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. Is it permissible to download and keep copies of movies and TV shows if you’ve paid for a legal subscription? Subscriber Agreements.

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LexBlog IP

OCTOBER 28, 2021

A recent California District Court ruling affirmed that Perfect 10’s ruling applied to the embedding of images from social media onto third party websites. the user name and image, user caption, number of likes, and branding of the social media platform). What is Embedding?

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JIPEL Copyright Blog

APRIL 26, 2021

“Girl you are not going to enjoy your time here,” read a particularly prophetic comment on Danielle Bernstein’s very first Tik Tok video, published in late February. However, an equally long list of controversies accompanies this list of accomplishments, the majority of which involve alleged copying.

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Plagiarism Today

MAY 23, 2022

Instead, it was published in 2021 on Douyin, the Chinese equivalent of TikTok, by a prominent video blogger that uses the name Beida Mange. Mange, who has nearly 4 million followers, pointed out the copying in a video comparing the two works. Audi has also removed the video. They compare like works to other works of that type.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 11, 2024

TikTok Pirates For example, when a viral clip from a TV series is making the rounds on social media platforms, one could argue that this serves as free advertising. This conclusion is quite intuitive in a social media world where ‘influencers’ are widely used to promote content.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 1, 2023

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 21, 2021

They allege that American Skin copies elements from their 2017 screenplay, A Routine Stop. 2: Kairosoft, the Beloved Mobile Tycoon Game Developer, Openly Accuses its Chinese Publisher of Copyright Infringement and Contract Violation. 3: Facebook Signs Copyright Agreement with Some French Publishers.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 16, 2024

The site’s operators took more than a year to scrape several terabytes of data and published roughly 700 million unique records online, for free. This ‘metadata’ heist was a massive breakthrough in the quest to archive as much published content as possible online. Matienzo’s alleged ties to Anna’s Archive, or that Ms.

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Copyright Lately

MARCH 31, 2024

Video game publisher Atari Interactive has launched a copyright infringement lawsuit against State Farm, claiming that the insurer improperly appropriated artwork from Atari’s 1983 arcade game “Crystal Castles” for an advertising campaign as part of a “cynical plot” to resonate with fickle millennial and Gen Z consumers.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 31, 2022

While movie and music piracy tends to generate the most headlines, the publishing industry is facing similar issues. Publishers and authors are not happy with the site and are actively trying to limit its exposure. This growth is facilitated by users who openly advertise the site on social media, TikTok included.

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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

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. For example, we have seen hosting companies, advertisers, and social media platforms being added.

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Plagiarism Today

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

This month, Newton is at it again and recently published an updated article that looks at the latest quarterly Widely Viewed Content Report. The researchers that prepared the documents further noted that the easiest way to build a successful page on Facebook was to simply copy content that was successful elsewhere. Bottom Line.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 28, 2023

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 15, 2023

Many of the large social media platforms stick to these rules, but according to a lawsuit filed this week by several prominent music companies, Twitter is not among them. This activity generates many millions of views which are monetized by the social media platform, while rightsholders are not compensated.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 5, 2022

Following the example of the United States, the EU started publishing its very own piracy watchlist a few years ago. The third iteration of the EU watchlist will be published towards the end of the year and several interested parties have already submitted their nominations. IFPI Flags Top Piracy Problems. This also applies to Twitter.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

On 21 st October 2021, Facebook announced that it has reached an agreement with APIG , an association of French press publishers, committing itself to the payment of licensing fees pursuant to the press publishers’ right introduced by the 2019 Copyright Directive. Social media (aka Facebook) were not a part of the conversation.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 2, 2022

She tattooed the Sedlik photo onto Farmer and promoted the tattoo on social media. It’s a creative photo, but it was published. “Von D presumably did not need to copy the pose from the Portrait in order express a sentiment of melancholy.” She now does her tattoo artistry pro bono. Nature of the Work.

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IPilogue

AUGUST 26, 2022

The suit was filed in California Northern District Court by Swedish music label and publishing company, Epidemic Sound. They claimed that Meta, on its social media platforms, has stolen hundreds of their content. On July 20 th , 2022, Meta Platforms Inc. Meta”) was hit with a $142 million lawsuit. Who is Epidemic Sound?

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

This activity generates many millions of views which are monetized by the social media platform, while rightsholders receive no compensation for the use of their works. A few weeks ago, the social media platform filed a motion to dismiss , refuting all piracy allegations.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2021

The application of this principle to this case is easy: the elements that Defendants allegedly copied from Coscarelli’s cookbooks are primarily lists of ingredients and directions for combining them. There’s a whole lot of tail-waggin’ and lip-smackin’ when my pups smell these all-natural treats baking. ” Really?

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The IP Law Blog

AUGUST 4, 2022

Embedding” means the process of copying unique HTML code assigned to the location of a digital copy of the photo or video published to the Internet, and the insertion of that code into a target webpage or social media post so that photo or video is linked for display within the target post. Amazon.com, Inc.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

When publishers clashed with The Pirate Bay over illegally shared copies, we envisioned that things could get much worse if Kindle-ready pirate sites began to pop up. The frustrations of publishers and authors is understandable. However, if billion-dollar publishing companies and the U.S.

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IP Tech Blog

MAY 15, 2023

A track called “ Heart on My Sleeve ” went viral recently on social media with lead vocals sounding eerily similar to a certain crooner known for his lovelorn lyrics. This is like a watermark that a producer can place in their song to detect copying. Rather, the vocals were generated using artificial intelligence tools.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 18, 2023

In January 2016, Time published an article titled ‘These Photographers Are Covering the Presidential Campaign on Instagram.’ In June 2020, during the Black Lives Matter protests, BuzzFeed News published an article titled “17 Powerful Pictures Of The Protests Through The Eyes of Black Photographers.”

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The IP Law Blog

AUGUST 3, 2023

Embedding is the process of copying a unique HTML code assigned to the location of a digital copy of a photo or video published to the Internet, and the insertion of that code into a target webpage or social media post which enables that photo or video to be displayed within the target post. Amazon.com, Inc. ,

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Outside of published authors and journalists, it was an activity mostly limited to academia. 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. This is especially true for copy and paste plagiarism. Google launched in 1998.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 16, 2023

According to reports , the developers allegedly stole assets from their former employer, game publisher Nexon , which is allegedly working on a similar project too. In the hours that followed, tens of thousands of fans used the torrent link to download a copy of the playtest release.

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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 19, 2024

As reported yesterday , the decision was cited in the ongoing legal battle between book publishers and the Internet Archive. Of course, the same was true of the VCR — as it is of word processors, hard drives, social media feeds, internet connections, and so forth. “Defendants’ generative AI models are nothing like VCRs.

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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. law, online service providers must respond to takedown notices and implement a meaningful policy to terminate the accounts of repeat infringers.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

New figures published by CharlieIntel predict that free-to-play, action role-playing game Genshin Impact, will have 63 million players in November alone. Copies of the notices sent in support of the DMCA subpoena application are similarly redacted.

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Michael Geist

JUNE 2, 2023

The Globe and Mail told the Senate this week it could result in millions in lost revenues, while others advised that somewhere between 17-30% of their traffic comes from social media such as Facebook. Indeed, if Facebook copied full text articles and ran ads against them, one could understand the claim for compensation.

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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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43(B)log

MARCH 1, 2022

Anyway, Bell goes around suing unauthorized users of the passage, mostly public schools or nonprofits that publish the passage on social media. Nature of the work: Somewhat creative, but very published. If that were all, copying the WIN Passage would be qualitatively significant. NXIVM Corp. Ross Institute, 364 F.3d

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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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Copyright Lately

MARCH 6, 2022

Larball Publishing Co. After Bosé’s record company apparently admitted that certain parts of the two songs were “identical,” the copyright in “Don Diablo” was assigned to Larball Publishing Company and Sandy Linzer Productions, the plaintiffs in the new lawsuit against Dua Lipa. Dua Lipa et al.

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