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Anti-Piracy Program Accused of Violating Citizens’ Fundamental Rights

TorrentFreak

Protecting Rights Despite its authorization under the new law, the official launch of the Hadopi agency in 2009 met with significant opposition. ” In CJEU Advocate General Szpunar’s non-binding opinion issued last October, friction between privacy rights and the ability to enforce copyrights were on full display.

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Court: iTunes DRM Removal is Irrelevant for Piracy Liability Lawsuit

TorrentFreak

RCN focuses heavily on the piracy tracking evidence from Rightscorp but has also brought up another topic; the decision by major record labels to remove DRM from the iTunes music store in 2009. This decision was made two years before the timeframe covered in the piracy liability suit. Nonetheless, RCN believes that it is relevant.

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How South Africa Handles Notice and Takedown

Plagiarism Today

This is because, in 2009, the ISPA was recognized by the Minister of Communications as an Industry Representative Body , which gives their members “special recognition and limited liability for Internet content.”. To that end, the ISPA does take emailed notices, but strongly encourages users to file through their form.

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Traditional Tattoos on the Red Carpet: Continuing the Conversation of Collective Ownership

IPilogue

In 2009, the Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC) mass-produced sweaters as part of their official merchandise for the 2010 Vancouver Olympics. In 2009, the Belgian Court of Appeal was tasked with deciding whether a tattoo could be granted ownership under Belgian copyright law in JDH v JM.

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2023 Internet Law Year-in-Review

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

In particular, age authentication mandates are riddled with unavoidable privacy and security concerns; they also make it harder to navigate the Internet and create an authentication infrastructure that censors and authoritarians will find easy to weaponize in the future. Techlash + Sinophobia = unconstitutional censorship.

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[Guest post] Artificial Intelligence and (hopefully) the death of copyright

The IPKat

340 (1991) , Case C-5/08, Infopaq (2009) , Eastern Book v. If someone invades your privacy, you can enforce your personality rights. In my opinion, there has never been any talk of such works, because that would be the same as talking about non-distinctive trademarks. Rural, 499 U.S. Modak (2008) 1 SCC 1 ).

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Bitcoin’s File Format protectable in copyright: a Wright decision?

Kluwer Copyright Blog

The Claimants argued that the BFF had been “fixed” for copyright purposes when the first block in the Bitcoin blockchain was written on 3 January 2009. More from our authors: International Cybersecurity and Privacy Law in Practice, Second Edition by Charlotte A. It was from these files that the BFF was identifiable.

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