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Wagatha Christie producers plan to keep the name despite Rebekah Vardy’s copyright win
PRODUCERS of the Wagatha Christie play plan to keep the name despite Rebekah Vardy copyrighting the phrase.
The Sun revealed the wag announced legal ownership last week over the phrase ‘Wagatha Christie’ after applying for it in August.
Lucy May Barker as Rebekah Vardy and Laura Dos Santos as Coleen Rooney recreate the case between wags Rebekah Vardy and Coleen Rooney on the West End[/caption]
Rebekah Vardy has been embroiled in a legal war with Coleen Rooney since 2019[/caption]
But show chiefs are yet to hear from her legal team will pursue the show over their title.
Eleanor Lloyd, the show’s originator and producer, said: “We didn’t see it coming, but so far, after looking into it all in the last couple of days, I can see no reason why I can’t go on without changing the name of the show.”
Vardy’s trademark covers several commercial areas, like drinks and jewellery, but apparently not entertainment.
Lloyd added: “I had been a little worried, wondering if the whole story had dropped out of the headlines for good. But then, no, here it is back again.
“Another surprise from this extraordinary story. I think we will make some reference to it in the script.”
Pals said Becky – married to legendary Leicester City forward Jamie Vardy – wanted to “take back control” over the situation, which left her forced to pay 90 per cent of Coleen’s legal fees, which could be up to £1.5million.
A source said: “This trademark is Becky’s two fingers to Coleen and all the misery associated with ‘Wagatha Christie’.
“Becky is shrewd and knew people would try to cash in on the phrase.
Nexon is suing Dark and Darker developer Ironmace Games over “copyright infringement”
Dark and Darker developer Ironmace is now being sued by Nexon over “copyright infringement,” in the latest update of this bumpy journey.
This comes from Escape from Tarkov streamer and content creator Onepeg, who shared that the lawsuit had been filed by Nexon last Friday (April 14), alleging copyright infringement over Dark and Darker. To catch you up to speed quickly, Dark and Darker was pulled from Steam last month due to a cease and desist from Nexon, as it believes that Ironmace Games has been using stolen assets and code to developer Dark and Darker. This belief comes from the fact that Ironmace’s founder Terence Park, and another developer Ju-Hyun Choi previously worked at Nexon on an apparently similar fantasy game codenamed P3 between 2020-2021.
Nexon has accused Choi of stealing assets while working there, and that in turn Dark and Darker was developed with them. Now, thanks to Onepeg, it has become apparent that this has escalated to Nexon filing a lawsuit against Ironmace. According to the lawsuit, both Choi and Park would have signed a “one-year-non-compete clause,” with Nexon as part of their employee agreement, which “prevents employees from working in the same line of business that could potentially infringe on Nexon’s trade secrets, without Nexon’s prior consent.”
Nexon are suing Dark And Darker developers over copyright infringement
Publisher Nexon have filed a lawsuit against Ironmace Games, the developers behind the multiplayer looter Dark And Darker, accusing the studio and two individual developers of copyright infringement. The two Korean companies recently went public with their dispute, but now their beef has extended to the US legal system where Nexon is demanding a trial by jury.
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Internet Archive loses first ruling in copyright lawsuit
A federal judge ruled against the digital database Internet Archive in a copyright infringement lawsuit filed by four major publishers.
Hachette, HarperCollins, John Wiley & Sons, and Penguin Random House sued Internet Archive following the implementation of its National Emergency Library at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Prior to COVID, the Internet Archive lent e-books via a “controlled digital lending” system, or CDL: Libraries offer loans of digitized book copies on a one-to-one basis — that means that they circulate the exact number of copies they own. When the emergency library launched, Internet Archive removed all waitlists for books and lent out any amount of copies on a two-week basis.
On its blog, the archive’s director of open libraries Chris Freeland wrote that the emergency library was launched due to the sudden closures of libraries and schools. Publishers sued Internet Archive in June 2020, and soon after, the archive shut down the library.
This week, Judge John G. Koeltl of the U.S. District Court in Manhattan decided that Internet Archive produced “derivative” works that required permission from the copyright holders, the Associated Press reported.
The “nonprofit library” will appeal the decision, Freeland wrote on its blog. “Today’s lower court decision in Hachette v. Internet Archive is a blow to all libraries and the communities we serve,” he wrote.
“We will continue our work as a library,” he noted. “This case does not challenge many of the services we provide with digitized books including interlibrary loan, citation linking, access for the print-disabled, text and data mining, purchasing ebooks, and ongoing donation and preservation of books.”
“Libraries are more than the customer service departments for corporate database products. For democracy to thrive at global scale, libraries must be able to sustain their historic role in society—owning, preserving, and lending books,” said Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle in a statement. “This ruling is a blow for libraries, readers, and authors and we plan to appeal it.”