YouTube Takes Copyright Law into Their Own Hands with New Rules for Music
Rightsholders will lose the ability to manually claim payment for unintended use of their music, but they can still block the videos.
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Australia Considers Copyright Reform for Digital Platforms
The Australian public enquiry is the first of its kind, so will likely influence decisions made by other authorities around the world.
Telia Defeats Royalties Collectors in Fight Over IPTV
The Finnish Market Court ruled that the ISP need not make payments to a collection society because their IPTV streams are original broadcasts, not retransmissions of over-the-air TV.
Obituary Piracy Website Ordered to Pay CAD20mn Damages by Canadian Court
Creators of digital archives are likely to suffer heavier penalties if they use content in a way that the owners find upsetting.
Italian Court Holds Facebook Liable for Links to Unlicensed Videos
The Court awarded damages of EUR30,000 after Facebook failed to rapidly remove links to the video of a song.
Swedish Court Rejects Telia Blocking Injunction
The Swedish Patents and Market Court of Appeal decided a blocking injunction was disproportionate.
Huge Fine for Chinese Online Video Pirates QVOD
A court in Guangdong has upheld a fine of CNY260mn (USD38.5mn) after Tencent and other major Chinese online video providers complained that QVOD supported piracy.
Top EU Lawyer Says Germany Cannot Enforce Net Copyright Law
The EU was not given proper notification of a German law that limits web quotations from press articles.
First Greek Net Blocking Orders Prove Ineffective
Greece is the latest country to discover that if you block a specific URL then pirates will simply move their site to a different URL.
Punishing Links to Defamatory Content May Violate Human Rights
The European Court of Human Rights found a Hungarian news website had the right to link to a defamatory YouTube video.