Trademark infringement

outside of the container. The containers that Inhale makes were registered with the US Copyright Office in April of 2011. Inhale discovered a competing company Starbuzz Tobacco of selling the identical container and filed a claim of copyright infringement. Starbuzz Tobacco was using a 3D camera and printer to copy Inhales container shape exactly, except for the descriptive skull-and-crossbones…

Plagiarism exists everywhere in this world and you can never escape it. It usually starts in a school with essays and homework and then travels to the real world of music, movies, and multimedia. Our students’ job is to understand the importance of plagiarism and why not to do it. This policy will talk about those things as well as what is plagiarism, the different types of it, how to avoid it, why it is considered wrong, when and why to cite information, and the consequences that follow after…

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Copyright infringement is an issue that has claimed attention in the struggle to maintain fair use of copyrighted works for over a decade. In North America alone, it was estimated that file sharing had grown by 44 percent, a percentage that was conjectured to shoot to 51 percent by 2019 . According to the magnitude of the problem, this paper seeks to explore the effects of the digital millennium copyright act of 1998. The article will discuss the five titles under digital millennium copyright…

Purpose At the end of my presentation, the audience will favor purchasing entertainment, as opposed to illegally downloading pirated material. Introduction Let’s be honest, we’ve all downloaded a form of pirated entertainment at least once in our lifetimes. It could’ve been your favorite pop album, or a 20 minute TV show you’re enjoying at the moment. But what we fail to realize is how it actively hurts the creators, and everyone involved. Illegally downloaded entertainment hurts many without…

Their misguided attempts at designing, manufacturing and marketing cheap juniors fashions have all been epic fails. From labor scandals to copyright infringement, this company seems to have the formula down for attracting the media. While multiple protests and even a documentary (“Made in L.A.”) have been inspired, the news seems to have missed the chain retailer’s target audience: teenagers.” - Just…

During the mid-summer months of 2016, everywhere you looked on the news, you would see the name “Taylor Swift” splashed across the headlines. This time, though, it was not because she broke up with another boyfriend or because of one of her charitable acts. This time, it was because she was complaining about a huge and illegal problem that is rarely talked about. She was speaking out against music piracy. Music piracy, or the illegal copying and redistribution of music without a composer or…

The Effects of Piracy (by Jake Brisk) Steal This Film spends a great deal of time covering some of the effects of piracy. The interviewees claim that file sharing and piracy promotes creativity, because intellectual property owners need to come up with new and creative ways to earn a profit from their work. Additionally, the interviewees say, piracy is promoting creativity in the general population as well. File sharing has created thousands of new singers, rappers, and DJs, because anyone can…

Throughout the history of popular music culture, common experiences among people of different cultures were shared by way of music, dating all the way back to the early 1920s from wax cylinders to vinyl records to cassette tapes. With rapid improvements in technology over the past three decades, the audio encoding format, the mp3, which would become one of the most innovative inventions of the 20th century, has led to many unforeseen problems and changes to the way popular nusic culture…

Warman v. Fournier case offers an interesting insight into summarizing and republishing works online in either a blog post or online reporting and the implications of copyright infringement. Fournier, who operates a website titled Freedom Dominion was a part of a controversy that involved three separate claims for infringement of copyrighted works. Fournier was relieved of these accusations due to lack of substantiality. The court states, “quantitatively, the production constitutes less than…