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McNees Wallace & Nurick LLC

What to do if you receive a copyright demand letter

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Receiving a letter or email claiming that you owe thousands of dollars for using an image on your website, blog, or social media page can be alarming. These letters, often called copyright demand letters or copyright...more

Vondran Legal

Did You Receive a Demand Letter From Copytrack.com, What You Need to Know?

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A new IP rights enforcement company has popped up on the Vondran Legalr IP infringement radar. Here is what I learned....more

Mandelbaum Barrett PC

Avoid the Troll – How to Protect You and Your Business From Inadvertent Copyright Problems

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Copyright infringement filings continue to grow with 2023 seeing a 25% increase in cases according to year end federal court statistics. This surge is driven in large part by copyright assertion entities, or “copyright...more

Levenfeld Pearlstein, LLC

A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words (and Potentially Thousands of Dollars in Statutory Damages)

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In the time it took you to read this far, a new website was built (per Siteefy, a new site goes live every three seconds). More than 70% of all businesses have a website, and there are more than 600 million blogs on the...more

Jaburg Wilk

Ninth Circuit Ruling Reminds Copyright Owners That Failing to Allege Enough Facts Could Cost Them!

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In recent years, federal courts across the U.S. have seen a fair share of copyright infringement lawsuits involving peer-to-peer networks such as BitTorrent. In these cases, the plaintiffs are typically feature film or adult...more

Weintraub Tobin

Call It What You Want. Just Don’t Call It Copyright Infringement.

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A demand letter is a formal way of telling someone, “now we got bad blood.” Recently, a Northern California blogger received a demand letter in which Taylor Swift threatened to sue the blogger. In so many words, the blogger...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

Court Finds Copyright DJ Action against Music Rights Holder Slightly Out of Tune

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Does a demand letter from a music rights holder that alleges “millions of instances of infringement” create a case in controversy with the recipient? You may be inclined to answer with an emphatic “of course!”...more

Smart & Biggar

Online Copyright Enforcement Gone Wrong – How To Get it Right

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An elderly grandmother. A first-person shooter video game. The two typically have very little in common. Yet both were recently in the headlines of the national news. The story involved an email sent pursuant to Canada’s...more

Winthrop & Weinstine, P.A.

Battles Over Demand Letters: Lessons From 'The F Word'

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When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. When a big corporation sends you a cease-and-desist letter, make … ale? This is what Jeff Britton, owner of Exit 6 Pub and Brewery in Cottleville, Mo., chose to do after he...more

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