently.

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Plagiarism Today

MAY 9, 2022

I put it on the back burner, but eventually sought out a cached copy of the article to read, even if I couldn’t write about it or link to it. Looking at the comparisons, it’s pretty obvious that she copied my words and then rewrote them to fit her style and message. Here’s Why.” However, when I clicked it, I went to an error page.

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Plagiarism Today

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

They are a way to sell “unique” copies of digital works but do not transfer any rights. John Lewis, however, denies any copying and claims to have provided time-stamped evidence that their campaign was first presented to them in early 2016, before her book was published. 3: $31m piracy penalty for ChitramTV.

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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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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

According to the lawsuit, A&E presented the program Live PD between 2016 and 2020. Furthermore, they allege that Reelz has copied many elements from Live PD including the show’s format, the show’s hosts and the same catchphrase to name a few. The lawsuit was filed by songwriters L.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 7, 2021

The Letter: Doorland accuses Larson of copying her donor letter and including significant portions of it, in particular in early versions of the story. She took the words that someone else had written, copied them and used them in her story while presenting them as her work. That is, in a word, unacceptable.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 31, 2025

Musi did not present any compelling public interest arguments that outweigh the interests of copyright holders. “Musi has not presented any compelling public interest to counterbalance the potential violation of third-party intellectual property right,” Judge Lee writes. — A copy of Judge Eumi K.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 30, 2024

In response to the USTR’s most recent request, the MPA and others presented site blocking as a solution. The tech companies presented a list of concerns and caveats, but none of those convinced the court to see things differently. These measures are beneficial to many American companies, they argue.

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SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

The Defendant was alleged to have copied both in name and in design a well known trimmer. The Defendant was also alleged to have identically copied and sold several features of the Plaintiff’s product, shapes, label, trade dress, design, packaging and other descriptive features including copyright. Koninklijke Philips N.V

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 20, 2025

The petitioner challenged the hearing notice and recommendations from the Opposition Board, constituted by the Patent Office, which were allegedly issued without giving the petitioner an opportunity to present evidence, and in light of this, the petitioner challenged the validity of these actions.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 25, 2025

Meta doesn’t dispute that it uploaded data via BitTorrent but notes that there is no evidence that any data shared with others amounted to full copies of the authors’ books. It is not difficult to see how the plaintiffs could use this same data point to argue that Meta helped other people to download pirated copies of their works.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 19, 2024

Cloudflare did not appear in court or present a defense against the allegations, but that didn’t stop the court from taking the matter forward. — A copy of the Court of Rome’s order against Cloudflare is available here (pdf) From: TF , for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

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The IPKat

MARCH 22, 2023

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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.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 9, 2021

After some digging, KokomRoilly found multiple lengthy passages of verbatim copying and posted highlighted passages on their Twitter account. There have been many cases where a story published in one fandom was copied and converted into a very similar story in a different one. I'm what you'd call a voracious reader.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

Bungie Wins Landmark Trial After years of legal back-and-forth, the case went to trial in May, where both sides presented their arguments. The presented evidence supports that, he concludes. Bungie could show that Defendants copied protected aspects of Destiny 2 with either direct or circumstantial evidence of copying.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

This present lawsuit is based on alleged BitTorrent downloads. — A copy of the petition for a rehearing en banc, which was submitted at the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals last week, is available here (pdf). It’s not immediately clear whether these were only torrents for individual songs.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 24, 2024

The court has yet to rule on the motion for early discovery, but the details released so far suggest that this case may present some intriguing twists and turns as it progresses toward trial. — A copy of nHentai’s motion for a protective order, citing the emails mentioned in this article ,is available here (pdf).

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TorrentFreak

JULY 24, 2024

He claims that the government failed to prove that he downloaded a copy, much less distributed it to the public. The 17-page motion leaves no stone unturned in its efforts to present both offending and evidence in completely new light. .

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TorrentFreak

JULY 5, 2022

In the case against Bright House, which Charter now owns, several major music industry companies, including Artista Records, Sony Music Entertainment, Universal Music, and Warner Records, presented similar arguments to the court in 2019. After three years the case is about to go to trial. Two Summary Judgment Requests.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 9, 2021

At the end of the year, movie industry insiders traditionally receive their screener copies, which they use to vote on the Oscars and other awards. Below is a screenshot that’s posted with pirated copies of the film. That is no longer the case. Physical Screener Ban. “Drive My Car” Leaks Online. Drive.My.Car.2021.SUBBED.1080p.WEBSCREENER.x264.AAC-OSCAR.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 30, 2022

Handling citation after one has finished writing a piece opens the door to serious mistakes, including passages that were copied but not quoted, missing citations and forgotten sources. Others are experimenting with new types of assessment, such multimedia projects and presentations. However, that is not the case.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 4, 2025

Ideally, they would like the UK Government to present specific conduct requirements to address piracy challenges. — A copy of the BBC, Premier League, and Sky letter published by the CMA, is available here (pdf) From: TF , for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more. ” BBC, Premier League, and Sky conclude.

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Velocity of Content

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Training involves copying and storing copyrighted material, typically in very large quantities. Inputs: Uploading copyrighted content into AI systems to perform specific tasks such as summarization, analysis, or translation also involves the production and use of copies.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 15, 2023

On the flip side, it also presents several threats. Tthese copyright concerns will be discussed next month at a meeting of WIPO’s Advisory Committee on Enforcement, where several stakeholders will present their thoughts. At the same time, it also presents new challenges.

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IPilogue

OCTOBER 4, 2024

His current project, which he recently presented at the IP Scholars Africa conference at the University of Cape Town, highlights how copyright enables the proactive exploitation of digital workers’ contributions as inputs to AI training or, in some cases, AI-assisted outputs.

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Copyright Lately

OCTOBER 6, 2024

A new lawsuit over Broadway’s Stereophonic tests copyright’s limits, as Fleetwood Mac’s former sound engineer claims the hit play copies his real-life story about working on the Rumours album. The problem for the plaintiffs, however, is that Making Rumours presents those scenes and dialogue as events that actually happened.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 25, 2022

The email contains a copy of a blog post published by Boing Boing. Copying isn’t the issue here; it’s the topic of the article that’s important. The problem lies with the labels’ claim that presenting them to the jury today would be problematic. The Boing Boing Article. “Pro-Piracy Website? .

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 1, 2024

BitTorrent requires at least one person to share a full file copy, which is hard to keep up for decades. The screenshot above only lists one seeder but according to information passed on by OpenTrackr.org, there are four seeders with a full copy. A few days ago the site’s longest surviving torrent turned 20 years old.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

The 81-page petition presents a wide array of arguments. Ultimately, two key questions are presented. “Cox assigns the IP addresses that are used by its subscribers to share pirated copies of Fall online. Key Questions The appeal touches on various DMCA nuances and how these have been interpreted by courts.

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