TorrentFreak

JULY 16, 2024

The report said that 30-year-old Phan Ngoc Tuan, a resident of Quang Binh province, had been arrested on suspicion of operating the pirate sites bilutvt.net, tvhayh.org and animefull.net. Information relating to the alleged crimes, outlined by the authorities back in January, featured almost identically during the trial.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Related rights. In addition to rights of the author, German copyright law also recognises related rights. Reporting on current events (Section 50 UrhG) and right of quotation (Section 51 UrhG).

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The IPKat

JULY 4, 2022

In 2019, the EU legislature introduced an EU-wide related right (Article 15 of the DSM Directive , on which see Katposts here ) for EU-based press publishers in relation to online uses of their press publications by information society service providers, including news aggregation services, social media, and search engines.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 12, 2023

“Most Voluminous” Copyright Decree Ever Issued in Vietnam Global IP services firm Rouse reports that with 8 chapters and 116 articles, Decree 17 is the most voluminous copyright decree ever issued in Vietnam. At first blush, it appears to herald a new world of opportunities for rightsholders.

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The IPKat

JANUARY 18, 2025

related rights, performers rights), trade marks (incl., geographical indications), designs, best foreign language/non-English IP book and IP in general (books covering diverse IP rights). EUIPO-EPOs report Intellectual property rights and firm performance in the European Union. Review the report here.

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LexBlog IP

JUNE 7, 2023

The introduction of Law 4481/2017 into the Greek legislation aimed to regulate the collective management of IP and relative rights, thus amending the EU Collective Rights Management Directive. (1) What is the reporting obligation? What is the reporting obligation? When does the reporting obligation apply?

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 26, 2021

This becomes quite evident when one looks at the number of institutional policy reports that have been issued in the past three months. European Parliament, Report on the situation of artists and cultural recovery in the EU. See Communia’s report of the initial meeting here. We reported on this here. CJEU judgments.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 10, 2024

Vietnam’s approach to the protection of intellectual property rights has long been criticized by the United States, earning the country prominent placement in successive USTR Special 301 Reports. Alleged Leader Arrested Reports that authorities had made three arrests first appeared on Tuesday.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

For most of its existence, international copyright policy at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has focused on the creation and harmonization of exclusive rights. This led the Committee to embark on a decade-long process of commissioning expert studies relating to L&Es.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 13, 2024

To address this, Uptobox had a takedown policy to swiftly remove those files in response to rightsholders’ reports. While Genius Servers hoped to turn the case around, Marc Rees at l’Informé reports that this initial attempt failed. of the links reported by movie industry groups were promptly removed.

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

Whether the government has taken any steps to address concerns raised by creative writers and artists in their lawsuits against AI-powered Large Language Models, especially regarding issues such as the source of training, systematic theft, violation of moral rights, threat to livelihoods, and royalty payment.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 8, 2022

b) the services of the ISP are used by a third party to infringe copyright or related rights in the territory of that Party. However, it specifically references a report from the U.S. In the same report, the Copyright Office also stressed that further research would be required on the effect and impact of a U.S.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 16, 2024

In a report published this week, BREIN said the VR worlds specifically catered to pirates, offering thousands of links to pirated streams, which could be enjoyed through VR headsets. BREIN reported these pirate worlds to San Francisco-based VRChat, which took them offline in response.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 28, 2024

In that respect, matters related to intellectual property require the closest attention. Yet for a country being consumed by war, Ukraine is still taking time to plan for a future in the EU. ” On March 11, 2024, the Ministry of Justice registered order 357/41702 and on March 21, 2024, it was adopted by the Ministry of Economy.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2022

This included the highly controversial Articles 15 and 17 on, respectively, the new press publishers’ right (PPR) and the new copyright liability scheme for OCSSPs (“online content-sharing services providers”). The report was commissioned by C4C , but written in complete academic independence. Interaction with other types of liability.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 22, 2024

The defendant has violated the provisions of the law which protect the copyright and related rights of the Motion Picture Association’s members and the English Premier League,” Judge Le Hai Yen said. The defendant reportedly pleaded guilty to his role in the BestBuyIPTV operation.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 28, 2021

The European Audiovisual Observatory (“EAO”) has recently published the Mapping report on national remedies against online piracy of sports content (“Report”), conducted at the request of the European Commission.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 24, 2025

With amendments to Article 10, the bill introduces specific offenses based on the offense of copyright infringement and related rights provided for by the Intellectual Property Code. This is most evident where sentences for copyright offenses are perceived to be less punitive than those available for crimes like fraud, for example.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 22, 2024

Videos uploaded to the platform were embedded on many other streaming sites, the MPA reported, and as a result, traffic was booming. The Paris court noted that the site “encouraged the infringement of copyright and related rights by setting up tools specifically designed for the mass and illicit sharing of protected content.”

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

AI-generated works have won awards: The Crow , an “AI-made” film won the Jury Award at the Cannes Short Film Festival and the story of an AI artwork winning the Colorado State Fair’s annual art competition was reported in The New York Times. AI-generated art was used for magazine covers, including Cosmopolitan and The Economist.

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The IPKat

MAY 19, 2022

Last month, Katfriends Desmond Oriakhogba and Dick Kawooya provided a highlight of the key portions of the Work Program on Limitations and Exceptions (L&Es) proposed by the Africa Group to WIPO's Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (WIPO-SCCR). The 42nd session of the WIPO SCCR was held from 9 to 13 May 2022.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 3, 2023

Reporters who attempted to interview Geshev as he left court suddenly found themselves attacked by security guards. Research cited in the blocking decision reported 27,000 files containing music available via The Pirate Bay and 44,000 on Zamunda. ” Bulgarian ISPs Fight Back One of the ISPs, identified only as ‘N.1’

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 15, 2022

More on this in a separate post… And here are matters this Kat is keeping 3 of the 5 senses, alert for: As reported on The IPKat in May , the Africa Group at WIPO proposed a Work Program on Limitations and Exceptions (L&Es) to WIPO's Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (WIPO-SCCR).

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 3, 2023

31, 2022): When an individual’s decision to disseminate an Instagram post is the “very thing the article [is] reporting on,” the use of the Instagram post and its copyrighted material in the reporting has been deemed sufficiently transformative to support a fair use defense. UMG Recordings, Inc. Grumpy Cat Limited v.

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The IPKat

MAY 31, 2022

TRADE MARKS The impact of Brexit on trade mark cases involving UK-based rights has been a hot topic over the past two years. But for how long will UK-based rights continue to play a role in deciding EU trade mark disputes? The Kluwer Copyright Blog reports on a recent Italian Supreme Court decision addressing this question.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

This included the highly controversial Articles 15 and 17 on, respectively, the new press publishers’ right (PPR) and the new copyright liability scheme for “online content-sharing services providers” (OCSSPs). The report was commissioned by C4C , but written in complete academic independence. Mere facts”.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 9, 2024

The Court of Milan’s decision, dated Monday August 5, and reported by Cloudflare’s Italian legal team, fills in most of the gaps. A second claim, reportedly relating to Cloudflare’s behavior, was also dismissed. But even then, what Serie A hoped to achieve and under what legislation still wasn’t made clear.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 24, 2022

This post is the second instalment of an analysis of a recent report , a part of the reCreating Europe project, on the application of EU copyright and related rights law to outputs generated by or with the assistance of artificial intelligence (AI) systems, tools or techniques (AI outputs), with a focus on outputs in the musical domain.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JANUARY 9, 2023

YouTube’s first Copyright Transparency Report 2021 – A step towards “factfulness” by Jan Bernd Nordemann. At the end of 2021, YouTube’s first Copyright Transparency Report 2021 (“Report”) was published. In any case, this first YouTube Report is indeed a promising start (Paul Keller, op cit.), Factfulness, p.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 5, 2022

We report here on one case, issued late in December 2021, which may be of interest to our copyright readers, despite its focus on private international law. The Report examines the question: How can and should EU copyright and related rights law protect AI musical outputs? According to reports (e.g. End of 2021.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 16, 2022

As reported in February 2022, notices published on the Lumen Database referenced well over one hundred pirate sites, all of which had been previously blocked for copyright infringement under the orders of the High Court in London. Voluntary Deindexing Confirmed Elsewhere in Europe. They too were destined for search result oblivion.

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The IPKat

APRIL 29, 2022

WIPO is gearing up for the 42nd session of its Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights and the Africa Group at WIPO has submitted a proposal for a Work Program on Limitations and Exceptions (L&Es). At the wake of the pandemic, the mode of conducting the SCCR’s sessions changed drastically.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JANUARY 4, 2022

At the same time, a global paradigm of online piracy enabling the retransmission of sports events on a worldwide basis has dynamically emerged. This post is divided in two parts. In the first part, the application of the EU concept of work in football matches is discussed (Part I).

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 25, 2022

The 42nd session of the World Intellectual Property Organization’s (WIPO) Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) took place from 9 to 13 May 2022 in Geneva. Image by Ag Ku via Pixabay. This was the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic started that most of the delegates were reunited in person.

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The IPKat

AUGUST 1, 2021

Here is his report. The first case ( 4 Ob 40/21t – in German) relates to the operation of an online video recording device. Former GuestKat Peter Ling was recently made aware of two referrals for a preliminary ruling made by the Supreme Court of Austria on the interpretation of Art. 3(1) and Art. 2(a) and (e) and Art.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 21, 2021

Article 17 Directive (EU) 2019/790 on copyright and related rights in the Digital Single Market (“DSM Directive”) is currently being implemented into national law in the EU Member States. There is some controversy as to how the right of communication to the public as mentioned in Art. Image of conolan on Pixabay.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Katfriends Adrian Aronsson-Storrier and Oliver Fairhurst from Lewis Silkin report on recent litigation in the UK against the developers of AI generation software. Last year the IPKat reported that the US Copyright Office refuses to register AI-generated works and requires human authorship as a prerequisite to copyright protection.

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