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NFTs Excite Hollywood But Not Because They Can Solve Piracy

TorrentFreak

“NFTs represent an exciting business opportunity for MPA’s members to promote their core products —motion pictures and television programs — in new ways, expand their merchandise offerings, and connect with their audiences on a deeper level,” the MPA writes. The same applies to the content to which an NFT might provide access.

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Publishers Secure Widespread Support in Landmark Copyright Battle With Internet Archive

TorrentFreak

“That would catastrophically harm the digital markets on which the music industry, the movie and television industry, the news industry, and similar industries depend to profitably create and distribute their works—and would thereby undermine the incentive for the creation of new works that copyright law exists to protect.”

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EU copyright law round up – first trimester of 2023

Kluwer Copyright Blog

CJEU judgments and AG Opinions Ocilion, AG Opinion, C-426/21 This is yet another preliminary reference on the private copying exception in Article 5(2)(b) InfoSoc Directive coming from the Austrian courts. For the a comment on the most recent Court judgment on private copying and the cloud (Case C-433/20), also coming from Austria, see here.

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EU copyright law round up – fourth trimester of 2021

Kluwer Copyright Blog

More from our authors: Law of Raw Data. Intellectual Property Law in China, 2nd edition. On the copyright/trade mark front at the EUIPO, a case on the registrability of the marks ‘ ANIMAL FARM ’ and ‘ 1984 ’ is still pending before the EUIPO’s Grand Board of Appeal. Stay tuned! by Christopher Heath. €

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Statutory Licensing in India in the Age of Online Music Streaming: A Comment on Tips vs. Wynk

Kashishipr

With the onset of the trend wherein users are gradually switching to online streaming to meet their music needs and discarding traditional methods such as radio, television, and music CDs, compulsory licensing for the internet was recognized as a key policy issue by the music industry last year.

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Paying for the News

Velocity of Content

A panel of four distinguished authorities on news publishing, intellectual property law and technology addressed these questions last week for the annual RightsTech Summit. Speaking with CCC were –. Previously, Wout was Huawei Technologies senior EU affairs manager. Sandra Chastenet.

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Ninth Circuit Reaffirms the “Server Test” for Direct Infringement of the Public Display Right — Hunley v. Instagram, LLC (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

By Guest Blogger Tyler Ochoa Recently, the Ninth Circuit reaffirmed what has become known as the “server test”: in order to be held directly liable for violating the public display right, the alleged infringer must have a fixed “copy” of the work stored on a server in its possession or control. Instagram, LLC , 2023 WL 4554649 (9th Cir.