Right now Australia would have a three-strikes piracy rule, were it not for the fact that content holders expected someone else to pay for it. Why lobby the government and fight for the introduction of an industry piracy code if you’re going to piss it…
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After tearing down a Harvard Law lecture on music copyright on copyright grounds, Sony Music has now relented. The takedown happened on YouTube last week, based on the presence of several clips of “Little Wing” to illustrate points on compulsory music licensing. The takedown was…
Read MoreMusician Curtis Jackson, known as 50 Cent, has successfully fended off a copyright lawsuit centring on his 2007 hit “I Get Money”. In a ruling handed down on Friday, January 15, the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit affirmed a lower court ruling…
Read MoreSan Francisco – Apple siap bersaing dengan rivalnya Google dan Facebook dalam mengembangkan teknologi Artificial Intelligence (AI) setelah mereka mengakuisisi sebuah perusahaan bernama Emotient. Emotient dikenal sebagai perusahaan startup yang fokus pada pengembangan kecerdasan buatan (AI) untuk mendeteksi emosi atau mood pada wajah manusia. Dikutip…
Read MoreAdolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf entered the public domain on Friday, 70 years after the copyright was given to a Nazi publishing house in Bavaria. Written by the anti-Semitic leader in 1924, the book sold 12 million copies between 1933 and 1945, during which time it…
Read MoreLOS ANGELES – Singer-songwriter and musician’s rights advocate David Lowery has sued Spotify, claiming in a proposed class action lawsuit that the streaming giant often uses lesser-known artists’ material without paying them royalties. The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Los Angeles on Monday, marks…
Read MoreAnkara — Adele, superstar musik pop saat ini, kemungkinan akan dipaksa ke pengadilan untuk menghadapi gugatan plagiarisme. Million Years Ago, lagu Adele dalam album 25, memiliki kesamaan dengan lagu Acilara Tutunmak karya Ahmet Kaya — penyanyi dan legenda musik Kurdi. Kepada International Business Times, Melis…
Read MoreGoogle has vowed to help YouTube creators fight back against phony copyright claims by offering legal protection to creators—at least, to a few of them. Fred von Lohmann, copyright legal director at the company, wrote in a blog post today that Google will now help…
Read MoreThe first single of Taylor Swift’s current album “1989” is a crucial turning point for her career as she used it to launch herself into full pop stardom. Stepping out of her usual country romantic, highschool love songs, she took a risk with releasing an…
Read MoreU.S. regulators today announced new exemptions to a provision of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) that will make it possible for nerds to tinker with cars and gadgets without breaking copyright laws. The ruling reined in the controversial 1201 provision of the DMCA, which prohibits the circumvention of Digital…
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