TorrentFreak

JUNE 22, 2023

This is a highly controversial topic in the music industry, with many insiders suggesting that commercial use of these models could breach copyright law. Exactly what is allowed and what isn’t is a topic of legislative debate. Whether the voice models are the main issue here is unclear.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Traditionally, that includes prominent torrent sites, download portals, cyberlockers, and streaming services that offer copyrighted content without obtaining permission from rightsholders. The USTR lists Lalastreams / istream2watch.com as a family of sports streaming sites. In recent years, the scope of the report has broadened.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

Half of the respondents also claimed that someone in their household had purchased music, movies, TV series or computer games from an online store this year, that’s up from 42% in 2020. Illegal Streaming and Downloading. Around 6% admitted to downloading pirated music, movies, TV shows or computer games.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 28, 2021

During the COVID pandemic, studios including Disney, NBCUniversal, and Warner Bros have premiered titles on streaming services and at the box office at the same time. Release windows have been a topic of debate for decades. A quick comparison to the music industry makes this clear. However, not everyone is happy. Warner Bros. ).

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The IPKat

NOVEMBER 4, 2023

He summarises the history of copyright over the last few decades as “massive lobbying by the music, film and publishing industries” which has led to laws that “extend copyright in multiple ways, and strengthen the penalties for infringing upon it, including criminal ones.”

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

The findings show that 12% of all ads on pirate streaming sites are linked to malware. ering them ‘free content,’ including the latest movies, music, and television shows. ” Based on these rudimentary comparisons, pirate streaming sites were previously much riskier than in this latest report.

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The IPKat

JULY 7, 2023

The last panel of the day explored the fact that the Metaverse could provide another hurdle in the rights linked to the music licensing process. The Metaverse, at the moment is seen as a gaming platform rather than a streaming services. The Metaverse, at the moment is seen as a gaming platform rather than a streaming services.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

From the printing press, through cassette tapes, to online video streaming services, all were seen as major threats to the revenues of copyright holders at some point. Pirate streaming services are still a problem today, for example, but the same can’t be said for Netflix and Spotify.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Those include, music, movie characters, costumes, and stories. Though not a deep article, it’s an interesting overview of the topic and a look at the copyright challenges we face running our small haunted house. This means that you are free to download, stream, publicly perform or do anything with these works.

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The IPKat

JULY 25, 2021

The Tiroler Adler may fly, but the Tiroler Katze prefers to snooze The IPKat served as a platform for reporting and debate on a range of topics last week, not least through the range of guest posts published. and Yogesh Pai arguing that the exercise is futile and Murali Neelakantan and Siva Thambisetty responding.

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The IPKat

OCTOBER 25, 2022

The topic of the 28 October session is " Researching transnational law in the local context: what questions to ask, what methods to use and how can we study transnational law? " The conference can also be followed via streaming at the following link for the morning session and at the following link for the afternoon and evening sessions.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 21, 2021

The music industry group submitted its notorious markets comments to the USTR last week. “In addition, ICANN has failed to adopt meaningful solutions to improve the accuracy of registrant information, despite discussions on this topic for the last several years,” the RIAA adds. Stream-ripping Sites. GDPR Byspass?

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 30, 2021

The rest of the dance routine music consists of other songs. 106(1)) and indirectly (by inducement of copyright infringement, contributory copyright infringement, and vicarious copyright infringement) infringed their copyright by distributing and streaming the film. . § 106(4), and by unauthorized reproduction under 17 U.S.C. §

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 10, 2024

It allows all types of creative industries – film and television, music and book publishers, sports leagues and broadcasters – to request, in court, that internet service providers block access to websites dedicated to sharing illegal, stolen content.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 1, 2024

[Opening theme music plays, followed by the sound of a car engine starting up and revving loudly. It’s April 1, 2024, and Alan Partridge is interviewing an expert on music piracy to find out if piracy is the work of the devil or the best thing that’s ever happened. Everything in the interview below was generated by AI.

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Velocity of Content

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

At present, YouTube certainly has many other aspects, included music, television-like programming, and live streaming, but I am not going to get into those.). (An exceptionally informative interview with the CEO of YouTube, Susan Wojcicki, is available here.

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Copyright Social Media Licensing Publishing 87

SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Nonetheless, what’s the solution in the long run – abolishing copyright from scholarly works as Steven Shavell proposed; disallowing corporate assignment of copyright over scholarly works, akin to Akshat’s suggestion in the music industry context; revamping Legal Deposit under The Delivery of Books and Newspaper (Public Libraries) Act 1954.

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Copyright Lately

JANUARY 23, 2023

If you’re interested in doing a deeper dive into how all of this works, I recommend following Andres Guadamuz’s blog on the topic.) It gives the example of a musical composition inspired by a novel, which would not normally constitute infringement. There’s no “cutting and pasting” involved. (If

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TorrentFreak

MAY 4, 2023

After protest , disappointment , hand-wringing, and at times, sheer frustration , the European Commission has officially unveiled its full recommendation for combating piracy of live sports and musical events. If explaining the illegal streaming problem had been the main aim, the document would receive solid marks.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 5, 2022

Following a public consultation on the topic of exhaustion, the UKIPO concluded that there is not enough available data to understand the economic impact of any of the alternatives to the UK exhaustion regime in a post-Brexit world. reCreating Europe, Study on “ AI Music Outputs: Challenges to the Copyright Legal Framework ”.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 14, 2024

If the vision for the creation of the web included a day one feature that could restrict access to content, people working on their own specialist topics, catering to their own niche audiences, would’ve happily pressed the button. If the streaming service market is fragmented, news takes it to a whole new level.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 30, 2021

It also marks the likely end of an eight-year campaign by Flo & Eddie (owners of the sound recording copyrights of the band “The Turtles”) to obtain royalty payments for digital broadcasts and streaming of pre-1972 sound recordings under state law. 1401 ), in Title II of the Hatch-Goodlatte Music Modernization Act. (See

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 9, 2022

In France, nearly 10% of the consumers pirate music exclusively but in the Netherlands the figure is just 1.5%. Copyright holders will mostly be interested in what would make people think twice about downloading or streaming content from pirate sites. Most use a mixture of legal and illegal sources. Well Edudated Intentional Pirates.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 7, 2023

The incorporation of works of authorship into Artificial Intelligence (AI) “training data” is another contentious topic, especially among photographers and graphic artists who fear that AI systems will “learn” from the training data how to generate images that will compete with those authors’ present or future work.

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SpicyIP

JULY 19, 2021

Topical Highlight. In this post , Namratha analyses an interesting change occurring in the music industry due to the pandemic: the creation of a marketplace for royalties. The Cinematograph (Amendment) Bill 2021: Overbroad, Disproportionate and Unnecessary. Other Posts.

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 30, 2023

As in previous years, we have divided these developments into five categories: a) Top 10 IP Judgements/Orders (Topicality/Impact) b) Top 10 IP Judgements/Orders (Jurisprudence/Legal Lucidity) c) Top 10 IP Legislative and Policy Related Developments d) Other IP Developments; and e) Other Notable Developments. Music Broadcast Ltd.

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IP Copyright Trademark Intellectual Property 124

The IPKat

JANUARY 21, 2022

Topics include the evolution of the performers’ rights in the UK, through to all key aspects of the rights, such as subsistence, duration, ownership, licensing, remuneration, infringement, and exceptions. Throughout the book, Arnold mentions the impact of Brexit on performers’ rights, noting that EU law will remain relevant for a long time.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 5, 2021

Following the news, a tweet went viral in which the singer called on streaming platform Spotify to disable the feature known as " shuffle " on her freshly released album. The function is also mandatory for users who do not subscribe to the streaming service (on mobile devices). What has happened with the advent of streaming platforms?

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