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Hope For Hollywood? Vietnam Police Raid Movie Piracy Group, Three Arrested

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The aim was to launch services that would distribute movies to the public, without permission from rightsholders, for the purpose of generating illegal profits from advertising. TV Report on the Arrests According to the authorities, 30-year-old Tuan sought to buy source code for the sites back in 2019.

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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

Related rights. In addition to rights of the author, German copyright law also recognises related rights. This personal intellectual creation is lacking if the photographs in question are “mere reproductions of other photographs” in which an original has been merely reproduced (copied) as closely as possible.

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Austrian Supreme Court refers further questions for a preliminary ruling on the InfoSoc Directive

The IPKat

has the sole administrator rights for the streaming platform, c. the user is given access also to broadcast content for which the right holder has not authorized online use, and f. the reception of content that was not authorized by the right holders was actually possible for several weeks even without VPN?

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Guest Post: Press Publishers’ Rights In Indian News Media Digital Space

SpicyIP

The EU took the Intellectual Property route by introducing a related right under its copy right law. The Indian press publication industry is investing in digital properties to capture the growth of revenue from digital advertising as the consumption pattern of the news is shifting to digital space.

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NFTs: promisingly transformational, yet fraught with IP pitfalls – Part I

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Specifically, a group called Spice DAO purchased an NFT displaying a copy of filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky’s ‘Dune’ for $3 million, assuming it would grant them the ability to produce derivative works, such as an animated Dune series.

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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

In this context, the BGH issued a decision in 2014 in relation to the games console, Nintendo DS. In 2017, the BGH once more issued a ruling on Section 95a UrhG in relation to the Nintendo DS games console. The infringement at trial was a photo of a sportscar illegally used on the internet for advertising purposes.