Posted on 09 May 2013. Tags: Copyright, Intellectual, property, Query
I run a website, on which betting ‘tipsters’ sell tips. The problem I have is that one of my tipsters is being accused of relaying another persons work. I am not sure of whether these allegations are true or false but the guy accusing him said he will be suing my company for IP theft.
I understand the concepts of IP Law and Copyright but am not sure if it applies to this situation. Just so you understand a little, the guy making the accusations has a program which uses data on horses form to rate them with the top rated being at the top and the worst at the bottom. He charges about £35 a month for this information.
He is claiming that up to 85% of my tipsters horses are the same as his ‘top rated’ horses. So is therefore threatening to sue, I was just wondering if there is any scope to what he is saying as to me its 1 horse in a race of say 7, there is always going to be people who tip the same horse?
He said its a breach of his Disclaimer from which part of it states:
ILLEGAL SHARING OF DATA
You must not share via any medium (Facebook, Twitter, Email, Website) ANY ratings data, best bets,
forum information or any data accessed as part of your FormBet Private Membership. FormBet also forbids individuals signing up as part of a ‘group’ to share subscription costs and any infringement of this will result in immediate termination of the user’s account, a return of any affiliate accrued funds and an Intellectual Property litigation order to reclaim up to £10000 in potential lost earnings will be issued against the subscriber and each of his associates.
Criminal Law – anti-piracy law punishes those who infringe copyright for financial gain – penalties for such infringement, such as pirating CDs, DVDs or computer programs, data include imprisonment and fines
The help of HM Customs and Revenue. The Revenue has the power to seize counterfeit goods that
violate your trade or service mark and bear your company name. If you think someone has been unlawfully importing pirated goods, find contact details for the HMRC at www.hmnrc.gov.uk
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Do we get to have the copyright if we make story in Wattpad?
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Posted on 17 January 2013. Tags: Copyright, Correct, Notice, Short, Shorten..
Here is our current copyright notice at the bottom of our site, please correct any issues or wording!!
(I have edited my companies name to “XXX” for personal reasons!
The copying, distribution or editing of any of the content of this website either in part or in whole is strictly prohibited and may result in copyright infringement. All of XXX’s affiliates including (but not limited to) W3 Web Solutions & NWR Enterprises’ trademarks, logos and copyrights are the property of their respective companies.
Please try and shorten it and cut unimportant parts
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Posted on 30 November 2012. Tags: Copyright, copyright infringement, free peer, illegal sites, Infringement, metamachine inc, music, music providers, Napster, napster name, Roxio, sam yagan, supreme court decision, who voted for george bush
Fanning incorporated Snocap two weeks after the Supreme Court forced Napster into bankruptcy in September 2002 for facilitating copyright infringement. (Roxio bought the Napster name, and Fanning is no longer affiliated with it.) The June Supreme Court decision holding companies liable for illegal file sharing by their users suddenly gave the recording industry more negotiating leverage with illegal file-sharing services. And with more listeners eager to find legal ways to download music, Snocap offers a viable alternative. Snocap’s challenge is to help music providers offer file swapping without the viruses prevalent on illegal sites, so customers would pay. Compared with online music stores, peer-to-peer services still attract the most users–by some accounts, 60 million people in the U.S. “That’s about the number who voted for George Bush!” said Sam Yagan, president of MetaMachine Inc., the company behind eDonkey, a free peer-to-peer site.
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Posted on 11 February 2011. Tags: Copyright, copyright law, form, law, personal use, pictures of tattoos, Police, use
Are the police and their affiliates violating copyright law by taking pictures of tattoos, holding them in digital form and displaying them to the public when they’re for personal use?
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