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Movie Companies Sue Lawyer in Dispute Over Piracy Settlement Cash

TorrentFreak

For companies whose movies are downloaded and shared illegally, solutions have been developed that allow them to monitor suspected pirates and track them back to their ISPs, before obtaining their identities and making a settlement offer to end the risk of a full-blown lawsuit.

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Enforcing Copyright Outside the Courtroom – The New Notice Regimes

Canadian Intellectual Property Blog

To mitigate these costs, this article will provide some tips on how to enforce copyright outside the courtroom. Enforcing Copyright The traditional pre-litigation enforcement tool is a demand letter. As such, consideration should be given to whether to register a copyright before the delivery of a demand letter.

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Understanding the CCB’s First Two Final Determinations (Guest Blog Post–Part 3 of 3)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

At an initial conference on January 23, 2023, the parties reached a settlement and asked to dismiss the claim. Other cases where Oppenheimer has been a litigant show that he has some licensing history, however minimal. Prutton claims that Oppenheimer was unreasonable in settlement negotiations. It seems like it did.

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U.S. Supreme Court Fixes Ninth Circuit’s Test for Mistakes in Copyright Registrations—Unicolors v. H&M (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

The one actually litigated in the case (these images come from the complaint) is here.) After the jury verdict, H&M asserted for the first time that Unicolors’ copyright registration was invalid, because it had improperly registered 31 different fabric designs together as works “included in a single unit of publication.”