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Google Bans ‘Downloader’ Again Following Markscan DMCA Notice

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Created by software developer Elias Saba and released on the Amazon Appstore in November 2016, ‘Downloader’ offered two things; an empty URL field and a download button. Over 50 million installs of Downloader to date speak for the software’s popularity but in May 2023, progress came to a screeching halt. Discovery Inc.’

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Taming the ‘LAION’: Lessons for Harmonising AI and Copyright Law

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She graduated from National Law University, Delhi in 2023 & enjoys reading and writing on copyright laws. According to the Court, the content of the downloaded images was correlated with pre-existing image descriptions stored in the LAION 5B dataset. Tanishka is an advocate at the High Court of MP. LAION logo.

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Five Men Indicted For Uploading Movies & Then Extorting ‘Pirate’ Downloaders

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So-called copyright trolls come in all shapes and sizes and while most have a cynical approach to copyright law, some are prepared to go to extremes. The most notable case in the United States involved Prenda Law. Two lawyers were later sentenced to prison, one of them for 14 years. Big Crimes Deserve Heavy Sentences.

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Software Downloads Netflix & Disney+ Videos to Make DRM-Free Copies

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Long before the advent of legitimate online video streaming services, torrent sites and similar platforms allowed users to download and keep copies of movies and TV shows. Services like Netflix have sought to mimic some of these benefits by allowing content to be played on most devices and even downloaded for offline viewing.

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Russian Cinemas Are Showing Pirated Movies Downloaded From Torrents

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The pirated copy – complete with Russian dubbing – was downloaded from an unnamed torrent site. ” Noting that there have been no changes to Russian copyright law that permit piracy, the Association says that unlicensed screenings breach both civil and criminal law.

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Hachette Book Group v Internet Archive: Archiving Access to Information or Strengthening Copyright Laws?

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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? Tanishka is an advocate at the High Court of MP.

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German Court Says Non-Commercial AI Training Data Meets Scientific Research Exception to Copyright Infringement

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In a landmark judgment with far reaching ramifications, a German court recently held that the copying of images by Large-scale Artificial Intelligence Open Network (LAION) - a nonprofit organization that provides datasets, tools and models to liberate machine learning research – did not infringe copyright law. The Kneschke v.