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Press publishers’ right: social media enter the stage

Kluwer Copyright Blog

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. Social media (aka Facebook) were not a part of the conversation.

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Z-Library Confusion as ‘Official’ Social Media Announces Crackdown in China

TorrentFreak

When that matter will be resolved is a complete unknown because for a copyright infringement matter, things appear to be unusually complex, to say the very least. Our mainland China social accounts will be logged out within seven days. However, sometimes technical and regulatory limitations also become barriers to communication.

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Music Publishers File Suit Against Twitter to Rein in Rampant Copyright Infringement

IP Watchdog

On June 14, a series of 17 music publishers, members of the National Music Publishers’ Association (NMPA), filed a lawsuit in the Middle District of Tennessee against the social media platform, Twitter.

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Copyright: Using images for social media

Sander Law

Copyright: Using images on social media. If you ever wondered if you can use that image you found through a Google search on your social media post or on your website, this post is for you. Copyright protection of images. Every photograph or image created is protected under Copyright.

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Music Rights Group Sues Elon Musk’s X for Copyright Infringement

TorrentFreak

Over the years, various parties have called out Twitter/X over alleged copyright infringement. Research published by the EU Intellectual Property Office found that the service is rife with piracy-related discussions. That way, the social media platform would have to respond. ” U.S. . ” U.S. In the U.S.

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Is Your Website Published or Unpublished?

Plagiarism Today

It deals with whether Amazon and/or CCA infringed FDN’s copyrights by scraping descriptions from their website for use as part of Amazon’s product listings. That question is whether the descriptions were “published” or “unpublished” according to the law when they were put on FDN’s website. According to the U.S.

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Music Companies Sue Twitter Over Mass Copyright Infringement

TorrentFreak

law, online service providers need to respond to takedown notices and implement a meaningful policy to terminate the accounts of repeat infringers. Many of the large social media platforms stick to these rules, but according to a lawsuit filed this week by several prominent music companies, Twitter is not among them.