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60-Year-Old Music Pirate Faces Prison in a Country Part-Run By Pirates

TorrentFreak

Unfortunately, those passing by included unnamed rightsholders who filed a criminal copyright complaint with the police. ” After establishing that the albums had been available for download from October 2013 until November 2022, police charged the man with criminal copyright infringement offenses.

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‘More Than 600,000 Students and Teachers Use Z-Library’

TorrentFreak

Two alleged Z-Library operators were arrested as part of a criminal investigation. Z-Library notes that it intentionally excluded the country due to the criminal prosecution of two of the site’s alleged operators. These lists are personal book collections that can be focused on any theme, including educational topics.

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Recap! Seyfarth Attorneys Marcus Mintz and Alex Meier Present at AIPLA Conference on Trade Secrets

Trading Secrets

The topics for the conference included: A legislative update. Criminal and government investigations of trade secret theft. Garden-variety misappropriation very unlikely to garner criminal attention. The American Intellectual Property Law Association recently completed its Trade Secrets Summit in Miami, Florida.

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Man Arrested Following “Large Scale” Pirate IPTV Investigation

TorrentFreak

If the topic was switched to fraud, opinions would likely be quite different, and herein lies the problem. In 2022, piracy might form the basis of an investigation, but more often than not, fraud, money laundering, and other serious charges are the outcome. Sky Backed By Organized Crime Unit. Much More Than Piracy.

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Telegram Block Averted For Now But Escalating Threat is Far From Over

TorrentFreak

A sampling of opinions on this controversial topic would likely place sentiments like these at the edge of a spectrum, acting as a perfect counterbalance to equally extreme positions adopted by a subset of particularly aggressive rightsholders. As it happens with others, which do provide it,” the statement adds.

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Egyptian Case Kurasov v. Wali: Where inspiration meets imitation in the art world

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Cairo Economic Court’s Ruling For the uninitiated, the Egyptian Copyright framework is set under book three of law n o 82 of 2002 for the Protection of Intellectual Property Rights (Egyptian Copyright Law – ECL) where enforcement is protected through two distinct means, being civil and criminal proceedings.

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Egyptian Case Wali v. Kurasov: Where inspiration meets imitation in the art world

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Cairo Economic Court’s Ruling For the uninitiated, the Egyptian Copyright framework is set under book three of law n o 82 of 2002 for the Protection of Intellectual Property Rights (Egyptian Copyright Law – ECL) where enforcement is protected through two distinct means, being civil and criminal proceedings.

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