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BREIN Pulled 610 Pirate Sites and Services Offline Last Year

TorrentFreak

BREIN has just published its latest annual report, providing insights into the priorities of the organization and the progress being made. For example, BREIN also completed 41 settlement agreements, mostly with site operators or uploaders. BREIN tends to be fairly pragmatic with its settlement approach.

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Book review and discount code: Commercialising Celebrity Persona

The IPKat

Bloomsbury publishing have kindly provided IPKat readers who would like to purchase this book with a 20% discount. The book examines how the advertising, merchandising, film and television, and sports video-games industries use persona as a key component of their products. The code can be found below.

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Four Tet’s Successful Royalty Battle: Are Changes Coming in the Music Industry for Royalty Payment?

IPilogue

For licences, it was understood that the third party licensing the music, such as for a movie, television show, or advertisement, would take on the extra costs, allowing for an artist to receive a higher royalty rate from the record label. for songwriters/publishers. Domino also paid Four Tet £56,921.08 Future Impacts.

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adult venue's insurer did not successfully exclude ads from ad injury coverage

43(B)log

After settlement negotiations (including Wonderland’s separate counsel), Wonderland agreed to a judgment for $1.895 million, with a covenant not to execute and an assignment of rights against Princeton to the models in lieu of payment. That a party may have opposed a settlement does not render a settlement fraudulent or collusive.

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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

The approach has huge implications: it means there are no standards for news organizations, it could lead to foreign services forum shopping into the Canadian system, it may exclude legitimate, smaller Canadian organizations who don’t meet the employee threshold, and it opens the door to television and radio broadcasters.

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Hollywood Anti-Piracy Units Become Stars in MPA Media Charm Offensive

TorrentFreak

When investigations are over, sensitive settlement agreements prevent any of the parties – ACE, MPA, and pirates alike – from revealing anything that hasn’t been cleared by air-tight legal agreements. While investigations are underway, ACE is unfailingly professional, which means it gives away absolutely nothing.

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IT’S THE COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT FOR ME: WHY CLAIMS AGAINST MEME CONTENT SHOULD NOT MATTER

JIPL Online

Memes utilize pop culture content, such as movies, television shows, and other various forms of media, often in a parodic way. Miceli, Law and Economics: Private and Public 23 (West Academic Publishing 2018). [v] xxii] Keyboard Cat Wins a Settlement with Maker of the Game “Scribblenauts” , THE SPOKESMAN-REV. By: Taylor Bussey.