How to Use infringement in a Sentence

infringement

noun
  • For repeat infringements of the law, the EU can levy a 20 percent fine.
    Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Mar. 2024
  • That points to the question of what, if anything, to do about the torrent of copyright infringement lawsuits?
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 2023
  • The case wasn't the first time Sheeran was entangled in a copyright infringement suit.
    Marlene Lenthang, NBC News, 4 May 2023
  • The use of the IP only becomes copyright infringement if and when the drug gets commercialized and sold to the public.
    Paolo Confino, Fortune, 10 Aug. 2023
  • Aside from some language buried in the terms of service, there is no warning that infringement could be an issue.
    Gary Marcus, IEEE Spectrum, 6 Jan. 2024
  • But IMDb fought back, and got the courts to throw out the law as an unconstitutional infringement on free speech.
    Gene Maddaus, Variety, 9 Feb. 2023
  • The court held that the law in question was not narrowly tailored enough to justify the free speech infringements.
    Matt Ford, The New Republic, 29 Mar. 2023
  • Last week, he was found not liable in a copyright infringement lawsuit.
    Tommy Cummings, Dallas News, 9 May 2023
  • In golf any infraction is a no-no, to the extent that players are expected to call their own fouls for the slightest infringement.
    David Papineau, WSJ, 14 Dec. 2023
  • Some are suspicious of the timing, and many believe that the situation is a threat to their safety and an infringement on their right to protest.
    Gary Baum, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 June 2023
  • In a January complaint, BMG said the song was very clearly an infringement of its copyrights.
    Bill Donahue, Billboard, 4 Oct. 2023
  • And the notion that mashing up two songs is now going to subject someone to a claim of copying or infringement after the fact is absurd.
    Chris Willman, Variety, 5 May 2023
  • Some Mastodon newcomers resent the warnings as an infringement on their free speech.
    David Meyer, Fortune, 28 Nov. 2022
  • Plaintiffs do not wish to hold ChikaraFan liable for copyright infringement.
    Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 21 Feb. 2023
  • Starbucks sued the Workers United for trademark infringement for using its green logo in the tweet.
    Alexandra Sternlicht, Fortune, 19 Oct. 2023
  • Is there an underlying image that’s the source that [Pink] could claim copyright infringement on?
    Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 24 Jan. 2023
  • This isn’t the first time a sports design has caused controversy over copyright infringement.
    Kyle Melnick, Washington Post, 17 Jan. 2024
  • Apple also took that route in battling a (still ongoing) patent infringement case lodged against the Apple Watch by AliveCor.
    Scharon Harding, Ars Technica, 18 Jan. 2024
  • At its core, the First Amendment protects against government infringement on speech.
    Cat Zakrzewski, Washington Post, 26 Feb. 2024
  • Yuga Labs sued Ripps not for defamation, but for trademark infringement.
    Elle Reeve, CNN, 7 Apr. 2023
  • Supporters of the repeal said the requirement was an infringement the 2nd Amendment.
    Mike Cason | McAson@al.com, al, 26 Apr. 2023
  • The paper's complaint comes as the number of lawsuits filed against OpenAI for copyright infringement is growing.
    Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 28 Dec. 2023
  • In his suit, Trump's attorneys attack the subpoena as overly broad and frame it as an infringement of his First Amendment rights.
    Dallas News, 11 Nov. 2022
  • In his suit, Trump’s attorneys attack the subpoena as overly broad and frame it as an infringement of his First Amendment rights.
    Jill Colvin, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Nov. 2022
  • The reason is that, at its core, a verdict for infringement requires proof that the two brands are confusingly similar.
    Zhihao Zhang, The Conversation, 13 Feb. 2023
  • But in the past couple of years, there’s been people mistakenly equating equality with some kind of infringement on their right to free speech.
    Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 28 Mar. 2023
  • An online gun and floral shop in Texas might soon be knockin' on a courtroom door over a trademark infringement lawsuit filed on behalf of Guns N' Roses.
    Jessica Wang, EW.com, 5 Dec. 2022
  • This isn’t the only music infringement lawsuit against X/Twitter.
    Robert Levine, Billboard, 6 Dec. 2023
  • Some commenters saw this as a classist infringement on their personal rights.
    Paris Wolfe, cleveland, 29 July 2023
  • Adidas sued for copyright infringement, in 2021, and lost a trial earlier this year.
    Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2023

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