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Lawmakers: Fix Copyright Law to Stop Gamblers “Beating the Bookies”

TorrentFreak

In days gone by, when people placed a bet on a team to win, a fighter to prevail, or a horse to reach the post first, bets were placed before events started. When people watch sporting events ‘live’ (even on bookmakers’ own apps), the images on screen are already seconds old. Every Second Counts.

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Copyright law and football matches: impossible to match? (Part II)

Kluwer Copyright Blog

This post is based on the chapter “Audiovisual Coverage of Sports Events and Copyright Law: Originality in the Details?” Bernt Hugenholtz, Kluwer Law International, 2021. 89): in the preparation phase, when filming the event and by making editorial choices after the filming phase.

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Copyright law and football matches: impossible to match? (Part I)

Kluwer Copyright Blog

This post is based on the chapter “Audiovisual Coverage of Sports Events and Copyright Law: Originality in the Details?” Bernt Hugenholtz, Kluwer Law International, 2021. At the same time, a global paradigm of online piracy enabling the retransmission of sports events on a worldwide basis has dynamically emerged.

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Upload Filters: 23 EU Member States Face Legal Action Over Copyright Law Delays

TorrentFreak

Back in 2016, the European Commission announced plans to amend EU copyright law to better meet emerging challenges on the Internet. One of the most controversial elements of the new Copyright Directive was Article 13 (now Article 17).

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This Week in Washington IP: Deregulating Agricultural Biotechnology, State Sovereign Immunity and IP Infringement, and Copyright Law in Artificial Intelligence

IP Watchdog

This week in Washington IP events, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office hosts an event exploring the intersection of copyright law and artificial intelligence, while the Hudson Institute takes a look at studies by the USPTO and the U.S. Copyright Office on state sovereign immunity from IP infringement suits.

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EU copyright law round up – third trimester of 2022

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Welcome to the third trimester of the 2022 round up of EU copyright law! In this series, we update readers every three months on developments in EU copyright law. Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash. You can read the previous round-ups here. Coming soon and latest referrals.

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Future-facing Topics in Copyright: USCO and USPTO to Stream Discussion of “Copyright Law and Machine Learning”

Velocity of Content

ET), the US Copyright Office, and the US Patent and Trademark Office are co-hosting a three-part discussion on “ Copyright Law and Machine Learning for AI: Where Are We Now and Where Are We Going?” “The event is available to the public for free, and attendees must register in advance.