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Plex Sued for Copyright Infringement by Press Agency

TorrentFreak

The company was founded in 2009 and today boasts 16 million active monthly streaming users, making Plex a serious market player. In an apparent attempt to stop widespread copyright infringement, the service announced that it would ban servers hosted at Hetzner, as these are frequently linked to terms of service violations.

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Anti-Piracy Veteran Tim Kuik Retires After Leading BREIN for a Quarter Century

TorrentFreak

In the summer of 2009, hackers from all over the world gathered at an outdoor conference near Vierhouten in the Netherlands. Speaking with TorrentFreak, Kuik recalls that the home video market was just opening up. The downside was that pirates would create bootleg copies.

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Sony vs. Datel: Game Cheat Copyright Questions Referred to EU’s Top Court

TorrentFreak

The company’s Action Replay range battled against Codemasters’ Game Genie, with the latter eventually backing out of the market. Gaming giant sony responded with a copyright infringement lawsuit targeting two companies and a director connected to the Datel products. Does a revision exist within the meaning of Art.

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Copyright Exceptions and Digital Exhaustion addressed by the European Court of Human Rights (yes, the one in Strasburg!)

Kluwer Copyright Blog

But last year, one supranational interference with copyright law surprisingly did not come from Luxemburg, but from Strasbourg: the judgment in Safarov v Azerbaijan. The Safarov case In 2009, Safarov authors a book. He sues for copyright infringement and claims damages. An NGO makes his entire work available for download.

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IP Issues in The World of Japanese Sequential Art – Manga

IIPRD

Afterward, the second world war did pose an interruption in the steady growth but in turn, it scaled the manga market to a whole new different level in 1947. Image Sources: Shutterstock] ‘Donjishi’ is another form of copyright infringement of a manga creator. For content piracy, Takeshobo Inc.,

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Should Copyright Preemption Moot Anti-Scraping TOS Terms? (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

And that data might be subject to varying levels of copyright protection. Platforms that copy online data and use it to create AI have a strong fair use argument under copyright laws. — One logical starting point to tell the history of copyright preemption of contracts is to begin with ProCD v. Health Grades, Inc.

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Copyright case law of the German Bundesgerichtshof 2015 – 2019 – Part 3 of 4: Related rights and exceptions and limitations

Kluwer Copyright Blog

This personal intellectual creation is lacking if the photographs in question are “mere reproductions of other photographs” in which an original has been merely reproduced (copied) as closely as possible. If a copy of a computer program is published in the territory of the EU/EEA with the consent of the rightholder, Section 69 No.