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Anti-Piracy Veteran Tim Kuik Retires After Leading BREIN for a Quarter Century

TorrentFreak

Speaking with TorrentFreak, Kuik recalls that the home video market was just opening up. Initially, movie studios saw videotapes as a threat, but they soon realized that they could market official movies to consumers as well, which proved to be a new source of revenue. secures structural employment in content creation and distribution.

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OTT Platforms and Digital Piracy

Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

Undoubtedly, the OTT broadcasting market is one of the world’s largest media markets. The potential flow of advertisement traffic for this content makes them lucrative assets for any commercial establishment. Video content creation involves substantial investment.

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Social Media Giants and Copyright: Instagram’s Ninth Circuit Win Sets Precedent Against Photographers

The IP Law Blog

By: Weintraub Tobin Summer Associate Josh Concepcion The Ninth Circuit recently revisited the issue of “embedding” content by a website and its implication for copyright infringement claims. the website displaying that copyrighted image cannot be held liable for infringement.

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Generative AI: the US class action against Google Bard (and other AI tools) for web scraping

Kluwer Copyright Blog

It could also undercut the commercial market for books and works already created; this is because, on demand, the Products are able not only to summarize books in detail, chapter by chapter, but also to regenerate the text of books (§ I.B.110-111). 110-111).

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Social Media Giants and Copyright: Instagram’s Ninth Circuit Win Sets Precedent Against Photographers

LexBlog IP

By: Weintraub Tobin Summer Associate Josh Concepcion The Ninth Circuit recently revisited the issue of “embedding” content by a website and its implication for copyright infringement claims. the website displaying that copyrighted image cannot be held liable for infringement.

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TIME TO CUT THE MUSIC?: TWITCH’S UNFAIR SOLUTION TO AN INEVITABLE DIGITAL MILLENIUM COPYRIGHT ACT PROBLEM

JIPL Online

ii] These events were sudden and came as a shock to the platform’s creators who were given no opportunity to submit counternotifications or edit their content to remove the allegedly infringing material per the provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (the “DMCA”) and Twitch’s own DMCA Guidelines. [iv]

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Court Says No Human Author, No Copyright (but Human Authorship of GenAI Outputs Remains Uncertain) (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

While most companies and creators have been focused on the infringement risks raised by the use of generative AI tools, few have thought through their own ability to protect IP they create using those tools moving forward. That’s because the court repeatedly says numerous times in different ways: no human creation = no copyright.