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3 Count: Predator Conclusion

Plagiarism Today

1: Krafton Sues Garena, Apple, and Google over Free Fire Copyright Infringement. First off today, Aaron Orr at Pocket Gamer reports that the developer of the battle royale game PUBG has filed a lawsuit against competitor Garena after alleging that Garena’s mobile game Free Fire is a copyright infringement of PUBG.

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3 Count: Nirvana’s Inferno

Plagiarism Today

That prompted the lawsuit for copyright infringement. However, a judge has dismissed the lawsuit, arguing that one of the key issues in the case is whether Bundy holds the copyright in question. The lawsuit was filed by Jocelyn Susan Bundy, who claims that her grandfather created the design based on Dante’s Inferno.

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Increasing Your Employees’ Copyright Awareness

Velocity of Content

Simple content exchanges to help further a discussion and keep business moving may actually create or increase the risk of copyright infringement, leading to costly lawsuits or settlements and affecting brand reputation.

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How Fair Use Helps Bloggers Publish Their Research (Cross-Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

Bloggers play an increasingly important role in the research ecosystem, especially as investigative journalism has declined. Publishing these materials can create substantial legal risk for research-focused bloggers, including the risk of copyright infringement. Prayers for Ukraine.]. For example, in Righthaven LLC v.

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Are Courts Finally Getting Fed Up With Copyright Shakedowns?

Copyright Lately

Recent decisions suggest courts are losing patience with those who bring dubious copyright infringement claims as part of their business models. Back in May, I wrote about an overzealous copyright infringement lawsuit filed by Rachel Dolezal , the woman best known for mispresenting her racial background.

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3 Count: Granted Cert

Plagiarism Today

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. 3: Renowned Saint Luke’s Cardiologist Sues Epic Systems Over Copyright.

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Assessing the U.S. Copyright Small Claims Court After One Year

Kluwer Copyright Blog

We set out to assess these arguments in light of data on the CCB’s first year of operation, which is explored in more detail in our article here , forthcoming in the Journal of the Copyright Society of the USA, and the data used for this article available here. In some cases, however, there was no way to fix the complaint.