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Are You Sure That’s Free? Content from Others in Your Social Media

McBayer IP Blog

Frequently this takes the form of sharing or reposting content already on social media, sometimes with a creative business-specific twist. More > Tags: Copyright , copyright license , Intellectual Property , Name, Image, and Likeness , Trademark , Trademark Act , trademark infringement

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Company ‘Hijacks’ Blender’s CC BY-Licensed Film, YouTube Strikes User

TorrentFreak

The team at Blender Studio drive Blender development by providing help and training courses to Blender users in an open environment, sharing everything in public and making all content available under free licenses. “The content in my video is owned by Blender Studio who has the full copyright.

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Sky Italia Targets Pirate Streaming App VancedFlix Through GitHub

TorrentFreak

The app openly promotes the availability of free content from paid services such as Netflix, HBO Max, and Disney+ , although the operators suggest that legal responsibility for the streamed content lies with third-party services. “VancedFlix functions just like any other as a search engine, such as Google.

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MANGA Plus Invites Users to Confess Piracy & Name Most-Used Pirate Sites

TorrentFreak

It’s proven popular with fans for the range of free content in multiple languages but for a number of reasons it fails to compete with pirate sites. For example, readers of many series are met with a message stating, Our current license prohibits us from publishing the in-between chapters , a problem pirate sites never face.

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My Testimony to the Colombian Constitutional Court Regarding Online Account Terminations and Content Removals

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

To have enough money to pay for the professionally-produced content, publishers will increasingly adopt subscription models to access the content (sometimes called “paywalls”), which means we will enjoy less free content online.

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27th Annual BTLJ-BCLT Symposium: From the DMCA to the DSA: Keynote and copyright interactions

43(B)log

But commercial users, in the leaked agreements, had their uses blocked/put into commercial review queue to allow rightsholders to go into system and identify high-value users who could afford a license. 17: more money in authors’ pockets by requiring licenses is the aim. Substitutes for fair use. Husovec: Would resist Goldman’s view.