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The CRTC and Online Streaming: Money Now; Details Later

Hugh Stephens Blog

Photo: Author The first shoe has dropped for foreign online music and video streamers in Canada, at least those generating more than $25 million a year in “contribution revenues” from the Canadian market.

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3 Count: Locast Outcast

Plagiarism Today

Locast offered a service that allowed users to access free, over-the-air broadcast television via the internet. However, the judge in the case granted a motion to dismiss that affirmative defense, specifically because it uses funds from paying customers to pay for its expansion in to new markets, not merely to offset costs.

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Commercializing the Personalities of the Dead: The Dangers of the Posthumous Market

IPilogue

In 2020, a South Korean television and radio network, Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation, released a documentary that revealed one family’s journey in recreating their 7-year-old deceased daughter, Na-Yeon, through the technology of virtual reality (“VR”). This article was written as a requirement for Prof. Such technology is not novel.

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3 Count: Not-So Freeplay

Plagiarism Today

ThFord argued that Freeplay’s name and marketing were deliberately confusing, but ultimately opted to settle the case. Finally today, Colin Mann at Advanced Television reports that a federal court has ordered pirate IPTV service NitroTV to pay some $51.6 3: NitroTV Hit with $51m Piracy Damages.

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Another referral to the CJEU concerning communication to the public in hotel rooms (case C-723/22)

The IPKat

Communication to the public would be committed by means of a broadcast via television sets installed by the defendant in the rooms and the fitness centre of its hotel in Munich, in so far as the transmission signal is transmitted to the television sets via coaxial or data cables. television sets).

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‘Notorious’ Pirate IPTV Service MagisTV Applies for US Trademark and Rebrands

TorrentFreak

A Notorious Market Rightsholders worldwide are not pleased with the brand’s dominance and have worked hard to counter it. Trade Representative elevated the MagisTV concerns once again by adding the brand to its latest list of notorious piracy markets. This includes magistv.la

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[Guest post] Flat rates supported by clauses on universality of repertoire in contracts between CMOs and users are anti-competitive, says Spanish Competition Authority

The IPKat

Such conduct generated exploitative effects by excessive pricing towards users as well as exclusionary effects towards SGAE’s competitors, representing a barrier to entry into the market for collective management as well as the market for licensing of copyright-protected works for other CMOs or independent management entities (IMEs).