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Once Branded Notorious Pirates, Sites Agree to Filter Out Pirated TV Shows

TorrentFreak

Later in 2012, the RIAA submitted its regular report to the United States Trade Representative, requesting various sites to be branded notorious pirate markets. Servicing the local market in the Czech Republic, the platforms also rewarded uploaders based on the popularity of their files. Time to Start Filtering Uploads.

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‘Pirated’ TikTok Clips Help to Promote TV Series, Research Finds

TorrentFreak

They called for platforms like TikTok to actively detect and remove unauthorized film and television content,” the researchers recall. Effects of User-Generated Condensed Clips on Demand for Streaming Services , which will be published in the academic journal Marketing Science.

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Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez’s Credibility Problem, Part Two: Misleading and Missing Data on Bill C-18

Michael Geist

The number of media outlets – newspapers, television, radio stations, and news websites – that have closed between 2008 and last August is 468, and 78 of them closed since the beginning of the pandemic. It suggests that the existing supports may have addressed much of the concern and helped to stabilize the market.

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Why the Online News Act is a Bad Solution to a Real Problem, Part Six: CBC Eligibility Harms News Competition and Its Public Interest Mandate

Michael Geist

Indeed, critics will rightly note the market distortion it creates for private entities who stand to lose further advertising-related revenues to the CBC, while supporters should be concerned that the bill undermines the CBC’s claim to a public interest role and makes an ad-free version of the service even less likely.

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Rogers v Grimaldi doesn't apply to alcohol, but Peaky Blinders still can't get injunction

43(B)log

It submitted 14 social media posts “which it contends shows consumers and retailers attributed a particular source to Defendants’ liquor and Plaintiff’s television show.” There was also coverage by The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, LA Times, Rolling Stone, Variety, Vox, and Mashable. But this didn’t show source significance.

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Digging Into the Government’s Online News Act Claims, Part One: Compensation For “Use” of News Content

Michael Geist

It is a market-based solution that involves minimal government intervention, and I think everyone in this place can agree on that. It is a market-based solution that involves minimal government intervention, and I think everyone in this place can agree on that. That is what Bill C-18 would do. It is simple.

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Would it be SMART to Tweak the DMCA?

Velocity of Content

In mass media, Walt Disney Company, proprietor of “The Happiest Place on Earth” ®, had recently (1995) acquired the ABC television network, and Marvel was still mostly a comic book company, and just emerging from bankruptcy and reorganization. Marvel’s first widely successful superhero film, Blade , was released in August.