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Spain’s Pirate Site Blocking Machine: Domains Blocked 2012 – 2023

TorrentFreak

Amendments to Spain’s Copyright Act ( Law No. Launched in 2012 under Spain’s Ministry of Culture and Sports, S2CPI has the authority to issue instructions which require local internet service providers to restrict access to pirate sites. From: TF , for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

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Best of 2012: The borders of Terpsichore

Likelihood of Confusion

First published August 8, 2012. My über-sharp friend Oliver Herzfeld, moving up in the world, has written an article in Forbes magazine on a recent Copyright Office policy statement that, as he puts. The post Best of 2012: The borders of Terpsichore appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™.

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Copyright Liability for LLM Outputs

Velocity of Content

The following is an excerpt from the article “The Heart of the Matter: Copyright, AI Training, and LLMs,” authored by Daniel Gervais (Milton R. The full article can be read in the Journal of the Copyright Society. This has been a long-standing question in copyright law. 16 This has been a long-standing question in copyright.

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Tedious Anti-Copyright Stance of EFF is Not About Protecting Anyone

The Illusion of More

Welp (as the kids say), it looks like Katherine Trendacosta of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) found an old PowerPoint deck from 2012 and used it to write a new post ominously titled Hollywood’s Insistence on New Draconian Copyright Rules Is Not About Protecting Artists.

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Supreme Court of Canada on Copyright: “Copyright Law Does Not Exist Solely for the Benefit of Authors”

Michael Geist

For much of the past two decades, copyright groups have steadfastly sought to deny what the Supreme Court of Canada has repeatedly endorsed, namely that the purpose of Canadian copyright law is to serve the public interest by balancing users’ and authors’ rights. In the 2012 ESA v.

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[Part II] Cryogas Judgment: Supreme Court Stops Copyright from ‘Gaslighting’ Design

SpicyIP

Part II] Cryogas Judgment: Supreme Court Stops Copyright from Gaslighting Design By Aditya Bhargava In the first part of the post, I looked at how jurisprudence has evolved from the Microfibres case in 2006 up to the present case in Cryogas. If its not, copyright may still subsist (since it was never a design to begin with).

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3 Count: Public Telegram

Plagiarism Today

1: T elegram Shares Users Data in Copyright Violation Lawsuit. First off today, Manish Singh at TechCrunch reports that the messaging platform Telegram has disclosed names, phone numbers and IP addresses of administrators that are accused of operating copyright-infringing channels on the service.