TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

In early January 2012, many operators of successful, public file-hosting sites were looking forward to another productive year. Whether that was a calculated risk or a reckless gamble is up for debate, but eight years later they are still doing their thing across three domains – Hellshare.cz, Hellspy.cz and Hellspy.sk.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

The practice has been around for well over 15 years and has gradually expanded to more than forty countries around the world. Among other things, the movie industry group provided technical expertise. Thus far, pirate site blocking is notably absent in the United States.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

While it can be used for a multitude of other things, Usenet’s popularity and longevity have certainly been boosted by the mountains of copyrighted content that exist on the sprawling system. Popular with users, these sites can also attract the attention of anti-piracy groups, Netherlands-based BREIN in particular.

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Velocity of Content

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Roy Kaufman is Managing Director, Business Development and Government Relations at CCC, where he participates in a wide range of copyright and licensing conversations internally and with many industry groups. I have been serving on a Library of Congress committee and recently participated in a participation discussion group in Congress.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 29, 2023

Partners Against Piracy This week Meta and Italian broadcaster RTI announced the signing of a multi-year partnership that will attempt to prevent the latter’s TV content from being pirated on Meta platforms. Facebook launched its own content-matching, rights management tool in 2016.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 19, 2022

There’s little doubt that Netflix password sharing contributed to the company’s growth and by publicly condoning it, the practice was completely normalized – globally. Five years after Netflix’s now-infamous tweet, the ground is shifting. Password Sharing is Not Love – It’s Piracy.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Earlier this year, Creative Commons announced that four working groups of the Creative Commons Copyright Platform would examine policy issues affecting the open ecosystem from a global perspective: (1) artificial intelligence and open content; (2) platform liability; (3) copyright exceptions and limitations; and (4) the ethics of open sharing.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 16, 2022

For years the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society, the supervising body and publisher for the Jehovah’s Witness religious group, has used the cheap DMCA subpoena process to identify anonymous people said to have infringed their copyrights, usually in music or videos. When cases deviate from this format they tend to stick out.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

More than five years ago the USTR described Taiwan’s ISD problem as “rampant” but welcomed amendments to copyright law in 2019 that criminalized the provision of piracy apps, helping the public to access pirated content, and the importation or manufacture of piracy devices. Taiwan and Its Ubox Problem.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 14, 2023

When I first blogged this case in January 2021, I wrote: This lawsuit, like many others before it, claims that UGC services like YouTube commit illegal discrimination based on how they moderate content. The latest ruling addresses YouTube’s motion to dismiss the fourth amended complaint, which the court grants with prejudice.

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LexBlog IP

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Engaging in gambling can lead to imprisonment for up to two years or fines of up to AED fifty thousand (50,000). Additionally, individuals operating gambling venues or organizing games in public spaces may face imprisonment for up to ten years and fines exceeding AED one hundred thousand (100,000). Article 38 of Federal Decree-Law No.

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Michael Geist

JULY 18, 2023

As Bill C-18 made its way through the legislative process, the government and the media lobby groups supporting the bill insisted that Google and Meta were bluffing when they warned that legislation premised on mandated payments for links could lead the companies to stop Canadian news linking or sharing on their platforms.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 8, 2022

The major record labels don’t want people to download music from YouTube, which is common practice for millions of people. According to the music group, youtube-dl violates the DMCA’s anti-circumvention provision. To stop this, the music industry titans are using a variety of legal tactics around the world.

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Velocity of Content

JANUARY 16, 2023

Also new for IPA is its president, Karine Pansa of Brazil, who took office on January 1, 2023, for a two-year term. Currently, just 10% of published content is accessible to print-disabled readers. “IP IP has a dedicated working group in accessibility. The work also feeds into other initiatives,” she tells me. “

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TorrentFreak

JULY 23, 2022

With almost no lucrative entertainment left to screen after Hollywood pulled the plug, various groups began hiring idle cinema screens for their own ‘private’ pirate screenings of torrent-acquired movies. But with no licensed content available, it’s now a race to the bottom.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 25, 2022

In an effort to control what its citizens can access on the internet, over the past several years Russian authorities have stepped up their blocking and censorship efforts. As a result, not only is this content blocked by ISPs but those who provide means to unblock it can also find themselves on the wrong side of the law.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Over the past several years we’ve covered dozens of copyright troll cases against tens of thousands of alleged copyright infringers. copyright law, there is a three-year statute of limitations to file complaints. copyright law, there is a three-year statute of limitations to file complaints.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Every year, the Office of the United States Trade Representative ( USTR ) publishes a list of ‘notorious markets’ that facilitate online piracy and related intellectual property crimes. In recent years, the scope of the report has broadened. For more than a decade we have covered the online part of the report.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 30, 2022

Over the past decade, mobile applications have become the standard platform for most people to consume content online. Whether it’s for shopping, news, or entertainment, there is a mobile app available for any type of content. This shift in consumption patterns is not limited to legal content; piracy has gone mobile as well.

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IP Tech Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Over the past few years the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has been actively taking steps to address consumer protection concerns with sponsorships and endorsements within social media posts that have not been clearly disclosed. Social media platforms. Make it simple for users to report suspected hidden advertising.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 20, 2023

The DMCA takedown process allows copyright holders to report infringing content and have it removed or taken down. DMCA Takedown Abuse In recent years there have been numerous examples of clear abuse and impersonations , as revealed through Google’s transparency report. million lawsuit against an alleged fraudster is one example.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 10, 2022

At the same time, the national team is not allowed to qualify for the World Cup that will be held later this year. This recommendation doesn’t come as a surprise as various rightsholder groups have called out Ukraine over the years. This also includes many sports organizations, which stopped their broadcasts in Russia.

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LexBlog IP

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Over the past few years the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has been actively taking steps to address consumer protection concerns with sponsorships and endorsements within social media posts that have not been clearly disclosed. Social media platforms.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 19, 2022

Since 2017, the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society, the supervising body and publisher for the Jehovah’s Witness religious group, has filed more than 70 DMCA subpoena applications in the United States. One such critic is ‘Kevin McFree’, the creator of a series of Lego animations that criticize the religious group.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

At the time, McCrory was the Concussion in Sports Group, an organization that provides guidance to a wide variety of sporting organizations, including FIFA, the National Football League, the International Olympic Committee, F1 and more, on the issue of CTE. The allegations had a quick impact on McCrory’s career.

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Velocity of Content

MARCH 30, 2023

This was the challenge my colleagues and I were facing when the Head of Early Research contacted the information department a few years ago. How the information team impacts a global pharma company’s pipeline A big challenge for major pharma companies these days is to systematically spot promising new ideas from universities and biotechs.

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Michael Geist

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Recent Canadian court decisions that have approved of the practice raise significant concerns for freedom of expression and net neutrality. Recent Canadian court decisions that have approved of the practice raise significant concerns for freedom of expression and net neutrality.

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IPilogue

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

As part of the IP Innovation Clinic’s involvement in the inaugural year of Mitacs’ Business Strategy Internship program, Bonnie completed an internship at Bereskin & Parr LLP under the direct supervision of Reshika Dhir. Bonnie Hassanzadeh is an IP Intensive student and 3L JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

In their submissions, companies and their industry groups appear very keen for these financial incentives to continue, but many other areas are highlighted as either problematic or in need of attention. The Committee sought input on what more could be done to further incentivize production in the UK.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 4, 2023

The major record labels don’t want the public to download music from YouTube, which is common practice for millions of people. GitHub initially complied with the takedown request but after public outrage and involvement from digital rights groups including the EFF, the decision was eventually reversed.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Image by Alexandra_Koch from Pixabay The US class action against Google Bard ( J.L. Alphabet Inc, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, No. We have also noted that this was not the only class action filed in the US against Open AI, since a parallel class action was based on alleged data breach ( here ).

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 22, 2022

After 10 years of legal battles following the closure of Megaupload, former executives Mathias Ortmann and Bram van der Kolk want to put their ordeal behind them. Mr Dotcom ultimately determined matters of policy and direction but lacked the practical expertise to carry his wishes into effect,” the statement of facts reads.

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IP Tech Blog

JUNE 13, 2023

Reasoning that the form of a copyright registration does not really matter, the Ninth Circuit recently affirmed a district court’s ruling that real estate photography provider VHT was entitled to statutory damages for 2,700 photos infringed by Zillow even though VHT had registered all of the works at issue as part of a single database.

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Velocity of Content

APRIL 1, 2022

Lockdowns and social distancing practices have affected public libraries and librarians dramatically over the last two years. If any group is sensitive to personal safety and compliance with safety issues, it is the library community, which deals with these issues every day.”. Public Librarians Return in Person.

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Velocity of Content

AUGUST 4, 2021

In my first post , after touching on the need (or perhaps just the prudence) of copyright registration for bloggers (and other creators whose distribution is primarily through social media sites), I went on to discuss the DMCA and how it is a useful first-line-of-defense bit of IP protection for content first appearing on such sites.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 13, 2022

Amidst growing concerns surrounding online privacy and security, VPN services have become increasingly popular in recent years. Over the past few years, we have seen copyright holders take several ISPs to court, accusing them of failing to disconnect repeat copyright infringers. Filmmakers sued Torguard. Torrent Blocking.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 8, 2022

It’s been 16 years since music industry group IFPI pressured Danish ISPs to block Russian music site AllofMP3. In 2022, most major audiovisual rightsholders are involved in the practice. This includes Malta where the leagues (in one case through a local rightsholder) asked the court to authorize stream disruption.

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