TorrentFreak

APRIL 12, 2023

Founded in 2014 by two Taiwanese software engineers, movie and TV show piracy site 8maple is a prime example. The suspects were arrested for copyright infringement offenses with Taiwan’s Telecommunications Investigation Corps estimating that 8maple caused around NT$1 billion (US$33.2m) in damages to the entertainment industries.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 7, 2024

CODA & MPA Officially Extend 10-Year Anti-Piracy Partnership On March 20, 2014, CODA and the Motion Picture Association (MPA) signed an agreement to develop new strategies to tackle online copyright infringement worldwide, and to strengthen their joint copyright protection activities.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

Formerly known as Manwin, MindGeek conquered the online adult market over the past decade by offering free porn to the masses. The Copyright Switch. Since January this year, the adult company asked the search engine to remove more than 121 million allegedly infringing URLs.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 24, 2023

This WeCast product was marketed towards the hotel market at some point but regardless of location or content, functionality doesn’t change. CNN listed him as one of Africa’s ’15 tech entrepreneurs to watch in 2014′ for his internet-based content streaming startup, Able Wireless.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 11, 2022

In 2013, Afdah.com entered the already crowded market and quickly attracted millions of users tempted by a comprehensive library of copyright-infringing movies. But of course, along with a rise in Afdah’s popularity came increased interest from copyright holders determined to shut down or disrupt the site.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 15, 2024

If the Supreme Court upholds the discovery rule for copyright cases, or simply declines to address it, the decision will leave copyright defendants exposed to very large awards for years of infringing conduct (as they have been everywhere but the Second Circuit). 1962 (2014). 2014) (collecting cases). 663, 134 S.

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Patently-O

DECEMBER 11, 2023

In our view, the FTC plays a vital role in keeping markets open and honest, and we have long been admirers of the intelligence and energy that the agency brings to that task. The copyright law implications of AI training are currently being litigated in several different federal copyright infringement actions.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

The company’s Action Replay range battled against Codemasters’ Game Genie, with the latter eventually backing out of the market. The PSP was discontinued in 2014, but after more than a decade, Sony’s lawsuit is still alive and inching toward a conclusion – one way or another.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 6, 2022

As proud maintainers of non-discriminatory ‘dumb pipes’ that exist to facilitate the free flow of all information, many ISPs in Sweden stood strong while distancing themselves from the copyright infringements of their customers. They did not endorse illegality but for them it was a matter of principle. We are neutral.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

A few dozen armed police officers and helicopters swooping in for Kim Dotcom was certainly eye-catching, but the world learned something else too; hosting files can make people ridiculously rich and with Megaupload gone, there was a big gap in the market. Uploaded’s Copyright Quagmire.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Three interesting cases on derivative works, two involving Jeff Koons and one Tintin, have recently put French copyright law in the international spotlight (e.g. Out of interest, I will start by briefly mentioning (without studying the case) the first copyright infringement case Jeff Koons lost, which was brought before a U.S.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 21, 2023

Athos owns the copyrights to many classic Mexican films. These uploads have irritated Athos since 2014. ” Also, the court later says that “while YouTube systems may be well equipped to detect video matches, the software does not necessarily have the capacity to detect copyright infringements.”

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The IPKat

APRIL 22, 2023

Here’s what they write: The Anne Black Danish copyright trilogy: The final say and a tripling of damages and compensation by Hanne Kirk and Charlotte Mittet Høfler The final part of the Anne Black trilogy is here at last. million to DKK 300,000 – referring to the modest turnover and profit from the infringing product line.

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43(B)log

JULY 3, 2023

27, 2023) Industria sued Latinfood for trademark and copyright infringement; Latinfood counterclaimed for tortious interference against Industria and another counterdefendant Cordialsa. Industria became aware of Latinfood’s Zenú and Ranchera products sometime between October 2013 and September 2014. Latinfood U.S.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Another troubling ruling for an Internet access provider trying to shake a contributory copyright claim based on user-caused copyright infringement. 11, 2023): Time and again we have declared that “prevailing defendants in copyright cases are presumptively entitled (and strongly so) to recover attorney fees.”

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 21, 2022

In Europe, Dutch anti-piracy group BREIN has been the engine behind several important cases featuring defendants who believed they had found a legal foothold in an otherwise illegal market. Court Orders Infringement to Stop. Perhaps the market will be really destroyed by the entire competition and BREIN within a year.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 18, 2023

The limitation on the use of Meta’s libraries occurred after the tech behemoth and the Italian copyright collecting society for authors and editors (“Società Italiana degli Autori ed Editori”, “SIAE”) came to an impasse during the renewal of the license agreement for the exploitation of the Italian repertoire. In particular, Art.

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The IPKat

JUNE 9, 2022

The main character is a market trader, Derek "Del Boy" Trotter. Section 30A CDPA is derived from Article 5(3)(k) of the InfoSoc Directive and was introduced in the context of the 2014 UK copyright reform. Let's see what happened.

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IP Tech Blog

MARCH 18, 2022

Intellectual property owners need to add the metaverse to places to watch for possible infringement, specifically, trademark or copyright infringement in the form of NFTs or non-fungible tokens. Although NFTs have been around since 2014, their far-reaching, multi-layered legal implications are just now being recognized.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Launched in 2014 and controlled by the Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit (PIPCU), the ‘Infringing Website List’ (IWL) carries details of pirate sites nominated by rightsholders and provides the basis for future enforcement via escalating actions.

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IP Intelligence

JUNE 7, 2023

Warhol created these silkscreens from a photograph of Prince taken by Lynn Goldsmith, who claimed copyright infringement when the Warhol estate licensed Orange Prince to Conde Nast after Prince’s passing in 2016 to illustrate an article about Prince’s life and music. at 1289 (Gorsuch, concurring) (emphasis added). at 1290 (Gorsuch, J.,

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IP and Legal Filings

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

It is important for the defendant to consist of more than a generalized knowledge of the third party’s infringing activity for him to commit a possible and claimed infringement. The Court’s conclusory granted the defendant’s motion of dismissing Plaintiff’s claim of Contributory Copyright Infringement.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 25, 2022

In so holding, the Ninth Circuit created (or widened) a circuit split with the Second Circuit, which previously held that even under the discovery rule, damages for copyright infringement are limited to “a three-year lookback period from the time a suit is filed.” 1962 (2014), the U.S. 2014) (collecting cases).

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MARCH 21, 2023

The Directive does this through a mandatory exception for copyright infringement that allows cultural heritage institutions and educational institutions to reproduce and make available orphan works from their collections to the public.

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 18, 2022

Intellectual property owners need to add the metaverse to places to watch for possible infringement, specifically, trademark or copyright infringement in the form of NFTs or non-fungible tokens. Although NFTs have been around since 2014, their far-reaching, multi-layered legal implications are just now being recognized.

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LexBlog IP

JUNE 28, 2023

3) According to the Court, the term “sale” used in article 41 of the Copyright Law must be interpreted in a broad sense. The term includes, according to the decision, all forms of marketing of the copy of the computer program that include a right of time-limited use for a price. 626/2014. (8) 2916/2022. (2)

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

There is uncertainty over how much selection and refinement is needed to produce the best work (see examples of selection, refinement and reworking here and here ) and getting the right prompt is challenging enough to have created a market for effective prompts. The UKIPO has since been speaking with specific stakeholders.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

It should be remembered that copyright infringement is assessed on the basis of similarities, not differences. For example, in 2014 Moschino unveiled a parody collection based entirely on the world of McDonald's Corporation ( although there was a license agreement between the parties ).

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 29, 2023

Further, providing copyright to the creations would demotivate the gamers to play for the threat of copyright infringement would always be looming while they create in the pre-existing environment. Collins, User-Friendly Licensing for a User-Generated World: The Future of the Video-Content Market, 15 Vand. & Tech.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 27, 2022

Courts in the Second Circuit keep indicating that various forms of linking may constitute copyright infringement. Previous year-in-review lists from 2020 , 2019 , 2018 , 2017 , 2016 , 2015 , 2014 , 2013 , 2012 , 2011 , 2010 , 2009 , 2008 , 2007 , and 2006. ” The embedding cases (e.g.,

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Following on from the CJEU decision in UsedSoft I and the BGH decision in UsedSoft II , the BGH further outlined the issue of exhaustion of copies of works transmitted online in the 2014 UsedSoft III case. 3, second sentence UrhG. The defendant invoked the defence of the limitation provision in Section 57 UrhG.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Section 95a UrhG stipulates that technical measures employed for the protection of a copyrighted work or protected subject matter may not be circumvented without the authorisation of the rightholder, Section 95a UrhG being the transposition into German law of Article 6 of the InfoSoc Directive (2001/29). Claims under copyright law.

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LexBlog IP

JUNE 7, 2023

Warhol created these silkscreens from a photograph of Prince taken by Lynn Goldsmith, who claimed copyright infringement when the Warhol estate licensed Orange Prince to Conde Nast after Prince’s passing in 2016 to illustrate an article about Prince’s life and music. ” Id. ” Id. at 1290 (Gorsuch, J.,

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2023

3 and 4 of the Copyright in the Digital Single Market Directive (CDSMD) introduced two exceptions for Text and Data Mining (TDM) in EU copyright Law. Photo by 5477687 via Pixabay Arts. These two exceptions, despite having different objectives, share several similarities, as scholar analysis has shown. The case of Art.

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The IPKat

MARCH 13, 2022

In 2014, the Milan Court of First Instance dismissed the action in its entirety. Further to an appeal, in 2017 the Court of Appeal of Milan partly sided with the artist’s estate, but found that the unauthorized reproduction of the artist’s works in the context of the project and the book would not be unlawful.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 20, 2023

Thus, if an artist creates a derivative work based on a photograph unlawfully , and copies of that derivative work are reproduced and distributed to the public, the owner of copyright in the photograph is entitled to sue for copyright infringement and to recover remedies for the unlawful use of their photograph.

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IP Intelligence

JUNE 6, 2023

Warhol created these silkscreens from a photograph of Prince taken by Lynn Goldsmith, who claimed copyright infringement when the Warhol estate licensed Orange Prince to Conde Nast after Prince’s passing in 2016 to illustrate an article about Prince’s life and music. at 1289 (Gorsuch, concurring) (emphasis added). at 1290 (Gorsuch, J.,

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