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MANGA Plus Invites Users to Confess Piracy & Name Most-Used Pirate Sites

TorrentFreak

However, powered by a global Internet and passionate fans with translation abilities, scanned copies of manga titles first trickled and then flooded into the West, creating a massive market and future demand for this Japanese cultural product where none previously existed. Competing With Piracy.

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Company ‘Hijacks’ Blender’s CC BY-Licensed Film, YouTube Strikes User

TorrentFreak

.” According to some, this almost utopian model with ‘free’ and ‘sharing’ underpinning everything, had no chance of survival. Right now, a company is claiming that Blender’s free content is actually their content and as a result, must be immediately removed from the internet.

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Spicy IP Weekly Review (November 16- November 21)

SpicyIP

Pikashow is an app which claims to provide free content of known OTT platforms. It is worth noting that the above order was passed, despite the Defendant’s plea that it has not received any copy of the Plaint and other documents. Vintage Distillers Limited vs Ramesh Chand Parekh on 16 November, 2022 (Delhi High Court).

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27th Annual BTLJ-BCLT Symposium: From the DMCA to the DSA: Keynote and copyright interactions

43(B)log

In Council, we had proposals for staydown; Netherlands asked for a modest duty of care; Germans wanted a 24-hour deadline copying NetzDG; Parliament wanted liability exemption for marketplaces except for illegality; staydown; and prohibition of automated filtering that would have prevented spam filters.