TorrentFreak

JANUARY 8, 2025

The United States Trade Representative ( USTR ) published its annual Out-of-Cycle Review of Notorious Markets a few hours ago. The mentioned publishing sites, LibGen and Sci-Hub, didn’t change either. — A copy of the USTRs 2024 Review of Notorious Markets is available here (pdf).

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 25, 2024

Publishers vs. Internet Archive The self-scanning service offered by the Internet Archive (IA) differs from the licensing agreements entered into by other libraries. Not all publishers are happy with IA’s approach, resulting in a major legal battle two years ago.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 18, 2024

In 2020, publishers Hachette, HarperCollins, John Wiley and Penguin Random House sued the Internet Archive (IA) for copyright infringement, equating its ‘Open Library’ to a pirate site. Publishers vs. Internet Archive The self-scanning approach differs from the licensing deals other libraries enter into.

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The IPKat

OCTOBER 1, 2023

The games available there are developed, first, by gaming publishers, who then conclude distribution agreements with Steam. In order to develop the games, Steam licenses its own technology to the publishers (‘Steamworks services’), who subsequently upload them on the platform while granting Steam non-exclusive licences. Valve appealed.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Sony Pictures, Paramount, and Universal left the Russian market, some celebrated their exit as a positive for local cinema. Pirated Content Blamed For Undermining Legal Market Over the last two years, various politicians have sought to link movie piracy to the war in Ukraine. When Disney, Warner Bros.,

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IP.com

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

With its intuitive design, InnovationQ simplifies data analysis, enabling users to review search results and document previews side-by-side, accelerating decision-making in competitive research and defensive publishing. “With InnovationQ, we’re raising the bar for prior art search technology.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 17, 2024

It is a job with lots of responsibility, joys, surprises and disappointments, but one thing is for sure publishing is a big part of our workload. To that end, we work very closely with academic publishers. One such topic is academic publishing and genAI deals between publishers and tech companies.

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Velocity of Content

AUGUST 5, 2024

On 2 August, Tracey Armstrong, President and CEO of CCC and President of the IFRRO Board of Directors, delivered a speech at this year’s Indian Publishers Conference: Unleashing Digital Potential , organized by the Federation of Indian Publishers ( FIP ) in collaboration with IFRRO member, the Indian Reprographic Rights Organization ( IRRO ).

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 4, 2024

The site’s origins reportedly trace back to the Soviet Union’s underground publishing culture ‘ samizdat ,’ which was used to bypass state censorship in the last century. In 2017, Elsevier won a court case against LibGen and Sci-Hub in a New York federal court, which awarded the publisher $15 million in damages.

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The IPKat

JULY 12, 2024

This Regulation ensures the free movement, cross-border, of AI-based goods and services, thus preventing Member States from imposing restrictions on the development, marketing and use of AI systems, unless explicitly authorised by this Regulation ”. This sprawling regulation comprises 180 recitals and 113 articles.

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SpicyIP

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Recently a professor from the University of California, Los Angeles filed an antitrust complaint against six academic publishers before the US District Court for the Eastern District of New York. SpicyIP intern Samridhi Chugh writes on this development, discussing the many problems posed by the business of academic publishing.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 18, 2025

In each case, the publisher XXL (a publisher of hip-hop related news) reported on the videos and embedded the video and included a screenshot. ” Nature of work: “The original Jordan video was published online and depicted factual and newsworthy events.”

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 20, 2024

The Entertainment Software Association ( ESA ) has submitted its latest overview of “ Notorious Markets ” to the Office of the US Trade Representative (USTR). These submissions serve as input for the USTR’s yearly overview of piracy ‘markets’ which helps to shape the U.S. Government’s global copyright enforcement agenda going forward.

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Copyright Lately

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

A court win against the Internet Archive has publishers celebrating, but what does it mean for the future of public libraries and digital access? It’s a clear win for publishers, but for public libraries—and the millions who rely on them for access to digital books—the ruling may signal more troubling times ahead. Hachette v.

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Plagiarism Today

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Earlier today, video game critic and prominent YouTuber James Stephanie Sterling posted a video calling out a marketing firm working for Activision Blizzard in the run-up to the release of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. . Searching for that text, you quickly find a slew of sites that have published it, either in whole or in part.

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 19, 2022

According to authors, this enables authors and publishers to sell books at different prices for different countries. Without this rule, many authors fear the UK market would be flooded with cheaper international copies. The rule, entitled copyright exhaustion, places limits on the import of international editions of books.

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Velocity of Content

MARCH 3, 2025

In a world where digital transformation and AI continue to disrupt the publishing landscape, rightsholders face a pressing need to protect their content, chart a course for sustainable growth, and promote responsible AI and research integrity. His experience in scholarly communications and publishing is broad and multinational.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

StreamSafely: How it All Began The people who came up with the StreamSafely campaign and still run it today are collectively known as Ctam Cable Marketing Association Inc. , As the current member list shows, cable marketing has considerable scope. or CTAM for short. ” Under the heading The Cable Industry v.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 5, 2024

The suspects used a well-known website operated by an individual to publish articles and provide download links, generating advertising revenue through click-through rates.” “The investigation found that this type of illegal app software initially disguised itself as a legitimate program not associated with video content. .

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 1, 2022

2: Publishers Sue ex-Mangamura Operator for ¥1.9 Next up today, The Japan Times reports that, in Japan, three major manga publishers have filed a lawsuit against Mangamura, a now-closed manga piracy website that was previously found guilty of unlawfully distributing manga content. The publishers are seeking some ¥1.93

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 30, 2025

March 25, 2025) Anthropic previously agreed to maintain its guardrails designed to prevent “output that reproduces, distributes, or displays, in whole or in part, the lyrics to compositions owned or controlled by Publishers, or creates derivative works based on those compositions.” Contributory Copyright Infringement.

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Traverse Legal Blog

MARCH 26, 2025

Publishing health-related books or products can quickly turn into a compliance nightmare. But if that content touches on health, youre entering one of the most highly regulatedand misunderstoodspaces in publishing and e-commerce. In todays marketplace, publishing health-related content isnt just about getting noticed.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MARCH 11, 2025

However, the shift from a market of goods to a market of services has changed this paradigm. Much more alarming is that in this dematerialized reality the disappearance of the market entails the risk of the disappearance of the work itself. There is a dominant personal and temporal dimension to the online access of content.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 4, 2025

In January, the UK’s digital markets competition regime went into effect. This procedure allows the Government’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) to regulate dominant tech firms, ensuring fair competition and consumer protection. They say that Google’s current demotion policy has only a limited effect.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 26, 2025

Music Companies vs. Anthropic In one of these lawsuits, music publishers including Concord and Universal sued AI startup Anthropic. “Publishers have not demonstrated reputational harm based on the use of the Works as training input. Publishers cite to several declarations, which are largely duplicative of each other.

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IPilogue

MARCH 16, 2025

By 'Damola Adediji Policy researchers and government studies worldwide have continued to express deep concerns surrounding Big Tech firms and their extensive collection of personal digital data, which affects how markets operate and compete. Network effects result from how the number of users in a network (e.g.,

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Velocity of Content

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

In close collaboration with the scholarly publishing community, CCC delivered another year of customer-driven enhancements to our market-leading solutions to better support publishers in automating their evolving publishing models. The new author workflow removes identified pain points for authors choosing to publish OA.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 25, 2023

In 2020, publishers Hachette, HarperCollins, John Wiley and Penguin Random House sued the Internet Archive (IA) for copyright infringement, equating its ‘Open Library’ to a pirate site. While ‘digital’ book lending is not uncommon, libraries typically loan out DRM-protected files after acquiring a license from publishers.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Publishers vs. Internet Archive The self-scanning service is different from the licensing deals other libraries enter into. Not all publishers are happy with IA’s approach which triggered a massive legal battle two years ago. The publishers didn’t listen to these concerns.

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Velocity of Content

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Often, this critical information comes from externally-published materialsresearch analyses, market reports, news, and academic journalsthat help financial institutions stay current and maintain a competitive edge. Much of this material is protected by copyright.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Photo by Aaron Burden on Unsplash In 2019, the European Union (EU) adopted its most important copyright reform in the past 20 years with the Copyright in the Digital Single Market (DSM) Directive. Fortunately, solutions were already available on the market to allow people to access the content they needed online in the form of licences.

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Copyright Lately

JANUARY 20, 2025

On the same day last week, federal judges in the Southern District of New York issued a pair of decisions that highlight the persistent legal uncertainty publishers and websites in the Second Circuit face when embedding content from social media platforms. For publishers embedding YouTube content, this ruling offers much-needed clarity.

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IP Watchdog

JANUARY 22, 2025

Last week, patent data tracking firm IFI CLAIMS published its annual rankings of the Top 50 U.S. patent grants increased overall last year, pointing to the strength of the domestic market, foreign economic rival China continued to make significant gains in acquiring U.S. patent grants totals over the last calendar year. Although U.S.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

First off today, David Saleh Rauf at Edweek Market Brief reports that ACT has emerged victorious in a legal fight against their competior WIN as an appeals court has upheld a legal victory for the prominent testing organization. The lawsuit also targets BMG Rights Management, RIP Roaring Records and Tiger King Publishing.

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IP and Legal Filings

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Thus, a defense that has the Fair Use Principle at its bedrock, in order to be an acceptable defense, must prove the existence of these factors in its favor, namely, the purpose and character of Use, the nature of copyrighted work, the amount and substantiality of the portion used and the effect of Use upon potential markets. [1]

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 21, 2024

As a TV broadcaster, Sky has an exceptional view of the legal subscription TV market and how the illegal IPTV market encroaches on that. As an ISP that supplies 20% of the market, Sky’s view of its own customers using Sky Broadband to pirate Sky’s pay TV content is a persistent irritant that comes with the territory.

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Indiana Intellectual Property Law

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

The Plaintiff asserts exclusive rights to the photograph in question, which he reports was first published on January 30, 2023, and later registered by the U.S. Empire, LLC, is alleged to have profited from the unauthorized display, thus undermining the Plaintiff’s market for the photograph. . §101 et seq. )

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