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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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Spicy IP Weekly Review (November 16- November 21)

SpicyIP

Ruchi Sharma highlights a few findings of the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister’s report “Why India Needs To Urgently Invest In Its Patent Ecosystem?” and emphasizes on the need to facilitate data access by IPO for the betterment of the national innovation system, something which the above report is silent on.

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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.