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FMovies Piracy ‘Mastermind’ Confesses, Authorities Confirm Piracy Prosecution

TorrentFreak

Alleged FMovies ‘Accomplice’ Nguyen Tuan Anh (Credit: police video) It’s claimed he was responsible for illegally copying around 50,000 films and posting them to FMovies and its ‘sister’ websites. In many cases, this violated MPA members’ rights. Commercial Scale Offending?

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Africa IP Highlights #2: The trademarks arena

The IPKat

The Plaintiffs also contended that the logos used by the Defendants infringed on their marks and get up since their registered trademark incorporated the words ‘ACAL’ and an image with the map of Africa which the Defendants had copied.

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Copyright case law of the German Bundesgerichtshof 2015 – 2019 – Part 4 of 4: Copyright contract law and enforcement

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Parts 1 to 3 of this post (originally published in “Auteurs & Media”) summarising case law of the German Bundesgerichtshof from 2015 to 2019 are available here , here and here. Right of remuneration (Sections 32 et seqq. In this context, the BGH issued a decision in 2014 in relation to the games console, Nintendo DS.

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Copyright case law of the German Bundesgerichtshof 2015 – 2019 – Part 3 of 4: Related rights and exceptions and limitations

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Parts 1 and 2 of this post (originally published in “Auteurs & Media”) summarising case law of the German Bundesgerichtshof from 2015 to 2019 are available here and here , and part 4 will be published on the blog shortly. Related rights. Special provisions for computer programs (Sections 69a et seqq. 3, second sentence UrhG.

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Copyright, AI Training, and LLMs: Historical Perspective and Infringement Analysis

Velocity of Content

See Daniel Gervais, Collective Management of Copyright and Related Rights Ch. in the United States and Reprographic Rights Organizations (RROs) around the world. Pallante Register of Copy. See supra note 56, at 231-56 [ read full article here ]. See supra Part IV [ read full article here ]. For a list, see ifrro.org.

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A summary look at the Portuguese transposition of the CDSM Directive

Kluwer Copyright Blog

In addition to significantly changing the Portuguese Copyright Code , the Decree-Law also affects Law 26/2015 on collective management organizations and Decree-Law 122/2000 on databases, and creates a new dispute resolution mechanism called “specialized institutionalized arbitration and mediation in matters of copyright and related rights”.

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Does food flavouring constitute a “work”?

LexBlog IP

Copies of emails between the parties provided to the Court proved that opinions had been exchanged before the composition of the products was finalised. Compensation presupposes culpability and infringement of IP (or related rights) (i.e., Applicable legal provisions The relevant law in this case was Law 2121/1993.