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03
2013
Fredrik “tiamo” Neij continues to live in Laos, unabashedly defying a Swedish arrest warrant.
Not surprisingly, the two Pirate Bay cofounders who appealed their Swedish conviction to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) have lost.
As we reported last year, Jonas Nilsson (attorney to Fredrik “tiamo” Neij) and Peter Althin (attorney to Peter “brokep” Sunde) filed an appeal in June 2012 to the Strasbourg, France-based court.
In a unanimous decision, the ECHR ruled Wednesday that the petitioners’ application was “inadmissible,” finding that the existing Swedish conviction did not violate Neij or Sunde’s human rights. The decision was made by seven judges from across Europe, representing Liechtenstein, Germany, Slovenia, Ireland, Ukraine, Sweden, and the Czech Republic.
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Categories : Copyright, International IP Law, Jurisdiction
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03
2013
The lower house of the German parliament, known as the Bundestag, has approved a new bill that would require search engines to pay a license fee for re-publishing content longer than “individual words or short excerpts.” The bill passed by a vote of 293 to 243, with three abstentions.
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Categories : Copyright, Fair Use, International IP Law, Linking
25
02
2013
According to
local media (Google Translate), Italian authorities have
fined the operator of file-sharing site ItalianShare.net with a record penalty: €6.4 million ($8.5 million). It’s the largest such figure in the nation’s history according to the Italian Music Industry Federation.
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25
02
2013
Last week, when the world was watching
crazy Russian meteorite videos on YouTube, Germans weren’t.As a result of an
ongoing dispute between Google (YouTube’s parent company) and GEMA, the primary German performance rights organization, a number of
Russian YouTube videos have been blocked from within Germany. The reason? These videos contain background music playing from a Russian car radio.
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19
02
2013
. . .the US Supreme Court will hear arguments in a case that pits a major textbook publisher against Supap Kirtsaeng, a student-entrepreneur who built a small business importing and selling textbooks.
Like many Supreme Court cases, though, there’s more than meets the eye. It’s not merely a question of whether the Thai-born Kirtsaeng will have to cough up his profits as a copyright infringer; the case is a long-awaited rematch between content companies seeking to knock out the “first sale” doctrine on goods made abroad (not to mention their many opponents). That makes Wiley v. Kirtsaeng the highest-stakes intellectual property case of the year, if not the decade. . . .
“First sale” is the rule that allows owners to resell, lend out, or give away copyrighted goods without interference. Along with fair use, it’s the most important limitation on copyright. So Kirtsaeng’s cause has drawn a wide array of allies to his side. These include the biggest online marketplaces like eBay, brick-and-mortar music and game retailers, and Goodwill—all concerned they may lose their right to freely sell used goods. Even libraries are concerned their right to lend out books bought abroad could be inhibited.
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Categories : Copyright, First Sale Doctrine, International IP Law
