Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The lawsuit indicates that this is not the first run in between the two parties, as EKB claims to have sent a cease and desist letter to the company in 2020. The move also comes after new for-profit PROs were launched, including SESAC and Global Music Rights. 3: BMI Is Changing to a For-Profit Business Model.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Peer-to-peer technologies such as Napster, Gnutella, FastTrack, and BitTorrent, revolutionized file-sharing but without the support of dozens of thriving forum-based communities, where people shared P2P tutorials, tips, news, and each other’s company, things may have gone quite differently.

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Michael Geist

JUNE 3, 2022

Nettwerk Music Group has long been recognized as one of Canada’s leading independent music companies. Led by Terry McBride, the company has featured label and management clients that include Coldplay, Sarah McLachlan, Dido, and Barenaked Ladies.

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IP Tech Blog

MAY 15, 2023

AI-generated music – adopting the vocal styles of popular musicians – has become ubiquitous on TikTok and other social media platforms, racking up millions of views and listens. Much of the music is gimmicky—a rapper singing a shoegazer ballad or the theme song to an anime. Enter copyright.

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Olartemoure Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The surge in investigations aimed at addressing the potential abuse of dominant positions by major technology companies has become a prominent issue in recent times, both in Europe and around the world. The ongoing efforts highlight the tension between regulators and tech companies over market power and compliance with regulations.

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The IPKat

JULY 18, 2021

Following the #BrokenRecord and #FixStreaming campaigns, the UK Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee launched into an inquiry into the impact of music streaming o n artists, record labels and the sustainability of the wider music industry. Katposts here.] Some of the key regulatory recommendations are discussed in this post.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 5, 2023

In an attempt to broaden the impact of their anti-piracy efforts, they sued Quad9 , which was required to implement a global pirate site blockade. The German branch of Universal Music previously sued Cloudflare for offering its services to pirate site DDL-Music. This means that basic DNS blockades would apply globally too.

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IPilogue

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Last month, Google announced “ AudioLM: a Language Modeling Approach to Audio Generation ”, which proposes “a new framework for audio generation that learns to generate realistic speech and piano music by listening to audio only”. Nevertheless, companies will likely aggressively pursue these technologies for profit.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 18, 2022

Alongside the explosion of online piracy services over the last couple of decades, new anti-piracy companies have emerged offering to dampen down the flames. The reality is that no sane person invests time and money into a company with a mission to ensure its own demise. Movies and Music. Site-Blocking Gurus Needed.

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LexBlog IP

JULY 13, 2021

The commercial use of personal data—accumulated via digital streams, online searches and applications that capture an individual’s musical tastes and listening habits —drives the way music is commoditized, consumed and promoted.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 7, 2024

CODA represents the interests of around 30 corporate entities doing business in the publishing, media, movie, music, and wider entertainment industries. While these names represent just a sample of the individual companies represented by CODA, the anti-piracy group also has around ten ‘organizational’ members.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Given the extreme financial power and political leverage held by the world’s largest entertainment companies, most obstacles can be pushed aside or simply rolled over. If these companies can’t be convinced to commit business resources to the piracy war voluntarily, lawsuits and mandatory conscription can lie ahead.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 25, 2024

We aim to remove power from companies, governments, and AI in order to shift all this power to self-sovereign citizens,” the Tribler team explains. Those identifiers are each annotated with a title and represent links to movie trailers, CC-licensed music, and BTC addresses of independent artists,” Pouwelse says.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 30, 2022

According to rightsholders, this type of action is necessary to prevent unauthorized access to pirated movies, TV shows and music, thus boosting legitimate consumption. Spanish Companies Sign Protocol in 2021. The downside is that the associated court processes are complex, expensive, and not particularly timely.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 5, 2024

Spotify, another local phenomenon, played a key role when it specifically targeted pirates; its product is still vastly superior to any music-focused piracy service available anywhere. Swedes and the New Piracy Boogeyman Starting around 2016, give or take depending on region, pirate IPTV services exploded globally.

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IP.com

MARCH 12, 2024

According to a report by SuperData Research , the global gaming market was valued at $159.3 To put that in perspective, the music industry was valued at $19.1 That means the gaming industry is making more than eight times as much money as the music industry and almost four times as much as the movie industry. billion in 2020.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 14, 2023

January: The year kicked off in Tanzania with the news that the Parliamentary Standing Committee in Tanzania received a report from the Ministry of Culture, Arts and Sports addressing its efforts to review and improve the loopholes found in the Copyright Licensing and Rights to Benefit from Re-Sale Regulations, 2022.

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IPilogue

MARCH 14, 2022

and requiring someone to repeat their answer after you zoned out, here is the definition: Non-fungible token (“ NFT ”): a digital asset that represents real-world objects like art, music, in-game items, and videos. Buyers purchase the NFT, which can be sold for the physical item in the image or traded as a digital good.

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SpicyIP

MARCH 28, 2022

She works in a law firm that advises technology companies. News and Views: Copyright Hues and Authors’ Dues. Tensions between news publishers and digital platforms providing search and news aggregation services have been growing globally for years. Aparajita is a lawyer based in Bangalore.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 1, 2022

To the global audience, Ulož.to Like many other file storage platforms, Ulož can be used to share a wide variety of files but according to copyright holders, many people abuse the platform to share pirated music, movies, and TV shows. Hellshare’s parent company I&Q Group said that the first filtering results are positive.

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The IPKat

MAY 22, 2023

This post is brought to you by Oprah Nwobike , who is a lawyer and doctoral researcher at Brunel University London focusing on copyright and artificial intelligence in the music industry, under the supervision of IPKat's Dr Hayleigh Bosher. AI companies take music created by humans and generate ‘new’ AI music based on what has been trained.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

The problem for manga creators and publishers today is that pirates offer their copyrighted content for free in the same global market. companies including Cloudflare, PayPal, Visa, Mastercard, and Google. Once again, the companies requested access to information held by U.S. from which the CDN company emerged with a clear win.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JANUARY 4, 2024

The German law in question excluded broadcasting organisations from the right of fair compensation since they may also sometimes be entitled to a fair compensation as film producers. This was an issue under discussion since broadcasting organisations either do not acquire film producers’ rights or do so only to a very small extent.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

After beginning life as DigitalRights back in 2009, anti-piracy company Rightscorp became known for its cut-price copyright-trolling operations. While some ISPs did indeed forward Rightscorp’s notices, the anti-piracy company couldn’t balance the books with its settlement model and lost millions of dollars.

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Herbert Smith Freehills

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Leading international law firm Herbert Smith Freehills has advised Hipgnosis Songs Fund ("SONG") on its disposal of 29 music catalogues to Hipgnosis Songs Capital ("HSC") for $440 million. This is an unprecedented feature in a disposal by a UK listed company.

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Velocity of Content

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

We see it in the shows and movies that Netflix and Amazon suggest to us and in the music that Spotify or Pandora recommends while we scroll through our playlists. Google — the tool, the term, and the technology — is omnipresent in our collective global culture. This technology is based on our past purchase and usage behaviors.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 5, 2023

When the global music industry declared YouTube-ripping platforms public enemy number one and responsible for most music piracy online, the stage was set for legal showdowns. The RIAA’s position couldn’t be more clear but the system actually belongs to YouTube; did the company design the mechanism to limit copying?

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Of course, the usual suspects such as the MPA, Disney and the Audiovisual Anti-Piracy Alliance are signed up too, but they never appear in the same sentence as Swedish Performing Arts and the Association of Music Festivals. Takedown Now, Removal Right Now, Block Right Now. Association of music festivals. Football DataCo.

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Intepat

JANUARY 24, 2024

*Written by Uttara Nair INTRODUCTION The administration and assignment of intellectual property rights, encompassing patents, copyrights, trademarks, designs, geographical indications, and proprietary knowledge, are critical for all business entities, particularly those in the technology sector. Laws that govern the agreement.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

JANUARY 16, 2024

What are Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs)? Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) refer to the legal rights granted to individuals or businesses for their creations or inventions. Copyrights: Copyrights protect original works of authorship such as software codes, artistic creations, literature, music, films, etc.

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Dragons' Den

APRIL 4, 2024

The couple are asking for £50,000 for an equity stake of 25% with the hope that the support of the dragons will help drive more traffic to the E-commerce website and develop the business into something which can go global. Steady hands Next to face the Dragons are Tori Deely and Carrie Salmon, founders of the company Nailpad.

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IPilogue

JUNE 22, 2022

According to a poll cited by the Canadian Media Producers Association (CMPA), 87% of Canadians believe that foreign-owned web companies such as Apple, Google, and Netflix should be required to play by the same rules as domestic broadcasters. Global News: What’s a Canadian Film? Reactions to the proposed legislation have been mixed.

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Kashishipr

APRIL 6, 2022

In India, a sound that can be graphically represented by a succession of musical notes with or without words can obtain Trademark Protection. ICICI Bank, the leading private sector bank and financial services provider in India, was the first-ever Indian company to register a sound mark as a trademark.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 24, 2022

To the global audience, Ulož.to Like many other file storage platforms, Ulož can be used to share a wide variety of files but according to copyright holders, many people abuse the platform to share pirated music, movies, and TV shows. Czech anti-piracy company Weemazz is one of the outfits that has complained repeatedly.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 15, 2023

Intellectual property rights statutes i.e. the Copyright Act, 1957, the Patents Act, 1970, the Trade Marks Act, 1999 and the Geographical Indications Act, 1999 are among the laws that are proposed to be amended. The Parliament is considering a bill that decriminalises offences across 42 statutes.

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The IPKat

OCTOBER 25, 2022

EVENTS 27 October 2022 | 4iP Council: webinar " IP Waiver in pandemic times " (online) This webinar provides an overview of the challenges during the pandemic and the impact of the TRIPS waiver on innovation, global public health, global collaboration, the patent system, etc. Registrations are available here.

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IIPRD

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Introduction Intellectual property rights (IPR) in e-commerce are a vital component of e-commerce. Musical Arts, designs, pictures, software, material, and many other sorts of Intellectual Property can be transferred using an e-commerce platform in the digital age. IP assets make up the vast majority of the corporate resources.

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