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Elon Musk’s Gifts to Web Scrapers (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

— Bright Data has long sold the data of all the major social media companies. sued Bright Data for trespass to chattels, breach of contract, tortious interference with a contract, violation of California Business and Professions Code Section 17200, and misappropriation. That’s what copyright law is for.

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The Beat (And Cher’s Lawsuit) Go On With New Ruling in Bono Copyright Dispute

Copyright Lately

The court’s March 14 ruling (read here) rejected the defendants’ assertion that copyright terminations served by Bono’s heirs effectively preempted Cher’s state law contract rights. Let me know in the comments below or @copyrightlately on social media. “Therefore, her claim fails.”

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Software Downloads Netflix & Disney+ Videos to Make DRM-Free Copies

TorrentFreak

Anyone who breaches their legal agreement with a platform is, at a minimum, in breach of relevant contract law. Copyright Law and DRM. This means that the use of software such as StreamFab is effectively outlawed by a legally binding document and also by copyright law.

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The Battle Over Poker NFTs

Plagiarism Today

I understand a lot of you may be upset that I saw a photo on social media and loved it enough to imitate it in a very different style. In that apology, Butz admitted he was “clearly ignorant about copyright laws and got defensive when it was brought to my attention.”

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‘Copying into Copyright Law’: Ireland’s minimalist transposition of Directive 2019/790

Kluwer Copyright Blog

These contract law provisions, totally alien to the Irish legal tradition, are designed to apply in negotiations and contractual relationships between artists and commercial exploiters of their works, including social media platforms and streaming services.

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Examples of Text and Data Mining Research Using Copyrighted Materials

Kluwer Copyright Blog

A series of recent amendments to copyright law, including in the EU Copyright and the Digital Single Market Directive (Art. 3 and 4) and in Singapore’s new Copyright Act (Art. 243, 244), seek to protect the ability of text and data mining researchers to use copyrighted content in their work. million abstracts.

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13 Spooky Copyright Cases, Just in Time for Halloween

Copyright Lately

” They argued that had Twain really written the book, Clemens’ estate would own the copyright and Harper would have the exclusive right under contract to publish it. Conjuring up a Copyright Case. In 2016, author Gerald Brittle alleged that the Warner Bros. And there you have it!

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