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Russian Cinemas Are Showing Pirated Movies Downloaded From Torrents

TorrentFreak

Russia’s Cinema Industry Sounds Alarm Bells. In the wake of Hollywood’s unprecedented suspension of new releases, Russia’s Association of Cinema Owners issued a powerful statement. Whether any was given is unclear but in the meantime, some cinemas have been taking drastic action to put people in seats.

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Piracy Block Reversed For Tech Site That Reported Site-Blocking Workarounds

TorrentFreak

.” The claims against Giardiniblog, which would soon lead to its blocking throughout Italy, read as follows (translated from Italian) ; The pages indicated in the petition advertise several streaming sites with content not authorized by the rights holders. and Rai Cinema S.p.A, Entertainment, Vision Distribution S.p.A,

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US Court Orders Every ISP in the United States to Block Illegal Streaming Sites

TorrentFreak

Earlier this year, producer and cinema investor Moshe Edery fired warning shots across the bows of Mastercard, Visa and American Express for continuing to provide payment processing to pirate streaming sites. SOPA promised whole-site blocking for piracy but a decade later it transpires that existing copyright law was good enough already.

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[Guest post] Craftsman vs visionary – the Kippenberger authorship dilemma in copyright

The IPKat

Wanting to make a statement, he hired an advertising company which hand-painted advertisement tabloids for cinemas. Paris Bar (Variante 3) The legal issue The relationship between art, artists and their “helping hands” is one that goes down to the very roots of copyright law, and the beginning of art itself.

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13 Spooky Copyright Cases, Just in Time for Halloween

Copyright Lately

The case is New Line Cinema v. Cinema Secrets (2000). In 1999, Cinema Secrets licensed the right to sell a Michael Myers Halloween mask from the film’s copyright owner. This prompted a lawsuit by Don Post Studios, which asserted that the Cinema Secrets mask was a copy of its own mask. BMG (1988).

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A Look Back at India’s Top IP Developments of 2023

SpicyIP

We’ve tried to represent a diversity of subject matter also in this list, so it’s a mixed bag of cases dealing with patents, trademarks, copyright law etc. Previously, a rate of 2% of the Net Advertisement Revenue (NAR) of the earnings of each FM Radio station was fixed for all music providers by the Copyright Board.

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