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Strike 3 Holdings Infringement

LexBlog IP

One thing I know for sure, people who use BitTorrent or other related applications and download adult movies can find themselves in quite a bind. People make mistakes, but should you have to pony up your life savings to avoid a copyright infringement lawsuit? This company needs to be reigned in, people are SUFFERING BIG TIME!

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Record Labels Hit Internet Archive With New $400m+ Copyright Lawsuit

TorrentFreak

For the plaintiffs, these grand ambitions are nothing but a “smokescreen” to hide what amounts to IA offering “free and unlimited access to music for everyone,” regardless of copyright. “In truth, Defendants’ malfeasance springs from their disregard for copyright law and the rights of artists and content owners.

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Combatting Online Copyright Infringement

LexBlog IP

It is also an increasingly popular medium for infringers to illegally source and share copyrighted materials. Fortunately, copyright law prohibits the unauthorized reproduction of a work. Copyright disputes do not need to escalate into costly and time-consuming litigation. How Can You Address Copyright Infringement?

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Record Labels: ‘Hisses & Crackles’ Are No License to Copy & Digitize Old Records

TorrentFreak

The record labels were aware of this, they allege, as the RIAA sent a cease and desist letter on their behalf but took no further action at the time. “Defendants have created a massive online storefront providing digital copies of thousands of these protected sound recordings to anyone to stream or download for free.

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Germany: Liability of hosting providers under copyright law if they have breached a duty of care – The German BGH ends mere ‘Stoererhaftung’

Kluwer Copyright Blog

The resulting conclusion in the BGH case law (e.g., Stoererhaftung’ merely provides for a cease and desist and removal obligation where a reasonable duty was breached. This is not an indirect liability concept. Importantly, no claims for damages were possible.

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Computer and Internet Weekly Updates for 2020-05-02

Barry Sookman

News & World Report [link] 2020-04-30 Injunction granted to prevent cease and desist letters to be sent to suppliers purchasing an allegedly infringing p… [link] 2020-05-01 Can artificial intelligence help us design vaccines?

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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. Copyright contract law (Sections 31 et seqq. Claims under copyright law. Right of remuneration (Sections 32 et seqq.