TorrentFreak

JUNE 10, 2022

Unlike other copyright enforcement groups, BREIN is not interested in casual pirates. According to Ziggo, linking IP addresses to specific subscribers raises serious privacy concerns, even if the personal information isn’t shared with BREIN. From: TF , for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Copyright holders see pirate site blocking as an effective and proportional anti-piracy measure. Instead of focusing on intermediaries, they should go after pirate services directly and find ways for stakeholders to ‘collaborate’ without compromising privacy and security.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Copyright holders see pirate site blocking as an effective and proportional tool to combat widespread online piracy. The aim is to prevent circumvention of existing blocking measures put in place to reduce widespread copyright infringement. From: TF , for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

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IP and Legal Filings

MARCH 5, 2025

1] And since, the creator, consumer and subject of the content are distinctly different-the potential lack of empathy or misapprehension by the consumers towards the subject, based on the creators potrayal, necessitate a discussion of the subjects privacy and personality rights. WHERE SHOULD THE LINE BE DRAWN TO CURB MISUSE?

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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. ( ” Clients may not infringe copyrights or exploit copyright-infringing materials, Google adds. (

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Intepat

DECEMBER 5, 2024

As digital spaces grow in popularity, so do the stakes around intellectual property, particularly copyright. Copyright governs the rights of creators over their digital works, ensuring they are protected from unauthorized use. For instance, who holds the copyright to a virtual item collaboratively created by multiple avatars?

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JD Supra Law

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Copyright Offices three-part report on copyright issues raised by artificial intelligence (AI) would be further delayed. By: Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider This week, Director Shira Perlmutter indicated that the publication of part two of the U.S.

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IP Watchdog

OCTOBER 5, 2023

On September 6, OpenAI faced its second invasion of privacy lawsuit filed in the U.S. Here are five key allegations from the privacy suit against OpenAI. District Court for the District of Northern California, for allegedly stealing private information from millions of internet users.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 4, 2024

“Copyright holders spend a significant amount of human resources trying to manually detect pirated content online,” said Momii Keiko, a director at the Cultural Affairs Agency’s Copyright Division. From: TF , for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 23, 2023

All claim to be the best, but some are more privacy-conscious than others. When it comes to privacy and anonymity, an outsider can’t offer any guarantees. Many of these questions relate to privacy and security, and the various companies answer them here in their own words. That includes copyright infringement.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Following the creation of its Hadopi anti-piracy agency over 13 years ago, France monitored and stored data on millions of users suspected of infringing copyrights. Operating the program for a decade cost French taxpayers 82 million euros ($86.5

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Intepat

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Introduction Copyright protection is essential for independent artists to secure the recognition and fair compensation they deserve. In the music industry, copyright does more than just credit originality—it helps artists build their brand and reputation.

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Intepat

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Introduction Copyright protection is essential for independent artists to secure the recognition and fair compensation they deserve. In the music industry, copyright does more than just credit originality—it helps artists build their brand and reputation.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Commenting on the French action, Quad9 describes the latest blocking order as yet more “DNS censorship” The company believes that the ruling is based on an “absurd” application of copyright law, which has far-reaching consequences. This is in line with European and Swiss privacy laws. org, livetv813.me,

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

APRIL 12, 2023

Some of the legal issues include: Does use of copyrighted content to train models constitute infringement or is it fair use? Is the output of the AI tool protectable by copyright? What are the privacy implications? In the near term, so too will the associated legal issues. Can collection of the content itself create liability?

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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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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

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Copyright Infringement & Content Removal. Right from the beginning, Mega has been promoted as a privacy platform, meaning that not even the company itself is able to look at what content is being stored on its servers. million takedown requests from copyright holders, up from around 1.2 Repeat Infringer Policy.

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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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Hugh Stephens Blog

JANUARY 15, 2024

Image: [link] The extended period set by the Canadian Government (through Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada, ISED) for response to its consultation paper on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Copyright closed on January 15.

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Velocity of Content

JANUARY 7, 2025

The following is an excerpt from the article The Heart of the Matter: Copyright, AI Training, and LLMs, authored by Daniel Gervais (Milton R. The full article can be read in the Journal of the Copyright Society. 1 Where does the law come down on the creation of LLMs, both in the input and output of existing copyrighted materials?

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Cloudflare, a global internet infrastructure company, offers various services to millions of users, including connectivity and privacy tools. The company’s approach to copyright complaints differs based on the role it plays. Cloudflare Copyright Takedowns on the Rise Historically, Cloudflare hasn’t hosted much content.

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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, in turn, doesn’t deny that copyrights play a role but stresses that its controlled lending is fair use.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JULY 24, 2024

The relationship between copyright and generative AI (genAI) has turned out to be one of the most controversial issues the law has to resolve in this area. Is it a proper copyright ownership or an assigned license? If output works infringe copyright, who is responsible (e.g. user, service)?

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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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Kluwer Copyright Blog

AUGUST 13, 2024

The Digital Services Act (DSA) transparency database , while proving to be rather useless for misinformation or hate speech researchers, is very enlightening on copyright moderation. The first part of the study presents findings on copyright takedowns on YouTube in Germany and France between 2019 and 2022.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 7, 2022

According to Section 60a of Finland’s Copyright Act, rightsholders are entitled to obtain a subscriber’s details if they make content available to the public “to a significant extent.” From: TF , for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more. Rightsholders Refuse to Give Up.

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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

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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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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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 30, 2024

However, copyright protection may unexpectedly clash with this sustainable practice, as certain upcycled items could include copyrighted prints, ornaments, or design patterns from the original materials, such as new clothing items made out of old bed sheets, curtains, or tablecloths , or jewellery made from broken porcelain.

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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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Velocity of Content

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

According to the survey, 52% of respondents consider IP infringement a relevant risk, ranking it above other critical issues such as cybersecurity, personal/individual privacy, regulatory compliance, explainability, and equity and fairness. When an AI model ingests copyrighted works during training, is it infringing on those copyrights?

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Plagiarism Today

MAY 4, 2022

The move is not directly copyright-related and actually is meant to better empower the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) to deal with cybersecurity and to unmask criminals. However, since VPNs are commonly used as a way to ensure privacy while engaging in pirate activities, it could definitely have impacts there.

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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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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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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

However, A&E contends that the new series is an infringement of Live PD and, as such, are suing for both copyright and trademark violations. 2: HC Directs Telegram to Disclose Details of Channels Violating Copyright Law. 3: Dua Lipa Lawyer Blasts ‘Levitating’ Copyright Lawsuit: ‘Must be Dismissed’.

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