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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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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. But see yesterday’s discussion of ©.]