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Potential Impact on Major Pirate Sites as Vietnam ISPs Face New Responsibilities

TorrentFreak

After spending more than 16 years implementing intellectual property laws introduced in 2005, amendments to intellectual property law in Vietnam came into effect on January 1, 2023. 17/2023/ND-CP offers guidance on various copyright matters related to ISP liability and enforcement measures, including disclosure of customer information. .

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France Mulls Instant IPTV Blocks, €750K Fines & New Piracy Crime of ‘Incitement’

TorrentFreak

.” Piracy in the Crosshairs The bill predictably describes piracy as a major economic threat to the sport due to the top clubs’ dependence on broadcasting rights. Figures for 2023 indicate a 290 million loss of revenue due to all pirate sports broadcasts, representing around 15% of the market.

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Uptobox Bid to Resurrect File-Storage Service Fails in French Court

TorrentFreak

In September 2023, French cloud hosting providers Scaleway and OpCore pulled the plug on Uptobox’s servers. The report revealed that ALPA uploaded a copyright infringing file last year to test the takedown policy. An important aspect of the judgment is that simply processing takedown notices was deemed insufficient.

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Africa IP Highlights #3: Patents, other IPRs and reforms in IP policy, legislation and administration

The IPKat

More on this in a separate post… And here are matters this Kat is keeping 3 of the 5 senses, alert for: As reported on The IPKat in May , the Africa Group at WIPO proposed a Work Program on Limitations and Exceptions (L&Es) to WIPO's Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (WIPO-SCCR). Map of Africa by Wolfram.

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Bulgarian ISPs Will Block Pirate Bay & Zamunda, But Not Before a Fight

TorrentFreak

A decision handed down May 31, 2023 at the Sofia City Court requires three Bulgarian internet service providers to block two major torrent platforms. Copyright infringement of any kind causes serious harm to local music ecosystems and diverts money away from those who create and invest in music.”

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Never Too Late: If you missed the IPKat last week!

The IPKat

Copyright Anastasiia Kyrylenko discussed the recent interpretation of Article 4 of Directive 2004/48/EC by the CJEU in relation to possibility for collective management organisations to bring, in their own name, actions for copyright infringement on behalf of the right holders.

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AI and copyright in 2022

Kluwer Copyright Blog

These include (and may be limited to) Hong Kong ( section 11(3), Copyright Ordinance ), India (section 2(d)(vi), Copyright Act, 1957 ), Ireland ( Art. It ramped up further in the first weeks of 2023 with a UK action by Getty Images against Stability AI and a class action against Stability AI and others in the US.

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