TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 2, 2023

In recent years, rightsholders in Sweden have reported significantly increased consumption of pirate IPTV services, and law enforcement’s inability to tackle the problem due to a lack of funding. “To identify sellers, the Swedish Tax Agency has made test purchases and also searched for sellers on the internet.

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Michael Geist

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Canadian digital law and policy in 2023 was marked by so many legislative battles that you needed a scorecard to keep track: Bill C-11 on online streaming, Bill C-18 on online news, and Bill C-27 on privacy and AI were the headliners, but there were notable developments on content regulation, competition, and a digital services tax.

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Michael Geist

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

The problems with government’s Bill C-18 draft regulations involve more than just what amounts to a 4% link tax on Google and Meta alongside little effort to ensure the resulting revenues are used to support spending on journalists and news content. But the concerns with the draft regulations do not end there.

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Michael Geist

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

The government released its draft Bill C-18 regulations on Friday ahead of the Labour Day weekend, but ironically those regulations do very little to ensure that new funding will be allocated toward employing journalists. Moreover, recently cancelled deals will not be revived and the value of free referral traffic will be lost.

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Michael Geist

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The Online News Act has quickly emerged as one of the government’s biggest policy failures with Canadian news outlets facing lost traffic, lost revenues, and lost competition. With Meta out of news in Canada, the government is hoping to salvage the law by convincing Google to pay at least $172 million for news links.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 18, 2024

My roundup of the top Internet Law developments of 2023: 10) California court bans targeted advertising (?). Facebook , a California appeals court shocked the advertising community by suggesting that using common demographic criteria for ad targeting, such as age or gender, may violate California’s anti-discrimination law.

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Michael Geist

JULY 5, 2023

With Meta and Google announcing that they will block news sharing and links on their platforms before the law takes effect, the Canadian media sector stands to lose millions of dollars with lost links, the cancellation of dozens of existing deals , and a bill that might not generate any new revenues.

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Michael Geist

AUGUST 9, 2023

The Canadian government released a detailed document last week outlining the specifics behind its draft Digital Services Tax Act. No actual legislation has yet been passed, but the government is providing guidance on how the potential law would be interpreted assuming it takes effect next year. These are just two examples.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 5, 2024

News that the Provincial Court of Pontevedra has handed down substantial fines to individuals behind a very large pirate IPTV operation was first reported by ElMundo on Tuesday. Another 300,700+ euros should be paid off over the next two years, all thanks to a massive law enforcement operation in May 2016.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 6, 2023

Reporting on these news releases can be tricky, as the information tends to be limited. Of these sales, 1,408 directly referenced IPTV and no taxes were paid on the income. Based on this and other evidence, Liverpool Crown Court found Brockley guilty of supplying articles for use in fraud and the fraudulent evasion of income tax.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Piracy and Taxes. Serie A’s anti-piracy and social responsibility pages still carry 1XBET logos, despite damning reports and allegations that 1XBET doesn’t meet its tax obligations. Entirely separately and nothing to do with the 1XBET deal, many teams playing in Serie A have tax problems of their own.

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IPilogue

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Ivana Peloza is a 3L JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. Bill C-18, the Online News Act , which was introduced by the Minister of Canadian Heritage in April 2022, seeks to ensure that news outlets are fairly compensated for their news content by digital platforms. This article was submitted as a requirement for Prof.

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Michael Geist

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

The hearings on the Online News Act – Bill C-18 – wrapped up last week with a final session in which I had the unexpected opportunity to appear and again raise concerns with the bill. Credits: CTV News, Feds Introduce Online News Act. I’m a law professor at the University of Ottawa. Opening Statement.

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Michael Geist

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

The first post in this series on Bill C-18 , the Online News Act, focused on the problematic approach to what constitutes “making news content available”, as it encompasses everything from indexing to linking to news stories without reproducing the actual text. Which version is correct?

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 5, 2023

Some recently expressed concerns that AI-generated works collide with copyright law. Other issues included the Notorious Markets report, intellectual property ‘theft’ in general, enforcement of IP law, issues related to the DMCA, and proposals related to technical measures, aka content filtering. Revenues and Tax.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 2, 2023

California’s Franchise Tax Board suspended Malibu Media in 2021 over tax deficiencies. Under California law, a suspended corporation cannot maintain a lawsuit,” the defense wrote. At the time of writing, California’s Franchise Tax Board continues to list Malibu Media’s status as suspended. The order issued by U.S.

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Michael Geist

OCTOBER 4, 2022

The blog series on why Bill C-18, the Online News Act, is a bad solution to a real problem continues with the first of several posts on the eligibility rules, starting with the decision to make the CBC eligible for the system that could lead to mandated payments. In doing so, public broadcasters also qualify for the system. .

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Nevertheless, all copyrighted content receives the same protection under the law, so academic and other publishers are keen to protect their interests in the same way as other rightsholders. However, viewed from the perspective of publishers, Z-Library is not only unfair competition but also highly illegal under copyright law.

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Michael Geist

AUGUST 24, 2023

With the increased use of paywalls and dramatic shifts in the media landscape, there is value in a public broadcaster that fills the gaps in the privately owned media world by ensuring that all Canadians have open, freely available access to reliable news. Simply put, the CBC should not be treated as an eligible news business under Bill C-18.

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Michael Geist

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The CRTC’s Bill C-11 hearings are in their third and final week as a steady stream of broadcasters and producers make their way to Gatineau to urge the Commission to force Internet streamers to hand over cash in a giant cross-industry subsidy scheme designed to support everyone from small producers to Bell’s news division. One is market exit.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Under California law, a suspended corporation cannot maintain a lawsuit,” the defense writes. This suspension over tax deficiencies came to the forefront a few months ago. At the time of writing, California’s Franchise Tax Board continues to list Malibu Media’s status as suspended. More Suspensions.

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Michael Geist

JUNE 16, 2023

The fallout from Bill C-11 has been the subject of several posts this week, including the demands from a wide range of services for exceptions to the law and warnings from streaming services such as PBS and AMC that they may block the Canadian market due to the regulatory burden imposed by the law.

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Michael Geist

MAY 3, 2023

I’m a law professor at the University of Ottawa where I hold the Canada Research Chair in Internet and E-commerce Law and I’m a member of the Centre for Law, Technology and Society. I have been quite critical of Bill C-18, but that criticism does not stem from doubts about the importance of a robust, diverse news sector.

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Michael Geist

OCTOBER 19, 2022

In fact, while the government has been anxious to cite the (questionable) PBO estimate that the bill will generate $329 million per year for Canadian news organizations, last week the PBO quietly released supplementary data that suggested it believes the vast majority of the money will actually go to the CBC, Bell, Rogers, and other broadcasters.

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Michael Geist

JULY 4, 2023

Evan Scrimshaw, who writes an engaging Substack primarily focused on Canadian politics, posted an interesting piece over the holiday weekend that linked the Toronto Raptors failure to resign guard Fred VanVleet and the reaction to Google and Facebook’s announcement that they plan to block news sharing or links as a result of Bill C-18.

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Above the Fold

MAY 1, 2021

In case you missed it, Maryland became the first state back in February to pass a digital advertising services tax into law (and over the governor’s veto no less). The law was passed to be retroactive to January 1, 2021, meaning it would apply to the entirety of the 2021 tax year.

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Michael Geist

JUNE 17, 2021

I was joined by representatives from News Media Canada and Facebook, which made for an engaging discussion. I’m a law professor at the University of Ottawa where I hold the Canada Research Chair in Internet and E-commerce Law and I’m a member of the Centre for Law, Technology and Society. Good evening.

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Olartemoure Blog

AUGUST 26, 2022

Colombia’s Sci-Tech Ministry most recently regulated the creation of Spin-Off companies, fostering Innovation, Science and Technology in Higher-Education Institutions. This new regulation establishes four types of spin-off companies that were not defined in current Law. Original source in Spanish. 08/25/22 – Corporate.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

If you look at anybody who’s been through the same type of situation that I’ve been through – it is not scamming, it was more of a copyright infringement case that turned into ‘Oh s**t, you didn’t pay your taxes’ – you know, tax evasion. He does, however, acknowledge issues with his taxes.

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Herbert Smith Freehills

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Hörner, and of counsel Lena von Richthofen also advised InfraVia Capital Partners on German law aspects. . Partners Sönke Becker and Steffen C. Last update: Thursday, 14 October, 2021 - 00:45. Hero Image: 29861. Hero Image: 29861.

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

On 10 February 2022, the Treasury Laws Amendment (Tax Concession for Australian Medical Innovations) Bill 2022 was introduced to the Australian parliament, and received its first and second readings in the House of Representatives. A patent will qualify under the scheme if it is an Australian standard patent (i.e.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 26, 2023

Good News / Good Cop The companies behind the ‘Australian Film/TV Bodies’ submission say their use of Australia’s site-blocking provisions has resulted in the blocking of over 2,000 infringing domains since 2015. Citing government research demonstrating the efficacy of these interventions, successes are clear.

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SpicyIP

OCTOBER 3, 2021

We informed our readers that the Microsoft IPR Chair and the DPIIT IPR Chair at Gujarat National Law University (GNLU), Gandhinagar are jointly organising a webinar on ‘Traditional Knowledge as Intellectual Property: Opportunities and Challenges at the International Level’ on 13th October, 2021. Other News from the Country.

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Olartemoure Blog

JULY 14, 2022

It is worth noting that this is the 42nd sanction in competition law matters imposed by the SIC during Andrés Barreto’s term as Superintendent, adding up to USD 156 million already. Subscribe to our newsletter We are a continous source of information, always with the latest news about intellectual property and competition.

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Michael Geist

AUGUST 17, 2021

From a digital policy perspective, there are positions sprinkled throughout the document, covering everything from a new innovation policy (an issue that the Liberals de-emphasized over the past two years and the Conservatives are right to target) to labour rights for gig workers.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 31, 2021

Instead of expensive and unpredictable civil legal action, law enforcement can be encouraged to engage in criminal prosecutions with the prospect of prison sentences for offenders. In a nutshell, Sweden should be harder on people who buy pirate subscriptions but it can’t because the law and funding for law enforcement are lacking.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 17, 2024

Yet, unless ‘cammers’ stop for personal reasons, those operating in the West eventually run up against the law. Not least 9% of all sales attributable to Barbie, a film made in the UK and as a result, gifted just enough relief by the government to ensure no corporate taxes were payable in the UK.

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