TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

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. According to the plaintiffs, LibGen is responsible for “staggering” levels of copyright infringement. Court orders LibGen to pay $30 million Yesterday, U.S. and many others.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

When cassette recorders, VCRs and similar devices hit the mainstream, entertainment companies with business models reliant on customers buying copies faced uncertainty. Private Copying Levy Valenti’s statement in 1982 reached a broad audience but its essence wasn’t new.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 17, 2022

Many of the enforcement efforts are targeted at services or tools that offer pirated content, but there are less visible copyright infringement challenges too. In recent years music publishers have repeatedly spoken out against online platforms that use their music without a proper license. Unlicensed Platforms and Apps.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 18, 2024

In 2020, publishers Hachette, HarperCollins, John Wiley and Penguin Random House sued the Internet Archive (IA) for copyright infringement, equating its ‘Open Library’ to a pirate site. Patrons can also borrow books that are scanned and digitized in-house, with technical restrictions that prevent copying.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 11, 2023

The most modern instalment of this long history comes in the form of another kind ‘copy’, less richly decorated, yet more relevant and politically sensitive for a country that has established a long-term foreign investment “partnership” with the tech and communication industry: the transposition of Directive 2019/790 into Irish law.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 30, 2023

District Court for the Southern District Court of New York granted summary judgment in favor of book publishers and against Internet Archive (“IA”) in a copyright infringement action involving ebooks brought by the four leading book publishers in the United States, Hachette Book Group, Inc., Read more

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IP Law 360

AUGUST 29, 2023

Copyright Office's demand that a niche publisher of gothic literature submit physical copies of new publications to the Library of Congress or risk thousands of dollars in fines amounted to an unconstitutional taking of the publisher's property. Circuit ruled Tuesday that the U.S.

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IP Law 360

OCTOBER 21, 2024

The publishers behind the Wall Street Journal and the New York Post have said in a new lawsuit that an artificial intelligence company is ripping off the news organizations' work, saying the AI company's "answer engine" has copied huge amounts of copyrighted material.

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JD Supra Law

MAY 8, 2024

According to published reports, George Carlin’s estate settled right of publicity and copyright claims relating to an AI-scripted comedy special using a “sound-alike” of George Carlin which performed the generated script.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 10, 2024

and McGraw Hill LLC, paints an entirely different picture for the publishing industry. The Publishers have reported infringement after infringement to Google, only to have those reports ignored,” the complaint begins. ” No Indiscriminate Advertising At this point the publishers’ strategy begins to take shape. .

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Intepat

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

In today’s world, copyright laws are essential for protecting creative works like books. For business owners, publishers, and sellers, understanding copyright can prevent legal issues and ensure fair use of content. Copyright grants the author or creator exclusive rights to use, distribute, and sell their work.

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Velocity of Content

AUGUST 18, 2023

A federal court has approved a consent judgment in the long-running copyright infringement case filed by four publishers against the Internet Archive over its scanning and lending of library books. The post Publishers, Internet Archive Agree to Consented Judgment appeared first on Copyright Clearance Center.

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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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SpicyIP

OCTOBER 9, 2024

She graduated from National Law University, Delhi in 2023 & enjoys reading and writing on copyright laws. Image from here Hachette Book Group v Internet Archive: Archiving Access to Information or Strengthening Copyright Laws? The NEL was held to be a derivative work, and the Archive’s lending practices violative of copyright law.

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Velocity of Content

AUGUST 16, 2021

Already, the government is considering post-Brexit changes to copyright that authors and publishers fear may hit them hard. Essentially, exhaustion of IP rights is a limit on the control that copyright holders and others have over physical distribution of their works, such as books, in markets around the world.

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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 books and 99.4 million papers for download.

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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

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. Most gateways accept copyright infringement notices.

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 19, 2022

1: Government Pauses Plans to Rewrite UK Copyright Laws After Authors Protest. The rule, entitled copyright exhaustion, places limits on the import of international editions of books. The rule, entitled copyright exhaustion, places limits on the import of international editions of books.

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JD Supra Law

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

The Second Circuit Court of Appeals delivered a resounding victory to the publishing industry on Wednesday, September 4, 2024, in Hachette Books v. Internet Archive, holding that the Internet Archive's "controlled digital lending" program violated copyright law.

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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

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Anne never saw her diary in printed form, as the first copies were published by her father Otto Frank in 1947. Since then, it’s been translated into more than 70 languages, selling more than 30 million copies around the world. This organization now owns the copyrights, over which it works hard to maintain control.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

From a cold, legal perspective, a 2020 blocking application filed by publishers Elsevier, Wiley, and American Chemical Society should’ve been straightforward. On one hand, unauthorized mass copying and distribution of movies, TV shows, and music is widely recognized as copyright infringement. Elbakyan [defendant no.1],

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 25, 2022

GitHub is no stranger to copyright complaints. However, there are also instances where developers see copies of their own content elsewhere on Github, placed there by others without permission. What’s clear, however, is that he understands the concept of copyright infringement. Movies and Series Scraper. Stolen Code.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 18, 2024

From a standing start in 2016, manga piracy site Mangamura (Manga Village) took just two years to become the largest site of its type and the single largest online piracy threat Japanese publishers had ever encountered. Publishers Handed Big Win in Tokyo Whether Hoshino’s book was a commercial success isn’t clear.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 26, 2023

As a distance learner, digital copies made sense since they don’t have to be physically returned. Several people claiming to have used Fenlita say they pretty much got what they expected – a pirated copy of a textbook in PDF format, in some cases delivered via a Dropbox link. Unfortunately, 99.4%

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JANUARY 5, 2023

It is a common practice to make copies of deteriorating or far away cultural heritage. As of 2022, it is not even a new idea to use digital methods to copy heritage, considering that the mass digitisation of cultural heritage, especially books, started more than two decades ago. Photo by awsloley via Pixabay.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 25, 2023

In 2020, publishers Hachette, HarperCollins, John Wiley and Penguin Random House sued the Internet Archive (IA) for copyright infringement, equating its ‘Open Library’ to a pirate site. IA’s library is operated by a non-profit organization that scans physical books and then lends the digital copies to patrons in an ebook format.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 16, 2023

This unauthorized activity has not gone unnoticed by publishers, who’ve made it clear that piracy will not be tolerated, wherever it takes place in the world. Japan’s largest publisher Shueisha finds itself at the frontline of this battle. The company has taken a variety of legal actions, also in a U.S.

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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). Two Years of Litigation, Both Parties Request Summary Judgment. Two Years of Litigation, Both Parties Request Summary Judgment. In a June 10 letter to Judge John G.

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Copyright Lately

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

Why a new court win for OpenAI and a tough Supreme Court standard could leave AI copyright claims on shaky ground. A relatively obscure Supreme Court case involving the Fair Credit Reporting Act might seem like an odd fit for the high-stakes world of copyright in the age of artificial intelligence.

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The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 28, 2024

German Court finds LAION’s copying of images non-infringing by Mirko Brüß In what appears to be a first in Europe, the District Court of Hamburg has delivered a long-awaited ruling in a case brought by German photographer Robert Kneschke against LAION gemeinnütziger e.V., Without further ado, then, here’s what Mirko has to say! 310 O 227/23).

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 18, 2023

In 2020, publishers Hachette, HarperCollins, John Wiley and Penguin Random House sued the Internet Archive (IA) for copyright infringement, equating its ‘Open Library’ to a pirate site. Patrons can also borrow books that are scanned and digitized in-house, with technical restrictions that prevent copying.

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IP Law 360

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

A niche publisher of gothic literature has taken its legal fight with the U.S. Copyright Office to the D.C. Circuit, saying an obscure law that still requires publishers to submit physical copies of all publications to the office or risk of thousands of dollars in fines is unconstitutional.

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JD Supra Law

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

The Second Circuit recently affirmed a ruling that Internet Archive, a nonprofit digital library, violated the Copyright Act with its “Controlled Digital Lending” program. Although digital copies were limited to a “one-to-one loaned” checkout ratio, the book.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 1, 2024

In this case, eight major news publications are suing OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement. In addition, ChatGPT can recall large parts of their copyright-protected articles, which effectively bypasses their paywalls. The plaintiffs show that ChatGPT can reproduce content from copyrighted news articles when prompted.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Action-adventure characters from the Captain America and Spider-Man franchises were not unlawfully copied from the self-published comic book series of a relatively unknown author, the U.S. Allegations against Marvel and one of its top writers fail for the second time. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit has held.

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