IP Law 360

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

The streaming service Locast said Thursday that it was suspending operations immediately, two days after a federal judge sided with the broadcast networks and ruled that the service was not covered by an obscure copyright exception.

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LexBlog IP

AUGUST 3, 2022

DNS (Domain Name System) services, ordering to block the DNS resolution of several torrent websites. These were found infringing Sony, Universal and Warner’s copyright by illegally making music tracks available to the public. they were instead accessible through the public DNS service provided by Cloudflare.

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LexBlog IP

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Despite the proliferation of streaming services, there’s still a market for broadcast television, as evidenced by the fact that cable packages remain a thing, albeit a diminished thing, and that there are ever more options that offer customers the channels they love served to them over the internet rather than through a cable box.

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LexBlog IP

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

DNS (Domain Name System) services, to block the DNS resolution of several torrent websites (and their aliases ) which were found infringing Sony, Universal and Warner’s copyright by illegally making music tracks available to the public.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2021

A company that owned a website on which it unknowingly displayed a photographer’s photo without authorization could not assert a de minimis defense to copyright infringement, the U.S. De minimis use is not a copyright infringement defense but involves weighing the degree to which a protected work has been copied (Bell v.

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JD Supra Law

APRIL 29, 2022

Summary- The recent ruling of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) in Austro-Mechana (March 24, 2022, C-433/20) sheds light on two open questions: Whether private copies stored in a cloud fall under the EU private copying exception (they do) and whether cloud storage providers have to pay statutory levies for such copies (they might).

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IP and Legal Filings

APRIL 1, 2024

This is quite the picture of how the Indian copyright laws are treating the employees who try to become such exceptional creators. This means that if an employee makes any copyright then the owner would have the title of that intellectual property unless there is an agreement stating otherwise. Unlike the U.S.A.,

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 24, 2024

This worked well, so well that more than a dozen other streaming services were launched, all with their own exclusive releases. And indeed, while most people gladly pay for streaming subscriptions, many use pirate sites and services ‘on the side’ to incidentally watch content from services they’re not already subscribed to.

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JD Supra Law

MARCH 17, 2022

The US Copyright Office issued two final rules for how companies can designate agents to receive claims and how libraries can preemptively opt out of claims before the Copyright Claims Board (CCB). The agency has been drafting rules governing the CCB since it was established in 2020. By: McDermott Will & Emery

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 22, 2024

In recent years, copyright holders have paid close attention to a growing number of large piracy services with connections to Vietnam. BestBuyIPTV is known as one of the most popular IPTV services. It’s a clear signal that online pirate sites and services won’t be tolerated, they say.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 20, 2024

Over the past year, new artificial intelligence tools and services have been surfacing everywhere. This technology, which partly relies on copyrighted recordings, has been controversial for a while. This technology, which partly relies on copyrighted recordings, has been controversial for a while. In a recommendation to the U.S.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 8, 2024

This landmark ruling was appealed and while Cox remains liable for contributory copyright infringement, the damages award may change. For one, there are currently conflicting court of appeals rulings on the “material contribution” aspect of copyright infringement.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

However, that hasn’t stopped copyright holders from sending complaints that urge operators to prevent alleged copyright infringements. In recent years, several gateway operators have received DMCA takedown requests for content available through, but not stored on, their service. “That suggestion is baseless.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 7, 2024

Two billion copyright claims are processed every year through YouTube’s Content ID platform – a staggering figure that underscores the scale of this content management system. Aside from addressing copyright infringements in an automated fashion, the Content ID system brings in billions of dollars in revenue.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 28, 2024

Operating a pirate IPTV service can be a dangerous endeavor, no matter where one’s located. Hollywood Lawsuit Against IPTV Operator The complaint, filed by Hollywood majors including Disney and Warner Bros, as well as streaming giants Amazon and Netflix, accuses the defendant of widespread copyright infringement.

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IP Law 360

MARCH 27, 2024

A New York bankruptcy judge Wednesday said a group of copyright holders can go to trial with claims internet service provider Frontier Communications is liable for failing to cut off customers who downloaded pirated music and movies.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Popular Internet infrastructure service Cloudflare serves millions of customers and provides a variety of connectivity and privacy features to the general public. People can freely use the company’s open DNS resolver 1.1.1.1 , for example, or use its IPFS and Ethereum gateways to access content on these decentralized web services.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 27, 2024

With help from law enforcement in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Argentina, the authorities took down more than a hundred sites and services, while several suspects were arrested. was found guilty of criminal copyright infringement and sentenced to five years and four months in prison.

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The TTABlog

APRIL 26, 2024

A TTAB judge once said to me that one can predict the outcome of a Section 2(d) appeal 95% of the time just by looking at the marks and the involved goods/services. s Text Copyright John L. Here are the three such appeals recently decided by the TTAB. How do you think these three came out? No hints this time. See any non-WYHA?s

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Copyright Alliance

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

They are dedicated to providing “pro bono legal assistance, arts business services, and advocacy to […] The post Community Partner Spotlight: The Ella Project appeared first on Copyright Alliance. Today, we turn the spotlight over to one of our community partners, The Ella Project.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

From the launch of its online streaming service fifteen years ago, Netflix positioned itself as a piracy competitor. New services and distribution models could impact the business of the leading video streaming platform. And because piracy is so compelling for consumers, it is growing rapidly worldwide, threatening legal services.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 19, 2024

copyright law, Internet providers must terminate the accounts of repeat infringers “in appropriate circumstances.” Many ISPs have been reluctant to take such drastic measures, which triggered a wave of copyright infringement lawsuits in recent years with WideOpenWest ( WOW! ) as one of the targets. The movie companies hold WOW!

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IP Watchdog

JANUARY 19, 2023

According to new research released by Corsearch, a significant number of websites engaging in piracy and counterfeiting use Cloudflare’s Content Delivery Network (CDN) services. Cloudflare was detected as providing services to websites that infringed trademarks and copyright six times more than the next service provider.

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43(B)log

JANUARY 25, 2024

At the Berkeley Tech LJ: ABSTRACT The European Union’s Digital Services Act (DSA) offers a new model for regulating online services that allow users to post things. It uses size-based tiers to delineate the different levels of obligation imposed on various services.

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The TTABlog

APRIL 16, 2024

A TTAB judge once said to me that one can predict the outcome of a Section 2(d) appeal 95% of the time just by looking at the marks and the involved goods/services. s Text Copyright John L. Here are the three such appeals recently decided by the TTAB. How do you think these three came out? No hints this time. In re Deidra O.

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IP Law 360

MARCH 15, 2024

Cox Communications, which in part held that the internet service provider was liable for contributing to music copyright infringement, highlights the importance of reasonable policies to terminate repeat infringers, and provides guidance for litigating claims of secondary liability, say Benjamin Marks and Alexandra Blankman at Weil.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 6, 2024

law, online service providers must respond to takedown notices and implement a meaningful policy to terminate the accounts of repeat infringers. In a lawsuit filed at a federal court in Nashville last summer, Universal Music, Sony Music, EMI, and others accused X Corp of “breeding” mass copyright infringement.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 21, 2024

anywhere where they’re reliant on services operated by businesses that already comply with the law and are more likely to take action. Technical solutions may face compliance and regulatory issues, while pirate adversaries remain light on their feet by ignoring them all.

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JD Supra Law

MARCH 6, 2024

Federal trademark registration is typically unavailable for goods and services related to the sale of cannabis. A recent case in California, The Holding Company LLC v.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Lawsuits filed in the United States targeting pirate sites usually focus on breaches of copyright law, typically direct and secondary infringement, or violations of the DMCA, depending on individual circumstances. filed its complaint.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Sharma IPTV Receives All The Wrong Signals In a lawsuit filed at a California court late last week, DISH describes Sharma and his company AVS as traffickers in an illegal streaming service called Sharma IPTV. “Users can access the Service with their own hardware or purchase a set-top box from Defendants for an extra fee. .

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

As I’ve previously written, for many years after the DMCA passed, everyone assumed that 17 USC 512(a) completely shielded Internet access providers from liability for subscribers’ copyright infringements. If 512(a) provided full immunity, the Copyright Alert System was unnecessary and pernicious to both IAPs and their subscribers.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

copyrighted works. “Evidence persists, however, that the digital marketplace for copyrighted content in Canada continues to face challenges in realizing its full potential due to competition from illicit online sources. of Canadians accessed pirate services,” the report notes, citing an IFPI study. In 2022, 22.4%

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 28, 2023

Movie and TV show companies, including Village Roadshow, Universal, Warner, Paramount, Sony, 20th Century Fox, and Disney, sent copyright infringement notices to internet service provider iiNet, demanding action against its pirating subscribers. Authorization, Liability, Safe Harbor Citing various grounds, iiNet refused.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 14, 2022

broadcaster DISH Network has already booked a string of successes against pirate IPTV services this year, securing millions of dollars in damages. The Texas resident stood accused of selling the IPTV service “Super Arab IPTV” or “Super IPTV” through a variety of vendors, including Amazon and Walmart.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 11, 2024

The debate over whether copyright infringement cannibalizes legitimate media consumption has been dragging on for several decades now. However, there are many more nuanced types of copyright infringement, where ‘unauthorized’ use is more likely to have a positive effect.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 15, 2023

As DISH works to track down anonymous operators, of mostly overseas IPTV services being resold in the U.S., District Court for the Eastern District of New York on Wednesday, the complaint speaks of a global pirate IPTV service variously branded as Glo TV, Rays IPTV, and Rays TV.

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