TorrentFreak
SEPTEMBER 8, 2022
So-called copyright trolls come in all shapes and sizes and while most have a cynical approach to copyright law, some are prepared to go to extremes. The most notable case in the United States involved Prenda Law. Two lawyers were later sentenced to prison, one of them for 14 years. Big Crimes Deserve Heavy Sentences.
TorrentFreak
MAY 17, 2022
Long before the advent of legitimate online video streaming services, torrent sites and similar platforms allowed users to download and keep copies of movies and TV shows. Services like Netflix have sought to mimic some of these benefits by allowing content to be played on most devices and even downloaded for offline viewing.
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Michael Geist
OCTOBER 16, 2023
Since the Canadian copyright law reforms in 2012, education and libraries have increased spending on licensing and a non-partisan House of Commons study found no need to create new restriction on education and library copying rights. She joins the Law Bytes podcast to discuss the CFLA statement and copyright law in Canada.
TorrentFreak
MAY 2, 2022
The pirated copy – complete with Russian dubbing – was downloaded from an unnamed torrent site. ” Noting that there have been no changes to Russian copyright law that permit piracy, the Association says that unlicensed screenings breach both civil and criminal law.
IP and Legal Filings
APRIL 19, 2022
Although Section 81 of the IT Act specifies that the prohibitions of Section 79 do not preclude anyone from exercising any rights allowed under the Copyright Act 1957, intermediaries are exempted from accountability for copyright infringement. As a result, the IT Act’s obligations have precedence over all other laws.
Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog
FEBRUARY 11, 2022
Given the fact that the copyright law was originally framed to protect literary and artistic works, it needs to be seen how much the law has evolved to grant protection to digitalized works. Kind of Copyright Infringement. The International Conventions on copyright law do provide certain protection to digitalized works.
SpicyIP
OCTOBER 9, 2022
Entertainment Software Association , recently held that ‘making available’ a music stream online and a subsequent act of streaming / downloading the music are not subject to two separate royalties. On the other hand, if the e-book is made available for downloading, the copyright owner’s ‘right to authorise reproduction’ is engaged.
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