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Potential Impact on Major Pirate Sites as Vietnam ISPs Face New Responsibilities

TorrentFreak

After spending more than 16 years implementing intellectual property laws introduced in 2005, amendments to intellectual property law in Vietnam came into effect on January 1, 2023. The new law requires ISPs to verify their customers’ identities when they first register for an account.

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Copyright case law of the German Bundesgerichtshof 2015 – 2019 – Part 3 of 4: Related rights and exceptions and limitations

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Parts 1 and 2 of this post (originally published in “Auteurs & Media”) summarising case law of the German Bundesgerichtshof from 2015 to 2019 are available here and here , and part 4 will be published on the blog shortly. Related rights. More from our authors: Law of Raw Data. by Christopher Heath. €

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The European Audiovisual Observatory publishes the Mapping report on national remedies against online piracy of sports content

Kluwer Copyright Blog

In the light of the above-mentioned results, gathered through the submission of the questionnaire and the examination of relevant studies on the national remedies against copyright infringement and the related national case-law (for instance see Campus, G. More from our authors: Law of Raw Data. and Bulayenko, O.,

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The Five Essential Copyright-Related Terms You Need to Know

Kashishipr

Copyright’s relationship to IP is that it is just another form of IP, like trademarks, patents, and industrial designs. When you enforce your copyright, you enforce your copyright-related rights, which fall under Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs).

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EU copyright law round up – fourth trimester of 2021

Kluwer Copyright Blog

This seems to have pushed EU Member States towards compliance – the latest examples here are the Irish European Union (Copyright and Related Rights in the Digital Single Market) Regulations 2021 (19 November), the Italian Decree (published on 27 November), and the Estonian Act implementing the Directive (8 December). Stay tuned!

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Copyright case law of the German Bundesgerichtshof 2015 – 2019 – Part 4 of 4: Copyright contract law and enforcement

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Claims under copyright law. In Germany, in the case of copyright infringements, Section 97(1) and (2) UrhG provides for claims to be asserted for injunctive relief and damages. In 2015, the BGH ruled that managing directors have limited liability in copyright matters.

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Is the Spanish implementation of Art. 17 CDSM compatible with EU Law?

Kluwer Copyright Blog

To be sure, Recital 66 CDSMD notes that “[the liability mechanism] should be without prejudice to remedies under national law for cases other than liability for copyright infringements and to national courts or administrative authorities being able to issue injunctions in compliance with Union law.”

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