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Advertising on Pirate Sites Outlawed in Ukraine Under New Law

TorrentFreak

Reforming media legislation is just part of Ukraine’s path to EU membership and during the summer, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy signed new legislation to update Ukraine’s advertising environment to standards required by the EU. Law of Ukraine No.

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BREAKING: First CJEU referral on press publishers’ related right (Italian-style)

The IPKat

After the first DSM Directive-related referral from Belgium on the provisions concerning contracts of authors and performers [IPKat here ] , it is now the turn of Article 15 (the related right for press publishers) as implemented into Italian law.

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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

Related rights. In addition to rights of the author, German copyright law also recognises related rights. With regard to Section 51 UrhG, the BGH ruled that the right of quotation does not require that the person using the quote critically examines the appropriated work to a significant extent.

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Artificial Intelligence and copyright: the Italian AI Law Proposal

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Furthermore, the AI Law Proposal introduces some dedicated provisions on copyright and media-related matters, which are the focus of this post. AI Law Proposal and provisions relevant for copyright In Article 24 of the AI Law Proposal, amendments are proposed to Article 1 of the Italian Copyright Law ( Law 22 April 1941, n.

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Hope For Hollywood? Vietnam Police Raid Movie Piracy Group, Three Arrested

TorrentFreak

The aim was to launch services that would distribute movies to the public, without permission from rightsholders, for the purpose of generating illegal profits from advertising. Anti-piracy PSA from Vietnam From: TF , for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

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Ukraine Commits to Piracy Crackdown, Draws Up Blacklist, Joins WIPO ALERT

TorrentFreak

In that respect, matters related to intellectual property require the closest attention. Ukraine Sees Future in Europe, WIPO Invests in Russia Sites and services listed on WIPO ALERT should in theory find it much more difficult to fund their activities through advertising revenue.

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NFTs: promisingly transformational, yet fraught with IP pitfalls – Part I

Kluwer Copyright Blog

However, the ensuing craze and notoriety generated by many high-value NFT transactions has revealed a slew of unanswered legal copyright questions and issues. However, de facto they merely owned proof of ownership without any proprietary value, as all copyright and any related rights were retained and not granted upon purchase.