TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Publishers Share IPFS Concerns This week, IPFS was repeatedly mentioned by the Association of American Publishers ( AAP ) in its overview of the most notorious piracy markets submitted to the U.S. The publishers see them as a threat, as they make the piracy angle easier too. Trade Representative.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 4, 2024

The site’s origins reportedly trace back to the Soviet Union’s underground publishing culture ‘ samizdat ,’ which was used to bypass state censorship in the last century. In 2017, Elsevier won a court case against LibGen and Sci-Hub in a New York federal court, which awarded the publisher $15 million in damages.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 19, 2021

Last June, publishers Hachette, HarperCollins, John Wiley and Penguin Random House sued the Internet Archive for copyright infringement , describing its ‘Open Library’ as operating like a pirate site. Publishers Respond to Internet Archive’s Request.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 16, 2022

Everybody knows that content is copied online but the scope of the problem is truly massive. Some of these are innocent infringements, but there’s a whole industry of shady copyright exploiters out there as well. 44,000 Copies of One Event. . 44,000 Copies of One Event. WxChasing Compilation.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

On 21 st October 2021, Facebook announced that it has reached an agreement with APIG , an association of French press publishers, committing itself to the payment of licensing fees pursuant to the press publishers’ right introduced by the 2019 Copyright Directive. Information society service providers.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 14, 2022

In the summer of 2020, publishers Hachette, HarperCollins, John Wiley and Penguin Random House filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Internet Archive (IA). “The only issue is whether Internet Archive’s massive infringement scheme is fair use under 17 U.S.C. § In a June 10 letter to Judge John G.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

The blog post in question was written by Rebecca Marsh, the bank’s Vice President of Marketing & Communications. Marsh’s use of the photo is a clear example of copyright infringement. “Innocent Infringement” Backstory. . “Innocent Infringement” Backstory.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

JULY 7, 2024

CIR alleges that the big corporations OpenAI and Microsoft have used, copied, abridged, and displayed the contents of CIR to train ChatGPT without obtaining permission or providing any compensation. The copyrighted material created by CIR was used to train the AI ChatGPT without acknowledging and respecting the Copyright.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 14, 2021

The service was not appreciated by book publishers. Publishers Sue IA For Copyright Infringement. HarperCollins Publishers LLC, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., and Penguin Random House LLC – all members of the Association of American Publishers – accused the Internet Archive of running a pirate site.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 23, 2024

The organization literally archives key parts of the Internet, copying older versions of websites to preserve them for future generations. The organization doesn’t license authorized digital copies from publishers; instead, its books are scanned and digitized in-house. IA has plenty of other archive projects too.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 4, 2022

Despite a reported development and marketing budget in excess of $100m, Genshin Impact is free to play but is monetized via gacha game mechanics. This is the type of behavior that has attracted copyright infringement lawsuits in the past but in this case, the makers of Genshin XYZ are using copyright law to prevent piracy of their product.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 24, 2024

Two Targets, Two Lawsuits The RIAA announced not one, but two copyright infringement lawsuits on Monday, filed against two of the most impressive services in the generative AI music market. Udio owner Unchartered Labs was sued in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York, while Suno, Inc.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

JULY 19, 2022

What is copyright infringement? Unauthorized use of a work protected by copyright is referred to as copyright infringement. In this blog we will take a look at best practices to avoid copyright infringement. In this blog we will take a look at best practices to avoid copyright infringement.

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 19, 2022

The rule, entitled copyright exhaustion, places limits on the import of international editions of books. According to authors, this enables authors and publishers to sell books at different prices for different countries. Without this rule, many authors fear the UK market would be flooded with cheaper international copies.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Publishers vs. Internet Archive The self-scanning service is different from the licensing deals other libraries enter into. Not all publishers are happy with IA’s approach which triggered a massive legal battle two years ago. The publishers didn’t listen to these concerns.

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Patently-O

JANUARY 4, 2024

2024) A recent copyright infringement lawsuit filed by small Boston intellectual property boutique Hsuanyeh Law Group PC (HLG) against international giant Winston & Strawn LLP focuses a dividing line that can highlight when copying the work of another firm is permissible. Hsuanyeh Law Group v.

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SpicyIP

JUNE 26, 2024

Data published by the World Blind Union in 2014 indicated that less than 10% of published material was available in accessible format for persons with visual impairment, and most such material was only available in English, thereby leading to a ‘book famine’.

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LexBlog IP

JULY 24, 2023

Silverman, Kadrey, and Golden allege that Meta and OpenAI used copies of the authors’ books without their permission by copying illegal online “shadow libraries” that contain the texts of thousands of books. Google’s commercial nature and profit motivation do not justify denial of fair use.”

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 6, 2024

Any surviving services may need to be structured as marketing agencies that push all of the legal risk to the users and third-party vendors. He ultimately summarizes: “District court decisions within the Sixth Circuit have held that plaintiffs must show the defendant ‘intentionally and knowingly’ copied the copyrighted work.”

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Velocity of Content

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Fast-paced organizations that rely on and invest heavily in R&D should not only regard published content as the heart of innovation, but also possess a deep appreciation of the system of copyright protecting this intellectual property.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 2, 2022

Granting broad access to manga titles, especially publications translated into English, was not a key priority for publishers until a few years ago. As a result, companies including Tokyo-based publisher Shueisha and US-based publisher VIZ Media now have a big piracy problem. Publishers Target Manga Piracy Giants.

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JIPL Online

APRIL 9, 2021

In particular, it explores why copyright of a meme’s underlying content does not matter in a normative sense. In this blog I argue that copyright protection of the content underlying memes does not matter because of the relative weakness of enforcement mechanisms for copyright infringement of this scale. 277 (2020). [iv]

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

But last year, one supranational interference with copyright law surprisingly did not come from Luxemburg, but from Strasbourg: the judgment in Safarov v Azerbaijan. He sues for copyright infringement and claims damages. The Safarov case In 2009, Safarov authors a book. An NGO makes his entire work available for download.

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Traverse Legal Blog

MARCH 3, 2021

There is an increasing number of brands, talent agencies, and influencers looking to leverage influencer marketing. Celebrities, Influencers, Talent Agents, Marketing Agencies & Brands. We represent agencies, marketing agencies trying to line up influencer campaigns for their clients, for brands.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

He self-published a book about the experience (“ Why I Sued Taylor Swift and How I Became Falsely Known as Frivolous, Litigious and Crazy “). “Kiwi Farms users provided a Google Drive link to a full copy of Mr. Greer’s book.” Direct Infringement. ” Greer emailed Moon asking to remove the book. .”

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

AUGUST 13, 2023

It imposes legislative obligations at all stages of the lifecycle of an AI system, from: training, testing and validation; to conformity assessments; risk management systems; and post-market monitoring. The plaintiffs are authors of books, who, as per US copyright law, have registered copyrights in the books they published.

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Velocity of Content

APRIL 12, 2023

The ways employees engage and collaborate with published content have evolved, with a corresponding shift in enterprise knowledge workers’ behaviors and attitudes around published content. Downloading content through any tool makes a new copy of that content – and copying often requires permission.

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Velocity of Content

MAY 22, 2024

Collective copyright licensing is nearly as old, generally viewed as dating from 1777. In other words, rightsholders are meant to be able in the first instance to choose whether to allow copying and licenses, or to refuse copying and licenses. And [Internet Archive] supplants the Publishers’ place in this market.”

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Velocity of Content

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Harper & Row had a first publication rights agreement with Ford, but The Nation used a pre-publication copy of the memoir to scoop everyone else with an excerpt from the book. Of course, The Nation published the juiciest details from the memoir: Ford’s reasons for pardoning his predecessor, Richard Nixon.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 4, 2024

For good measure, they also marketed them as such. According to a just-published DMCA notice, Nintendo’s main target was the Switch-Emulators-Guide repo and, by extension, over 120 forks. Distribution of keys without the copyright owner’s authorization is a violation of Section 1201 of the DMCA.”

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Copyright Lately

APRIL 3, 2023

book publishers, rejecting the Internet Archive’s argument that its practice of scanning and lending digital copies of books qualifies as fair use under the Copyright Act. When the electronic version is “checked out,” the physical copy is taken out of circulation.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Hundreds of Thousands of Infringements. According to the plaintiffs, IP addresses allocated to Verizon/Cellco Partnership were monitored by anti-piracy tracking outfit Maverickeye downloading and sharing pirate copies of their movies. Several Types of Copyright Infringement. 1202(a)(b) , the complaint adds.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

1: The Weeknd Sued for Copyright Infringement Over ‘Call Out My Name’. First off today, Justin Curto at Vulture reports that The Weeknd has been hit with a copyright lawsuit over his song Call Out My Name. 3: Twitch Will Warn Streamers About Copyright Issues After New Music Deal. million and an additional $1.65

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Likee is a TikTok-like app that allows users to publish short videos, often set to music. Without sending DMCA takedown notices, BMG sued it for direct and contributory copyright infringement. Direct Infringement. Likee appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. The court dismisses those claims.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 10, 2023

Most people understood the risks associated with uploading copyrighted content, not least since the word ‘distribution’ is clearly defined in law. But with streaming, no significant uploading takes place and, just as importantly, no copies of movies or TV shows are made on users’ machines.

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 8, 2023

When someone violates a creator’s exclusive rights to a piece of work, they are engaging in copyright infringement. modification, and other forms of copying of the work fall under this category. Music as well as the movie industry are two common industries that face copyright issues on a day to day basis.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 5, 2024

On January 1, 2024, TorrentFreak published a review of the wrongful DMCA notices filed against us in 2023, either directly via email or at Google demanding deindexing of our articles. Our small request for 2024 was not unreasonable: stop sending us bogus copyright notices. domain, but the repo was reported for infringement nonetheless.

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