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In 2014, Ed Sheeran and Amy Wadge wrote the song “Thinking Out Loud,” which became a global hit. Structured Asset Sales, LLC (SAS), which owns a portion of the royalties for Marvin Gaye’s 1973 song “Let’s Get It On,” alleged that Sheeran’s s…

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A group of major record labels sued Grande Communications Networks, LLC, an internet service provider, for contributory copyright infringement. The plaintiffs alleged that Grande knowingly provided internet services to subscribers who used t…

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In 2020, Mix Creative Learning Center, an art studio offering children’s art lessons, began selling online art kits during the pandemic. These kits included reproductions of artworks from Michel Keck’s Dog Art series. Keck sued Mix Creative …

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The case involves Internet Archive (IA), a nonprofit organization that creates digital copies of print books and makes them available online for free through its “Free Digital Library.” IA maintains a one-to-one owned-to-loaned ratio, meanin…

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A physician in Puerto Rico, Dr. Jaime Salas Rushford, had his board certification suspended by the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) after ABIM concluded that he had improperly shared board exam questions with his test prep instruct…