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Da Nang police have arrested three individuals linked to a widespread online piracy ring distributing copyrighted English-language ebooks across Vietnam. The suspects allegedly copied hundreds of titles and sold them via websites and Facebook, generating illegal profits exceeding VND1.5 billion. This crackdown forms p…
Major Hollywood studios have escalated their copyright enforcement efforts against AI companies, filing lawsuits over unauthorized use of iconic characters and music compositions. Parallel legislative initiatives seek to establish federal rights protecting performers’ voices and likenesses from AI replication. Meanwhi…
A Tokyo District Court has sentenced a website owner to 18 months in prison and imposed a fine exceeding $6,000 for publishing spoiler-heavy posts containing extensive plot details and images from the films Godzilla Minus One and the anime series Overlord. The conviction, initiated by complaints from major Japanese co…
Ed Sheeran successfully defended against a US copyright infringement claim brought by the estate of Ed Townsend, co-writer of Marvin Gaye’s ‘Let’s Get It On.’ The six-day 2023 trial in Manhattan concluded with a jury finding that Sheeran’s ‘Thinking Out Loud’ did not unlawfully copy protected elements of the 1973 clas…
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