Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Photo by Udo Pohlmann via Pixabay Over the last decades, European lawyers got used to the – at times remarkable and even forceful – interventions of the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) in copyright law. An NGO makes his entire work available for download. He sues for copyright infringement and claims damages.

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SpicyIP

OCTOBER 9, 2022

Entertainment Software Association , recently held that ‘making available’ a music stream online and a subsequent act of streaming / downloading the music are not subject to two separate royalties. On the other hand, if the e-book is made available for downloading, the copyright owner’s ‘right to authorise reproduction’ is engaged.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 17, 2022

Up until a decade ago, this piracy landscape was dominated by torrent sites and direct download portals. This is also what James Gibson , Professor of Law at Richmond University, hinted at. Unlike downloading pirated movies, consuming pirated streams isn’t a clear violation of copyright law. No Lasting Copy.

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Plagiarism Today

MAY 11, 2022

Josh Hawley’s Move to Strip Disney’s Copyrights Called ‘Blatantly Unconstitutional’. He claims that it aims to revoke Disney’s “special” copyright protections though the law would rewrite copyright law for all creators. He was accused of downloading some 11 pirated videos. According to Sen.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

‘Library Genesis,’ or ‘Libgen’ for short, is a group of pirate websites through which a vast array of written material is illegally copied and distributed online without any authorization, and with no remuneration to copyright holders.” ” “The scale of Defendants’ infringement is staggering. .

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 23, 2023

Downloading a track takes about the same time as a shrug of the shoulders followed by an internal “who cares?” “Is it legal to download music from YouTube?” ” is always popular, along with its self-focused twin sister, “Can I get caught downloading music from YouTube?” copyright law.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 12, 2023

From the diametrically opposed view of the plaintiffs, the defendants willfully made copies thousands of recordings to which they own the copyrights. The digitized copies were then uploaded to the Internet Archive from where they were illegally distributed to users of the website millions of times.

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Velocity of Content

JANUARY 9, 2024

Ignoring Copyright is Risky Business Research in the life sciences depends in part on the ability to acquire and share scientific information, particularly journal articles, in a timely manner. When an article is purchased for download, it is typically only authorized for the use of the individual user who purchased it.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Summary of argument: The constitutional goal of copyright protection is to “promote the progress of science and useful arts,” Art. 8, and the first copyright law was “an act for the encouragement of learning,” Cambridge University Press v. It is that functionality, and not the copying, to which Apple truly objects.

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 16, 2024

The libraries use this concept of CDL justify the mass digitalization of copyright works digital versions of their legally obtained items and lending them to patrons in a controlled manner. This rule covers lending digital copies of copyrighted works, while works in the public domain can be freely digitized.

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Velocity of Content

JANUARY 25, 2024

“Is offshoring the training of AI a credible and efficient response to minimize copyright compliance risks or is offshoring merely a theoretical argument designed to both influence lawmakers and for government relations purposes?” Artificial Intelligence (AI) is global, and copyright laws are national.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Downloading a Pluto TV.m3u playlist takes a second and they can be used in anything from VLC Media Player to systems like TVHeadEnd , which enables streaming to locations in a network, no official apps required. The GitHub repo shown below used to offer Pluto TV playlists for download before suddenly experiencing issues last week.

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 3, 2022

The lawsuit claimed that the site was offering illegal downloads of their books and specifically targeted two Ukrainian nationals as the operators. Copyright Law, works lapse into the public domain on January First of the year their copyright expires. Milne’s book Winnie the Pooh.

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The IP Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Specifically, copyright protection attaches to the original, creative work when it is fixed in a tangible medium, such as when it is written, drawn, recorded digitally, or typed electronically. Further, only a modicum, or small amount, of creativity is required for copyright protection to attach.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

While millions of people have no qualms about downloading music, movies and TV shows for free, there are also large numbers of students who feel completely justified in obtaining textbooks without paying for them. “In short, copying e-books is illegal if you do not own the rights to them.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 31, 2022

In common with other countries attempting to reduce their movie and TV show piracy problem, India has provisions in copyright law that allow rightsholders to limit access to pirate sites. Section 66 clarifies that if this is done dishonestly or fraudulently, a fine or prison sentence is available ( pdf ).

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JULY 20, 2022

Since the underlying asset in NFTs is primarily art, disputes in relation to NFTs bring up interesting questions pertaining to copyright law, the answers to which have the potential to shape the evolution and growth of NFTs as a medium to create, distribute and collect art. The reproduction right. The distribution right.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 14, 2024

The Internet provider argues that this case isn’t merely about nuances of copyright law and associated liability, it’s much bigger than that. — A copy of Cox’s petition for a rehearing en banc is available here (pdf) and the record labels’ petition can be found here (pdf).

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 10, 2022

Bungie’s claims were underpinned by alleged breaches of copyright law, including the DMCA’s anti-circumvention provisions. ” The defendants argued that during the development of the cheating software, no copies of Destiny 2 were made or distributed, and no derivative works were created. 1201(a) and (b) ).

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IIPRD

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

RIGHTS PROTECTED : Under this law Copyright law protects the copyright of authors, musicians, etc. Copyright is essentially a right to copy. Copyright is a term describing rights given to creators for their literary and artistic works.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 4, 2024

In 2022, a platform called Pirate Library Mirror appeared on the scene, courting controversy right from the start after obtaining a full copy of Z-Library before the site’s legal troubles began. “We deliberately violate the copyright law in most countries. million papers for download. million books and 99.4

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 11, 2023

Uberspace Responds to Court Verdict For starters, Pasche still doesn’t believe that it’s clear that youtube-dl violates copyright law. German law requires hosting companies to remove the content as soon as they learn about ‘clear’ or ‘obvious’ illegal activity. .

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Plagiarism Today

JULY 29, 2021

In November 2020, the RIAA filed a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) takedown notice against a GitHub project named youtube-dl, which enables the downloading of YouTube videos. It’s unclear how many of those notices deal with Section 1201 disputes versus more traditional issues of copied code and other content.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 9, 2022

“Downloading and sharing files via torrent is a violation of copyright law. It means that you may be punished by law. million in copyright damages, bringing the total to nearly $10 million. From: TF , for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more. That’s why you need a Popcorn Time VPN.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

According to Defendants’ policies, Defendants reserve the right “to remove or block access to, either permanently or temporarily, any files which [Defendants] suspect[ ] or which a third party alleges are associated with a violation of the law[.]”. Some lowlights from the opinion: Direct infringement.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

As per legal requirements, Github complied with the takedown demand but, as TF noted at the time , the team behind the projects had the option of filing a DMCA counter-notice if it was confident that its work is permitted under copyright law. Take-Two’s copyright infringement complaint can be found here (pdf).

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IP and Legal Filings

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Napster was an online platform used to download and access compressed digital music files in MP3 formats, making it one of the most popular peer to peer services in 1999. The Napster case gained immense popularity since it explored the intersection of copyright laws and peer-to-peer file sharing systems.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 19, 2024

copyright law, Internet providers must terminate the accounts of repeat infringers “in appropriate circumstances.” Many ISPs have been reluctant to take such drastic measures, which triggered a wave of copyright infringement lawsuits in recent years with WideOpenWest ( WOW! ) as one of the targets.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

The IIPA notes that China has made some progress recently, such as copyright law amendments introducing broadcasting and public performance rights for producers of sound recordings. In addition, the maximum punitive damages for copyright infringers in China was increased ten-fold. ” Baidu.

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Velocity of Content

MARCH 16, 2023

I have often felt, however, that these issues were a bit of a misdirection, with at least part of the tech community treating the copyright community like dogs distracted by squirrels. Each of these cases is unique, fact dependent, and likely, if fully litigated on the merits, to shed light on different aspects of copyright law.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Triller’s allegation, that Ethan Klein admitted that the copy of the fight he watched was pirated, does not amount to anything since viewing such content is not an offense, the defendants argued. ‘Unlisted’ Video Was a “Bootlegged” Copy. “But Defendants did not do this.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

“We deliberately violate the copyright law in most countries. This included archiving a full copy of Z-Library, which was completed in September. . This includes direct downloads through Library Genesis forks and Z-Library, two well-known shadow libraries. In addition, torrent links are included as well.

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The IPKat

JANUARY 17, 2024

The book that is going to change copyright law? After the referrals in Mio [IPKat here and here ] and USM Haller [IPKat here ] , another referral asking about the meaning of originality in EU copyright law has been made to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU): it is the referral from Romania in Institutul G.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Under US copyright law, Internet providers must terminate the accounts of repeat infringers “in appropriate circumstances.”. However, an IP address is not sufficient to prove that subscribers downloaded any infringing material, the ISP claims, pointing to the ‘Cobbler’ case.

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Stream ripping” allows a song/video to be converted into a downloadable audio file from a streaming platform. It is pertinent to note that the use of the downloaded copies of the copyrighted works could also be for purely legitimate purposes allowed by copyright law, such as fair dealing and non-infringing purposes.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 20, 2022

. “Additionally, at the website [link] Defendant VeePN promotes itself as ‘Popcorn Time VPN,’ explicitly stating that: ‘Downloading and sharing files via torrent is a violation of copyright law. It means that you may be punished by law.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 12, 2022

When enacting these provisions, Congress understood that technological protection measures would support new ways of distributing copyrighted materials. For many copyright law is a mere inconvenience, text on a page to be shrugged at, if read at all. Right To Repair Would Not Increase Streaming Piracy.

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