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Vietnam Convicts Pirate Site Operators; a Rare Case Completed in Record Time

TorrentFreak

Trio on Trial The men faced trial at the People’s Court of Quang Binh province starting July 11, with local media confirming charges of “Infringement of copyright and related rights” under Article 225 of the Penal Code. The men were also responsible for increasing user engagement to attract advertising revenue.

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

TorrentFreak

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. Police say Huy and Nhan were tasked with downloading, editing and distributing movies, but offered no specific details in relation to that work.

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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. Intellectual Property Law in China, 2nd edition. The BGH decided that the use was covered by Section 59 UrhG. More from our authors: Law of Raw Data. by Jan Bernd Nordemann, Christian Czychowski. €

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

Kluwer Copyright Blog

However, de facto they merely owned proof of ownership without any proprietary value, as all copyright and any related rights were retained and not granted upon purchase. The UK’s Advertising Standards Authority had emphasised this in its April 2021 guidance on advertising cryptocurrencies.

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Broadcasters’ Cable Retransmission Rights: in line (or not) with the EU right of communication to the public?

Kluwer Copyright Blog

However, Member States can provide for such a right in their legislations. Even if Member States remain free to establish cable retransmission rights both for copyright holders and holders of related rights, these rights should be construed through the harmonised conceptual framework of this Directive.

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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

The BGH reasoned that a claim for non-material damages was weakened by the fact that there were doubts as to whether the relevant public in that case even attributed the edited images to the author at all. The infringement at trial was a photo of a sportscar illegally used on the internet for advertising purposes.

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Case study: “copyright-free” in-store music and collective management

LexBlog IP

Such music is used as a background for the broadcasting of advertising messages that are heard in such commercial spaces on a daily basis. The advertising messages are played at a higher volume than the music. This article was originally edited by, and first published on, www.lexology.com. Endnotes. (1) 1) Law 2121/1993. (2)

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