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Forwarding Piracy Warnings Violates Privacy Law, Dutch Court Rules

TorrentFreak

According to Ziggo, linking IP addresses to specific subscribers raises serious privacy concerns, even if the personal information isn’t shared with BREIN. While BREIN has a license to process the personal information of alleged infringers, Ziggo doesn’t. This was a severe setback for the anti-piracy group.

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Cloudflare liable for copyright infringement by providing CDN services but not for DNS resolver services

The IPKat

Every domain has a unique Internet Protocol (‘IP’) address, consisting of four numbers. The job of a DNS resolver service is to connect the domain name with the IP address. The plaintiff sued Cloudflare for copyright infringement. Copyright infringement on ddl-music.to DNS means ‘domain name system’.

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Mega: 144,000+ Users Have Been Terminated For Repeat Copyright Infringement

TorrentFreak

Copyright Infringement & Content Removal. Right from the beginning, Mega has been promoted as a privacy platform, meaning that not even the company itself is able to look at what content is being stored on its servers. “As at 30th September 2021, Mega had suspended 144,813 users for repeated copyright infringement.

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Internet Intermediaries And Contributory Copyright Infringement

Intepat

Due to the fact that it is not practicable for copyright owners to detect and fine-tooth comb all the individual users, copyright owners depend on and hold liable the internet intermediaries that allow pirated works to exist. Internet intermediaries can be liable for contributory copyright infringement.

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This Week in Washington IP: Potential Impacts of the Copyright Claims Board, Developments in AI Tech and the USPTO’s Inaugural AI/ET Partnership Meeting

IP Watchdog

This week in Washington IP news, subcommittee hearings at the U.S. House of Representatives will explore the leading role that Michigan has taken in addressing cybersecurity risks in state and local governments, as well as ways to promote data privacy despite the growth of biometric tracking systems.

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3 Count: Public Telegram

Plagiarism Today

1: T elegram Shares Users Data in Copyright Violation Lawsuit. First off today, Manish Singh at TechCrunch reports that the messaging platform Telegram has disclosed names, phone numbers and IP addresses of administrators that are accused of operating copyright-infringing channels on the service.

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2021 IP Year in Review

IPilogue

Pina D’Agostino is the Founder and Director of IP Osgoode, the IP Intensive Program, and the IP Innovation Clinic, the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of the IPilogue, the Deputy Editor of the Intellectual Property Journal, and an Associate Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School. Is GitHub’s New Feature a Copyright Infringer?

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