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Cold Open: The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Authorship in Film and Television Writing

IP Watchdog

Last week, the Writers Guild of America (WGA) reached a tentative three-year deal to resolve a writer’s strike following a labor dispute with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP). The deal was reached on September 27, 2023, after a 148-day strike, which was the second-longest in the union’s history.

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Implementing Canada’s Online Streaming Act: The CRTC is Fast Out of the Gate

Hugh Stephens Blog

Just days after Canada’s controversial Online Streaming Act (aka Bill C-11) finally cleared Parliament and was proclaimed law, the CRTC (Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunication Commission), the regulatory body empowered to implement the widespread changes to the Broadcasting Act encompassed by C-11, seized the initiative.

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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. First off today, Jon Brodkin at Ars Technica reports that the free TV streaming service Locast has shut down, at least for now, following a significant courtroom defeat. 3: Brit Extradited to US on Movie Piracy Charges.

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Trademark lessons from The Bear

Erik K Pelton

What can the stories of Carmy and the crew in the hit television show THE BEAR teach us about trademarks? What can the stories of Carmy and the crew in the hit television show THE BEAR teach us about trademarks? More than you think, as Erik explains in this video. More than you think, as Erik explains in this video.

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3 Count: Calling Duty

Plagiarism Today

However, this move comes after Gunn appeared on WWE television and WWE tweeted a photo of Gunn and a performer backstage. Gunn, who used samples taken from WWE shows as part of his music, had been previously targeted by former WWE announcer Greg Hamilton, who threatened to sue him for sampling his voice without authorization.

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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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US Copyright Office Expands Jailbreaking Exemption to Roku and Apple TV

TorrentFreak

For purposes of this paragraph (b)(10), “smart televisions” includes both internet-enabled televisions, as well as devices that are physically separate from a television and whose primary purpose is to run software applications that stream authorized video from the internet for display on a screen.

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