Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

People have become less dependent on print media and more likely to use a digital medium such as computerized documents of soft copies. Given the fact that the copyright law was originally framed to protect literary and artistic works, it needs to be seen how much the law has evolved to grant protection to digitalized works.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Even though that Court’s judgment was very specific to the V-Cast service, it left room, arguing a contrario and subject to certain conditions, to consider the mere provision of Cloud storage services of audio-visual content, with reproductions made on individual requests of end-users, to be covered by the private copying exception.

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IP and Legal Filings

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Historical lookback The amendment to the existing copyright law act of 1957 was carried out owing to the sensitization of issue of copyright management and revenue sharing structure that is fair and reasonable to all owners and writers of filmed and recorded works. [i] Magic Mantra Vision. [ii] Magic Mantra Vision, CS (OS) NO.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Photo by Udo Pohlmann via Pixabay Over the last decades, European lawyers got used to the – at times remarkable and even forceful – interventions of the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) in copyright law. An NGO makes his entire work available for download. He sues for copyright infringement and claims damages.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 17, 2022

Up until a decade ago, this piracy landscape was dominated by torrent sites and direct download portals. This is also what James Gibson , Professor of Law at Richmond University, hinted at. Unlike downloading pirated movies, consuming pirated streams isn’t a clear violation of copyright law. No Lasting Copy.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

and torrents.yts.rs , all violate local copyright law. The MPA lists six domains in total; sflix.to, sflix.se, and sflix.is, plus myflixerz.to, myflixertv.to, and myflixer.today, noting that these domains shared pirated copies of many films including “Shazam!”, “Jumanji: The Next Level” and “Top Gun: Maverick”.

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Plagiarism Today

MAY 11, 2022

Josh Hawley’s Move to Strip Disney’s Copyrights Called ‘Blatantly Unconstitutional’. He claims that it aims to revoke Disney’s “special” copyright protections though the law would rewrite copyright law for all creators. He was accused of downloading some 11 pirated videos. According to Sen.

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SpicyIP

OCTOBER 9, 2022

Entertainment Software Association , recently held that ‘making available’ a music stream online and a subsequent act of streaming / downloading the music are not subject to two separate royalties. On the other hand, if the e-book is made available for downloading, the copyright owner’s ‘right to authorise reproduction’ is engaged.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 23, 2023

Downloading a track takes about the same time as a shrug of the shoulders followed by an internal “who cares?” “Is it legal to download music from YouTube?” ” is always popular, along with its self-focused twin sister, “Can I get caught downloading music from YouTube?” copyright law.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

‘Library Genesis,’ or ‘Libgen’ for short, is a group of pirate websites through which a vast array of written material is illegally copied and distributed online without any authorization, and with no remuneration to copyright holders.” ” “The scale of Defendants’ infringement is staggering. .

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Sites were overwhelmingly free and if MP3 files were spotted by an alert surfer, it was almost considered rude not to download them, bandwidth permitting. First Case of its Type in Japan This week local anti-piracy group CODA revealed details of a copyright prosecution that’s so unusual, it’s probably never happened before.

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Copyright Lately

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

Internet Archive (read the opinion here) , the court dealt a decisive blow to the Internet Archive, ruling that its practice of scanning and lending digital copies of books doesn’t qualify as fair use under the Copyright Act. When the electronic book is “checked out,” the physical copy is removed from circulation.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Summary of argument: The constitutional goal of copyright protection is to “promote the progress of science and useful arts,” Art. 8, and the first copyright law was “an act for the encouragement of learning,” Cambridge University Press v. It is that functionality, and not the copying, to which Apple truly objects.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 12, 2023

From the diametrically opposed view of the plaintiffs, the defendants willfully made copies thousands of recordings to which they own the copyrights. The digitized copies were then uploaded to the Internet Archive from where they were illegally distributed to users of the website millions of times.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

AUGUST 16, 2021

Welcome to the second trimester of 2021 round up of EU copyright law! In this series, we update readers every three months on developments in EU copyright law. The copyright in these two titles expired at the beginning of 2021. Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash. Apologies to readers that this one comes a bit late.

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Velocity of Content

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Be clear on why your organization is implementing a copyright policy. Maybe the goal is for your company to fulfill its obligations under copyright law. And then describe how all staff are expected to handle information in a copyright-compliant manner. 4. Clarify copyright’s reach across formats.

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The IPKat

APRIL 21, 2022

Uploads were made easy and free, while downloads were made artificially slow, and users were encouraged to purchase a subscription, allowing for faster download speeds. The service appears to have made most of its profits from subscriptions for fast file downloads.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 7, 2024

Many AI companies have simply been training their models on data scraped or downloaded from online resources, often without explicit permission. Refrain from using unauthorized copies of such lyrics to train future AI models. From the proposed injunction RIAA et al. Anthropic has argued this is a ‘fair use.’

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 3, 2022

The lawsuit claimed that the site was offering illegal downloads of their books and specifically targeted two Ukrainian nationals as the operators. Copyright Law, works lapse into the public domain on January First of the year their copyright expires. Milne’s book Winnie the Pooh.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

copyright law, Internet providers must terminate the accounts of repeat infringers “in appropriate circumstances”. This legal requirement remained largely unenforced for nearly two decades but a series of copyright infringement liability lawsuits, with hundreds of millions of dollars at stake, have shaken up the industry.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Downloading a Pluto TV.m3u playlist takes a second and they can be used in anything from VLC Media Player to systems like TVHeadEnd , which enables streaming to locations in a network, no official apps required. The GitHub repo shown below used to offer Pluto TV playlists for download before suddenly experiencing issues last week.

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Velocity of Content

JANUARY 25, 2024

“Is offshoring the training of AI a credible and efficient response to minimize copyright compliance risks or is offshoring merely a theoretical argument designed to both influence lawmakers and for government relations purposes?” Artificial Intelligence (AI) is global, and copyright laws are national.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

Parrish Publishes LifeWise’s Children’s Curriculum, LifeWise Sues In the belief that the curriculum contains information supportive of the opposition group’s cause, Parrish obtained a copy of the closely-guarded documents and, in the public interest, posted them publicly online.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

While millions of people have no qualms about downloading music, movies and TV shows for free, there are also large numbers of students who feel completely justified in obtaining textbooks without paying for them. “In short, copying e-books is illegal if you do not own the rights to them.

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The IP Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Specifically, copyright protection attaches to the original, creative work when it is fixed in a tangible medium, such as when it is written, drawn, recorded digitally, or typed electronically. Further, only a modicum, or small amount, of creativity is required for copyright protection to attach.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 31, 2022

In common with other countries attempting to reduce their movie and TV show piracy problem, India has provisions in copyright law that allow rightsholders to limit access to pirate sites. Section 66 clarifies that if this is done dishonestly or fraudulently, a fine or prison sentence is available ( pdf ).

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43(B)log

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Defendants allegedly copied key components of Trackman’s copyrighted software and falsely suggested, in promotions and advertisements, that defendants were authorized to use the well-known courses in their game. And they allegedly copied golf courses created on Perfect Golf’s course design platform.

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IIPRD

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

RIGHTS PROTECTED : Under this law Copyright law protects the copyright of authors, musicians, etc. Copyright is essentially a right to copy. Copyright is a term describing rights given to creators for their literary and artistic works.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 12, 2024

In a framing case, the plaintiffs’ web servers aren’t the affected chattel because the plaintiffs’ web servers delivered the web pages directly to users’ devices, after which the framer (Google) superimposed its frame on the web pages once the copies were in users’ RAM. ” Even this correction is suboptimal.

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Plagiarism Today

JULY 29, 2021

In November 2020, the RIAA filed a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) takedown notice against a GitHub project named youtube-dl, which enables the downloading of YouTube videos. It’s unclear how many of those notices deal with Section 1201 disputes versus more traditional issues of copied code and other content.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 11, 2023

Uberspace Responds to Court Verdict For starters, Pasche still doesn’t believe that it’s clear that youtube-dl violates copyright law. German law requires hosting companies to remove the content as soon as they learn about ‘clear’ or ‘obvious’ illegal activity. .

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 20, 2023

In this part II we discuss two additional aspects, with a focus on UK copyright law and the EU copyright acquis. The First Sale Doctrine in the Metaverse The first sale doctrine, also referred to as the ‘ principle of exhaustion’ , is a longstanding tenet of copyright (and more in general intellectual property) law.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 9, 2022

“Downloading and sharing files via torrent is a violation of copyright law. It means that you may be punished by law. million in copyright damages, bringing the total to nearly $10 million. From: TF , for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more. That’s why you need a Popcorn Time VPN.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 18, 2024

Presented as an entirely proportionate and reasonable response for dealing with habitual downloaders, disconnecting entire households from the internet loomed ominously on the horizon. He then invited people to download it for free, including via a torrent hosted on Mininova, once one of the world’s most popular torrent sites.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 4, 2024

In 2022, a platform called Pirate Library Mirror appeared on the scene, courting controversy right from the start after obtaining a full copy of Z-Library before the site’s legal troubles began. “We deliberately violate the copyright law in most countries. million papers for download. million books and 99.4

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

According to Defendants’ policies, Defendants reserve the right “to remove or block access to, either permanently or temporarily, any files which [Defendants] suspect[ ] or which a third party alleges are associated with a violation of the law[.]”. Some lowlights from the opinion: Direct infringement.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 14, 2024

The Internet provider argues that this case isn’t merely about nuances of copyright law and associated liability, it’s much bigger than that. — A copy of Cox’s petition for a rehearing en banc is available here (pdf) and the record labels’ petition can be found here (pdf).

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