Michael Geist

MAY 8, 2023

Last year, the BIA was used to extend the term of copyright in order to comply with the USMCA. This year, it is privacy that is at issue, with provisions related to political parties. Why would the government squeeze in privacy rules on political parties in Bill C-47? Updates on the podcast on Twitter at @Lawbytespod.

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Plagiarism Today

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

1: T elegram Shares Users Data in Copyright Violation Lawsuit. First off today, Manish Singh at TechCrunch reports that the messaging platform Telegram has disclosed names, phone numbers and IP addresses of administrators that are accused of operating copyright-infringing channels on the service.

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Olartemoure Blog

APRIL 4, 2024

Download Provisional refusal guide Topics of interest Antitrust Competition Law Compliance Copyright and Entertainment Law Corporate Law Data privacy Innovation Legal Design Litigation Patents Regulatory affairs Trademarks Data privacy policy Do you accept our data privacy policy? Don’t let it block you!

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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. These issues were caused by a DMCA notice sent by the Motion Picture Association to GitHub.

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Michael Geist

JANUARY 30, 2023

This week’s Law Bytes podcast provides a preview of the upcoming session, looking at what may lie ahed for issues such as telecom policy, privacy reform, Bills C-11 and C-18, copyright, and trade policy. The podcast can be downloaded here , accessed on YouTube , and is embedded below.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

provided a download link to one of her music albums without hosting the album itself. 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

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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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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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Michael Geist

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Canadian digital law and policy in 2022 was marked by legislative battles over Bills C-11 and C-18, the Rogers outage, stalled privacy and AI reform, copyright term extension, and a growing trade battle with the U.S. The podcast can be downloaded here , accessed on YouTube , and is embedded below. over Canadian policies.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 23, 2024

A sample chapter, Chapter 14 (on publicity rights and endorsements), is available as a free download. We also have two online-only chapters on housing discrimination (Chapter 20) and political advertising (Chapter 21), both also freely downloadable. We’ve discussed the book’s background and our goals as authors in this essay.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JULY 22, 2024

Last week, the District Court of Hamburg, Germany, held a hearing in the first European case to examine the legality of using copyrighted works for the purpose of training generative AI models. More from our authors: International Cybersecurity and Privacy Law in Practice, Second Edition by Charlotte A. The case centers on LAION e.V.’s

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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. Bypassing Netflix Restrictions. Logging Repeat Infringers?

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

In 2021, Bungie filed a complaint at a federal court in Seattle, accusing AimJunkies.com of copyright and trademark infringement, among other things. Court Dismissed Bungie’s Copyright Claims In May 2022, U.S. Mr. May holds copyrights in these materials…,” the counterclaim added.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Whois Privacy. Copyright holders have complained about these privacy services for years. To make matters worse for copyright holders, the EU’s GDPR privacy law only made it harder to identify domain owners. The domain name body added these to reduce liability under the EU’s privacy regulation.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 11, 2022

A sample chapter, Chapter 14 (on publicity rights and endorsements), is available as a free download. We also have two online-only chapters on housing discrimination (Chapter 20) and political advertising (Chapter 21), both also freely downloadable. Chapter 11: Copyrights. Chapter 15: Privacy. What Does the Book Cover?

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LexBlog IP

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Copyright Office announced in the Federal Register that it will consider a proposed exemption to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act’s (“DMCA”) anti-circumvention provisions which prohibit the circumvention of any technological measures used to prevent unauthorized access to copyrighted works.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

Those who know how to create a Docker container can have an instance up and running in minutes and for the privacy conscious, the docker-compose file on GitHub supports VPNs via Gluetun. The Docker image has been downloaded nearly 25k times and the repository has been starred by more than a thousand other developers so far.

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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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Intepat

JUNE 15, 2023

Introduction With the rise of the mobile application industry, India emerges as a highly profitable market, witnessing over twenty-eight billion downloads in 2022, accounting for 5% of the total global downloads. What is copyright protection? Why should I copyright my software?

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 9, 2021

There is not really much of a privacy advantage for people who use Pirate Bay’s.onion domain to download torrents. While ISPs may not be able to see what pages they visit, their residential IP address is still publicly broadcasted when files are downloading through a torrent client.

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43(B)log

JULY 23, 2024

A sample chapter, Chapter 14 (on publicity rights and endorsements), is available as a free download. We also have two online-only chapters on housing discrimination (Chapter 20) and political advertising (Chapter 21), both also freely downloadable. We’ve discussed the book’s background and our goals as authors in this essay.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Many non-compliant foreign companies exited Russia when faced with a choice; compromise your customers’ privacy, or else. In reality, people will simply download them, or download others from elsewhere that may or may not contain something much, much worse. Russia has been tightening the noose on VPN services for years.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 22, 2024

In 2021, more than 900,000 users downloaded the app through Google Play, in Spain alone. Last September, Javier Tebas revealed that LaLiga had “eliminated” 58 pirate apps, by unspecified means, together worth a million downloads in Spain. From: TF , for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

“We deliberately violate the copyright law in most countries. This includes direct downloads through Library Genesis forks and Z-Library, two well-known shadow libraries. They only increased the team’s motivation to go full steam ahead, while being mindful of their privacy. Leave No Trace.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 19, 2022

Millions of subtitle files are downloaded every week in many languages, often to be paired with downloaded movies and TV shows. “In August 2021 we received message on Telegram from a hacker, who showed us proof that he could gain access to the user table of opensubtitles.org, and downloaded a SQL dump from it.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 13, 2023

” Consumption of Illegal Streams & Downloads Fall The two most popular methods of obtaining infringing content in France are streaming and direct downloading, often referred to as DDL. Arcom’s 2023 Barometer report is available here (pdf, French) From: TF , for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

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Michael Geist

APRIL 17, 2023

The potential of AI is evident to just about everyone, but the challenges associated with bias, copyright, privacy, misinformation and more can’t be ignored. The podcast can be downloaded here , accessed on YouTube , and is embedded below. Aidan Gomez , who worked on the “T” in ChatGPT, is the co-founder and CEO of Cohere AI.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

The DMCA takedown process allows copyright holders to report infringing content and have it removed or taken down. The YouTube download portal has more than 40 million monthly visits but believes this figure would muc: higher today if Google hadn’t removed many of its search results. nu Takedowns YTMP3.nu

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 22, 2023

In Denmark, local anti-piracy group Rights Alliance has repeatedly warned that today’s youth should be properly educated when it comes to copyright and piracy. “Students must learn about copyright and relate this to the streaming culture they are a part of. “[Piracy] actually amounts to stealing. .

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 2, 2023

A cursory glance would’ve revealed the unlicensed nature of these platforms, but LaLiga also nominated more than 80 software video players, many of them available for download on Google Play and Apple’s App Store. “It ” From: TF , for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 11, 2021

According to the app tracking firms App Annie and SensorTower, Shein’s app even surpassed Amazon in the terms of downloads and has helped propel the company to a $15 billion valuation. Slow Fashion’s Copyright Problem. They are cautious to emulate, but not copy, any elements that can be copyright protected.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Companies that own copyrighted works have the option to monetize them in any way they see fit. None of these avenues are inherently controversial but for some companies another option is attractive; track down people who allegedly downloaded and shared movies online and warn them that they could soon be facing a lawsuit.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 8, 2024

TB of WorldCat® data available for public download through its torrents,” OCLC wrote in the complaint it filed in an Ohio federal court. That domain was registered by domain privacy provider Njalla, which adds another layer of complexity from an enforcement perspective. Anna’s Archive switched to a.GS

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 19, 2021

This is a defense lawyer bonanza in terms of briefing opportunities in privacy and other cases. This opinion is more understandable than the Spokeo ruling, but I’m still confused about what this opinion does to privacy litigation (and maybe other areas of the law). The court relied primarily on Clapper , not Spokeo. Microsoft.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 4, 2023

June 2022 marked the end of a legal battle that despite modest roots, went on to become one of the most interesting copyright cases in recent years. After paying just $47, a shadowy business entity hoped to obtain a DMCA subpoena that would compel Twitter to hand over the personal details of an alleged copyright infringer.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 19, 2023

The App Piracy Problem Copyright holders are not happy with these ‘unauthorized’ apps, which are big business. Yes, not only are rights holders losing money from the lack of legitimate App downloads, but Pirates steal what should be their ad revenue as well,” Bravo notes.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 30, 2022

Copyright holders are not happy with these ‘unauthorized’ apps, a sentiment that was reiterated by the Copyright Alliance a few days ago. Copyright Alliance Response to NTIA Inquiry. Piracy is not mentioned in the brief but the Copyright Alliance believes that this issue should be taken into account as well.

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