TorrentFreak

JUNE 1, 2022

The platform, which has a strong privacy focus, is now the go-to file storage platform for millions of people. Twice a year Mega publishes a transparency report that reveals the volume of copyright complaints. Twice a year Mega publishes a transparency report that reveals the volume of copyright complaints. Repeat Infringers.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 9, 2023

Invidious: A Privacy Front-End For YouTube Invidious describes itself as an open source alternative front-end to YouTube. ” Clients may not infringe copyrights or exploit copyright-infringing materials, Google adds. ( From: TF , for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 28, 2024

The campaign website’s privacy policy is Sky’s and the website itself is hosted on Sky’s vast infrastructure. For many years, the UK’s Intellectual Property Office has produced a highly detailed annual report called the ‘Online copyright infringement tracker.’ What Happens to the Data?

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 23, 2024

They filed a lawsuit in 2020 equating IA’s controlled digital lending operation to copyright infringement. Earlier this year a New York federal court concluded that the library is indeed liable for copyright infringement. IA points out that it doesn’t lend out digital copies without limits.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 7, 2021

That, in turn, prompted a counterclaim by Dorland for copyright infringement. Unfortunately, that analogy doesn’t easily translate because celebrities, living and dead, have lower expectations for privacy, including in fiction. However, perhaps most damming, is that the copyright question is likely to fail as well.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

Real data is hard to come by and expensive to label; using synthetic data instead is not only cheaper but also promises to sidestep the thorny issues of privacy and copyright infringement (see Lee 2024 ). Even synthetic data that comes with privacy guarantees is necessarily a distorted version of the real data.

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IP and Legal Filings

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

The availability of a large variety of information has also increased the risk of Copyright Infringement due to its easy accessibility and dissemination. This has led to varying degrees of copyright infringements in this digital era.

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IPilogue

JULY 28, 2021

An entity’s unauthorized use of a photographer’s image engages many legal issues: invasion of privacy , defamation , and violation of the right of publicity , to name a few. In this post, I will focus on the Copyright Act. 13(1) of the Copyright Act , “ the author of a work shall be the first owner of the copyright therein.”

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Plagiarism Today

MAY 1, 2023

Court protects Redditor's privacy in piracy case, Saskatchewan demands removal of a parody logo and Twitter's piracy problems continue. The post 3 Count: Twitter Twits appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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IP and Legal Filings

MAY 3, 2024

Fair use provides some exceptions to copyright protection, allowing limited use of copyrighted material without the permission of the copyright owner. Copyright Law Copy Right is a legal concept that gives creators exclusive rights over their original works and allows them to control the use and distribution of those works.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 29, 2021

The defendant objected to this request, as handing over a hard drive copy would also reveal privacy-sensitive information such as family photos and content protected by attorney-client privilege. Judge Agrees With Privacy Concerns. From: TF , for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more. — A copy of U.S.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 24, 2024

The site shares copyrighted material without obtaining permission from rightsholders, the company informed the court. Early Discovery nHentai Opposes Nhentai swiftly opposed this request, citing serious privacy concerns. From: TF , for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more. Permission Granted?

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 30, 2021

Amidst growing concerns about online privacy and security, VPN services have become increasingly popular in recent years. Over the past years, we have seen copyright holders take several ISPs to court, accusing them of failing to disconnect repeat copyright infringers. Logging Repeat Infringers?

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Section 1201 of the DMCA prohibits the circumvention of copyright controls without permission. These provisions are renewed every three years after the Copyright Office hears various arguments from stakeholders and the general public. Copyright Holders Fear Widespread Piracy. Jailbeaking Video Streaming Devces.

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JD Supra Law

OCTOBER 25, 2024

In 2023, visual artists Sarah Andersen, Kelly McKernan, and Karla Ortiz filed a class action lawsuit against several Artificial Intelligence (AI) companies, alleging that the companies’ various AI models violated copyright law by using the artists’ work in their training data sets. By: Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

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TorrentFreak

MAY 29, 2023

million copyright infringement damages award in hand, and suddenly cooperative defendants helping to unveil others involved in the circumvention of Bungie’s technological protection measures. In this case, none of that data relates to the Romanian Copyright Office. By June 2022, Bungie had a $13.5

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

These servers were reportedly rented by BitTorrent users for use on one or more of the private trackers to share around 3,800 copyrighted works. Filmspeler provided a box that was preconfigured for piracy with addons leading to copyright-protected content but this is not the case on our end. We at Ultra.cc

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SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

In part one of the post he addresses concerns about economic gains and privacy. Taming the ‘LAION’: Lessons for Harmonising AI and Copyright Law Unpacking the Hamburg Regional Court’s landmark ruling in Robert Kneschke v. Tanishka Goswami explores how text data mining can qualify as an exception to copyright infringement.

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IP Watchdog

JUNE 27, 2022

House of Representatives will explore the leading role that Michigan has taken in addressing cybersecurity risks in state and local governments, as well as ways to promote data privacy despite the growth of biometric tracking systems.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 31, 2022

Telegram doesn’t permit copyright infringement and generally takes swift action in response. For some copyright holders that’s not enough, as new ‘pirate’ channels generally surface soon after. From: TF , for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

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SpicyIP

JULY 9, 2021

Recently, a copyright infringement suit had been filed before the District Court, Trivandrum, against Facebook India. Being his sole legal heir, the copyright in these works is held by Sweety Priyanka Vempati Ravi Shankar. Here, there was no discussion if privacy survives an individual’s death. Image from here.

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Plagiarism Today

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Reddit, like any other large site that hosts content uploaded by users, received a massive number of Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) notices. . While that rate is typical among hosts of its type, that still leaves some 173,280 pieces of content that were reported as copyright infringing but were not removed. Bottom Line.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 13, 2022

Amidst growing concerns surrounding online privacy and security, VPN services have become increasingly popular in recent years. Over the past few years, we have seen copyright holders take several ISPs to court, accusing them of failing to disconnect repeat copyright infringers. Filmmakers sued Torguard. Torrent Blocking.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 13, 2024

overturned the High Court decision in which Mr Justice Mellor found that the Bitcoin File Format (the “BFF” ) was not a protectable work in a copyright sense as it did not satisfy the fixation requirement under s.3(2) 3(2) of the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 (the “ Act ”).

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 22, 2025

Like other platforms that host user-generated content, this massive code library occasionally runs into copyright infringement issues. GitHub says that it will continue to take a developer-first approach to content moderation, minimizing the disruption of software projects while protecting developer privacy.

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IPilogue

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Typically, tattoo aftercare instructions include strictly hygienic recommendations, but tattoo artist Kat Von D might have a unique suggestion: prepare to be an exhibit in a copyright infringement lawsuit. for copyright infringement under the Copyright Act of 1976. Sedlik (“Sedlik”) filed a complaint in the U.

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The IP Law Blog

MAY 5, 2022

When standard approaches failed, a business professor recently turned to copyright law, hoping for a solution. Berkovitz administered a midterm exam and a final exam, which comprised copyrighted material. To obtain a subpoena, Berkovitz would have to register his copyrights and file a lawsuit for copyright infringement, which he did.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The plaintiff sued Cloudflare for copyright infringement. It found that Cloudflare was liable for copyright infringement due to providing the CDN services but not for the DNS resolver services. Copyright infringement on ddl-music.to infringed the plaintiff’s right under the German equivalent of Art.

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Copyright Lately

OCTOBER 6, 2024

A new lawsuit over Broadway’s Stereophonic tests copyright’s limits, as Fleetwood Mac’s former sound engineer claims the hit play copies his real-life story about working on the Rumours album. And contrary to popular belief, no one needs to acquire “life rights” to tell those stories.

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Velocity of Content

JANUARY 25, 2024

“Is offshoring the training of AI a credible and efficient response to minimize copyright compliance risks or is offshoring merely a theoretical argument designed to both influence lawmakers and for government relations purposes?” Artificial Intelligence (AI) is global, and copyright laws are national.

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IP and Legal Filings

APRIL 19, 2022

The author or creator of any theatrical, literary, creative, or musical work has an exclusive right to copyright. It was recently uncovered that numerous internet platforms are posting infringing content on their websites without the approval of the copyright owners. Image Source: gettyimages]. What are takedown services?

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 15, 2022

Launched in 2008, search engine DuckDuckGo is a go-to service for Internet users who value their privacy. The privacy-focused search engine is not immune to potential copyright issues, however. These “bangs”, as they are called, were seen as a potential copyright infringement liability. “We

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 13, 2022

We begin with developments in the copyright field. In February , Kenya’s parliament passed the Copyright Amendment Bill 2021. Amongst other things, the Act also establishes a National Rights Registry (NRR ) , which is the central repository collating details pertaining to the ownership of various copyright works.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Users may also prefer less advertising or find the amount of user data scooped up by official apps a privacy risk. In a strongly-worded copyright complaint sent this week, rightsholders say that will not be tolerated. The complaint is dated February 14 but wasn’t officially published until this week.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 22, 2024

The rise in popularity of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) has attracted a great deal of attention from copyright practitioners and aficionados. Basically, because an NFT is an encoded digital metadata file of a copy of a work that can be copyright protected. And why is that? an exploitation that caused them no harm).

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 17, 2022

Amidst growing concerns surrounding online privacy and security, VPN services have become increasingly popular in recent years. Over the past few years we have seen copyright holders take several ISPs to court, accusing them of failing to disconnect repeat copyright infringers.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 8, 2023

The ISP addressed the substance of the allegations and described the film companies and their anti-piracy partner Maverickeye as “copyright trolls”. Nearly all of them denied having downloaded the pirated films and one subscriber said they had never received a copyright infringement complaint, contrary to the filmmakers’ claim.

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