Copyright Lately

MAY 13, 2022

Josh Hawley’s proposed copyright legislation is riddled with problems, but you wouldn’t know that from most media reports about the bill. But you’d never know that by the way much of the media reported on Hawley’s legislation this week. special copyright protections.” Disney of its?

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The IPKat

MAY 7, 2024

Kat (re-)unification Should the EU unify the copyright laws of its Member States and introduce, over thirty years after the start of the harmonization process, a unitary copyright title? Just a few examples: in 2010, the Wittem Group of academics released a model EU copyright code. The short answer is: yes.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 31, 2024

Each year around the end of January, the Office of the United States Trade Representative ( USTR ) publishes its annual review of so-called ‘notorious markets’ known for their connections to intellectual property crime. reappeared in the report last year. After an unexplained absence in 2021, YTS.mx

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Every year, the Office of the United States Trade Representative ( USTR ) publishes a list of ‘notorious markets’ that facilitate online piracy and related intellectual property crimes. For more than a decade we have covered the online part of the report. In recent years, the scope of the report has broadened.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 8, 2024

Late last month we reported on the latest copyright claim data made available by YouTube. Given the upward trajectory, soon there will be a billion Content ID copyright claims every six months, which rounds to over two billion claims every year. A massive surge in reports filed by Google could be at least partly responsible.

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 19, 2022

1: Government Pauses Plans to Rewrite UK Copyright Laws After Authors Protest. The rule, entitled copyright exhaustion, places limits on the import of international editions of books. Without this rule, many authors fear the UK market would be flooded with cheaper international copies. Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Earlier this month, several prominent copyright holder groups sent their annual “notorious markets” recommendations to the U.S. Government uses these documents as input for its yearly review of notorious piracy markets, which aims to provide an overview of threats to various copyright industries.

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The IPKat

APRIL 30, 2024

Should the EU unify copyright laws? The session started with the highly disputed topic of copyright unification with Prof. see Katpost here ) When finally addressing the question, "Should the EU unify copyright laws?" the PermaKat stated loud and clear, and I quote: “The short answer is: yes!

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JANUARY 20, 2022

At the end of 2021, YouTube’s first Copyright Transparency Report 2021 (“Report”) was published. It is interesting to look at this Report against the background of the 2019 EU rules for the liability of platforms like YouTube through the famous Art. It is the first ever report by YouTube on copyright actions.

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Corsearch

JANUARY 23, 2024

However, whilst international trade fosters economic growth and exchange, it also creates opportunities for grey market goods to emerge. Table of contents : • What is the grey market? • Supply chain inefficiencies: Misallocation of products or product returns can lead to grey market sales.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 21, 2023

Popular Internet infrastructure service Cloudflare has come under a lot of pressure from copyright holders in recent years. There’s no question that death threats are in a league of their own, but copyright holders would also like to see more cooperation from Cloudflare. Corsearch is no stranger to copyright issues.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

In its yearly “Out-of-Cycle Review of Notorious Markets”, the United States Trade Representative (USTR) lists a few dozen websites said to be involved in piracy or counterfeiting. The overview is largely based on input from copyright industry groups, including the RIAA and MPA, that submitted their recommendations late last year.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 9, 2024

In a report released today they reveal that there were 141 billion video piracy visits globally in 2023, a 12% increase since 2019. It’s not clear why the report uses a comparison base this far out. The reported visits for 2023 are up roughly 10% when compared to previously released data for 2022.

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The IPKat

AUGUST 31, 2023

As previously reported for the IPKat here , the UK Science, Innovation and Technology Select Committee recently conducted an inquiry into the impact of AI on several sectors. This Kat gave evidence at the Inquiry in the session focusing on the impact of AI on copyright and the creative industries (you can watch the session here ).

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 29, 2021

The European Commission’s Directorate-General for Taxation and Customs Union ( DG TAXUD ) and the European Union Intellectual Property Office ( EUIPO ) recently released the first joint annual report on EU enforcement of intellectual property rights: results at the EU border and in the EU internal market 2020.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 1, 2024

In this case, eight major news publications are suing OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement. In addition, ChatGPT can recall large parts of their copyright-protected articles, which effectively bypasses their paywalls. The plaintiffs show that ChatGPT can reproduce content from copyrighted news articles when prompted.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Just a few days ago we reported how ACE was instrumental in shutting down pirate streaming services in Latin America. Notorious Markets. This is apparent from the latest overview of ‘notorious markets’ that was just submitted to the US Trade Representative ( USTR ). and Amaratu are two such examples, the MPA reports.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 24, 2023

Security Department’s Email Gets Leaked When Globo broadcast BBB22 last year, the company decided to loosen its copyright policy. “Digital piracy causes several damages to the market and the entertainment industry is especially affected by it,” the translation reads. So what can Globo staff do to help?

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Velocity of Content

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The 2023 edition of the Global 50 Publishing Ranking is a story of marketplaces that comes with a few twists, says Rüdiger Wischenbart , author of the annual report on publishing markets and business performance. Data is extensive on the world’s largest publishers, yet insufficient for the nontraditional self-publishing market.

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

These are some highlights from the recently released report from E&Y titled ‘ The Rise of Music Publishing in India ’ based on figures by the Indian Performing Right Society (IPRS) (the copyright society concerned with music publishing). speech in the Parliament while introducing the Copyright (Amendment) Bill 2012.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 1, 2024

In this case, eight major news publications are suing OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement. In addition, ChatGPT can recall large parts of their copyright-protected articles, which effectively bypasses their paywalls. The plaintiffs show that ChatGPT can reproduce content from copyrighted news articles when prompted.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

In 2019, the EU’s Copyright in the Digital Single Market Directive (CDSMD) was adopted. This included the highly controversial Articles 15 and 17 on, respectively, the new press publishers’ right (PPR) and the new copyright liability scheme for “online content-sharing services providers” (OCSSPs). Mere facts”.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 10, 2023

While entrepreneurs and the public at large are mostly focused on the new possibilities the technology offers, many copyright holders are focused on potential threats. but the RIAA mainly sees copyright troubles with the Amazon-hosted service. Voicify.ai On top of that, the voice models infringe the artists’ rights of publicity.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2022

In 2019, the EU’s Copyright in the Digital Single Market Directive (CDSMD) was adopted. This included the highly controversial Articles 15 and 17 on, respectively, the new press publishers’ right (PPR) and the new copyright liability scheme for OCSSPs (“online content-sharing services providers”).

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IP Watchdog

MARCH 23, 2022

The European Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) recently published a deep dive report, titled Study on the Impact of Artificial Intelligence on the Infringement and Enforcement of Copyright and Designs. The report is a product of the Impact of Technology Expert Group, which was established in early 2019.

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Velocity of Content

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Fast-paced organizations that rely on and invest heavily in R&D should not only regard published content as the heart of innovation, but also possess a deep appreciation of the system of copyright protecting this intellectual property. How Do Different Departments Use the Annual Copyright License?

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

StreamSafely: How it All Began The people who came up with the StreamSafely campaign and still run it today are collectively known as Ctam Cable Marketing Association Inc. , As the current member list shows, cable marketing has considerable scope. and Microsoft Corporation,” Blacklight’s report reads.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Running parallel to these huge successes, reported consumption of pirate IPTV services in Italy apparently increased year -on- year according to studies commissioned by rightsholders. Before Piracy Shield even existed as a market-ready product, big claims about what this type of system could achieve were regular parts of the discussion.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JANUARY 4, 2024

Welcome to the fourth (and last) round up of EU copyright law for 2023! In this edition, we update you on what has happened in the last three months of 2024 in EU copyright law. One highlight from the report is that global collections for creators reached a new historical record of €12.1 billion in 2022, growing 26.7%

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

This post looks back at the key developments in AI and copyright in 2022, covering generative AI, text and data mining exceptions, the pastiche exception, deep fakes, voice cloning and infringement and enforcement of copyright using AI. Very few jurisdictions expressly provide for copyright in computer-generated works.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 25, 2024

Over the same period, however, the government’s messaging around Canada’s AI- copyright policy has been anything but consistent. It is unclear whether the use of copyrighted works for training an AI system is considered copyright infringement if the…owner’s permission is not obtained.…

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

In order to train their technologies, should AI companies be allowed to use works under copyright protection without consent? Such uses, they argue, constitute copyright infringement. As in the present context, the initial concern of copyright holders was that their consent had not been acquired by Google prior to scanning their works.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 9, 2023

TLDR Generative AI is one of the hot topics in copyright law today. In the EU, a crucial legal issue is whether using in-copyright works to train generative AI models is copyright infringement or falls under existing text and data mining (TDM) exceptions in the Copyright in Digital Single Market (CDSM) Directive.

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Velocity of Content

MARCH 14, 2023

Your employees and copyright awareness – sharing your policy may not be enough. Trends reported in the latest Information Seeking and Consumption Study, published by analyst firm Outsell, Inc. Do Your Employees Understand Your Company’s Copyright Policies?

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TorrentFreak

MAY 25, 2024

Good news concerning AI development often finds itself dampened by reports of models hallucinating, providing misleading responses, or simply inventing facts that are anything but. ” From our admittedly very narrow perspective, that proposition couldn’t be more ironic. But, more often than not, they do no such thing.

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 13, 2024

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) and the United States Copyright Office (“USCO”) delivered a report to Congress entitled Non-Fungible Tokens and Intellectual Property on March 12, 2024 (“Report”). NFTs may offer opportunities for U.S. resale royalties).

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IP Watchdog

APRIL 27, 2022

The Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) released its annual Special 301 Report today, which identified 27 trading partners of the United States as being either on the “Priority Watch List” or “Watch List.” persons relying on IP,” according to the Report.

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