Wednesday, March 7, 2018

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Copyright

Daily update 8 March 2018

NEWS

Ten Hours of Static Gets Five Copyright Notices

EFF

Sebastian Tomczak blogs about technology and sound, and has a YouTube channel. In 2015, Tomczak uploaded a ten-hour video of white noise. Colloquially, white noise is persistent background noise that can be soothing or that you don't even notice after a while. More technically, white noise is ...

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Pepe's creator sues Infowars, claiming new poster infringes copyright

Ars Technica

The lawsuit, which was filed Monday in federal court in Los Angeles, claims that Infowars and its parent company, Free Speech Systems LLC, are in violation of Furie's copyright for Pepe. In recent months Furie has been battling white supremacists and their allies who have co-opted his "peaceful ...

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Pepe the Frog's Creator Is Suing InfoWars for Copyright Infringement

Complex

The creator of Pepe the Frog is tired of his character being used for alt-right memes and pro-Trump propaganda. After cartoonist Matt Furie first drew the frog in his 2015 Boy's Club #1 comic, the character became a popular internet meme. At first, it was fairly harmless, but Pepe was co-opted by members ...

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BlackBerry sues Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram over copyright infringement in mobile ...

YourStory.com

It alleges that Facebook was aware of the copyrights all these years. WhatsApp, when it started out, used an interface quite like BBM's, but added more functionalities later. Now, WhatsApp has 1.5 billion users, while BBM has all but perished. Facebook Messenger and Instagram Direct too allow instant ...

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A Letter To Songwriters On The Copyright Royalty Board

hypebot.com

1 Following two lengthy years and a slew of cash from digital streaming services and the NMPA, the Copyright Royalties Board has finally reached its decision to increase payout to songwriters and publishers by (on paper at least) 43.8%. Here we look at what this actually means for your bottom line.

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Photocopying books at school at the heart of Canadian copyright battle

TheChronicleHerald.ca

Suggested hed: Pictou author joins call for copyright compensation from education departments. Canadian authors and writers say they have a right to compensation when someone uses their work, and that includes its use in schools. "It just sours me that anybody can think that writers should work for ...

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CMEC Copyright Consortium Issues a Policy Statement on Fair Dealing

Markets Insider

The Statement underlines the provincial and territorial education ministers' support for teachers' and students' use of the fair dealing provision in the Copyright Act for classroom learning. The consortium is composed of the ministers of education of all provinces and territories, with the exception of ...

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CMEC Copyright Consortium Issues a Policy Statement on Fair Dealing

Canada NewsWire (press release)

TORONTO, March 7, 2018 /CNW/ - The Copyright Consortium of the Council of Ministers of Education, Canada (CMEC), has released the Education Ministers' Policy Statement on Fair Dealing. The Statement underlines the provincial and territorial education ministers' support for teachers' and students' ...

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PRS for Music calls for copyright overhaul with #MakeInternetFair

M Magazine

PRS for Music and its European sister societies have relaunched the #MakeInternetFair petition, calling for EU law makers to protect the rights of music creators' – in what will be the first copyright overhaul in 17 years. The petition calls for a meaningful solution to the transfer of value and was relaunched ...

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Project Gutenberg Blocks Access In Germany To All Its Public Domain Books Because Of Local ...

Techdirt

Our eBooks may be freely used in the United States because most are not protected by U.S. copyright law, usually because their copyrights have expired. They may not be free of copyright in other countries. Readers outside of the United States must check the copyright terms of their countries before ...

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WEB

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Computer creativity: artificial intelligence and copyright

Oxford Journals - Oxford University Press

AbstractThe author. Jani Ihalainen is a Master of Laws graduate who currently works at an international law firm in London. He has a particular interest in IP.

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Can the monkey selfie case teach us anything about copyright law?

International Geneva

International Geneva: Welcome on the official website of the Republic and State of Geneva on international Geneva.

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