Copyright infringement

Illegal usage of copyrighted works

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2024
Filly
Continued expansion of Filly Butterfly toy line to additional countries.
2024 Ownership of Dailymotion transferred from Vivendi to Canal+, signaling a strategic shift in the company's corporate structure.
September 2024 Dailymotion announced a new inactive content policy where content without activity in the last 13 months may be archived and potentially permanently removed.
July 2024 Hard Discount Philippines Inc. (HDPI) reported cumulative losses of over 3 billion pesos in three years, with a loss of approximately 1.5 billion pesos in 2023, a 110% increase from the previous year.
July 2024 IPOPHL ordered Dali to remove three products from their shelves that closely resembled NutriAsia's brands, specifically the 'Kulina' and 'Rajah Puro' condiments which intentionally mimicked UFC and Datu Puti.
June 2024 NutriAsia initiated legal action against Hard Discount Philippines Inc. (Dali's local operator) for trademark infringement, unfair competition, and copyright infringement through the Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines (IPOPHL).
May 29 2024 DTI issued a show cause order to Dali, addressing 13 complaint instances and indicating they would seek DILG assistance to investigate sanitary issues at Dali locations.
May 16 2024 Consumer advocacy group Malayang Konsyumer filed a complaint with the Fair Trade and Enforcement Bureau of the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) regarding Dali's alleged unfair business practices, including inaccurate pricing, weighing of chicken, and incorrect invoice items.
April 2024 Dali increased its number of stores to 630, all located in Luzon, with plans to reach 950 stores by the end of the year.
January 2024 Singapore-based equity firm Venturi Partners invested in Dali.
January 2024 DEG, the investment arm of the German state-owned development bank KfW, invested in Dali.
2023
Filly
Filly Butterfly toy line is revamped and becomes available in Ukraine, Serbia, Slovenia, and other countries.
2023 Malaysian-based private equity firm Creador invested in Dali's expansion.
June 26 2023
Content ID
Jose Teran was sentenced to 70 months in prison by Judge Douglas L. Rayes for one of the largest music-royalty frauds using YouTube's Content ID system.
March 2023 The Asian Development Bank (ADB) invested in Dali to support the retail chain's expansion.
2022
Filly
Dracco transfers the Filly magazine license to Egmont Ehapa Media, which launches a new magazine primarily focused on Filly Butterfly and including TV series excerpts.
2022
ZX Spectrum clones
Mario Pratto developed the Centoventotto, an unofficial ZX Spectrum clone using PLD (Programmable Logic Device) technology.
2022
Plagiarism from Wikipedia
The Government of the United Kingdom was found to have plagiarized content in its 'Levelling Up' white paper from Wikipedia.
2022 VidAngel relaunched under new ownership, continuing its streaming service with content filtering capabilities.
2022 VidAngel relaunched with a new ad campaign developed by Harmon Brothers. Under CEO Bill Aho's leadership, the company's subscriber base doubled within the first year
August 2022 Philippine-based private equity firm Navegar made an undisclosed investment into Dali, supporting the company's growth.
June 1 2022 Dailymotion removed the picture-in-picture view mode which previously allowed browsing the site while playing a video in the lower-right corner of the screen.
2021 U.S. Chamber of Commerce published the IP Index, ranking countries based on their copyright protection scores, with Vietnam, Pakistan, Egypt, Nigeria, Brunei, Algeria, Venezuela, and Argentina receiving the lowest scores.
2021
Content ID
YouTube recorded nearly 1.5 billion Content ID claims, with 759.5 million claims in the second half of the year, including 4,840 claims by copyright owners.
2021 VidAngel was split into two separate companies: VidAngel Entertainment (filtering business) and Angel Studios (crowdfunded content platform). Bill Aho, former CEO of ClearPlay, became the new CEO of VidAngel
December 2021
Filly
German Filly Magazine publication ends after Blue Ocean Entertainment loses the Filly license.
November 6 2021
Content ID
Jose Teran and Webster Batista were charged by a federal grand jury for creating a fake music publishing company and fraudulently claiming 50,000 songs using YouTube's Content ID system.
2020
Filly
Toys and merchandise based on Filly TV series begin appearing in China.
2020
ZX Spectrum clones
Jan Kučera (a.k.a. LMN128) developed the eLeMeNt ZX, a unique ZX Spectrum clone with 100% hardware and display timings aligned with digital video and sound output, including HDMI support.
2020
ZX Spectrum clones
A 1 MB version of the ZXDOS was released, which is compatible with the SpecNext core, continuing the ZX-Uno project development.
2020
Plagiarism from Wikipedia
Elsevier retracted a book for extensively plagiarizing large passages from Wikipedia, highlighting a significant academic publishing ethics violation.
2020 VidAngel reached a settlement with the four studios, agreeing to pay $9.9 million and emerging from bankruptcy. The settlement prohibited VidAngel from streaming content from the four studios that sued it.
2020
IBM PC compatible
Apple introduced Apple silicon (ARM-based processors), once again diverging from the IBM PC compatible architecture and becoming an exception to the standard PC design.
December 25 2020
Filly
A second batch of season 1 was released in China and subsequently worldwide on Christmas Day.
September 2020 Dailymotion partnered with Mi Video, Xiaomi's global video app, to provide access to its content catalogues.
February 2020 Dali opened its first store in Santa Rosa, Laguna, marking the beginning of its retail expansion in the Philippines.
January 2020 European Commission releases a report highlighting copyright infringement in 13 countries, specifically noting Saudi Arabia's failure to stop piracy by BeoutQ and the resulting economic harm to EU businesses.
2019 A Los Angeles jury ordered VidAngel to pay over $62 million in damages to the studios involved in the lawsuit.
September 1 2019
ZX Spectrum clones
The IODO (Issue One Dot One) ZX Spectrum clone was created in Portugal by Consultório da Paula (now PSiTech), replicating the original 16 KB ZX Spectrum issue one.
April 2019
Content ID
WatchMojo released a video highlighting alleged Content ID abuse, estimating that rights holders had unlawfully claimed over $2 billion from 2014 to 2019.
March 2019 The New York Times reports that beIN Media Group suffered billions of dollars in losses due to the cancellation of its exclusive contract with the Asian Football Confederation (AFC).
March 11 2019
Filly
Animated TV series Filly Funtasia airs after years of development.
January 2019
Filly
Most international Filly magazines cease production, with last Russian issues sold in early 2019.
2018
Filly
Dracco deleted their Filly-related mobile apps and closed their app store account during the year.
2018
Filly
Dracco and Universal Music concluded their partnership for creating stories based on Filly toylines.
2018
Content ID
YouTube released 'Copyright Match' feature, initially available to channels with over 100,000 cumulative views, derived from the Content ID system.
2018
Content ID
Google has invested at least $100 million into the Content ID system, continuing to refine and expand its digital copyright management capabilities.
December 2018
Content ID
TheFatRat complained that Content ID gave preference to a scammer who claimed ownership of his content and stole his revenue.
September 2018
Content ID
A German university professor uploaded classical music performance videos and received copyright violations, with Deutsche Grammophon refusing to lift some claims despite expired copyrights.
August 7 2018
Disney v. VidAngel
U.S. District Court Judge David Nuffer dismissed VidAngel's lawsuit after the company reportedly decided to drop the case.

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