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A class-action lawsuit filed by authors including Richard Kadrey, Sarah Silverman, and Christopher Golden is one such copyrightinfringement case. “By downloading through the bit torrent protocol, Meta knew it was facilitating further copyrightinfringement by acting as a distribution point for other users of pirated books.”
At the same time, however, the company denied the copyrightinfringement allegations, noting that it would rely on a fair use defense, at least in part. CMI is information that is included in a copyrighted work, which among other things can identify the copyright owner.
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“Defendants operate one of the largest, most notorious, and far-reaching infringement operations in the world. “This collection consists of over 6 million files that include illegal copies of works from a diverse cross-section of the publishing industry. “[T]he Sites undermine the very purpose of U.S.
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In the first case, the Austrian Supreme Court has referred the following questions to the CJEU (freely translated and shortened from the German original): 1. In the second case, the referred questions (freely translated and shortened from the German original) are the following: 1. 2(a) and (e) and Art.
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The movie company accused the site and its operator of promoting and distributing pirated copies of the movie, demanding to put an end to the activity. In legal terms, this is referred to as the purposeful-availment and purposeful-direction tests. At the same time, the uploader stopped pushing torrents to other sites as well.
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